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| 2051 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1800 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina: Nathaniel Ashley, Males 0-10:1; 26-45:1/females 0-10:2; 16-26:2. 1810 US: No twp. listed, Laurens Co., South Carolina, Series: M252, roll: 61, page: 45: Nathaniel Ashley, 4-1-0-1-0-1-2-1-0-1-0-0 1820 US: No Township, Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 63, image 73, note Nathaniel deceased by 1828. Nathaniel Ashley, 0-2-1-2-0-1-1-1-0-0-1 2. Even though the LDS baptism was done vicariously in behalf of "Nancy Ashley Claridge" in 1877 by her cousin in the St. George, Utah, Temple, it appears that the cousin may have messed up her name and that Nancy's sister Sally (Sarah) Ashley was the one that married Mr. Claridge. A marriage is found in Davidson co., Tennessee, dated 1 Aug 1816 for John Claridge and Sally Ashley. | Ashley, Nancy (I3789)
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| 2052 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1800 US: Minden, Montgomery, New York, p. 10 of 19, these two were next door neighbors and related by marriage, the columns are first male then female 0-9, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, 45+: Francis Frederick: 1-0-1-1-0; 1-1-0-1-0 Thomas Van Horne: 2-1-0-1-0; 1-1-0-1-0 There is also a separately listed Philip Frederick in Florida, Montgomery, New York, p. 4 of 7 a Phillip Frederick who appears to me to not be our Philip due to the age of the family - but he could be related as some type of cousin: Philip Frederick: 0-1-1-1-1; 0-0-1-1-0. [Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465: "The town of Minden in 1800 embraced the greater part of modern Minden, Montgomery County, together with the modern towns of Danube and Stark in Herkimer County, with Canajoharie town, from which Minden was set off in 1798, and from which it was enlarged in 1849 to its present limits." She also notes: "The town of Florida in Montgomery County had attained its present limits at the date of 1800 census. At the 1790 census it was a part of the old town of Mohawk distinct from the modern town of the same name.] 1810 US: German Flatts, Herkimer, New York: Philip Frederick, males: 2@0-9 (David and Abraham), 1@26-44 (Philip)1@45+ (Francis?); females: 2@0-9 (Susanna and Mary Ann), 1@26-45 (Catherine). [Could the male that is 45+ possibly be Francis since he does not show up in the 1810 census?] 1830 US: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, New York, p. 13 of 24: Phillip Frederick, males: 2@10-15 (Matthew and Ambrose), 1@20-30 (Unknown; can't be Peter since he died 1827); 1@40-50 (Philip); females: 1@10-15 (unknown), 1@15-20 (Herriott), 1@50-60 (Catherine). 1834 MI for Washtenaw County, Michigan. I have not seen this census, but it was given me by Mary Lou Spaulding. She indicates she got it off a FHL film, but did not indicate which. Looking up the film at familysearch.org, I find FHL film 955813 Item 1, which is entitled "Census of Washtenaw County, Michigan 1827-1834." Her transcription: Philip Frederick, males: 1(10-15), 1(15-20), 1(20-30) 1(50-60); females: 1(15-20), 1(50-60). Mary Lou notes: "See how closely matched the 1830 and 1834 censuses are. There are some changes in the four years between them. I feel like this may be our Philip, however I have no proof. The records of Philip and Catherine seem to disappear after the year 1822, which was when Philip purchased his land in Orleans County from the Holland Company." 2. Phillip's and Catherine's parentage is established by the following documentation: Patriarchal blessing from a hand transcribed copy from Daisy Van Wagoner's files: Salt Lake City, 9 Mar 1851: "A blessing by John Smith Patriarch upon the head of David Fredrick son of Phillip and Catharine born Montgomery Co., N.Y. 15 Sep 1801 [9 in 1809 overwritten with a 1]. Brother beloved, the Lord in the name of Jesus Christ and laying hands upon your head and send you this a patriarchal or father's blessing. Thou art the blood of Ephraim and a lawful heir to all the blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Thou hast seen much trouble in thy day but hast borne it into patience. The Lord is well pleased with the integrity of thine heart and your name is written in the Lamb's book of Life. The Lord will visit you unto health and every favor which is calculated to render life agreeable you must have a companion in your age. Your posterity shall become very numerous and shout forth upon the mountains of Israel like ___. You shalt teach the gospel to any people that seemeth good unto you and have great power in the Priesthood. Shall gather the remnants of ____ of Jacob. ___ that preside over stake positions have great wisdom, none shall be able to resist. Thou shalt have power in the priesthood to gather the remnants and rebuke the waves of the sea. To break fetters of Brass nothing shall be able to hinder your progress. Shall fill a great mission return and the land of Zion is peace unto your children and companion. Finally come up into the resurrection with all your father's house and inherit a kingdom. In the name of Jesus Christ forever and forever, Amen." [The subsequent marriage to Mary Ann Winner and the birth of a son and additional children at David's older age seems to have fulfilled the spirit of this blessing. Note also that his daughter from a previous marriage, Mary Frederick, received her patriarchal blessing also in SLC, 11 Oct 1852 - see her notes for transcript copy.] I requested a copy of the blessing from the LDS Church Historical Dept. on March 2000 and have not yet received it as of July 2000. Source may be Book of Patriarchal Blessings Index, vol. 11, page 231. 3. Mary Spaulding, a Frederick family researcher, believes "Philip bought land from the Holland Land Company, in Orleans County [New York], and David and his brothers moved there." In referring to my notes with Johan Peter Frederick, there is documented evidence that Peter received part of the Sir William Johnson grant in the Herkimer County area. Would this have been a reason Philip was in the Mindon area when David was born? Needs investigation. Received later on 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465: "I did find a record for the purchase of land in Genesee County (later changed to Orleans County) from the Holland Land Company, by Phillip Frederick. I have been unable to find my copy of this purchase and I'm unable to give you the source, but it took place in the year 1822. The Holland Land Company was based in one of the counties close to Montgomery, it may have been Albany county." 4. FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface: "In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] 5. Note that there is an error in the Ordinance Index showing the Philip Frederick who married Gertrude Miller as the son of Francis Frederick and Susanna Cosaadt. Philip is indicated as "Philip J. Frederick." This Philip is actually the son of Hans Jacob Frederick and Margaret Young and is in this database under those parents. 6. Various church records received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465 with the following transcription and notes prepared by her: 1802 entries from the Geissenburg - Lutheran Church per FHL film 0017756: 299: Infant: Anna, b. 2 May 1797, bp. 14 May 1797; parents: Friedrich Brunner und Frau Elizabeth; Testes/Witnesses: Philip Friedrich und Christina Federly. 1105: Infant: Abraham Carnio, b. 27 Nov 1802, bp. 26 Dec 1802; parents: Philip Friedrich und Frau Catharina; Testes/Witnesses: Jacob Friedrich und Frau Eva. 1274: Infant: Susanna, b. 27 Apr 1804, bp. 21 May 1804; parents: John Callemell and Frau Caty; Testes/Witnesses: David Friedrich und Rebecca Carmo. 1360: Infant: Susanna, b. 8 Oct 1804, bp. 18 Nov 1804; parents: Philipp Friedrich und Frau Catharina; Testes/Witnesses: parent. 186: Son: Heinrich Audoph, b. 31 May 1834, bap. 16 Jul 1834; parents: August Frederick und Frau Maria; Testes/Witnesses: Audolph Roge und Frau Mutter Maria. Note: If you will notice when they list the wife, she is listed as und Frau (and wife). Please take note there are both Philip and David Friedrich listed as Testes/Witnesses. Both these names also are in the Records of Rev. John Calvin Toll. I found one listing as (not in the same church): 5795: Infant: Catharina, b. 27 Jun 1785, bp. 16 Aug 1785; parents: Francis Frederick und Frau Susanna Gresaart; witnesses: Philip Frederick und Catharina Schuyler. I believe this is why the name of Catharina Schuyler was mistaken as the wife of Philip Frederick. She is listed as a witness but not necessarily the wife of Philip. [Kerry's note: It should also be noted that the Philip of the generation most assign Schuyler to as a wife would have only been about 7 years old at this time.] Note: Introduction found in the beginning pages of the Geissenberg Church: It is a difficult matter to obtain authentic historical data, concerning a church which ceased to exist as a Congregation in 1836, and whose house of worship was demolished before 1860. The difficulty is increased, owing to the fact that the volume herein transcribed, is not by any means a complete church record, because in the earlier part, it has been copied form an older book as will be seen from the note on page 31. Another church record belonging to the Congregation probably still exists; whether it contains the marriage record of this, the Geisenberg Church, or whether it relates to the Otsquago Church, cannot be determined until the record is found. During the ministry of the Rev. John C. Wieting, and probably for some years later, the Geisenberg and the Otsquago Churches were one ministerial charge, and it is probably that the records were not kept entirely separate from each other. Although the meager historical data obtained leaves the matter in doubt. I am of the opinion that the Otsquago Church is sometimes mentioned in the records, as the Church at Danube or Stark; it was in union with the New York Ministerium, until 1830, after which the name disappears. The churches to which primarily is due, the passing away of the Geisenberg Church, are the Lutheran Church of Freysbush, organized June 28, 1834, the Lutheran Church in Ford's bush, incorporated, Canajoharie, organized in Feb. 1835, by the Rev. John Eisenlord Jr., the last pastor of the Geisenberg Church. The Church was probably supplied from Schoharie or Stone Arabia. The town of Minden was organized on March 2, 1798, being taken off from Canajoharie. On April 7, 1817, the town of Danube was taken off from Minden and annexed to Herkimer County. Note: Also in this church you will find seven children of Thomas Van Horn and Maria Frederick. Geisenberg Church is also known as Saint Paul's Lutheran Church - at Minden. Geisenberg is now known as Hallsville. 1806: Rev. John Calvin Toll (per FHL film 0017760) Records of Births and Baptisms performed by Rev. John Calvin Toll of the Reformed Dutch Church at Middletown (Mapletown), Westerlo (Sprakees) and Canajoharie, N.Y., by Mrs. Frank N. Becker, of Amsterdam, NY. Indian Castle of Nisketone. From Dec. 5, 1803 to Nov. 25, 1844 with alphabetical index. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Child: Caty; parents David Frederick and Polly Sybal; b. 26 Jan 1806, bp. 18 May 1806. [Kerry's note: Polly is probably the same as Maria since Polly and Maria are usually interchangeable. This would then make her Maria Seibel whose marriage we also have in this note.] Child: Mary Ann; parents: Phillip Frederick and Caty Germon; b. 16 Apr 1806, bp. 18 May 1806. (From Osquak) Note: I believe this David Frederick could be the brother of Phillip Frederick. Both David and Philip appear in the Geissenburg records if you will notice in the above entries. This child, Mary Ann, would fit numerically in the order of children in our Philip's family group. 1793: Minden, Montgomery County, New York - Church Records (Lutheran) (FHL film 1294886): Philip J., b. @1768, son of Francis Frederick and Susanna Cossadt, of Fonda or Glen, Montgomery Co, md. 22 Oct 1793 at Fonda, Gertrude Miller of Montg. Co., b. @ 1772. [Kerry's note: I distrust this transcription because I believe Mary Lou may have added the information about Francis Frederick/Susanna Cossadt and the approximated birth dates. If, however, the parents' names are indeed Francis and Susanna, it would certainly be a major change in my database. Needs verification.] Hannah Frederick, b. 25 Dec 1797 at Mohawk, Montgomery Co., N.Y., daug. of Philip Frederick and Gertrude Miller. 1805: German Reformed Church - Minden, Ft. Plain, Montgomery, NY (FHL film 1435720). Pages missing/record missing from Oct. 1796 thru to Dec. 1804. The first part of Vol. 1 has been torn out and all the pages of Baptisms of 1809 are missing. Ft. Plain Church began 18 Mar 1788. Marriages 1805: June 2nd: David Frederick and Maria Seibel of Osquack, by John J. Wack. V.L.M. pro tempore. Note: most likely the marriage of Philip and Catherine is among the missing pages." 7. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. Her comments: "FHL film 0506485: 1834 Montgomery County, New York--Deed Index--Grantees 1772-1921: Catherine Frederick from Philip Frederick & Wife, Bk. 34, pg. 242, 2 Feb 1834. Note: It has been brought to my attention that this Catherine Frederick was in the Land Records also in Fulton County. There are people who believe her to be the Catherine who married Philip Frederick our grandparent. However, I found her selling land in 7 Dec 1882 Bk. 108 pg. 214. At this date she would have been well over 100 years old if she was our Catherine who married Philip Frederick." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Mary J. King Timothy (4ggniece). She references: "Hist. Montgomery Co.; N.Y. M.1 p. 113; wills of Montgomery Co. M.12a p. 13, vol. 2; N.Y. Mls, p. 167; F.N.Y F4b, p. 2; F.N. Y. S.4a, p. 293." Copy in files of Kerry Petersen. | Frederick, Philip (I1021)
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| 2053 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1800 US: Union Co. South Carolina, p. 4 of 73, record with father: Nathan Lankston, males: 3-1-0-1-0; females: 2-3-0-1-0. 1810 US: Spartanburg Co., South Carolina, p. 36 of 46, neighbors to John Lankston, record with Willis' father: Nathan Lankston, males: 2-1-1-0-1; females: 2-1-0-0-1. 1820 US: Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, p. 75-103: Willis Lankston, males: 2(0-10)-0-0-0-1(26-45)-0; females 3(0-10)-0-0-1(26-45)-0 1830 US: DeKalb Co., Georgia, p. 40: Willis Lankston, males 2(15-20), 1(30-40); females: 1(0-5), 2(5-10), 2(10-15), 1(30-40). 1840 US: District 962, Chattooga, Georgia, pg. 1 of 4: Willis Langston, males: 1(15-20), 1 (40-50); females: 1(10-15), 2(15-20), 2 (20-30), 1(40-50). Older son Spire Langston is a neighbor with wife and Children. His age between 20-30. 1850 US: Chattooga Co., Georgia, p. 108, 30 Oct 1850, family 8: Willis Langston, 59, farmer, $2,000, SC. Nancy, 59, SC. Elizabeth, 32, SC. 2. Will of father: Spartanburg County South Carolina Will Abstracts 1797-1840, Compiled by Brent H. Holcomb, C.A.L.S. Will Book C, pp.58-61. Will of Nathan Lankston, being advanced in life ... my books to be divided amongst all my children: to Sarah Bennett, Rippons Section of Hymns, and ____ Lyric poems; to Martha Yarborough my large Bible; to William Lankston, my pocket Bible; to Nancy Bearden, Butterworths Concordance; to Willis Lankston, Elements of useful Knowledge and Songs of the Night; to John Lankston, 2nd Volume of Village Sermons and Wat's Hymn; to Elisabeth Stone, 1st Volume Village Sermons and the Cook in the Lot; to Jacob Lankston, Dodridges use and progress of Religion in the Soul and Watt's Palms; to Mary Stone, Fullers Gospel ...; to Caleb Lankston, Gospel Worthy of all acceptation; to Absolom Lankston, Mercers Cluster and Bracons Concordance; to Jennett Stone, Walkers Dictionary and all the remnants of books not mentioned above; I will negro Rose to be applied to pay Rachall S. Compton her legacy of her father's estate; my bed and furniture to my wife Catherine Lankston; land on which I live and the place where my son Jacob formally lived to be sold; if Chany Stone pays the demand notes, I will the tract of land on which Chany Stone lives to my grandchildren of Chany and Elisabeth Stone viz Sarah Ann Stone, Simpson Stone, Eliphas Stone and Matrha J. Stone, and Chany and Elisabeth have the privilege of living on the land till the children come to mature age; my nephew John Bearden my exr. 31 May 1832. Nathan Lankston (seal) Wit: Davis Newman Hiram Yarborough B. Waters Proved by Hiram Yarborough and B.Waters, 25 Feb. 1834. 3. Per website noted in misc. sources below, parents are Nathan Langston and Catherine Smith who lived in both Union and Spartanburg Counties of South Carolina. 4. Family appears to have been in Chattooga County, Georgia by 1840 since there are several daughters who marry from 1840 on per the website www.gagenweb.com. BIRTH: 1. Rootsweb Worldconnect project: several databases. Censuses do not conflict. MARRIAGE: 1. From the 1820 census, we see the family had five children under age 10. Assuming a minumum of one and a half years between Children, this would mean a marriage date no later than about 1812. Several databases on Rootsweb's Worldconnect show the oldest son Spire Alford Langston being born 11 Apr 1813 in South Carolina. DEATH: 1. Rootsweb Worldconnect project: several databases. SOURCES_MISC: 1. http://www.couchgenweb.com/family/langst1.htm | Langston, Willis (I3762)
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| 2054 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: Ashe County, North Carolina; I include several related families in my database for this time and place. Some notes: a. One of the two William Penningtons is married to an Eller - I assume it is the one with a younger wife. b. One of the two Christian Burketts is probably the parent of Barbara and Mary who married Graybeal brothers. c. James Lewis married Christina Graybill. d. The older Peter Graybill would be John Peter and Christina Wampler Graybill. The other Peter and Henry would be their sons. e. Adam Wilker could be Adam Welker, father of James Welker who later marries Elizabeth Stoker. f. Surprisingly there is no Michael Stoker who should be there unless in adjoining county. g. One of the two George Koons should be the George Koons of this database. h. Not sure why two J. Ellers unless the transcriber inadvertently named the "J." as both Jacob when in fact the older one is John. Peter Eller would be a brother. i. The older Peter Graybill would be John Peter Graybill, father of the other two Graybills: Henry and Peter [Jr.]. Head of Family; Males 0-9, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+; Females - 0-9, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+; Slaves: Pennington, W. (William); 1-0-1-0-0; 2-0-1-0-0 Bourket C. (Christian); 2-2-2-0-1; 5-1-1-1-0 Wilker, A. (Adam); 0-1-2-0-1; 0-1-0-0-1 Graybill, H. (Henry); 3-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-0 Lewis, J. (James); 1-0-1-0-0; 1-0-1-0-0 Graybill, P. (Peter); 0-1-0-1-0; 0-1-0-0-1 Graybeal, P. (Peter); 1-0-1-0-0; 1-0-1-0-0 Graybill, H.; 2-0-1-0-0; 3-0-0-1-0 Koons, G. (George); 2-0-0-1-0; 2-0-0-1-0 Pennington, W. (Wm); 2-0-1-0-0; 2-0-0-0-1 Eller, P. (Peter); 3-0-0-1-0; 2-0-0-1-0 Eller, J. (Jacob); 2-3-1-0-0; 2-0-0-1-0 Burket, C. (Christian); 4-1-0-0-1; 0-1-0-0-1 Koontz, G. (George); 1-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-1; 3 Eller, J. (Jacob[John?]); 2-0-0-1-0; 1-0-1-0-0 1815: The following names are rom the website http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/ashe/vitals/1815tax.txt accessed 20 Dec 2008: "Ashe Co., NC, 1815 Tax List" (The oldest surviving Ashe Co. tax list. The original is in the NC Archives in Raleigh.) Every Name Index Alphabetized by Sandra Lake Lassen, October 1996 1499 Lakeside Drive, West Jefferson, NC 28694 slassen@infoave.net. Page numbers coincide with typed, unalphabetized version by Mrs. W. O Absher & Mrs. W. C. Sidden (undated) donated to the Ashe Co. Public Library." I mark my ancestors and their siblings with an asterisk (*). It is apparent that many had migrated to Ohio by the time this tax list was made in 1815. Noticeably absent are the Stokers and many of the Graybills. Other names are surnames in the area of other related families: Burkett, John 16 Eller, Henry* 5 Eller, Jacob* 4 Eller, Peter* 10 Faw, Jacob 16 Graybeal (Graybel), David* 4 Graybeal, Eli 4 Graybeal, Henry* 2 Graybeal, Peter* 16 Henson, Nancy 2 Koons, Devault 3 Koons, Gaspar 2 Koons, George* 3 Koons, John 3 Koonts, Geo.* 17 Kounts, Mary* 17 Penington, Aaron 10 Penington, Ephrom 9 Penington, Levi 5, 9 Penington, William 10 Pennington, Micajah 1 Welker, David 2 1820 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, 19 pages as the follow related families: Henry Eller, 1,0,0,1,0,0//2,0,0,1,0,0,1. Jacob Eller, 2,1,0,0,1,0//4,1,0,1,0,0,1. David Graybeal, 3,0,0,1,0,0//0,0,1,0,0,0,1. Henry Graybeal, 3[or 5],1,0,0,1,0//2,2,0,1,0,0,1. Peter Graybeal, 3,1,0,0,1,0//2,0,1,0,0,0,0, George Koons, 1,1,0,0,1,0//2,2,1,0,1,0,1. No Hensons. No William Penningtons. No Stokers. No apparent Shaws - an area with possible Shaws is very light copy and hard to read; the two that could be Shaws [or something else] look like first names Nathan and Gabriel as heads of households. 1850 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, p. 321a, 15 Nov 1850, dwelling 1208 (several younger Eller families in close proximity): Jacob Ellar, 66, farmer, NC. Catherine, 61, NC. David, 23, farmer, NC. Caroline Poe, 11, NC. 2. Per website 12.14.28.568 - 568 - Peter Eller - 1802 - 1805 12.14.28.846 - 846 - Peter Eller - 1809 - 1811 12.14.28.951 - 951 - Henry Eller - 1812 - 1813 312.14.28.3723 - 3709 - Peter Eller - 1849 - 1850 312.14.28.3727 - 3713 - Herry Eller - 1849 - 1850 412.14.28.4334 - 4367 - J Eller - 1852 - 1853 412.14.28.4397 - 4430 - Jacob Eller - 1851 - 1854 412.14.28.4680 - 4713 - Peter Eller - 1853 - 1855 3. Per website http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nc/ashe1815.htm: "Ashe County, North Carolina - 1815 Tax List." Ashe County, North Carolina was formed in 1799 from Wilkes County. From 1799 until 1859, Ashe County included the most of the land now included in Alleghany and Watauga Counties, and part of what is now Avery County, North Carolina. In 1815, Ashe County was bounded by Carter County, Tennessee on the west, Grayson County, Virginia on the north, by Surry and Wilkes Counties on the east and Burke County, North Carolina on the South. This list was abstracted and totals were combined for brevity for individuals with multiple tracts of land. I abstracted this document years ago and omitted portions that I wish I hadn't now. Don't take it as absolutely accurate. Five categories are given: Name, number of acres of land, valuation in dollars, polls, and local situation or name of neighbors. I added the number of tracts of land in the consolidation process." [He did not get the parts of Ashe County that is now part of Alleghany and Watauga Counties. Also no Stokers found.]: Henson, Nancy 100, 50, -, Long Branch, 1 [Nancy Mary Graybill?] Graybeal, Henry 200, 255, 1, Laurel Fork, 3 Koons, Gasper 150, 150, 1, Charles Francis, 1 Koons, George 205, 200, 1, North Fork, 1 Koons, John 90, 130, 1, North Fork, 1 Koons, Devault 150, 200, 1, North Fork, 1 Graybeal, David 350, 212, 1, Old Field Creek, 2 Eller, Jacob 300, 200, 1, Horse Creek, 2 Eller, Henry 250, 200, 1, M. Carpenter, 1 Eller, Peter 215, 320, 1, 1 Pennington, William 103, 150, 1, 1 Burket, Chris. 1260, 1800, 1, Buffalo [Father of the two Burkett girls who md. Graybills.] Judd, John 196, 250, -, Pine Swamp [Father of Margaret Judd?] Koonts, Mary 340, 600, 3, S.F. New River [Mary Eller?] Koonts, Geo. 250, 150, 1, Pond Mountain 4. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 5. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, in speaking about Peter Eller Sr.'s [b. abt. 1746, d. 1799] estate settlement, the following quotes refer to family members involved with the settlement. Note that sons-in-law William Pennington (wife Barbara or Elizabeth Eller?) and George Koons (Mary's husband) do not show up at the estate sale of 1799 but do show up from 1809 to 1817 when the inherited land of Peter Eller is sold. Of the younger sons, Henry and Jacob appear in the later land heirship land deeds, but they would have been only minors at the estate sale of 1799. George, the youngest son, never shows up which may be indicative of an early death. The older sons- John and Peter - and the eldest daughter - Catherine Eller Stoker thru her husband Michael - show up in both 1799 and the later land deeds. Elizabeth Eller Jr., the unmarried dau. shows up only in the 1799 purchaser list buying household items as if she were preparing for an imminent marriage (see her notes for more detail on her purchases). The open-ended question of who married Elizabeth and who married Barbara is not resolved by these documents except the assurance that William Pennington was definitely a husband of one of them. There is no Bumgardner listed in the later heirship deeds but there are two listed early in the estate purchasers - Michael and Leonard - but if Elizabeth really married a Bumgardner and had a son Simeon in 1807, why is there no listing of a Bumgardner on the heirship deeds. The various quotes are as follows: "Peter Eller died before 29 July 1799 as evidenced by an entry in an old court record book found by this writer in the courthouse at Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co., NC in October 1954. It reads as follows: 'Betsey Eller and John Eller having made application for Administration on the estate of Peter Eller gave Bowers and John Koons for security who were bound in the sum of 800 pounds and qualified as the law directs.' Betsey Eller doubtless was Peter's widow and John his eldest son. The time was 1799 when Ashe County was being set off from Wilkes and the year just preceding the one in which the first federal census of Ashe Co. was taken... Three deeds in the courthouse at Jefferson, Ashe Co., NC record settlement actions on the property of Peter Eller deceased. In brief they are: 1. Deed Book M, p. 163, dated 7 July 1809 shows Peter Eller, Jacob Eller, George Koontz and William Pennington of the county of Ashe in the state of NC, heirs of Peter Eller, deceased, selling to Leonard Fantz 200 acres of land in Ashe Co. the same apparently being the tract Andrew Baker had deeded to Peter Eller 3 Aug 1789. The deed was signed by all the said heirs except William Pennington. Why Pennington did not sign is not clear. 2. Deed Book F, p. 414, dated 17 Sep 1816, shows John Eller, Peter Eller, Jacob Eller, Henry Eller, Michael Stocker (Stoker), George Koontz and William Pennington all of the County of Ashe in the State of NC, heirs of Peter Eller deceased, selling Luke White Sr. 122 acres of land located on the south fork of New River at the mouth of Rones Creek etc. This deed was signed by all the said heirs named as party of the first part in the deed except George Koontz. Why George Koontz did not sign is not clear. 3. Deed Book F, p. 83, dated 11 Feb 1817 shows John Eller, J.A. (Jacob) Eller, Henry Eller, Michael Stocker (Stoker), George Koontz and William Pennington all of the county of Ashe in the state of N.C., heirs of Peter Eller, deceased, selling to Frederick Black, 25 acres of land on the south fork of New River the land being that warranted to Peter Eller, 3 May 1793 and granted to him 27 Dec 1797. All of these heirs signed the deed. This writer believes that other heirship deeds exist probably of earlier dates and, if found, would show a Bumgardner heir. The above three deeds distributed only 347 acres of Peter Eller's estate when it appears that it consisted at his death of at least 470 acres. The Bumgardner connection is suggested in an ancient family Bible in which the birth dates of seven children of John Eller, eldest son of Peter and Elizabeth (Dick) Eller was recorded. Another birth entry in this old Bible is that of Simeon Bumgardner, born 8 Jan 1807. This child probably was a son of a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Dick) Eller who had marred a Bumgardner, probably James Bumgardner. The old Bible was printed in the German language at Halle, Germany in 1770 and is now in the possession of Mr. Wade E. Eller of Warrensville, Ashe Co., NC. It may be the Bible which George Michael Eller willed to his son Jacob because on page 17 is written 'Jacob Eller his Bible.' On page 15 of the vorrede or preface is also written 'The Holy Bible Peter Eller.' The only information of genealogical value in the Bible are the dates of birth of all but the youngest child, Mary, of John and Susannah (Kerns) Eller… and of Simeon Bumgarner above mentioned. The personal estate of Peter Eller was sold and an accounting reported to the Nov. 1799 court of Wilkes Co., NC by John Eller, Adr. The property, 111 individual sales, consisted of household utensils and furniture, farm yard tools and accessories, including one tomahawk, ten sheep, fifteen head of cattle, among which were a yoke of yearlings and one yearling bull, hogs, geese, bee hives, etc. The widow took a good deal of the furniture and household accessories including interestingly enough a trumpet which indicates that the early Ellers possessed musical interest. Other items taken by her were one lot of books, a chest, five head of hogs, four cows, one mare colt, two sheep, oven, hammer and anvil, and a pair of saddle bags. Other purchasers were John Eller, Peter Eller, Elizabeth Eller Jr., Michael Stucker (Stoker), Michael Bumgardner, Leonard Bumgardner, John Dick, Leonard Pfouts, Jacob Huntsinger, Daniel Dickson, James Dickson, James Cash, William Cash, Henry Michael Sr., Henry Michael Jr., Daniel Michael, Thomas Baker, Alexander Smith who purchased the tomahawk and some of the farm animals and other items, David Smith, Frederick Younce, Christian Shear, Abraham Shear, Coonrod Coldiron, David Ingram, Balsar Raime, Conrat Grub, William Colward, George Miller, John Calloway, Allen Nowlin, John Holman and John Tirey. The amount of the sale, including the items taken by the widow totaled 300 pounds, 18 shillings, 7 pence. (Will Book 1, pp. 540-41, Wilkes Co., NC.)" 6. Website http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/ashe/deeds/deedsabs.txt accessed 14 Dec 2008: "Ashe County, NC - Deeds - Abstracts of selected deeds." This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kyle R. Graybeal krgrebiel@verizon.net, 37 Spring Lake Drive, Stafford, VA 22554. Revised 9 October 2001. This file contains abstracts of selected deeds from Ashe County, North Carolina Land records, mostly involving Graybeal family members. The information contained herein does not constitute the sum total of deeds in the Ashe County records involving Graybeal individuals. There are a few incomplete fields in some records especially in acreage, land description & witness names. This means that I have not copied them, not that the information is missing from the court records. The file now includes more deeds and has been corrected for errors dealing with land grants appearing in the original file. In the original file, the entry date and the date the deed was signed were reversed. This new file corrects that problem. Information sorted in date order, which is yyyy-mm-dd. Grantee & Grantor names are [last], [first]. Witness names are [first], [last]. NFNR = North Fork of New River. Mn and Vn means Deed Books M new and V new respectively. Information in [ ] inserted by me and correct to the best of my knowledge. Information in ( ) added for clarification. Price paid, proven date, and registered date not included to save space. I have this information on most deeds in case it is desired. Some compass directions are indicated by N, S, etc., rather spelled out. Deeds for state grants did not require have witnesses' signatures. The indication that a particular person signed with an "x" is not consistent from record to record in this transcription. {Kerry's note: I have refined the list so as to cut it off after whom I think may be the first generation after John Peter Graybill and Christina Wampler; see that more complete list with John Peter Graybill - this partial list are for those only including the name of Eller}: State (NC) TO: Graybeal, David 50 a., Grant: 0782, Ent: 1811-02-01; Signed: 1811-02-01; On Horse Ck/S 110, E 72, Jacob Eller's Line, N 110, 1st Station. Book: Mn, 295; Witness: Peter Graybeal, Henry Eller. 7. Jacob and Catherine White Eller had several children including Luke Eller. A descendant of Luke is Ken Jackson. As of Sep 2009, his contact information at his office is 1200 Lake Washington Circle, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, 770-513-9573 - Direct; 770-865-4298 - Cell; 8. Per website http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nc/asheslv.htm, which is a decade by decade census derived tabulation of slave holders in Ashe County from 1800 to 1860 and after a full PAF database for all individuals associated with Wilkes/Ashe county, no slave owners were found for families with the surnames Pennington, Henson, Hodson, Koons, Stoker, White, McDaniels, Kerns, Judd, nor Shaw. Slaveholders that were found: Burkett, Christian (father of Burkett daughters who married Graybeals): 1850 -6; 1860 - yes. Eller, Jacob: 1830 - 1 Graybeal, David: 1860 - 3 Graybeal, John: 1860 - 5 [Note this John Graybeal is too young to be a brother to David or Peter.] Graybeal, Peter: 1800 - yes; 1830 - 2 9. It appears from a full search of Ashe County, NC in the 1850 census, only Jacob Eller, David Graybeal, and Peter Graybeal are of the original pre-1800 Ellers, Graybills, Koons, and Stokers. Many descendants with these surnames were found except for Stokers. 10. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 89: "Peter was the first son of George Michael Eller. Because there were a number of years between Peter's birth and the others, the question arises if he might not be a child of a first marriage. He grew up in North Carolina and married Elizabeth Dick in 1766. His land grant was close to other Ellers, beginning at the spruce pine on the Upper Ford on Rones Creek. In 1797 he bought the 70 acres which had been granted to his father-in-law, Conrad Dick. This land had been surveyed and chain carriers were listed as Michael Stoker and John Eller, neighbors. Peter had 470 acres at his death... There oldest daughter, Catherine, married Michael Stoker and their youngest daughter, Mary, married George Koons and their great granddaughter, Betty Oman married Orson Hyde Stoker. Children: a. John, b. 1767 or 1769; d. 1823; m. Susanna Kerns. b. Catherine, b. 6 Mar 1773 at Rowan Co., NC; d. 1850 at Council Bluffs, Iowa; m. Michael Stoker. c. Elizabeth, b. 1780; m. William Pennington. d. Barbara, b. 1782; m. Pertune. e. Mary, b. 1783, NC; d. 1872; m. George Koons (a Quaker who was disowned for marrying Mary, who was a Dunkard). She was 18 and he 19. f. Jacob, b. 1784; d. 1855; m. Catherine White. g. Henry, b. 1788; d. 1876; m. Elizabeth Johnson. h. George." 11. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 119-123: "Jacob Eller, b. abt 1784; d. 3 Nov 1855, Ashe Co., NC; md. abt 1805 to Catherine White. She was b. abt 1789; d. 3 Jan 1854. She probably was the d/o Luke White. Jacob and Catherine were living in 1815 on land called Rich Bend, located at the confluence of Mill Creek and the north fork of the New River in Ashe Co., NC. He was still living there at the time of his death. He was a prosperous farmer and left considerable property to his children. Both he and his wife are buried in the family cemetery located on his home farm. Their children were Luke, Mary, Elizabeth, Peter, Nancy, William, Susanah, Sarah, John and David." 12. Burketts, Graybeals, and Ellers mentioned in the book "History of Western North Carolina," by John Preston Arthur, 1914, chapter 8: "Some Early Settlers of Ashe. These noble, self-sacrificing men and women of the early times endangered their lives and braved many hardships in the wild Indian country to open the way to happy homes, schools, churches and the blessings of our present civilization. Some of these were Henry Poe, Martin Gambill, Thomas Sutherland, Timothy Perkins, Captain John Cox, Henry Hardin, Canada Richardson, James Douglas, Daniel Dickson and Elijah Galloway. Besides these were many others whose names awaken much unwritten history: Miller, Blevins, Ham, Reeves, Woodin, Barr, Baker, Eller, Goodman, Ray, Burkett, Graybeal, Houck, Kilby, Ashley, Jones, Gentry, Smith, Plummer, Lewis, Sutherland, McMillan, Colvard, Barker, Senter, Maxwell, Calhoun, Sapp, Thomas, Worth, Oliver and others." Another reference to Ellers: "Jacob, Henry, and John Eller. They were sons of Christian Eller, once a resident of the Jersey Settlement in Davidson County. The two former came to Ashe and settled on the North Fork of New River, reared large families, and were successful, useful, respected citizens. Their sons were Peter, Luke, William, John, David and Jacob. John settled on the South Fork and later moved to Wilkes. His sons were Simeon, David, Absalom, John and Peter, who reared large families which are scattered over Western North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Iowa and Nebraska. (From information furnished by Hon. A. H. Eller, 1912.)" [Kerry's note: the part of these three Ellers being sons of Christian Eller is incorrect.] 13. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 130-140: "Jacob Eller. Statements concerning the birth year of Jacob Eller are confusing. Family memory says he died 3 Nov 1855 at the age of 'about 83.' The 1850 census of Ashe County, NC gave him the age of 66 and his wife Catherine the age of 61. This writer believes that family memory overstated his age by about ten years and accepts a birth year of 1783 or 1784. His view is supported by the earlier census records of Ashe County which give him the age of between 26-45 in 1810 and 1820, between 40-50 in 1830, and between 50-60 in 1840. He is not shown in the 1800 census. Jacob Eller married about 1804/05 Catherine White, b. 1788/9; d. 3 Jan 1854, dau. probably of Luke White. Her age in the 1850 census was given as 61. Her age in 1810 census was between 16 and 26, in 1820 between 26 and 45, and in 1830 and 1840 between 40 and 50. Jacob Eller first appears in Ashe County records 27 Nov 1806 when, with his brother Peter Eller, he witnessed the survey of 150 acres to Michael Stucker (Stoker), his brother-in-law probably. On 7 Jul 1809, as an heir at law of Peter Eller, deceased, he signed a deed disposing of land to Leonard Fantz. (Deed Book M, p. 163, Ashe County.) He signed other similar deeds 17 Sep 1816 and 11 Feb 1817. (Deed Book F, pp. 83 and 414, Ashe Co.) In 1811 a deed of his to Alexander Smith for 15 acres of land was acknowledged by the Nov 1811 Court. (Deed Book F, p. 109, Ashe Co., NC.) Jacob Eller was a witness in the suit of North Carolina vs. Lewis Jones and was bound in the sum of 50 pounds by the November 1815 Court to assure his appearance. Jacob Eller was living, 1815, on land called Rich Bend located at the confluence of Mill Creek and the north fork of New River in Ashe County, and was still living there at the time of his death. He was a well-to-do farmer for his time and left considerable property to his children. Both he and his wife lie buried in the family cemetery located on his home farm. The ten children of Jacob Eller and his wife Catherine White, order of birth not certain, were: Luke Eller, b. 8 Jun 1806; d. 6 Dec 1883; m. license issued in Ashe Co., NC, 27 Mar 1829, Sarah King, b. 5 May 1810; d. 10 Jan 1892. Her mother doubtless was the Patsy King who, according to the 1860 census of Ashe Co., NC, was living in the family of Luke and Sarah Eller at the age of 72. Luke and Sarah Eller lived in Ashe Co., NC and had children. [Biographies of their children and grandchildren follow in the book.] Mary Eller (called Polly), b. 23 Mar 1808; d. 3 Jan 1908; m. Aaron Latham. They lived at Clifton, NC and had children. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Elizabeth Eller, m. Larkin Maxwell. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Peter Eller. He is said by one source to have married twice and to have had several children. By another source he is said to have made several trips back and forth between NC and Arkansas and Texas and never to have married. A Peter Eller, farmer, aged 50 is shown in the 1860 census of Ashe Co., NC with a wife Sarah of same age and children as shown below. He is not listed in either the 1850 or 1870 census. [Biographies of their children and grandchildren follow in the book.] Nancy Eller, m. Samuel Jones. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] William Eller, m. Susanna Eller. She was the daughter of John Eller Jr. (John, Peter, George Michael) and his wife Elizabeth Ray Vannoy. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Susannah Eller, m. David Roland. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Sarah Eller, m. as his first wife David Miller. After her death he m. Mar 1842, as his 2nd wife, Mary Eller, dau. of John Eller Jr. (John, Peter, George Michael) and his wife Elizabeth Ray Vannoy. [Biography of their child follows in the book.] John Eller, b. 1822; m. Catherine Eldreth, b. 1824. He and his wife Catherine are shown in the 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses of Ashe Co., NC, at ages of 28, 37, and 49 and 26, 35, and 46 respectively. Their children as shown on these census lists... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] David Eller, b. 1 Nov 1826; d. 24 Mar 1901; m. 30 Oct 1852, Katherine Baker, b. 1833; d. 22 Feb 1903. They are said to have had 9 children, only 6 of whom, as follows, lived to maturity. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.]" 14. Land transaction and proximity mentioned in biography of Henry Eller, son of Peter Eller and Elizabeth Dick per FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 172-176: "Henry Eller, b. 1786/1788; family records said he died about 1876 at the age of more than 90 years. The 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses of Ashe Co. give his age as 62, 72 and 80 respectively. These records indicate a birth year of 1786/88 and a death year of 1876. He married, about 1812/1813, Elizabeth Johnson, b. according to the 1850 census of Ashe Co., NC, in 1791/92, her age being given as 58 years. The 1860 and 1870 censuses give her age as 68 and 80 respectively. She was born in Iridel Co., NC. Henry Eller entered 250 acres of land on the North Fork of New River, 16 July 1812. This land was surveyed 8 Sep 1813 and granted to him 23 Dec 1813. (Grant 840, Secy. of State's Office, Raleigh, NC.) The land was on the north side of 'feneck' (Phoenix) Mountain and bordered the 150 acre farm surveyed to Michael Stucker (Stokard, Stoker). The survey, dated 8 Sep 1813, was attested by Peter and Jacob Eller. Henry Eller figured in several land transactions in Ashe County after 1812. In one, dated 9 Dec 1819, he purchased 90 acres of land from George Koons for $150.00. This land was in Ashe County on the south side of the North Fork of New River 'to my south line and down to the conditional line made between Abraham May and John Dick Jr. against the mouth of Piney Creek being part of the 150 acre tract where Thomas Brooks Mill formerly stood.' George Koons, doubtless, was Henry's brother-in-law, the husband of Mary Eller, shown in... herein [see notes in this database for George Koons and Mary Eller]. The sale was made about the time that George and Mary Koons left North Carolina for their new home in Henry County, Ind. Mary Koons' name does not appear in the deed but this is not strange becasue the dower rights of wives were often not mentioned in early deeds of Ashe and Wilkes Counties. Later deeds indicate that Henry Eller's farm in 1845 consisted of 240 acres. The records show that Henry Eller's brother-in-law, Michael Stoker (Stokard, Stucker) as well as his brother-in-law, George Koons, lived on farms adjoining his on the North Fork of New River. His brothers, Peter and Jacob, lived nearby while his brother John lived on the south fork of New River near where Peter Eller Sr., their father, late deceased, lived. About 1816 John and Peter moved to lower altitudes in Wilkes County, John to Lewis Fork Creek west of Wilkesboro on a farm of 451 acres and Peter to a farm on Ceroles Creek." 15. FHL book 929.273 D55h "History of Peter and Christina Shutt Dick Family; Frederick Co. Maryland; Wilkes Co. North Carolina; Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky; Sangamon Co. Illinois; Cass Co. Illinois," compiled by Muriel M. Hoffman; Anchor, Illinois; 1970; Chapter II "Ancestry of Peter Dick": "Elizabeth Dick, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Dick married Peter Eller, son of George Michael Eller, who moved to what is now Ashe County, N. Car. from Frederick County, Md. Their land adjoined that of her father and presumed brother, John. They had at least 8 children: 1. John Eller, b. abt 1767 d. 1823, m. 5 Nov. 1792 Susannah Kerns, who died 10 April 1853 age 87 years. 2. Catherine Eller b. Rowan Co. 6 Mar. 1773 d. aft 1850 m. 1791/2 to Michael Stoker b. Frederick Co. Md. 24 Mar. 1762, d. aft. 1836. 3. Peter Eller b. 1777/8 d. Wilkes Co. 1851; m. Mary Pennington, prob. dau of William whose estate he helped to administer on 2 July, 1812 with a William Jr. 4. Elizabeth Eller probably m. William Pennington 5. Jacob Eller b.1784/88 d. 3 Nov. 1855 (census b.1784) m. abt. 1805 to Katherine White b.1789 d. Jan. 3, 1854 6. Mary Eller b. 1784/88 d. 1872 age 84; m. George Koons (Koontz) b. 1785/6 d. 26 Mar. 1848 age 63 years. 7. Henry Eller b.1786/88 d. Ashe Co. abt 1876 m. 1814 Elizabeth Johnson. 8. George Eller b. aft 1790 d. before 1841." | Eller, Jacob (I1375)
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| 2055 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: Boyle, Ontario, New York, p. 4 of 10 (not sure if this is the right Joseph T. or not): Jos. T. Shaw; males 1(0-10), 1(16-25); females 1(0-10), 1(16-25). 1820 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 16 of 18: Joseph T. Shaw; males 1(10-16), 1(26-45), 1(45+); females 3(to 10), 2(10-16), 1(16-26), 1(26-45). 1830 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 29 of 62: Joseph T. Shaw; males 2(to 5), 1(10-15), 1(40-50); females 1(10-15), 3(15-20), 1(20-30), 1(40-50). 1840 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 37 of 62: Joseph T. Shaw; males 2(10-15), 1(50-60); females 1(15-20), 1(20-30), 1(50-60). 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 113 of 148, 26 Sep 1850, house and family 802. (Note that the neighbors in this census are the same as those of 1830 and 1840. It appears Joseph's daughter Laura (1810-1884) lived with her father. The children are his grandchildren.): Joseph T. Shaw, 63, farmer, $1400, VT. Laura, 40, NY. Oliver, 6, NY. Joseph T., Jr., 3, NY. William N., 1, NY. 2. Website www.raims.com/jury.html "Nineteenth Century Jury List, Ontario County (NY) to 1855": Joseph T. Shaw, 1839 and 1840. 3. Website: Www.freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~tomfrog/recordsinfo/famgroupsheets/JosephShawHanahGillet.html shows Joseph Thomas Shaw, b. 1786, m. to Hannah Gillet (1786-1844), with one child Laura Shaw, b. 1810 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, m. John Bucklin Mason, 31 Jan 1831 in Canandaigua, d. 5 Dec 1884 at Rocky Ridge, Ottawa, Ohio. Extensive descendancy of John and Laura follow in website. 4. Website: Www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/ontario/cems/canandaigua/cooleyceme.htm are burials in the Cooley Road Cemetery of Canandaigua, New York. Note that there were several Cooleys living next to Joseph Shaw in the censuses. One burial is recorded as: "Joseph T. Shaw, Jr., d. May 5, 1828; aged 1d; son of Joseph T. and Hannah Shaw." 5. Ancestry.com's "The Baptist Missionary Magazine," p. 95, Donations from February 15, to March 15, 1837: Canandaigua, N.Y., Legacy of Mr. Hurd, (deceased,) from Joseph T. Shaw, Ex'r., per Rev. Marvin Allen, $300. 6. Today's Hampden County of Massachusetts was originally Middlesex County until it was split off in 1662 and named Hampshire County. Hampden County was formed from Hampshire County in 1812. | Gillett, Hannah (I1398)
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| 2056 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: Boyle, Ontario, New York, p. 4 of 10 (not sure if this is the right Joseph T. or not): Jos. T. Shaw; males 1(0-10), 1(16-25); females 1(0-10), 1(16-25). 1820 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 16 of 18: Joseph T. Shaw; males 1(10-16), 1(26-45), 1(45+); females 3(to 10), 2(10-16), 1(16-26), 1(26-45). 1830 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 29 of 62: Joseph T. Shaw; males 2(to 5), 1(10-15), 1(40-50); females 1(10-15), 3(15-20), 1(20-30), 1(40-50). 1840 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 37 of 62: Joseph T. Shaw; males 2(10-15), 1(50-60); females 1(15-20), 1(20-30), 1(50-60). 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 113 of 148, 26 Sep 1850, house and family 802. (Note that the neighbors in this census are the same as those of 1830 and 1840. It appears Joseph's daughter Laura (1810-1884) lived with her father. The children are his grandchildren.): Joseph T. Shaw, 63, farmer, $1400, VT. Laura, 40, NY. Oliver, 6, NY. Joseph T., Jr., 3, NY. William N., 1, NY. 2. Website www.raims.com/jury.html "Nineteenth Century Jury List, Ontario County (NY) to 1855": Joseph T. Shaw, 1839 and 1840. 3. Website: Www.freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~tomfrog/recordsinfo/famgroupsheets/JosephShawHanahGillet.html shows Joseph Thomas Shaw, b. 1786, m. to Hannah Gillet (1786-1844), with one child Laura Shaw, b. 1810 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, m. John Bucklin Mason, 31 Jan 1831 in Canandaigua, d. 5 Dec 1884 at Rocky Ridge, Ottawa, Ohio. Extensive descendancy of John and Laura follow in website. 4. Website: Www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/ontario/cems/canandaigua/cooleyceme.htm are burials in the Cooley Road Cemetery of Canandaigua, New York. Note that there were several Cooleys living next to Joseph Shaw in the censuses. One burial is recorded as: "Joseph T. Shaw, Jr., d. May 5, 1828; aged 1d; son of Joseph T. and Hannah Shaw." 5. Ancestry.com's "The Baptist Missionary Magazine," p. 95, Donations from February 15, to March 15, 1837: Canandaigua, N.Y., Legacy of Mr. Hurd, (deceased,) from Joseph T. Shaw, Ex'r., per Rev. Marvin Allen, $300. | Shaw, Joseph Thomas (I1366)
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| 2057 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: East Bethlehem, Washington, Pennsylvania, p. 7 of 10 (next door are familes of Jacob Carver aged 26-44 who could be perhaps a relation on the wife's side as well as Peter Eller): Joseph Grable, males 2@10-15;1@26-44; females: 3 under 10; 1@10-15; 1@26-44. Peter Eller, males 1 under 10; 1@26-44; females: 1@16-25. 1830 US: West Bethlehem, Washington, Pennsylvania, p. 15 of 26 (families of Samuel Gribble and Daniel Gribble are on either side of Joseph): Joseph Gribble, males:1under5;1@5-10;!@10-15;1@60-70; females: 1under 5, 1@20-30,1@50-60. 1840 US: West Bethlehem, Washington, Pennsylvania, p. 11 of 22, with families of Samuel Grable, Daniel Grable, and William Garber (a relative of the wife?) next door: Joseph Grable, males: 1@10-15, 1@70-80; females: 1@10-15, 1@60-70. 1850 US: Cannot find husband nor wife in the censuses. I also checked with the censuses of their sons Samuel and Daniel in Washington Co., but did not find her. 2. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT in an article entitled "Our Grable History." The portion below is a partial quote concerning the Garbers - see John Peter Graybill's notes for the full transcription: "Martin Garber of Samuel by Deed WR-15-519, August 8, 1797 purchased 40 acres of land "Part of Ivy Church" from Richard Coale. This was an item in Samuel Carver's Will. August 8, 1797, by Deed WR 15-519, Peter Grabill's son Joseph bought this 40 acres of land from Martin Garber of Samuel. In 1805 Joseph (wife Barbara) sold this tract of land to his father Peter by Deed WR 27-554. This 40 acres is the "Part of Ivy Church" on Molasses Road where Reno and Mary Grabill now live. Joseph is found in the Tax List in West Bethlehem Township Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1806. This 40 acres is sold in 1811 to Joseph's brother John. In John's Will, GME 319, recorded February 13, 1844, he leaves this property (where David Garber now lives) to his widowed daughter Susannah Nail. Susannah almost immediately sells to her brother Abraham, who executed John's Will. This property then went to Samuel Grabill, Abraham's son, then to Abraham Webster Grabill, Samuel's son and finally to Reno Grabill, Abraham Webster's son. The 1800 Maryland Census lists in Libertytown District on consecutive lines, John Grebel, Peter Grebel, Joseph Grebel, Samuel Garber Jr., Christian Garber, Jacob Garber and Martin Garber of Samuel. This is on page 988. On page 986, same district, we find Martin Garber Jr. and Sr. The Grabels here are Peter Sr. and his sons John and Joseph. The Garbers on page 988 are sons of Samuel Garber Sr. who died in 1793, Will GM 2-463. Peter Grabill Jr. is not in the 1800 or 1810 Maryland Census. From Wampler material we find that Christina Wampler, daughter of Hans Peter and Mari Barbara Brenessee Sneither Wampler married Peter Grabill. Hans Peter's son John m. Magdalina Garber, daughter of Martin Garber Sr. John Wampler is next to Peter Grabill in the 1810 Maryland Census. He witnessed Peter's Will along with a Martin Garber (probably Martin of Samuel) but did not appear with Martin to confirm the Will after Peter's death... Now on the Garbers. Our Joseph Grable of the 1811 Will married Barbara Garber about 1792. Contrary to tradition and Garber histories Barbara is a daughter of Samuel Carver, Will GM 2-463, January 14, 1793. There are too many Garbers in the late 1700's in Frederick County, Maryland to keep straight in correct generations and families. We have not looked at all of the deeds involved. Wills include Martin (Martin Jr.), Administrative Account H.S. No. 1 (1815-1816) 48, Christian Garber, Will RB 1-5, March 13, 1809, and Samuel Carver, Will GM 2-463, January 14, 1793 and Administrative Account February 20, 1798. Samuel Carver, Will GM 2-463, January 14, 1793 and Administrative Account February 20, 1798. By Deed P-110 Samuel Carver purchased 102 acres "Ivy Church" from Leonard Kitzmiller, June 13, 1772. At the time of his will Samuel was buying 100 acres of land from Richard Coale in "Ivy Church." This included the 40 acres "Part of Ivy Church" that our Joseph Grable bought from Martin Carver of Samuel in 1797. In listing information on Samuel's children we will use some data that appear correct taken from Garber material stating the family of Jacob Garber Sr. That Ann Grabill, Barbara Grabill and Catharine Pegler (Bigler) are listed in the Administrative Account of Samuel clinched it that Jacob Garber Sr. is fictitious. Children include: 1. Christian Carver m. Rebecca Eller. Joseph Eller's Deed H 8 657, April 21, 1794, Washington County, Maryland. 2. Samuel Carver d. 1814 m. a Hess. 3. Catharine Garber, 1758-1839 m. Israel Bigler 1758-1839. This couple was in West Bethlehem Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania early. Deed WR-25-577, John Garber (son of Martin Sr.) from Israel Bigler, May 8, 1804. 4. John Garber m. a Cole. 5. Anna Garber m. John Grabill, son of Peter Grable Sr. and brother of our Joseph Grable. 6. Jacob Carver (Rev.) 1767-1852 m. Mary Magdalena Eller, 1775-1849. In leaving for Pennsylvania, Jacob (wife Magdalena) sold property to Joseph Baker, Deed WR-21-541, October 21, 1801. Jacob appears in Tax Lists of West Bethlehem Township in 1802. Jacob and Magdelena are also named in the Eller Deed mentioned above. They are listed as early members of the Ten Mile Brethren Church, now near Marianna, Pennsylvania. 7. Barbara Garber, 1771-1851. She married our Joseph Grabill. 8. Jonathan Garber, 1774-1850 m. Elizabeth Hufford. They too were in West Bethlehem Township early. 9. Elizabeth, Samuel left her one walnut chest with two drawers under it. 10. Martin Garber. As above he sold property to our Joseph in 1797. With John Wampler he witnessed Peter Grable's Will and a Martin Garber witnessed John Grabills Will in 1729. Martin Garber Sr. We have not found a Martin Garber Sr. Will. We find a Martin Garber buying property, 105 acres "Limestone Rock" near Woodsboro and "Spring Plains," Deed K-803 Martin Garber from Jacob Danner, December 19, 1766. By Deed 0-503 he buys "Cedar Clifts," 290 acres from Henry Diggs August 17, 1771. "Cedar Clifts" lies north of "Ivy Church" between Johnsville and Union Bridge. Confirmation Deed WR-26-71 John Garber from Anna Garber and others, September 5, 1804 discloses most of what we know of Martin Garber Sr.'s family. This Deed makes clear and legal Deeds of 1802, July 29, Samuel Carver from Anna Garber and others, Christian Garber from Anna Garber and others, John Garber from Anna Garber and others and Martin Garber from Anna Garber and others. Anna in these deeds is Martin Sr.'s wife. Children include: 1. Martin Garber Jr. m. Hannah. 2. Samuel Garber m. Catharine. By Deed WR-23-227 Samuel buys property in "Ivy Church" from Martin Sr.'s heirs July 29, 1802. 3. Christian Garber m. Mary (Elizabeth). By Deed WR-23-229 Christian buys property in "Resurvey of Butler's Lot" from Martin Sr.'s heirs. 4. Mary Garber m. John Diehl. 5. Magdalena Garber m. John Wampler. 6. Henry Garber. 7. John Garber b. June 4, 1771 d. April 1848 (bachelor preacher). By Deed WR-26-71 he purchased "Cedar Clifts" from Martin Sr.'s heirs. Deed 23-232 also refers to this sale. He also owned "Small Beginnings." Will GME-3-315, May 8, 1848 disposes of his property. William Diehl executed the Will. Solomon Garber, Martin Garber and Abraham Diehl are listed as nephews. Older deceased sister, Mary Diehl, older deceased brother Martin Garber. Sister Magdelena Wampler and deceased brothers Samuel and Henry are also mentioned. Martin Garber Jr. Administrative Account H.S. No. 1 (1815-1816) 48. Martin Jr. was born in 1768 and died March 21, 1814. As above, his wife's name was Hannah. Children include: 1. Solomon b. October 10, 1791; d. January 16, 1870; m. Mary b. September 22, 1798; d. February 1852. 2. Isaac 3. Mary 4. John 5. Juliann 6. Hannah 7. Martin Jr. 8. Abraham 9. Lydia 10. Charles Christian Garber, Will RB 1-5, March 13, 1809, Administrative Account March 12, 1816. Christian is a son of Martin Garber Sr. and Anna. He died before March 13, 1809. Martin Garber brother of Christian executed the Will with John Stoner. Witness were Jonathan Wampler and Joseph Baker. Children include: 1. Jonathan Garber 2. Magdalena Garber m. Henry Fox 3. Ann Garber m. Adam Fox 4. Elizabeth Garber m. William Stoner 5. Barbara Garber m. Thomas Donson 6. Rebecca m. David Dunston September 3, 1811. Their daughter Elizabeth in 1828 m. Jacob Piatt in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. 7. Daniel Garber 8. Hannah b. 1799 Administrative Account was not reported until Hannah became of age at 16. Married Jacob Saylor very young. Thus you see some of the different Garber names that must be kept separate. Geographically Samuel and his family were close to our Grables as were Henry Eller and John Wampler, all in or very close to "Ivy Church." Martin Garber Sr. and his family were directly north of the Beaver Dam Creek Brethren Church (German Baptist) in "Cedar Clifts" still on Beaver Dam Creek. We have said nothing of John Garber. We believe there was a John Garber in the older generation probably a brother of Samuel and Martin Sr. Henry Eller, a probable brother of George Michael Eller, left property to the following children. Joseph Eller, m. Elizabeth Grabill; Henry Eller Jr. m. Francey Grabill; Jacob Eller m. Margareth; Ester Eller; Daniel Eller m. Hannah; Sarah Eller; Magdelina Eller m. Jacob Garber; Elizabeth m. Christian Herter; Rebecca m. Christian Garber of Samuel; Maria Eller; Salome Eller m. Henry Shultz; and Peter Eller. This Peter Eller came to West Bethlehem Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania early as did Joseph Grable, Jacob Garber, Catherine Garber Bigler, Jonathon Garber and Samuel Garber. The Henry Eller family is disclosed in Deed H. B. 657, April 21, 1794, Washington County, Maryland in which Joseph Eller is buying out his brothers and sisters. The Garber men signed in German script; the women made marks. By Deed P-128 June 13, 1772 Frederick County Maryland Henry Eller bought 102 acres of "Ivy Church" from Leonard Kitzmiller for one hundred and seventy seven pounds..." 3. Index of miscellaneous deeds from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. I am not sure of the relationship, if any, of all the parties herein listed and this is for reference only: "Some Frederick County Maryland Deeds: E-125 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, March 20, 1753 E-509 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, August 21, 1754 Agreement F-244 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk, May 28, 1757 F-393 Joseph Grable from James ___, February 11, 1758 K-782 Joseph Grable to Jacob Roland, November 19, 1766 K-782 Samuel Grable from Leonard White, November 14, 1766 K-743 Joseph Grable to Jacob Funk - Release K-803 Martin Garver from Jacob Danner, December 19, 1766 K-1284 Henry Eller to Jacob Flora, June 6, 1767 L-515 John Garver from Jacob Danner, October 1, 1768 N-396 Leonard Kitzmiller from Samuel Stringer, October 10, 1770 N-505 Peter Wampler from Richard Coroxal, December 15, 1770 S-96 George Michael Eller from Edward Gaither O-3 Henry Eller to David Buzzard, January 14, 1771 L-665 John Grable to Jacob Roland, May 1772 P-128 Henry Eller from Leonard Kitzmiller, June 13, 1772 P-110 Leonard Kitzmiller to Samuel Carver, June 13, 1772 BD1-539 John Garver to Jacob Danner, May 22, 1775- did not find BD6-34 John Grabill to Jacob Danner, June 20, 1775 WR-2-543 Peter Grable to Michael Christ, May 26, 1779 WR-3-71 John Grabell to Wm. Renner, July 27, 1782 GM2-444 Peter Wampler, 1782 WR-4-98 Peter Grable to Michael Christ, May 26, 1779 WR-6-4 Henry Eller to Philip Fishburn, June 22, 1784 WR-6-84 Henry Eller to Francis B. Sappington, August 19, 1784 WR-3-205 John Grable from John Bowman, Bill of Sale WR-7-332 John Grable and others to George Kitzburger, June 12, 1787 WR-7-616 John Grable to Paul Clapsdale, December 4, 1787 WR-8-505 John Grable from John Shuk, June 8, 1789 Bill of Sale WR-9-194 John Grable from Sam Cole, April 30, 1790 WR-9-250 John Grable from Joseph Boyer, June 1, 1790 WR-9-46 Peter Grable from Martin Sheets, July 8, 1790 WR-9-546 Peter Grable from Henry Repp, December 7, 1790 WR-11-279 John Garber and others, September 24, 1791, Agreement WR-11-210 John Wampler to Lazarus Findburg, November 21, 1792 WR-11-199 Joseph Wampler from Michael Baer, November 19, 1792 WR-11-587 Joseph Eller from Jacob Baer, May 31, 1793 WR 12-41 John Garber, Upton Scott and others, May 9, 1794 Agreement WR 12-445 John Grable from Balser Riam, June 3, 1794 WR 12-447 John Grable from Balser Riam, June 3, 1794 WR 12-456 John Grable to Christian Ebey, June 6, 1794 WR 12-451 John Grable to Christian Ebey, June 6, 1794 WR 12-535 John Grable from Conrad Cragon, August 14, 1794 WR 12-516 John Grable to Rebecca Reynolds, July 30, 1794 WR 13-153 John Grable to Conrad Hi , March 26, 1795 WR 13-126 Joseph Eller from Frederick Murray, March 24, 1795 WR 13-449 Martin Garber from Richard Cook, August 11, 1795 WR 13-263 Martin Garber from Philip Fishburn, May 6, 1795 WR 15-481 John Grable from Negro Bill, July 5, 1797 WR 15-595 Joseph Eller from John Kerr, September 6, 1797 WR 15-518 Martin Garber from Richard Coal, August 8, 1797 WR 15-519 Joseph Grable from Martin Garber, August 8, 1797 WR 15-395 David Wampler from Joseph Grable, June 8, 1797 WR 17-44 Jacob Grable from Wm. Hardin, May 24, 1798 WR 19-71 David Wampler from Christian Simmons, October 8, 1799 WR 12-245 Peter Wampler from Samuel Chase, March 1794 WR 16-463 John Wampler from Joseph Baker, May 2, 1795 WR 17-302 John Garber from ___ Scott, October 2, 1798 WR 19-247 Joseph Eller from Jacob Young, January 16, 1800 WR 19-250 Joseph Eller to Jacob Pofsbarger, January 17, 1800 WR 19-252 Joseph Eller to Michael Minor Sr., January 17, 1800 WR 19-444 John Wampler to John Iler, April 16, 1800 WR 21-466 John Grable from Christian Leasner, September 17, 1801 WR 21-541 Jacob Garber to Joseph Baker, October 21, 1801 WR 23-227 Martin Carver and others to Samuel Garber, July 29, 1802 WR 23-228 Samuel Garber from Christian Garber and others, July 29, 1802 WR 23-229 Samuel Garber and others to Christian Garber, July 29, 1802 WR 23-231 John Garber from John Wampler, July 29, 1802 WR 23-234 John Wampler to Martin Garber, July 29, 1802 WR 22-548 Moses Grable from Craig Marshall, May 15, 1802 WR 20-41 Martin Garber from Wm. Head, June 21, 1800 WR 20-43 Martin Garber from Peter Kramer, June 28, 1800 WR 22-4 Moses Grable to Michael Freeze, November 3, 1801 WR 25-579 John Garber from Israel Bigler, May 8, 1804 WR 26-71 John Garber from Anna Garber and others, September 5, 1804 WR 27-544 Joseph Grable to Peter Grable, October 10, 1805 WR 39-561 John Grable from Peter Grable, May 22, 1811 WR 42-380 John Grable and others to State of Maryland, May 31, 1813 WR 44-85 John Grable to Louis Mottier, April 5, 1813" MARRIAGE: 1. The book "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania" accessed at Ancestry.com, vol. 2, p. 136 talks about Phoebe Grable, the wife of W. Winnett Holder: "She was born onthe old Grable heomstead place in West Bethlehem township, a daughter of Joseph and abigail (McGinnes) Grable, both of whom spent their last days on that place, the former dying there in 1851 at the age of 58 years. Joseph Grable, who was born in Maryland, became one of the substantial farmers and landowners of West Bethlehem township." This Joseph was the son of Joseph and Barbara and his age at the time of death would put his birth as 1793 thereby giving credence to the generally accepted marriage date of his parents as "Abt 1792 in Maryland." The farm would have been in the Marianna neighborhood judging from later remarks in the biography. | Garber, Barbara (I3802)
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| 2058 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: German Flatts, Herkimer, New York: Philip Frederick, males: 2@0-9 (David and Abraham), 1@26-44 (Philip)1@45+ (Francis?); females: 2@0-9 (Susanna and Mary Ann), 1@26-45 (Catherine). [Could the male that is 45+ possibly be Francis since he does not show up in the 1810 census?] 1830 US: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, New York, p. 13 of 24: Phillip Frederick, males: 2@10-15 (Matthew and Ambrose), 1@20-30 (Unknown; can't be Peter since he died 1827); 1@40-50 (Philip); females: 1@10-15 (unknown), 1@15-20 (Herriott), 1@50-60 (Catherine). 2. Last name of maybe Schuyler is speculation on the part of some, but never with any documentation for it. Alternate may be Caty Germon/German as reported to me per 17 Jun 2003 email from Dave Fry Also found on the Internet 7 Nov 2007 Http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/columbia/columbiabap1.html: "The Baptismal Records of the Reformed Church of Columbia, New York, spanning the years 1806 through 1826, were contributed by Laura Perkins... which are available for viewing at the Utica Public Library. All spellings are original. Copied by Mrs. M. M. Hatch, South Columbia, NY, through the courtesy of Mrs. Hatch, (Mrs. Thomas D.) Corinne Wheeler Watkins, NSDAR #57999 and (Mrs. Charles E.) Elizabeth A. M. Merritt, DSDAR #178296. Some of the original records have passed out of existence since the copies were made by Mrs. Hatch. - Judy Breedlove, Asst. County Coordinator, March 1999. Baptismal Records of the Reformed Church of Columbia, 1806-1816; Columbia Center, Herkimer County, New York; Organized 1798: "Frederick, Herriot, daughter of Philip Frederick and Getty Germont, b. 9 Jun, bapt. 25 Jul. Sponsors: Parents, of German Flatts." [Note: At this time period there was only one Philip Frederick listed per the 1810 census in German Flatts. The mother's name of Getty is probably phonetic for Caty and probably short for Catherine.] 3. Phillip's and Catherine's parentage of David Frederick is established by David Frederick's LDS patriarchal blessing from a copy on file with me [punctuation and spelling corrected by me]: "GSL City, March 9th 1851. A blessing by John Smith Patriarch upon the head of David Frederick son of Phillip and Katherine born Montgomery Co., N.Y. Sept. the 15th 1801. Brother beloved of the Lord in the name of Jesus Christ, I lay my hands upon thy head and place upon you a Patriarchal or a Father's blessing. Thou art of the blood of Ephraim and a lawful heir to all the blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Thou hast seen much trouble in thy day but hast born it with patience. The Lord is well pleased with the integrity of thine heart and thy name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. The Lord will visit you with health and with every favor that is calculated to render life agreeable. You shall have a companion in your old age. Your posterity shall become very numerous spread forth upon the mountains of Israel. Like Ephraim thou shalt preach the Gospel to any people that seemeth good unto thee. Thou shalt have great power in the Priesthood. Shall gather the remnants of Jacob like wheat and bring them to Zion with all their riches. Thou shalt preside over a stake of Zion. Have great wisdom. None shall be able to gainsay or resist. Thou shalt have power in the Priesthood to rebuke the waves of the sea, to break fetters of brass. Nothing shall be able to hinder your progress. You shall fill a great mission, return to the land of Zion in peace unto your children and companions finally come up in the resurrection with all your father's house and inherit a kingdom that shall increase forever and ever. Amen." [The subsequent marriage to Mary Ann Winner and the birth of a son and additional children at David's older age seems to have fulfilled the spirit of this blessing. Note also that his daughter from a previous marriage, Mary Frederick, received her patriarchal blessing also in SLC, 11 Oct 1852 - see her notes for transcript copy.] I received my copy from David Fry; source may be Book of Patriarchal Blessings Index, vol. 11, page 231. 4. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465: "The Kocherthal Records. Rev. Joshua Kocherthal was the pastor of the Palatines in West Camp and Schoharie. He received permission to accompany the Palatines in 1708 and came to England from the lower Palatinate, from when in 1709 he embarked for America with ten families consisting of 41 persons. He returned to London and in 1710 accompanied the second migration. There were two persons named German listed in the Records: Jacob German and Anna Catharina who were sponsors of other people's children. German English: ethnic name from OG Germain German: this sometimes denoted an actual immigrant from Germany, but was also used to refer to a person who had trade or other connections with the country. The people were originally known as the "Spear-men." Variations of the name: Germann, Germain(e), Germing, Jerman, Jermine, Jermyn(n), Jarma(i)n." She also copies me with an uncited photocopy entitled "The Kocherthal Records," pp. 26-27 which has the following record with a "German" indicated who may or may not have a relationship to our Catherine. Unfortunately the page with the year indicated is not part of the copies. What I have reads: "Oct. 7th: Anna Catharina, born Sept. 26th, child of Peter and Catharina Drechsler; sponsors: Jacob German and his wife Anna Catharina." 5. If the surname Schuyler is correct for Catherine as some Frederick LDS genealogists had speculated (which I believe to be completely in error), then note the very early arrival of the Schuyler family in the following quotation per FHL book 974.761D2G "Early Families of Herkimer County New York, Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines," by William V.H. Barker, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1986, preface, the book gives some general local history per the following excerpts: "Herkimer County, in north central New York's Mohawk Valley, received its name in 1791 in memory of General Nicholas Herkimer, the Revolutionary War militia commander... There were probably in excess of 15,000 Indians in the region about the year 1700, but by the time of the American Revolution their population had eroded to about 10,000... due in part to lack of resistance to European diseases. Their numbers then fell sharply during and just after the Revolution as a result of migrations to Canada and points westward, the exodus being necessitated by the fact that most of the Iroquois, except for the Oneidas, took the British side during the War of Independence..." "As to the early Europeans, the Dutch traders of Fort Orange (now Albany) initiated commerce with the Mohawk Valley Indians in the early 1600s... The Dutch traded alcoholic beverages, firearms, tools, and fabrics in exchange for land and beaver hides. In 1664 the British took control of New York State and the Mohawk Valley area came under the jurisdiction of Albany County from that time until about 1774 when it became Tryon county (in 1784 the area was renamed as Montgomery county, the western portion of which was set off in 1791 as Herkimer County). In modern times, Herkimer County bounded by Oneida County on the west and by Montgomery and Fulton Counties on the east. Prior to 1760 there was only limited settlement by the Dutch or English to the west of Schenectady, since the Mohawk region was vulnerable to incursion of the French and their Indian allies from Canada..." [N.B. Tryon was changed to Montgomery because Tryon followed the Tory cause whereas Montgomery was a patriot.] "With the exception of a few families, such as the Fondas, Schuylers, and Van Slykes, the Dutch and English seem to have been little induced to settle the Mohawk Valley, and so the opportunity fell to a group of immigrant Germans from the Palatinate, or lower Rhineland area in central Europe. Several thousand of these Palatines had left their German homelands, being much reduced in circumstance after years of warfare with France, and had gone to England at Queen Anne's invitation in 1709... The English temporarily housed many of these people in tents outside London and early in 1710 about 2,000 were placed aboard ships for passage to the American colonies, being promised land in New York in exchange for work in Hudson River camps, to be set up for the production of pitch for use in sealing naval vessels. There were delays in embarking and the Palatines were crowded into undersized and ill provisioned ships so that the Atlantic Ocean crossing itself became a tragedy in which, by New York Gov. Hunter's account, some 466 of them perished. From 1710 to 1712 the German immigrants required government subsidy, and the payment records by Gov. Hunter to heads of households survive (as in Knittle) and are referred to throughout this book as the NY Palatine Subsistence List. The pitch operations having failed, the Germans had to fend for themselves, moving for a while to contested lands in the Schoharie Valley west of Albany." "The Palatines remained a displaced people without land entitlement until September 1721 when the Albany City council endorsed their petition to purchase Mohawk Valley land, not closer to Albany then 40 miles west of Ft. Hunter. Then on October 16, 1721, New York Governor William Burnet, presumably wishing to see buffer settlements of a friendly population in the central Mohawk area, granted the appropriate license, which allowed the Palatines, in 1722, to purchase land form the Indians in the vicinity of where the West Canada creek flows into the Mohawk River. Upon completion of the survey of these lands in 1723, and in response to the request of Palatine leaders Joseph Petrie and Conrad Richaert, the deeds were prepared under the designation of the Brunetsfield Patent. At about the same time, other Palatines received land grants at Stone Arabia and elsewhere in the Mohawk Valley... the Burnetsfield Patentees... were wholly within the present county of Herkimer [as opposed to other area Palentines in other parts of the Valley]..." "From 1723 onwards, until the French and Indian Wars commenced, [the area] was generally at peace and the residents prospered to the extent that some writers have termed the community almost utopian. Wheat grew abundantly in the fertile soil and the accumulation of livestock and goods was extensive..." "At 3 a.m. on Nov. 12, 1757, disaster struck German Flats [as Herkimer was then known] in the form of a surprise raid by a French and Indian war party... 40 killed, 150 prisoners, and much booty taken... After the 1757 devastation there were periods of relief such as the negotiated return of some prisoners in 1758 and the building, in that same year, of Ft. Stanwix as a protective outpost about 35 miles west of German Flats. With the French surrender to English forces at Montreal in 1760, relative peace was restored to the Mohawk Valley, although occasional difficulties with the Indians required that the settlers maintain a more vigilant militia than had been required in earlier years..." "Of particular note to the modern-day researcher is the fact that many of the early... families both moved and visited up and down the Mohawk Valley, thereby necessitating the search of church records over a wide geographic area for the presence of relevant marriage and baptism entries. Of note also is the information value of the baptismal sponsors, as those individuals were usually of the same generation (except when a grandparent would be sponsor for a grandchild of the same given name) and most often were brothers or sisters of the parents." "The second devastation to fall upon… the surrounding... area came from alignments brought about by the American War of Independence. The British enrolled most of the area Indians, plus several Mohawk Valley settlers as well, to the Tory cause, and in August 1777 the bloody battle of Oriskany pitted former neighbor against neighbor... Oriskany turned the British back to Canada momentarily, but a year later they were back in a more nefarious form of military tactic, that of the hit and run assault on isolated settlements. From 1778 through 1782, the British waged a war of attrition in the Mohawk Valley, with members of raiding parties paid eight dollars for each scalp taken, regardless of the victim's combative status, sex, or age... Sometimes the settlers had to scramble quickly into the forts..." "By the end of the American Revolution, the... region was severely depleted in manpower and resources and a new phase of rebuilding began with the expansion westward of New Englanders, who were lured by the open lands of northern New York which had become available with the departure of the Indians. The resultant shift in population base was evident in the 1790 census when about a third of the... area people appear to be new arrivals of English extraction..." 6. Some land records received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. They are transcribed from FHL film 842712 and have the name Garmon, which she noted as being similar to Germon. This transcription is for information only and may or may not have some relationship to Catherine. They are the Grantor Land Records from Herkimer County, NY 1839-1898: Samuel F. Garmon Etal to Edmon F. Abott, Bk. 147, pg. 409 - Bk. 154, pg. 4. Samuel F. Garmon Etal, Bk. 155, pp 117, 144, 151, 271, etc. Mary Lou also mentions that there was also an Isaac German in the area in 1776 but she did not say exactly in what context. 7. The following are some random Germans mentioned in Henry Z. Jones books - I am not sure of the relationship (if any): A. Henry Z. Jones, "The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who arrived in New York in 1710," (1985), p. 280: "Jacob Germann (Hunter Lists #233) The home village of the German family was 7532 Niefern (8 km. n.e. of Pforzheim (Chbks. begin 1608). Jacob Germann, bricklayer and s/o Georg Germann - inhabitant at Merishausen Schaffhauser Gebieth in the Schweiz, md. Anna Catharina, d/o the late Hans Eichinger - citizen at Entzberg, 4 Christmonat (4 Dec ?): 1703. Jacob Germann made his first appearance on the Hunter Lists 4 July 1710 with 2 pers. over 10 yrs. of age and 1 pers. under 10 yrs. in the household. Jacob German was nat. 14 Feb 1715/16 (Albany Nats.). Jacob German and Maria Catharina with 1 child were at Quunsberg ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register) The West Camp Luth. Chbk. show that Jacob's wife Anna Catharina sp. Johann Friederich Contermann in 1714, and together they sp. Contermann in 1716; Hans Friederich Gundermann (Contermann, Countryman) also was documented at Niefern (HJ). The family appears to leave the Hudson Valley by 1722 (HJ). The ch. of Jacob1 Germann were: 1) Hans Jacob2, bpt. 1 Jan 1706 - sp.: Thomas Falck, Hans Jacob - single s/o Hans Georg Neef, and Catharina - single d/o the teacher Hans Jacob Kopp at Entzberg (Niefern Chbk.). He d. 20 Feb 1709 (Niefern Chbk.). 2) Hans Georg2, bpt. 5 Aug 1707 - sp.: same as before (Niefern Chbk.). Johan Jurgen German sp. Peter Bernhardis Schmidt at Camp Queensberry in 1722 (N.Y. City Luth. Chbk.). Perhaps he was the George German whose will was proved in Pa. in 1796 (Lancaster Co. Will Bk. F, p. 645). Other early Germans in Pa. records include Margaret German, who md. Roger Evans 19 Oct 1731 (Stoever Chbk.), and John Jacob German who md. Maria Cath. Gast 8 March 1750 (Tulpehocken Chbk.)." B. Henry Z. Jones, "Even More Palatine Families, 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins," 2002, pp. 200-1: "Johann Jost German: Joost German joined the church in 1754 with letters from Germany (Montgomery Reformed Chbk). Anna Maria Newkirk, w/o Jost German, joined the Montgomery Reformed Church 4 Nov 1769. Jost German, German Reformed Congregation in Hanover, of Hanover, Ulster Co., was naturalized 18 Oct 1774 (Scott & Stryker-Rodda, p. 30). Johann Jost German and wife Anna Maria Neukirch had among there is sue: 1) Gertraud, bpt. 27 Aug 1757 - sp: Johannis Nieukirk and wife Geertje Klaarwater (Montgomery Reformed Chbk). Gertraud and Elisabeth German joined the Montgomery Reformed Church 22 March 1774. 2) Elisabetha, bpt. 25 Aug 1759 - sp: John Jury Theis and wife Catharina German (Montgomery Reformed Chbk). 3) Henrich, bpt. 10 Nov 1761 - sp: Johannes Newkirk and Elisabeth Newkirk (Montgomery Reformed Chbk). 4) Anna Maria, bpt. 4 May 1765 - sp: Jacob Newkirk and Maria Patterson (Montgomery Reformed Chbk). 5) Catharina, bpt. 14 Feb 1767 - sp: Joh. Georg Theis and wife Catharine Germain (Montgomery Reformed Chbk). 6) Catharina, bpt. 4 Nov 1769 (Montgomery Reformed Chbk). 7) Andreas, b. 17 May 1773 (Montgomery Reformed Chbk). Andreas German: An Andres German joined the Montgomery Reformed Church 18 Oct 1766. Andreas German and wife Lena Emung had among there is sue: 1) Elisabetha, b. 16 April 1772 (Hopewell Reformed Chbk). 2) Nicolaus, b. 19 July 1776 (Hopewell Reformed Chbk). The parents are called "Andreas Carmen and Helena Emigh" on this entry. C. Henry Z. Jones, "Even More Palatine Families, 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins," 2002, p. 201: "James German, aged 38, b. Switzerland, labourer, was noted on a muster roll of troops commanded by Capt. Joshua Bloomer taken in Westchester County taken 30 April 1759 ("Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops 1755 - 1764," Edward F. De Lancey, editor, p. 190). James German, aged 27, b. Germany, cooper, was noted on a muster roll of Capt. Daniel Wright's Company taken in Queens Co. April 1760 ("Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops 1755 - 1764," Edward F. De Lancey, editor, p. 228). The Swiss surname Germann is relatively common and is scattered across a number of Cantons. Research should begin with "Swiss Surnames: A Complete Survey" (Picton Press, 3 vols., 1995) and "Men of Bern: The 1798 Burgerverzeichnisse of Canton Bern, Switzerland," ed. by Lewis Bunker Rohrbach (Picton Press, 3 vols., 1999). (LBR)" D. Henry Z. Jones, "Even More Palatine Families, 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins," 2002, p. 201: "Johannes German: Johannes Germon md. 12 March 1764 Jeane Smith (Christ Lutheran Swamp Chbk NY City). John Germond, ship carpenter, md. 20 Aug 1769 Elizabet Gilmore (Christ Lutheran "Swamp" Chbk, NY City). A Johannes German and wife Johanna had among there is sue: Johann Peter, b. 12 Dec 1764 - sp: Joh. Peter Peuster and wife, Elisabeth - Johannes Gantz (sic) (Christ Lutheran Swamp Chbk, NY City)." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Mary J. King Timothy (4ggniece). She references: "Hist. Montgomery Co.; N.Y. M.1, p. 113; Wills of Montgomery co. M.12a, p. 13, vol. 2; N.Y. Mls, p. 167; F.N.Y F4b, p. 2; F.N. Y. S.4a, p. 293." Copy in files of Kerry Petersen. 2. Henry Z. Jones is the author of three series of books on the Palatines: "The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who arrived in New York in 1710," (1985); "More Palatine Families," (1991); and "Even More Palatine Families, 18th Century Immigrants to the American Colonies and their German, Swiss and Austrian Origins," 2002. I have reviewed all three and there is nothing on this individual, but I have copied all "German" (or variants thereof) in the above notes who could perhaps be related subject to future research. | Germon or Germont, Catherine (I1020)
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| 2059 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: German Flatts, Herkimer, New York: Philip Frederick, males: 2@0-9 (David and Abraham), 1@26-44 (Philip)1@45+ (Francis?); females: 2@0-9 (Susanna and Mary Ann), 1@26-45 (Catherine). [Could the male that is 45+ possibly be Francis since he does not show up in the 1810 census?] 2. David Fry, a descendant of David Frederick through his daughter Mary Elizabeth Frederick Gibbs has four pages of dog-eared pages from a family bible which he believes to be David's. There is no other known extant samples of David Frederick's handwriting except for his signature when he was in his 70's on his Mexican War pension application forms. There is no publisher nor publishing date. David received them through his mother. His contact info is 195 Shady Hill Lane, Double Oak, TX, 75077, 817-430-9432, Abraham G. Frederick married to Miss Adelia Annis Oct. the 16th AD 1825. [David's brother.] David Frederick was born September the 15th AD 1801. Abraham G. Frederick was born Nov. the 27th AD 1802. [David's brother.] Adelia Frederick was born April the 3rd AD 1809. [Wife to Abraham.] Oliva A. Frederick was born March the 21st 1827. [Abraham and Adelia's child.] Abram C. Frederick was born May the 13th 1829. [Abraham and Adelia's child.] Ambrose Frederick was born Oct. the 14th AD 1818. [Probably David's brother.] Matthew Frederick was born April 14th AD 1820. [Probably David's brother.] Peter F. Frederick dide[sic] March the 27th AD 1827 in the 17 year of his age. Abraham G. Frederick dide Febuary the 20th AD 1830 in the 27th year of his age. [David's brother.] 3. David Fry, desc. from Mary Eliz. Frederick Gibbs, as of 6 Jul 2003 has sent me the 12/2/1830 will from Orleans County, NY of Abraham Frederick. Mentions also FHL films 0592259 and 590829 which may contain his land records in Orleans Co., NY. 4. From the book "History of Clarendon from 1810 to 1888," publ. 1889 by Courier Co of Buffalo, NY, p. 205, in a section entitled "Barre Road": "Across the way from John Downs, lately stood an old frame-house with a porch in front, where Orson Touslley once figured in partial-payments, and Amos Palmer and Abram Frederick lived in the dusty past. Horace Farwell, the son of Eldredge Farwell, rode up from Holley one fine day, and purchased this property. The old residents would not know the spot, as Farwell moved to the rear the old dwelling, and in its place erected a fine residence, which is an ornament to the road, and only shows what Young America will do, when it has a chance." 5. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. The following concerns David Frederick and is arranged chronologically by state: A. "New York: 1830; Orleans Co., NY Land Records (FHL film 0592259). In the matter of the last will and Testament of Abram G. Frederick Dec. - as witnesses in the presence of the testator Alexander Annis - David Frederick. Will was probated in the Village of Albion 2 March 1830. (MLS: Note - I have tracked this family through to the 1930 Census. If you are interested in having a copy of this information please let me know. I thought it may pay to try and contact some of these people and see what they have in the way of Genealogy Information, especially Abram G.'s brothers and sisters.) 1830; Letters of Guardianship - Orleans Co., NY, pg. 3 (FHL film 0592788). The People of the State of New York by the grace of God, free and Independant; To Adelia Frederick Greeting. Whereas, you have been legally selected, by the Surrogate of the County of Orleans, to be the guardian of Abram C. Frederick and Olivia Ann Frederick infant children of Abram G. Frederick deceased,... 1830; Orleans County, NY - Harvey. Frederick David, male 1(20-30), female 1(under 5), 2(20-30). 1894; Cemeteries of Orleans County, NY - Hillside Cemetery - Clarendon. Palmer, Adelia M., b. 3 Mar 1809 d. 18 Dec 1894, Clarendon, N.Y. Wife of Frederick and Amos. Dau. of Alex Annis and Annie Curtis." BIRTH: 1. Ordinance Index entry quoted below done by and in person by his brother, David Frederick, gives: "Abraham Gammore Frederick, b. Mendon, Montgomery, New York." CHRISTENING: 1. Familysearch's "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962": Abraham Carnio Friedrich, chr. 26 Dec 1802 at Lutheran Saint Paul's Church, Minden Twp., Montgomery, New York, son of Philip and Catharina Friedrich. Source: FHL film 534218. DEATH: 1. Photocopy of last will and testament dated 12 Feb 1830 on file with me for "Abram G. Frederick." It was made in Town of Barry, Orleans County, New York. He is a yeoman. Appoints his wife Adelia Frederick and Adam B. Hamilton as executors. He leaves one-third to his wife and then two-thirds of the remnant to "my only son Abraham C. Fredrick" and one-third of the remnant to "my only daughter Olivia N. Fredrick." 2. FHL film #059293 for Orleans County, New York has the following for Abraham G. Frederick: A. Index of Wills and Administration, 1825-1926. It notes: Barre Township; year of death: 1830; Orders Book 1, p. 18-24, 36-264, 269; Wills Book 1, p. 1. B. Letters of Testamentary: book 1, p. 182. C. Letters of Administration: book 1, p. 182. D. Box of Settlements: letter 21, no. 135. | Frederick, Abraham Gammore or Carnio (I187)
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| 2060 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, five Adairs are found in a total of 72 pages as follows; page numbers represent which page in 72 the entry is found. All age numbers are single digit except one (13). I am not sure which 1810 Adairs these fit exactly: P. 25, Wm. Adir, 001103010002 P. 58, Elisha Adear or Adiar, 32011101100 (13) P. 58, Benja. Adir, 021011020102 P. 59, Jas Adir, 100102001000 P. 60, Jas Adir, 200102001000 2. "The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 4, pp. 103-106, contains the 1829 Census of Laurens District. It notes: "This is one of three state census records extant before 1850, the other two being Fairfield (1829) and Kershaw (1839) Districts." It was a census of all the free white inhabitants. Included in the census are the following Adairs and Browns, most of which I am not familiar since the Adairs and Browns I follow in my database generally left the District in the first decade of the 1800s. The number stands for the number in the family. Pg. 1: Adair, Robert, 2 Adair, James, 9 Adair, Benjamin, 9 Adair, Robert, 9 Adair, John, 5 Adair, Thomas, 7 Pg 3: Brown, Joseph, 11 Brown, Samuel Revd., 6 Brown, Anderson, 3 Brown, Harlin, 8 Brown, Omy, 2 Brown, Susan, 1 Pg. 4: Brown, Bexy, 7 Brown, Samuel, 4 Brown, Benjamin, 7 Brown, James, 5 3. Laurens County Estate Book A-1: Pp. 98-100: An account of the sale of the Estate of Joseph Greer decd., 15 of August 1794; purchasers: Andrew McCrary, Joseph Greer, Joseph Adair, John Hansel, Saml McComuthey, Thos McCrary, Joseph Greer, Wm Hunter, John Login, John Elmore, Minasa Willson, Benj. Adair, Newton Higgins, John Grary, Robert Scott, John Owens, James Rammage, Hugh Skelton, Saml Bishop, James Dillard, John Rammage, James Dillard, Robert Grier, Bazzel Brater (cooper tooles), James Adair Senr., John Watson, Simon Tedford, Jonas Greer, J.A. Elmore, George Ross, Ben Adair, Joseph Parkes, Wm Price, Wm Gray, Robert Greer. Total ₤ 56 13 9." [Note that there are two Ben Adairs - the eldest is the son of Joseph Adair, the cooper, and the youngest is probably the son of John Adair who died 1782.] 4. Excerpts of "Adairs" from the book "Laurens County South Carolina - Minutes of the County Court, 1786-1789," by Brent H. Holcomb, SCMar, Columbia, South Carolina, 2004. The book notes: "This is a record that has only been recently found after being lost for so many years. It is incomplete missing the first 54 pages, pages 103-126, and an unknown number of pages at the end of the volume. There is at least one other volume, still missing, covering the years 1790-1799." It also notes: "Laurens County was formed in 1785 as a county of Ninety Six District. In that year justices of the peace were elected by the General Assembly to be administrators of the county courts. Within the pages of these court minutes are small court cases, lists of deeds presented to be recorded, applications for administrations on estates and wills proved (beginning in 1787), jury lists, petitions of various kinds, appointments for various offices, apprenticeships, estray animals tolled, and other items. The cases heard for debt or damages could not exceed £50, and cases heard for personal damages could not exceed £20. Criminal cases heard could not call for the loss of life or corporal punishment. Larger court cases were heard in the district courts, such as Ninety-Six." There are listings of various Adair and associated family members including the following: Pg. 331, 15 Dec 1789: "Ben: Adair Jun'r, Joseph Adair, Martha Adair, Hezekiah Adair & Isaac Adair, Infants orphans of John Adair Dec'd came into Court Chose Ben Adair Senr as their Guardian; Whereupon he the s'd Benjamin Adair Sen'r together with Joseph Adair his security Entered into and acknowledged their bond according to Law." | Adair, Benjamin (I3731)
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| 2061 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: No twp. listed, Laurens Co., South Carolina, Series: M252 Roll: 61 Page: 45: Nathaniel Ashley, 4-1-0-1-0-1-2-1-0-1-0-0 1820 US: No Township, Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 63, image 73, note Nathaniel deceased by 1828. Nathaniel Ashley, 0-2-1-2-0-1-1-1-0-0-1 1830 US: Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 199, both brothers are listed next to each other on an alphabetical basis: Jesse Ashley, 0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0/0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 Martin Ashley, 1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0/0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0 (the oldest female is 50-60 and could be Lydia Ashley) 1840 US: Civil District No. 12, Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 346: Martin Ashley, 1-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0/2-1-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0 1850 US: Davidson, Tennessee, p. 268, family 15: Martin Ashley, 45, wagonmaker, SC. Mary, 42, TN. Margaret, 20, TN. Thomas, 18, carpenter, TN. William, 15, TN. Elizabeth, 13, TN. Francis, female, 11, TN. 2. Ancestry.com 18 Oct 2002 database: ":2189391" of Steve Primm MARRIAGE: 1. Online Ordinance Index for endowment shows a marriage dated 12 Jan 1828 to Mary Logan, b. 1808. | Ashley, Martin (I228)
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| 2062 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: No twp. listed, Laurens Co., South Carolina, Series: M252 Roll: 61 Page: 45: Nathaniel Ashley, 4-1-0-1-0-1-2-1-0-1-0-0 1820 US: No Township, Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 63, image 73, note Nathaniel deceased by 1828. Nathaniel Ashley, 0-2-1-2-0-1-1-1-0-0-1 1830 US: No listing in Tennessee with G.B., Greenberry, or Greenbury. 1840 US: Nashville Ward No. 6, Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 297: G.B. Ashley, 1-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0/1-1-1-0-0-1-0-0-0 1850 US: Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, p. 104, family 306: G.B. Ashley, 47, carpenter, SC. Mary Freeman?, 41, TN. 2. Ancestry.com 18 Oct 2002 database: ":2189391" of Steve Primm 3. Ancestry.com 18 Oct 2002 database: "tsmith" of Terry D. Smith MARRIAGE: 1. Listed with Ordinance Index sealing to parents: Marriage to Marie Louise Curtis, m. 1 Sep 1825 at Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee. Same database notes her birth 1808 at Davison Co., Tennessee and death 5 Mar 1871; parents William Curtis and Elizabeth Polly Drake. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Ancestry.com 18 Oct 2002 database: "tsmith" of Terry D. Smith a. Owsley Family Historical Society or Members 1995 Edition as supplied by Irene T. Godwin, 3201 Bay Rockyford, Moultrie, GA, 31768, (912)-941-5875, p. 25. | Ashley, Greenberry (I1435)
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| 2063 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: No twp. listed, Laurens Co., South Carolina, Series: M252, roll: 61, page: 45: Nathaniel Ashley, 4-1-0-1-0-1-2-1-0-1-0-0 1820 US: No Township, Davidson Co., Tennessee, p. 63, image 73, note Nathaniel deceased by 1828. Nathaniel Ashley, 0-2-1-2-0-1-1-1-0-0-1! | Ashley, Mary or Polly (I3788)
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| 2064 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: The following are all of the Fredericks in Montgomery County, New York. The columns are first male then female 0-9, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, 45+, and then other free persons and slaves: Johnstown Township, p. 16, all right next to each other with the first two being 7 names apart from the second group of three: Philip Frederick, 1-1-0-0-1; 1-1-0-0-1-0-0 Eve Frederick, 0-2-0-0-0; 1-0-0-0-1-0-0 Jacob Frederick, 0-0-2-0-1; 1-0-0-0-1-0-0 George Frederick, 1-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-0-0-0 William Frederick, 2-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-0-0-0 Florida Township [which follows Johnstown Township], p. 34: Sarah Frederick, 0-0-1-0-0; 0-0-0-0-1-0-0 Minden Township, p. 96: Polly Frederick, 2-0-0-0-1; 1-0-1-0-1-0-0 1820 US: Johnstown Twp., Fulton, NY, p. 6 of 25, taken in alphabetical order including all of the following Fredericks (males to 10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+; females to 10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+): Eve; 000000; 00010. Philip; 000100; 10100. Jacob; 000100; 10100. William; 330010; 21110. Lewis; 300010; 21010. Philip; 000101; 00001. George; 210010; 22010. Jacob; 000100; 10010. 1850 US: Johnstown Twp., Fulton, NY, p. 109 of 148, house 1771, family 1856: Wm. Frederick, 73, farmer, NY. Christie, 70, NY. Laura., 44, male, farmer, NY. Eliza, 35, NY. Rachael, 6, NY. Wm, 5, NY. Lette, 3, NY. Christiana, 1, NY. (Not named), 2/12, female, NY. 2. Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: Mentioned in the book "Abstracts of Wills of Montgomery County, 1787 - 1831": "Young, William, of the town of Florida, will dated 11-12-1811, probated - -. Mentions, wife Rachel; brothers Peter (and his son Peter), George (and his son William); sister's son William Frederick. Executors: David Cady, Peter Young, Jr. Witnesses: David and John W. Cady, George Serviss." 3. http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Enymontgo/mont1841a.html: "This profile of Montgomery County and accompanying engravings comes from an original crumbling copy of the book "Historical Collections of the State of New York," owned by the coordinator. It was printed in 1841 by S. Tuttle, 194 Chatham Square, New York, publisher. The authors were the well-known John W. Barber (author of the Connecticut and Massachusetts Historical Collections) and Henry Howe (author of 'The Memoirs of Eminent American Mechanics'). A later, more commonly found, edition of this work was published in 1845. In their preface Mr. Barber and Mr. Howe credit earlier gazetteers as sources of some information - Spafford's Gazetteers of 1813 and 1824, and Gordon's Gazetteer of 1836. The engravings were "with few exceptions, copied from drawings taken on the spot by the compilers of the work." Montgomery County was named after the lamented Gen. Montgomery, who fell at the attack on Quebec, in the revolution. Its greatest length is 34 E. and W., greatest breadth N. and S. 13 miles. It was originally taken from Albany and named in honor of William Tryon, then governor of the province. Its name was changed in 1784. It embraced all that part of the state lying west of a line running north and south nearly through the centre of the present county of Schoharie. It was divided into five districts - subdivided into precincts. The Mohawk district included Fort Hunter, Caugnawaga, Johnstown, and Kingsboro'; Canajoharie district embraced the present town of that name, with all the country southward, comprehending Cherry Valley of Otsego, and Harpersfield of Delaware counties; Palatine district, north of the Mohawk, extended over the region so called, and Stone Arabia, &c.; German Flats district and Kingsland covered the most western settlements. The Erie canal crosses the county on the south side of the Mohawk, and the Schenectady and Utica railroad on the north side. The Erie canal passes the Schoharie creek through a pond formed by a dam across the stream below. Its fall within this county is 86 feet, by 12 locks. The county is divided into ten towns. Pop. 35,801. [The Township of] Florida, taken from Mohawk in 1793; from Albany 35 miles. Pop. 5,162. The town was settled by some Dutch families from Schenectady, who in 1750 were joined by some Germans, subsequently by Irish and Dutch, and lastly by New Englanders. Fort Hunter, 5 miles SE. of Fonda, is a small settlement. Port Jackson, on the Erie canal, is a flourishing village. Minaville, 4 miles S. of the canal, is a village of about 40 dwellings. Fort Hunter, which formerly stood on the line of the canal in this town, was a place of some importance in colonial history. At this place also stood Queen Anne's Chapel, a stone structure, built by Queen Anne of England for the use of the Mohawk Indians. The English Episcopal missions to the Mohawks appear to have been commenced as early as 1702, and continued down to the beginning of the revolutionary war. [The Township of] Mohawk, the ancient Caughnawaga, recently organized, was formerly the southern section of the town of Johnstown, from which it was taken in 1837. Pop. 3,106. Since the formation of the new county of Fulton, the seat of justice for Montgomery County has been located in this town. The above is an engraving of the courthouse and hotel recently erected in the new village of Fonda. The railroad passes between these two buildings. The central part of the village of Caughnawaga is about half a mile eastward of the courthouse, and consists of about 30 dwelling-houses, on the north side of the Mohawk, 40 miles from Albany, and 4 miles S. from Johnstown. The village occupies the site of an ancient Indian village, one of the principal towns of the Mohawk tribe. Its name, Caughnawaga, is said to signify "a coffin," which it received from the circumstance of there being, in the river opposite the place, a large black stone, (still to be seen,) resembling a coffin, and projecting above the surface at low water. Ancient Church, Mohawk. The annexed is a representation of the ancient Dutch church in Caughnawaga. It is a massive stone structure, and is believed to have been erected in 1763. The following is a copy of the inscription on the stone tablet which was formerly placed over the door. "Komt laett ons op gaen tot den Bergh des Heeren, to den huyse des Godes Jacobs, op dat hy ons leere van syne wegen, en dat wy wandele in syne paden." ["Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord; to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths."] The following, relating to the history of this town, is taken from a newspaper published in Schenectady a few years since. "The Caughnawaga flats extend from the western base of Tripe's Hill to the Cayadutta creek, a distance of four miles. A patent for 2,500 acres of these flats, was granted in the year 1713, to John, Edward, and Margaret Collins. These individuals aliened to Myndert Wemple, Douw Fonda, and Hendrick A. Vrooman; and many of their descendants are proprietors at the present day. "Until 1695, there were no buildings on the site where Caughnawaga now stands, except a Dutch church edifice and a parsonage. This church was founded in 1762, by the patronage of Sir William Johnson. Its principal benefactors were the Fonda, Vrooman, Wemple, and Veeder families. The church edifice is still standing, but in a dilapidated condition. Its first pastor was the Rev. Thomas Romeyn, who died in 1794. He was succeeded by the Rev. Abraham Van Horne, of New Jersey, who continued his pastoral duties until a few years since. "Caughnawaga hardly deserved to be called a hamlet until 1795, when Messrs. Douw and Henry Fonda, of Albany, erected several buildings." 4. The booklet on the Frederick family by Mrs. Alida Reed of Gloversville, NY, 1957 (she died Dec 1966) with copies at the Montgomery Co., NY, Archives and a microfilmed copy on FHL film 1312457, item 4). Alida descends through Hans Jacob Frederick and Margaret Young and their son George: "William, bp. 16 Apr 1777. Sp. William and Rachael Young; md. Christine Smith. Children: Hendrick (Henry), b. 3 Jun 1803. Lawrence, b. 13 May 1805. Catharine, b. 18 May 1807. Peter, b. 6 Jul 1809. A child who died: 10 Jun 1811. Anna who d. 21 May 1813. Maria, b. 16 Dec 1818. John, b. 29 Sep 1820. Nancy, b. 3 Apr 1823. Betsy Maria, b. 7 Jan 1825." BIRTH: 1. From the book "Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families," by Maryly B. Penrose, v. 1, p. 281, Birth/Baptism: "Frederick, Jacob and Maria/Maragrita (Young): Willem, b. 1777, bapt. 16 Apr 1777 (DRC:42); Sponsors: Willem Yong and Rachel Yong. Eva, b. 4 Apr 1782, bapt. 12 May 1782 (DRC: 62); Sponsors: Peter Fredk. and Alida Fredk. Maragriet, b. 12 Jan 1785, bapt. ? Feb 1785 (DRC:71); Sponsors: Jacob Bossert and Maragrita Bosserd. Lodowyk, b. 23 May 1791, bapt. 26 Jun 1791, bapt. 26 Jun 1791 (DRC:98); Sponsors: Hendrick Severs and his wife. 2. The actual birth place is unknown. Both Jacob Frederick and Margaret Young were of Warrensbush (now Florida Township) in Montgomery Co. They both did eventually end up in Johnstown, which is about 10 miles max from Mill Point and north across the Mohawk River. When they moved is not known except that they did buy land there at Keck Center in 1792. They may have been paying quit-rent on the property before then since it was about the early 1790 when many of the landowners were finally selling the quit-rented land. Alida Reed in her booklet already referenced elsewhere in these note indicates she believes they moved there shortly after the birth of their first child Peter. She is confident that it may have been no later than when Margaret was born in 1785 because the sponsors at Margaret's birth were Jacob Bossert and his wife Margaret. She says, "In the genealogy of the Bossart family (sometimes spelled Boshart and Bushart) we find the first of that family did live in the section of Johnstown that leads to Fonda. So they were probably neighbors." I currently use "of Warrensbush." CHRISTENING: 1. Listed per "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, now the Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery County, N.Y.," New York, 1917, 748 pp.: Willem, b. 1777, offspring of Jacob Frederick and Moria Jing, baptized 16 Apr 1777 with sponsors Willem Yong and Rachel Yong. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per family group sheet archive record submitted by Mary J. King Timothy, 383 E2 N, Kaysville, Utah (4ggniece). She references: "Ref. Dutch Ch. Fonda F. N.Y. F.4b, pp. 101, 144, 229; vol. 3, p. 3." Copy in file 184 of Kerry Petersen. | Frederick, Willem or William or Wilhelm (I1275)
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| 2065 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1810 US: The following are all of the Fredericks in Montgomery County, New York. The columns are first male then female 0-9, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, 45+, and then other free persons and slaves: Johnstown Township, p. 16, all right next to each other with the first two being 7 names apart from the second group of three: Philip Frederick, 1-1-0-0-1; 1-1-0-0-1-0-0 Eve Frederick, 0-2-0-0-0; 1-0-0-0-1-0-0 Jacob Frederick, 0-0-2-0-1; 1-0-0-0-1-0-0 George Frederick, 1-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-0-0-0 William Frederick, 2-0-0-1-0; 2-0-1-0-0-0-0 Florida Township [which follows Johnstown Township], p. 34: Sarah Frederick, 0-0-1-0-0; 0-0-0-0-1-0-0 Minden Township, p. 96: Polly Frederick, 2-0-0-0-1; 1-0-1-0-1-0-0 BIRTH: 1. Censuses give mixed births. No earlier than 1785 with stated age of 16-25 in the 1810 census (1810 she had 4 children). The 1850 census shows a birth ca. 1780. 1855 NY State census indicates 1780. | Smith, Christina or Christine (I1263)
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| 2066 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1815: The following names are rom the website http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/ashe/vitals/1815tax.txt accessed 20 Dec 2008: "Ashe Co., NC, 1815 Tax List" (The oldest surviving Ashe Co. tax list. The original is in the NC Archives in Raleigh.) Every Name Index Alphabetized by Sandra Lake Lassen, October 1996 1499 Lakeside Drive, West Jefferson, NC 28694 slassen@infoave.net. Page numbers coincide with typed, unalphabetized version by Mrs. W. O. Absher & Mrs. W. C. Sidden (undated) donated to the Ashe Co. Public Library." I mark my ancestors and their siblings with an asterisk (*). It is apparent that many had migrated to Ohio by the time this tax list was made in 1815. Noticeably absent are the Stokers and many of the Graybills. Other names are surnames in the area of other related families: Burkett, John 16 Eller, Henry* 5 Eller, Jacob* 4 Eller, Peter* 10 Faw, Jacob 16 Graybeal (Graybel), David* 4 Graybeal, Eli 4 Graybeal, Henry* 2 Graybeal, Peter* 16 Henson, Nancy 2 Koons, Devault 3 Koons, Gaspar 2 Koons, George* 3 Koons, John 3 Koonts, Geo.* 17 Kounts, Mary* 17 Penington, Aaron 10 Penington, Ephrom 9 Penington, Levi 5, 9 Penington, William 10 Pennington, Micajah 1 Welker, David 2 1820 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, 19 pages as the follow related families: Henry Eller, 1,0,0,1,0,0//2,0,0,1,0,0,1. Jacob Eller, 2,1,0,0,1,0//4,1,0,1,0,0,1. David Graybeal, 3,0,0,1,0,0//0,0,1,0,0,0,1. Henry Graybeal, 3[or 5],1,0,0,1,0//2,2,0,1,0,0,1. Peter Graybeal, 3,1,0,0,1,0//2,0,1,0,0,0,0, George Koons, 1,1,0,0,1,0//2,2,1,0,1,0,1. No Hensons. No William Penningtons. No Stokers. No apparent Shaws - an area with possible Shaws is very light copy and hard to read; the two that could be Shaws [or something else] look like first names Nathan and Gabriel as heads of households. 1830 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, entire county search for related families found the following: Henry Eller, p. 26a, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 15-20:1; 40-50:1//females 10-15:2; 30-40:1. David Graybeal, p. 26a, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 30-40:1. Henry Graybeal, p. 34a, males 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 20-30:1; 50-60:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1; 40-50:1. Peter Graybeal, p. 39a, males 10-15:2; 20-30:1; 40-50:1//0-5:1; 20-30:1; 40-50:1. No William Hensons, Penningtons, Stokers, nor Shaws. 1850 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, p. 303B, 26 Oct 1850, dwelling 963: Henry Eller, 62, farmer, $500, NC. Elizabeth, 58, NC. Jacob, 18, NC. Rebecca, 16, NC. Andrew, 10, NC. 1860 US: South Eastern District, Ashe, North Caroline, p. 48 of 78, 24 Aug 1870, house and family 1097: Henry Eller, 72, farmer, $500, $200, NC. Betsy, 68, NC. Lidia, 38, NC. 1870 US: Helton P.O., Piney Creek, Ashe, North Carolina, p. 13 of 21, 1 Aug 1870, house and family 88: Henry Eller, 80, works on farm, $125, NC. Elizabeth, 80, keeping house, NC. Elizabeth Bower, 40, keeping house, NC. 2. Per website 12.14.28.568 - 568 - Peter Eller - 1802 - 1805 12.14.28.846 - 846 - Peter Eller - 1809 - 1811 12.14.28.951 - 951 - Henry Eller - 1812 - 1813 312.14.28.3723 - 3709 - Peter Eller - 1849 - 1850 312.14.28.3727 - 3713 - Herry Eller - 1849 - 1850 412.14.28.4334 - 4367 - J Eller - 1852 - 1853 412.14.28.4397 - 4430 - Jacob Eller - 1851 - 1854 412.14.28.4680 - 4713 - Peter Eller - 1853 - 1855 3. Per website http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nc/ashe1815.htm: "Ashe County, North Carolina - 1815 Tax List. Ashe County, North Carolina was formed in 1799 from Wilkes County. From 1799 until 1859, Ashe County included the most of the land now included in Alleghany and Watauga Counties, and part of what is now Avery County, North Carolina. In 1815, Ashe County was bounded by Carter County, Tennessee on the west, Grayson County, Virginia on the north, by Surry and Wilkes Counties on the east and Burke County, North Carolina on the South. This list was abstracted and totals were combined for brevity for individuals with multiple tracts of land. I abstracted this document years ago and omitted portions that I wish I hadn't now. Don't take it as absolutely accurate. Five categories are given: Name, number of acres of land, valuation in dollars, polls, and local situation or name of neighbors. I added the number of tracts of land in the consolidation process." [He did not get the parts of Ashe County that is now part of Alleghany and Watauga Counties. Also no Stokers found.]: Henson, Nancy 100, 50, -, Long Branch, 1 [Nancy Mary Graybill?] Graybeal, Henry 200, 255, 1, Laurel Fork, 3 Koons, Gasper 150, 150, 1, Charles Francis, 1 Koons, George 205, 200, 1, North Fork, 1 Koons, John 90, 130, 1, North Fork, 1 Koons, Devault 150, 200, 1, North Fork, 1 Graybeal, David 350, 212, 1, Old Field Creek, 2 Eller, Jacob 300, 200, 1, Horse Creek, 2 Eller, Henry 250, 200, 1, M. Carpenter, 1 Eller, Peter 215, 320, 1, 1 Pennington, William 103, 150, 1, 1 Burket, Chris. 1260, 1800, 1, Buffalo [Father of the two Burkett girls who md. Graybills.] Judd, John 196, 250, -, Pine Swamp [Father of Margaret Judd?] Koonts, Mary 340, 600, 3, S.F. New River [Mary Eller?] Koonts, Geo. 250, 150, 1, Pond Mountain 4. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 5. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, in speaking about Peter Eller Sr.'s [b. abt. 1746, d. 1799] estate settlement, the following quotes refer to family members involved with the settlement. Note that sons-in-law William Pennington (wife Barbara or Elizabeth Eller?) and George Koons (Mary's husband) do not show up at the estate sale of 1799 but do show up from 1809 to 1817 when the inherited land of Peter Eller is sold. Of the younger sons, Henry and Jacob appear in the later land heirship land deeds, but they would have been only minors at the estate sale of 1799. George, the youngest son, never shows up which may be indicative of an early death. The older sons- John and Peter - and the eldest daughter - Catherine Eller Stoker thru her husband Michael - show up in both 1799 and the later land deeds. Elizabeth Eller Jr., the unmarried dau. shows up only in the 1799 purchaser list buying household items as if she were preparing for an imminent marriage (see her notes for more detail on her purchases). The open-ended question of who married Elizabeth and who married Barbara is not resolved by these documents except the assurance that William Pennington was definitely a husband of one of them. There is no Bumgardner listed in the later heirship deeds but there are two listed early in the estate purchasers - Michael and Leonard - but if Elizabeth really married a Bumgardner and had a son Simeon in 1807, why is there no listing of a Bumgardner on the heirship deeds. The various quotes are as follows: "Peter Eller died before 29 July 1799 as evidenced by an entry in an old court record book found by this writer in the courthouse at Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co., NC in October 1954. It reads as follows: 'Betsey Eller and John Eller having made application for Administration on the estate of Peter Eller gave Bowers and John Koons for security who were bound in the sum of 800 pounds and qualified as the law directs.' Betsey Eller doubtless was Peter's widow and John his eldest son. The time was 1799 when Ashe County was being set off from Wilkes and the year just preceding the one in which the first federal census of Ashe Co. was taken... Three deeds in the courthouse at Jefferson, Ashe Co., NC record settlement actions on the property of Peter Eller deceased. In brief they are: 1. Deed Book M, p. 163, dated 7 July 1809 shows Peter Eller, Jacob Eller, George Koontz and William Pennington of the county of Ashe in the state of NC, heirs of Peter Eller, deceased, selling to Leonard Fantz 200 acres of land in Ashe Co. the same apparently being the tract Andrew Baker had deeded to Peter Eller 3 Aug 1789. The deed was signed by all the said heirs except William Pennington. Why Pennington did not sign is not clear. 2. Deed Book F, p. 414, dated 17 Sep 1816, shows John Eller, Peter Eller, Jacob Eller, Henry Eller, Michael Stocker (Stoker), George Koontz and William Pennington all of the County of Ashe in the State of NC, heirs of Peter Eller deceased, selling Luke White Sr. 122 acres of land located on the south fork of New River at the mouth of Rones Creek etc. This deed was signed by all the said heirs named as party of the first part in the deed except George Koontz. Why George Koontz did not sign is not clear. 3. Deed Book F, p. 83, dated 11 Feb 1817 shows John Eller, J.A. (Jacob) Eller, Henry Eller, Michael Stocker (Stoker), George Koontz and William Pennington all of the county of Ashe in the state of N.C., heirs of Peter Eller, deceased, selling to Frederick Black, 25 acres of land on the south fork of New River the land being that warranted to Peter Eller, 3 May 1793 and granted to him 27 Dec 1797. All of these heirs signed the deed. This writer believes that other heirship deeds exist probably of earlier dates and, if found, would show a Bumgardner heir. The above three deeds distributed only 347 acres of Peter Eller's estate when it appears that it consisted at his death of at least 470 acres. The Bumgardner connection is suggested in an ancient family Bible in which the birth dates of seven children of John Eller, eldest son of Peter and Elizabeth (Dick) Eller was recorded. Another birth entry in this old Bible is that of Simeon Bumgardner, born 8 Jan 1807. This child probably was a son of a daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Dick) Eller who had marred a Bumgardner, probably James Bumgardner. The old Bible was printed in the German language at Halle, Germany in 1770 and is now in the possession of Mr. Wade E. Eller of Warrensville, Ashe Co., NC. It may be the Bible which George Michael Eller willed to his son Jacob because on page 17 is written 'Jacob Eller his Bible.' On page 15 of the vorrede or preface is also written 'The Holy Bible Peter Eller.' The only information of genealogical value in the Bible are the dates of birth of all but the youngest child, Mary, of John and Susannah (Kerns) Eller… and of Simeon Bumgarner above mentioned. The personal estate of Peter Eller was sold and an accounting reported to the Nov. 1799 court of Wilkes Co., NC by John Eller, Adr. The property, 111 individual sales, consisted of household utensils and furniture, farm yard tools and accessories, including one tomahawk, ten sheep, fifteen head of cattle, among which were a yoke of yearlings and one yearling bull, hogs, geese, bee hives, etc. The widow took a good deal of the furniture and household accessories including interestingly enough a trumpet which indicates that the early Ellers possessed musical interest. Other items taken by her were one lot of books, a chest, five head of hogs, four cows, one mare colt, two sheep, oven, hammer and anvil, and a pair of saddle bags. Other purchasers were John Eller, Peter Eller, Elizabeth Eller Jr., Michael Stucker (Stoker), Michael Bumgardner, Leonard Bumgardner, John Dick, Leonard Pfouts, Jacob Huntsinger, Daniel Dickson, James Dickson, James Cash, William Cash, Henry Michael Sr., Henry Michael Jr., Daniel Michael, Thomas Baker, Alexander Smith who purchased the tomahawk and some of the farm animals and other items, David Smith, Frederick Younce, Christian Shear, Abraham Shear, Coonrod Coldiron, David Ingram, Balsar Raime, Conrat Grub, William Colward, George Miller, John Calloway, Allen Nowlin, John Holman and John Tirey. The amount of the sale, including the items taken by the widow totaled 300 pounds, 18 shillings, 7 pence. (Will Book 1, pp. 540-41, Wilkes Co., NC.)" 6. Website http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/ashe/deeds/deedsabs.txt accessed 14 Dec 2008: "Ashe County, NC - Deeds - Abstracts of selected deeds." This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kyle R. Graybeal krgrebiel@verizon.net, 37 Spring Lake Drive, Stafford, VA 22554. Revised 9 October 2001. This file contains abstracts of selected deeds from Ashe County, North Carolina Land records, mostly involving Graybeal family members. The information contained herein does not constitute the sum total of deeds in the Ashe County records involving Graybeal individuals. There are a few incomplete fields in some records especially in acreage, land description & witness names. This means that I have not copied them, not that the information is missing from the court records. The file now includes more deeds and has been corrected for errors dealing with land grants appearing in the original file. In the original file, the entry date and the date the deed was signed were reversed. This new file corrects that problem. Information sorted in date order, which is yyyy-mm-dd. Grantee & Grantor names are [last], [first]. Witness names are [first], [last]. NFNR = North Fork of New River. Mn and Vn means Deed Books M new and V new respectively. Information in [ ] inserted by me and correct to the best of my knowledge. Information in () added for clarification. Price paid, proven date, and registered date not included to save space. I have this information on most deeds in case it is desired. Some compass directions are indicated by N, S, etc., rather spelled out. Deeds for state grants did not require have witnesses' signatures. The indication that a particular person signed with an "x" is not consistent from record to record in this transcription. {Kerry's note: I have refined the list so as to cut it off after whom I think may be the first generation after John Peter Graybill and Christina Wampler; see that more complete list with John Peter Graybill - this partial list are for those only including the name of Eller}: State (NC) TO: Graybeal, David 50 a., Grant: 0782, Ent: 1811-02-01; Signed: 1811-02-01; On Horse Ck/S 110, E 72, Jacob Eller's Line, N 110, 1st Station. Book: Mn, 295; Witness: Peter Graybeal, Henry Eller. 7. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 89: "Peter was the first son of George Michael Eller. Because there were a number of years between Peter's birth and the others, the question arises if he might not be a child of a first marriage. He grew up in North Carolina and married Elizabeth Dick in 1766. His land grant was close to other Ellers, beginning at the spruce pine on the Upper Ford on Rones Creek. In 1797 he bought the 70 acres which had been granted to his father-in-law, Conrad Dick. This land had been surveyed and chain carriers were listed as Michael Stoker and John Eller, neighbors. Peter had 470 acres at his death... There oldest daughter, Catherine, married Michael Stoker and their youngest daughter, Mary, married George Koons and their great granddaughter, Betty Oman married Orson Hyde Stoker. Children: a. John, b. 1767 or 1769; d. 1823; m. Susanna Kerns. b. Catherine, b. 6 Mar 1773 at Rowan Co., NC; d. 1850 at Council Bluffs, Iowa; m. Michael Stoker. c. Elizabeth, b. 1780; m. William Pennington. d. Barbara, b. 1782; m. Pertune. e. Mary, b. 1783, NC; d. 1872; m. George Koons (a Quaker who was disowned for marrying Mary, who was a Dunkard). She was 18 and he 19. f. Jacob, b. 1784; d. 1855; m. Catherine White. g. Henry, b. 1788; d. 1876; m. Elizabeth Johnson. h. George." 8. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 119-123: "Henry Eller, b. abt 1786/88; d. abt 1876, Ashe Co., NC; md. abt 1812/14 to Elizabeth Johnson. She was b. abt 1791/2, Iridell Co (or Ashe Co.?), NC. Their children were John, George, Hannah, Mary, Peter, Calvin, Jacob, Rebecca and Ammon." 9. Burketts, Graybeals, and Ellers mentioned in the book "History of Western North Carolina," by John Preston Arthur, 1914, chapter 8: "Some Early Settlers of Ashe. These noble, self-sacrificing men and women of the early times endangered their lives and braved many hardships in the wild Indian country to open the way to happy homes, schools, churches and the blessings of our present civilization. Some of these were Henry Poe, Martin Gambill, Thomas Sutherland, Timothy Perkins, Captain John Cox, Henry Hardin, Canada Richardson, James Douglas, Daniel Dickson and Elijah Galloway. Besides these were many others whose names awaken much unwritten history: Miller, Blevins, Ham, Reeves, Woodin, Barr, Baker, Eller, Goodman, Ray, Burkett, Graybeal, Houck, Kilby, Ashley, Jones, Gentry, Smith, Plummer, Lewis, Sutherland, McMillan, Colvard, Barker, Senter, Maxwell, Calhoun, Sapp, Thomas, Worth, Oliver and others." Another reference to Ellers: "Jacob, Henry, and John Eller. They were sons of Christian Eller, once a resident of the Jersey Settlement in Davidson County. The two former came to Ashe and settled on the North Fork of New River, reared large families, and were successful, useful, respected citizens. Their sons were Peter, Luke, William, John, David and Jacob. John settled on the South Fork and later moved to Wilkes. His sons were Simeon, David, Absalom, John and Peter, who reared large families which are scattered over Western North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Iowa and Nebraska. (From information furnished by Hon. A. H. Eller, 1912.)" [Kerry's note: the part of these three Ellers being sons of Christian Eller is incorrect.] 10. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 172-176: "Henry Eller, b. 1786/1788; family records said he died about 1876 at the age of more than 90 years. The 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses of Ashe Co. give his age as 62, 72 and 80 respectively. These records indicate a birth year of 1786/88 and a death year of 1876. He married, about 1812/1813, Elizabeth Johnson, b. according to the 1850 census of Ashe Co., NC, in 1791/92, her age being given as 58 years. The 1860 and 1870 censuses give her age as 68 and 80 respectively. She was born in Iridel Co., NC. Henry Eller entered 250 acres of land on the North Fork of New River, 16 July 1812. This land was surveyed 8 Sep 1813 and granted to him 23 Dec 1813. (Grant 840, Secy. of State's Office, Raleigh, NC.) The land was on the north side of 'feneck' (Phoenix) Mountain and bordered the 150 acre farm surveyed to Michael Stucker (Stokard, Stoker). The survey, dated 8 Sep 1813, was attested by Peter and Jacob Eller. Henry Eller figured in several land transactions in Ashe County after 1812. In one, dated 9 Dec 1819, he purchased 90 acres of land from George Koons for $150.00. This land was in Ashe County on the south side of the North Fork of New River 'to my south line and down to the conditional line made between Abraham May and John Dick Jr. against the mouth of Piney Creek being part of the 150 acre tract where Thomas Brooks Mill formerly stood.' George Koons, doubtless, was Henry's brother-in-law, the husband of Mary Eller, shown in... herein [see notes in this database for George Koons and Mary Eller]. The sale was made about the time that George and Mary Koons left North Carolina for their new home in Henry County, Ind. Mary Koons' name does not appear in the deed but this is not strange because the dower rights of wives were often not mentioned in early deeds of Ashe and Wilkes Counties. Later deeds indicate that Henry Eller's farm in 1845 consisted of 240 acres. The records show that Henry Eller's brother-in-law, Michael Stoker (Stokard, Stucker) as well as his brother-in-law, George Koons, lived on farms adjoining his on the North Fork of New River. His brothers, Peter and Jacob, lived nearby while his brother John lived on the south fork of New River near where Peter Eller Sr., their father, late deceased, lived. About 1816 John and Peter moved to lower altitudes in Wilkes County, John to Lewis Fork Creek west of Wilkesboro on a farm of 451 acres and Peter to a farm on Ceroles Creek. Henry Eller is shown in the 1810 Federal Census of Ashe County at the age of between 16 and 26 with wife of same age but no children. He is also shown in the Ashe Co. censuses of 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870. The children of Henry Eller and Elizabeth Johnson were: John Eller, aged 36 in the 1850 and 58 in the 1870 census; m. Susan Hawkins, b. in Virginia, aged 31 in the 1850 and 55 in the 1870 census. Their children according to the Federal Census of Ashe Co., Piney Creek Twp., were... [Biographies of their children and grandchildren follow in the book.] George Eller, b. 1820 (family record); m. Miss Howell. He probably was the George Eller, farmer, listed in the 1850 census of Ashe County, aged 30, with wife Malinda, aged 29 and with a son John Eller, aged 2. In the 1860 census of Ashe Co. he is listed as aged 39 with wife Malinda of same age and with a dau. Mary, aged 4. In the 1870 census Malinda Eller, aged 48, is shown living alone with Children... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Hannah Eller, b. 1822 (family record), not shown in 1850 census. Mary Eller, b. 1826 (family record). Peter Eller, b. 1828 (family record); m. Elizabeth Brooks who may have been his first wife. A Peter Eller, aged 27, 37 and 47 respectively in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses of Ashe County, NC, is shown with a wife Nancy aged 24, 34 and 43 respectively in the same census lists with children as shown below. He died intestate 3 Apr 1898 at his farm in Walnut Hill Township of Ashe County known as the 'old Peter Eller Farm of 107 acres,' with settlement papers mentioning a wife Nancy and Children... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Calvin Eller, b. 1830 (family record); m. Caroline Turner. He was a captain in the Army of the Confederate States of America in the War Between the States. He removed to Independence, VA. The 1860 census of Ashe Co., NC lists him as a farmer, aged 30 with wife Caroline, aged 30, both born in NC with Children... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Jacob Eller, b. 1832, d. 1899 (family record). He was given the age of 28 in the 1860 census of Ashe Co., NC. He m. 24 Nov 1853, Ellen Jones, aged 27 in the 1860 census. He was a Baptist Minister. The 1860 and 1870 censuses of Ashe Co., NC and his will, dated 1 Sep 1898, (Wilkes Co., NC Will Book E, p. 103), show their children... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Rebecca Eller, b. 1834, aged 16 in the 1850 census of Ashe Co., NC. Ammon (Hannah) Eller, aged 10 in the 1850 census of Ashe Co., NC." 11. FHL book 929.273 D55h "History of Peter and Christina Shutt Dick Family; Frederick Co. Maryland; Wilkes Co. North Carolina; Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky; Sangamon Co. Illinois; Cass Co. Illinois," compiled by Muriel M. Hoffman; Anchor, Illinois; 1970; Chapter II "Ancestry of Peter Dick": "Elizabeth Dick, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Dick married Peter Eller, son of George Michael Eller, who moved to what is now Ashe County, N. Car. from Frederick County, Md. Their land adjoined that of her father and presumed brother, John. They had at least 8 children: 1. John Eller, b. abt 1767 d. 1823, m. 5 Nov. 1792 Susannah Kerns, who died 10 April 1853 age 87 years. 2. Catherine Eller b. Rowan Co. 6 Mar. 1773 d. aft 1850 m. 1791/2 to Michael Stoker b. Frederick Co. Md. 24 Mar. 1762, d. aft. 1836. 3. Peter Eller b. 1777/8 d. Wilkes Co. 1851; m. Mary Pennington, prob. dau of William whose estate he helped to administer on 2 July, 1812 with a William Jr. 4. Elizabeth Eller probably m. William Pennington 5. Jacob Eller b.1784/88 d. 3 Nov. 1855 (census b.1784) m. abt. 1805 to Katherine White b.1789 d. Jan. 3, 1854 6. Mary Eller b. 1784/88 d. 1872 age 84; m. George Koons (Koontz) b. 1785/6 d. 26 Mar. 1848 age 63 years. 7. Henry Eller b.1786/88 d. Ashe Co. abt 1876 m. 1814 Elizabeth Johnson. 8. George Eller b. aft 1790 d. before 1841." | Eller, Henry (I941)
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| 2067 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, 19 pages as the follow related families: Henry Eller, 1,0,0,1,0,0//2,0,0,1,0,0,1. Jacob Eller, 2,1,0,0,1,0//4,1,0,1,0,0,1. David Graybeal, 3,0,0,1,0,0//0,0,1,0,0,0,1. Henry Graybeal, 3[or 5],1,0,0,1,0//2,2,0,1,0,0,1. Peter Graybeal, 3,1,0,0,1,0//2,0,1,0,0,0,0, George Koons, 1,1,0,0,1,0//2,2,1,0,1,0,1. No Hensons. No William Penningtons. No Stokers. No apparent Shaws - an area with possible Shaws is very light copy and hard to read; the two that could be Shaws [or something else] look like first names Nathan and Gabriel as heads of households. 1850 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, p. 321a, 15 Nov 1850, dwelling 1208 (several younger Eller families in close proximity): Jacob Ellar, 66, farmer, NC. Catherine, 61, NC. David, 23, farmer, NC. Caroline Poe, 11, NC. 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America": "Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 3. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 89: "Peter was the first son of George Michael Eller. Because there were a number of years between Peter's birth and the others, the question arises if he might not be a child of a first marriage. He grew up in North Carolina and married Elizabeth Dick in 1766. His land grant was close to other Ellers, beginning at the spruce pine on the Upper Ford on Rones Creek. In 1797 he bought the 70 acres which had been granted to his father-in-law, Conrad Dick. This land had been surveyed and chain carriers were listed as Michael Stoker and John Eller, neighbors. Peter had 470 acres at his death... There oldest daughter, Catherine, married Michael Stoker and their youngest daughter, Mary, married George Koons and their great granddaughter, Betty Oman married Orson Hyde Stoker. Children: a. John, b. 1767 or 1769; d. 1823; m. Susanna Kerns. b. Catherine, b. 6 Mar 1773 at Rowan Co., NC; d. 1850 at Council Bluffs, Iowa; m. Michael Stoker. c. Elizabeth, b. 1780; m. William Pennington. d. Barbara, b. 1782; m. Pertune. e. Mary, b. 1783, NC; d. 1872; m. George Koons (a Quaker who was disowned for marrying Mary, who was a Dunkard). She was 18 and he 19. f. Jacob, b. 1784; d. 1855; m. Catherine White. g. Henry, b. 1788; d. 1876; m. Elizabeth Johnson. h. George." 4. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 119-123: "Jacob Eller, b. abt 1784; d. 3 Nov 1855, Ashe Co., NC; md. abt 1805 to Catherine White. She was b. abt 1789; d. 3 Jan 1854. She probably was the d/o Luke White. Jacob and Catherine were living in 1815 on land called Rich Bend, located at the confluence of Mll Creek and the north fork of the New River in Ashe Co., NC. He was still living there at the time of his death. He was a prosperous farmer and left considerable property to his children. Both he and his wife are buried in the family cemetery located on his home farm. Their children were Luke, Mary, Elizabeth, Peter, Nancy, William, Susanah, Sarah, John and David." 5. FHL Book 929.273EL54 h died 3 Nov 1855 at the age of 'about 83.' The 1850 census of Ashe County, NC gave him the age of 66 and his wife Catherine the age of 61. This writer believes that family memory overstated his age by about ten years and accepts a birth year of 1783 or 1784. His view is supported by the earlier census records of Ashe County which give him the age of between 26-45 in 1810 and 1820, between 40-50 in 1830, and between 50-60 in 1840. He is not shown in the 1800 census. Jacob Eller married about 1804/05 Catherine White, b. 1788/9; d. 3 Jan 1854, dau. probably of Luke White. Her age in the 1850 census was given as 61. Her age in 1810 census was between 16 and 26, in 1820 between 26 and 45, and in 1830 and 1840 between 40 and 50. Jacob Eller first appears in Ashe County records 27 Nov 1806 when, with his brother Peter Eller, he witnessed the survey of 150 acres to Michael Stucker (Stoker), his brother-in-law probably. On 7 Jul 1809, as an heir at law of Peter Eller, deceased, he signed a deed disposing of land to Leonard Fantz. (Deed Book M, p. 163, Ashe County.) He signed other similar deeds 17 Sep 1816 and 11 Feb 1817. (Deed Book F, pp. 83 and 414, Ashe Co.) In 1811 a deed of his to Alexander Smith for 15 acres of land was acknowledged by the Nov 1811 Court. (Deed Book F, p. 109, Ashe Co., NC.) Jacob Eller was a witness in the suit of North Carolina vs. Lewis Jones and was bound in the sum of 50 pounds by the November 1815 Court to assure his appearance. Jacob Eller was living, 1815, on land called Rich Bend located at the confluence of Mill Creek and the north fork of New River in Ashe County, and was still living there at the time of his death. He was a well-to-do farmer for his time and left considerable property to his children. Both he and his wife lie buried in the family cemetery located on his home farm. The ten children of Jacob Eller and his wife Catherine White, order of birth not certain, were: Luke Eller, b. 8 Jun 1806; d. 6 Dec 1883; m. license issued in Ashe Co., NC, 27 Mar 1829, Sarah King, b. 5 May 1810; d. 10 Jan 1892. Her mother doubtless was the Patsy King who, according to the 1860 census of Ashe Co., NC, was living in the family of Luke and Sarah Eller at the age of 72. Luke and Sarah Eller lived in Ashe Co., NC and had children. [Biographies of their children and grandchildren follow in the book.] Mary Eller (called Polly), b. 23 Mar 1808; d. 3 Jan 1908; m. Aaron Latham. They lived at Clifton, NC and had children. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Elizabeth Eller, m. Larkin Maxwell. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Peter Eller. He is said by one source to have married twice and to have had several children. By another source he is said to have made several trips back and forth between NC and Arkansas and Texas and never to have married. A Peter Eller, farmer, aged 50 is shown in the 1860 census of Ashe Co., NC with a wife Sarah of same age and children as shown below. He is not listed in either the 1850 or 1870 census. [Biographies of their children and grandchildren follow in the book.] Nancy Eller, m. Samuel Jones. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] William Eller, m. Susanna Eller. She was the daughter of John Eller Jr. (John, Peter, George Michael) and his wife Elizabeth Ray Vannoy. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Susannah Eller, m. David Roland. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Sarah Eller, m. as his first wife David Miller. After her death he m. Mar 1842, as his 2nd wife, Mary Eller, dau. of John Eller Jr. (John, Peter, George Michael) and his wife Elizabeth Ray Vannoy. [Biography of their child follows in the book.] John Eller, b. 1822; m. Catherine Eldreth, b. 1824. He and his wife Catherine are shown in the 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses of Ashe Co., NC, at ages of 28, 37, and 49 and 26, 35, and 46 respectively. Their children as shown on these census lists... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] David Eller, b. 1 Nov 1826; d. 24 Mar 1901; m. 30 Oct 1852, Katherine Baker, b. 1833; d. 22 Feb 1903. They are said to have had 9 children, only 6 of whom, as follows, lived to maturity. [Biographies of their children follow in the book.]" 6. Several family researchers indicate Luke White is probably the father of Catherine, but it is not proven. Please note that Catherine does in fact name one of her sons Luke, which may be more than coincidence. If this is true and judging from Catherine's age, Luke would have had to be married before he married Peter Eller's widow, Elizabeth Dick, after Peter's death in 1799. Some speculate that this first marriage may have been to Elizabeth Yokely, but I have not seen any documentation for this yet. 7. FHL book 929.273 D55h "History of Peter and Christina Shutt Dick Family; Frederick Co. Maryland; Wilkes Co. North Carolina; Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky; Sangamon Co. Illinois; Cass Co. Illinois," compiled by Muriel M. Hoffman; Anchor, Illinois; 1970; Chapter II "Ancestry of Peter Dick": "Elizabeth Dick, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Dick married Peter Eller, son of George Michael Eller, who moved to what is now Ashe County, N. Car. from Frederick County, Md. Their land adjoined that of her father and presumed brother, John. They had at least 8 children: 1. John Eller, b. abt 1767 d. 1823, m. 5 Nov. 1792 Susannah Kerns, who died 10 April 1853 age 87 years. 2. Catherine Eller b. Rowan Co. 6 Mar. 1773 d. aft 1850 m. 1791/2 to Michael Stoker b. Frederick Co. Md. 24 Mar. 1762, d. aft. 1836. 3. Peter Eller b. 1777/8 d. Wilkes Co. 1851; m. Mary Pennington, prob. dau of William whose estate he helped to administer on 2 July, 1812 with a William Jr. 4. Elizabeth Eller probably m. William Pennington 5. Jacob Eller b.1784/88 d. 3 Nov. 1855 (census b.1784) m. abt. 1805 to Katherine White b.1789 d. Jan. 3, 1854 6. Mary Eller b. 1784/88 d. 1872 age 84; m. George Koons (Koontz) b. 1785/6 d. 26 Mar. 1848 age 63 years. 7. Henry Eller b.1786/88 d. Ashe Co. abt 1876 m. 1814 Elizabeth Johnson. 8. George Eller b. aft 1790 d. before 1841." | White, Catherine (I3616)
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| 2068 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, 19 pages as the follow related families: Henry Eller, 1,0,0,1,0,0//2,0,0,1,0,0,1. Jacob Eller, 2,1,0,0,1,0//4,1,0,1,0,0,1. David Graybeal, 3,0,0,1,0,0//0,0,1,0,0,0,1. Henry Graybeal, 3[or 5],1,0,0,1,0//2,2,0,1,0,0,1. Peter Graybeal, 3,1,0,0,1,0//2,0,1,0,0,0,0, George Koons, 1,1,0,0,1,0//2,2,1,0,1,0,1. No Hensons. No William Penningtons. No Stokers. No apparent Shaws - an area with possible Shaws is very light copy and hard to read; the two that could be Shaws [or something else] look like first names Nathan and Gabriel as heads of households. 1830 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, entire county search for related families found the following: Henry Eller, p. 26a, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 15-20:1; 40-50:1//females 10-15:2; 30-40:1. David Graybeal, p. 26a, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 30-40:1. Henry Graybeal, p. 34a, males 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 20-30:1; 50-60:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1; 40-50:1. Peter Graybeal, p. 39a, males 10-15:2; 20-30:1; 40-50:1//0-5:1; 20-30:1; 40-50:1. No William Hensons, Penningtons, Stokers, nor Shaws. 1850 US: Ashe County, North Carolina, p. 303B, 26 Oct 1850, dwelling 963: Henry Eller, 62, farmer, $500, NC. Elizabeth, 58, NC. Jacob, 18, NC. Rebecca, 16, NC. Andrew, 10, NC. 1860 US: South Eastern District, Ashe, North Caroline, p. 48 of 78, 24 Aug 1870, house and family 1097: Henry Eller, 72, farmer, $500, $200, NC. Betsy, 68, NC. Lidia, 38, NC. 1870 US: Helton P.O., Piney Creek, Ashe, North Carolina, p. 13 of 21, 1 Aug 1870, house and family 88: Henry Eller, 80, works on farm, $125, NC. Elizabeth, 80, keeping house, NC. Elizabeth Bower, 40, keeping house, NC. 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 3. FHL book 929.273 D55h "History of Peter and Christina Shutt Dick Family; Frederick Co. Maryland; Wilkes Co. North Carolina; Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky; Sangamon Co. Illinois; Cass Co. Illinois," compiled by Muriel M. Hoffman; Anchor, Illinois; 1970; Chapter II "Ancestry of Peter Dick": "Elizabeth Dick, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Dick married Peter Eller, son of George Michael Eller, who moved to what is now Ashe County, N. Car. from Frederick County, Md. Their land adjoined that of her father and presumed brother, John. They had at least 8 children: 1. John Eller, b. abt 1767 d. 1823, m. 5 Nov. 1792 Susannah Kerns, who died 10 April 1853 age 87 years. 2. Catherine Eller b. Rowan Co. 6 Mar. 1773 d. aft 1850 m. 1791/2 to Michael Stoker b. Frederick Co. Md. 24 Mar. 1762, d. aft. 1836. 3. Peter Eller b. 1777/8 d. Wilkes Co. 1851; m. Mary Pennington, prob. dau of William whose estate he helped to administer on 2 July, 1812 with a William Jr. 4. Elizabeth Eller probably m. William Pennington 5. Jacob Eller b.1784/88 d. 3 Nov. 1855 (census b.1784) m. abt. 1805 to Katherine White b.1789 d. Jan. 3, 1854 6. Mary Eller b. 1784/88 d. 1872 age 84; m. George Koons (Koontz) b. 1785/6 d. 26 Mar. 1848 age 63 years. 7. Henry Eller b.1786/88 d. Ashe Co. abt 1876 m. 1814 Elizabeth Johnson. 8. George Eller b. aft 1790 d. before 1841." BIOGRAPHY: 1. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 119-123: "Henry Eller, b. abt 1786/88; d. abt 1876, Ashe Co., NC; md. abt 1812/14 to Elizabeth Johnson. She was b. abt 1791/2, Iridell Co (or Ashe Co.?), NC. Their children were John, George, Hannah, Mary, Peter, Calvin, Jacob, Rebecca and Ammon." 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 172-176: "Henry Eller, b. 1786/1788; family records said he died about 1876 at the age of more than 90 years. The 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses of Ashe Co. give his age as 62, 72 and 80 respectively. These records indicate a birth year of 1786/88 and a death year of 1876. He married, about 1812/1813, Elizabeth Johnson, b. according to the 1850 census of Ashe Co., NC, in 1791/92, her age being given as 58 years. The 1860 and 1870 censuses give her age as 68 and 80 respectively. She was born in Iridel Co., NC. Henry Eller entered 250 acres of land on the North Fork of New River, 16 July 1812. This land was surveyed 8 Sep 1813 and granted to him 23 Dec 1813. (Grant 840, Secy. of State's Office, Raleigh, NC.) The land was on the north side of 'feneck' (Phoenix) Mountain and bordered the 150 acre farm surveyed to Michael Stucker (Stokard, Stoker). The survey, dated 8 Sep 1813, was attested by Peter and Jacob Eller. Henry Eller figured in several land transactions in Ashe County after 1812. In one, dated 9 Dec 1819, he purchased 90 acres of land from George Koons for $150.00. This land was in Ashe county on the south side of the North Fork of New River 'to my south line and down to the conditional line made between Abraham May and John Dick Jr. against the mouth of Piney Creek being part of the 150 acre tract where Thomas Brooks Mill formerly stood.' George Koons, doubtless, was Henry's brother-in-law, the husband of Mary Eller, shown in... herein [see notes in this database for George Koons and Mary Eller]. The sale was made about the time that George and Mary Koons left North Carloina for their new home in Henry County, Ind. Mary Koons' name does not appear in the deed but this is not strange becasue the dower rights of wives were often not mentioned in early deeds of Ashe and Wilkes Counties. Later deeds indicate that Henry Eller's farm in 1845 consisted of 240 acres. The records show that Henry Eller's brother-in-law, Michael Stoker (Stokard, Stucker) as well as his brother-in-law, George Koons, lived on farms adjoining his on the North Fork of New River. His brothers, Peter and Jacob, lived near by while his brother John lived on the south fork of New River near where Peter Eller Sr., their father, late deceased, lived. About 1816 John and Peter moved to lower altitudes in Wilkes County, John to Lewis Fork Creek west of Wilkesboro on a farm of 451 acres and Peter to a farm on Ceroles Creek. Henry Eller is shown in the 1810 Federal Census of Ashe County at the age of between 16 and 26 with wife of same age but no children. He is also shown in the Ashe Co. censuses of 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870. The children of Henry Eller and Elizabeth Johnson were: John Eller, aged 36 in the 1850 and 58 in the 1870 census; m. Susan Hawkins, b. in Virginia, aged 31 in the 1850 and 55 in the 1870 census. Their children according to the Federal Census of Ashe Co., Piney Creek Twsp., were... [Biographies of their children and grandchildren follow in the book.] George Eller, b. 1820 (family record); m. Miss Howell. He probably was the George Eller, farmer, listed in the 1850 census of Ashe County, aged 30, with wife Malinda, aged 29 and with a son John Eller, aged 2. In the 1860 census of Ashe Co. he is listed as aged 39 with wife Malinda of same age and with a dau. Mary, aged 4. In the 1870 census Malinda Eller, aged 48, is shown living alone with Children... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Hannah Eller, b. 1822 (family record), not shown in 1850 census. Mary Eller, b. 1826 (family record). Peter Eller, b. 1828 (family record); m. Elizabeth Brooks who may have been his first wife. A Peter Eller, aged 27, 37 and 47 respectively in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses of Ashe County, NC, is shown with a wife Nancy aged 24, 34 and 43 respectively in the same census lists with children as shown below. He died intestate 3 Apr 1898 at his farm in Walnut Hill Township of Ashe County known as the 'old Peter Eller Farm of 107 acres,' with settlement papers mentioning a wife Nancy and Children... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Calvin Eller, b. 1830 (family record); m. Caroline Turner. He was a captain in the Army of the Confederate States of America in the War between the States. He removed to Independence, VA. The 1860 census of Ashe Co., NC lists him as a farmer, aged 30 with wife Caroline, aged 30, both born in NC with Children... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Jacob Eller, b. 1832, d. 1899 (family record). He was given the age of 28 in the 1860 census of Ashe Co., NC. He m. 24 Nov 1853, ellen Jones, aged 27 in the 1860 census. He was a Baptist Minister. The 1860 and 1870 censuses of Ashe Co., NC and his will, dated 1 Sep 1898, (Wilkes Co., NC Will Book E, p. 103), show their children... [Biographies of their children follow in the book.] Rebecca Eller, b. 1834, aged 16 in the 1850 census of Ashe Co., NC. Ammon (Hannah) Eller, aged 10 in the 1850 census of Ashe Co., NC." | Johnson or Johnston, Elizabeth (I2417)
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| 2069 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Batavia Twp., Clermont, OH, 7 Aug 1820, no other Winners besides John in same Twp: John Winner: Males: 3<10, 1@16-25, 1@26-44; females: 1@26-44. 1830 US: Batavia Twp., Clermont, OH, p. 9, no other Winners besides John in same Twp: John Winner: Males: 1@10-14, 1@15-19, 1@40-49; females: 1@40-49. 1840 US: Pike Co., OH, very faded: John Winner: 1 male 50-60; 1 female 50-60. On same page as immediate neighbors: -William Winner, males: 1<5, 1@20-30; females: 1@20-30. -Samuel Winner, males: 2<5, 2@5-10, 1@20-30, 1@60-70; females: 1<5, 1@20-30. 1850 US: Twp. 4S 4W, Pike, IL, 7 Sep 1850, 355/368: John Winner, 64, farmer, $100, NJ. Hester A. Winner, 62, NJ. On same page we find two sons of John and Hester: 353/366: William Winner, 36, farmer, OH. Rachel, 35, OH. [This would be Rachel Predmore, dau. of Ephraim Predmore and neice of Sarah (Predmore) Winner, Jonathan's wife.] Elizabeth, 13, OH. Ephraim, 12, OH. Sarah, 8, IL. Hepsibe, 1, female, IL. 350/363: Samuel Winner, 40, farmer, $420, NJ. Sarah, 40, NJ. John, 20, farmer, OH. Samuel, 17, farmer, OH. Hester A., 14, farmer, OH. Joshua, 12, IL. Lovania, 8, IL. Rebecca A., 4, IL. Thomas, 1, IL. 1855 Illinois State, Township 4, Pike co., 3 Jul 1855, extremely faded and unreadable but there appears perhaps two or three more Winner families with younger children as immediate neighbors: John Winner: 1 male 60-70; 1 female 60-70. 2. FHL book 977.1794 H2h "History of Clermont County, Ohio...," by Louis H. Evarts (1880, Philadelphia). Clermont County adjoins Brown County where John's brother Jonathan lived: -p. 250: Property owners in Batavia Twp.: "John Winner, No. 2057; Nathan Darby, original proprietor. -pp. 266-7: "The Pisgah Methodist Episcopal Church. At this point was organized, about 1816, a class which first assembled at the house of a man named Mason, and later at the house of John Winner, the former's son-in-law. Among the members are remembered the names of Daniel Parker, the Masons, the Atcheleys, Mary Kidd, and the Curlis family. Some time about 1818 a log meeting-house was built on the site of the present church, which was destroyed by an incendiary twenty years later. In the present house services have not been held with any regularity since 1854, although the right to the property has always been maintained by the denomination, and an occasional funeral service is yet here held..." 3. Subject to confirmation, Hester's father is reported as Joseph Mason. I did find a Joseph Mason in the 1820 US census for Williamsburg Twp., Clermont Co., Ohio, showing only two persons, one male and one female both 45 and older (the oldest column). In the same census for the same county, there are other Masons who are younger and may be sons of Joseph: -Batavia Twp: John and family; he is under 25. -Williamsburg Twp: Samuel and family; he is under 25. 4. Email from Kris Winner, [In commenting on John Winner who married Hester Mason] ... two of John Winner's sons were on a jury with Hester Ann Mason's brother, Case Mason, making a "link" to the Great Egg Harbor crowd..." 5. Email dated 27 May 2017 from Mike Meisinger of Overland Park, KS < mrm1970@aol.com>: "I saw your recent post on John Winner of Pike county, Illinois. John Winner was my 4th Great Grandfather. I am descended from his son, William. I do have a few other items that may be of interest to you: A. John Winner was in Ohio by 1813. He was part of Captain Daniel Hosbrook's Company in the War of 1812 and served February through August 1813. https://archive.org/stream/rosterofohiosold00ohio#page/n44/mode/1up B. It was for this service that he received his land in Pike county, Illinois. https://glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=0601-305&docClass=MW&sid=ytowcvvn.idn#patentDetailsTabIndex=1 C. The Winner Cemetery you mention in your post is actually on the Pike County / Adams County line, and the land the Winners owned in both counties was all very close together. D. Ephraim Predmore who you mentioned and who is buried in the Winner Cemetery in Pike County was married to Mary Ann Brown. They were married in Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA. Mary lived until 1863 and is buried in the Kramer Cemetery in Brown County, OH. Also in this cemetery are several other Predmores including Mary Ann and Ephraim's sons, Richard and Benjamin, and a William Predmore, born in 1797, (possibly a brother of Ephraim??). There is a David Brown born in 1756 who could possibly be Mary Ann's father, and a Hannah Brown Curless.” DEATH: 1. 1860 Mortality Schedule for Hadley Twp., Pike, IL, accessed at OHGenweb 16 Nov 2011: "Hester A. Winner, 73, female, b. NJ, month of death: March, occupation of housework, typhoid fever for 3 months." BURIAL: 1. Online at genealogytrails.com/ill/pike/cemetery.html accessed 15 Nov 2011: Burial List for Winner Cemetery, Hadley Twp., Pike Co., IL. See website for full listing of 73 names including surnames Barnes, Burton, Chapman, Cole, Curlis, Deeder, Farmer, Hasket, Hitch, Jasper, McCartney, McClain, McCleery, Mellon, Merrick, Orr, Predmore, Shaw?, Starks, Winner, Tournear, and Woodward. Those of interest to me are: Winners (there are many but these are the only ones of the first two generations): -John Winner, 18 Jan 1787, 18 Aug 1860, spouse Hester. -Hester Winner, 8 Aug 1788, 30 Mar 1860, spouse John Winner, d. of typhoid. -Thomas Winner, 7 Apr 1817, 8 Oct 1897, spouse Eliza A. -Eliza A. Winner, 13 Nov 1819, 28 Nov 1898, spouse Thomas Winner. -Samuel Winner, 11 Oct 1810, 9 Mar 1882, wife Sarah. -Sarah Winner, 10 Jan 1811, 25 Dec 1863, spouse Samuel Winner. Predmores (there are several but these are the only ones of what looks like the first two generations): -Ephraim Predmore, 18 Jan 1786, 12 Jan 1859. -Joseph Predmore, 1823, 20 Nov 1898. -Sarah Predmore, 10 Apr 1829, 8 Oct 1915. | Mason, Hester Ann (I2997)
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| 2070 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 195, township had a little over 40 families; related families include James Lackey, Michael Stoker, and Michael Graybill. In neighboring Madison Township, related families David Stoker, Peter Graybill, Nancy (Graybill) Henson, and James McDaniel are found. Columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: Michael Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,1//1,1,0,1,0. Michael Graybill: 3,0,0,0,1,0//1,0,0,1,0. James Lackey: 2,2,1,2,0,1//1,2,1,1,5. 1830 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 109-112, note whole township had 527 people living in it, related families include Michael Stoker, Michael Stoker Jr., Alexander Lackey, James Welker, Michael Graybill, and John Stoker: Alexander Lackey. Males 20-30:1. Females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Next door neighbor is James Lackey.] 1840 US: Bloomfield Twp., Jackson, Ohio, p. 48a, next door is James Lackey, note the entire township fits on 4 pages and there are no Graybills, Stokers, Ellers, McDaniels, or other related families: Alexander Lackey. Males: 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 30-40:1. Females: 5-10:1; 15-20:1; 30-40: 1 1850 US: Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, p. 239a, 23 Jul 1850, dwelling #190: Alexander Lackey, 47, farmer, $1000. Catherine 41, NC. Rebecca, 20, OH. Almaninda, 19, OH. James E., 17, farming, OH. Michael O., 14, OH. Elva Ann C., 9, OH. Chloe A., 4, OH. Same census also has James Lackey, age 80, VA with several other Lackeys living with him including Bamsel. Also living with him is a Mary Henson, age 43, with her family - possibly Mary was a Lackey who married a Henson. 1860 US: Thurman P.O., Bloomfield Twp., Jackson, Ohio, 20 Jun 1860, p. 35a, dwelling 505: Alexander Lackey, 57, farmer, $4,000, $600, OH. Catherine, 51, NC. Michael O., 24, farmer, $240, $100, OH. Elvean C., 19, F, NC. Cloe A., 14, NC. Next door at dwelling 506: James E. Lackey, 27, farmer, $600, $200, OH. Mary A., 29, VA. Leonidas F., 4, OH. Laura M., 1, OH. There is also an Adam Lackey, age 47, with family at dwelling 679 and a Bamsel Lackey, age 42, with family at dwelling 681. 1870 US: Camber P.O., Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, p. 4a, 24 Jun 1870, dwelling #44: Alex Lackey, 67, farmer, $8,000, $500, OH. Catherine, 61, keeping house, NC. Michael, 34, personal $700, OH. Ann, 24, helps mother, OH. Next door is the Jas. E. Lackey family (age 37). 1880 US: Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, Source: FHL film 1255036, National Archives Film T9-1036, p. 4C: Catherine Lackey, age 71, widow, NC NC NC. A son, Michael Lackey, age 44 born in Ohio with his wife and one child also noted. 2. Name may also be James Alexander Lackey or Allen Alexander Lackey. Parents are probably James (Ephrodius?) Lackey and Ester McAlexander. Tombstone shows as Allen Lackey. 3. Information from Ron Hunter 27 Mar 2004 per his website www.gencircles/users/ronaldjhunter/5/data/45411: Allen "Alexander" Lackey, b. 14 Feb 1803 in Ohio, died 22 Sep 1875 in Jackson Co., OH, bur. Vega Cem., Bloomfield Township, Jackson Co., OH. Parents are James Lackey b. 4 Mar 1770 in VA and Esther McAlexander b. 24 Dec 1767 in Patrick Co, VA. His wife is Catherine Stoker, b. 19 Feb 1809 in NC, d. 23 Aug 1896 in Jackson Co., OH, bur. in same cemetery as husband, m. 1 Jan 1829. Children all born in Jackson Co., OH: Rebecca, b. 18 Oct 1829, d. 14 Apr 1900 in Jackson Co., OH; m. Amos Davis 21 Oct 1852 in Jackson Co., OH; 6 children. Almirinda Frances, b. 25 Jun 1831, d. unmarried 21 Jun 1851 in Jackson Co., OH. James Ephrodidus, b. 6 Feb 1833, d. 6 Dec 1897, b. Mary A. Sharp 29 Aug 1855, had 2 children. Michael Onesimus, b. 1 Feb 1836, d. 1905, m. Ann c. Jones 23 Dec 1869 in Jackson Co., OH, 1 child. Elveann C., b. 24 May 1841, d. unmarried 27 Dec 1864.. Chlow a., b. 24 Feb 1846, d. unmarried 27 Dec 1864, bur. in Vega Cem., Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. 4. The father of this individual, James Lackey, appears to be part of the following story per the book "A History of Jackson County, Ohio," by D.W. Williams, vol. 1 The Scioto Salt Springs, Jackson, Ohio, 1900, pp. 99-100: "BLOOMField - The election in this township was held at the house of Judge Hugh Poor, which stood in a central location. the officers were... Thirty-seven electors cast their ballots, the name of Reuben Long being the first registered. the others were: Theophilus Blake, Henry Humphreys, John Hale, William Keeton, Morris Humphreys, Ellis Long, Benjamin Long, Azariah Jenkins, Joshua Stephenson, Thomas Barton, John R. Corn, John Scurlock, John Dickerson, Sharp Barton, George Campbell, Hugh Poor, Hugh Scurlock, Moses Hale, Arthur Callison, Christopher Long, Benjamin Hale, Robert Irwin, Moses Gillespie, DAVID Stoker, Nimrod Arthur, Allen Rice, Michael Stoker, James LACKEY, Martin Poor, John Stephenson, Sr., Samuel McClure, Andrew Donnally, John Stephenson, Jr., Robert G. Hanna and Alexander Poor. There was considerable excitement at this voting place, occasioned by a number of free fights, growing out of a feud between membersof the Long and Hale families. The origin of the trouble is unknown, but at some time in the day Joel Long and John Hale started the ball rolling by agreeing to 'box and fight each other at fisticuffs.' The well known code of the backwoods was no doubt followed to the letter in this fistic duel, but the result did not give satisfaction. Blood was up, and some words led Christopher Long to assault Moses Hale, and, according to the indictiment, did 'strike, beat, wound and illtreat, to the great damage of the said Moses Hale.' John R. Corn interferred in behalf of the latter, and Long promptly gave him a dose of the same medicine. At this point James LACKEY got mixed up in the affair, and Benjamin Long then took a hand and assaulted him. These contests furnished some of the grist for the first term of court in the following August, John Hale and Joel Long being fined $12 each, and Christopher Long $6 under each indictment. Benjamin Long's affair with LACKEY was not adjusted until the November term, when Long plead guilty and was fined $10 and the costs." 5. The following "Lackeys" appear buried in Vega Cemetery per the book "Cemetery Inscriptions of Jackson County," vol. 1, Vega Cemetery [locals pronounce area as Veegee rhyming with Beegee]: ____ Lackey, 10 Jul 1881 50y2m28d, wife of J E Lackey Allen Lackey, 14 Feb 1803-22 Sep 1875 Ann C. Lackey, 1845-1915, wife of Michael O. Lackey Banzel Lackey, 1 Oct 1887, 69y2m5d Catherine Lackey, 19 Feb 1809-23 Aug 1896 (wife of Allen Lackey) Chloe A. Lackey, 27 Dec 1864 18y10m3d, daughter of A. and O. Lackey Infant Lackey, 22 Apr 1882, daughter of C.A. and M.A. Lackey James E. Lackey, 6 Dec 1897, 64y9m James M. Lackey, 1879-1956 L.F. Lackey, 1856-1909 Laura Lackey, 1856-1929 Margaret H. Lackey, 1882-1935, wife of James M. Lackey Mary Coverston Lackey, 1822-1904, wife of Banzel Lackey Matilda A. Lackey, 4 Apr 1900, 49y8m16d, wife of JE Lackey Michael O. Lackey, 1836-1905 Permelia Lackey, 23 Jan 1895, 79y9m, daughter of James and Easter Lackey BIOGRAPHY: 1. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 116-117: "Catherine Stoker, b. 19 Feb 1809 in Ashe Co., NC; d. 23 Aug 1896 in Gallia Co., OH. She married, 1 Jan 1829, in Jackson Co., OH, Alexander Lackey, b. 14 Feb 1803, in Virginia; d. 22 Sep 1875 in Jackson Co., OH. He was a son of James and Easter Lackey who, after a short period of living in Gallia County, Ohio, moved on to Jackson Co. and settles in Bloofield Twsp. in 1806. The were one of the very first families to settle permanently in the county. Family accounts of Catherine Lackey attest to the beauty and firmness of her character and the wonder of her handiwork. A number of pieces of the latter are now precious possessions of her descendants. She was living at her son Michael's home at the time of her death. [The book continues with biographies of the children and grandchildren of this couple; Children, all born in Jackson Co., OH include:] Rebecca Lackey, b. 18 Oct 1829; d. 14 Apr 1900 in Jackson Co., OH. She m. 21 Oct 1852, Amos Davis and had children... Amarinda Frances Lackey, b. 25 Jun 1831; d. 21 Jun 1851 in Jackson Co., OH; m. 17 Oct 1850, Harrison Scurlock. She died at the birth of her first child who also did not survive. James Ephrodidus Lackey, b. 6 Feb 1833; d. 6 Dec 1897; m. 1st 29 Aug 1855, Mary A. Sharp, d. 10 Jul 1881. She was a dau. of Caleb and Mary Sharp. He m. 2nd 14 Mar 1882, Matilda A. Jones. 'The History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio' by Interstate Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884, gives an account of him, saying that he was a practical and successful farmer in Bloomfield Township of Jackson Co., OH and that he served as trustee of Bloomfield Township 1865 to 1875 and from 1882 to 1883. He had two children by his first wife... Michael Onesimus Lackey, b. 1 Feb 1836; d. 18 Oct 1906; m. 23 Dec 1869, Ann C. Jones, dau. of John J. and Betsy Jones. He served in the Civil War. He had but one child... Elveann Lackey, b. 24 May 1841; d. 4 Mar 1864 of typhoid fever. Chloe Lackey, b. 24 Feb 1846; d. 27 Dec 1864, of typhoid fever." 2. From an article entitled "The Family" from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. For the full transcriptional listing of the descendants of Michael Stoker and Catherine Stoker, see the notes of Michael Stoker - the following only pertains to this immediate family. Generation "1" is Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller: "The Michael Stoker Family as existed at the time of his death. Those names that are [bracketed] probably were involved in the Missouri experience... 2. Catherine Stoker, born Feb 19, 1809 in Ashe Co., NC, moved with her family to Jackson Co, OH where she married Alexander LACKEY on Jan 1, 1829. She and her husband did not embrace the LDS church and chose to remain in Ohio where she died on Aug 23, 1896. 3. Rebecca LACKEY, born Oct 18, 1829 in Jackson Co., OH, married Amos Davis on Oct 21, 1852. She died Apr 14 in Jackson Co., OH. 3. Almarinda Frances LACKEY, born Jun 25, 1831, married Harrison SCURLOCK on Oct 17, 1850. She died Jun 21, 1851 in Jackson Co., OH. 3. James Ephrodidus LACKEY, born Feb 6, 1833, married Mary A. SHARP on Aug 29, 1855. He died on Dec 6, 1897. 3. Michael Onesimus LACKEY, born Feb 1, 1836, married Ann C. JONES. He died in Oct 1906." 3. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "A call to Zion takes the family to Missouri. Only one stays in Ohio. Seven of Michael Stoker's (1762-1838) nine children joined the LDS Church between 1833 and 1836. His daughter, Catherine (1809-1893), who married Alexander Lackey, may not have joined nor did Rebecca (1807-1821), a daughter who died accidentally in 1821 at age 14. No doubt, Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his wife, Catherine Eller (1773-After 1850), joined the church also although no record of their baptisms at that time seem to be available. Catherine had her patriarchal blessing given by Hyrum Smith in 1843. The family, listening to their church leaders, were anxious to gather to Zion. On October 27, 1836 Michael, now past the age of 74 and Catherine, over 63 years old, sold out their holdings in southern Ohio and headed west to join the Saints in Missouri. With all of his as repriChildren married except their youngest son, Eller (1816-1855), Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and a couple of dozen or more of his married descendants and their families headed west. Goodby Ohio. David Stoker's wife, Barbara Graybill, and Polly's husband, Michael Graybill, brother and sister, said their goodbyes to their parents, John Peter Graybill, Sr. (1762-1842), and Christina Wampler (1771-1844). This couple had journeyed from the Blue Ridge mountains in Ashe county, North Carolina with the Stokers in 1815 to southern Ohio and they planned to die there which they did. Christina Wampler may have trembled to see her children leave for the west. She had been kidnapped by the Delaware Indians from her Pennsylvania home when she was three years old. With pressure from the increasingly stronger armed forces of the whites, the Indians relinquished her when she was eleven years old, along with other children. She became easy to identify as she sang a lullaby, no doubt a German one, which her mother had taught her. When her mother heard her sing, she knew immediately that it was her Christina.(6) A winter in Indiana. During the late fall and winter of 1836, the Stoker families, whether together or separately, trekked across Ohio in their wagons. Many of them planned to spend part of the winter with relatives in Indiana.(7) Michael stopped in Henry County, Indiana where on December 1, 1836 he bought "1 Roe of Shock corn" from the estate of Absalom Koons who was Catherine's deceased nephew.(8) Michael's son Michael Stoker, Jr., must have been in Henry County when he wrote in his journal in April 1837 that he baptized Margaret Judd, David Eller, Tabitha Eller, Mary Sharp, Rhoda Judd. These were relatives and soon-to-be relatives. Margaret Judd in 1839, after the Stokers were driven from Missouri, would marry Michael's youngest brother, Eller. Rhoda Judd was the mother of Margaret Judd and Tabitha Eller. David Eller was Michael's first cousin.(9) Michael's (1762-1838) daughter, Elizabeth (1800-1868) and her husband, James Welker had been in Indiana when their first child was born in 1823. However, their next four children, starting in 1825 and ending in 1835 were all born near the Stokers in Jackson County, Ohio. The members of Michael's family felt comfortable living near each other and sometimes grew deeply attached. Polly Stoker Graybill found it difficult when her family said their goodbyes to their Indiana relatives. One of them cried because Aunt Polly was leaving and he would not see her again.(10) Picture: "Christena Wampler's headstone in Jackson Co." Evidently, Catherine Stoker Lackey and her husband, Alexander, went to Missouri and joined her parents there in 1837. One of her sons, Michael Onesimus, being only a year old, cried so hard when they crossed the Mississippi River that his mother had to cover his head with her apron.(11)... The Stokers leave Missouri Leaving her husband, Michael, buried in Missouri, Catherine Eller Stoker (1773-after 1850) and her large family, helped each other, left Far West, Missouri and joined the hundreds of Saints who were on the road heading east to Illinois at the time. Little is known about the Stoker family's journey other than Joseph Levi Graybill's account of securing a team and taking his father's family to Illinois. There is some question if Alexander and Catherine Stoker Lackey and their four children were with the Stokers. A great granddaughter says they stayed in Missouri only a year.(19) The Lackey family would not follow the saints to Illinois, but would return to Jackson County, Ohio. Footnotes: 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. A necessary explanation on the Michael Stoker (Stocker) family group sheet sent by Jim Rose, 740 So.Woodland Hills Dr., Woodland Hills, UT, 84 653 on Nov. 13, 1993. 9. "The Howard Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories...," p. 92. 10. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." 11. Letter from Ethel McCarley, dated July 15, 1957 to Madeline E. Fletcher. Ethel's address was Rio Grande, Ohio. Information found in the notes of the Michael Stoker family group sheet sent by Jim Rose to Jim Stoker on Nov. 18, 1993. 18. Joseph Levi Graybill, "Testimony at age 92." 19. Letter from Ethel McCarley to Madeline E. Fletcher dated July 15, 1957." 4. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article: "Michael, 74 years of age, and Catherine, 63 years of age, lived in Bloomfield Township until the fall of 1836, when on October 27 they sold their farm and moved with their new church settling near the new town of Farr West, Missouri. Land records state that on 27 October 1836 Michael Stoker sold all his land, eighty acres, improvements and water rights to Wm. Wilmore. Sec 34, T. 8 R. 17 W 1/2 of the NW 1/4. When Michael sold their home in Jackson, Ohio they left their daughter Catherine, and her husband, Alexander Lackey, in the care of the Lackey families. Catherine and Alexander later joined them in Missouri for a brief period of time. During the church's "Missouri Conflict" Catherine and Alexander returned to the Lackey family in Ohio. The 1850 census records for Bloomfield Township list Catherine and Alexander Lackey along with Adam Lackey." BIRTH: 1. Ohio would be surmised as Ohio from censuses; however, the following news article from his wife indicates Virginia. Exact date from Ron Hunter's website cited above. James Hook in the book as cited in these notes also uses 14 Feb 1803 in Virginia. From an article entitled "Stokers coming to Ohio" rom the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT: "(A Miss Ethel McCarley did research on the Stoker family line for Madeline Fletcher of Fort Collins, Colorado. She sent to Madeline an article found in a local newspaper which featured an elderly Mrs. Katy Lackey. She is Catherine Stoker, daughter of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller, who married to Alexander Lackey on Jan 1, 1829. The newspaper and its date were not given. It is assumed that the interviews took place in 1896. Photocopy of the article was sent to Jim Stoker by Madeline Fletcher's sister, Helen Evans, of San Diego, California on March 15, 1994.) 'On last Monday, the writer paid a visit to Mrs. Katy Lackey, of Rio Grande. The old lady is remarkably spry for one so old, being eighty-seven last February. She can remember back for eighty-one years. Though she now lives in Gallia County, the greater part of her life was spent in Jackson County. Her maiden name was Stoker. Her parents, Michael and Catherine Stoker came here from North Carolina in 1815, when she was but six years old. There was quite a large family of them, consisting of father and mother, five brothers, three sisters, and a brother-in-law by the name of Craybill [Graybill]. They came in wagons, bringing all their goods with them, as far as the salt works on the Kanawha river, and there, on account of bad roads, they loaded their goods on pack horses. They crossed the Ohio river some time in February. Coming to this county in 1815, before its organization, they were directed by a gentleman by the name of Arthur to a sugar camp near the old Henson place, and there they stayed till a log cabin could be erected for a home. Many persons yet living in the vicinity, can remember the rude log hut that used to stand just a few rods above the present site of the Vega school house. Her nearest neighbors were, the Stephensons, who lived on the Daniel Evans' place; the Lackey homestead, now owned by Prof C. A. Lackey; an Arthur family, who lived where Mrs. Rebecca Evans now lives, below Vega and a family of Welkers, who moved somewhere in the hollow, where Albert and Evie Edwards now live. Her five brothers were David, John, Mike, Jacob and Elery [Eller] Stoker; and the sisters were Elizabeth, Rebecca, and herself, Katie Stoker. Her sister, Rebecca, was the second person buried in the old grave-yard mentioned a few weeks ago, on the farm of Mr. Daniel Williams; Anne Stephenson, a daughter of John Stephenson, one of the first commissioners of Jackson county, being the first person buried there. The story goes that Anne Stephenson was carried to the door on a quilt, and looking across the creek, selected a spot on the hillside under a walnut tree for her grave, which was the starting of the graveyard. When Rebecca Stoker died, Mr. Stephenson requested that she be buried by the side of his daughter, Anne, they being about the same age. The first school she attended was near the old tan house and not very far from where Mr. Jenkins Davis now lives. Her first teacher was John Stephenson and the second was Andrew Stephenson, both sons of the commissioner, John Stephenson. The school house was one of those rude log structures with a chimney in one corner, usually taking up about one quarter of the entire building. Wood was used for the fire purposes, the boys taking turns at chopping and rolling in back logs. The Stokers afterwards moved to Iowa, with the exception of Katy, the subject of this sketch, who married Mr. Alex Lackey and has lived here in Gallia county ever since. The Stephensons came here from Greenbrier county, Virginia. Just when they came we are not able to say as they were here when the Stokers came in 1815. There was a large family of them, also, consisting of father, John, and mother, whose maiden name was Ewing. She was some relation of Thomas Ewing, the first Secretary of Interior; seven sons and three daughters. The sons were Jas, John, Joshua, Andrew, Williams, Samuel and Jerry. The girls were Ellen, Anne and Nancy. James was judge of the court of common pleas; John was, for several years, auditor; Sam and Jerry moved to Indiana; Anne died at the old homestead as stated above; Ellen married Joseph Scurlock; and Nancy married Courtney Martin. The Lackeys came here from Virginia in 1806. They settled for a while in Gallia county, near where Mr. Jerry Corn now lives; then they came to this county, settling in Bloomfield township. The old homestead is still in possession of one of the descendants. When the Lackeys and Stokers first came here, the country was all woods. Wolves were so numerous, it was next to impossible to keep sheep, and their howling would make the night hideous. Bear, too, were plentiful, and it was no uncommon thing to hear the pigs squealing and to rush out and find that a bear had devoured a pig, or had eaten a shoulder off of one of the larger hogs." MARRIAGE: 1. FHL Film #301,043 "Jackson County, Ohio Marriages 1816-1843" has no record of any marriage for this couple even though it does have marriages of John W. Stoker and Electa Sally McDaniel in 1827 and John McDaniel and Christina Stoker in 1835. DEATH: 1. Date and location surmised by 1880 census. Exact date from Ron Hunter's website cited above. BURIAL: 1. From Ron Hunter's website cited above. 2. During my visit to the area in Sep 2006, I was told by the locals that the local pronunciation of Vega is "Veegee" with the "g" being a soft "g" as in gee whiz. 3. Per the book "Cemetery Inscriptions of Jackson County," vol. 1, Vega Cemetery [locals pronounce area as Veegee rhyming with Beegee]: Allen Lackey, 14 Feb 1803-22 Sep 1875 Catherine Lackey, 19 Feb 1809-23 Aug 1896 (wife of Allen Lackey) SOURCES_MISC: 1. Mentioned in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, p. 87. | Lackey, Alexander (I2542)
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| 2071 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 195, township had a little over 40 families; related families include James Lackey, Michael Stoker, and Michael Graybill. In neighboring Madison Township, related families David Stoker, Peter Graybill, Nancy (Graybill) Henson, and James McDaniel are found. Columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: Michael Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,1//1,1,0,0,1. [Appears to be Michael, his wife Catherine, and their children John, Michael, Rebecca, Catherine, Jacob, and Eller; the three oldest appear gone in this census.] Michael Graybill: 3,0,0,0,1,0//1,0,0,1,0. James Lackey: 2,2,1,2,0,1//1,2,1,1,5. 1830 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 109-112, note whole township had 527 people living in it, related families include Michael Stoker, Michael Stoker Jr., Alexander Lackey, James Welker, Michael Graybill, and John Stoker: Alexander Lackey. Males 20-30:1. Females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Next door neighbor is James Lackey.] 1840 US: Bloomfield Twp., Jackson, Ohio, p. 48a, next door is James Lackey, note the entire township fits on 4 pages and there are no Graybills, Stokers, Ellers, McDaniels, or other related families: Alexander Lackey. Males: 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 30-40:1. Females: 5-10:1; 15-20:1; 30-40: 1 1850 US: Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, p. 239a, 23 Jul 1850, dwelling #190: Alexander Lackey, 47, farmer, $1000. Catherine 41, NC. Rebecca, 20, OH. Almaninda, 19, OH. James E., 17, farming, OH. Michael O., 14, OH. Elva Ann C., 9, OH. Chloe A., 4, OH. 1860 US: Thurman P.O., Bloomfield Twp., Jackson, Ohio, 20 Jun 1860, p. 35a, dwelling 505: Alexander Lackey, 57, farmer, $4,000, $600, OH. Catherine, 51, NC. Michael O., 24, farmer, $240, $100, OH. Elvean C., 19, F, NC. Cloe A., 14, NC. Next door at dwelling 506: James E. Lackey, 27, farmer, $600, $200, OH. Mary A., 29, VA. Leonidas F., 4, OH. Laura M., 1, OH. There is also an Adam Lackey, age 47, with family at dwelling 679 and a Bamsel Lackey, age 42, with family at dwelling 681. 1870 US: Camber P.O., Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, p. 4a, 24 Jun 1870, dwelling #44: Alex Lackey, 67, farmer, $8,000, $500, OH. Catherine, 61, keeping house, NC. Michael, 34, personal $700, OH. Ann, 24, helps mother, OH. Next door is the Jas. E. Lackey family (age 37). 1880 US: Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, Source: FHL film 1255036, National Archives Film T9-1036, p. 4C: Catherine Lackey, age 71, widow, NC NC NC. A son, Michael Lackey, age 44 born in Ohio with his wife and one child also noted. 2. Information from Ron Hunter 27 Mar 2004 per his website www.gencircles/users/ronaldjhunter/5/data/45411: Allen "Alexander" Lackey, b. 14 Feb 1803 in Ohio, died 22 Sep 1875 in Jackson Co., OH, bur. Vega Cem., Bloomfield Township, Jackson Co., OH. Parents are James Lackey b. 4 Mar 1770 in VA and Esther McAlexander b. 24 Dec 1767 in Patrick Co, VA. His wife is Catherine Stoker, b. 19 Feb 1809 in NC, d. 23 Aug 1896 in Jackson Co., OH, bur. in same cemetery as husband, m. 1 Jan 1829. Children all born in Jackson Co., OH: Rebecca, b. 18 Oct 1829, d. 14 Apr 1900 in Jackson Co., OH; m. Amos Davis 21 Oct 1852 in Jackson Co., OH; 6 children. Almirinda Frances, b. 25 Jun 1831, d. unmarried 21 Jun 1851 in Jackson Co., OH. James Ephrodidus, b. 6 Feb 1833, d. 6 Dec 1897, b. Mary A. Sharp 29 Aug 1855, had 2 children. Michael Onesimus, b. 1 Feb 1836, d. 1905, m. Ann c. Jones 23 Dec 1869 in Jackson Co., OH, 1 child. Elveann C., b. 24 May 1841, d. unmarried 27 Dec 1864.. Chlow a., b. 24 Feb 1846, d. unmarried 27 Dec 1864, bur. in Vega Cem., Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. 3. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 4. The following "Lackeys" appear buried in Vega Cemetery per the book "Cemetery Inscriptions of Jackson County," vol. 1, Vega Cemetery [locals pronounce area as Veegee rhyming with Beegee]: ____ Lackey, 10 Jul 1881 50y2m28d, wife of J E Lackey Allen Lackey, 14 Feb 1803-22 Sep 1875 Ann C. Lackey, 1845-1915, wife of Michael O. Lackey Banzel Lackey, 1 Oct 1887, 69y2m5d Catherine Lackey, 19 Feb 1809-23 Aug 1896 (wife of Allen Lackey) Chloe A. Lackey, 27 Dec 1864 18y10m3d, daughter of A. and O. Lackey Infant Lackey, 22 Apr 1882, daughter of C.A. and M.A. Lackey James E. Lackey, 6 Dec 1897, 64y9m James M. Lackey, 1879-1956 L.F. Lackey, 1856-1909 Laura Lackey, 1856-1929 Margaret H. Lackey, 1882-1935, wife of James M. Lackey Mary Coverston Lackey, 1822-1904, wife of Banzel Lackey Matilda A. Lackey, 4 Apr 1900, 49y8m16d, wife of JE Lackey Michael O. Lackey, 1836-1905 Permelia Lackey, 23 Jan 1895, 79y9m, daughter of James and Easter Lackey BIOGRAPHY: 1. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 116-117: "Catherine Stoker, b. 19 Feb 1809 in Ashe Co., NC; d. 23 Aug 1896 in Gallia Co., OH. She married, 1 Jan 1829, in Jackson Co., OH, Alexander Lackey, b. 14 Feb 1803, in Virginia; d. 22 Sep 1875 in Jackson Co., OH. He was a son of James and Easter Lackey who, after a short period of living in Gallia County, Ohio, moved on to Jackson Co. and settles in Bloofield Twsp. in 1806. The were one of the very first families to settle permanently in the county. Family accounts of Catherine Lackey attest to the beauty and firmness of her character and the wonder of her handiwork. A number of pieces of the latter are now precious possessions of her descendants. She was living at her son Michael's home at the time of her death. [The book continues with biographies of the children and grandchildren of this couple; Children, all born in Jackson Co., OH include:] Rebecca Lackey, b. 18 Oct 1829; d. 14 Apr 1900 in Jackson Co., OH. She m. 21 Oct 1852, Amos Davis and had children... Amarinda Frances Lackey, b. 25 Jun 1831; d. 21 Jun 1851 in Jackson Co., OH; m. 17 Oct 1850, Harrison Scurlock. She died at the birth of her first child who also did not survive. James Ephrodidus Lackey, b. 6 Feb 1833; d. 6 Dec 1897; m. 1st 29 Aug 1855, Mary A. Sharp, d. 10 Jul 1881. She was a dau. of Caleb and Mary Sharp. He m. 2nd 14 Mar 1882, Matilda A. Jones. 'The History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio' by Interstate Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884, gives an account of him, saying that he was a practical and successful farmer in Bloomfield Township of Jackson Co., OH and that he served as trustee of Bloomfield Township 1865 to 1875 and from 1882 to 1883. He had two children by his first wife... Michael Onesimus Lackey, b. 1 Feb 1836; d. 18 Oct 1906; m. 23 Dec 1869, Ann C. Jones, dau. of John J. and Betsy Jones. He served in the Civil War. He had but one child... Elveann Lackey, b. 24 May 1841; d. 4 Mar 1864 of typhoid fever. Chloe Lackey, b. 24 Feb 1846; d. 27 Dec 1864, of typhoid fever." 2. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124: P. 87: Michael Stoker, the son of (John) Michael Stoker, was a 28 year old bachelor in Wilkes County, NC when the US census was taken in 1790. The farm which Michael Stoker bought from John Dick was on the north fork of New River in Ashe County. (The boundary line had been changed from Wilkes.) In 1792 Michael married Catherine Eller, the oldest daughter of Peter Eller and Elizabeth Dick. The Ellers and Dicks were settlers in this same area and all of Michael and Catherine's children, except Eller, were born and raised among numerous family members in North Carolina. In 1815, the family joined a migration of relatives moving west into Ohio. This party of Graybills and Stokers, all ages from babies to the elderly crossed the border into Ohio on Christmas Day, 1815. Michael and his son David, who had just turned 21, took part in the first election held in Jackson County on April 1, 1816. John Michael Stoker, Michael's father, settled in Perry County, Ohio, about 60 miles north. While in Ohio the Stokers became members of the newly organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1837 [error: Feb 1836?], Michael, Jr., who was now a man and a member of the Priesthood, baptized Eller's future wife and her mother, Margaret and Rhoda Judd. Pauline Stoker of Council Bluffs has Michael Jr.'s old notebook where he kept records of baptisms, birthdays and deaths. On October 27, 1836, Michael and Catherine Stoker sold their land in preparation of the move to Missouri where the Saints were gathering. Michael was then 74 and Catherine 63 years old. Great persecutions took place in Missouri during the next two years and the family had to flee to Illinois for safety. Michael was not among those who reached Illinois, and how or when he died is not known. Catherine was at Nauvoo, IL, when the Saints again had to flee in February of 1846. She settled in Pottawattamie County, living with her eldest daughter, Polly, where she died. She is buried in the Stoker-Graybill Cemetery east of Council Bluffs, Iowa." It is further noted: "Catherine Stoker, b. 19 Feb 1809, d. 23 Aug 1893, m. Alexander Lackey. Catherine and her husband did not leave Ohio." 3. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 98: Michael Stoker/Catherine Eller, born Mar. 9, 1773 [the 9 is overwritten over the 6]. Children: Polly Stoker, born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb. 7, 1864. David Stoker, born Mar. 23, 1795, died May 27, 1852. Elizabeth Stoker, born Feb. 28, 1800. John W. Stoker, born May 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. Michael Stoker, Jr., born Feb. 10, 1805. Rebecca Stoker, born Mar. 19, 1807. Catherine Stoker, born July 19, 1809. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker/Margaret, born July 28, 1816, died July 18, 1855. 101: Catherine Eller, wife of Michael Stoker born Mar. 6th 1773. John W. Stoker, son of above parents, born Mar. 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. David Stoker was born 23 March 1795, died May 27, 1852. Polly Stoker (Graybill), born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb 7, 1864. Michael Stoker, born July 10, 1805. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker, born July 28, 1815, July 18, 1855. Elizabeth Stoker (Walker), born Feb 28, 1800. 4. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "A call to Zion takes the family to Missouri. Only one stays in Ohio. Seven of Michael Stoker's (1762-1838) nine children joined the LDS Church between 1833 and 1836. His daughter, Catherine (1809-1893), who married Alexander Lackey, may not have joined nor did Rebecca (1807-1821), a daughter who died accidentally in 1821 at age 14. No doubt, Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his wife, Catherine Eller (1773-After 1850), joined the church also although no record of their baptisms at that time seem to be available. Catherine had her patriarchal blessing given by Hyrum Smith in 1843. The family, listening to their church leaders, were anxious to gather to Zion. On October 27, 1836 Michael, now past the age of 74 and Catherine, over 63 years old, sold out their holdings in southern Ohio and headed west to join the Saints in Missouri. With all of his as repriChildren married except their youngest son, Eller (1816-1855), Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and a couple of dozen or more of his married descendants and their families headed west. Goodby Ohio. David Stoker's wife, Barbara Graybill, and Polly's husband, Michael Graybill, brother and sister, said their goodbyes to their parents, John Peter Graybill, Sr. (1762-1842), and Christina Wampler (1771-1844). This couple had journeyed from the Blue Ridge mountains in Ashe county, North Carolina with the Stokers in 1815 to southern Ohio and they planned to die there which they did. Christina Wampler may have trembled to see her children leave for the west. She had been kidnapped by the Delaware Indians from her Pennsylvania home when she was three years old. With pressure from the increasingly stronger armed forces of the whites, the Indians relinquished her when she was eleven years old, along with other children. She became easy to identify as she sang a lullaby, no doubt a German one, which her mother had taught her. When her mother heard her sing, she knew immediately that it was her Christina.(6) A winter in Indiana. During the late fall and winter of 1836, the Stoker families, whether together or separately, trekked across Ohio in their wagons. Many of them planned to spend part of the winter with relatives in Indiana.(7) Michael stopped in Henry County, Indiana where on December 1, 1836 he bought "1 Roe of Shock corn" from the estate of Absalom Koons who was Catherine's deceased nephew.(8) Michael's son Michael Stoker, Jr., must have been in Henry County when he wrote in his journal in April 1837 that he baptized Margaret Judd, David Eller, Tabitha Eller, Mary Sharp, Rhoda Judd. These were relatives and soon-to-be relatives. Margaret Judd in 1839, after the Stokers were driven from Missouri, would marry Michael's youngest brother, Eller. Rhoda Judd was the mother of Margaret Judd and Tabitha Eller. David Eller was Michael's first cousin.(9) Michael's (1762-1838) daughter, Elizabeth (1800-1868) and her husband, James Welker had been in Indiana when their first child was born in 1823. However, their next four children, starting in 1825 and ending in 1835 were all born near the Stokers in Jackson County, Ohio. The members of Michael's family felt comfortable living near each other and sometimes grew deeply attached. Polly Stoker Graybill found it difficult when her family said their goodbyes to their Indiana relatives. One of them cried because Aunt Polly was leaving and he would not see her again.(10) Picture: "Christena Wampler's headstone in Jackson Co." Evidently, Catherine Stoker Lackey and her husband, Alexander, went to Missouri and joined her parents there in 1837. One of her sons, Michael Onesimus, being only a year old, cried so hard when they crossed the Mississippi River that his mother had to cover his head with her apron.(11)... The Stokers leave Missouri Leaving her husband, Michael, buried in Missouri, Catherine Eller Stoker (1773-after 1850) and her large family, helped each other, left Far West, Missouri and joined the hundreds of Saints who were on the road heading east to Illinois at the time. Little is known about the Stoker family's journey other than Joseph Levi Graybill's account of securing a team and taking his father's family to Illinois. There is some question if Alexander and Catherine Stoker Lackey and their four children were with the Stokers. A great granddaughter says they stayed in Missouri only a year.(19) The Lackey family would not follow the saints to Illinois, but would return to Jackson County, Ohio. Footnotes: 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. A necessary explanation on the Michael Stoker (Stocker) family group sheet sent by Jim Rose, 740 So.Woodland Hills Dr., Woodland Hills, UT, 84 653 on Nov. 13, 1993. 9. "The Howard Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories...," p. 92. 10. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." 11. Letter from Ethel McCarley, dated July 15, 1957 to Madeline E. Fletcher. Ethel's address was Rio Grande, Ohio. Information found in the notes of the Michael Stoker family group sheet sent by Jim Rose to Jim Stoker on Nov. 18, 1993. 18. Joseph Levi Graybill, "Testimony at age 92." 19. Letter from Ethel McCarley to Madeline E. Fletcher dated July 15, 1957." 5. From an article entitled "Stokers coming to Ohio" rom the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT: "(A Miss Ethel McCarley did research on the Stoker family line for Madeline Fletcher of Fort Collins, Colorado. She sent to Madeline an article found in a local newspaper which featured an elderly Mrs. Katy Lackey. She is Catherine Stoker, daughter of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller, who married to Alexander Lackey on Jan 1, 1829. The newspaper and its date were not given. It is assumed that the interviews took place in 1896. Photocopy of the article was sent to Jim Stoker by Madeline Fletcher's sister, Helen Evans, of San Diego, California on March 15, 1994.) 'On last Monday, the writer paid a visit to Mrs. Katy Lackey, of Rio Grande. The old lady is remarkably spry for one so old, being eighty-seven last February. She can remember back for eighty-one years. Though she now lives in Gallia County, the greater part of her life was spent in Jackson County. Her maiden name was Stoker. Her parents, Michael and Catherine Stoker came here from North Carolina in 1815, when she was but six years old. There was quite a large family of them, consisting of father and mother, five brothers, three sisters, and a brother-in-law by the name of Craybill [Graybill]. They came in wagons, bringing all their goods with them, as far as the salt works on the Kanawha river, and there, on account of bad roads, they loaded their goods on pack horses. They crossed the Ohio river some time in February. Coming to this county in 1815, before its organization, they were directed by a gentleman by the name of Arthur to a sugar camp near the old Henson place, and there they stayed till a log cabin could be erected for a home. Many persons yet living in the vicinity, can remember the rude log hut that used to stand just a few rods above the present site of the Vega school house. Her nearest neighbors were, the Stephensons, who lived on the Daniel Evans' place; the Lackey homestead, now owned by Prof C. A. Lackey; an Arthur family, who lived where Mrs. Rebecca Evans now lives, below Vega and a family of Welkers, who moved somewhere in the hollow, where Albert and Evie Edwards now live. Her five brothers were David, John, Mike, Jacob and Elery [Eller] Stoker; and the sisters were Elizabeth, Rebecca, and herself, Katie Stoker. Her sister, Rebecca, was the second person buried in the old grave-yard mentioned a few weeks ago, on the farm of Mr. Daniel Williams; Anne Stephenson, a daughter of John Stephenson, one of the first commissioners of Jackson county, being the first person buried there. The story goes that Anne Stephenson was carried to the door on a quilt, and looking across the creek, selected a spot on the hillside under a walnut tree for her grave, which was the starting of the graveyard. When Rebecca Stoker died, Mr. Stephenson requested that she be buried by the side of his daughter, Anne, they being about the same age. The first school she attended was near the old tan house and not very far from where Mr. Jenkins Davis now lives. Her first teacher was John Stephenson and the second was Andrew Stephenson, both sons of the commissioner, John Stephenson. The school house was one of those rude log structures with a chimney in one corner, usually taking up about one quarter of the entire building. Wood was used for the fire purposes, the boys taking turns at chopping and rolling in back logs. The Stokers afterwards moved to Iowa, with the exception of Katy, the subject of this sketch, who married Mr. Alex Lackey and has lived here in Gallia county ever since. The Stephensons came here from Greenbrier county, Virginia. Just when they came we are not able to say as they were here when the Stokers came in 1815. There was a large family of them, also, consisting of father, John, and mother, whose maiden name was Ewing. She was some relation of Thomas Ewing, the first Secretary of Interior; seven sons and three daughters. The sons were Jas, John, Joshua, Andrew, Williams, Samuel and Jerry. The girls were Ellen, Anne and Nancy. James was judge of the court of common pleas; John was, for several years, auditor; Sam and Jerry moved to Indiana; Anne died at the old homestead as stated above; Ellen married Joseph Scurlock; and Nancy married Courtney Martin. The Lackeys came here from Virginia in 1806. They settled for a while in Gallia county, near where Mr. Jerry Corn now lives; then they came to this county, settling in Bloomfield township. The old homestead is still in possession of one of the descendants. When the Lackeys and Stokers first came here, the country was all woods. Wolves were so numerous, it was next to impossible to keep sheep, and their howling would make the night hideous. Bear, too, were plentiful, and it was no uncommon thing to hear the pigs squealing and to rush out and find that a bear had devoured a pig, or had eaten a shoulder off of one of the larger hogs." 6. From an article entitled "The Family" from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. For the full transcriptional listing of the descendants of Michael Stoker and Catherine Stoker, see the notes of Michael Stoker - the following only pertains to this immediate family. Generation "1" is Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller: "The Michael Stoker Family as existed at the time of his death. Those names that are [bracketed] probably were involved in the Missouri experience... 2. Catherine Stoker, born Feb 19, 1809 in Ashe Co., NC, moved with her family to Jackson Co, OH where she married Alexander LACKEY on Jan 1, 1829. She and her husband did not embrace the LDS church and chose to remain in Ohio where she died on Aug 23, 1896. 3. Rebecca LACKEY, born Oct 18, 1829 in Jackson Co., OH, married Amos Davis on Oct 21, 1852. She died Apr 14 in Jackson Co., OH. 3. Almarinda Frances LACKEY, born Jun 25, 1831, married Harrison SCURLOCK on Oct 17, 1850. She died Jun 21, 1851 in Jackson Co., OH. 3. James Ephrodidus LACKEY, born Feb 6, 1833, married Mary A. SHARP on Aug 29, 1855. He died on Dec 6, 1897. 3. Michael Onesimus LACKEY, born Feb 1, 1836, married Ann C. JONES. He died in Oct 1906." 7. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article: "Michael, 74 years of age, and Catherine, 63 years of age, lived in Bloomfield Township until the fall of 1836, when on October 27 they sold their farm and moved with their new church settling near the new town of Farr West, Missouri. Land records state that on 27 October 1836 Michael Stoker sold all his land, eighty acres, improvements and water rights to Wm. Wilmore. Sec 34, T. 8 R. 17 W 1/2 of the NW 1/4. When Michael sold their home in Jackson, Ohio they left their daughter Catherine, and her husband, Alexander Lackey, in the care of the Lackey families. Catherine and Alexander later joined them in Missouri for a brief period of time. During the church's "Missouri Conflict" Catherine and Alexander returned to the Lackey family in Ohio. The 1850 census records for Bloomfield Township list Catherine and Alexander Lackey along with Adam Lackey." BIRTH: 1. Per biography citation above. However, John Stoker's journal shows a variant date of July 19, 1807 - the July 19 was overwritten over what looks like Feby 2?. 2. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "Notes from one of the little red books John Welker." It is noted by the book's author that: "The following accounts have been reprinted using the same spelling and grammar as the original as submitted to me by Helen Evans 4177 1/2 Utah St. San Diego, CA 92104." The portion of the transcript which deals with the birth of some of the children of Michael Stoker is as follows [note that the original transcriber apparently noted some inconsistencies in the dates and made corrections in parantheses]: "Grandfather Michael Stoker children David Stoker Mar 23 1795 Polly Nov 24 1792 John Stoker feb 16 1802 Michael feb 10 1805 Elizabeth feb 28 1800 Catharine 19 18-7 Jacob Stoker Apr 7 1812 Eller July 24 1816 (Catharine was born 19 Feb. 1809 and Eller was born July 28, 1816.)" 3. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "The following were copied from small notebooks of John Welker in the possession of Mrs. Bertie Branch of Safford. Dates and historical and genealogical information appearing in the long narrow brown notebook of John Welker." (Note: I only include what pertains to my specific family history). Please see the notes of James Welker in this database for a fuller transcription; the following is only a portion dealing with this individual: Page 14: "Names -and births. David Stoker born March 23ed 1795 John W. Stoker Feb 10 1802 Poly Stoker nov 24 1792 Michael Stoker 10 1805 Catharine born 9 1809 Jacob Stoker April 7 1812 Eller Stoker July 24 1816 Elizabeth Stoker feb 28 1800..." MARRIAGE: 1. FHL Film #301,043 "Jackson County, Ohio Marriages 1816-1843" has no record of any marriage for this couple even though it does have marriages of John W. Stoker and Electa Sally McDaniel in 1827 and John McDaniel and Christina Stoker in 1835. DEATH: 1. Per biography citation above. Location assumed by 1880 census location. BURIAL: 1. Per the book "Cemetery Inscriptions of Jackson County," vol. 1, Vega Cemetery [locals pronounce area as Veegee rhyming with Beegee]: Allen Lackey, 14 Feb 1803-22 Sep 1875 Catherine Lackey, 19 Feb 1809-23 Aug 1896 (wife of Allen Lackey) SOURCES_MISC: 1. Mentioned in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, p. 87. ACTION: 1. Look up earlier censuses. | Stoker, Catherine (I2537)
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| 2072 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 195, township had a little over 40 families; related families include James Lackey, Michael Stoker, and Michael Graybill. In neighboring Madison Township, related families David Stoker, Peter Graybill, Nancy (Graybill) Henson, and James McDaniel are found. Columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: Michael Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,1//1,1,0,0,1. [Appears to be Michael, his wife Catherine, and their children John, Michael, Rebecca, Catherine, Jacob, and Eller; the three oldest appear gone in this census.] Michael Graybill: 3,0,0,0,1,0//1,0,0,1,0. James Lackey: 2,2,1,2,0,1//1,2,1,1,5. 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." BIOGRAPHY: 1. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124: P. 87: Michael Stoker, the son of (John) Michael Stoker, was a 28 year old bachelor in Wilkes County, NC when the US census was taken in 1790. The farm which Michael Stoker bought from John Dick was on the north fork of New River in Ashe County. (The boundary line had been changed from Wilkes.) In 1792 Michael married Catherine Eller, the oldest daughter of Peter Eller and Elizabeth Dick. The Ellers and Dicks were settlers in this same area and all of Michael and Catherine's children, except Eller, were born and raised among numerous family members in North Carolina. In 1815, the family joined a migration of relatives moving west into Ohio. This party of Graybills and Stokers, all ages from babies to the elderly crossed the border into Ohio on Christmas Day, 1815. Michael and his son David, who had just turned 21, took part in the first election held in Jackson County on April 1, 1816. John Michael Stoker, Michael's father, settled in Perry County, Ohio, about 60 miles north. While in Ohio the Stokers became members of the newly organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1837 [error: Feb 1836?], Michael, Jr., who was now a man and a member of the Priesthood, baptized Eller's future wife and her mother, Margaret and Rhoda Judd. Pauline Stoker of Council Bluffs has Michael Jr.'s old notebook where he kept records of baptisms, birthdays and deaths. On October 27, 1836, Michael and Catherine Stoker sold their land in preparation of the move to Missouri where the Saints were gathering. Michael was then 74 and Catherine 63 years old. Great persecutions took place in Missouri during the next two years and the family had to flee to Illinois for safety. Michael was not among those who reached Illinois, and how or when he died is not known. Catherine was at Nauvoo, IL, when the Saints again had to flee in February of 1846. She settled in Pottawattamie County, living with her eldest daughter, Polly, where she died. She is buried in the Stoker-Graybill Cemetery east of Council Bluffs, Iowa." Same page notes: "Rebecca Stoker, b. 19 Mar 1807, d. 1821 in Jackson Co., Ohio." 2. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 98: Michael Stoker/Catherine Eller, born Mar. 9, 1773 [the 9 is overwritten over the 6]. Children: Polly Stoker, born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb. 7, 1864. David Stoker, born Mar. 23, 1795, died May 27, 1852. Elizabeth Stoker, born Feb. 28, 1800. John W. Stoker, born May 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. Michael Stoker, Jr., born Feb. 10, 1805. Rebecca Stoker, born Mar. 19, 1807. Catherine Stoker, born July 19, 1809. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker/Margaret, born July 28, 1816, died July 18, 1855. 101: Catherine Eller, wife of Michael Stoker born Mar. 6th 1773. John W. Stoker, son of above parents, born Mar. 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. David Stoker was born 23 March 1795, died May 27, 1852. Polly Stoker (Graybill), born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb 7, 1864. Michael Stoker, born July 10, 1805. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker, born July 28, 1815, July 18, 1855. Elizabeth Stoker (Walker), born Feb 28, 1800. 3. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "A call to Zion takes the family to Missouri. Only one stays in Ohio. Seven of Michael Stoker's (1762-1838) nine children joined the LDS Church between 1833 and 1836. His daughter, Catherine (1809-1893), who married Alexander Lackey, may not have joined nor did Rebecca (1807-1821), a daughter who died accidentally in 1821 at age 14. No doubt, Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his wife, Catherine Eller (1773-After 1850), joined the church also although no record of their baptisms at that time seem to be available. Catherine had her patriarchal blessing given by Hyrum Smith in 1843. The family, listening to their church leaders, were anxious to gather to Zion. On October 27, 1836 Michael, now past the age of 74 and Catherine, over 63 years old, sold out their holdings in southern Ohio and headed west to join the Saints in Missouri. With all of his children married except their youngest son, Eller (1816-1855), Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and a couple of dozen or more of his married descendants and their families headed west. Goodby Ohio. David Stoker's wife, Barbara Graybill, and Polly's husband, Michael Graybill, brother and sister, said their goodbyes to their parents, John Peter Graybill, Sr. (1762-1842), and Christina Wampler (1771-1844). This couple had journeyed from the Blue Ridge mountains in Ashe county, North Carolina with the Stokers in 1815 to southern Ohio and they planned to die there which they did. Christina Wampler may have trembled to see her children leave for the west. She had been kidnapped by the Delaware Indians from her Pennsylvania home when she was three years old. With pressure from the increasingly stronger armed forces of the whites, the Indians relinquished her when she was eleven years old, along with other children. She became easy to identify as she sang a lullaby, no doubt a German one, which her mother had taught her. When her mother heard her sing, she knew immediately that it was her Christina.(6) A winter in Indiana. During the late fall and winter of 1836, the Stoker families, whether together or separately, trekked across Ohio in their wagons. Many of them planned to spend part of the winter with relatives in Indiana.(7) Michael stopped in Henry County, Indiana where on December 1, 1836 he bought "1 Roe of Shock corn" from the estate of Absalom Koons who was Catherine's deceased nephew.(8) Michael's son Michael Stoker, Jr., must have been in Henry County when he wrote in his journal in April 1837 that he baptized Margaret Judd, David Eller, Tabitha Eller, Mary Sharp, Rhoda Judd. These were relatives and soon-to-be relatives. Margaret Judd in 1839, after the Stokers were driven from Missouri, would marry Michael's youngest brother, Eller. Rhoda Judd was the mother of Margaret Judd and Tabitha Eller. David Eller was Michael's first cousin.(9) Michael's (1762-1838) daughter, Elizabeth (1800-1868) and her husband, James Welker had been in Indiana when their first child was born in 1823. However, their next four children, starting in 1825 and ending in 1835 were all born near the Stokers in Jackson County, Ohio. The members of Michael's family felt comfortable living near each other and sometimes grew deeply attached. Polly Stoker Graybill found it difficult when her family said their goodbyes to their Indiana relatives. One of them cried because Aunt Polly was leaving and he would not see her again.(10) Picture: "Christena Wampler's headstone in Jackson Co." Evidently, Catherine Stoker Lackey and her husband, Alexander, went to Missouri and joined her parents there in 1837. One of her sons, Michael Onesimus, being only a year old, cried so hard when they crossed the Mississippi River that his mother had to cover his head with her apron.(11) Footnotes: 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. A necessary explanation on the Michael Stoker (Stocker) family group sheet sent by Jim Rose, 740 So.Woodland Hills Dr., Woodland Hills, UT, 84 653 on Nov. 13, 1993. 9. "The Howard Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories...," p. 92. 10. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." 11. Letter from Ethel McCarley, dated July 15, 1957 to Madeline E. Fletcher. Ethel's address was Rio Grande, Ohio. Information found in the notes of the Michael Stoker family group sheet sent by Jim Rose to Jim Stoker on Nov. 18, 1993." BIRTH: 1. See biography above. DEATH: 1. See biography above. 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, p. 116 "Rebecca Stoker, b. 19 Mar 1807. Killed accidently at age 14." BURIAL: 1. From an article entitled "Stokers coming to Ohio" rom the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT: "(A Miss Ethel McCarley did research on the Stoker family line for Madeline Fletcher of Fort Collins, Colorado. She sent to Madeline an article found in a local newspaper which featured an elderly Mrs. Katy Lackey. She is Catherine Stoker, daughter of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller, who married to Alexander Lackey on Jan 1, 1829. The newspaper and its date were not given. It is assumed that the interviews took place in 1896. Photocopy of the article was sent to Jim Stoker by Madeline Fletcher's sister, Helen Evans, of San Diego, California on March 15, 1994.) 'On last Monday, the writer paid a visit to Mrs. Katy Lackey, of Rio Grande. The old lady is remarkably spry for one so old, being eighty-seven last February. She can remember back for eighty-one years. Though she now lives in Gallia County, the greater part of her life was spent in Jackson County. Her maiden name was Stoker. Her parents, Michael and Catherine Stoker came here from North Carolina in 1815, when she was but six years old. There was quite a large family of them, consisting of father and mother, five brothers, three sisters, and a brother-in-law by the name of Craybill [Graybill]. They came in wagons, bringing all their goods with them, as far as the salt works on the Kanawha river, and there, on account of bad roads, they loaded their goods on pack horses. They crossed the Ohio river some time in February. Coming to this county in 1815, before its organization, they were directed by a gentleman by the name of Arthur to a sugar camp near the old Henson place, and there they stayed till a log cabin could be erected for a home. Many persons yet living in the vicinity, can remember the rude log hut that used to stand just a few rods above the present site of the Vega school house. Her nearest neighbors were, the Stephensons, who lived on the Daniel Evans' place; the Lackey homestead, now owned by Prof C. A. Lackey; an Arthur family, who lived where Mrs. Rebecca Evans now lives, below Vega and a family of Welkers, who moved somewhere in the hollow, where Albert and Evie Edwards now live. Her five brothers were David, John, Mike, Jacob and Elery [Eller] Stoker; and the sisters were Elizabeth, Rebecca, and herself, Katie Stoker. Her sister, Rebecca, was the second person buried in the old grave-yard mentioned a few weeks ago, on the farm of Mr. Daniel Williams; Anne Stephenson, a daughter of John Stephenson, one of the first commissioners of Jackson county, being the first person buried there. The story goes that Anne Stephenson was carried to the door on a quilt, and looking across the creek, selected a spot on the hillside under a walnut tree for her grave, which was the starting of the graveyard. When Rebecca Stoker died, Mr. Stephenson requested that she be buried by the side of his daughter, Anne, they being about the same age. The first school she attended was near the old tan house and not very far from where Mr. Jenkins Davis now lives. Her first teacher was John Stephenson and the second was Andrew Stephenson, both sons of the commissioner, John Stephenson. The school house was one of those rude log structures with a chimney in one corner, usually taking up about one quarter of the entire building. Wood was used for the fire purposes, the boys taking turns at chopping and rolling in back logs. The Stokers afterwards moved to Iowa, with the exception of Katy, the subject of this sketch, who married Mr. Alex Lackey and has lived here in Gallia county ever since. The Stephensons came here from Greenbrier county, Virginia. Just when they came we are not able to say as they were here when the Stokers came in 1815. There was a large family of them, also, consisting of father, John, and mother, whose maiden name was Ewing. She was some relation of Thomas Ewing, the first Secretary of Interior; seven sons and three daughters. The sons were Jas, John, Joshua, Andrew, Williams, Samuel and Jerry. The girls were Ellen, Anne and Nancy. James was judge of the court of common pleas; John was, for several years, auditor; Sam and Jerry moved to Indiana; Anne died at the old homestead as stated above; Ellen married Joseph Scurlock; and Nancy married Courtney Martin. The Lackeys came here from Virginia in 1806. They settled for a while in Gallia county, near where Mr. Jerry Corn now lives; then they came to this county, settling in Bloomfield township. The old homestead is still in possession of one of the descendants. When the Lackeys and Stokers first came here, the country was all woods. Wolves were so numerous, it was next to impossible to keep sheep, and their howling would make the night hideous. Bear, too, were plentiful, and it was no uncommon thing to hear the pigs squealing and to rush out and find that a bear had devoured a pig, or had eaten a shoulder off of one of the larger hogs." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Mentioned in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, p. 87. | Stoker, Rebecca (I2536)
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| 2073 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 195, township had a little over 40 families; related families include James Lackey, Michael Stoker, and Michael Graybill. In neighboring Madison Township, related families David Stoker, Peter Graybill, Nancy (Graybill) Henson, and James McDaniel are found. Columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: Michael Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,1//1,1,0,0,1. [Appears to be Michael, his wife Catherine, and their children John, Michael, Rebecca, Catherine, Jacob, and Eller; the three oldest appear gone in this census.] Michael Graybill: 3,0,0,0,1,0//1,0,0,1,0. James Lackey: 2,2,1,2,0,1//1,2,1,1,5. 1830 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 109-112, note whole township had 527 people living in it, related families include Michael Stoker, Michael Stoker Jr., Alexander Lackey, James Welker, Michael Graybill, and John Stoker: Michael Stoker, Jr. Males 0-5:1; 20-30:1; 60-70:1. Females 5-10:1; 20-30:1. [Appears to be Michael, his wife Martha, and their oldest son Gabriel; unsure who 5-10 year old girl would be since this couple was married only one year before.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 67b, household and family #62 [note judging from 1834 birth of Moroni, it would appear family was Mormon by that date by using a Book of Mormon name for the son]: Michael Stoker, 41, no occupation, NC. Martha, 39, Ohio. Gabriel, 21, laborer, Ohio. David, 18, Ohio. Maroni, 16, Ohio. Alexander, 13, Ohio. Michael, 10, Ill. Jared, 6, Ill. Joseph, 4, Ill. Rebecca, 2, Ill. 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. Census return: Stoker: Michael 46, Martha 44, Gabriel M. [male] 21, David N. 19, William M. 16, John A. 13, James M. 10, Jared 7, Joseph J. 4, Martha R. 2. [Note that the following related families are in this census and very close neighbors: Simeon P. Graybill, Michael/Polly Graybill with Polly's mother Catherine Eller Stoker, Eller/Margaret Stoker, Jacob/Catherine Stoker, Philip/Catherine Gatrost, David/Barbara Stoker, Edward/Sarah Davis, and William/Almira Stoker. Other relatives in same county but separated by several pages of census include the following families: Thomas/Hannah Pilling whose daughter Hannah, later marries William Lenore Graybill, Levi/Patience Graybill, John W./Sarah Stoker, Hannah Ford whose son Martin later marries Zibiah M. Stoker, and John/Sarah Smith.] 1854 Iowa: Kane, Pottawattamie, Iowa, FHL film 1022207. Next door neighbors include Philip "Gastrop," Simeon "Grabill," and Eller Stoker. Neighbor a couple of census pages away include M. Stoker and M. Ford. Census return: M. Stoker, 4 males, 2 females, 1 voter, 1 militia, 6 total. 1856 Iowa: (From Ancestry.com) Kane, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 28 of 63, 175/176 (family of Martin Ford is two doors away); also note the family has been residents of the state for 8 years: Michael Stoker, 51, NC, farmer. (Also includes some agricultural production figures.) Martha, 48, OH. Moroni, 21, OH, farmer. Alexander, 18, MO. M.J., 16, IL. Jared, 13, IL. J.J, 10, IL. Rebecca M., 7, IA. 2. The book "The Henry McDaniel family, 1755-1975," by Esta McDaniel Lee, 1975, FHL 929.273 M141L, p. 82: "Other McDaniels of Gallia and Jackson Counties, Ohio. David McDaniel, b. ca. 1738 m. 5 March, 1801, Elizabeth (Betsy) McCarley in Washington County, Ohio. Gallia County was a part of Washington Coound at that time. David McDanieal was in Ohio long before it became a state for a son James McDaniel was born in what is now Jackson County, 24 Feb. 1762. He married 19 Dec 1805 Zebiah (Sibby) McCarley, b. 10 Dec 1786, Gallia County, Ohio, daughter of John McCarley. She died 5 Feb 1860. James died in Jackson County, 1820. They had the following children: 1. Sarah McDaniel, b. 26 May 1806, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 7 Mar 1857, m. John W. Stoker, 13 Mar 1827. 2. Martha McDaniel, b. 24 Feb 1808, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 4 Feb 1877 [year appears erroneous], m. 1828/29 Michael Stoker. 3. Jane McDaniel, 24 Feb 1810, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah, m. 1836, John Stoker. 4. John McDaniel, b. 10 Jun 1812, Jackson Co., O., d. 11 Nov 1884, Alpine, Utah, m. Christina Stoker. 5. William McDaniel, b. 1814, Jackson Co., O., d. 1889 unmarried. There could have been others." Page 83: "Jackson County Marriage Records. C.D. Massie: 19 Apr 1827 Electa Sally McDaniel to John W. Stoker." 3. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 4. From Sep 2006 Internet, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge.2509/brownson.html: It appears the Stoker family probably knew the Seymour Brunson family of nearby Lawrence Co., Ohio. Brunson had served with Luke Johnson in 1832. In 1833 he is again with Luke in the area as are Zerubbabel Snow and Amasa Lyman. He is also specifically in Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio in Nov. 1834 when his son his born and also per letters he wrote. He appears generally in Kirtland thereafter. His journal notes that in July 1836 he visited the church in Bloomfield. He does note the baptism of John Stoker 13 Nov 1837. It was at his funeral in Nauvoo in 1840 that Joseph Smith first revealed the doctrine of baptisms for the dead. 5. 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: 70s Record: Qrm 26 per Bk B Sel, LDS Arc, pg. 96. Also notes that he lived in Centerpoint, Iowa after Nauvoo. He was ordained 1839. 6. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," which is quoted in its entirety in the notes of David Stoker: "By August of 1815 David and Barbara had settled into family life in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. It was on the 24 August 1815 that their first child was born: Christine Stoker. By the spring of 1816, David's parents had also joined them on the new frontier of the Ohio River Valley. David and his father, Michael, are listed on the Jackson County, Ohio, voting registry for an election that was held on 1 April 1816. Also, David's youngest brother, Eller, was born in Bloomfield, Ohio... David and his family are not listed on the 1830 census records for Ohio or Indiana. (The family of John Stoker listed on the 1830 census in Ohio is that of David's brother, John W. Stoker.)... Between the years of 1830 to 1836 David and Barbara Stoker along with some of the extended family received missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of these missionaries were: Seymour Brunson, John A. Fisher, and Luke Johnson. All baptized members of the Stoker family into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Stoker (David's son) was baptized by Seymour Brunson and Luke Johnson in 1834. David's younger brother, Michael Jr., baptized Barbara in 1836. ('LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.' Andrew Johnson Vol 2 pg. 252. Luke Johnson, Autobiography in 'Millennial Star' 1864, Lewis p 92) Some members of the Graybill family also joined the church as their baptismal dates and offices they held within the church are listed in the records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. An article in the local paper records that there was strong religious persecution against members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Vega area. This fighting lead to some families leaving Vega. ('Jackson Herald,' Friday, February 27, 1959 and cited in Jim Stoker's Stoker history 1993) It was in the fall and winter of 1836 that David Stoker, his father, Michael, with their families and some of the Graybill families left the Ohio valley traveling west. On the 15 August 1838, David bought 52+ acres of land in Harrison County, Indiana. His brother, William, bought 120 acres in Madison County, Indiana. (Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States- General land Office, records of the Ohio River Valley Survey) Other members of the extended Stoker family were already living in Indiana. David's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, James Welker, were married in Henry County, Indiana in 1828, and it's possible that their first son was born there. Albert Koons, a relative of Catherine Eller (David's mother), lived in Henry County, Indiana along with other Eller families. (The Indiana connections need to be fully researched to understand the detail of the different families movements.)... The census records and genealogical family groups sheets illustrate some of David and Barbara's journeys. The history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints records members of the Graybill, McDaniel, and Welker families migrated west staying with the main body of the church to settle in Caldwell County, Missouri, near the town of Far West. [Picture, pg. 61: "Caldwell County, Missouri. Township 55 North of the base line. Range 28 west of the 5th principal meridian. Section 8 NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 John W. Stoker's land -1837. Section 8 SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 James Welker's land -1837. Section 9 SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 Eller Stoker's land -1837. (From the map archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)")... During July of 1837 three families of the Stoker clan filed forty acre land deeds in Missouri. They were located seven to eight miles southeast of Far West, Missouri in the Grant Township near Log Creek. They were: James Welker (brother-in-law to David), Eller, and John W. Stoker (David's brothers). (Vital statistics indicate other family members were in this area, but no land records have been located at this time.)... The next notable record of David and his family are found in the 'Redress Petition' to the United States government on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This petition listed all those who lost property and effects due to the "Mormon Expulsion" order given by the governor of Missouri. This order simply stated that all of the Mormon church people had to immediately leave or die. Groups of raiding parties against the church members ensured the order was carried out to the extreme. The Stokers and their relatives reported that these 'mobs' had stolen their plow, wagons, tools, mill wheel, beehives, pigs, and horses. Their furniture was damaged, guns and rifles taken, and crops and homes were burned. There are 36 family members listed on the petition. ('History of the Church,' Vol 4) The following is one journal recounts how volatile the Log Creek area became: "A sketch that I was an eye witness to in the State of Missourie Charles C. Rich on the 24th of October 1838 Messengers Come into Farwest stating that the mob was on Log Creek burning houses and Loaded waggons and threatening the lives of the people those was a few men Sent out to ascertain the movements of the mob these men returned a bout eleven O clock at night Stating that thare had been considerable Damage Done and also that they had taken three of the Brethern prisoners and intended to kill them..." (Stoker 1993). David's nephew and the son of Polly Stoker Graybill, recorded this time also: "I went with my father's family and others, to Caldwell County, Missouri, in the autumn of 1837, and was with the Saints there in their time of terrible trials. We planted a crop which we were never allowed to harvest. I was a member of the State Militia under Colonel Hinkle. The mob came upon us near Farr West, in October, 1838... for weeks they had been stealing and driving off our stock, taking a team of horses from my father, and all the horses I owned" (ibid). By 1840 the Missouri Governor's expulsion order had forced every member of the church to leave their homes, many fled into Illinois for safety. David's father, Michael, died during this event. One family tradition is that he was buried in the "Saint's Cemetery" in Far West. (There have been no records found as to when and where he died or is buried.)... Other church members fled into Adams County, Illinois as the local citizens promised them safety. David, his brothers, and brother in law found work on farms south of Columbus, Illinois. The 1840 census records for Adams County, list David, his son John, and their extended families. After taking time to restock and restore, the Stoker families moved further west as did the body of their church; into the state of Illinois. Their prophet and leader, Joseph Smith sent word to all church members to gather in and around the town of Commerce, Hancock County, Illinois where they could homestead new land and start over. It was a piece of swamp land on the bend of the Mississippi River heavily infested with disease carrying insects. The people drained the swamp land and built a city that housed thousands of church members. The name of Commerce was changed to Nauvoo. Tax and historical records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints show that some of the Stoker families settled a few miles south of the city of Nauvoo... David's brother, Eller Stoker, owned land along the "Carthage road" between the cities of Nauvoo and Carthage. Most of the family members settled in the Bear Creek Township twenty miles south of Nauvoo. (Historical Records, Nauvoo, Illinois) County historical records list "Bear Creek" as the name of a city, township, and river but all names encompass the same area. Bear Creek was used as a timber and corn producing area. Today corn and soybean farms still cover all of the prairie flats with old trees growing along the water ways. Bear Creek is itself a slow moving creek; with steep banks in places giving indications of the water power the creek can have in flood stages. Residents of the farm town of Basco, Hancock County, Illinois still refer to this area as Bear Creek. Basco's official records begin in 1876. Today Bear Creek city and towns are only a remnant of it's former size as the settler's descendants are forced to move out to the larger towns to earn a living. Early Church references to Bear Creek are: 1. Missionary town where the Saints lived among non-Mormons included Carthage, Bear Creek, La Harpe, and Fountain Green. ('Historical Atlas of Mormonism,' p.56) 2. Went to Bear creek, visited the Saints, held meeting, and preached on the subject of the building of the Nauvoo House and temple;... (Watson p.131) 3. Went to Knowlton Settlement on Bear Creek... (Watson p.160) [Picture, pg. 67: "Log Creek Today. This is the general area of what would have been some of the Stoker families holdings. Located south of Kingston, Missouri."] [Picture, pg. 67: "Trees in the background line Log Creek today. Except for the creek all is farm land."] The Final Expulsion Order Religious persecutions again plagued the fledgling church. During the winter of 1846, the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were again asked to leave. Peaceably at first, but eventually they were driven out in the same fashion as from Missouri. Members were forced to leave their newly built homes and anything they could not put in the wagons or carry. This time they fled across the Mississippi River into the unknown Iowa territory. Mormon journals from the residents living in Bear Creek record the trials they went through. Mobs were again burning homes to force the Saints to leave even though they were not fully prepared for a journey. The Bear Creek region is close to the town of Warsaw, Illinois, a place where these mobs could gather and/or flee for safety. Listed below are journal entries from people who lived in the Bear Creek area. I have included this information to give the reader a sense of what the Stoker families endured. 1. "...On reaching a point midway (between Warsaw and Carthage) they were informed of new depredation by the mob. The sheriff then sent his family to Nauvoo under a small guard and proceeded to the scene of the mobbers. The mobbers saw them coming and took a flight, the posse pursuing with orders to arrest them if possible, if not to fire upon them. After pursuing them for some distance the posses fired upon them and killed two, and wounded it is believed others. This was on Bear Creek about two o'clock this afternoon." (Hosea Stout p39, 40) 2. "On Saturday, the 5th inst., as Pres. Joseph Smith was on his return from Quincy, to which place he had accompanied Pres. Hyrum Smith and William Law, on their mission to the East, he was arrested, at the Bear Creek Hotel,..." (Times and Seasons, Vol 2., p447) 3. "...I made ginger beer to sell this summer and I tended the Nauvoo House meat market, good guard, etc. until the 1st of September [1845] and then there began to be trouble in the regions of Bear Creek, Carthage and Warsaw, so that we had to fly to arms again to protect ourselves against the mob..." (Allen Stout p.23) 4. "July harvested my wheat, which was on ground rented of Mr. Ezra Chase. It was very heavy, but owing to the heavy rains all summer, there was not so good a yield as was expected. During the fall and shortly after harvest, there were a great many buildings burned in the southern part of the county, belonging to the brethren on Bear Creek and Morely settlements. I went on one or two expeditions to repel the burners. To go through a thickly settled portion of country and see where had stood houses, barns, stacks, but now burned to the ground and some tragedies enacted amongst a nation claiming to have attained to the height of civilization. I was not surprised nor grieved to hear that the mob had said that we must, as a people, leave the ensuing spring, as soon as grass grew and water runs and that the authorities of our church had assented to these proposals." (Lorenzo Brown Journal BYU-S p.10) 5. "This is the number as usually stated, Gregg says: "For a week the burning continued until the whole of Morley-Town was in ashes, with many other residences in the Bear Creek region and that of Green Plains. In all it is stated that as Many as 100 or 125 houses were burned and their occupants driven off." (History of Hancock County p.340) 6. "In a very few days afterwards, bands of organized mobbers commenced the work of burning our houses in Yelrom, Green Plains and Bear Creek settlements, and throughout the country." (George Albert Smith p.22) 7. "Governor Ford puts the number at 175, houses and hovel that were burnt the inmates having to flee for their lives." (History of Illinois p.407) Between 1847 and 1857 there were at least twelve family members that passed away. Included were: David Stoker who died on the 27 May 1852, his brother: John W. Stoker and his wife Electa Sarah McDaniel, David's brother, Eller Stoker, Michael Graybill (Mary's (Polly) husband), three children of Jacob Stoker and Catherine Burcham, two of John W. Stoker and Electa Sarah McDaniel, and two children of Michael Jr. and Martha McDaniel. It is believed that they with many others are buried in the family cemetery on the east edge of Council Bluffs... William and his wife, Almira Winger, settled in Spanish Fork, Utah." 7. A partial quote from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT, from an article entitled: "Michael Stoker": "Michael Stoker, b. Feb. 10, 1805; m. Martha Carr McDaniels. Michael was 10 years old when the family went to Ohio. It was there he met and married Martha Carr McDaniels on January 1, 1829. Martha was the daughter of James and Zibiah McCarly McDaniels and was born in Ohio on Feb. 24, 1808. The third son born to Michael and Martha in July of 1834, they named William Moroni, and that is the first date I have of a Mormon name in the Stoker family. Michael Stoker Jr. has the following names and dates in his journal. "The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder. Then in Oct., 1836 baptized William Stoker and Barbara Stoker. Then in April, 1837, baptized Margaret Judd, David Eller, Tabitha Eller, Mary Sharp, Rhoda Judd." Rhoda Judd was the mother of Margaret and Tabitha. David Eller was the first cousin to Michael and two years later Margaret married Michael's younger brother Eller Stoker. By noting where the children were born, one can trace the whereabouts of their journeys. By August of 1837, they were in Caldwell County, Missouri. They were at Trader's Point in Pottawattamie County, Iowa in January of 1849 and lived there the rest of their lives. Michael died on March 30, 1858 at the age of 53, and Martha died 15 years later. Trader's Point, an early Indian trading center, was south of Council Bluffs and across the river from Sarpy's Ferry. When the Missouri River changed it's course, Trader's Point ended up on the Nebraska side." BIOGRAPHY: 1. Cannon, Donald Q., Author, Book "Far West Record, Minutes of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, 1830-1844," Deseret Book Co, 1983, p.291 (biographical appendix): "Michael Stoker (1805-?), the son of Michael Stoker and Ana Barbara, was born in North Carolina. He married Martha McDavid." This appears wrong because these listed parents are grandparents in Petersen genealogy. On page 228, Michael is also listed as an arbitrator giving testimony of the original Branch court case in an appeal court case before the High Council of 1 Jun 1844 in Nauvoo between Moses Daily vs Conference of Highland Branch. 2. "Individual Affidavits from the LDS Historical Department" from the book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," editor Clark V. Johnson, p.359: "Stoker, Michael: Illenois adams county may 11th 1839, the following is my bill of Damage against State of missouri in 183[8] viz pre emption with improve ment, $100.00 Loss in stock fifty Dollars, 50.00 Deeded Land and Rifle gun forty three Doll, 43.00 hogs and cattle and house hold furniture and crop of corn and other vegetable seventy five Dollars, 75.00 time lost and Moving Expences, 100.00 thre hundred and eighteen Dol.Total sum, $318.00 Michael Stoker [Sworn to before W. Oglesby, J.P., Adams Co., IL, 11 May 1839.]" 3. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of Michael and Martha Stoker and their son "Gabrael". 4. Per records provided by the Nauvoo Visitor's Association: a. Seventies' records, Index, 70s Bk B Sel, pg. 259; Quorum Q26, ordained May 6, 1839 at Quincy, Illinois. b. Other sources: i. RLDS Name Authority Card Catalog. ii. Far West Record by Don Cannon, p. 291. iii. Nauvoo: Early Mormon...Series 1839-46. Platt, Lyman. 1980. iv. Susan Black, Early LDS Members Rec 41:916. v. Index, Nauvoo Land and Record Files 570. vi. Pottawattamie County Census. vii. Early Church File. c. Civil data: Nauvoo; Centerville, IA. d. Property in Nauvoo area was T4 R8 (Wythe). See file for land map. Area is two miles south from Nuvoo and slightly southwest of Carthage in Hancock County. 5. May have been a magistrate in Hancock County, IL judging from this entry: FHL book 977.343-V2m "Marriage Index of Hancock County, IL, 1829-1849," by Tri-county Genealogical Society, 1983, vol. 1, p. 24, marriage license no. 153: "Wilford Hudson and Juliane Graybill, 29 Nov 1842, by Michael Stoker, MG." The bride would have been Michael's niece. 6. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124: P. 87: Michael Stoker, the son of (John) Michael Stoker, was a 28 year old bachelor in Wilkes County, NC when the US census was taken in 1790. The farm which Michael Stoker bought from John Dick was on the north fork of New River in Ashe County. (The boundary line had been changed from Wilkes.) In 1792 Michael married Catherine Eller, the oldest daughter of Peter Eller and Elizabeth Dick. The Ellers and Dicks were settlers in this same area and all of Michael and Catherine's children, except Eller, were born and raised among numerous family members in North Carolina. In 1815, the family joined a migration of relatives moving west into Ohio. This party of Graybills and Stokers, all ages from babies to the elderly crossed the border into Ohio on Christmas Day, 1815. Michael and his son David, who had just turned 21, took part in the first election held in Jackson County on April 1, 1816. John Michael Stoker, Michael's father, settled in Perry County, Ohio, about 60 miles north. While in Ohio the Stokers became members of the newly organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1837 [error: Feb 1836?], Michael, Jr., who was now a man and a member of the Priesthood, baptized Eller's future wife and her mother, Margaret and Rhoda Judd. Pauline Stoker of Council Bluffs has Michael Jr.'s old notebook where he kept records of baptisms, birthdays and deaths. On October 27, 1836, Michael and Catherine Stoker sold their land in preparation of the move to Missouri where the Saints were gathering. Michael was then 74 and Catherine 63 years old. Great persecutions took place in Missouri during the next two years and the family had to flee to Illinois for safety. Michael was not among those who reached Illinois, and how or when he died is not known. Catherine was at Nauvoo, IL, when the Saints again had to flee in February of 1846. She settled in Pottawattamie County, living with her eldest daughter, Polly, where she died. She is buried in the Stoker-Graybill Cemetery east of Council Bluffs, Iowa." Pp. 92, 93; note that David Eller is the son of John Eller who in turn is brother to both Catherine and Mary Eller: "Michael Stoker, b. 10 Feb 1805, m. Martha Carr McDaniels. Michael was 10 years old when the family went to Ohio. It was there he met and married Martha Carr McDaniels on Jan. 1, 1829. Martha was the daughter of James and Zibiah McCarley McDaniels and was born in Ohio on Feb. 24, 1808. The third son born to Michael and Martha in July of 1834, they named William Moroni, and that is the first date I have of a Mormon name in the Stoker family. Michael Stoker Jr. had the following names and dates in his journal. 'The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder. Then in Oct., 1836 baptized William Stoker and Barbara Stoker. Then in April, 1837, baptized Margaret Judd, David Eller, Tabitha Eller, Mary Sharp, Rhoda Judd.' Rhoda Judd was the mother of Margaret and Tabitha. David Eller was the first cousin to Michael and two years later Margaret married Michael's younger brother Eller Stoker. By noting where the children were born, one can trace the whereabouts of their journeys. By August of 1837, they were in Caldwell County, Missouri. They were at Trader's Point in Pottawattamie County, Iowa in January of 1849 and lived there the rest of their lives, Michael died on March 30, 1858 at the age of 53, and Martha died 15 years later. Trader's Point, an early Indian trading center, was south of Council Bluffs and across the river from Sarpy's Ferry. When the Missouri River changed its course, Trader's Point ended up on the Nebraska side. Michael Stoker's Journal: 'One of the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Michael Stoker, Jr. was born Feb. 10, 1805 in the State of North Carolina. Martha Carr McDaniel was born Feb. 24, 1808 in the state of Ohio. Gabriel Mc N. Stoker was born Oct. 23, 1829 in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio, Friday at 3 P.M. David N. Stoker was born Friday, Feb 2nd, 1832 at 10 P.M. in Bloomfield Township, Jackson Co., Ohio. William Moroni Stoker was born July 10, 183, Friday at 7 A.M. in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio. John A. Stoker was born Wednesday, August 23, 1837 at Long Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri. Michael James Stoker was born Saturday, May 23rd, 1840 at 9 A.M. in Columbus, Hancock County, Illinois. Jared Samuel Stoker was born March 19, 1843 on Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. At Bear Creek, Hancock County, Illinois. Joseph Jehiel Stoker was born April 26, 1846 near Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Ill. Martha Rebecca Stoker was born January 1, 1849 at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. David N. Stoker died at 9:30 o'clock p.m., May 14, 1852 at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. David [should be Gabriel; typo?] McNiel Stoker died May 23, 1852, at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. (They would have been 20 and 23 years old, and died nine days apart.) Michael Stoker Jr. (the father) died March 30, 1858, at Trader's Point. Martha Rebecca Stoker, Thursday, Oct. 19, 1871 at 2:30 A.M. at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Martha Carr Stoker died Tuesday, Febrauary 4, 1873 at 2:30 A.M. at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa' [Not in journal but in Doris' book;] William Moroni Stoker died at the age of 95 in Union City, Oregon. Jared Samuel Stoker died Dec. 6, 1912, Union, Oregon." 7. Part of the Stoker family group mentioned in sister Polly (Stoker) Graybill's biography in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 17-24, note that this book has a considerable downline of the children of this couple: "Michael Peter Graybill, b. 14 May 1787, Jefferson, Wilkes Co. (now Ashe Co.), NC; d. 24 Sep 1856, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., IA; bur. in the Graybill-Stoker Pioneer Cemetery; Pottawattamie Co,., IA; md. 1811, Ashe Co., NC to Mary 'Polly' Stoker. Michael was the s/o John Peter Graybill and Christena Wampler. Polly was b. 24 Nov 1792, Ashe Co. [Wilkes], NC; d. 18 Feb 1864, Pottawattamie Co., IA; bur. in the Graybill-Stoker Pioneer Cemetery. She was the eldest child of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller... Michael and Polly left North Carolina probably in early 1816, and settled in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. Michael's parents, Peter Sr. and Christena (Wampler) Graybill, accompanied them; also, Michael's brother Henry and sister Barbara who had married Polly's brother David Stoker. Polly's parents, Michael and Catherine (Eller) Stoker, and other Stokers also made the journey with them. [Also John Graybill?] In the early 1830's, the family was visited by Missionary John Fisher from Bloomfield Twp. and was introduced to the early Latter Day Saints church. Those who were old enough were baptized in 1833. Involved in the church, Michael Graybill Sr. and related families anxiously followed the news from Independence, MO. The wanted to gather with the Saints in Caldwell Co., MO to be part of Zion, the new Jerusalem. Michael sold his farm to his father, Peter Graybill Sr., who along with Henry, Michaels' brother, and sister Celia (Graybill) Henson, decided to stay in OH. In 1836, Michael and other relatives packed to make the trip to Far West, MO. They spent the winter with Stoker relatives in Monroe Co., IN, then arrived at Far West in September 1837. The family withstood the dangers and aggravations of mob attacks. They endured many hardships. They had their plows, wagons and horses taken and even their first crop was taken just before it was harvested. With no provisions of food for the coming winter, Michael's sons, Simeon and Levi, left to look for work. They found jobs chopping railroad ties for the Eastern Railroad in Hannibal, MO. But they were unable to collect their pay until the following spring of 1839, when they were allowed to take the amount of their earnings out in goods. This allowed them to obtain wagons and horses and move the related families to Quincy and Nauvoo, IL. Michael Sr. and his family, Simeon's family and Catherine (Eller) Stoker's lived eleven miles southeast of Quincy, IL. After the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844, Simeon went to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful that the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph's and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for the public burial. By 1846, most of Nauvoo had been vacated. Michael Sr.'s and Levi's families had gone west and settled in Kanesville, now Council Bluffs, IA. Some of the related families went on to UT. Michael Sr.'s daughters, Juliana and Mary Ann, were among those who went to UT. Michael Sr.'s sister Barbara (Graybill) Stoker went to UT later. Michael's and Polly's children were David, Catherine, Simeon Peter, Joseph Levi, George Washington, William Lenore, Juliann or (Julia Ann?) Michael S., Jr., Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Sidney Rigdon and Christina." 8. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 98: Michael Stoker/Catherine Eller, born Mar. 9, 1773 [the 9 is overwritten over the 6]. Children: Polly Stoker, born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb. 7, 1864. David Stoker, born Mar. 23, 1795, died May 27, 1852. Elizabeth Stoker, born Feb. 28, 1800. John W. Stoker, born May 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. Michael Stoker, Jr., born Feb. 10, 1805. Rebecca Stoker, born Mar. 19, 1807. Catherine Stoker, born July 19, 1809. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker/Margaret, born July 28, 1816, died July 18, 1855. 101: Catherine Eller, wife of Michael Stoker born Mar. 6th 1773. John W. Stoker, son of above parents, born Mar. 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. David Stoker was born 23 March 1795, died May 27, 1852. Polly Stoker (Graybill), born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb 7, 1864. Michael Stoker, born July 10, 1805. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker, born July 28, 1815, July 18, 1855. Elizabeth Stoker (Walker), born Feb 28, 1800. 106-107: Michael Stoker, born Feb. 10, 1805, North Carolina, married Martha McDaniel - father was James McDaniel, mother was Zibiah McCarley. Children: Gabriel McNeel Stoker, born Oct. 23, 1829, Jackson Co., Bloomfield, Ohio. David Newbury Stoker, born July 2, 1832, Bloomfield, Jac. Co., Ohio. John A. Stoker, born Aug 25, 1837, Colewill Co. Michael James Stoker, born May 23, 1840, Columbus, Ill. Jared Samuel, born Mar. 19, 1843 Hancock Co., Ill. Joseph J. Stoker, born April 20, 1845, Hancock Co., Ill. Martha Rebecca Stoker, born Jan. 1 1849 Potawatamie Co., Iowa, died Oct. 9, 1871. 180-181: Catherine Stoker, daughter of Peter Eller and Elizabeth was born March the 9th, 1773 in the State of North Carolina, Rowan County. Jacob Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller was born April 7th, 1812, Ashe County, State of North Carolina. Michael Graybill, son of Peter Graybill and Christenia Wampler was born May 1787, North Carolina, Ash County. Eller Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Katherine Eller was born July 28th, 1816, Ohio, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township, died July 18, 1855. Margaret Judd Stoker, daughter of John Judd and Rhoda Shepherd was born May 29th, 1822, North Carolina, Wilks County. Michael Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Katherine Eller was born Feby 10th, 1805, North Carolina, Ash Co. 9. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The Stokers join the LDS Church. Mormon missionaries come. During the fall of 1833 Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his family, living in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio first heard the preaching of the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These missionaries exhorted them to join the new church and told them about Joseph Smith receiving inspired revelations from God. In addition the Church was noted for its new scripture, the Book of Mormon. The Stokers were drawn to the message. Many accepted baptism before the end of 1833. They included sixteen-year-old John Stoker (1817-1881) who was baptized November 13, 1833 by Seymour Brunson(1) and four days later his double cousin, fifteen-year-old Joseph Levi Graybill, who was baptized by John A. Fisher.(2) These two grandsons of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) were among the first of the Stoker family to embrace the new church. In 1834 Seymour Brunson moved his family to Bloomfield and organized a branch of the Church.(3) John's parents, David (1795-1852) and Barbara Graybill Stoker, joined the branch during that year. David's younger brother, Michael, Jr., (1805-1858) was affiliated with the Mormons. Evidence of his affiliation with the church comes from the fact that his son, born on July 10, 1834 was named, "William Moroni." Clearly the name Moroni marked Michael as having read the Book of Mormon. Moreover, in his journal Michael, Jr., writes, "The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder." He also baptized William and Barbara Stoker that year.(4) Michael held the Mormon priesthood to officiate in these ordinances. The Stokers and their relatives were very enthusiastic about their new church. They contributed to its growth and sustained its leadership. The McDaniel connection. The children and grandchildren of MIchael Stoker (1762-1838) had an affinity to marry the children of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, neighbors in Jackson County. John W. Stoker (1802-1857) married Electa Sarah McDaniel (1806-1857) on April 19, 1827. Michael Stoker, Jr., (1805-1858) married her sister, Martha Carr McDaniel, on Jan 1, 1829. A grandson, John Stoker (1817-1881), and a granddaughter, Christine Stoker (1815-1854), children of David Stoker (1795-1852), married Jane McDaniel (1810-1890) on January 21, 1836 and John Riley McDaniel on February 8, 1835. Nineteen-year-old John, in addition to marrying Jane, also adopted her son, Alma. Family tradition says that Alma's father would not consider joining the LDS church so Jane left him. About a month after her son's birth, Jane married John Stoker, the nephew of her two brothers-in-law. The Kirtland Temple is dedicated. In the spring of 1836, some members of the Bloomfield branch made the 200 mile trip north to Kirtland, Ohio to attend the dedication of the temple. In that group was Michael Stoker's son-in-law and grandson, Michael Graybill, Sr., and Joseph Levi Graybill. Michael Graybill's wife, Polly Stoker (1792-1864), was expecting the birth of her eleventh Child, a son who was born April 6, 1836. She didn't go with them. Michael Graybill while at the conference and temple dedication at Kirtland was impressed by Sidney Rigdon's two and a half hour sermon. Upon returning to Bloomfield, he named his newly born son, Sidney Rigdon Graybill.(5) Picture p. 3: "Barbara Graybill and her son, John Stoker... During the late fall and winter of 1836, the Stoker families, whether together or separately, trekked across Ohio in their wagons. Many of them planned to spend part of the winter with relatives in Indiana.(7) Michael stopped in Henry County, Indiana where on December 1, 1836 he bought "1 Roe of Shock corn" from the estate of Absalom Koons who was Catherine's deceased nephew.(8) Michael's son Michael Stoker, Jr., must have been in Henry County when he wrote in his journal in April 1837 that he baptized Margaret Judd, David Eller, Tabitha Eller, Mary Sharp, Rhoda Judd. These were relatives and soon-to-be relatives. Margaret Judd in 1839, after the Stokers were driven from Missouri, would marry Michael's youngest brother, Eller. Rhoda Judd was the mother of Margaret Judd and Tabitha Eller. David Eller was Michael's first cousin.(9) Footnotes 1. "The Life of John Stoker," compiled by Eunice Stoker Southwick 2. "Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Vol. III G.K. compiled by Susan Easton Black. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993. p. 149. 3. "Seymour Brunson," LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 3 compiled by Andrew Jenson. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901. p. 331. 4. "The Howard, Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories and including the Bell, Teeple, Mackland, Bardsley, Graybill, Eller, Dick, Oman, Smith, and Koons Families," compiled by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. p. 92. Footnotes: 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. A necessary explanation on the Michael Stoker (Stocker) family group sheet sent by Jim Rose, 740 So.Woodland Hills Dr., Woodland Hills, UT, 84 653 on Nov. 13, 1993. 9. "The Howard Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories...," p. 92." 10. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article: "During the Adams County time period some of the Stoker men found work with a farmer named Coleman Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes lived approximately two miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio. He had first offered work and a home to Elizabeth's husband, James Welker, and soon after David, John W., Michael, and Jacob also obtained work with him. Here they labored diligently trying to earn enough to rebuild their supplies and stock which they had lost during the Missouri struggles. Moving to Bear Creek, Hancock Co., Illinois On July 1, 1839 the Mormon church's prophet and leader, Joseph Smith, called for all church members to settle in and around the Commerce, Illinois area. The town of Commerce was renamed by the church members to Nauvoo. In 1842 the Stoker family had complied. Packing up their belongings they moved north settling their families around the Carthage/Bear Creek area. James Welker's son, John, recorded: "...he found that there was land that could be entered in Hancock County, about 15 miles south of Nauvoo. He moved there and filed on a homestead. Part of it was prairie land and part was timber. He built a large hewed two roomed log house. Then the next thing was to fence and make a farm to make a living off of" (Ibid). The 1842 personal property tax assessment book of Hancock County has records for Stoker, Welker, and Graybill families living within the county. These records indicate the possibility that they lived outside of the cities." Building the Nauvoo Temple The Stoker families were on hand for the building of the temple for their church. It is recorded in the church history that Eller Stoker, Jacob Stoker, and John McDaniel (husband to Christine Stoker) worked on the temple for a period of time. All families were expected to donate time and supplies to the temple project... Life was beginning to flourish again for the families, and happy times were with them. On May 23, 1844 Joseph Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker were initiated and passed into the Nauvoo Lodge of Masons. Two weeks later Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker became lodge members, and on June 8th they were raised to Master Masons. While in Illinois, John Stoker, John W. Stoker, John Welker Eller Stoker, and Jacob Stoker were given church callings of Office of the Seventy. Death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith Living around Carthage the Stoker, Graybill, and McDaniel families were homesteading lands close to those who most violently disagreed with the Mormons and who were constantly calling for their removal. Sometimes these men formed their own vigilante groups trying to scare the Mormons into leaving. Some of the Stoker men folk were called into military duty within the State Militia as recorded in the history of John McDaniel. "Early on June 24, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, and fifteen other members of the Nauvoo city council headed to Carthage to answer the charges filed against them. They passed the home of William Stoker located six miles southeast of Nauvoo on the Carthage Road before 8 A.M.... Sometime after noon, the Stokers saw the mounted riders traveling toward Nauvoo. Arriving at their destination at 2:30, the leaders gathered three small cannons and about two hundred firearms which were turned over to the militia. At nearly midnight the militia delivered the Mormon leaders who came voluntarily to the authorities in Carthage... Thursday June 27 Joseph and his brother Hyrum, were martyred. A mob of about one hundred men with blackened faces gathered about five 'clock in the afternoon. Several stormed the jail where the Smith brothers and a few friends were sequestered. Joseph and Hyrum were shot dead, and John Taylor wounded...the assassins and their comrades fled Carthage to Warsaw and then sought refuge west of the MIssissippi River... Friday June 28, with the bodies of the slain leaders placed in two different wagons, covered with branches to shade them from the hot sun, Willard Richards, Samuel Smith, and Artois Hamilton pulled out of Carthage and headed for Nauvoo. Sometimes shortly after noon, the procession with eight soldiers passed by William Stoker's driving teams pulling the two wagons containing the bodies of the martyrs. Mary Stoker Aitken, a granddaughter of WIlliam Stoker and Almira Winegar, wrote, "My father [John Stephen Stoker] told us that his parents had told him that they had seen the bodies of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum Smith, being taken from Carthage to Nauvoo." ...One of the Stoker relative's narrative mentions that "After the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum in 1844, Simeon Graybill went up to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for public burial" (Ibid). Conflict/Harassment Again. In 1845 the mobbing and burnings began, starting with the outlying settlements. The Stokers were living within the church area called the Highland branch of Illinois. The babies, weddings, and all manner of social life continued on and in July the families were doing more temple work for their ancestors. Again the families grew; new events were attended to. Jacob and John Stoker also joined the Masons and were later raised to Master Masons. Sheriff of Hancock County ordered the saints to organize and protect themselves. "John Welker tells how he and his cousins mutually watched out for each other. His account follows: 'The mob (against) the Latter-day Saints was increasing and I but a boy of 18 was the oldest of the boys that was at hoe. My oldest brother was married and doing for himself. I was the one to look after the family after my father died and when the burning out of the later day Saints by the mob commenced close by I was in a settlement 10 miles for whare {sic} they were burning houses and some of my cousins and relative lived close to whare {sic} I lived. We got together and agreed to take turnes {sic} and watch the mob and do the best we could to protect our homes. Some one was out every night watching their movements. They did not come to our little settlement to burn us out, if they had come some of them would have been hurt. Thare {sic} is many things connected with this I will not write.' (Punctuation added.) Not all of the Stoker relatives were as fortunate as the Welkers, John McDaniel and his wife Christine Stoker, according to one history, "...were greatly persecuted with the other saints and several times were driven out by the mobs. On one occasion they were attacked and forced to flee with a child under each arm while their home was burned" (Ibid). Nauvoo Temple Dedicated. In late 1845 the church's Nauvoo Temple was dedicated and many of the saints came to the temple to perform their own religious (endowment) ordinances. Between January 5 and January 21, of 1846 sixteen heads of the Stoker clan had received their own temple endowment. Michael Stoker Jr. and Catherine Burcham Jacob Stoker and Martha Carr McDaniel Eller Stoker and Margaret Judd Catherine Eller Stoker (widow) Elizabeth Stoker Welker (widow) James W. Welker and Anna Pugh John Stoker and Jane McDaniel John W. Stoker and Sara McDaniel William Stoker and Almira Winegar Records from the Nauvoo temple show that the Stoker family participated in other religious temple activities: Catherine Eller Stoker, Michael Stoker (son), Eller Stoker (son) and wife Margaret (Judd) Stoker (Eller's wife), James Welker and wife Elizabeth Stoker Welker, and Mary (Polly) Stoker (Graybill) all did baptisms by proxy for their deceased relatives." 11. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "Stokers arrive in Missouri. As early as July 7, 1837 the Stokers had filed three forty acre deeds to land 7 or 8 miles southeast of Far West in the Grant Township near Log Creek which flowed north and emptied into Shoal Creek. Eller, Michael's unmarried son, has 40 acres listed in his name.(12) Kitty-cornered to the southwest was a forty-acre tract in his older brother, John W. Stoker's name. Directly west of Eller's holdings are 40 acres deeded to his brother-in-law, James Walker [Welker]. They may have actually lived on their farms earlier in the spring to clear it and get a first year's crop in the ground. There's reason to believe that Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and Catherine Eller (1773-after 1850) were living with their youngest son because the worth of Eller's holdings are reported as nearly doubled his brother, John W. Stoker (1802-1857) who had a family of five at the time. John W. said he also had "a right for preemption improvement and crop in clinton county..." Their brother Michael Stoker, Jr. also must have lived nearby because his son, John Alexander Stoker was born on Long Creek [Log Creek], Caldwell County, Missouri on August 23, 1837. Michael, Jr., although not shown as holding a deed on the County records, indicated in his sworn affidavit on May 11, 1839 that he had held land in Missouri. David Stoker and his family were somewhere near Far West. Michael and Polly Stoker Graybill didn't arrive in Far West until September 1837.(13)... Picture: "Stokers' and Welker's land in Grant Twp., Caldwell Co." (Shows forty acre holdings of Orin Porter Rockwell [one section away], forty acre holding of James Walker [Welker][at southeast corner of N.E. quarter of section 8], forty acre holding of Eller Stoker [at southwest corner of N.W. quarter of section 9], and forty acre holding of John W. Stoker [at northeast corner of S.W. quarter of section 8].) [The latter three all touch.] War erupts... War and plunder hit the Stokers. The Stoker brothers holdings were located about one mile southeast of land deeded to Orin Porter Rockwell. The involvement of Orin Porter Rockwell in the Danites, may have been one reason that the mob torched this part of the county in 1838 during the attempt to drive the Mormons from the state. Interestingly enough, in Charles C. Rich's account of the Mormon-Missouri conflict in 1838, the following is stated. "A sketch that I was an eye witness to in the State of Missourie Charles C. Rich on the 24th of october 1838 Messengers Come into Farwest stating that the mob was on Log creek burning houses and Loaded waggons and threatening the lives of the people those was a few men Sent out to ascertain the movements of the mob these men returned a bout eleven O Clock at night Stateing that thare had been considerable Damage Done and also that they had taken three of the Brethren prisoners and intended to kill them that night the trumpet was Sounded and men com together an prepard for to march in haste in persuit of the mob that we might Deliver our Brethren out of their hands we raised all the men we Could till we got to Braggs on Logg Creek where we organised them in to...a company and found we had about Seventy five men David W Patten was first in Command and Charles C. Rich Second..."(15) The pursuit continued into Ray County where the Battle of Crooked River was fought. David Patten was killed. Needless to say, the Stoker brothers, Eller, John W., and Michael, Jr., and others of the family was involved. Their nephew, Joseph Levi Graybill, Polly Stoker Graybill's son in a statement made when he was an old man, says, "I went with my father's family and others, to Caldwell County, Missouri, in the autumn of 1837, and was with the Saints there in the time of their terrible trials. We planted a crop there in the spring of 1838, which we were never permitted to harvest. I was a member of the State MIlitia under Colonel Hinkle. The mob came upon us near Far West, in October, 1838...for weeks they had been stealing and driving off our stock, taking a team of horses from my father, and all the horses I owned. When the mob came up on us first they demanded Joseph Smith, parley Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wight and George W. Robinson appear in camp. Colonel Hinkle surrendered these men, telling us that these Missourians wanted to have a talk with them. Imagine our surprise when we were informed that these men were prisoners...and would be shot the next morning at 9 o'clock at Far West."(16) The Stoker family members endured many hardships. They had their plows, wagons, tools, mill wheel, beehives, pigs and horses stolen. Their furniture was damaged. Guns and rifles were taken. Joseph Levi Graybill's brother, Simeon, suffered also, but when his personal and prized saddle horse was stolen, he reportedly became so angry he had to repent.(17) Picture p. 7: "William Stoker and Almira Winegar." Picture p. 8: "The Stoker family trail from Ohio to Illinois (1836-1839)." Michael Stoker dies. In spite of the terrors of the mob, Michael Stoker (1762-1838) may have seen his grandson, William Stoker (1819-1892), David's son, marry Almira Winegar that October 1838 in Far West before he died. The privation and stress of the situation was too much for Michael in his old age. He is believed to have died at Far West and to be buried in the Saints Cemetery there during the strife. The Missourians call the shots. As the Missourians gained the upper-hand, they gave the Mormons the ultimatum to be out of Missouri by the spring of 1839. Thousands of Mormons were faced with very bleak prospects. Some were being hunted for supposed crimes during the conflict. Others were just trying to find food and shelter for their families. It was a dreary scene in which Nancy Stoker (1838-1920), a granddaughter of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and first daughter of Jacob, was born on December 21, 1838. The young men of the Stoker family were out looking for work and the means by which to support their dispossessed families. Simeon and Levi Graybill, the sons of Polly Stoker, sought work along the Mississippi River. As Levi says, "I left Far West just before Christmas, 1838, arriving at Hannibal, Missouri on Christmas Day. I chopped cord wood and split rails near Hannibal for the purpose of getting money to help my father's family away from Missouri, but when I came to settle I had to take my pay out of the store, so I was compelled to trudge back through the snow over 200 miles. I secured a team to take my father's family to Illinois in the spring of 1839."(18) The Stokers leave Missouri Leaving her husband, Michael, buried in Missouri, Catherine Eller Stoker (1773-after 1850) and her large family, helped each other, left Far West, Missouri and joined the hundreds of Saints who were on the road heading east to Illinois at the time. Little is known about the Stoker family's journey other than Joseph Levi Graybill's account of securing a team and taking his father's family to Illinois. There is some question if Alexander and Catherine Stoker Lackey and their four children were with the Stokers. A great granddaughter says they stayed in Missouri only a year.(19) The Lackey family would not follow the saints to Illinois, but would return to Jackson County, Ohio. Some of the Graybill documents indicate that Catherine Eller Stoker lived with her oldest daughter, Polly Stoker Graybill, in Illinois and Iowa. There's a great possibility that she was living with them at the time of the Missouri exodus. The ordinary trip took between ten and elven days. One personal traveling westward at the time said he encountered over two hundred wagons between the Mississippi River and Far West.(20) Arriving at the Mississippi River, the refugees probably crossed over on the ice if they came in the late winter, but as those arriving in the spring had to wait their turn to be ferried across... The following members of Michael Stoker's family attached their names to a petition in 1843 that they had lived in Missouri and had been driven from their state:(21) David Stoker [Michael's son David (1795-1852)], John Stoker [possibly David's son, John (1817-1881) or Michael's son, John W. (1803-1857)], John McDaniels (1812-1884) [David's son-in-law, husband of his oldest daughter, Christine (1815-1854)], Elles Stoker (1816-1855) [Eller, Michael's youngest son], Mary Stoker (1822-1890) [probably Margaret Judd, Eller's wife]. Catharine Stoker (1773-after 1850) [Michael's wife, Catharine Eller], Jacob Stoker (1812-1893) [Michael's son], Catharine Stoker [Catharine Burcham, Jacob's wife], John Stoker (1803-1857) [Michael's son, John W. Stoker], Sarah Stoker (1806-1857) [John W. Stoker's wife, Electa Sarah McDaniel]. Geo. Graybill (1821-?) [Michael's grandson, George Washington Graybill, son of Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864)], Michael Stoker (1805-1858) [Michael's son], Martha Stoker (1808-1873) [Martha Carr McDaniel, wife of Michael's son, Michael], Gabrael Stoker (1832-1852) [Michael's grandson, son of Michael (1805-1858)], William Stoker (1819-1892) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Almira Stoker (1818-1884) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, grandson, William's wife, Almira Winegar], Samuel D. Stoker (1840-1908) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira], William Stoker (1842-1906) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira]. Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864) or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?)], William Graybill (1825-1880) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Adam Graybill [still looking for this relationship to Michael], Sidney R Graybill (1836-?) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Levi Graybill (1818-1912) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Patience Graybill (1825-1895) [Patience Smith, Michael's granddaughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Levi Graybill (1818-1912)], Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864), or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?), Polly's daughter]. John Stoker (1817-1881) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Jane Stoker (1810-1890) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, Jane McDaniel, wife of John (1817-1881)], Hannah Graybill [Michael's great granddaughter, daughter of Joseph Levi Graybill], Hyrum Stoker (1840-1887) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881) and Jane McDaniel], Alma Stoker (1835-1897) [Michael's adopted great grandson, son of Jane McDaniel], and Franklin Stoker (1842-1855) [Michael's great grandson, son of John | Stoker, Michael S. (I443)
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| 2074 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 195, township had a little over 40 families; related families include James Lackey, Michael Stoker, and Michael Graybill. In neighboring Madison Township, related families David Stoker, Peter Graybill, Nancy (Graybill) Henson, and James McDaniel are found. Columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: Michael Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,1//1,1,0,0,1. [Appears to be Michael, his wife Catherine, and their children John, Michael, Rebecca, Catherine, Jacob, and Eller; the three oldest appear gone in this census.] Michael Graybill: 3,0,0,0,1,0//1,0,0,1,0. James Lackey: 2,2,1,2,0,1//1,2,1,1,5. 1830 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 109-112, note whole township had 527 people living in it, related families include Michael Stoker, Michael Stoker Jr., Alexander Lackey, James Welker, Michael Graybill, and John Stoker: John Stoker. Males 0-5:1; 20-30:1; 60-70:1. Females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Appears to be John, his wife Electa, and their two oldest children John and Zebiah.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 1850 US: District No. 21, Pottawatamie, Iowa, Film M432188, p. 133: John Stoker, 50, M, Labourer, NC. Sarah, 44, F, Ohio. Zibah, 20, F, Ohio. Catherine, 17, F, Ohio. Elizabeth, 15, F, Ohio. Parly, 12, M, Ohio. William, 10, M, Ohio. Sophronia, 7, F, Illinois. Rebecca, 2, F, Iowa. 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. Census return: Stoker: John W. 48, Sarah 45, Zibiah M. 21, Catherine M. 18, Elizabeth J. 16, Polly P. 14, William E. 11, Olive S. 8, Sarah R. 2. [Note that the following related families are in this census and very close neighbors: Simeon P. Graybill, Michael/Polly Graybill with Polly's mother Catherine Eller Stoker, Eller/Margaret Stoker, Jacob/Catherine Stoker, Philip/Catherine Gatrost, David/Barbara Stoker, Edward/Sarah Davis, and William/Almira Stoker. Other relatives in same county but separated by several pages of census include the following families: Thomas/Hannah Pilling whose daughter Hannah, later marries William Lenore Graybill, Levi/Patience Graybill, John W./Sarah Stoker, Hannah Ford whose son Martin later marries Zibiah M. Stoker, and John/Sarah Smith.] 1852 Iowa: the census has John Stoker in Kanesville, Pottawattamie, IA, p. 24. This census is statistical and only lists heads of household with numbers of males, females, and voters. It is not very helpful for families or positively identifying a given individual. The following Stokers are shown as being in the same area: David, Eller, Jacob, John, and William as well as Michael Graybill, Martin Ford, Philip Gatrost, John Smith, George Graybill, and Levi Graybill. 1856 Iowa: (From Ancestry.com) Kane, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 27 of 63, 170/171 (family of Michael Stoker, Martin Ford, and several other relatives are nearby); also note the family has been residents of the state for 8 years: John Stoker, 55, NC, farmer. (Also includes some agricultural production figures.) Sarah, 50, OH. P.P., 19, IL. William, 16, IL. Saphrona, 13, IL Elizabeth, 1, IA. [Could this be a granddaughter or another daughter?] 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 17-31, clarifies early North Carolina counties and land grant practices: "Land grants in North Carolina originated with an entry application which was filed in the county where the land was situated and if not lost are now on file there. This was followed, sometimes soon and sometimes years later by an order from the land office for the tract to be surveyed. Sometimes soon and sometimes years later the survey was made and a surveyor's plat filed with the Secretary of State in Raleigh. Then came the grant which may have been issued reasonably near the date of the survey or sometimes several years later. These grants, orders to survey and the survey itself are on file now in the Secretary of State's office at Raleigh... Many counties were formed from what originally was Rowan County, namely Surry and Guilford in 1770, Burke and Wilkes in 1777, Randolph in 1779, Iridell in 1788, Stokes in 1789, Buncomb in 1791, Ashe in1799, Davidson in 1822, Yancey in 1833, Davie in 1836 and Yadkin in 1850. Some of these counties were grandchildren of Rowan County; for instance Wilkes was taken partly from Burke and partly from Surry, Randolph from Guilford, Buncomb and Yancy form Burke, Ashe from Wilkes and Stokes and Yadkin from Surry. These facts must be kept in mind when tracing early Rowan County families." 3. From Sep 2006 Internet, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge.2509/brownson.html: It appears the Stoker family probably knew the Seymour Brunson family of nearby Lawrence Co., Ohio. Brunson had served with Luke Johnson in 1832. In 1833 he is again with Luke in the area as are Zerubbabel Snow and Amasa Lyman. He is also specifically in Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio in Nov. 1834 when his son his born and also per letters he wrote. He appears generally in Kirtland thereafter. His journal notes that in July 1836 he visited the church in Bloomfield. He does note the baptism of John Stoker 13 Nov 1837. It was at his funeral in Nauvoo in 1840 that Joseph Smith first revealed the doctrine of baptisms for the dead. 4. 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: 70s Record: Qrm 22 per Bk B Sel, LDS Arc, pg. 81. Also notes that he lived in Pottawattamie County 1849 to 1857. 5. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," which is quoted in its entirety in the notes of David Stoker: "By August of 1815 David and Barbara had settled into family life in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. It was on the 24 August 1815 that their first child was born: Christine Stoker. By the spring of 1816, David's parents had also joined them on the new frontier of the Ohio River Valley. David and his father, Michael, are listed on the Jackson County, Ohio, voting registry for an election that was held on 1 April 1816. Also, David's youngest brother, Eller, was born in Bloomfield, Ohio... David and his family are not listed on the 1830 census records for Ohio or Indiana. (The family of John Stoker listed on the 1830 census in Ohio is that of David's brother, John W. Stoker.)... Between the years of 1830 to 1836 David and Barbara Stoker along with some of the extended family received missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of these missionaries were: Seymour Brunson, John A. Fisher, and Luke Johnson. All baptized members of the Stoker family into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Stoker (David's son) was baptized by Seymour Brunson and Luke Johnson in 1834. David's younger brother, Michael Jr., baptized Barbara in 1836. ('LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.' Andrew Johnson Vol 2 pg. 252. Luke Johnson, Autobiography in 'Millennial Star' 1864, Lewis p 92) Some members of the Graybill family also joined the church as their baptismal dates and offices they held within the church are listed in the records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. An article in the local paper records that there was strong religious persecution against members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Vega area. This fighting lead to some families leaving Vega. ('Jackson Herald,' Friday, February 27, 1959 and cited in Jim Stoker's Stoker history 1993) It was in the fall and winter of 1836 that David Stoker, his father, Michael, with their families and some of the Graybill families left the Ohio valley traveling west. On the 15 August 1838, David bought 52+ acres of land in Harrison County, Indiana. His brother, William, bought 120 acres in Madison County, Indiana. (Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States- General land Office, records of the Ohio River Valley Survey) Other members of the extended Stoker family were already living in Indiana. David's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, James Welker, were married in Henry County, Indiana in 1828, and it's possible that their first son was born there. Albert Koons, a relative of Catherine Eller (David's mother), lived in Henry County, Indiana along with other Eller families. (The Indiana connections need to be fully researched to understand the detail of the different families movements.)... The census records and genealogical family groups sheets illustrate some of David and Barbara's journeys. The history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints records members of the Graybill, McDaniel, and Welker families migrated west staying with the main body of the church to settle in Caldwell County, Missouri, near the town of Far West. [Picture, pg. 61: "Caldwell County, Missouri. Township 55 North of the base line. Range 28 west of the 5th principal meridian. Section 8 NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 John W. Stoker's land -1837. Section 8 SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 James Welker's land -1837. Section 9 SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 Eller Stoker's land -1837. (From the map archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)")... During July of 1837 three families of the Stoker clan filed forty acre land deeds in Missouri. They were located seven to eight miles southeast of Far West, Missouri in the Grant Township near Log Creek. They were: James Welker (brother-in-law to David), Eller, and John W. Stoker (David's brothers). (Vital statistics indicate other family members were in this area, but no land records have been located at this time.)... The next notable record of David and his family are found in the 'Redress Petition' to the United States government on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This petition listed all those who lost property and effects due to the "Mormon Expulsion" order given by the governor of Missouri. This order simply stated that all of the Mormon church people had to immediately leave or die. Groups of raiding parties against the church members ensured the order was carried out to the extreme. The Stokers and their relatives reported that these 'mobs' had stolen their plow, wagons, tools, mill wheel, beehives, pigs, and horses. Their furniture was damaged, guns and rifles taken, and crops and homes were burned. There are 36 family members listed on the petition. ('History of the Church,' Vol 4) The following is one journal recounts how volatile the Log Creek area became: "A sketch that I was an eye witness to in the State of Missourie Charles C. Rich on the 24th of October 1838 Messengers Come into Farwest stating that the mob was on Log Creek burning houses and Loaded waggons and threatening the lives of the people those was a few men Sent out to ascertain the movements of the mob these men returned a bout eleven O clock at night Stating that thare had been considerable Damage Done and also that they had taken three of the Brethern prisoners and intended to kill them..." (Stoker 1993). David's nephew and the son of Polly Stoker Graybill, recorded this time also: "I went with my father's family and others, to Caldwell County, Missouri, in the autumn of 1837, and was with the Saints there in their time of terrible trials. We planted a crop which we were never allowed to harvest. I was a member of the State Militia under Colonel Hinkle. The mob came upon us near Farr West, in October, 1838... for weeks they had been stealing and driving off our stock, taking a team of horses from my father, and all the horses I owned" (ibid). By 1840 the Missouri Governor's expulsion order had forced every member of the church to leave their homes, many fled into Illinois for safety. David's father, Michael, died during this event. One family tradition is that he was buried in the "Saint's Cemetery" in Far West. (There have been no records found as to when and where he died or is buried.)... Other church members fled into Adams County, Illinois as the local citizens promised them safety. David, his brothers, and brother in law found work on farms south of Columbus, Illinois. The 1840 census records for Adams County, list David, his son John, and their extended families. After taking time to restock and restore, the Stoker families moved further west as did the body of their church; into the state of Illinois. Their prophet and leader, Joseph Smith sent word to all church members to gather in and around the town of Commerce, Hancock County, Illinois where they could homestead new land and start over. It was a piece of swamp land on the bend of the Mississippi River heavily infested with disease carrying insects. The people drained the swamp land and built a city that housed thousands of church members. The name of Commerce was changed to Nauvoo. Tax and historical records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints show that some of the Stoker families settled a few miles south of the city of Nauvoo... David's brother, Eller Stoker, owned land along the "Carthage road" between the cities of Nauvoo and Carthage. Most of the family members settled in the Bear Creek Township twenty miles south of Nauvoo. (Historical Records, Nauvoo, Illinois) County historical records list "Bear Creek" as the name of a city, township, and river but all names encompass the same area. Bear Creek was used as a timber and corn producing area. Today corn and soybean farms still cover all of the prairie flats with old trees growing along the water ways. Bear Creek is itself a slow moving creek; with steep banks in places giving indications of the water power the creek can have in flood stages. Residents of the farm town of Basco, Hancock County, Illinois still refer to this area as Bear Creek. Basco's official records begin in 1876. Today Bear Creek city and towns are only a remnant of it's former size as the settler's descendants are forced to move out to the larger towns to earn a living. Early Church references to Bear Creek are: 1. Missionary town where the Saints lived among non-Mormons included Carthage, Bear Creek, La Harpe, and Fountain Green. ('Historical Atlas of Mormonism,' p.56) 2. Went to Bear creek, visited the Saints, held meeting, and preached on the subject of the building of the Nauvoo House and temple;... (Watson p.131) 3. Went to Knowlton Settlement on Bear Creek... (Watson p.160) [Picture, pg. 67: "Log Creek Today. This is the general area of what would have been some of the Stoker families holdings. Located south of Kingston, Missouri."] [Picture, pg. 67: "Trees in the background line Log Creek today. Except for the creek all is farm land."] The Final Expulsion Order Religious persecutions again plagued the fledgling church. During the winter of 1846, the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were again asked to leave. Peaceably at first, but eventually they were driven out in the same fashion as from Missouri. Members were forced to leave their newly built homes and anything they could not put in the wagons or carry. This time they fled across the Mississippi River into the unknown Iowa territory. Mormon journals from the residents living in Bear Creek record the trials they went through. Mobs were again burning homes to force the Saints to leave even though they were not fully prepared for a journey. The Bear Creek region is close to the town of Warsaw, Illinois, a place where these mobs could gather and/or flee for safety. Listed below are journal entries from people who lived in the Bear Creek area. I have included this information to give the reader a sense of what the Stoker families endured. 1. "...On reaching a point midway (between Warsaw and Carthage) they were informed of new depredation by the mob. The sheriff then sent his family to Nauvoo under a small guard and proceeded to the scene of the mobbers. The mobbers saw them coming and took a flight, the posse pursuing with orders to arrest them if possible, if not to fire upon them. After pursuing them for some distance the posses fired upon them and killed two, and wounded it is believed others. This was on Bear Creek about two o'clock this afternoon." (Hosea Stout p39, 40) 2. "On Saturday, the 5th inst., as Pres. Joseph Smith was on his return from Quincy, to which place he had accompanied Pres. Hyrum Smith and William Law, on their mission to the East, he was arrested, at the Bear Creek Hotel,..." (Times and Seasons, Vol 2., p447) 3. "...I made ginger beer to sell this summer and I tended the Nauvoo House meat market, good guard, etc. until the 1st of September [1845] and then there began to be trouble in the regions of Bear Creek, Carthage and Warsaw, so that we had to fly to arms again to protect ourselves against the mob..." (Allen Stout p.23) 4. "July harvested my wheat, which was on ground rented of Mr. Ezra Chase. It was very heavy, but owing to the heavy rains all summer, there was not so good a yield as was expected. During the fall and shortly after harvest, there were a great many buildings burned in the southern part of the county, belonging to the brethren on Bear Creek and Morely settlements. I went on one or two expeditions to repel the burners. To go through a thickly settled portion of country and see where had stood houses, barns, stacks, but now burned to the ground and some tragedies enacted amongst a nation claiming to have attained to the height of civilization. I was not surprised nor grieved to hear that the mob had said that we must, as a people, leave the ensuing spring, as soon as grass grew and water runs and that the authorities of our church had assented to these proposals." (Lorenzo Brown Journal BYU-S p.10) 5. "This is the number as usually stated, Gregg says: "For a week the burning continued until the whole of Morley-Town was in ashes, with many other residences in the Bear Creek region and that of Green Plains. In all it is stated that as Many as 100 or 125 houses were burned and their occupants driven off." (History of Hancock County p.340) 6. "In a very few days afterwards, bands of organized mobbers commenced the work of burning our houses in Yelrom, Green Plains and Bear Creek settlements, and throughout the country." (George Albert Smith p.22) 7. "Governor Ford puts the number at 175, houses and hovel that were burnt the inmates having to flee for their lives." (History of Illinois p.407) Between 1847 and 1857 there were at least twelve family members that passed away. Included were: David Stoker who died on the 27 May 1852, his brother: John W. Stoker and his wife Electa Sarah McDaniel, David's brother, Eller Stoker, Michael Graybill (Mary's (Polly) husband), three children of Jacob Stoker and Catherine Burcham, two of John W. Stoker and Electa Sarah McDaniel, and two children of Michael Jr. and Martha McDaniel. It is believed that they with many others are buried in the family cemetery on the east edge of Council Bluffs... William and his wife, Almira Winger, settled in Spanish Fork, Utah." 6. From an article entitled "The Family" from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. For the full transcriptional listing of the descendants of Michael Stoker and Catherine Stoker, see the notes of Michael Stoker - the following only pertains to this immediate family. Generation "1" is Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller: "The Michael Stoker Family as existed at the time of his death. Those names that are [bracketed] probably were involved in the Missouri experience... 2. [John W. Stoker], born Mar 16, 1803 in Ashe Co., NC, married Electa Sarah McDaniel, daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, on Mar 13, 1827 in Jackson Co., OH. They moved to Missouri, Illinois, and to Iowa. John died Aug 2, 1857 at Traders Point, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. Both John W. and Electa Sarah are buried in the Graybill/Stoker Cemetery near Council Bluffs. 3. [John Randolph Stoker], born Jul 21, 1828 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, died Dec 23, 1847. He is buried in the Graybill/Stoker Cemetery near Council Bluffs. 3. [Zibiah Meriba Stoker], born Aug 13, 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Martin FORD on Nov 1, 1852 at Traders Point, Pottawattamie Co., IA. She died Jul 20, 1902 in Wallsburg, Wasatch Co., UT. 3. [Catherine Martha Stoker], born Apr 14, 1832 in Chilacotha, Jackson Co., OH, married Albert Orlando Hasting BOWEN at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, IA. She died on Jun 9, 1929 in Provo, Utah Co., Utah. 3. [Elizabeth Jane Stoker], born Sep 3, 1834 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Aaron M. Thomas. They were living near Council Bluffs, IA when cousin John Stoker visited them while on his mission on March 18, 1870. Elizabeth died Nov 2, 1925. 3. [Parley Pratt Stoker], born Jan 2, 1837 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. He died Feb 8, 1900. Parley never married. 7. A partial quote from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT, from an article entitled: "JohnStoker": "John Stoker, b. March 16, 1802; m. Sarah McDaniels Children 1. John R. Stoker, b. 1828 2. Zibiah Stoker, b. 1829 3. Katherine Stoker, b. 1832 4. Elizabeth Jane Stoker, b. 1834 5. Parley Pratt Stoker, b. 1837 6. William E. Stoker, b. 1840 7. Saphronia O. Stoker, b. 1842 8. Rebecca Stoker, b. 1843." BIOGRAPHY: 1. "Individual Affidavits from the LDS Historical Department" from the book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," editor Clark V. Johnson, p.358: "Stoker, John W.: State of Illenois Adams County May 11th 18[3]9, the following is my bill of Damage a gainst the State of Missouri by being Driven from my house and home Land and property in the year 1838 and 1839 Loss on Deeded Land in Caldwell county forty five Dollars, $45.00 Right for preemption improvement and crop in clinton county 2 hundred 50, 250.00 Loss in stock fifty Dollars, 50.00 Rifle gun nine Dollars, 9.00 two bee hives one cary plough ten Dollars, 10.00 mill wheel and irons and whip saw, 18.00 Time Lost and Moving Expences one hund, 100.00 total sum, $482.00 I certify the a bove to be a true schedule John W. Stoker [Sworn to before W. Oglesby, J.P., Adams Co., IL, 11 May 1839.]" 2. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures is John Stoker. 3. Per records provided by the Nauvoo Visitor's Association: a. Seventies' records, Index, 70s Bk B Sel, pg. 81; Quorum Q22. b. Other sources: i. Susan Black, Early LDS Members Rec 41:908. ii. Index, Nauvoo Land and Record Files 570. c. Lived in Hancock Co., Illinois. Lived in Pottawattamie County, Iowa from 1849 to 1857. 4. This may be the same individual who performed the following marriage: FHL book 977.343-V2m "Marriage Index of Hancock County, IL, 1829-1849," by Tri-county Genealogical Society, 1983, vol. 1, p. 48, marriage license no. 932: "James W. Welker and Ann Pugh, 23 Feb 1845, by John Stoker, MG." Appears the officiator may have been Jame's uncle. 5. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories," FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124: P. 87: Michael Stoker, the son of (John) Michael Stoker, was a 28 year old bachelor in Wilkes County, NC when the US census was taken in 1790. The farm which Michael Stoker bought from John Dick was on the north fork of New River in Ashe County. (The boundary line had been changed from Wilkes.) In 1792 Michael married Catherine Eller, the oldest daughter of Peter Eller and Elizabeth Dick. The Ellers and Dicks were settlers in this same area and all of Michael and Catherine's children, except Eller, were born and raised among numerous family members in North Carolina. In 1815, the family joined a migration of relatives moving west into Ohio. This party of Graybills and Stokers, all ages from babies to the elderly crossed the border into Ohio on Christmas Day, 1815. Michael and his son David, who had just turned 21, took part in the first election held in Jackson County on April 1, 1816. John Michael Stoker, Michael's father, settled in Perry County, Ohio, about 60 miles north. While in Ohio the Stokers became members of the newly organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1837 [error: Feb 1836?], Michael, Jr., who was now a man and a member of the Priesthood, baptized Eller's future wife and her mother, Margaret and Rhoda Judd. Pauline Stoker of Council Bluffs has Michael Jr.'s old notebook where he kept records of baptisms, birthdays and deaths. On October 27, 1836, Michael and Catherine Stoker sold their land in preparation of the move to Missouri where the Saints were gathering. Michael was then 74 and Catherine 63 years old. Great persecutions took place in Missouri during the next two years and the family had to flee to Illinois for safety. Michael was not among those who reached Illinois, and how or when he died is not known. Catherine was at Nauvoo, IL, when the Saints again had to flee in February of 1846. She settled in Pottawattamie County, living with her eldest daughter, Polly, where she died. She is buried in the Stoker-Graybill Cemetery east of Council Bluffs, Iowa." 6. Part of the Stoker family group mentioned in sister Polly (Stoker) Graybill's biography in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 17-24, note that this book has a considerable downline of the children of this couple: "Michael Peter Graybill, b. 14 May 1787, Jefferson, Wilkes Co. (now Ashe Co.), NC; d. 24 Sep 1856, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., IA; bur. in the Graybill-Stoker Pioneer Cemetery; Pottawattamie Co,., IA; md. 1811, Ashe Co., NC to Mary 'Polly' Stoker. Michael was the s/o John Peter Graybill and Christena Wampler. Polly was b. 24 Nov 1792, Ashe Co. [Wilkes], NC; d. 18 Feb 1864, Pottawattamie Co., IA; bur. in the Graybill-Stoker Pioneer Cemetery. She was the eldest child of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller... Michael and Polly left North Carolina probably in early 1816, and settled in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. Michael's parents, Peter Sr. and Christena (Wampler) Graybill, accompanied them; also, Michael's brother Henry and sister Barbara who had married Polly's brother David Stoker. Polly's parents, Michael and Catherine (Eller) Stoker, and other Stokers also made the journey with them. [Also John Graybill?] In the early 1830's, the family was visited by Missionary John Fisher from Bloomfield Twp. and was introduced to the early Latter Day Saints church. Those who were old enough were baptized in 1833. Involved in the church, Michael Graybill Sr. and related families anxiously followed the news from Independence, MO. The wanted to gather with the Saints in Caldwell Co., MO to be part of Zion, the new Jerusalem. Michael sold his farm to his father, Peter Graybill Sr., who along with Henry, Michaels' brother, and sister Celia (Graybill) Henson, decided to stay in OH. In 1836, Michael and other relatives packed to make the trip to Far West, MO. They spent the winter with Stoker relatives in Monroe Co., IN, then arrived at Far West in September 1837. The family withstood the dangers and aggravations of mob attacks. They endured many hardships. They had their plows, wagons and horses taken and even their first crop was taken just before it was harvested. With no provisions of food for the coming winter, Michael's sons, Simeon and Levi, left to look for work. They found jobs chopping railroad ties for the Eastern Railroad in Hannibal, MO. But they were unable to collect their pay until the following spring of 1839, when they were allowed to take the amount of their earnings out in goods. This allowed them to obtain wagons and horses and move the related families to Quincy and Nauvoo, IL. Michael Sr. and his family, Simeon's family and Catherine (Eller) Stoker's lived eleven miles southeast of Quincy, IL. After the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844, Simeon went to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful that the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph's and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for the public burial. By 1846, most of Nauvoo had been vacated. Michael Sr.'s and Levi's families had gone west and settled in Kanesville, now Council Bluffs, IA. Some of the related families went on to UT. Michael Sr.'s daughters, Juliana and Mary Ann, were among those who went to UT. Michael Sr.'s sister Barbara (Graybill) Stoker went to UT later. Michael's and Polly's children were David, Catherine, Simeon Peter, Joseph Levi, George Washington, William Lenore, Juliann or (Julia Ann?) Michael S., Jr., Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Sidney Rigdon and Christina." 7. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 98: Michael Stoker/Catherine Eller, born Mar. 9, 1773 [the 9 is overwritten over the 6]. Children: Polly Stoker, born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb. 7, 1864. David Stoker, born Mar. 23, 1795, died May 27, 1852. Elizabeth Stoker, born Feb. 28, 1800. John W. Stoker, born May 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. Michael Stoker, Jr., born Feb. 10, 1805. Rebecca Stoker, born Mar. 19, 1807. Catherine Stoker, born July 19, 1809. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker/Margaret, born July 28, 1816, died July 18, 1855. 101: Catherine Eller, wife of Michael Stoker born Mar. 6th 1773. John W. Stoker, son of above parents, born Mar. 16, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1857. David Stoker was born 23 March 1795, died May 27, 1852. Polly Stoker (Graybill), born Nov. 24, 1792, died Feb 7, 1864. Michael Stoker, born July 10, 1805. Jacob Stoker, born April 7, 1812. Eller Stoker, born July 28, 1815, July 18, 1855. Elizabeth Stoker (Walker), born Feb 28, 1800. 105: John W. Stoker, born 16 [no month] 1805, died Aug. 2, 1857. Married Sarah McDaniel. Children: John Randolph Stoker, born Feb. 21, 1828 Jackson Co, Ohio, Bloomfield Township, died, Dec. 23, 1847 at Trader's Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. Elizabeth Jane Stoker (Thomas), born Sept. 3, 1834, S. of Ohio, Jac. Co. 187: John W. Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller was born March 16th, 1803, North Carolina, Ashe County. Died Aug. 2, 1857, Traders Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. 8. Per the book "Southern Ohio Taxpayers in the 1820s: Gallia and Jackson Counties," comp. by Marilyn Adams, Heritage Research, Atlanta, 1979, contain the following names arranged by name, county, land location by range-town-section if given, township, page number of either land tax or chattel tax. Note that these lists are important in that they list personal property owners even if they were living with another related family, which gives more information than censuses of the same time period which only lists head of households: Graybill, John - Jackson County: 1826, 17-7-4, Madison Twp., p. 31 1828, same location, Madison Twp., p. 35 Stoker, David - Jackson County: 1826, chattels Madison Twp., p. 35 1828, chattels Bloomfield Twp., p. 4 Stoker, John - Jackson County: 1828, chattels Bloomfield Twp., p. 3 Stoker, Michael - Jackson County: 1826, chattels Bloomfield Twp., p. 5 1828, chattels Bloomfield Twp., p. 4 Stoker, John W. - Jackson County: 1826, chattels Bloomfield Twp., p. 5 9. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article: "During the Adams County time period some of the Stoker men found work with a farmer named Coleman Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes lived approximately two miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio. He had first offered work and a home to Elizabeth's husband, James Welker, and soon after David, John W., Michael, and Jacob also obtained work with him. Here they labored diligently trying to earn enough to rebuild their supplies and stock which they had lost during the Missouri struggles. Moving to Bear Creek, Hancock Co., Illinois On July 1, 1839 the Mormon church's prophet and leader, Joseph Smith, called for all church members to settle in and around the Commerce, Illinois area. The town of Commerce was renamed by the church members to Nauvoo. In 1842 the Stoker family had complied. Packing up their belongings they moved north settling their families around the Carthage/Bear Creek area. James Welker's son, John, recorded: "...he found that there was land that could be entered in Hancock County, about 15 miles south of Nauvoo. He moved there and filed on a homestead. Part of it was prairie land and part was timber. He built a large hewed two roomed log house. Then the next thing was to fence and make a farm to make a living off of" (Ibid). The 1842 personal property tax assessment book of Hancock County has records for Stoker, Welker, and Graybill families living within the county. These records indicate the possibility that they lived outside of the cities." Building the Nauvoo Temple The Stoker families were on hand for the building of the temple for their church. It is recorded in the church history that Eller Stoker, Jacob Stoker, and John McDaniel (husband to Christine Stoker) worked on the temple for a period of time. All families were expected to donate time and supplies to the temple project... Life was beginning to flourish again for the families, and happy times were with them. On May 23, 1844 Joseph Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker were initiated and passed into the Nauvoo Lodge of Masons. Two weeks later Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker became lodge members, and on June 8th they were raised to Master Masons. While in Illinois, John Stoker, John W. Stoker, John Welker Eller Stoker, and Jacob Stoker were given church callings of Office of the Seventy. Death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith Living around Carthage the Stoker, Graybill, and McDaniel families were homesteading lands close to those who most violently disagreed with the Mormons and who were constantly calling for their removal. Sometimes these men formed their own vigilante groups trying to scare the Mormons into leaving. Some of the Stoker men folk were called into military duty within the State Militia as recorded in the history of John McDaniel. "Early on June 24, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, and fifteen other members of the Nauvoo city council headed to Carthage to answer the charges filed against them. They passed the home of William Stoker located six miles southeast of Nauvoo on the Carthage Road before 8 A.M.... Sometime after noon, the Stokers saw the mounted riders traveling toward Nauvoo. Arriving at their destination at 2:30, the leaders gathered three small cannons and about two hundred firearms which were turned over to the militia. At nearly midnight the militia delivered the Mormon leaders who came voluntarily to the authorities in Carthage... Thursday June 27 Joseph and his brother Hyrum, were martyred. A mob of about one hundred men with blackened faces gathered about five 'clock in the afternoon. Several stormed the jail where the Smith brothers and a few friends were sequestered. Joseph and Hyrum were shot dead, and John Taylor wounded...the assassins and their comrades fled Carthage to Warsaw and then sought refuge west of the MIssissippi River... Friday June 28, with the bodies of the slain leaders placed in two different wagons, covered with branches to shade them from the hot sun, Willard Richards, Samuel Smith, and Artois Hamilton pulled out of Carthage and headed for Nauvoo. Sometimes shortly after noon, the procession with eight soldiers passed by William Stoker's driving teams pulling the two wagons containing the bodies of the martyrs. Mary Stoker Aitken, a granddaughter of WIlliam Stoker and Almira Winegar, wrote, "My father [John Stephen Stoker] told us that his parents had told him that they had seen the bodies of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum Smith, being taken from Carthage to Nauvoo." ...One of the Stoker relative's narrative mentions that "After the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum in 1844, Simeon Graybill went up to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for public burial" (Ibid). Conflict/Harassment Again. In 1845 the mobbing and burnings began, starting with the outlying settlements. The Stokers were living within the church area called the Highland branch of Illinois. The babies, weddings, and all manner of social life continued on and in July the families were doing more temple work for their ancestors. Again the families grew; new events were attended to. Jacob and John Stoker also joined the Masons and were later raised to Master Masons. Sheriff of Hancock County ordered the saints to organize and protect themselves. "John Welker tells how he and his cousins mutually watched out for each other. His account follows: 'The mob (against) the Latter-day Saints was increasing and I but a boy of 18 was the oldest of the boys that was at hoe. My oldest brother was married and doing for himself. I was the one to look after the family after my father died and when the burning out of the later day Saints by the mob commenced close by I was in a settlement 10 miles for whare {sic} they were burning houses and some of my cousins and relative lived close to whare {sic} I lived. We got together and agreed to take turnes {sic} and watch the mob and do the best we could to protect our homes. Some one was out every night watching their movements. They did not come to our little settlement to burn us out, if they had come some of them would have been hurt. Thare {sic} is many things connected with this I will not write.' (Punctuation added.) Not all of the Stoker relatives were as fortunate as the Welkers, John McDaniel and his wife Christine Stoker, according to one history, "...were greatly persecuted with the other saints and several times were driven out by the mobs. On one occasion they were attacked and forced to flee with a child under each arm while their home was burned" (Ibid). Nauvoo Temple Dedicated. In late 1845 the church's Nauvoo Temple was dedicated and many of the saints came to the temple to perform their own religious (endowment) ordinances. Between January 5 and January 21, of 1846 sixteen heads of the Stoker clan had received their own temple endowment. Michael Stoker Jr. and Catherine Burcham Jacob Stoker and Martha Carr McDaniel Eller Stoker and Margaret Judd Catherine Eller Stoker (widow) Elizabeth Stoker Welker (widow) James W. Welker and Anna Pugh John Stoker and Jane McDaniel John W. Stoker and Sara McDaniel William Stoker and Almira Winegar Records from the Nauvoo temple show that the Stoker family participated in other religious temple activities: Catherine Eller Stoker, Michael Stoker (son), Eller Stoker (son) and wife Margaret (Judd) Stoker (Eller's wife), James Welker and wife Elizabeth Stoker Welker, and Mary (Polly) Stoker (Graybill) all did baptisms by proxy for their deceased relatives." 10. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "Stokers arrive in Missouri. As early as July 7, 1837 the Stokers had filed three forty acre deeds to land 7 or 8 miles southeast of Far West in the Grant Township near Log Creek which flowed north and emptied into Shoal Creek. Eller, Michael's unmarried son, has 40 acres listed in his name.(12) Kitty-cornered to the southwest was a forty-acre tract in his older brother, John W. Stoker's name. Directly west of Eller's holdings are 40 acres deeded to his brother-in-law, James Walker [Welker]. They may have actually lived on their farms earlier in the spring to clear it and get a first year's crop in the ground. There's reason to believe that Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and Catherine Eller (1773-after 1850) were living with their youngest son because the worth of Eller's holdings are reported as nearly doubled his brother, John W. Stoker (1802-1857) who had a family of five at the time. John W. said he also had "a right for preemption improvement and crop in clinton county..." Their brother Michael Stoker, Jr. also must have lived nearby because his son, John Alexander Stoker was born on Long Creek [Log Creek], Caldwell County, Missouri on August 23, 1837. Michael, Jr., although not shown as holding a deed on the County records, indicated in his sworn affidavit on May 11, 1839 that he had held land in Missouri. David Stoker and his family were somewhere near Far West. Michael and Polly Stoker Graybill didn't arrive in Far West until September 1837.(13)... Picture: "Stokers' and Welker's land in Grant Twp., Caldwell Co." (Shows forty acre holdings of Orin Porter Rockwell [one section away], forty acre holding of James Walker [Welker][at southeast corner of N.E. quarter of section 8], forty acre holding of Eller Stoker [at southwest corner of N.W. quarter of section 9], and forty acre holding of John W. Stoker [at northeast corner of S.W. quarter of section 8].) [The latter three all touch.] War erupts... War and plunder hit the Stokers. The Stoker brothers holdings were located about one mile southeast of land deeded to Orin Porter Rockwell. The involvement of Orin Porter Rockwell in the Danites, may have been one reason that the mob torched this part of the county in 1838 during the attempt to drive the Mormons from the state. Interestingly enough, in Charles C. Rich's account of the Mormon-Missouri conflict in 1838, the following is stated. "A sketch that I was an eye witness to in the State of Missourie Charles C. Rich on the 24th of october 1838 Messengers Come into Farwest stating that the mob was on Log creek burning houses and Loaded waggons and threatening the lives of the people those was a few men Sent out to ascertain the movements of the mob these men returned a bout eleven O Clock at night Stateing that thare had been considerable Damage Done and also that they had taken three of the Brethren prisoners and intended to kill them that night the trumpet was Sounded and men com together an prepard for to march in haste in persuit of the mob that we might Deliver our Brethren out of their hands we raised all the men we Could till we got to Braggs on Logg Creek where we organised them in to...a company and found we had about Seventy five men David W Patten was first in Command and Charles C. Rich Second..."(15) The pursuit continued into Ray County where the Battle of Crooked River was fought. David Patten was killed. Needless to say, the Stoker brothers, Eller, John W., and Michael, Jr., and others of the family was involved. Their nephew, Joseph Levi Graybill, Polly Stoker Graybill's son in a statement made when he was an old man, says, "I went with my father's family and others, to Caldwell County, Missouri, in the autumn of 1837, and was with the Saints there in the time of their terrible trials. We planted a crop there in the spring of 1838, which we were never permitted to harvest. I was a member of the State MIlitia under Colonel Hinkle. The mob came upon us near Far West, in October, 1838...for weeks they had been stealing and driving off our stock, taking a team of horses from my father, and all the horses I owned. When the mob came up on us first they demanded Joseph Smith, parley Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wight and George W. Robinson appear in camp. Colonel Hinkle surrendered these men, telling us that these Missourians wanted to have a talk with them. Imagine our surprise when we were informed that these men were prisoners...and would be shot the next morning at 9 o'clock at Far West."(16) The Stoker family members endured many hardships. They had their plows, wagons, tools, mill wheel, beehives, pigs and horses stolen. Their furniture was damaged. Guns and rifles were taken. Joseph Levi Graybill's brother, Simeon, suffered also, but when his personal and prized saddle horse was stolen, he reportedly became so angry he had to repent.(17) Picture p. 7: "William Stoker and Almira Winegar." Picture p. 8: "The Stoker family trail from Ohio to Illinois (1836-1839)." Michael Stoker dies. In spite of the terrors of the mob, Michael Stoker (1762-1838) may have seen his grandson, William Stoker (1819-1892), David's son, marry Almira Winegar that October 1838 in Far West before he died. The privation and stress of the situation was too much for Michael in his old age. He is believed to have died at Far West and to be buried in the Saints Cemetery there during the strife. The Missourians call the shots. As the Missourians gained the upper-hand, they gave the Mormons the ultimatum to be out of Missouri by the spring of 1839. Thousands of Mormons were faced with very bleak prospects. Some were being hunted for supposed crimes during the conflict. Others were just trying to find food and shelter for their families. It was a dreary scene in which Nancy Stoker (1838-1920), a granddaughter of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and first daughter of Jacob, was born on December 21, 1838. The young men of the Stoker family were out looking for work and the means by which to support their dispossessed families. Simeon and Levi Graybill, the sons of Polly Stoker, sought work along the Mississippi River. As Levi says, "I left Far West just before Christmas, 1838, arriving at Hannibal, Missouri on Christmas Day. I chopped cord wood and split rails near Hannibal for the purpose of getting money to help my father's family away from Missouri, but when I came to settle I had to take my pay out of the store, so I was compelled to trudge back through the snow over 200 miles. I secured a team to take my father's family to Illinois in the spring of 1839."(18) The Stokers leave Missouri Leaving her husband, Michael, buried in Missouri, Catherine Eller Stoker (1773-after 1850) and her large family, helped each other, left Far West, Missouri and joined the hundreds of Saints who were on the road heading east to Illinois at the time. Little is known about the Stoker family's journey other than Joseph Levi Graybill's account of securing a team and taking his father's family to Illinois. There is some question if Alexander and Catherine Stoker Lackey and their four children were with the Stokers. A great granddaughter says they stayed in Missouri only a year.(19) The Lackey family would not follow the saints to Illinois, but would return to Jackson County, Ohio. Some of the Graybill documents indicate that Catherine Eller Stoker lived with her oldest daughter, Polly Stoker Graybill, in Illinois and Iowa. There's a great possibility that she was living with them at the time of the Missouri exodus. The ordinary trip took between ten and eleven days. One personal traveling westward at the time said he encountered over two hundred wagons between the Mississippi River and Far West.(20) Arriving at the Mississippi River, the refugees probably crossed over on the ice if they came in the late winter, but as those arriving in the spring had to wait their turn to be ferried across... The following members of Michael Stoker's family attached their names to a petition in 1843 that they had lived in Missouri and had been driven from their state:(21) David Stoker [Michael's son David (1795-1852)], John Stoker [possibly David's son, John (1817-1881) or Michael's son, John W. (1803-1857)], John McDaniels (1812-1884) [David's son-in-law, husband of his oldest daughter, Christine (1815-1854)], Elles Stoker (1816-1855) [Eller, Michael's youngest son], Mary Stoker (1822-1890) [probably Margaret Judd, Eller's wife]. Catharine Stoker (1773-after 1850) [Michael's wife, Catharine Eller], Jacob Stoker (1812-1893) [Michael's son], Catharine Stoker [Catharine Burcham, Jacob's wife], John Stoker (1803-1857) [Michael's son, John W. Stoker], Sarah Stoker (1806-1857) [John W. Stoker's wife, Electa Sarah McDaniel]. Geo. Graybill (1821-?) [Michael's grandson, George Washington Graybill, son of Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864)], Michael Stoker (1805-1858) [Michael's son], Martha Stoker (1808-1873) [Martha Carr McDaniel, wife of Michael's son, Michael], Gabrael Stoker (1832-1852) [Michael's grandson, son of Michael (1805-1858)], William Stoker (1819-1892) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Almira Stoker (1818-1884) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, grandson, William's wife, Almira Winegar], Samuel D. Stoker (1840-1908) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira], William Stoker (1842-1906) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira]. Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864) or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?)], William Graybill (1825-1880) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Adam Graybill [still looking for this relationship to Michael], Sidney R Graybill (1836-?) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Levi Graybill (1818-1912) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Patience Graybill (1825-1895) [Patience Smith, Michael's granddaughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Levi Graybill (1818-1912)], Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864), or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?), Polly's daughter]. John Stoker (1817-1881) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Jane Stoker (1810-1890) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, Jane McDaniel, wife of John (1817-1881)], Hannah Graybill [Michael's great granddaughter, daughter of Joseph Levi Graybill], Hyrum Stoker (1840-1887) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881) and Jane McDaniel], Alma Stoker (1835-1897) [Michael's adopted great grandson, son of Jane McDaniel], and Franklin Stoker (1842-1855) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881)]. Lucinda Stoker is also listed on the petition but cannot establish a relationship to Michael Stoker (1762-1838).(22) Refuge found in Illinois. The people of Quincy reached out to help the Mormons fleeing from Missouri. Elizabeth Haven Barlow writes, "The people of Quincy had contributed between four and five hundred dollars for the poor Mormons. God had opened their hearts to receive us. May heaven's blessings rest upon them. We are hungry and they feed us, naked and clothed us. The citizens have assisted beyond all calculations."(23) Family members sign redress documents. Advised by the Church leaders to swear affidavits of their losses in Missouri, Catherine's three sons, John W., Michael, Jr., and Eller, appeared before W. Oglesby, a justice of the peace in Adams County, Illinois and declared their losses as follows: Stoker, Eller "Illenois adams County May 1[1]th 1839 the following is my bill of Damage a gainst missouri in 1838 for loss of Deeded land three hundred Dollar $300.00 Rifle gun on [and] waggon and set of harness 80.00 Loss of hogs cattle crop of corn seventy five Dollar 75.00 working tools hous hold furniture fifteen Dolm 15.00 bees and other vigetables fifteen Dollars 15.00 five months time and moving expence one hund, and fifteen dollars 115.00 six hundred Dollar total Sum $600.00 the above is a correct sum Eller Stoker" Stoker, John W. "State of Illenois, Adams County May 11th 18[3]9 the following is my bill of Damage against the State of Missouri by being Driven from my house and home Land and property in the year 1838 and 1839. Loss of Deeded Land in Caldwell county forty five Dollars $45.00 Right for preemption improvement and crop in clinton county 2 hundred 50 250.00 Loss in stock fifty Dollars 50.00 Rifle gun nine Dollars 9.00 two beehives one cary plough ten Dollars 10.00 mill wheel and irons and whip saw 18.00 Time Lost and Moving Expences one hund 100.00 total sum 482.00 John W. Stoker" Michael Stoker "Illenois adams county may 11th 1839 the following is my bill of Damage against State of missouri in 183[8] Viz pr emption Right with improvement $100.00 Deeded Land and Rifle gun forty three Doll 43.00 hogs and cattle and house hold furniture and crop of corn and other vegetables seventy five Dollars 75.00 time lost and Moving Expences 100.00 thre hundred and eighteen Dol. Total sum $318.00 Michael Stoker" Footnotes: 12. This land's legal description is the 9th section of Township 55 North Range 28 West of the 5th P.M. as shown in Caldwell Co. Records of Deeds. Original Land entries 1835-1857. [Family History Film #0955376]. 13. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." 14. Stephen C. LeSueur, "The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri." Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1987. p. 50. 15. "Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson. Vol. Sixteen in the Religious Studies Center Monograph Series. Provo: Brigham Young University, 1992. p. 707. 16. Joseph Levi Graybill, "Levi Graybill, Son of Michael and Polly Stoker Graybill" typescript received by Jim Stoker on October 5, 1993 from Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129. 17. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill Sr." 18. Joseph Levi Graybill, "Testimony at age 92." 19. Letter from Ethel McCarley to Madeline E. Fletcher dated July 15, 1957. 20. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Jeni Broberg Holzapfel, "Women of Nauvoo," Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1992. p. 11. 21. Also included are some of their children who were born after 1838 in Illinois. 22. "Mormon Redress Petitions," pp. 574, 598, 599-601. 23. Elizabeth Haven Barlow in letter to Elizabeth Howel Bullard, 24 February 1839, published in Ora H. Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores." Salt Lake City: Ora H. Barlow, 1968." 11. The following partial excerpt is from the article "Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker's Descendants in Illinois" by Jimmie "B" Stoker, July 30, 1994 from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT, The numbers in the text refer to endnotes at the end of the article. See Catherine Martha Eller's notes for the full and complete transcript which is quite lengthy and only deals with her children in the Illinois period of Mormon history: A. In commenting on the arrival in Illinois from Missouri, the author notes: "Meanwhile Catherine's sons, David (1795-1852), John W. (1803-1857), Michael (1805-1858) and Jacob (1812-) followed her daughter, Elizabeth, whose husband, James Welker, had been offered work on Coleman Wilkes' farm located, no doubt, about two miles southeast of the town of Columbus situated eighteen miles in a northeasterly direction from Quincy. David's married sons, John (1817-1881) and WIlliam (1819-), also joined the group of relatives who worked on farms near Columbus. There is some question whether Eller Stoker settled there with other members of the family at this time. We do know that according to the 1840 Adams County census, he was living in Adams County near the WIlkes' farm in the Columbus township. One family history states that Eller Stoker "...married Margaret Judd, who also had been in Missouri, then living with her widowed mother, Rhoda Judd, on the Des Moines River in Jefferson County, Iowa. Margaret later commented that their only neighbors after their marriage were Indians and Half-breeds."5 Just when Eller and Margaret lived on the Des Moines River or other places in Iowa before their final move to Pottawattamie County, Iowa in 1846 is not known." B. "On May 6, 1839, Catherine's son, Michael (1805-1858), was given increased responsibility by being ordained a Seventy in the LDS priesthood. He joined a quorum that usually provided the missionaries for the church. The Seventies were the most numerous of the Melchizedek Priesthood offices during the Nauvoo period.6 Five days later, Michael and his brothers, John W. and Eller, swore affidavits of their Missouri losses before W. Oglesby, a justice of peace in Adams County... In late 1839 Joseph Smith, Elias Higbee, and Orrin Porter Rockwell went to Washington D.C. to seek redress for the Mormon's losses in Missouri. They had gathered many of the affidavits signed by the saints who had lost property in Missouri, such as the ones that the Stoker brothers had signed. On March 4, 1840 the petitions made to congress became useless when a Senate committee declared that Congress would do nothing... In the fall of 1843, another attempt was made to petition the United States government for redress in the Missouri persecutions. This was the third attempt. In 1839, the three Stoker brothers, John W., Michael, and Eller, signed affidavits which were among some four hundred that were taken to Washington, D.C. A second petition was made to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee in May 1842. This third attempt was a petition made up of 3,429 signatures attached to a fifty-foot scroll of paper dated November 28, 1843. A significant amount of energy was put into gathering these names. Many of the families signed for their children who were born since coming to Illinois. The idea was to send an impressive list. Over three dozen Stoker relatives added their names to this document. 37" C. "Births and deaths in the Stoker family in 1839. On May 20, 1839 a granddaughter of Catherine Eller Stoker, David's daughter, Christine Stoker McDaniel, gave birth to her first son, John Riley McDaniel, in Adams County. The baby's father, John McDaniel, was a brother to the wives of John W. (1803-1857), Michael (1805-1858), and John (1817-1881). These Stoker boys married Electa Sarah, Martha Carr, and Jane, James McDaniel's daughters. With the fact that her uncles and her brother had married into her husband's family, it's most likely that Christine joined them to live near Columbus. Three days later, at 9 A.M. on Saturday May 23, John McDaniel's sister, Martha Carr, John W. Stoker's wife, gave birth to Michael James Stoker.7 With births also came death. Illnesses were quite frequent. Many of the Latter-day Saints in Adams county suffered between February and September of 1839. Elizabeth Haven wrote to her family, "O my friends, you know nothing about the ague, how it prostrates and bewilders the mind and impairs the health." She considered the Missouri persecutions mild in comparison to "what they have been of late."8 On August 13, 1839 two-year-old, John Stoker, son of Jacob Stoker (1812-) and Catherine Burcham, died. The following year, 1840, Nancy Stoker, the sixteen-year-old daughter of David Stoker (1795-1852) died." D. "The 1840 Adams county, Illinois Federal census lists eight Stoker or Stoker related families. Only the heads of the households are listed. The ages and gender of members of the family are enumerated. William Stoker- Males: 1 under 5 yrs [Samuel David Stoker, born Mar 24, 1840], 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [William Stoker, born Mar 26, 1819]; Females: 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [William's wife, Almira Winegar, born Fb 27, 1818]. Michael Stoker- Males: 2 under 5 yrs [Michael James Stoker, born May 23, 1840], and John Alexander Stoker, born Aug 23, 1837]; 2 between 5 and 10 yrs [David N. Stoker, born Feb 2, 1832 and William Moroni Stoker, born Jul 10, 1834]; 1 between 10 and 15 yrs [Gabriel McNeil Stoker, born Feb 2, 1832]; 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [Michael Stoker, born Feb 10, 1805]; Females: 1 between 30 and 40 yrs [Martha Carr McDaniel, born Feb 24, 1808]. John Stoker- Males: 1 under 5 yrs [Alma Stoker, born Dec 7, 1835]; 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [John Stoker, born Mar 8, 1817]; Females: 1 between 20 and 30 yrs [Jane McDaniel, born Feb 24, 1810]. John W. Stoker- Males: 2 under 5 yrs [William Eller Stoker, born Jan 4, 1840 and Parley Pratt Stoker, born Jan 2, 1837]; 1 between 10 and 15 yrs [John Randoph Stoker, born Jul 21, 1828]; 1 between 30 and 40 yrs [John W. Stoker, born Mar 16, 1802]; Females: 1 under 5 yrs [Elizabeth Jane Stoker, born Sep 3, 1834; 2 between 5 and 10 yrs [Katherine Martha Stoker, born Apr 14, 1832 and Zibia Meriba Stoker, born Aug | Stoker, John William (I350)
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| 2075 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Bristol, Ontario, New York: Milo B. Hough, males: 1<10, 2@16-26; females: 1@16-26. 1830 US: Bristol, Genesee, New York: Milo B. Hough, males: 1<5, 2@5-10, 1@20-30, 1@30-40; females: 2<5, 1@15-20, 1@30-40. MARRIAGE: 1. The Pilot (Cazenovia, Madison Co., NY 1808-1823), p2, image 2 "On the 23rd inst. by Elder Arnold, Mr. Milo Hough, of Manlius, to Miss Sally Lockwood, of this village. Same day, by Wm. Whipple, Esq., Mr. Joseph Lockwood, to Miss Dolly Cadwell." DEATH: 1. Date most likely before her husband's second marriage per Familysearch's "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994": Milo Hough and Alma Crocker, 28 Apr 1833 at Cuyahoga co., Ohio, United States. Marriage intention was 26 Apr 1833. SOURCES_MISC: 1. The book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia. | Lockwood, Sarah (I523)
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| 2076 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Bristol, Ontario, New York: Milo B. Hough, males: 1<10, 2@16-26; females: 1@16-26. MARRIAGE: 1. The Pilot (Cazenovia, Madison Co., NY 1808-1823), p2, image 2 "On the 23rd inst. by Elder Arnold, Mr. Milo Hough, of Manlius, to Miss Sally Lockwood, of this village. Same day, by Wm. Whipple, Esq., Mr. Joseph Lockwood, to Miss Dolly Cadwell." 2. Familysearch's "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994": Milo Hough and Alma Crocker, 28 Apr 1833 at Cuyahoga co., Ohio, United States. Marriage intention was 26 Apr 1833. | Hough, Milo Bostwick (I418)
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| 2077 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 14 of 18: James Hunn, males 1(to 10), 1(16-26), 1(26-45); females 4(to 10), 2(16-26), 1(26-45). 1830 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York: James G. Hunn 1840 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York: James G. Hunn 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 141 of 148, house and family 1005, 3 Oct 1850: James G. Hunn, 69, farmer, $8000, MA. Eliza, 63, MA Alantha, f, 37, NY. Olive M., f, 28, NY. Rebecca, 25, NY. Nathan S., 23, NY. Ira Mashall, 16, m., NY. 2. 26 May 2007 Worldconnect database "shirley-simpson" of Shirley Simpson 3. Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyontari/Hsurnamefamilysketchpart2.htm: a. From the History of ONTARIO County; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893; "Nathan S. Hunn, Canandaigua, was born on a farm in Canandaigua, now occupied by his son, April 20, 1828. His grandfather, Rev. Zadock Hunn, was a native of Berkshire, Mass., and came to this section in 1795. He, in company with Rev. John Ralph, organized the Congregational Society of Canandaigua. He married in Massachusetts Mary Morton, and they had five children, of whom James G. was the oldest son. He was born in 1781 in Massachusetts, and since the age of fourteen made this farm his home. At the death of his father he assumed the management of the farm. He married Eliza Gillette, also of Massachusetts, and of their eleven children two survive: Thomas, of Bristol, and George, of Gainesville, Wyoming county. Nathan S. was the youngest son. His whole life was spent on the farm, which has now been in the possession of the family almost a century. Mr. Hunn has erected on it a beautiful residence, with fine barns, etc. He was a man of excellent management, and after the death of his father increased the farm from 150 to 350 acres. He was an upright and honest man and citizen. December 25, 1852, he married Marcia A., daughter of Sheldon and Roxana (Holmes) Squire. They have had three children: James G., who died February 10, 1878, aged twenty-four years; Eliza A., wife of William H. Pierce, a farmer of Canandaigua; and Frank S., who conducts the homestead farm. Nathan S. died October 26, 1879, mourned by all who knew him. Frank S. was born August 3, 1863. He was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and took up farming for a living. He with his parents and sister united with the First Universalist Church of Bristol in 1877. He is a young man of character, temperate, virtuous and honest in all his dealings. February 5, 1885, he married Ollie B. Totman, of Wisconsin, who died December 23, 1888. He remained single over four years, when on the 4th of April, 1893, he married Lida L. Monagle, of New York." b. From the History of ONTARIO County; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893; "Thomas M. Hunn, Bristol, is a native of Canandaigua, born August 28, 1822, and a son of James G., a son of Rev. Zadoc Hunn. The first representatives of the family in America were the great-grandfather of Thomas M., who was a farmer, one brother who was a minister, and one a doctor. Rev. Zadoc Hunn was a native of Becket, Conn., and was reared on a farm until sixteen years of age. He was educated for the ministry and took a classical and a theological course in Yale College. He then spent seven years as teacher in that college, Noah Webster being one of his pupils. He married Mary Morton, a native of Becket, Conn., and a daughter of Thomas Morton, a native of Scotland, who came to America for George III, and liking the country made his home at Becket, Conn., where he died. The family are related to Levi P. Morton. Mr. Hunn and wife had three sons and three daughters: Thomas M., James C., Alexander Z., Rebecca, Annie and Lorena. Rev. Zadoc went to Canandaigua in 17 - , and was the second family to settle there. He organized the Congregational church of Bristol, of which he was pastor many years. James G. Hunn was a native of Becket, Conn., and went to Canandaigua with his parents, where he married Eliza Gillett, a native of Dighton, Mass., and daughter of Thomas and Laura (Jones) Gillett. He died May 22, 1859. Thomas M. was educated in Canandaigua Academy and at the Lyceum in Geneva. In 1848 he married Fannie P. Gregg of Bristol, born November 15, 1821, a daughter of Benjamin Gregg, a son of John Gregg, a native of England, who came to America during the Revolutionary War, who fought some time with the British and then joined the Americans. Mr. Hunn and wife have had five children: James, Mary, Alexander Z., Benjamin G., and Emma E. James was born in 1848 and educated in Canandaigua Academy and in Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He married Malissa Mack, by whom he had three children. He moved to Kansas, where he and the children died. Mrs. Hunn returned to Bristol, where death occurred February 4, 1878. Mary was born August 17, 1851, and died at the age of nine years. Alexander D., born December 26, 1854, married Myra A. Dend of Canandaigua, daughter of George M. and Kezia L. (Lucas) Dend of Canandaigua. Alexander and his wife have one child, Fannie V., born in July, 1892. Benjamin G. was born September 7, 1861, and died October 30, 1883. Emma E. was born July 22, 1864, educated in Canandaigua Academy and is the wife of Ruel Reed of Bristol. At the age of twenty-six our subject came to Bristol and purchased 100 acres, and there for thirty-five years followed farming. He sold his farm, and in 1872 came to Bristol Center and purchased forty-five acres, which he now owns. He has since followed hop growing and general farming. He is a Republican and has been commissioner of highways three years. He is a member of the Universalist Society of Bristol." 4. Website: www.raims.com/jury.html "Nineteenth Century Jury List, Ontario County to 1855" shows Gideon Hun, 1808 in Canandaigua, and James G. Hunn, 1839, Canandaigua. | Hunn, James Gideon (I1378)
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| 2078 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 14 of 18: James Hunn, males 1(to 10), 1(16-26), 1(26-45); females 4(to 10), 2(16-26), 1(26-45). 1830 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York: James G. Hunn 1840 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York: James G. Hunn 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, p. 141 of 148, house and family 1005, 3 Oct 1850: James G. Hunn, 69, farmer, $8000, MA. Eliza, 63, MA Alantha, f, 37, NY. Olive M., f, 28, NY. Rebecca, 25, NY. Nathan S., 23, NY. Ira Mashall, 16, m., NY. 1860 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, 9 Aug 1860, house 1389, family 1406: Nathan S. Hunn, farmer, $7500, $1800, NY. Marcia A., 32, NY. Ja's G., 6, NY. Eliza C., 2, NY. Eliza 72, MA. Olive M., 39, NY. Rebecca M. 34, NY. Hiram Case, 18, NY. 1870 US: 1850 US: Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, 30 Jul 1870, house 1344, family 1402, p. 175 of 183: Nathan Hunn, 42, farmer, $14,500, $1750, NY. Martha L., 42, NY. James C., 16, farm laborer, NY. Eliza A., 12, NY. Frank, 7, NY. Eliza, 82, MA. Olive M. 48, NY. Margaret R., 44, NY. 2. 26 May 2007 Worldconnect database "shirley-simpson" of Shirley Simpson 3. Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyontari/Hsurnamefamilysketchpart2.htm: A. From the History of Ontario County; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893: "Nathan S. Hunn, Canandaigua, was born on a farm in Canandaigua, now occupied by his son, April 20, 1828. His grandfather, Rev. Zadock Hunn, was a native of Berkshire, Mass., and came to this section in 1795. He, in company with Rev. John Ralph, organized the Congregational Society of Canandaigua. He married in Massachusetts Mary Morton, and they had five children, of whom James G. was the oldest son. He was born in 1781 in Massachusetts, and since the age of fourteen made this farm his home. At the death of his father he assumed the management of the farm. He married Eliza Gillette, also of Massachusetts, and of their eleven children two survive: Thomas, of Bristol, and George, of Gainesville, Wyoming county. Nathan S. was the youngest son. His whole life was spent on the farm, which has now been in the possession of the family almost a century. Mr. Hunn has erected on it a beautiful residence, with fine barns, etc. He was a man of excellent management, and after the death of his father increased the farm from 150 to 350 acres. He was an upright and honest man and citizen. December 25, 1852, he married Marcia A., daughter of Sheldon and Roxana (Holmes) Squire. They have had three children: James G., who died February 10, 1878, aged twenty-four years; Eliza A., wife of William H. Pierce, a farmer of Canandaigua; and Frank S., who conducts the homestead farm. Nathan S. died October 26, 1879, mourned by all who knew him. Frank S. was born August 3, 1863. He was educated in Canandaigua Academy, and took up farming for a living. He with his parents and sister united with the First Universalist Church of Bristol in 1877. He is a young man of character, temperate, virtuous and honest in all his dealings. February 5, 1885, he married Ollie B. Totman, of Wisconsin, who died December 23, 1888. He remained single over four years, when on the 4th of April, 1893, he married Lida L. Monagle, of New York." B. From the History of Ontario County; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893: "Thomas M. Hunn, Bristol, is a native of Canandaigua, born August 28, 1822, and a son of James G., a son of Rev. Zadoc Hunn. The first representatives of the family in America were the great-grandfather of Thomas M., who was a farmer, one brother who was a minister, and one a doctor. Rev. Zadoc Hunn was a native of Becket, Conn., and was reared on a farm until sixteen years of age. He was educated for the ministry and took a classical and a theological course in Yale College. He then spent seven years as teacher in that college, Noah Webster being one of his pupils. He married Mary Morton, a native of Becket, Conn., and a daughter of Thomas Morton, a native of Scotland, who came to America for George III, and liking the country made his home at Becket, Conn., where he died. The family are related to Levi P. Morton. Mr. Hunn and wife had three sons and three daughters: Thomas M., James C., Alexander Z., Rebecca, Annie and Lorena. Rev. Zadoc went to Canandaigua in 17 - , and was the second family to settle there. He organized the Congregational church of Bristol, of which he was pastor many years. James G. Hunn was a native of Becket, Conn., and went to Canandaigua with his parents, where he married Eliza Gillett, a native of Dighton, Mass., and daughter of Thomas and Laura (Jones) Gillett. He died May 22, 1859. Thomas M. was educated in Canandaigua Academy and at the Lyceum in Geneva. In 1848 he married Fannie P. Gregg of Bristol, born November 15, 1821, a daughter of Benjamin Gregg, a son of John Gregg, a native of England, who came to America during the Revolutionary War, who fought some time with the British and then joined the Americans. Mr. Hunn and wife have had five children: James, Mary, Alexander Z., Benjamin G., and Emma E. James was born in 1848 and educated in Canandaigua Academy and in Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. He married Malissa Mack, by whom he had three children. He moved to Kansas, where he and the children died. Mrs. Hunn returned to Bristol, where death occurred February 4, 1878. Mary was born August 17, 1851, and died at the age of nine years. Alexander D., born December 26, 1854, married Myra A. Dend of Canandaigua, daughter of George M. and Kezia L. (Lucas) Dend of Canandaigua. Alexander and his wife have one child, Fannie V., born in July, 1892. Benjamin G. was born September 7, 1861, and died October 30, 1883. Emma E. was born July 22, 1864, educated in Canandaigua Academy and is the wife of Ruel Reed of Bristol. At the age of twenty-six our subject came to Bristol and purchased 100 acres, and there for thirty-five years followed farming. He sold his farm, and in 1872 came to Bristol Center and purchased forty-five acres, which he now owns. He has since followed hop growing and general farming. He is a Republican and has been commissioner of highways three years. He is a member of the Universalist Society of Bristol." 4. Today's Hampden County of Massachusetts was originally Middlesex County until it was split off in 1662 and named Hampshire County. Hampden County was formed from Hampshire County in 1812. | Gillett, Eliza or Elizabeth (I1367)
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| 2079 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Johnstown Twp., Fulton, NY, p. 6 of 25, taken in alphabetical order including all of the following Fredericks (males to 10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+; females to 10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+): Eve; 000000; 00010. Philip; 000100; 10100. Jacob; 000100; 10100. William; 330010; 21110. Lewis; 300010; 21010. Philip; 000101; 00001. George; 210010; 22010. Jacob; 000100; 10010. 1850 US: Johnstown Township, Fulton, New York, p. 108 of 148, 5 Sep 1850, household 1761: Family 1845: Phillip Fredrick, 78, farmer, NY. Gitty, 87, NY. Family 1846 in same household: Wm. G. Fredrick, 36, farmer, $9500, NY. Jane A. Fredrick, 26, NY. Henry G. Miller, 29, Lab., NY. 2. Montgomery County, NY, Archives 19 Sep 2007 visit: Mentioned in the book "Abstracts of Wills of Montgomery County, 1787 - 1831": "Frederich[k], Jacob, of Johnstown, will dated 1-13-1815; probated 5-24-1821. Mentions, - sons Lodowick and Phillip; grandson Jacob Goodemoot. Administratrix appointed, Margaret Frederick. Witnesses: Benjamin Rowland, David I. and Elizabeth Conn." 3. The booklet on the Frederick family by Mrs. Alida Reed of Gloversville, NY, 1957 (she died Dec 1966) with copies at the Montgomery Co., NY, Archives and a microfilmed copy on FHL film 1312457, item 4). Alida descends through Hans Jacob Frederick and Margaret Young: "Philip, b. 7 Mar, 1772, d. 30 May 1857, age 85; md. Gertrude Miller. Children: Jacob, b. 8 Mar 1794. Sp. Jacob Frederick and Margaret Young (grandparents). Hannah, b. 25 Dec 1797. Eva, b. 29 Apr 1802. Both Philip and his wife Gertrude (Gitty) are buried in Hillebrandt Cemetery." 4. The book "Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families," by Maryly Penrose, p. 282: "Jacob, b. 8 Mar 1794 to Philip and Gertraut (?) Friderich. LTC, Sa." [I assume this is Lutheran Trinity Church, but I am unsure was "Sa" stands for.] 5. Various church records received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465 with the following transcription and notes prepared by her: 1802 entries from the Geissenburg - Lutheran Church per FHL film 0017756: 299: Infant: Anna, b. 2 May 1797, bp. 14 May 1797; parents: Friedrich Brunner und Frau Elizabeth; Testes/Witnesses: Philip Friedrich und Christina Federly. 1105: Infant: Abraham Carnio, b. 27 Nov 1802, bp. 26 Dec 1802; parents: Philip Friedrich und Frau Catharina; Testes/Witnesses: Jacob Friedrich und Frau Eva. 1274: Infant: Susanna, b. 27 Apr 1804, bp. 21 May 1804; parents: John Callemell and Frau Caty; Testes/Witnesses: David Friedrich und Rebecca Carmo. 1360: Infant: Susanna, b. 8 Oct 1804, bp. 18 Nov 1804; parents: Philipp Friedrich und Frau Catharina; Testes/Witnesses: parent. 186: Son: Heinrich Audoph, b. 31 May 1834, bap. 16 Jul 1834; parents: August Frederick und Frau Maria; Testes/Witnesses: Audolph Roge und Frau Mutter Maria. Note: If you will notice when they list the wife, she is listed as und Frau (and wife). Please take note there are both Philip and David Friedrich listed as Testes/Witnesses. Both these names also are in the Records of Rev. John Calvin Toll. I found one listing as (not in the same church): 5795: Infant: Catharina, b. 27 Jun 1785, bp. 16 Aug 1785; parents: Francis Frederick und Frau Susanna Gresaart; witnesses: Philip Frederick und Catharina Schuyler. I believe this is why the name of Catharina Schuyler was mistaken as the wife of Philip Frederick. She is listed as a witness but not necessarily the wife of Philip. [Kerry's note: It should also be noted that the Philip of the generation most assign Schuyler to as a wife would have only been about 7 years old at this time.] Note: Introduction found in the beginning pages of the Geissenberg Church: It is a difficult matter to obtain authentic historical data, concerning a church which ceased to exist as a Congregation in 1836, and whose house of worship was demolished before 1860. The difficulty is increased, owing to the fact that the volume herein transcribed, is not by any means a complete church record, because in the earlier part, it has been copied from an older book as will be seen from the note on page 31. Another church record belonging to the Congregation probably still exists; whether it contains the marriage record of this, the Geisenberg Church, or whether it relates to the Otsquago Church, cannot be determined until the record is found. During the ministry of the Rev. John C. Wieting, and probably for some years later, the Geisenberg and the Otsquago Churches were one ministerial charge, and it is probably that the records were not kept entirely separate from each other. Although the meager historical data obtained leaves the matter in doubt. I am of the opinion that the Otsquago Church is sometimes mentioned in the records, as the Church at Danube or Stark; it was in union with the New York Ministerium, until 1830, after which the name disappears. The churches to which primarily is due, the passing away of the Geisenberg Church, are the Lutheran Church of Freysbush, organized June 28, 1834, the Lutheran Church in Ford's bush, incorporated, Canajoharie, organized in Feb. 1835, by the Rev. John Eisenlord Jr., the last pastor of the Geisenberg Church. The Church was probably supplied from Schoharie or Stone Arabia. The town of Minden was organized on March 2, 1798, being taken off from Canajoharie. On April 7, 1817, the town of Danube was taken off from Minden and annexed to Herkimer County. Note: Also in this church you will find seven children of Thomas Van Horn and Maria Frederick. Geisenberg Church is also known as Saint Paul's Lutheran Church - at Minden. Geisenberg is now known as Hallsville. 1806: Rev. John Calvin Toll (per FHL film 0017760) Records of Births and Baptisms performed by Rev. John Calvin Toll of the Reformed Dutch Church at Middletown (Mapletown), Westerlo (Sprakees) and Canajoharie, N.Y., by Mrs. Frank N. Becker, of Amsterdam, NY. Indian Castle of Nisketone. From Dec. 5, 1803 to Nov. 25, 1844 with alphabetical index. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Child: Caty; parents David Frederick and Polly Sybal; b. 26 Jan 1806, bp. 18 May 1806. [Kerry's note: Polly is probably the same as Maria since Polly and Maria are usually interchangeable. This would then make her Maria Seibel whose marriage we also have in this note.] Child: Mary Ann; parents: Phillip Frederick and Caty Germon; b. 16 Apr 1806, bp. 18 May 1806. (From Osquak) Note: I believe this David Frederick could be the brother of Phillip Frederick. Both David and Philip appear in the Geissenburg records if you will notice in the above entries. This child, Mary Ann, would fit numerically in the order of children in our Philip's family group. 1793: Minden, Montgomery County, New York - Church Records (Lutheran) (FHL film 1294886 [KP note: this is the wrong film number; film is 17640 and are the transcribed records of "The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, now The Reformed Church of Fonda, in the village of Fonda, Montgomery, NY; the actual marriage transcription reads "Octbr. 29, 1793, Philip J. Frederick to Gertruyde Miller" without the added commentary below.]): Philip J., b. @1768, son of Francis Frederick and Susanna Cossadt, of Fonda or Glen, Montgomery Co, md. 22 Oct 1793 at Fonda, Gertrude Miller of Montg. Co., b. @ 1772. Hannah Frederick, b. 25 Dec 1797 at Mohawk, Montgomery Co., N.Y., daug. of Philip Frederick and Gertrude Miller. 1805: German Reformed Church - Minden, Ft. Plain, Montgomery, NY (FHL film 1435720). Pages missing/record missing from Oct. 1796 thru to Dec. 1804. The first part of Vol. 1 has been torn out and all the pages of Baptisms for 1809 are missing. Ft. Plain Church began 18 Mar 1788. Marriages 1805: June 2nd: David Frederick and Maria Seibel of Osquack, by John J. Wack. V.L.M. pro tempore. Note: most likely the marriage of Philip and Catherine is among the missing pages." 6. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465: FHL film 9513920 mentions Philip Frederick and Gitty (another name for Gertrude). You will also find in the same film the name of Peter Crosset, which is probably the same family as Susannah Cossadt, in the same church (Reformed Dutch Church, Caughnawaga) where she is married you will find several young men who seem to be all one family. The name is spelled several different ways on different records, but I feel they are all the same family." BIRTH: 1. The actual birth place is unknown. Both Jacob Frederick and Margaret Young were of Warrensbush (now Florida Township) in Montgomery Co. They both did eventually end up in Johnstown, which is about 10 miles max from Mill Point and north across the Mohawk River. When they moved is not known except that they did buy land there at Keck Center in 1792. They may have been paying quit-rent on the property before then since it was about the early 1790 when many of the landowners were finally selling the quit-rented land. Alida Reed in her booklet already referenced elsewhere in these notes indicates she believes they moved there shortly after the birth of their first child Peter. She is confident that it may have been no later than when Margaret was born in 1785 because the sponsors at Margaret's birth were Jacob Bossert and his wife Margaret. She says, "In the genealogy of the Bossart family (sometimes spelled Boshart and Bushart) we find the first of that family did live in the section of Johnstown that leads to Fonda. So they were probably neighbors." I currently use "of Warrensbush." BURIAL: 1. 4 Nov 2007 website http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyfulton/cemeteries/HillabrandtCem.html: "This cemetery is located just north of the Old Hillabrant Farm in the town of Johnstown. These inscriptions were copied September 11, 1947 by Dr. R. M. Palmer, Former Fulton County Historian. This transcript can be found at the Johnstown Historical Society, William Street, Johnstown, New York. It was sent in to the Fulton County GenWebsite by James Morrison, archivist for Johnstown Historical Society and was transcribed by Linda Jasztal, March 8, 2000: Ira Frederick. Died May 17, 1881. Aged 49 yrs., 1 mo. and 17 days Dearest Ira though hast left us Thy loss we deeply feal; [sic] Tis god that hath bereft us He can all our sorrows heal. Philip Frederick. Died May 30, 1857. Aged 85 yrs., 2 mo. and 23 days. Gitty Frederick, wife of Philip Frederick. Died - - y 1, 185 - . Stone broken." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per family group sheet submitted by Mrs. Nellie Pearson Lang (2 ggdau), Duchesne, Utah. She references: "LDS Temple records of St. George; LDS Ward records of Monroe, Huntington, UT; Huntington Cemetery Rec. Utah, p. 973 v22 no 513; Historian's office Patriarchal Blessing, vol. 11, pg. 231." Copy in files of Kerry Petersen. | Frederick, Phillip J. (I1223)
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| 2080 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, pg. 48 of 67, next door neighbor is Robert Long: Reuben Meadors, 0-1-0-0-0-1; 2-0-1-1-0; 0; 1; 0; 0; 1-0-0-0; 1-1-0-0. [Since Reuben is shown over age 45, he would have to have been born before 1775. Oldest son appears to be between ages 16 and 18 making a marriage likely before 1804.] 2. Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database "prather2222" of Randy Jones 3. The publication "Laurens County Kinfolks Volume 1 Book 2," by Richard W. Fowler, gives the following family: "Hannah Adair (d. of James, gdau. of Joseph) was b. Sep 1784 and d. 31 Oct 1866 in Laurens Co., SC. She m. Reuben Meadors (6 May 1776-25 Apr 1829), son of James Meadors (abt 1750-abot 1804) and Susannah Jordan (abt 1755-abt 1826). Note: Meadors Family Cemetery. Children (unsure of order): A. Paschal Motley Meadors, b. 18 Jan 1808; d. 22 Sep 1873; m. Sara Miller 12 Feb 1834. B. Susannah Meadors. She m. [Archibald] Prather. C. Oney Polly Meadors; She m. ___ Pearson. D. Martha Meadors. E. Reuben Meadors, Jr. F. James A. Meadors, b. abt 1818. He m. (1) Mary Susan McKittrick. He m. (2) Margaret Adeline Hudgens. BIOGRAPHY: 1. "South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," "Laurens District Coroner's Inquisitions 1802-1865," show Reuben Meador as a juror and also as the owner of a dead slave: Vol. 25p. 22-23: "Inquest on the Body of John Rea. Filed 2nd Jany 1809. Laurens District - An Inquisition Indented taken at John Luks in the district aforesaid the twenty first day of november in the year 1808, before me Robert Long Esquire one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in and for the said district (the Coroner being absent) upon the view of the body of John Rea of the district of Laurens aforesaid taylor, then and there Lying dead upon the oaths of William Craigg, James Howeton,Samuel Mcconokey, Patrick Scott, James Willson, David Graham, John Dilard, francis Bradock, James Adair senior, Thomas Mccrery, William Mcclure senior, Reuben Meddows, James Craig, David Templeton senior good and Lawful men of the said district who being charged and Sworn to enquire for the Said State, when, where, how, and after what manner the Said John Rea came to his death do Say upon their oathes that he aforesaid John Rea did come to his death By Intoxication... In witness whereof... the Jurors... put our hand and seal the day and year first above written. Robert Long J.P., Willam Craig, James (X) Howerton, Samuel Mconaky, Patrick Scott, James Willson, David Graham, John Dillard, Francis (X) Braddock, James Adair, Thomas Mccrary, William (X) McCluer, Reuben Meador, James Craig, David (X) Templeton." Vol. 26, pp. 17-18 [I suggest that Thomas McCrary, Jr., is the husband of Cassandra Adair, Reuben Meadors is husband to Hannah Adair, James Adair Sr is probably the son of James and Eleanor Adair, and James Adair Jr is probably his son.]:"An Inquest on the Dead Body of a Negro man named Daniel the property of Reuben Meddows. Filed November 5th 1816. Laurens District - An Inquest taken at Reuben Meddows in the district of Laurens aforesaid the seventeenth day of September in the year 1816 before me Robert Long Esquire one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in the district aforesaid... Daniel... Lying dead upon of the oaths of Jason Meddows, James Bonds, James Adair, senior, Thomas McCrery senior, Francis Braddock, Stephen Bradock, Joseph McConohey, James Adair junior, Joseph McCrery, Thomas McCrery junior, William Scott and John finney... Daniel, came to his death, do say upon their Oaths, that he came to his death by the visitation of God then and there to wit Reuben Meddows field aforesaid he died... In witness... Robt Long J.P., Jason Meador for., James (X) Bonds, James Adair, Thomas McCrary, Francis (X) Braddock, Stephen Bradock, Joseph Mcconathy, James adair junr., Joseph Mccrary, Thos McCrary Junr., William Scott, John finney." | Meadors, Reuben (I3760)
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| 2081 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, pg. 48 of 67, next door neighbor is Robert Long: Reuben Meadors, 0-1-0-0-0-1; 2-0-1-1-0; 0; 1; 0; 0; 1-0-0-0; 1-1-0-0. [Since Robert is shown over age 45, he would have to have been born before 1775. Oldest son appears to be between ages 16 and 18 making a marriage likely before 1804.] 1830 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, pg. 218, next door neighbors include Robert Adair and Robert Long; husband Reuben evidently is deceased: Hannah Meaders, males 0-5: 2, 20-30:1; females: 5-10:1; 10-15:1, 15-20:1, 40-50:1. Can't find in 1840, 1850, and 1860 censuses. 1840 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, does show Robert Long but no Meadors in near proximity as before. 2. Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database "prather2222" of Randy Jones 3. Jett Hanna [jettplane@aol.com] provided me on 8 Jul 2005 with a copy of his analysis of the Brownlee manuscript as follows. It mirrors my own understanding; however, anything with which I disagree I note in [brackets]. Jett entitles his paper as "Laurens County Area Adair Family Trees." It is broken down by three families: James Adair who married Eleanor, his brother Joseph who married Sarah Laferty, and a William of whom absolutely nothing is known except just his name on the Williams Petition and that Brownlee notes he died 1780-84 and that his estate was administered 1784 per Abbe Wills, p. 10. Text quoted as follows: "This tree is based on Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina, by Mildred Brownlee. This was provided to me by W. Lee Adair, who obtained it from the Laurens County Public Library. Handwritten notes show a date of 1990 on Brownlee's manuscript. I have not examined these deeds personally. In some cases, notes and questions below are my own additions. This analysis seems to discredit some of the trees in the Adair History and Genealogy, and adds significantly to what is know of the Laurens area Adairs. I have not fully finished analyzing this work, and may have left out parts that are not as critical to my work. "Based on this work, it appears very possible that the elder Joseph Adair (m. Sarah, m. Susannah) and his brother James (m. Eleanor) settled in Laurens County at the same time, as suggested by the Adair History and Genealogy. I do not believe, however, that this James was the author of the book on the Indians and reputed patriarch of the Cherokee Adairs. This James was a cooper (barrel maker) according to the deeds. Modern editions of the History of the American Indians suggest that the author James Adair was a direct immigrant to South Carolina, but with no concrete evidence. "The Williams Petition: In the tree, LCW is Laurens County Wills; LCD is Laurens County Deeds. Also mentioned is the Williams petition. This petition is a significant document in analyzing the Laurens County Adairs. Published in the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. XV, No. 1 1987, p. 32-33, the original is #5767, Manuscript Department, Wm. Perkins Library at Duke University. The petition is in support of Colonel James Williams, a militia leader of the Patriots in the Laurens area (Little River Regiment). The petition, signed by members of the Little River Regiment, is directed to the Governor of South Carolina and the Privy Counsel, and attests to Williams' devotion to the Patriot cause. Williams led militia in a number of battles. I suspect that this petition was provided prior to Williams' elevation to the rank of Brigadier General following the Battle of Musgrove Mill, which was fought in what is now Laurens County. Williams had been accused of puffing his role in the battle. Williams went on to die at Kings Mountain - one of the few Patriot casualties that day on October 7, 1780. Williams had run for the South Carolina legislature as a Patriot in 1778, only to lose to Robert Cunningham, the infamous Loyalist leader. For more on Williams, see Draper, "Kings Mountain and Its Heroes," (Cincinnati, 1883). Signers of the Williams petition include the following Adairs: Isaac Adair, Jms. Adair, James Adair, Sr., Joseph Adair, Jr., Joseph Adair, Benjamin Adair, Joseph Adair, Sr., James Adair, Jr, son of James, William Adair, John Adair, and John Adair, Sr., and Alexander Adair. Comparing deed and will records to the names, Brownlee identifies the Adair signers [copies Brownlee's explanations]. Brownlee's identifications look very logical to me. "The Laurens County Adair Tree: 1. James Adair m. Eleanor: 150a land grant to James Adair-same date as Joseph 250a. Both referred to in records as coopers (barrel makers). James, cooper in LCD F/8,9,10, A/185. Eleanor released right of dower on deed dated 2/12/1796; date of transfer by James was 2/24/1784. Which deeds correspond with which dates? See Joseph below. Eleanor was also witness on deed from William Price and wife, Margaret to James Adair, son of James, 2/6/1792. 1.1 Joseph Adair m. Sarah Dillard [Surname Dillard is a Jett addition and I don't believe proven even though many LDS lines use this as well without documentation.]: Joseph Adair, Jr. to Wm. Holland, 120 ac. Release of dower by Sarah, wife of Joseph Jr., and Eleanor, widow of James Adair, dec'd, LCD F/109. Suggests land owned by James m. to Eleanor, but how does it correspond to land grants? If land belonged to Joseph junior by intestacy laws, why wasn't James m. to Hannah on deed, too? LCD G/570 has dower release for Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph. 1.1.1 Thomas Adair m. Rebecca Brown: LCD H/22, Joseph Adair of Duncan Creek to eldest son Thomas Adair. Witness Jane Adair. Dower releases for Rebecca in LCD H/129, H/209, and land purchased H/228. 1.1.2 ?Hannah m. John Jones: see F/8,9,10. 8 & 9: 8/1/1795. 10: 2/25/1784. F/10 is deed from James Sr. and wife Eleanor to John Jones, has witnesses James Adair, saddler, and James Adair, Jr. [Without giving a reason, Jett places Hannah as a possible daughter of Joseph, son of James; however, Brownlee indicates she believes her to be a daughter of the original James and Eleanor which would make her a sister to Joseph son of James. Perhaps a typo on Jett's part.] 1.2 James Adair m. Hannah: Corresponds to James son of James in the Williams petition per Brownlee. James m. Rebecca had a son James, but probably not old enough to sign petition as James m. Rebecca born 1747 per Indiana tombstone. Petition 1780 would mean James m. Rebecca was 33 in 1780; doubtful his son James could be of fighting age. Compare to Adair compilation. LCD M/77-78 reports death of James Adair, Sr., widow Hannah. Hannah Adair's will LCW F/65, proven 1826. James 115(2) 1790 Census. 2 daughters not accounted for. James Jr. was under 16 according to this census. 1.2.1 Elizabeth m. James? Parlmore (Palmer): LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2 Mary m. John Prather: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2.1 Susannah Prather (Prater?): Witness on will of Hannah LCW F/65. 1.2.2.2 Hannah Prather m. Joseph Dollar 1.2.2.3 Linny m. William Prather 1.2.2.4 Archibald m, Susannah Meadors 1.2.2.5 Martha Prather 1.2.2.6 Betsy/Priscilla Prather m. Daniel Owens 1.2.2.7 James Prather 1.2.2.8 Mary (Molly) Prather 1.2.2.9 Bryce Prather 1.2.2.10 Elinor Prather 1.2.3 Nelly (Eleanor) m. Ramage: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.3.1 Benjamin Ramage 1.2.3.2 John Jewell Ramage 1.2.3.3 Washington Ramage 1.2.4 James Adair Jr.: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.5 Hannah m. Rueben Meadors: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.6 Susannah m. William Cassels (Castles): LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.7 Nancy m. Willis Langston: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.8 Martha m. Wm. Gamble: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.8.1 Patsey Gamble: LCW F/65." 4. The publication "Laurens County Kinfolks, Volume, 1 Book 2," by Richard W. Fowler, gives the following family: "Hannah Adair (d. of James, gdau. of Joseph) was b. Sep 1784 and d. 31 Oct 1866 in Laurens Co., SC. She m. Reuben Meadors (6 May 1776-25 Apr 1829), son of James Meadors (abt 1750-about 1804) and Susannah Jordan (abt 1755-abt 1826). Note: Meadors Family Cemetery. Children (unsure of order): a. Paschal Motley Meadors, b. 18 Jan 1808; d. 22 Sep 1873; m. Sara Miller 12 Feb 1834. b. Susannah Meadors. She m. [Archibald] Prather. c. Oney Polly Meadors; She m. ___ Pearson. d. Martha Meadors. e. Reuben Meadors, Jr. f. James A. Meadors, b. abt 1818. He m. (1) Mary Susan McKittrick. He m. (2) Margaret Adeline Hudgens. 5. Typescript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina." Compiled by Mildred Brownlee; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction. [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.] "Other land in the adjacent area was purchased by James Adair, Sr. as will be seen by later deeds, he was born 15 May 1752, died 18 Aug. 1818, intestate. Deed Book M. pp. 77-78 - State of South Carolina, Laurens District - Whereas James Adair, Senr., of this District departed this life in the month of August 1818 and at the time of his death was possessed of a personal estate, consisting of negroes, horses, cows, hogs, sheep, waggon, household and kitchen furniture, corn, fodder, cotton and various other property not mentioned, all of which he was possessed of at the time of his death, and leaving a widow Hannah Adair and seven children, also four children of Elizabeth Parlmore (Palmer) in the right of their mother, to wit. John Prather in the right of his wife Mary; Nelly Ramage (a widow); James Adair, Jr., Reuben Meadors in the right of his wife Hannah; Wm. Cassels in the right of his wife Susannah, Willis Langston in the right of his wife Nancy; Wm. Gamble in the right of his wife Martha,all of which are entitled to distributive shares of the said James Adair's estate, that is to say, Hannah. the widow of James Adair, dec'd., is to have one third part of sd. after payment of all just debts and other lawfull expenses that may accrue at the intended sale ... and the remainder of said estate to be equally divided between the eight children of the sd. James Adair ... the four children of Elizabeth Palmore to have their mothers part equally divided between them, share and share alike ... Now for the better distribution and equal division of said estate we, Hannah Adair the wife of James Adair decd., John Prather, Nelly Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, Wm. Cassels, Willis Langston, and Wm. Gamble do agree to sell the estate before described on a credit untill the first day of January 1820 and to divide the proceeds thereof as before directed. Now know all by these presents that we Hannah Adair, John Prather, Nelly Ramage, and James Adair, Junr., Reuben Meadors, William Cassels, Willis Langston and William Gamble, are held and firmly bound unto each other in the following sums, that is Hannah Adair in the sum of three thousand dollars, John Prather in the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, Nelly Ramage in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, James Adair in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, Reuben Meadors in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, William Cassels in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, Willis Langston in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, and William Gamble in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, firmly by these presents in witness whereof we have set our hands and seals this twenty sixth of October 1818. Now the condition of the above obligation is such that if we Hannah Adair, John Prather. Nelly Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, Wm. Cassels, and Willis Langston and William Gamble, stand to keep and perform the foregoing intact by selling the before mentioned estate on a credit untill the first day of January 1820. After giving legal notice of the intended sale, and to give a Bill of Sale to such persons as may purchase at the intended sale, then after payment all just debts of sd. estate as well as expenses that may accrue thereon, and the proceeds to be divided according (to the) foregoing agreement then the above obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue. Witness our hands and seals this day above written. William Cassels, Hannah (X) Adair, Willis Langston, John Prateor, William Gamble, Elenor (X) Ramage, James Adaire, Reuben Meadors Simon Reeder, John L. Abell South Carolina, Laurens District) Personally came before me John L. Able and made oath that he was present & saw Hannah Adair, John Prather, Elenor Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, William Cassels, Willis Langston, and William Gamble sign, seal, and deliver the within instrument of writing for the uses and purposes therein contained & that he subscribed his name as a witness thereto was present and saw Simon Reeder subscribe his name as a witness to the same. Sworn to before me this 20th Jany, 1829. W.E. Lynch. J.P., J.L. Abell A true record of the original 22nd Jany. 1829. John Garlington. R.M.C. The above agreement regarding the personal property of James Adair, decd., was drawn up a short time after his death; however, it was not recorded until after the death of Hannah Adair. Nothing was done about the real estate of James Adair, decd., until a court action was brought sometime in 1819 by William Cassels & wife regarding partition and division. The land was then exposed to public sale. Deed Bk. K. p. 316 - 3 Jan. 1820, Samuel Downs, Sheriff of Laurens Dist., to Benjamin Adair for $175 highest bid, 100 a. on waters of Duncan Creek, adj. Wm. Taylor, Basil Holland, Jacob Miller, sold for judgment in court petition of Wm. Cassels & wife vs. James Adair, dec'd., etal. Wit: J.H. Irby, John B. Griffin. (This was the tract sold to James Adair, Sr. in 1814 by Jacob Miller. See Deed Bk. K, p. 65.) Deed Bk. L, p.78 - 3 Jan. 1820. Samuel Downs, Sheriff of Laurens Distr. to Hannah Adair. By virtue of a writ of partition from the Court of Common Pleas in which Wm. Cassels, etal, were plaintiffs for the purpose of obtaining a partition & division of a certain tract of land sheriff exposed to sale and sold to highest bidder; Hannah Adair, for the sum of $985, 224 a. on waters of Duncan Creek adj. Thos. McCreary, John Abell and Wm. Copeland, a tract formerly owned by James Adair, Sr., decd.. at the time of his death. Wit: Patillo Farrow, Wm. Taylor. Deed Bk. L. p. 36 - 30 July 1821, Hannah Adair to James Adair for $657, 224 a. whereon I now reside, adj. Thos. McCrary, Wm. Copeland, Thos. Beasley, John Abell, sd. James Adair & John Bryan, subject, nevertheless, to my life estate in that part of land lying on the S side of Allison Creek, being the part whereon the dwelling house now stance. Wit: R. Creswell, J.B. Kennedy. (This was the land Hannah bought from the Sheriff.) In the Court of Equity, 1821 - Reuben Meadors & wife Hannah vs. heirs of James Adair, Sr., dec'd. Petitioners state that James Adair, Sr. died in 1818, leaving a widow, Hannah Adair & the following children: Mary wife of John Prator; Nelly Ramage; James Adair, Jr.; Susannah wife of Wm. Cassels; Nancy wife of Willis Langston; Martha wife of Wm, Gamble; & Hannah wife of Reuben Meadors. That James Adair, Jr. received from his father in his lifetime a tract of land worth $600 and an advancement of personal property; that the other legatees received from their father at the time of their marriages quantities of personal property, except the petitioners who received only a horse worth $40, a cow & calf worth $10, a bed & furniture worth $20. Petitioners seek an accounting of the sale of the real & personal property & equal distribution of the proceeds. Affidavit of James Adair, Jr, states that in the lifetime of his father, he received 100 a. on Duncan Creek. adj. when granted NE on Josiah Greer, SW on Thos. Ellison, other sides vacant, the whole of a tract originally granted to James Hannah. A copy of the deed was submitted as recorded in Deed Bk. H, p. 249. (Records as to resolution of the suit were not included.)... Will of Hannah Adair: "In the name of God, Amen. I Hannah Adair, being in a low and afflicted state; and calling to mind the frailly and mortality of us may think proper, do make and constitute the following my last will and testament. I commend my soul and body into the merciful hands of that God from whom I received them, trusting in him to save through the merit of his son Jesus Christ. It is my desire that my heirs bury my body in a decent Christian manner, hoping and believing God will raise it at the great resurrection day. It is my will after the following sums are paid to some of my grand Children, to wit, to Patsey Gamble, the sum of fifty dollars to be paid to her when she comes of age. To Jinny Beavers one cow and calf, and to all the rest of my grand children whose parents are now dead the sum of one dollar. Then all the rest of my property consisting of negros stock and household furniture to be sold and equally divided among my living children viz Elenor Ramage, James Adair, Hannah Meddors, Susannah Castles, Nancy Langston, with all the money I may leave and debts due to me on note or otherwise to be equally divided among the above mentioned Children, with crop or any other property belonging to me I wish Susannah Castles part to be given to herself for the use of her children. It is not my will that William Castles should have any management of it, but that it should be the property of my daughter Susannah and her children after her. And I do hereby constitute my son James Adair as my executor to put this my will into affect. And I do hereby certify and declare this to be my last will and testament, given under my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of October, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, one thousand eight hunderd and twenty six and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. Hannah (X) Adair (Seal) her mark Signed in presence of us: Thomas S. Leak, Isham Milam, Susannah Prater" Recorded in Book F, Page 65. Recorded date not available. Proven date December 4th, 1826. Bundle 3, Package 9. Children of James and Hannah Adair - 8 in number: 1. Elizabeth Adair, date or birth unknown; she died before her father. Name of her husband not given but is thought to have been James Palmer who died in 1826. His estate was administered by Henry McKelvey with David Gamble and Wm. Copeland, sureties. Estate appraisal was made by Wm. Gamble, Reuben Meadors and James Adair. Names and dates of birth of the Palmer children not known. [NB: one of them was most likely Virginia (Jinny) Palmer who m. William Langley Bevis]. 2. Mary Adair, b. c1771 - mar. John Prather. Their chn: Hannah Prather - mar. Joseph Dollar. Linny Prather - mar. William Dollar. Archibald Prather - mar. his cousin, Susannah Meadors. Martha Prather Betsy? or Priscilla? Prather mar. Daniel Owens. (Daniel Owens thought to have been from Newberry Co. Daniel Owens, son of John Owens and Mary Long of Duncan Creek community died single in 1811.) James Prather Mary (Polly) Prather - b. 1808 Bryce Prather - b. 1810 Elinor (Nelly) Prather - b. 1813 3. Eleanor(Nelly) Adair, b. 2 Jan. 1774 - mar. Benjamin Ramage. [Their chn:] Benjamin Ramage John Jewell Ramage, b. 14 Mar. 1801 - mar. Nancy Weyman Adair. Washington Ramage, b. c1810 - mar. Sarah Ann Wilson - Ala. 4. James Adair, Jr., b. 15 Oct. 1781 - mar. Delilah Holland. [Their chn:] Nancy Weyman Adair, b. 5 Nov. 1805 - mar. Jno. Jewell Ramage. Robert James Adair, b. 2 June 1807 - mar. Sarah Jacks. Elizabeth Adair, b. 17 June 1810 - d. 17 Oct. 1823. Edmond Adair, b. 18 Oct. 1814 - mar. Susan Dillard. Hannah Adair, b. 7 Nov. 1816 - mar. Matthew Simpson. Isaac Adair, b. 21 July 1818 - mar. Sarah Dillard. James Henry Adair, b. 4 Aug. 1820 - mar. Elizabeth Pitts. William H. Adair, b. 31 Oct. 1822 - d. 6 Oct. 1844. 5. Hannah Adair, b. Sept. 1784 - mar. Reuben Meadors. [Their chn:] Susannah Meadors - mar. her cousin Archibald Prather. Paschal Motley Meadors, b. 18 Jan. 1808 - mar. Sarah Ann Miller. Oney Meadors, b. 21 Sept. 1809 - mar. James M. Braddock. Mary (Polly) Meadors - mar. Pearson Martha Meadors, died Nov. 1856, in her 33rd. year, mar. Lemuel Oxner. Reuben Byrum Meadors, died 25 Apr. 1848 in his 24th year, mar. J. Eunice Richey. Their dau. Elizabeth, mar. D..P. Buzzard. James Adair Meadors, b. 15 Oct. 1824, mar. (1) Mary Susan McKittrick, (2) Margaret Adeline Hudgens. ?Ann Meadors, died young? 6. Susannah Adair mar. William Cassels. NFI 7. Nancy Adair mar. Willis Langston. NFI 8. Martha Adair mar. William Gamble. NFI" | Adair, Hannah (I3753)
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| 2082 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, pg. 60 of 67: Wm. Cassels, males: 2(0-10)-1(10-16)-0-0-0-1(45+); females 0-0-0-1(26-45)-0. Next door is W.L. Beavers, males: 1-0-1-0-1-0; females: 0-0-1-0-0. (Virginia Palmer's husband?) 2. Jett Hanna [jettplane@aol.com] provided me on 8 Jul 2005 with a copy of his analysis of the Brownlee manuscript as follows. It mirrors my own understanding; however, anything with which I disagree I note in [brackets]. Jett entitles his paper as "Laurens County Area Adair Family Trees." It is broken down by three families: James Adair who married Eleanor, his brother Joseph who married Sarah Laferty, and a William of whom absolutely nothing is known except just his name on the Williams Petition and that Brownlee notes he died 1780-84 and that his estate was administered 1784 per Abbe Wills, p. 10. Text quoted as follows: "This tree is based on Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina, by Mildred Brownlee. This was provided to me by W. Lee Adair, who obtained it from the Laurens County Public Library. Handwritten notes show a date of 1990 on Brownlee's manuscript. I have not examined these deeds personally. In some cases, notes and questions below are my own additions. This analysis seems to discredit some of the trees in the Adair History and Genealogy, and adds significantly to what is know of the Laurens area Adairs. I have not fully finished analyzing this work, and may have left out parts that are not as critical to my work. "Based on this work, it appears very possible that the elder Joseph Adair (m. Sarah, m. Susannah) and his brother James (m. Eleanor) settled in Laurens County at the same time, as suggested by the Adair History and Genealogy. I do not believe, however, that this James was the author of the book on the Indians and reputed patriarch of the Cherokee Adairs. This James was a cooper (barrel maker) according to the deeds. Modern editions of the History of the American Indians suggest that the author James Adair was a direct immigrant to South Carolina, but with no concrete evidence. "The Williams Petition: In the tree, LCW is Laurens County Wills; LCD is Laurens County Deeds. Also mentioned is the Williams petition. This petition is a significant document in analyzing the Laurens County Adairs. Published in the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. XV, No. 1 1987, p. 32-33, the original is #5767, Manuscript Department, Wm. Perkins Library at Duke University. The petition is in support of Colonel James Williams, a militia leader of the Patriots in the Laurens area (Little River Regiment). The petition, signed by members of the Little River Regiment, is directed to the Governor of South Carolina and the Privy Counsel, and attests to Williams' devotion to the Patriot cause. Williams led militia in a number of battles. I suspect that this petition was provided prior to Williams' elevation to the rank of Brigadier General following the Battle of Musgrove Mill, which was fought in what is now Laurens County. Williams had been accused of puffing his role in the battle. Williams went on to die at Kings Mountain - one of the few Patriot casualties that day on October 7, 1780. Williams had run for the South Carolina legislature as a Patriot in 1778, only to lose to Robert Cunningham, the infamous Loyalist leader. For more on Williams, see Draper, "Kings Mountain and Its Heroes," (Cincinnati, 1883). Signers of the Williams petition include the following Adairs: Isaac Adair, Jms. Adair, James Adair, Sr., Joseph Adair, Jr., Joseph Adair, Benjamin Adair, Joseph Adair, Sr., James Adair, Jr, son of James, William Adair, John Adair, and John Adair, Sr., and Alexander Adair. Comparing deed and will records to the names, Brownlee identifies the Adair signers [copies Brownlee's explanations]. Brownlee's identifications look very logical to me. "The Laurens County Adair Tree: 1. James Adair m. Eleanor: 150a land grant to James Adair-same date as Joseph 250a. Both referred to in records as coopers (barrel makers). James, cooper in LCD F/8,9,10, A/185. Eleanor released right of dower on deed dated 2/12/1796; date of transfer by James was 2/24/1784. Which deeds correspond with which dates? See Joseph below. Eleanor was also witness on deed from William Price and wife, Margaret to James Adair, son of James, 2/6/1792. 1.1 Joseph Adair m. Sarah Dillard [Surname Dillard is a Jett addition and I don't believe proven even though many LDS lines use this as well without documentation.]: Joseph Adair, Jr. to Wm. Holland, 120 ac. Release of dower by Sarah, wife of Joseph Jr., and Eleanor, widow of James Adair, dec'd, LCD F/109. Suggests land owned by James m. to Eleanor, but how does it correspond to land grants? If land belonged to Joseph junior by intestacy laws, why wasn't James m. to Hannah on deed, too? LCD G/570 has dower release for Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph. 1.1.1 Thomas Adair m. Rebecca Brown: LCD H/22, Joseph Adair of Duncan Creek to eldest son Thomas Adair. Witness Jane Adair. Dower releases for Rebecca in LCD H/129, H/209, and land purchased H/228. 1.1.2 ?Hannah m. John Jones: see F/8,9,10. 8 & 9: 8/1/1795. 10: 2/25/1784. F/10 is deed from James Sr. and wife Eleanor to John Jones, has witnesses James Adair, saddler, and James Adair, Jr. [Without giving a reason, Jett places Hannah as a possible daughter of Joseph, son of James; however, Brownlee indicates she believes her to be a daughter of the original James and Eleanor which would make her a sister to Joseph son of James. Perhaps a typo on Jett's part.] 1.2 James Adair m. Hannah: Corresponds to James son of James in the Williams petition per Brownlee. James m. Rebecca had a son James, but probably not old enough to sign petition as James m. Rebecca born 1747 per Indiana tombstone. Petition 1780 would mean James m. Rebecca was 33 in 1780; doubtful his son James could be of fighting age. Compare to Adair compilation. LCD M/77-78 reports death of James Adair, Sr., widow Hannah. Hannah Adair's will LCW F/65, proven 1826. James 115(2) 1790 Census. 2 daughters not accounted for. James Jr. was under 16 according to this census. 1.2.1 Elizabeth m. James? Parlmore (Palmer): LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2 Mary m. John Prather: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2.1 Susannah Prather (Prater?): Witness on will of Hannah LCW F/65. 1.2.2.2 Hannah Prather m. Joseph Dollar 1.2.2.3 Linny m. William Prather 1.2.2.4 Archibald m, Susannah Meadors 1.2.2.5 Martha Prather 1.2.2.6 Betsy/Priscilla Prather m. Daniel Owens 1.2.2.7 James Prather 1.2.2.8 Mary (Molly) Prather 1.2.2.9 Bryce Prather 1.2.2.10 Elinor Prather 1.2.3 Nelly (Eleanor) m. Ramage: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.3.1 Benjamin Ramage 1.2.3.2 John Jewell Ramage 1.2.3.3 Washington Ramage 1.2.4 James Adair Jr.: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.5 Hannah m. Rueben Meadors: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.6 Susannah m. William Cassels (Castles): LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.7 Nancy m. Willis Langston: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.8 Martha m. Wm. Gamble: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.8.1 Patsey Gamble: LCW F/65." 3. Email from Kay Hutchison [makay47@yourclearwave.com] December 31, 2006: "My Susannah fits in your tree pretty good but I don't know if it's her. I have her living with her daughter & son in law . 1850 Saline Co, Illinois William Hutcheson, 25 IL. Mary Ann E., 22, TN. Martha L., 5, IL. John, 2, IL. Susannah Cassell, 63, SC. William, 30, SC. I have Mary Ann E. Castles married William Hutcheson July 1844. Gallatin Co, Ill. I found an older William Castles without a wife or Children. William Hutchison married Sarah McBride May 7, 1854. Susannah Castles bought land in Saline Co., Illinois 10-11-1854. I have her living alone in 1860, I think." [Kerry's comments: Susannah's mother in her will of 1826 directs specifically that no proceeds are to go to William Cassels, but only to Susannah and her kids. This would seem to indicate some difficulty which coincides to Susannah being separated later from William. Also the will doesn't mention Susannah in a location away from South Carolina which coincides with the two possible children of Susannah as noted above with one being born in SC in 1820 and the other in Tennessee in 1828.] 4. Typescript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina." Compiled by Mildred Brownlee; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction. [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.] "Other land in the adjacent area was purchased by James Adair, Sr. as will be seen by later deeds, he was born 15 May 1752, died 18 Aug. 1818, intestate. Deed Book M. pp. 77-78 - State of South Carolina, Laurens District - Whereas James Adair, Senr., of this District departed this life in the month of August 1818 and at the time of his death was possessed of a personal estate, consisting of negroes, horses, cows, hogs, sheep, waggon, household and kitchen furniture, corn, fodder, cotton and various other property not mentioned, all of which he was possessed of at the time of his death, and leaving a widow Hannah Adair and seven children, also four children of Elizabeth Parlmore (Palmer) in the right of their mother, to wit. John Prather in the right of his wife Mary; Nelly Ramage (a widow); James Adair, Jr., Reuben Meadors in the right of his wife Hannah; Wm. Cassels in the right of his wife Susannah, Willis Langston in the right of his wife Nancy; Wm. Gamble in the right of his wife Martha,all of which are entitled to distributive shares of the said James Adair's estate, that is to say, Hannah. the widow of James Adair, dec'd., is to have one third part of sd. after payment of all just debts and other lawfull expenses that may accrue at the intended sale ... and the remainder of said estate to be equally divided between the eight children of the sd. James Adair ... the four children of Elizabeth Palmore to have their mothers part equally divided between them, share and share alike ... Now for the better distribution and equal division of said estate we, Hannah Adair the wife of James Adair decd., John Prather, Nelly Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, Wm. Cassels, Willis Langston, and Wm. Gamble do agree to sell the estate before described on a credit untill the first day of January 1820 and to divide the proceeds thereof as before directed. Now know all by these presents that we Hannah Adair, John Prather, Nelly Ramage, and James Adair, Junr., Reuben Meadors, William Cassels, Willis Langston and William Gamble, are held and firmly bound unto each other in the following sums, that is Hannah Adair in the sum of three thousand dollars, John Prather in the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, Nelly Ramage in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, James Adair in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, Reuben Meadors in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, William Cassels in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, Willis Langston in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, and William Gamble in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, firmly by these presents in witness whereof we have set our hands and seals this twenty sixth of October 1818. Now the condition of the above obligation is such that if we Hannah Adair, John Prather. Nelly Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, Wm. Cassels, and Willis Langston and William Gamble, stand to keep and perform the foregoing intact by selling the before mentioned estate on a credit untill the first day of January 1820. After giving legal notice of the intended sale, and to give a Bill of Sale to such persons as may purchase at the intended sale, then after payment all just debts of sd. estate as well as expenses that may accrue thereon, and the proceeds to be divided according (to the) foregoing agreement then the above obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue. Witness our hands and seals this day above written. William Cassels, Hannah (X) Adair, Willis Langston, John Prateor, William Gamble, Elenor (X) Ramage, James Adaire, Reuben Meadors Simon Reeder, John L. Abell South Carolina, Laurens District) Personally came before me John L. Able and made oath that he was present & saw Hannah Adair, John Prather, Elenor Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, William Cassels, Willis Langston, and William Gamble sign, seal, and deliver the within instrument of writing for the uses and purposes therein contained & that he subscribed his name as a witness thereto was present and saw Simon Reeder subscribe his name as a witness to the same. Sworn to before me this 20th Jany, 1829. W.E. Lynch. J.P., J.L. Abell A true record of the original 22nd Jany. 1829. John Garlington. R.M.C. The above agreement regarding the personal property of James Adair, decd., was drawn up a short time after his death; however, it was not recorded until after the death of Hannah Adair. Nothing was done about the real estate of James Adair, decd., until a court action was brought sometime in 1819 by William Cassels & wife regarding partition and division. The land was then exposed to public sale. Deed Bk. K. p. 316 - 3 Jan. 1820, Samuel Downs, Sheriff of Laurens Dist., to Benjamin Adair for $175 highest bid, 100 a. on waters of Duncan Creek, adj. Wm. Taylor, Basil Holland, Jacob Miller, sold for judgment in court petition of Wm. Cassels & wife vs. James Adair, dec'd., etal. Wit: J.H. Irby, John B. Griffin. (This was the tract sold to James Adair, Sr. in 1814 by Jacob Miller. See Deed Bk. K, p. 65.) Deed Bk. L, p.78 - 3 Jan. 1820. Samuel Downs, Sheriff of Laurens Distr. to Hannah Adair. By virtue of a writ of partition from the Court of Common Pleas in which Wm. Cassels, etal, were plaintiffs for the purpose of obtaining a partition & division of a certain tract of land sheriff exposed to sale and sold to highest bidder; Hannah Adair, for the sum of $985, 224 a. on waters of Duncan Creek adj. Thos. McCreary, John Abell and Wm. Copeland, a tract formerly owned by James Adair, Sr., decd.. at the time of his death. Wit: Patillo Farrow, Wm. Taylor. Deed Bk. L. p. 36 - 30 July 1821, Hannah Adair to James Adair for $657, 224 a. whereon I now reside, adj. Thos. McCrary, Wm. Copeland, Thos. Beasley, John Abell, sd. James Adair & John Bryan, subject, nevertheless, to my life estate in that part of land lying on the S side of Allison Creek, being the part whereon the dwelling house now stance. Wit: R. Creswell, J.B. Kennedy. (This was the land Hannah bought from the Sheriff.) In the Court of Equity, 1821 - Reuben Meadors & wife Hannah vs. heirs of James Adair, Sr., dec'd. Petitioners state that James Adair, Sr. died in 1818, leaving a widow, Hannah Adair & the following children: Mary wife of John Prator; Nelly Ramage; James Adair, Jr.; Susannah wife of Wm. Cassels; Nancy wife of Willis Langston; Martha wife of Wm, Gamble; & Hannah wife of Reuben Meadors. That James Adair, Jr. received from his father in his lifetime a tract of land worth $600 and an advancement of personal property; that the other legatees received from their father at the time of their marriages quantities of personal property, except the petitioners who received only a horse worth $40, a cow & calf worth $10, a bed & furniture worth $20. Petitioners seek an accounting of the sale of the real & personal property & equal distribution of the proceeds. Affidavit of James Adair, Jr, states that in the lifetime of his father, he received 100 a. on Duncan Creek. adj. when granted NE on Josiah Greer, SW on Thos. Ellison, other sides vacant, the whole of a tract originally granted to James Hannah. A copy of the deed was submitted as recorded in Deed Bk. H, p. 249. (Records as to resolution of the suit were not included.)... Will of Hannah Adair: "In the name of God, Amen. I Hannah Adair, being in a low and afflicted state; and calling to mind the frailly and mortality of us may think proper, do make and constitute the following my last will and testament. I commend my soul and body into the merciful hands of that God from whom I received them, trusting in him to save through the merit of his son Jesus Christ. It is my desire that my heirs bury my body in a decent Christian manner, hoping and believing God will raise it at the great resurrection day. It is my will after the following sums are paid to some of my grand Children, to wit, to Patsey Gamble, the sum of fifty dollars to be paid to her when she comes of age. To Jinny Beavers one cow and calf, and to all the rest of my grand children whose parents are now dead the sum of one dollar. Then all the rest of my property consisting of negros stock and household furniture to be sold and equally divided among my living children viz Elenor Ramage, James Adair, Hannah Meddors, Susannah Castles, Nancy Langston, with all the money I may leave and debts due to me on note or otherwise to be equally divided among the above mentioned Children, with crop or any other property belonging to me I wish Susannah Castles part to be given to herself for the use of her children. It is not my will that William Castles should have any management of it, but that it should be the property of my daughter Susannah and her children after her. And I do hereby constitute my son James Adair as my executor to put this my will into affect. And I do hereby certify and declare this to be my last will and testament, given under my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of October, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, one thousand eight hunderd and twenty six and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. Hannah (X) Adair (Seal) her mark Signed in presence of us: Thomas S. Leak, Isham Milam, Susannah Prater" Recorded in Book F, Page 65. Recorded date not available. Proven date December 4th, 1826. Bundle 3, Package 9. Children of James and Hannah Adair - 8 in number: 1. Elizabeth Adair, date or birth unknown; she died before her father. Name of her husband not given but is thought to have been James Palmer who died in 1826. His estate was administered by Henry McKelvey with David Gamble and Wm. Copeland, sureties. Estate appraisal was made by Wm. Gamble, Reuben Meadors and James Adair. Names and dates of birth of the Palmer children not known. [NB: one of them was most likely Virginia (Jinny) Palmer who m. William Langley Bevis]. 2. Mary Adair, b. c1771 - mar. John Prather. Their chn: Hannah Prather - mar. Joseph Dollar. Linny Prather - mar. William Dollar. Archibald Prather - mar. his cousin, Susannah Meadors. Martha Prather Betsy? or Priscilla? Prather mar. Daniel Owens. (Daniel Owens thought to have been from Newberry Co. Daniel Owens, son of John Owens and Mary Long of Duncan Creek community died single in 1811.) James Prather Mary (Polly) Prather - b. 1808 Bryce Prather - b. 1810 Elinor (Nelly) Prather - b. 1813 3. Eleanor(Nelly) Adair, b. 2 Jan. 1774 - mar. Benjamin Ramage. [Their chn:] Benjamin Ramage John Jewell Ramage, b. 14 Mar. 1801 - mar. Nancy Weyman Adair. Washington Ramage, b. c1810 - mar. Sarah Ann Wilson - Ala. 4. James Adair, Jr., b. 15 Oct. 1781 - mar. Delilah Holland. [Their chn:] Nancy Weyman Adair, b. 5 Nov. 1805 - mar. Jno. Jewell Ramage. Robert James Adair, b. 2 June 1807 - mar. Sarah Jacks. Elizabeth Adair, b. 17 June 1810 - d. 17 Oct. 1823. Edmond Adair, b. 18 Oct. 1814 - mar. Susan Dillard. Hannah Adair, b. 7 Nov. 1816 - mar. Matthew Simpson. Isaac Adair, b. 21 July 1818 - mar. Sarah Dillard. James Henry Adair, b. 4 Aug. 1820 - mar. Elizabeth Pitts. William H. Adair, b. 31 Oct. 1822 - d. 6 Oct. 1844. 5. Hannah Adair, b. Sept. 1784 - mar. Reuben Meadors. [Their chn:] Susannah Meadors - mar. her cousin Archibald Prather. Paschal Motley Meadors, b. 18 Jan. 1808 - mar. Sarah Ann Miller. Oney Meadors, b. 21 Sept. 1809 - mar. James M. Braddock. Mary (Polly) Meadors - mar. Pearson Martha Meadors, died Nov. 1856, in her 33rd. year, mar. Lemuel Oxner. Reuben Byrum Meadors, died 25 Apr. 1848 in his 24th year, mar. J. Eunice Richey. Their dau. Elizabeth, mar. D..P. Buzzard. James Adair Meadors, b. 15 Oct. 1824, mar. (1) Mary Susan McKittrick, (2) Margaret Adeline Hudgens. ?Ann Meadors, died young? 6. Susannah Adair mar. William Cassels. NFI 7. Nancy Adair mar. Willis Langston. NFI 8. Martha Adair mar. William Gamble. NFI" | Adair, Susannah (I3754)
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| 2083 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 192, township had a little over 40 families; related families of Michael Stoker and Michael Graybill are in neighboring Bloomfield Township; columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: David Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,0//1,0,0,1,0. Peter Grabill: 1,0,0,1,0,1//0,0,2,0,1. Nancy Henson: 0,1,0,1,0,0//0,1,1,1,0. James McDaniel: 0,0,0,0,0,1//3,2,0,0,1. 1830 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, p. 93a: David Stoker: Males 10-15:2; 30-40:1; female 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1. [Appears to be David, his wife Barbara, and their children: Christina, John, William, Sarah, and Catherine; appears from children enumerated that Nancy may have been dead by 1830.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 1870 US: 7-Dist. Summit, Iron, Utah, p. 295a, entry 6 [neighbors to Edward and Sarah Davis; Barbara Graybill Stoker; Michael and Polly Stoker]: Cyrus S. Hewlett, 44, frmer, real estate $200, personal property $600, OH. Catherine, 41, OH. John K.[or R.], 19, UT. Sylvester, 13, UT. Malissa, 10, UT. Charles, 5, UT. Luvella, 3, UT. 1880 US: Summit Creek, Iron, Utah: "C. Sylvanus Hulet, occupation: farmer, age 54, married, birthplace: OH, father's and mother's birthplace: MA and OH. Catherine Hulet, occ.: keeping house, age 50, birthplace: OH [father's and mother's birthplace: NC]. Four children ages 9 through 23 listed all born in Utah." Source: FHL film 1255336, National Archives Film T9-1336, p. 366A. Note: Lived in same town as brother Michael Stoker and sister Sarah Davis. BIOGRAPHY: 1. From the book "History of Iron County Mission - Parowan, Utah," compiled by Mrs. Luella Adams Dalton, pp. 194-95. In commenting on the early days of Summit, Utah, she mentions several early pioneers to the area such as Michael Stoker and his brother-in-laws Edward Davis and Sylvanus C. Hulet. Also mentioned is the Dalley family into which a Davis daughter marries and has a daughter in 1880, Sarah Mandana Dalley, who marries in 1902 William Heber Hales, a son of Charles and Jemima Adair Hales. Various citations: "In the spring of 1859 James Dalley, William Dalley and Labon Morrell moved their families from Johnson Fort to Summit and took up squatters claims. On the 15 April, 1859 a son, Joseph B. Dalley, was born to James and Lettie Wright Dalley in their dugout home, the first child born in Summit. Others came to join them, Edward Davis, John Allen, Thomas R. Smith, John White, William White, Mike Stoker, John Winn, Oliver Pierson and William O. Orton. (Source: Lillian D. White from the 'Life of James Dalley.')" "Sylvanus C. Hulet moved his family from St. George to Summit, where he had owned a farm and lot for a number of years. Sylvanus was chosen presiding Elder of Summit, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brother William Dalley. Summit Ward was organized 27 July 1877 with Sylvanus C. Hulet as Bishop. His wife Catherine Stoker Hulet helped a great deal with the sick and on the 10 March 1878 she was chosen as the first Relief Society president, a position she held until her death in 1882. 27 July 1877 Bishop Sylvanus C. Hulet, next in their order. Bishop Joseph B. Dalley, 1st C. William Smith, 2nd C. Sylvanus C. Hulet, Ward Clerk Barbara Tweedie... (Source: Ward Records - Lillian D. White)" "Summit Ward Relief Society was organized 10 March, 1879, President Catherine Stoker, 1st C. Lette B. Dalley, 2nd C. Mandana H. Dalley, Secretary Mary E. Hulet... (Source: Ordena Dalley)" 2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by Daughters of Utah Pioneers: "Catherine Stoker Hulet, b. 29 Jul 1829 at Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, d. 8 Nov 1882 at Summit, Iron, Utah, parents are David Stoker and Barbara Graybill/Graybell, pioneer of Sep 1850 with the Aaron Johnson Wagon Train, m. Sylvanous Cyrus Hulet at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa (he died 22 Oct 1901), children: John Riley, 27 Feb 1851 Sarah Ann, 20 Sep 1852 Barbara Adlind, 18 Nov 1854 Sylvanus Cyrus Jr., 17 Apr 1857 (twin) Sylvester Silas, 17 Apr 1857 (twin) Catherine Melissa, 18 Nov 1860 Emma Tryphina, 19 Jul 1862 (died as a child) Charles Franklin, 11 Nov 1864 Luella, 1 Jan 1867 Oscar Willard, 9 Mar 1870 Catherine Stoker was born in 1829, in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. She married Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet on May 19, 1850, at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. Like their neighbors and friends, the Hulet and Stoker families suffered severely from the treatment they received from intolerant people. They were robbed, mobbed, and persecuted beyond endurance until it finally became necessary for them to leave their homes, farms, and other possessions and search for a haven of peace where they could worship how they wished. They moved from Jackson County to the other Mormon settlements. They suffered the typical trials of that time and finally arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in late Sep., 1850. They were called to go to Hobble Creek in Oct. of 1850, where they lived until 1860. They were then called to go south to help settle Dixie country. They found it very desolate, but they helped settle St. George. From there they moved to Summit, Iron County, in 1872, having been released from the Dixie Mission by Erastus Snow. Catherine gave birth to ten children; six born in Springville, and four born in St. George. Catherine labored a great deal among the sick. When the Relief Society was organized, March 10, 1878, she was called as President, a position she faithfully filled until her death. Catherine died Nov. 8, 1882, leaving her youngest child 12 years of age. Cahterine was buried in Summit, Iron county, Utah. She was a pioneer woman of great faith and fortitude and left a great legacy for those who followed her." 3. Harold B. Lee Library, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University, microfilm MSSFilm 920 no. 1: "A Short Sketch of the Life of Sylvanus Cyrus and Catherine Stoker Hulet. Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet was born March 14, 1826 at Portage, Ohio. Catherine Stoker Hulet was born July 24, 1829 at Jackson, Ohio. The parents of both Sylvanus and Catherine were early members of the Church. When but a young boy and girl, they too were baptized members of the L.D.S. Church. With their parents they suffered the persecutions of the early saints. When Sylvanus was yet but a young boy his father took him to see the Prophet Joseph Smith. The memory of this occasion was always held dear. He was also at the meeting when Brigham Young was chosen to take the place of the Prophet Joseph and witnessed the manifestation when the mantle of Joseph fell on Brigham Young. On April 19, 1850, Sylvanus and Catherine were married at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, by Reverend Marsh. Shortly after, the young coouple left with a company of saints to make the long journey across the plains to the Rocky Mountains. Many hardships were endured on this long hard trip to the west. During the course of the journey, cholera broke out in the company. Suffering and death occurred along the trail and the mourning of some of the saints could be heard over the departure of a loved one[. M]any new graves marked the trail of those west bound emigrants. On one occasion Sylvanus had the good furtune to kill a buffalo. The meat being distributed among the needy of the company. Upon their arrival in Utah, they made their home at Springville. Sylvanus took up farming and chairmaking to provide a livelihood. It was at this place their first child was born Feb. 27, 1851. The Indians were bad and could not be trusted. One day while Catherine's husband was away from home, an Indian came into the house and asked for bread. Flour at that time was very scarce among the saints, so she told him she had no bread. At that he stepped up to the cradle, drew his bow and pointed the arrow at the baby. Through the mother's fear and anxiety for her child she gave him the bread they so sorely needed for themselves. After securing the food he desired, the Indian left satisfied. A while after their third child was born Sylvanus and Catherine were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. In the spring of 1856 Sylvanus was called with others to go back across the plains to assist in bringing another company of saints to Utah. They made their home at Springville until 1861 when he was called to go south to help settle the Dixie country. They were one of the 300 familes sent by Brigham Young under the leadership of Erastus Snow and Orson Pratt to settle the region. During the years they lived in Springville they had built them a good home. In leaving they were forced to part with it at a great sacrifice. For the journey south, they purchased a big government wagon and also used the wagon they already owned. Three yoke of oxen were worked on one wagon and a mule team and a horse team pulled the other. The family then numbered eight including the parents. They took with them some cows and what household goods they could, then started on their way. One month was required to make the journey to their destination. Upon arriving in Dixie they found a very desolate country. However, the company of new settlers were thrifty and went earnestly to work. They laid out a townsite and called the new settlement St. George. They soon moved onto city lots and began once more to build homes. In the short space of two or three years, the place began to flourish. Cotton was grown, vineyards and orchards were planted. Farming was done. Besides work on the temple, tabernacle and courthouse had already begun. The cotton was carded and spun by the women. They trained their hands to do many things that only pioneers could accomplish. This couple, Sylvanus and Catherine put fourth their best efforts for the growth and development of that region. The Indians were still troublesome. On several occasions they drove off animals belonging to the settlers. Two men who were looking after horses and cattle, were killed by the Indans. Sylvanus and some other men were called to go and bring back the horses and cattle which had been driven off. Those were anxious hours, for the wives who were watching and praying for the safe return of their husbands. After the temple was completed and dedicated, Sylvanus and wife did temple work there and had their three olderst children sealed to them. They made their home at St. George until 1872 but prior to this date they had purchased some farming land at Summit, Iron Co., Utah. Some 80 miles north of St George. For a few years they attempted to care for both places with the help of their older children. Which caused many journeys to be made between St. George and Summit with teams and wagon. Finally the St. George home was sold and the family settled permanently at Summit. Before leaving St. George, however, he was released from the Dixie mission by Apostle Erastus Snow. As yet there had been no Ward organiaation at Summit. A presiding elder looked after the church affairs at that place but the years following the arrival of the Hulet family, Sylvanus was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the presiding elder who had previously officiated in that capacity. He continued to fill that position until a Ward organization could be effected, which was July 27, 1877. He was then ordained Bishop of the Summit Ward. After locating at Summit his wife Catherine labored a great deal among the sick. Whenever there was sickness in that community, she was always called upon to help care for them. When the first Relief Society was organized at Summit March 10, 1878 she was chosen president, which position she faithfully filled until her death, November 8, 1882. She was the mother of ten children, nine of whom she raised to maturity. Their names are as follows: John Riley, born 29 February 1851, Springville, Utah. Sarah Ann, born 20 September 1852, Springville, Utah. Barbara Addilenda, born 18 November 1854, Springville, Utah. Sylvanus Cyrus and Sylvester Silas - twins 17 Apr 1857, Springville, Utah. Melissa Catherine, born 18 Nov 1860 Emma Tryphena, born 19 July 1862, St. George, Utah. Charles Franklin, born 11 November 1864, St. George, Utah. Luella, born 1 January 1867, St. George, Utah. Oscar Willard, born 9 March 1870, St. George, Utah. After the death of his wife Catherine, Sylvanus married Zina Miller, March 21, 1883. From this union there were four daughters. On October 7, 1884 he was married to Betsy Dalley. From this marriage there was one daughter. He continued to fill the position as bishop until sometime in 1888 when he was released[. He] remained a faithful member of the Church until his death which occurred October 22, 1901." 4. Visited Summit 25 Dec 2002. Town is just off Interstate 15 and only a few blocks long with one main street with little if any commerce. The original Hulet house is on the northwest corner of Center and Main streets. Many photos of house on file. It is a two story brick structure with three dormers, two chimneys on either end, and in poor repair being used for what appears as a low priced rental. There is a large memorial plaque and rock cairn placed on the property which reads (photos of house and plaque on file): "Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet, 1826 - 1901, a convert of 1831, Utah Pioneer 1850, Settled in Springville, Called to the Dixie Mission 1861, Moved to Summit 1872, Children by Catherine Stoker: John Riley, Sarah Ann, Barbara Adlinda, Sylvanus Cyrus, Sylvester Silas, Cathryn Melissa, Emma Tryphena, Charles Franklin, Luella, Oscar Willard, Children by Elzina R. Miller: Nora Dean, Eliza Ellen, Minnie Elzina, Theresa, Cora, Daughter by Elizabeth Dalley: Emma Wright." 5. From a typescript of an unknown source but most likely of the archives of the daughters of the Utah Pioneers (copy in my files) with pages hand-numbered 49-51. Text [with typographical corrections by me]: "Life of Michael Stoker. Michael Stoker was born at Bloomfield Twp., Jackson County, Ohio, September 12, 1833. He was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. He was the youngest child in a family of seven children, four girls and three boys. There was a period of time we don't know much about the family or where they first heard and became interested in the 'Mormon' Church. According to records, Michael was baptized into the LDS Church in the year 1848. He would have been fifteen years old then. The Stoker family spent some time at Winter Quarters, Nebraska. They were advised to stay a while and get better prepared for the journey West, so they were among those who planted crops and harvested them so there would be food for the saints who came later on the long trek to the Rocky Mountains. In the spring of 1882 [1852], a few days before their company started West, Michael's father, David Stoker, died and was buried at Winter Quarters, Nebraska. I think it is now called Council Bluff, Nebraska. Michael and his mother and brother and sisters came on to Salt Lake Valley. Many lifelong friendships began on the journey across the plains. Brigham Young encouraged them to sing and dance and play music and tell stories around the campfire after the day's travel was done. In spite of their trials, they had some good times remembered for years after. And so it was that often when the wagons were parked in a circle for protection at night, after suppers were over; the men who could play would get out their fiddles and a dance on the ground would begin and the weary travelers would forget their wearniess for an hour or two... After arriving in Salt Lake Valley the Stoker family moved to Springville and were among the earliest settlers there... They lived in Springville about ten years... In 1860, two of Michael's sisters [Sarah and Catherine] and their husbands were called by Brigham Young to go down and help settle Iron County. Michael who was the youngest of his Mother's family liked to live near his sisters; so he took his wife, Polly, and their three sons and his mother, Barbara Graybill Stoker, who was getting quite old, and moved to Iron County. Settling first at Johnson's Fort, a new settlement north of what is now Cedar City. While living here their first daughter, Emma, was born. She had convulsions and died as a small baby and was buried at Johnson's Fort. They lived at Johnson's Fort about a year and then moved to a nearby settlement called Summit, between Parowan and Cedar City... About 1873, Michael moved his family to Monroe in Sevier County. The family enjoyed living in Monroe. After a few years they moved back to Summit to be near their friends and relatives..." (See Michael's notes for full quotation.) 6. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT [Note: spelling corrected by myself.]: "A BRIEF History of SYLVANUS CYRUS & Catherine Stoker Hulet. (Picture of Sylvanus and Catherine on cover.) Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet was the only son of Charles Hulet and Margaret Ann Noah Hulet. He was born March 4, 1826 at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio. For several generations, in the early 1700's, the Hulets (Huletts), Powells, Newtons, and Lewises lived in the Massachusetts and Connecticut areas. With the opening of new frontiers in the Ohio, Sylvanus and Mary Hulet, with their young family moved westward and settled in Portage County, Ohio. Charles, the oldest child of Sylvanus and Mary, was born in Massachusetts and made the move to Ohio at a very early age. Catherine Stoker was a daughter of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill (Graybull). She was born July 29, 1829, at Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. The Stoker's (Stocker's) originated from Switzerland and lived for one generation in Maryland and the next generation in North Carolina before moving to Missouri. Barbara Graybill may have been a full blood Cherokee Indian or may have had a white mother and a Cherokee father. The Stoker's May have heard the gospel preached by a brother Luke Johnson on January 19, 1833. Having become "Mormons" during that early period of the Church they were subjected to the same persecution that other members of the Church are known to have had and were forced to move through the Missouri period and into Illinois. Sylvanus was only five years old when the Hulet's heard the Gospel first preached by Parley P. Pratt in their home in Nelson, Portage County, Ohio. One history says that Sylvanus was ten years old when his father took him to see the Prophet Joseph for the first time. This was always a choice memory related by Sylvanus on many occasions. Soon after the older members of the Charles Hulet family joined the Church the revelations designating Jackson County Missouri as the center stake of Zion (D&C 52 and 57) that the Hulet's moved to that area. Little did they know what persecution and hardship was in store for them. Not only was there great difficulty with the mobs and persecutors of the "Mormons" but the internal trouble within the church was difficult for the Saints to cope with. Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were in Kirtland trying to hold the Church together and teach the baptized members how to be "Mormons." Bishop Partridge, Newel Knight, Sidney Gilbert and others were trying to interpret the Gospel as best knew how in the frontier of Jackson County, Missouri. Oliver Cowdery, the Second Elder of the Church was trying to keep unity between the two areas and keep the mobsters at bay. It must have been a difficult time to maintain a testimony, but, the Hulets were a strong and vigorous people not easily dissuaded. It was about this time that Sylvanus' Uncle Sylvester was called to be a branch president in the Missouri area. Difficulty arose when he and the members of the branch felt that they were doing the Lord's will by speaking in tongues and interpreting the will of the Lord for the membership of the Church. When Oliver Cowdery pointed out that there was error in their ways, they repented and stayed faithful to the teachings. (See the History of the Church, Vol. 1, Ch. 26, pg. 366 & Vol. 2, Ch. 9, pg. 137-146.) It was not long until the Hulets, with the other Saints, were driven from Jackson County, and fled into Clay County. They must have remained in Clay county four or five years and had time to make some progress with their homes and farms before they were forced to leave them. When this company of Church members could no longer cope with the violence and persecution that had followed them from the time they had joined the Church, they had to leave their hard earned property and flee before their tormentors and go to Caldwell County. From Caldwell County the Saints moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. The Hulets accompanied them. Here Charles Hulet and his son Sylvanus, and some of Charles' brothers helped in the building of the Nauvoo Temple and some of the homes in Nauvoo. It is reported that Sylvanus was in attendance at the conference in Nauvoo when those present witnessed the mantle of Joseph Smith fall upon Brigham Young, showing that the Lord had chosen Brigham Young to lead His Church. David Stoker, also, helped with the building of the Nauvoo Temple and some of the homes in the City of Nauvoo. The Hulets and the Stokers left Nauvoo with other Saints during the cold winter of 1846 and crossed Iowa. It was at Mt. Pisgah that Sylvanus met and fell in love with Catherine Stoker. They were married May 19, 1850, by a Reverend March. Evidently, the Hulets and the Stokers had been in some of the groups who had stayed to protect some of the villages as they were not in the first companies to go to Utah. However, it was soon after Sylvanus and Catherine were married that they started on their journey westward from Mt. Pisgah, with a company of Saints led by Aaron Johnson, who was appointed by President Young. At Winter Quarters Catherine's father, David Stoker, was laid to rest. Catherine's mother, her brothers John, William, and MIchael, and her sisters Christina and Sarah, and Sarah's husband, Edward David, were in the company of the Hulet's. It was the latter part of September when they arrived in Salt Lake City. They thought they had reached their journey's end, but President Young asked the Hulets to go on with some other families to Hobble Creek and help settle that area. It was the first week in October 1850 when they arrived at this place, later named Springville. Sylvanus and his father took up farming and chair making in Springville as a means of providing for their families. Five children were born to Sylvanus and Catherine: John Kiley, February 27, 1851; Sarah Ann, September 30, 1852; Barbara Adlinda, November 18, 1854; the twins, Sylvanus Cyrus, Jr., and Sylvester Silas, April 17, 1857; and Catherine Melissa, May 18, 1860, during the time they lived in Springville. Shortly after their third child was born Sylvanus and Catherine were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. The Endowment House was completed and dedicated in 1855 so the Hulets must have been among the early Saints to use that facility. Sylvanus' mother, Margaret Noah Hulet, died soon after Sylvanus and Catherine's first child was born. She died April 15, 1851 in Springville and was buried there. It would be 12 years before her husband, Charles, would be buried by her side. He died May 9, 1863. In the spring of 1856 Sylvanus was called to go back across the plains to assist in bringing another company of Saints to Utah. This left Catherine and her father-in-law to take care of the home, the farm, and the chair business. The Indians here were unfriendly and could not be trusted. One day while Sylvanus was away from home, an Indian came and asked Catherine for bread and flour. At that time flour was very scarce among the Saints so she told him she had no bread. At that, he stepped over to the cradle, drew his bow and pointed the arrow at the baby. Fearing that he would harm the Child, she gave the Indian the bread they so sorely needed for themselves. After securing the food, the Indian seemed satisfied and left. The Hulets lived in Springville until 1861, when they were called to go south to help settle the Dixie Country. During the years they had lived in Springville they had built a home, started a beautiful family, developed a farm that produced well, established a small herd of cattle, and had a small chair building business. By the standards of the early Utah Pioneers they were considered quite successful. The Hulets were one of 300 families sent by Brigham Young under the leadership of Erastus Snow and Orson Pratt to colonize that region. For the journey, Sylvanus made a trip to Cedar Valley, where Johnson's Army was selling some of their surplus goods, and purchased a large government wagon. The government wagon plus the wagon they had would still not give them space for all their belongings, however they took the essentials. They traveled with three yoke of oxen and a mule and horse team. With their small herd of cattle they must have presented a formidable sight. One month was required to make the journey to Dixie. This was a test of faith and endurance for Sylvanus and Catherine and their six young children. They found Dixie a very desolate country. However, the company of new settlers were thrifty and industrious and immediately went to work in earnest. They laid out a town site and called the new settlement St. George. (Named in honor of Elder George A. Smith.) They soon moved on to city lots and began once more to build homes. In two or three years the settlement began to flourish. Cotton was grown and vineyards were planted. Work on the temple, tabernacle, and courthouse had already begun. The cotton was corded and spun by the women. They trained their hands to do many things that only pioneers could accomplish. Sylvanus and Catherine, with others, put forth their best efforts for the growth and development of that new country. Indians were troublesome. Several times they drove off animals belonging to the settlers. On one occasion two men who were looking after the horses and cattle were killed by the Indians. Sylvanus and some of the other men were sent to bring back the horses and cattle which had been driven off. Those were anxious hours for the wives who were watching and praying for the safe return of their husbands. After arriving in St. George, four more children were born to Sylvanus and Catherine: Emma Tryphena, July 19, 1862 (died October 10, 1864); Charles Franklin, November 11, 1864; Luella, January 1, 1867; and Oscar Willard, March 9, 1870. As the cattle business expanded, Sylvanus found it necessary to expand the area in which they would graze. During the summer month the cattle would spend time in the Pine Valley area and then push out through Mountain Meadow in the fall of the year. The cattle would then push on to the desert area for the winter month ending up near Enoch. Sylvanus could see an advantage of living in the Iron County area. Prior to 1872, Sylvanus had purchased some farming land at Summit, about 60 miles north of St. George. For a few years he attempted to care for both places with the help of the other children. This required many trips between St. George and Summit with a team and wagon. After being released from the Dixie Mission by Erastus Snow he sold his St. George home in 1872 and the family made a permanent home in Summit. Even though Sylvester moved from St. George before the temple was finished he still felt a close tie to seeing that it was completed. Aunt Zinie tells of the occasion when members of the Temple Committee visited them in Summit and Sylvester went upstairs and returned with $500 in gold pieces to help complete the temple. After the temple was finished and dedicated, Sylvanus and Catherine did temple work there and had their three oldest children sealed to them on February 20, 1878. The year after the Hulet family moved to Summit, Sylvanus was chosen to be the Presiding Elder. Five years later on July 27, 1877, the Summit Ward was organized and Sylvanus was ordained the Bishop of the Ward. Catherine labored a great deal among the sick. Whenever there was sickness in the community she was called upon to help care for them. When the first Relief Society was organized in Summit on March 10, 1878, she was chosen president, which position she faithfully fulfilled until her death on November 8, 1882. Catherine was buried in the Summit Cemetery. After the death of Catherine, Sylvanus married Elzina Robena Miller on March 21, 1883. They had five daughters: Nora Dean (adopted) born February 11, 1877; Eliza Ellen, July 28, 1884; Minnie Elzina, April 5, 1887; Theresa, July 5, 189; and Cora, September 5, 1891. On October 7, 1884, Sylvanus married Elizabeth (Betsy) Dalley. Of this union there was one daughter, Emma Wright, born March 10, 1890. Both Sylvanus and Catherine were systematic and orderly about their work. Everything was kept in order. They did not waste their means, or time. The home, farm buildings, farm machinery, the farm and farm crops and the animals were all well cared for, but nothing was wasted. Yet there was always something to share with others who were in need of assistance. Catherine was a wonderful wife and mother, as well as a willing helper to those in need of assistance in times of sickness or sorrow. Catherine and Sylvanus had President Brigham Young and other Church authorities stay in their home when they were traveling through that section of the state visiting the Saints on many occasions. Sylvanus filled the position of Bishop until 1888, when he was released. He remained faithful to the Church until his death on October 22, 1901. He is buried in the Summit Cemetery. The integrity of these ancestors, their habits of thrift and industry, their patience and kindness toward others had made their lives exemplary to their descendants as well as to others, and worthy of our gratitude and pride for the heritage they have left us. (Some of the information for this comes from the "Hulet Quarterly," August 1968, and "Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet and His Descendants," by J. Phillip Hanks 1980, and other items from the genealogy of Kent Hulet.) PICTURES: pg. 2: 'This is the first home that Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet built in Utah. It was located in Springville.' pg. 4: 'This home was built in St. George when the Hulet's were called to the Cotton Mission.' pg. 5: 'This is the last home built by Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet. Built in Summit. Aunt Zinie (Elzina) is holding a baby in front.' pg. 7: 'Early Mormon Settlements in Missouri.'" 7. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," which is quoted in its entirety in the notes of David Stoker: "By August of 1815 David and Barbara had settled into family life in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. It was on the 24 August 1815 that their first child was born: Christine Stoker. By the spring of 1816, David's parents had also joined them on the new frontier of the Ohio River Valley. David and his father, Michael, are listed on the Jackson County, Ohio, voting registry for an election that was held on 1 April 1816. Also, David's youngest brother, Eller, was born in Bloomfield, Ohio. John Stoker, second son of David and Barbara, was born north of Bloomfield. He was born on 8 March 1817, in Madison Township, Jackson County, Ohio. William, their next Child, was born 26 March 1819 in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio: [1820 Census:] David Stoker- Head of Family One female age 26-45, (Barbara Graybill age 28), One male age 16-26 (David age 25), One male 10-16 yrs (unknown), One female and two males under the age of 10 (Christena age 5, John age 3 and WIlliam age 1). The record also indicates that four people were engaged in agriculture. Two of these were probably David and Barbara. The record also listed two male slaves. The slaves were listed as one male 26-45 yrs of age and one male under the age of 14. It is interesting to note that between 1815 and 1824 that the family residential township changed four times. It is unknown why this occurred. Madison and Bloomfield Townships are located next to each other. It is probable that one of the following reasons accounts for this: The boundaries continually shifted during this time. The family lived on the border line of the two counties and which one was recorded depended on the person recording the event. The family was constantly on the move. After William, the rest of the children of David and Barbara were born in Bloomfield County, Illinois [KP: typo for Ohio?]: Nancy Stoker- October 1824 (No information on what day) Sarah Stoker- on 20 June 1827 Catherine Stoker- on 24 July 1829 Michael Stoker- on September 1833 David and his family are not listed on the 1830 census records for Ohio or Indiana. (The family of John Stoker listed on the 1830 census in Ohio is that of David's brother, John W. Stoker.) A Change of Religion Between the years of 1830 to 1836 David and Barbara Stoker along with some of the extended family received missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of these missionaries were: Seymour Brunson, John A. Fisher, and Luke Johnson. All baptized members of the Stoker family into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Stoker (David's son) was baptized by Seymour Brunson and Luke Johnson in 1834. David's younger brother, Michael Jr., baptized Barbara in 1836. ('LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.' Andrew Johnson Vol 2 pg. 252. Luke Johnson, Autobiography in 'Millennial Star' 1864, Lewis p 92)... An article in the local paper records that there was strong religious persecution against members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Vega area. This fighting lead to some families leaving Vega. ('Jackson Herald,' Friday, February 27, 1959 and cited in Jim Stoker's Stoker history 1993) It was in the fall and winter of 1836 that David Stoker, his father, Michael, with their families and some of the Graybill families left the Ohio valley traveling west. On the 15 August 1838, David bought 52+ acres of land in Harrison County, Indiana. His brother, William, bought 120 acres in Madison County, Indiana. (Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States- General land Office, records of the Ohio River Valley Survey) Other members of the extended Stoker family were already living in Indiana. David's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, James Welker, were married in Henry County, Indiana in 1828, and it's possible that their first son was born there. Albert Koons, a relative of Catherine Eller (David's mother), lived in Henry County, Indiana along with other Eller families. (The Indiana connections need to be fully researched to understand the detail of the different families movements.)... David, Barbara, and their grown children with their families, moved in to Central Iowa settling at a temporary camp the church called Mount Pisgah. They stayed long enough to replenish their supplies and help others as they could. It is noted in John's record (David's son) that some family members were in Mount Pisgah for nearly two years... Mount Pisgah is located on top of a large knoll. Local residents state that early farmers had removed some of the headstones from the many small cemeteries that dotted the hill. When the railroad came through it built its grades on top of the wagon roads, but there still are many remaining signs of the large community buried in the soil. Dugout depressions can still be seen in the hillsides, while cabin outlines are scattered around the area. The Mormon settlers built many small cabins, fenced in the settlement around the north and east sides down to the Grand River. Gardens were planted, communications centers set up. Today local volunteers from the neighboring towns, in cooperation with the current land owners, are working to map, restore, and provide some tour trails through the area. One local volunteer told this author that some believe there are a lot more graves there than are known. One of the schools has, as part of a history project, a working to find and map out the old rock wall fence. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns some land on the hilltop and has reconstructed a cabin and take care of the small cemetery. This area provides a small visitors center. Most of the hill top area is currently private land and is used for grazing purposes only. The land owner is aware of the history of his land and stated he did not have the heart to plow the area under. It has been left for nature to take care of it... One bright note of this time span for David and Barbara was that two of their daughters were married at Mount Pisgah. Catherine to Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet in May of 1850 and Sarah to Edward Horace Davis also within the same year. Also some grandchildren had now made their appearance into the family... William's family, along with his youngest brother, Michael and his family, and John McDaniel came into the Utah valley with ox teams in the company under the lead of Isaac Stewart. In the History of William Stoker and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints historical records that Stewart's company consisted of 245 people with 53 wagons. The company arrived into Salt Lake City on the 28th of August, 1852. Some family descendants state that Barbara Graybill Stoker, Sarah Stoker and her husband, Edward Davis, were also in this wagon company. In the 'History of Catherine Stoker and Sylvanus Hulet' it states "Catherine's mother, her brothers: William, and Michael and her sisters: Christina, Sarah and her husband Edward Davis, were in the company of the Hulet's and all arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the latter part of August. It was early summer of 1850 that Pres. Brigham Young called the Hulet family to settle in the Hobble Creek area. This area would later be known as Springville, Utah. They arrived in the first week of October in 1850. While at Hobble Creek, Michael, married Polly Brittann Hughes on the 1 Dec. 1854. They had met each other on the trail west... All of David and Barbara's children settled south of the Salt Lake City valley except for: Nancy who died at age 16, and John who settled in Bountiful, Utah with his friend and leader Lorenzo Snow... Barbara Graybill Stoker finished her days living with her daughter, Catherine, in Summit City, Iron Co., Utah where she passed away on October 3, 1872. She is buried in the small cemetery in the town of Summit, Utah. Catherine and Sylvanus Hulet lived the remainder of their days along with Sarah and her husband Edward Davis, in Summit. The family descendants are still living in Summit, raising livestock and caring for their family cemetery..." 8. From an article entitled "The Family" from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. For the full transcriptional listing of the descendants of Michael Stoker and Catherine Stoker, see the notes of Michael Stoker - the following only pertains to this immediate family. Generation "1" is Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller: "The Michael Stoker Family as existed at the time of his death. Those names that are [bracketed] probably were involved in the Missouri experience... 2. [David Stoker], born 23 Mar 1795 in Ashe Co., NC. In 1814 married [Barbara Graybill], born 1 Apr 1792 in Ashe Co., NC, daughter of John Peter Graybill and Christina Wampler. They came with Stoker and Graybill relatives to Jackson Co., OH where David participated in the spring elections of 1816. They moved to Missouri in 1837 and to Illinois in 1839. On May 27, 1852, David died of Cholera contracted while working with his brothers on a ferry at the Missouri River. He was getting ready to bring his family to Utah. His wife, Barbara, came with others of his family three weeks later. She died on October 3, 1872 in Summit, Iron Co., Utah. 3. [Christine Stoker], born 24 Aug 1815 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH., married [John Riley McDaniel], son of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, on Feb 8, 1835 in Jackson Co., OH. Resided in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, and Utah. Christine died on May 10, 1854 in Alpine, Utah Co., Utah. 4. [Electa Jane McDaniel], born Nov. 3, 1835 in Jackson Co., OH, married James Eli Ashcraft in 1854. She died Jun 8, 1858. 4. [Tabitha McDaniel], born Jan 29, 1837 in Jackson Co., OH, married William David Norton on 30 Jan 1855 in Alpine, Utah Co., Utah. She died Dec 11, 1920 in Nephi, Juab, Utah. 3. [John Stoker], born Mar 8, 1817 at Madison, Jackson Co., OH, married [Jane McDaniel], daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley on Jan 21, 1836. John and Jane, the following year moved to Missouri. In 1839 they moved to Illinois; in 1846 to Mt. Pisgah, Iowa; in 1848 to Salt Lake City, Utah and in 1849 to Bountiful, Utah. In 1851, John was ordained bishop of the North Canyon Ward where he served for the next 23 years. In Nov 1869 to Mar 1870 John served a short time mission for the LDS church. He visited many of his relatives in the Midwest at that time. Four years after his release as bishop, John was set apart as a member of the Davis Stake high council. He also served as a patriarch which offices he held until his death caused by a stroke in the spring of 1881. John died Jun 11, 1881 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah. 4. [Alma Stoker], born Dec 7, 1835 in Lick Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio, married Catherine Tolman on Jan 23, 1879. He died Jun 5, 1897. 3. [William Stoker], born Mar 26, 1819 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., OH, married [Almira Winegar], daughter of Samuel Thomas Winegar and Rhoda Cummins, in Oct 1838 at Far West, Caldwell Co., MO. William moved to Illinois where in 1844 he was living six miles south of Nauvoo on the Carthage road. He moved to Mt Pisgah, Harrison Co., Iowa in the exodus from Nauvoo in 1846. He crossed the plains in 1852 and settled Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah. 3. [Nancy Stoker], born Oct 1824 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. Died about 1840 probably in Illinois. 3. [Catherine Stoker], born Jul 24, 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet on May 19, 1850 at Mt Pisgah, Harrison Co., IA. She had moved to Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa with her family. She and Sylvanus moved to Springville, then to Iron Co., where her family was close to her sister, Sarah, and her brother, Michael and their families. 3. [Sarah Stoker], born 26 Jun 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Edward Horace Davis about 1849. They moved to Iron Co., Utah. She died Mar 10, 1908 at Summit Creek, Iron Co., UT. 3. [Michael Stoker], born Sep 12, 1833 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., OH, married Polly Brittann Hughes on Dec 1, 1854." 9. FHL book 929.273 St67d "Descendants of William Stoker (1819-1892): with a View of his Ancestors," by Jay and Rachel Phillips Deeben, Feb. 2014, pp. 46-50; there are some variances in birth and death dates: "Catherine Stoker (1829-1882), by Ora H. Barlow and submitted by Mitzie Rogers. Edited and footnoted by Jay Deeben. Catherine Stoker, daughter of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill, was born 29 Jul 1829, in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio.[1] The Stokers were early converts to the Church. They suffered through the persecutions so common at that time. They were among the Saints who moved to Jackson County, Missouri, later to be driven out to other places in Missouri, and finally to Nauvoo, Illinois. David Stoker helped with the building of the Nauvoo temple and some of the homes in the city of Nauvoo. He and his family left Nauvoo with other Saints and crossed Iowa. It was at Mt. Pisgah[2] that Sylvanus Hulet, son of Charles Hulet and Margaret Ann Noah,[3] met and fell in love with Catherine Stoker. They were married 19 May 1850,[4] by a Reverend March. Sylvanus was born 14 Mar 1826, in Nelson, Portage, Ohio.[5] Evidently, the Hulet's and Stoker's had been in some of the groups who had stayed to protect some of the villages as they were not in the first companies to go to Utah. Sylvanus and Catherine started their journey westward from Kanesville, Iowa, presently Council Bluffs on 11 Jun 1850, with a company of Saints led by James Pace.[6] This company arrived in Salt Lake City sometime between 20-23 Sept 1850. Shortly after their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley President Young asked the Hulet's to go on with some other families to Hobble Creek (Springville, Utah) to help settle that area. Sylvanus and his father took up farming here as well as chair making as a means of providing for their families. The Indians here were unfriendly and could not be trusted. One day while Sylvanus was away from home, an Indian came and asked Catherine for bread and flour. At that time flour was very scarce among the Saints so she told him she had no bread. At that, he stepped over to the cradle, drew his bow and pointed the arrow at the baby. Fearing that he would harm the child, she gave the Indian the bread they so sorely needed for themselves. After securing the food, the Indian seemed satisfied and left. In 1861 Sylvanus and Catherine were called with others to help settle the Dixie Country. They accepted the call and left the home they had built in Springville to go south. Dixie was a desolate country. However, Catherine and Sylvanus were among the 300 families[7] who were called to settle that area. They worked diligently to build the area up by planting vineyards, orchards, and farms. They grew cotton for a time which was made into clothing. They trained their hands to do many things that only pioneers could accomplish. In time the Cotton Mission ceased to exist and families began looking elsewhere to live and work. Sylvanus had purchased some farming land at Summit, Iron County, about 60 miles north of St. George. The family moved there in 1872 to settle permanently. Sylvanus was ordained bishop of the Summit Ward in 1877, becoming the first bishop of that ward. "Catherine labored a great deal among the sick. Whenever there was sickness in the community she was called on to help care for them. When the first Relief Society was organized in Summit, March 10, 1878, she was chosen as president, which position she faithfully fulfilled until her death on November 8, 1882.''[8] Catherine and Sylvanus proved themselves to be true to the Church and obedient to authority when called upon to perform any duty. They built a good home in Springville, another home in St. George, and a third one in Summit. These homes are still standing and have been lived in continuously since they were built. Both Sylvanus and Catherine were systematic and orderly about their work. Everything was kept in order. They did not waste their means, or time. The home, farm buildings, farm machinery, the farm and farm crops and the animals were all well cared for, but nothing was wasted. Yet there was always something to share with others who were in need of assistance. Catherine was a wonderful wife and mother, as well as a willing helper to those in need of assistance in times of sickness or sorrow. She and Sylvanus had President Brigham Young in their home as a guest several times, also others of the Church authorities when they were traveling through that section of the state visiting the Saints. Catherine did not live long enough to enjoy much of the fruits of her labors. She had worked by the side of her husband through all their married life, but she passed away on 8 Nov 1882 in Summit, Iron, Utah about the time they were able to live more comfortably than in former years. Sylvanus Hulet lived nineteen more years after Catherine passes away. He died on 25 Oct 1901 in Summit, Iron, Utah. The integrity of these ancestors, their habits of thrift and industry, their patience and kindness toward others has made their lives exemplary to their descendants as well as to others, and worthy of our gratitude and pride for the heritage they have left us. Children of Sylvanus Hulet and Catherine Stoker Hulet[9] (Name, Birth date, Birth Place, Death date, Death place): John Riley Hulet[10], 27 Feb 1851, Springville, Utah, Utah, 11 Jan 1925, Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona. John married Mary Josephine Smith, daughter of Jesse Nathaniel Smith and Emma Seraphine West, born 23 Jan 1855 in Parowan, Iron, Utah. The couple was married on 12 Oct 1875 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Sarah Ann Hulet[11], 30 Sep 1852, Springville, Utah, Utah, 11 Mar 1944, Parowan, Iron, Utah. Sarah married Peter Wimmer, son of John Wimmer and Elizabeth Hendricks, born 23 Mar 1842, in Columbus, Adams, Illinois. The couple was married on 31 May 1875, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Barbara Adlinda Hulet[12] ,10 Nov 1854 Springville, Utah, Utah, 6 Jun 1930, Summit, Iron, Utah, Barbara married William Hoy Smith born 16 Mar 1854, Noridge, Norwich, Norfolk, England. They were married on 22 Oct 1879, in St. George, Washington, Utah. Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet, Jr.[13], 17 Apr 1857, Springville, Utah, Utah, (twin), 13 Dec 1942, Enterprise, Morgan, Utah. Sylvanus married Mary Ida Dalley, daughter of James Dalley and Petrine Nielsen Bertelsen, born 15 Nov 1864, in Summit, Iron, Utah. They were married 25 Apr 1883, in St. George, Washington, Utah. Sylvester Silas Hulet[14] 17 Apr 1857 Springville, Utah, Utah (twin) 6 Feb 1950 Wendell, Gooding, Idaho. Sylvester married Mary Elizabeth Dalley, daughter of James Dalley and Emma Wright, born 8 Sep 1856, in Fort Johnson, Iron, Utah. They were married 22 Oct 1879, in St. George, Washington, Utah. Catherine Melissa Hulet[15], 18 May 1860, Springville, Utah, Utah, 28 Nov 1956, Joseph, Sevier, Utah. Catherine married James Hillman Dalley, son of William Dalley and Mandana Hillman, born 11 Dec 1855, in Fort Johnson, Iron, Utah. They were married on 8 Nov 1877, in St. George, Washington, Utah. Emma Tryphena Hulet[16], 19 Jul 1862, St. George, Washington, Utah, 10 Oct 1864, St. George, Washington, Utah. Emma never married. Charles Franklin Hulet[17], 11 Nov 1864 St. George, Washington, Utah, 29 Nov 1915, Newcastle, Iron, Utah. Charles married Harriet Maria Dalley, daughter of James Dalley and Emma Wright, born 29 May 1865, in Summit, Iron, Utah. They were married on 14 Oct 1885, in St. George, Washington, Utah. Luella Hulet[18], 1 Jan 1867, St. George, Washington, Utah, 15 Jun 1961, Driggs, Teton, Idaho. Luella married Robert Bertelsen Dalley, son of James Dalley and Petrine Nielsen Bertelsen, born 24 Sep 1862, in Summit, Iron, Utah. They were married 21 Apr 1889, in St. George, Washington, Utah. Oscar Willard Hulet[19], 9 Mar 1870, St. George, Washington, Utah, 8 Oct 1940, Cedar City, Iron, Utah. Oscar married Susannah Melling Jones, daughter of Sylvester Frazer Jones and Susannah Melling, born 16 Apr 1879, in Enoch, Iron, Utah. They were married on 15 Jun 1898, in St. George, Washington, Utah. Chapter Notes for Catherine Stoker: 1. Thompson, Maurine W. F., GG Granddaugher of Catherine Stoker Hulet; "Pioneer History of Catherine Stoker Hulet," as found in "Women of Faith & Fortitude, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers," Salt Lake City, Utah; Section 1, p. 1. 2. In 1846 Mormons established a Waystation named Mt. Pisgah on the western side of Clarke County in an area that eventually became the eastern side of Union County. This was the temporary home of thousands of Mormons as they traveled west. The last Mormon left in 1852. Website: (http://iagenweb.org/union/history/history.html) 3. Charles Hulet and Margaret AI1nNoah Hulet are listed among the names arriving in Salt Lake City with Unidentified Companies of pioneers in1850. This list can be accessed at website: ( 4. Thompson, Maurine W. F., Section 1, p. 1. 5. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Familysearch.org, Family History Department, PIN: KWZV-PHX. 6. Church History Dept., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, James Pace Company (1850), website: 7. Sons of the Utah Pioneer - Cotton Mission Chapter, "Utah's Dixie Historical Sites," "Called to Dixie" Dixie Pioneers, p. 2, accessed 5 Mar 2013, 8. Thompson, Maurine W. F., Section 1, p. 2. 9. Information about the children of Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet and Catherine Stoker came from: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch," database, FamilySearch. ( 10. farnilysearch.org 11. familysearch.org 12. familysearch.org 13. familysearch.org 14. familysearch.org 15. familysearch.org 16. familysearch.org 17. familysearch.org 18. farnilysearch.org 19. familysearch.org BIRTH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. 2. Per DUP biography cited above. It has variant date of 29 Jul 1829 which is incorrect. 3. Per tombstone. 4. Online Ordinance Index information given by themselves: "#1 John Riley Hulet, b. 27 Feb 1851 at Springville, UT; #2 Sarah Anne Hulet Wimmer, b. 30 Sep 1852 at Springville, UT; #3 Barbara Adalinda Hulet, b. 18 Nov 1854 at Springville, UT. Sealed to parents Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet, b. 14 Mar 1826 at Portage Co., OH and Catherine Stoker Hulet, b. 24 Jul 1829 at Jackson, OH. M.F. Farnsworth, Recorder." (Per FHL film 170583, St. George Temple Adoption Records, book A, p. 71, 20 Feb 1878.) 5. Exact township per 1820 and 1830 censuses for Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio. MARRIAGE: 1. Per DUP biography cited above. Biography of husband cited in his notes also mentions a variant date of 19 Apr 1850. 2. Marriage info from Ordinance Index. DEATH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database online: Catherine Hulet, b. 24 Jul 1829, d. 8 Nov 1882, bur. Summit Cemetery, L-7 g. 2. Per DUP biography cited above. BURIAL: 1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Notes: L-7 g. 2. Place per DUP biography cited above. 3. Visited and viewed tombstone 25 Dec 2002. Photos on file. Cemetery is right next to Interstate 15. Bottom of tombstone was covered with frozen sod so I could only get the following partial transcription: "In Memory of Catharine, Beloved Wife of S.C. Hulet, Born July 24, 1829, Died Nov..." Photo on file. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories, "FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 92. 2. Mentioned in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, p. 86. 3. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, p. 101. 4. 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 and copy of Susan Easton Black's book on LDS Members. | Stoker, Catherine (I2527)
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| 2084 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 192, township had a little over 40 families; related families of Michael Stoker and Michael Graybill are in neighboring Bloomfield Township; columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: David Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,0//1,0,0,1,0. Peter Grabill: 1,0,0,1,0,1//0,0,2,0,1. Nancy Henson: 0,1,0,1,0,0//0,1,1,1,0. James McDaniel: 0,0,0,0,0,1//3,2,0,0,1. 1830 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, p. 93a: David Stoker: Males 10-15:2; 30-40:1; female 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1. [Appears to be David, his wife Barbara, and their children: Christina, John, William, Sarah, and Catherine; appears from children enumerated that Nancy may have been dead by 1830.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 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. Census return: Davis: Edward 27, Sarah 24, Michael 1. [Note that the following related families are in this census and very close neighbors: Simeon P. Graybill, Michael/Polly Graybill with Polly's mother Catherine Eller Stoker, Eller/Margaret Stoker, Jacob/Catherine Stoker, Philip/Catherine Gatrost, David/Barbara Stoker, Edward/Sarah Davis, and William/Almira Stoker. Other relatives in same county but separated by several pages of census include the following families: Thomas/Hannah Pilling whose daughter Hannah, later marries William Lenore Graybill, Levi/Patience Graybill, John W./Sarah Stoker, Hannah Ford whose son Martin later marries Zibiah M. Stoker, and John/Sarah Smith.] 1870 US: 7-Dist. Summit, Iron, Utah, p. 295b, entry 13 [neighbors to Michael and Polly Stoker; Barbara Stoker; Sylvester and Catherine Hulet]: Edward H. Davis, 46, farmer, real estate $300, personal property $200, Can. Sarah, 42, housework, OH. Alexander, 17, farm laborer, IA. Catharine, 12, UT. Elma S., 10, UT. Lydia A., 7, UT. Elizabeth, 5, UT. Horace, 1, UT. 1880 US: Summit Creek, Iron, Utah, FHL film 1255336, National Archives Film T9-1336, p. 366b; Note: Lived in same town at brother Michael Stoker and sister Catherine Hulet.: Sarah Davis, keeping house, 53, widow, OH, NC, NC. C. Elma Davis, dau., S, 19, UT, Can, OH. T. Elizabeth Davis, dau., S, 15, UT, Can, OH. 1900 US: Summit, Iron, Utah, p. 288, ED 99, 18 Jun 1900, entry 280: Sarah Davis, head, b. Jun 1827, 72, widow, 10 total children, 3 living, b. OH, parents b. NC, housewife, owns home [living next door to her daughter Sarah and son-in-law William Dalley]. 2. May have been in Daviess County, Missouri up to 1850. Several children born from 1850 onward per Ordinance Index. 3. Children per Ancestry.com database "Piute": Lydia Ann Davis, b. 1862; m. Johnson, d. 1886. Elizabeth Isola Davis, b. 30 Sep 1864 in Summit, Iron, Utah; m. Horace Morrill 28 Jan 1887 in St. George, Washington, UT, d. 29 Jul 1898 in Junction, Piute, UT and bur. Junction Hill Cemetery, Junction, Piute, UT. Sarah Catherine Davis, b. 15 Mar 1858 in Springville, Utah, UT. 4. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT [Note: spelling corrected by myself.]. From an article entitled "A Brief History of Sylvanus Cyrus & Catherine Stoker Hulet": "David Stoker, also, helped with the building of the Nauvoo Temple and some of the homes in the City of Nauvoo. The Hulets and the Stokers left Nauvoo with other Saints during the cold winter of 1846 and crossed Iowa. It was at Mt. Pisgah that Sylvanus met and fell in love with Catherine Stoker. They were married May 19, 1850, by a Reverend March. Evidently, the Hulets and the Stokers had been in some of the groups who had stayed to protect some of the villages as they were not in the first companies to go to Utah. However, it was soon after Sylvanus and Catherine were married that they started on their journey westward from Mt. Pisgah, with a company of Saints led by Aaron Johnson, who was appointed by President Young. At Winter Quarters Catherine's father, David Stoker, was laid to rest. Catherine's mother, her brothers John, William, and MIchael, and her sisters Christina and Sarah, and Sarah's husband, Edward David, were in the company of the Hulet's. It was the latter part of September when they arrived in Salt Lake City. They thought they had reached their journey's end, but President Young asked the Hulets to go on with some other families to Hobble Creek and help settle that area. It was the first week in October 1850 when they arrived at this place, later named Springville." BIOGRAPHY: 1. From the book "History of Iron County Mission - Parowan, Utah," compiled by Mrs. Luella Adams Dalton, pp. 194-95. In commenting on the early days of Summit, Utah, she mentions several early pioneers to the area such as Michael Stoker and his brother-in-laws Edward Davis and Sylvanus C. Hulet. Also mentioned is the Dalley family into which a Davis daughter marries and has a daughter in 1880, Sarah Mandana Dalley, who marries in 1902 William Heber Hales, a son of Charles and Jemima Adair Hales. Various citations: "In the spring of 1859 James Dalley, William Dalley and Labon Morrell moved their families from Johnson Fort to Summit and took up squatters claims. On the 15 April, 1859 a son, Joseph B. Dalley, was born to James and Lettie Wright Dalley in their dugout home, the first child born in Summit. Others came to join them, Edward Davis, John Allen, Thomas R. Smith, John White, William White, Mike Stoker, John Winn, Oliver Pierson and William O. Orton. (Source: Lillian D. White from the 'Life of James Dalley.')" "Sylvanus C. Hulet moved his family from St. George to Summit, where he had owned a farm and lot for a number of years. Sylvanus was chosen presiding Elder of Summit, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brother William Dalley. Summit Ward was organized 27 July 1877 with Sylvanus C. Hulet as Bishop. His wife Catherine Stoker Hulet helped a great deal with the sick and on the 10 March 1878 she was chosen as the first Relief Society president, a position she held until her death in 1882. 27 July 1877 Bishop Sylvanus C. Hulet, next in their order. Bishop Joseph B. Dalley, 1st C. William Smith, 2nd C. Sylvanus C. Hulet, Ward Clerk Barbara Tweedie... (Source: Ward Records - Lillian D. White)" "Summit Ward Relief Society was organized 10 March, 1879, President Catherine Stoker, 1st C. Lette B. Dalley, 2nd C. Mandana H. Dalley, Secretary Mary E. Hulet... (Source: Ordena Dalley)" 2. From a typescript of an unknown source but most likely of the archives of the daughters of the Utah Pioneers (copy in my files) with pages hand-numbered 49-51. Text [with typographical corrections by me]: "Life of Michael Stoker. Michael Stoker was born at Bloomfield Twp., Jackson County, Ohio, September 12, 1833. He was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. He was the youngest child in a family of seven children, four girls and three boys. There was a period of time we don't know much about the family or where they first heard and became interested in the 'Mormon' Church. According to records, Michael was baptized into the LDS Church in the year 1848. He would have been fifteen years old then. The Stoker family spent some time at Winter Quarters, Nebraska. They were advised to stay a while and get better prepared for the journey West, so they were among those who planted crops and harvested them so there would be food for the saints who came later on the long trek to the Rocky Mountains. In the spring of 1882 [1852], a few days before their company started West, Michael's father, David Stoker, died and was buried at Winter Quarters, Nebraska. I think it is now called Council Bluff, Nebraska. Michael and his mother and brother and sisters came on to Salt Lake Valley. Many lifelong friendships began on the journey across the plains. Brigham Young encouraged them to sing and dance and play music and tell stories around the campfire after the day's travel was done. In spite of their trials, they had some good times remembered for years after. And so it was that often when the wagons were parked in a circle for protection at night, after suppers were over; the men who could play would get out their fiddles and a dance on the ground would begin and the weary travelers would forget their wearniess for an hour or two... After arriving in Salt Lake Valley the Stoker family moved to Springville and were among the earliest settlers there... They lived in Springville about ten years... In 1860, two of Michael's sisters [Sarah and Catherine] and their husbands were called by Brigham Young to go down and help settle Iron County. Michael who was the youngest of his Mother's family liked to live near his sisters; so he took his wife, Polly, and their three sons and his mother, Barbara Graybill Stoker, who was getting quite old, and moved to Iron County. Settling first at Johnson's Fort, a new settlement north of what is now Cedar City. While living here their first daughter, Emma, was born. She had convulsions and died as a small baby and was buried at Johnson's Fort. They lived at Johnson's Fort about a year and then moved to a nearby settlement called Summit, between Parowan and Cedar City... About 1873, Michael moved his family to Monroe in Sevier County. The family enjoyed living in Monroe. After a few years they moved back to Summit to be near their friends and relatives..." (See Michael's notes for full quotation.) 3. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures is Sarah Stoker. 4. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on: P. 71: "Mrs W. H. Hales, 5725 (3725) Washington Avenue, she being a granddaughter of Sarah Davis and the daughter of Cather. Davis Dalley who lives at Delta, Utah." P. 103: David Stoker, born Mar. 23, 1795, died May 27, 1852. Barbara Graybill wife of David Stoker and daughter of Peter Graybill and Christenia Wampler, died Oct. 3, 1872, Summitt, Utah. Children: John Stoker, born 8 Mar 1817, died 11 June 1881 Bountiful, Utah. Sarah Stoker, born 26 Jun 1827, married Edward H. Davis. William Stoker. Michael Stoker. 5. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 173: Edward H. Davis, Sarah Stoker, children: Edward H. Davis, b. Feb. 17, 1852, bapt. May 1860. 189: Elexander H. Davis, son of Edward H. Davis and Sarah Stoker was born Feby 17th, 1852, Springvill(?), Potawatamie Co., Iowa. Baptised Springvill, Utah Co., Utah Territory, May 1860. 189: Barbara Stoker, daughter of Peter Graybill and Christenia Wampler and wife of David Stoker died October the 3d, 1872, at Summet Creek, Iron County, U.T., aged 81 years. Edward Davis, husband of Sarah Stoker, the daughter of Barbara Stoker, died Jany 9th, 1873 of Putrid Sore throat, Iron Co., U.T., Summet Creek 189: David Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller and father of John Stoker, died May 27th, 1852 at Trader's Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. The family emigrated to Utah the same Spring. 190: Sarah Davis, daughter of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill was born June 26th 1827, State of Ohio, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township. Baptised by Wm. Stoker Feby 1850. 6. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," which is quoted in its entirety in the notes of David Stoker: "By August of 1815 David and Barbara had settled into family life in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. It was on the 24 August 1815 that their first child was born: Christine Stoker. By the spring of 1816, David's parents had also joined them on the new frontier of the Ohio River Valley. David and his father, Michael, are listed on the Jackson County, Ohio, voting registry for an election that was held on 1 April 1816. Also, David's youngest brother, Eller, was born in Bloomfield, Ohio. John Stoker, second son of David and Barbara, was born north of Bloomfield. He was born on 8 March 1817, in Madison Township, Jackson County, Ohio. William, their next Child, was born 26 March 1819 in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio: [1820 Census:] David Stoker- Head of Family One female age 26-45, (Barbara Graybill age 28), One male age 16-26 (David age 25), One male 10-16 yrs (unknown), One female and two males under the age of 10 (Christena age 5, John age 3 and WIlliam age 1). The record also indicates that four people were engaged in agriculture. Two of these were probably David and Barbara. The record also listed two male slaves. The slaves were listed as one male 26-45 yrs of age and one male under the age of 14. It is interesting to note that between 1815 and 1824 that the family residential township changed four times. It is unknown why this occurred. Madison and Bloomfield Townships are located next to each other. It is probable that one of the following reasons accounts for this: The boundaries continually shifted during this time. The family lived on the border line of the two counties and which one was recorded depended on the person recording the event. The family was constantly on the move. After William, the rest of the children of David and Barbara were born in Bloomfield County, Illinois [KP: typo for Ohio?]: Nancy Stoker- October 1824 (No information on what day) Sarah Stoker- on 20 June 1827 Catherine Stoker- on 24 July 1829 Michael Stoker- on September 1833 David and his family are not listed on the 1830 census records for Ohio or Indiana. (The family of John Stoker listed on the 1830 census in Ohio is that of David's brother, John W. Stoker.) A Change of Religion Between the years of 1830 to 1836 David and Barbara Stoker along with some of the extended family received missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of these missionaries were: Seymour Brunson, John A. Fisher, and Luke Johnson. All baptized members of the Stoker family into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Stoker (David's son) was baptized by Seymour Brunson and Luke Johnson in 1834. David's younger brother, Michael Jr., baptized Barbara in 1836. ('LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.' Andrew Johnson Vol 2 pg. 252. Luke Johnson, Autobiography in 'Millennial Star' 1864, Lewis p 92)... An article in the local paper records that there was strong religious persecution against members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Vega area. This fighting lead to some families leaving Vega. ('Jackson Herald,' Friday, February 27, 1959 and cited in Jim Stoker's Stoker history 1993) It was in the fall and winter of 1836 that David Stoker, his father, Michael, with their families and some of the Graybill families left the Ohio valley traveling west. On the 15 August 1838, David bought 52+ acres of land in Harrison County, Indiana. His brother, William, bought 120 acres in Madison County, Indiana. (Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States- General land Office, records of the Ohio River Valley Survey) Other members of the extended Stoker family were already living in Indiana. David's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, James Welker, were married in Henry County, Indiana in 1828, and it's possible that their first son was born there. Albert Koons, a relative of Catherine Eller (David's mother), lived in Henry County, Indiana along with other Eller families. (The Indiana connections need to be fully researched to understand the detail of the different families movements.)... David, Barbara, and their grown children with their families, moved in to Central Iowa settling at a temporary camp the church called Mount Pisgah. They stayed long enough to replenish their supplies and help others as they could. It is noted in John's record (David's son) that some family members were in Mount Pisgah for nearly two years... Mount Pisgah is located on top of a large knoll. Local residents state that early farmers had removed some of the headstones from the many small cemeteries that dotted the hill. When the railroad came through it built its grades on top of the wagon roads, but there still are many remaining signs of the large community buried in the soil. Dugout depressions can still be seen in the hillsides, while cabin outlines are scattered around the area. The Mormon settlers built many small cabins, fenced in the settlement around the north and east sides down to the Grand River. Gardens were planted, communications centers set up. Today local volunteers from the neighboring towns, in cooperation with the current land owners, are working to map, restore, and provide some tour trails through the area. One local volunteer told this author that some believe there are a lot more graves there than are known. One of the schools has, as part of a history project, a working to find and map out the old rock wall fence. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns some land on the hilltop and has reconstructed a cabin and take care of the small cemetery. This area provides a small visitors center. Most of the hill top area is currently private land and is used for grazing purposes only. The land owner is aware of the history of his land and stated he did not have the heart to plow the area under. It has been left for nature to take care of it... One bright note of this time span for David and Barbara was that two of their daughters were married at Mount Pisgah. Catherine to Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet in May of 1850 and Sarah to Edward Horace Davis also within the same year. Also some grandchildren had now made their appearance into the family... William's family, along with his youngest brother, Michael and his family, and John McDaniel came into the Utah valley with ox teams in the company under the lead of Isaac Stewart. In the History of William Stoker and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints historical records that Stewart's company consisted of 245 people with 53 wagons. The company arrived into Salt Lake City on the 28th of August, 1852. Some family descendants state that Barbara Graybill Stoker, Sarah Stoker and her husband, Edward Davis, were also in this wagon company. In the 'History of Catherine Stoker and Sylvanus Hulet' it states "Catherine's mother, her brothers: William, and Michael and her sisters: Christina, Sarah and her husband Edward Davis, were in the company of the Hulet's and all arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the latter part of August. It was early summer of 1850 that Pres. Brigham Young called the Hulet family to settle in the Hobble Creek area. This area would later be known as Springville, Utah. They arrived in the first week of October in 1850. While at Hobble Creek, Michael, married Polly Brittann Hughes on the 1 Dec. 1854. They had met each other on the trail west... All of David and Barbara's children settled south of the Salt Lake City valley except for: Nancy who died at age 16, and John who settled in Bountiful, Utah with his friend and leader Lorenzo Snow... Barbara Graybill Stoker finished her days living with her daughter, Catherine, in Summit City, Iron Co., Utah where she passed away on October 3, 1872. She is buried in the small cemetery in the town of Summit, Utah. Catherine and Sylvanus Hulet lived the remainder of their days along with Sarah and her husband Edward Davis, in Summit. The family descendants are still living in Summit, raising livestock and caring for their family cemetery..." 7. From an article entitled "The Family" from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. For the full transcriptional listing of the descendants of Michael Stoker and Catherine Stoker, see the notes of Michael Stoker - the following only pertains to this immediate family. Generation "1" is Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller: "The Michael Stoker Family as existed at the time of his death. Those names that are [bracketed] probably were involved in the Missouri experience... 2. [David Stoker], born 23 Mar 1795 in Ashe Co., NC. In 1814 married [Barbara Graybill], born 1 Apr 1792 in Ashe Co., NC, daughter of John Peter Graybill and Christina Wampler. They came with Stoker and Graybill relatives to Jackson Co., OH where David participated in the spring elections of 1816. They moved to Missouri in 1837 and to Illinois in 1839. On May 27, 1852, David died of Cholera contracted while working with his brothers on a ferry at the Missouri River. He was getting ready to bring his family to Utah. His wife, Barbara, came with others of his family three weeks later. She died on October 3, 1872 in Summit, Iron Co., Utah. 3. [Christine Stoker], born 24 Aug 1815 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH., married [John Riley McDaniel], son of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, on Feb 8, 1835 in Jackson Co., OH. Resided in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, and Utah. Christine died on May 10, 1854 in Alpine, Utah Co., Utah. 4. [Electa Jane McDaniel], born Nov. 3, 1835 in Jackson Co., OH, married James Eli Ashcraft in 1854. She died Jun 8, 1858. 4. [Tabitha McDaniel], born Jan 29, 1837 in Jackson Co., OH, married William David Norton on 30 Jan 1855 in Alpine, Utah Co., Utah. She died Dec 11, 1920 in Nephi, Juab, Utah. 3. [John Stoker], born Mar 8, 1817 at Madison, Jackson Co., OH, married [Jane McDaniel], daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley on Jan 21, 1836. John and Jane, the following year moved to Missouri. In 1839 they moved to Illinois; in 1846 to Mt. Pisgah, Iowa; in 1848 to Salt Lake City, Utah and in 1849 to Bountiful, Utah. In 1851, John was ordained bishop of the North Canyon Ward where he served for the next 23 years. In Nov 1869 to Mar 1870 John served a short time mission for the LDS church. He visited many of his relatives in the Midwest at that time. Four years after his release as bishop, John was set apart as a member of the Davis Stake high council. He also served as a patriarch which offices he held until his death caused by a stroke in the spring of 1881. John died Jun 11, 1881 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah. 4. [Alma Stoker], born Dec 7, 1835 in Lick Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio, married Catherine Tolman on Jan 23, 1879. He died Jun 5, 1897. 3. [William Stoker], born Mar 26, 1819 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., OH, married [Almira Winegar], daughter of Samuel Thomas Winegar and Rhoda Cummins, in Oct 1838 at Far West, Caldwell Co., MO. William moved to Illinois where in 1844 he was living six miles south of Nauvoo on the Carthage road. He moved to Mt Pisgah, Harrison Co., Iowa in the exodus from Nauvoo in 1846. He crossed the plains in 1852 and settled Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah. 3. [Nancy Stoker], born Oct 1824 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. Died about 1840 probably in Illinois. 3. [Catherine Stoker], born Jul 24, 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet on May 19, 1850 at Mt Pisgah, Harrison Co., IA. She had moved to Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa with her family. She and Sylvanus moved to Springville, then to Iron Co., where her family was close to her sister, Sarah, and her brother, Michael and their families. 3. [Sarah Stoker], born 26 Jun 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Edward Horace Davis about 1849. They moved to Iron Co., Utah. She died Mar 10, 1908 at Summit Creek, Iron Co., UT. 3. [Michael Stoker], born Sep 12, 1833 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., OH, married Polly Brittann Hughes on Dec 1, 1854." 8. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 100-101: "David Stoker4, b. 23 March 1795 in Ashe County, N.C.;d., 27 May 1852 at Winterquarters, Iowa. He m., 1814, Barbara Graybill, b., April 1792 in Ashe County, N.C., d., 3 Oct. 1872 at Summit Creek, Iron Co., Utah. She was a dau. of Peter Graybill and his wife Christina Wampler. (Family Records) The children of David Stoker and his wife Barbara Graybill were: (1) Christina Stoker5, b., 24 Aug. 1815 in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 10 May 1854/56; m., John McDaniel. (2) John Stoker5, b., 8 March 1817, in Madison Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 11 June 1881. He believed in polygamy and had three wives first of whom was Jane McDaniel; b. 24 Feb 1810 in Racoon Twsp. of Gallia Co., Ohio; d., 20 Jan. 1890 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah where both she and her husband lie buried. She was a dau. of James McDaniel and his wife Zibiah McCarley. Children of John Stoker5 and his first wife Jane McDaniel were: (1) Hiram Stoker6, b., 9 Nov. 1840, at Columbus, Adams Co,, Ill.; d., 5 June 1885 (sic). He did not marry. (2) Franklin Stoker6, b., 12 Aug. 1842, Hancock Co., Ill.; d., 25 Sept. 1855. No further records. (3) David Stoker6, b., 28 Sept. 1844, in Hancock Co., Ill.; d. 1. Apr. 1911; m., 3 March 1866, Regena Hogan. (4) Zibiah Stoker6, b., 21 March 1847 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; d., 28 May 1933; m., 5 Apr 1869, Judson Tolman. (5) Sarah Ann Stoker6, b., 10 Oct. 1851 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah; d., 23 Jan. 1922; m., 2 March 1869, Harlan Simmons. (3) William Stoker5, b., 26 March 1819 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 19 March (May) 1892; m. Almira Winegar, b. 27 Feb. 1818 (1819); d., 6 Nov. 1884. She was a dau. of Samuel T. and Rhoda E. (Cummins) Winegar. (4) Nancy Stoker5, b., Oct. 1824, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio. (5) Sarah Stoker5, b. 26 June 1827, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d, 10 June 1900, Another record, probably an error, says she d., 10 March 1908. She married Edward H. Davis. (6) Catherine Stoker5, b., 25 July 1829, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d. 8 Nov. 1882; m., 19 May 1850, Sylvanus Hulet. (7) Michael Stoker5, b., 12 Sept. 1833, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio. He first married Martha C. Frederick. His second wife was Polly or Britan, or Britiania, or Britania Hughes." 9. FHL book 929.273 St67d "Descendants of William Stoker (1819-1892): with a View of his Ancestors," by Jay and Rachel Phillips Deeben, Feb. 2014, pp. 40-45: "Sarah Stoker (1827-1908), by Jay Deeben. Sarah Stoker, daughter of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill, was born on 20 Jun 1827 in Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio[1]. Sarah married Edward Horace Davis, son of Isaac Davis and Sarah Ann Saulsbury, about 1849, probably in Mt Pisgah, Iowa. Edward was born on 24 Nov 1825 in Holderrnan, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada,[2] died on 9 Jan 1873 in Summit Creek (Summit), Iron, Utah Territory. Sarah, Edward, and their children Michael, and Alexander traveled with the Isaac M. Stewart Company in 1852.[3] They left Kanesville, Iowa on 19 Jun 1852 and arrived in Salt Lake sometime between 28 Aug - 22 Sep 1852. Sarah and her family were in Springville, Utah at the time of the 1860 Federal Census taken on 7 Sep 1860.[4] They were listed as Edwd H. Davis, Sally Davis, Alexn Davis, and Sarah C. Davis. Sarah's (Sally) mother Barbara Stoker was living with them at the time of the 1860 census. Her name was listed as Barbia Stoker. In the 1861 October Sem1i-Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "... church leaders called 309 families to establish the Cotton Mission. After the outbreak of the Civil War that same year, LDS Church President Brigham Young felt it necessary to grow cotton, if possible. Many of these families assigned to settle the area hailed from the South and possessed the necessary skills to grow cotton and establish a community."[5] The community was named St. George, its nickname is Utah's Dixie. Edward and Sarah and their family answered the call and moved south. Edward Horace Davis' name appears on and is marked as being among the original 309 settlers called to move south to help settle Utah's Dixie.[6] By 1870 Edward and Sarah had moved their family to the community of Summit,[7] Utah, (also known as Summit Creek) which is just north of Cedar City, Utah. Edward died on 9 Jan 1873, in Summit Creek, Iron, Utah. Sarah died on 10 Mar 1908 in Summit Creek, Iron, Utah, at age 80. Children of Edward Horace Davis and Sarah Stoker Davis (Name, Birth date, Birth Place, Death date, Death place): Michael Davis[10], 18 Feb 1850, Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, 9 Mar 1855, Springville, Utah, Utah. Alexander H. Davis[11], 17 Feb 1852, Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, 27 Dec 1923, Circleville, Piute, Utah. Alexander married Charlotte Ann Day, daughter of Thomas Day and Charlotte Ann Clarke, on 3 Jul 1882, in Circleville, Piute, Utah. Charlotte was born on 16 Jan 1863, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah. John Stoker Davis[12], 5 Mar 1854, Springville, Utah, Utah, 9 May 1858, Springville, Utah, Utah. Barbara Davis, 1 Mar 1856, Springville, Utah, Utah, 25 May 1856, Springville, Utah, Utah. Sarah Catherine Davis[13], 15 Mar 1858, Springville, Utah, Utah, 10 Apr 1945, Delta, Millard, Utah. Sarah also went by the name of Catherine. According to a note on Sarah's death certificate she had lived in Delta for 26 years[14] prior to her death. Sarah married William Hillman Dalley[15], son of William H. Dalley and Mandana Hillman, on 17 Jan 1876 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. William was born on 16 Jun 1853 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah. Elma Samantha Davis, 26 Jun 1860 Springville, Utah, Utah, 24 Sep 1901, Junction, Piute, Utah. Elma married Thomas Winn, son of Thomas Green Winn and Phoebe Jane Orton, on 28 Aug 1882, in Summit, Iron, Utah. Thomas was born on 8 Dec 1854, in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah. Lydia Ann Davis[17], 17 Aug 1862, Fort Johnson, Iron, Utah, 20 Feb 1887, , , Utah. Lydia married Charles Dayton Johnson, son of Lorenzo Johnson and Ruth Sawyer Drury, on 7 Oct 1881, in St. George, Washington, Utah. Charles was born on 9 Feb 1860, in Springville, Utah, Utah. Elizabeth Isola Davis[18], 30 Sep 1864, Summit, Iron, Utah, 29 Jul 1897, Junction, Piute, Utah. Elizabeth married Horrace Morrill, son of Laban Morrill and Permelia Handmore Drury, on 28 Jan 1887 in St. George, Washington, Utah. Horrace was born on 18 Jul 1863, in Fort Johnson, Iron, Utah. Edward Davis[19], 19 Oct 1866, Summit, Iron, Utah, 12 Oct 1868 Summit, Iron, Utah. Horace Davis[20], 31 Jan 1869, Summit, Iron, Utah, 6 Mar 1871, Summit, Iron, Utah. Endnotes for Sarah Stoker: 1. Stoker, Elayne; Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881, Vol II (copy of book on CD); p. 60. Repository: Rachel Anne Phillips Deeben, 1349 So 300 West, Payson, Utah 84651. 2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, new.Familysearch.org 3. Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868, website; search for Catherine Davis 4. Springville, Utah, Utah, p. 299; Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. 5. "Utah's Dixie History," 6. Sons of the Utah Pioneer - Cotton Mission Chapter, "Utah's Dixie Historical Sites," "Called to Dixie" Dixie Pioneers, p. 2, accessed 2 Mar 2013, 7. "United States Census, 1870," index and images, Familysearch ( 8. Summit Creek, Iron, Utah is the same as Summit, Iron, Utah as it is known today. Because the town was established at the side of a creek that was named Summit Creek, people referred to the town as Summit Creek at times. 9. The following source was used for all of the children. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch," database, FamilySearch ( 10. PID: KWVP-9ZV 11. PID: KWCK-CDM 12. PID: KWVP-9ZB 13. PID: KWVP-9ZG and State of Utah Department of Health, Utah - Death Certificate ( 14. State of Utah Department of Health, Utah - Death Certificate, State File No. 42. 15. PID: KWC4-DJH 16. PID: KWJX-GFY 17. PID: KWVP-H45 18. PID: KWZ9-MNM, and Find a Grave Memorial ( 19. PID: KWVP-9ZT 20. PID: KWVP-98M [Image of Death Certificate: State of Utah; #120; Sarah Davis; died at Summit, Iron Co.; resident for over 45 years at place of death; d. 10 Mar 1908; born 20 Jun 1827; widowed, b. Jackson Co., Ohio; father David Stoker with unknown birthplace and mother Barbara Graybell with unknown birthplace; informant Mayhew H. Dalley of Cedar City, Utah; bur. Summit Cemetery Mar. 11; undertaker Herbert White of Summit, Utah; cause of death: Senility contributed by chronic Gastro-Esteritis.]" BIRTH: 1. Archival family group sheets on file with the Joseph Smith Memorial Library in Salt Lake City uses date of 20 Jun 1827. Lewis and Pitt books cited below does mention variant birth date of 26 Jun 1827, as does John Stoker's Journal quoted herein. Death certificate uses 20 Jun 1827. 2. Exact township per 1820 and 1830 censuses for Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio. MARRIAGE: 1. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT: "One bright note of this time span for David and Barbara was that two of their daughters were married at Mount Pisgah. Catherine to Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet in May of 1850 and Sarah to Edward Horace Davis also within the same year. Also some grandchildren had now made their appearance into the family." DEATH: 1. Family Search's "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956": Sarah Davis, b. 20 Jun 1827 in Jackson, Ohio, widowed, d. 10 Mar 1908 at Summit, Iron, Utah, 80 years 8 months 20 days, parents David Stoker and Barbara Graybill, lived in Summit over 45 years, bur Summit Cemtery Mar 11, died from senility and chronic gastro-enteritis. FHL film 2229317. 2. The following quote from FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, p. 101, has a erroneous death date: "Sarah Stoker, b. 26 Jun 1827 in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d. 10 Jun 1900. Another record, probably in error, says she d. 10 Mar 1908." 3. Can't find on Utah State Historical Society Burials Database as of 20 Apr 2002. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories, "FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 92. 2. Mentioned in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, p. 86. | Stoker, Sarah (I2526)
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| 2085 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 192, township had a little over 40 families; related families of Michael Stoker and Michael Graybill are in neighboring Bloomfield Township; columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: David Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,0//1,0,0,1,0. Peter Grabill: 1,0,0,1,0,1//0,0,2,0,1. Nancy Henson: 0,1,0,1,0,0//0,1,1,1,0. James McDaniel: 0,0,0,0,0,1//3,2,0,0,1. 1830 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, p. 93a: David Stoker: Males 10-15:2; 30-40:1; female 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1. [Appears to be David, his wife Barbara, and their children: Christina, John, William, Sarah, and Catherine; appears from children enumerated that Nancy may have been dead by 1830.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 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. Census return: Stoker: William 32, Almira 33, Samuel D. 11, Wm. A. 9, Susan A. 6, Michael 4. [Note that the following related families are in this census and very close neighbors: Simeon P. Graybill, Michael/Polly Graybill with Polly's mother Catherine Eller Stoker, Eller/Margaret Stoker, Jacob/Catherine Stoker, Philip/Catherine Gatrost, David/Barbara Stoker, Edward/Sarah Davis, and William/Almira Stoker. Other relatives in same county but separated by several pages of census include the following families: Thomas/Hannah Pilling whose daughter Hannah, later marries William Lenore Graybill, Levi/Patience Graybill, John W./Sarah Stoker, Hannah Ford whose son Martin later marries Zibiah M. Stoker, and John/Sarah Smith.] 1852 Iowa: the census has William Stoker in Kanesville, Pottawattamie, IA, p. 22. This census is statistical and only lists heads of household with numbers of males, females, and voters. It is not very helpful for families or positively identifying a given individual. The following Stokers are shown as being in the same area: David, Eller, Jacob, John, and William as well as Michael Graybill, Martin Ford, Philip Gatrost, John Smith, George Graybill, and Levi Graybill. 1880 US: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, FHL film 1255338, NA film T9-1338, p. 189C: William Stoker, farmer, M, 61, OH, NC, NC. Almira, keeping house, wife, M, 62, NY, NY, NY. John S., labourer, son, S, 22, UT, OH, NY. Matilda, dau., 6, UT, OH, Den. Barbara, dau., 4, UT, OH, Den. Joseph P., son, 2, UT, OH, Den. Alvin W., son, 3M, UT, OH, Den. Emily Stoker, dressmaker, wife, M, 25, Den, Den, Den. 2. Per records provided by the Nauvoo Visitor's Association: a. Seventies' records, Index, 70s Bk B Sel, pg. 259; Quorum Q35. b. Other sources: i. Susan Black, Early LDS Members Rec 41:925. v. Index, Nauvoo Land and Record Files 570. 3. Obituary of son Michael Stoker: "At Spanish Fork City, April 8th, of diabetes, Michael, son of William and Almira Stoker. Deceased was born Sep. 6th, 1847, at Pisgah, Iowa; emigrated with his parents to Utah in 1852. He has left a wife and one child also his aged parents, with brothers, sisters, friends, and relatives. He died a true Latter-day Saint. - Com." Deseret News Weekly, 21 Apr 1875, vol. 24, p. 191. 4. Biography of wife of William and Almira's son William Alfred Stoker from "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," DUP, p. 2966, no photo: "Martha (Maren) Larsen Stoker, born 11 Oct 1857 at Hurup, Aalborg, Denmark to Niels Larson and Engar Marie Anderson; died 28 Jun 1936 at Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah; pioneer of 23 Sep 1862 in the Christian Madsen Wagon Train; married William Stoker 1 Feb 1875 in Salt Lake City (he died 9 Apr 1906 in Spanish Fork); Children: William Alfred, 11 Nov 1875 (died at 3 months) Almira, 26 May 1877 (twin - died at 2 years) Alma, 26 May 1877 (twin - died at 7 months) Niels Michael, 21 Feb 1879 Marie Elizabeth (Houghton), 22 Feb 1881 Stephen Wilford, 6 Oct 1882 Albert Marinus, 4 Dec 1884 David Elmer, 25 Feb 1887 Martha Eleanor (Cutler), 9 Oct 1889 Willard Earl, 31 Dec 1892 Lester Floyd, 28 Nov 1895 Martha (Maren) Larsen was born in Denmark in 1857. She was only five years old when she came to Utah with her parents in the Christan A. Madsen Wagon Company in 1862. She walked most of the way because the wagons were too loaded to carry people. Once in a while her mother would carry her. In 1875, Martha married William Stoker in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. They were the parents of eleven children, all born in Spanish Fork, some of them dying quite young. She was an immaculate housekeeper, and always took an active part in Church work, particularly in the Relief Society. Martha passed away in Spanish Fork, Utah County, in 1936; her hsuband passed away in 1906, also in Spanish Fork, Utah." 5. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT [Note: spelling corrected by myself.]. From an article entitled "A Brief History of Sylvanus Cyrus & Catherine Stoker Hulet": "David Stoker, also, helped with the building of the Nauvoo Temple and some of the homes in the City of Nauvoo. The Hulets and the Stokers left Nauvoo with other Saints during the cold winter of 1846 and crossed Iowa. It was at Mt. Pisgah that Sylvanus met and fell in love with Catherine Stoker. They were married May 19, 1850, by a Reverend March. Evidently, the Hulets and the Stokers had been in some of the groups who had stayed to protect some of the villages as they were not in the first companies to go to Utah. However, it was soon after Sylvanus and Catherine were married that they started on their journey westward from Mt. Pisgah, with a company of Saints led by Aaron Johnson, who was appointed by President Young. At Winter Quarters Catherine's father, David Stoker, was laid to rest. Catherine's mother, her brothers John, William, and MIchael, and her sisters Christina and Sarah, and Sarah's husband, Edward David, were in the company of the Hulet's. It was the latter part of September when they arrived in Salt Lake City. They thought they had reached their journey's end, but President Young asked the Hulets to go on with some other families to Hobble Creek and help settle that area. It was the first week in October 1850 when they arrived at this place, later named Springville." BIOGRAPHY: 1. Farmer and Seventies president for 20 years of 50th Quorum. 2. Journal History, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20 Jan 1848, p. 25: "Following is the petition for a post office on the Pottawattamie lands, referred to, with the signatures attached. To the Honorable Postmaster Gerneral of the United States. Sir: There are many thousand inhabitants in the vicinity of the Log Tabernacle, which is situated on the Government purchase of the Pottawatamies and in the State of Iowa, whose interest is materially injured, and whose journey, business and improvements are retarded or destroyed by non intercourse; there being no Post Office within forty or fifty miles of said Tabernacle, and the public good requires a convenient office: Therefore, We your Petitioners, Citizens of the United States and residents of said vicinage, pray your Honor to cause, such an office to be located at or near said Tabernacle without delay, to be called the Tabernacle Post Office... [Approximately 2,000 plus all male signatures including] Wm. G. Perkins, Jude Allen, Daniel Tyler, Wm. Stoker, Israel Barlow, William Thompson [and William Thompson, Jr.], Joseph Mangum, William Richey, John B. Richey, William B. Richey, John R. Holden [Wiley Holden and Joshua Holden are immediately adjacent - relations?], Andrew Allen [with Ira Allen, Franklin Allen, Joseph Allen immediately adjacent - relations?], John Coon [with Samuel Coon, Eli Coon, Jacob Coon, and Joseph Coon immediately adjacent - relations?]. 3. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of William and Almira Stoker and their two sons Samuel D. and William. 4. Reference to William in daughter Susan Ann Stoker Riley's biography per the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 2592, photo accompanies article: "Susan Ann Stoker Riley, b. 16 Nov 1844 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL; died 21 Mar 1920 at Burlington, Big Horn, Wyoming; parents are William Stoker and Almira Winegar; pioneer of 20 Sep 1852; spouse was Thomas Katen Riley who died Oct 1923; married 6 Apr 1863; Children: Mary Almira (Martell), 29 Dec 1864 William Alfred, 24 May 1867 (died as a child) Thomas Katen, Jr., 25 Apr 1870 Rhoda Jane, 17 Jul 1872 Susan Ann, 10 Jul 1875 Sarah Alnora, 23 Jan 1878 Margaret Ellen, 1 Mar 1880 Christine Archibald, 26 Oct 1882 Effie Pearl, 28 Apr 1885 Michael Clarence, 9 Feb 1888 Susan Ann was born in Nauvoo, Illinois in November 1844, the third child and first daughter. The Stokers, along with other Saints, were forced to leave their homes and flee to Iowa where they lived at Mt. Pisgah for some time. Her family joined the Isaac Stewart Company in june, 1852 for their trek West. A baby sister had been born and died at Mt. Pisgah, and one brother was four and Emily Jane, her sister was just three weeks old. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on September 20, 1852. They visited relatives in Bountiful, and then moved to Spanish Fork (called Palmyra at that time). There they settled on twenty acres of land. In 1856, her father built a two-room adobe home with a mud roof for his family. It was in Spanish Fork that Susan Ann met Thomas Katen Riley, a member of the Martin Handcart Company. They were married on April 6, 1863 when both were just nineteen years of age. They had ten children born to them, one died as a child. In 1876, they were called to settle the Big Muddy. They sold their farm, bought two wagons and two teams of mules. Mary Almira, just twelve years old, drove one wagon with their supplies, and the rest of the family rode in the other one. They returned for a time to Spanish Fork, then were called to go to southern Utah and Arizona where Thomas was in charge of the railroad and Susan and the girls cooked for the workers. Thomas took a second wife, and they had one little girl who died at age four. Susan's oldest daughter was married in 1885, and after the wedding celebration, Thomas and Susan, along with their other children, left the next morning for Ashley, Uintah Basin, Utah. They lived there for about five years where they had a very nice home and a large, productive fruit orchard. Thomas worked at many trades and enjoyed the challenges, and was happy to move on. On a beautiful spring morning in 1893, with tears dimming their eyes, the family once again left their home. With their children who were still at home, they moved to the Big Horn Territory, Wyoming. The journey took more than a month, and was very difficult. It was never ending prairie, badlands and hills. Several other families had joined them by the time they arrived. At first they lived in a tent for the summer. Thomas built a cabin without floors, windows and a door made from a wooden frame with a deer hide stretched across it. In the spring, a city was laid out. Farms were homesteaded and a canal was buillt, a Sunday School was begun with Thomas Riley as Superintendant, and in 1894 a ward was orgainzed. Susan was active in church and in community affairs. It was in Burlington, Big Horn, Wyoming, that Thomas and Susan finally settled down and found contentment. Susan passed away on March 21, 1920, and Thomas passed away on Oct. 5, 1923, they both were in their seventies. They were faithful and had much courage to go where they were asked to go and to make the most of every situation. They are honored for their great pioneering, spirit, and their faith in following their Church leaders." 5. The book "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah," has a photo of "William Stoker, born March 26, 1819, Jackson County, Ohio. Came to Utah 1852, Isaac Stewart Company. Pres. 50th Quorum Seventies." Photo in database. Page 1191 has this: "William Stoker (son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill of Ohio). Born March 26, 1819, in Jackson Co., Ohio. Came to Utah in 1852, Isaac Stewart company. Married Almira Winegar 1838, in Missouri (daughter of Samuel Winegar and Rhoda Cummins of Palmyra and Spanish Fork, Utah, pioneers 1852, Isaac Stewart compnay). She was born Feb. 27, 1818. Their children: Samuel D., m. Elizabeth Jones; William A., m. Martha Larsen; Susan A., m. Thomas Riley; Michael, m. Almira J. Wilson; Sarah, d. infant; Emily J., m. Robert M. Boyack; Almira, m. Warren E. Davis; John S., m. Mary E. West. Family home Spanish Fork, Utah. President 50th quorum seventies 20 years. City councilman two terms. Farmer. Died May 19, 1892." 6. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages details his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows: P. 55: "William Stoker, b. Mar. 26, 1819, Jackson Co., Ohio, leave to Utah 1852." P. 103: David Stoker, born Mar. 23, 1795, died May 27, 1852. Barbara Graybill wife of David Stoker and daughter of Peter Graybill and Christenia Wampler, died Oct. 3, 1872, Summitt, Utah. Children: John Stoker, born 8 Mar 1817, died 11 June 1881 Bountiful, Utah. Sarah Stoker, born 26 Jun 1827, married Edward H. Davis. William Stoker. Michael Stoker. 7. 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 and listing in Susan Black's LDS Members Book. Also included: A. Land Record: T4 R7 (Bear Creek Township) of Hancock Co., Ill. Area is south of Carthage. B. 70s Record: Qrm 35 per Bk B Sel, LDS Arc, pg. 259. Notes baptism 26 Mar 1835 and 1836 by Michael Stoker, but I don't know that this baptismal information is part of the original documents. 8. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," which is quoted in its entirety in the notes of David Stoker: "By August of 1815 David and Barbara had settled into family life in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. It was on the 24 August 1815 that their first child was born: Christine Stoker. By the spring of 1816, David's parents had also joined them on the new frontier of the Ohio River Valley. David and his father, Michael, are listed on the Jackson County, Ohio, voting registry for an election that was held on 1 April 1816. Also, David's youngest brother, Eller, was born in Bloomfield, Ohio. John Stoker, second son of David and Barbara, was born north of Bloomfield. He was born on 8 March 1817, in Madison Township, Jackson County, Ohio. William, their next Child, was born 26 March 1819 in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio: [1820 Census:] David Stoker- Head of Family One female age 26-45, (Barbara Graybill age 28), One male age 16-26 (David age 25), One male 10-16 yrs (unknown), One female and two males under the age of 10 (Christena age 5, John age 3 and WIlliam age 1). The record also indicates that four people were engaged in agriculture. Two of these were probably David and Barbara. The record also listed two male slaves. The slaves were listed as one male 26-45 yrs of age and one male under the age of 14. It is interesting to note that between 1815 and 1824 that the family residential township changed four times. It is unknown why this occurred. Madison and Bloomfield Townships are located next to each other. It is probable that one of the following reasons accounts for this: The boundaries continually shifted during this time. The family lived on the border line of the two counties and which one was recorded depended on the person recording the event. The family was constantly on the move. After William, the rest of the children of David and Barbara were born in Bloomfield County, Illinois [KP: typo for Ohio?]: Nancy Stoker- October 1824 (No information on what day) Sarah Stoker- on 20 June 1827 Catherine Stoker- on 24 July 1829 Michael Stoker- on September 1833 David and his family are not listed on the 1830 census records for Ohio or Indiana. (The family of John Stoker listed on the 1830 census in Ohio is that of David's brother, John W. Stoker.) A Change of Religion Between the years of 1830 to 1836 David and Barbara Stoker along with some of the extended family received missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of these missionaries were: Seymour Brunson, John A. Fisher, and Luke Johnson. All baptized members of the Stoker family into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Stoker (David's son) was baptized by Seymour Brunson and Luke Johnson in 1834. David's younger brother, Michael Jr., baptized Barbara in 1836. ('LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.' Andrew Johnson Vol 2 pg. 252. Luke Johnson, Autobiography in 'Millennial Star' 1864, Lewis p 92)... An article in the local paper records that there was strong religious persecution against members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Vega area. This fighting lead to some families leaving Vega. ('Jackson Herald,' Friday, February 27, 1959 and cited in Jim Stoker's Stoker history 1993) It was in the fall and winter of 1836 that David Stoker, his father, Michael, with their families and some of the Graybill families left the Ohio valley traveling west. On the 15 August 1838, David bought 52+ acres of land in Harrison County, Indiana. His brother, William, bought 120 acres in Madison County, Indiana. (Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States- General land Office, records of the Ohio River Valley Survey) Other members of the extended Stoker family were already living in Indiana. David's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, James Welker, were married in Henry County, Indiana in 1828, and it's possible that their first son was born there. Albert Koons, a relative of Catherine Eller (David's mother), lived in Henry County, Indiana along with other Eller families. (The Indiana connections need to be fully researched to understand the detail of the different families movements.)... In October of 1838 David's second son, William, married Almira Wingar in Farr West, Missouri. David, Barbara, and their grown children with their families, moved in to Central Iowa settling at a temporary camp the church called Mount Pisgah. They stayed long enough to replenish their supplies and help others as they could. It is noted in John's record (David's son) that some family members were in Mount Pisgah for nearly two years... Mount Pisgah is located on top of a large knoll. Local residents state that early farmers had removed some of the headstones from the many small cemeteries that dotted the hill. When the railroad came through it built its grades on top of the wagon roads, but there still are many remaining signs of the large community buried in the soil. Dugout depressions can still be seen in the hillsides, while cabin outlines are scattered around the area. The Mormon settlers built many small cabins, fenced in the settlement around the north and east sides down to the Grand River. Gardens were planted, communications centers set up. Today local volunteers from the neighboring towns, in cooperation with the current land owners, are working to map, restore, and provide some tour trails through the area. One local volunteer told this author that some believe there are a lot more graves there than are known. One of the schools has, as part of a history project, a working to find and map out the old rock wall fence. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns some land on the hilltop and has reconstructed a cabin and take care of the small cemetery. This area provides a small visitors center. Most of the hill top area is currently private land and is used for grazing purposes only. The land owner is aware of the history of his land and stated he did not have the heart to plow the area under. It has been left for nature to take care of it... William's family, along with his youngest brother, Michael and his family, and John McDaniel came into the Utah valley with ox teams in the company under the lead of Isaac Stewart. In the History of William Stoker and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints historical records that Stewart's company consisted of 245 people with 53 wagons. The company arrived into Salt Lake City on the 28th of August, 1852. Some family descendants state that Barbara Graybill Stoker, Sarah Stoker and her husband, Edward Davis, were also in this wagon company. In the 'History of Catherine Stoker and Sylvanus Hulet' it states "Catherine's mother, her brothers: William, and Michael and her sisters: Christina, Sarah and her husband Edward Davis, were in the company of the Hulet's and all arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the latter part of August. It was early summer of 1850 that Pres. Brigham Young called the Hulet family to settle in the Hobble Creek area. This area would later be known as Springville, Utah. They arrived in the first week of October in 1850. While at Hobble Creek, Michael, married Polly Brittann Hughes on the 1 Dec. 1854. They had met each other on the trail west... All of David and Barbara's children settled south of the Salt Lake City valley except for: Nancy who died at age 16, and John who settled in Bountiful, Utah with his friend and leader Lorenzo Snow..." 9. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The following members of Michael Stoker's family attached their names to a petition in 1843 that they had lived in Missouri and had been driven from their state:(21) David Stoker [Michael's son David (1795-1852)], John Stoker [possibly David's son, John (1817-1881) or Michael's son, John W. (1803-1857)], John McDaniels (1812-1884) [David's son-in-law, husband of his oldest daughter, Christine (1815-1854)], Elles Stoker (1816-1855) [Eller, Michael's youngest son], Mary Stoker (1822-1890) [probably Margaret Judd, Eller's wife]. Catharine Stoker (1773-after 1850) [Michael's wife, Catharine Eller], Jacob Stoker (1812-1893) [Michael's son], Catharine Stoker [Catharine Burcham, Jacob's wife], John Stoker (1803-1857) [Michael's son, John W. Stoker], Sarah Stoker (1806-1857) [John W. Stoker's wife, Electa Sarah McDaniel]. Geo. Graybill (1821-?) [Michael's grandson, George Washington Graybill, son of Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864)], Michael Stoker (1805-1858) [Michael's son], Martha Stoker (1808-1873) [Martha Carr McDaniel, wife of Michael's son, Michael], Gabrael Stoker (1832-1852) [Michael's grandson, son of Michael (1805-1858)], William Stoker (1819-1892) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Almira Stoker (1818-1884) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, grandson, William's wife, Almira Winegar], Samuel D. Stoker (1840-1908) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira], William Stoker (1842-1906) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira]. Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864) or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?)], William Graybill (1825-1880) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Adam Graybill [still looking for this relationship to Michael], Sidney R Graybill (1836-?) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Levi Graybill (1818-1912) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Patience Graybill (1825-1895) [Patience Smith, Michael's granddaughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Levi Graybill (1818-1912)], Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864), or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?), Polly's daughter]. John Stoker (1817-1881) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Jane Stoker (1810-1890) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, Jane McDaniel, wife of John (1817-1881)], Hannah Graybill [Michael's great granddaughter, daughter of Joseph Levi Graybill], Hyrum Stoker (1840-1887) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881) and Jane McDaniel], Alma Stoker (1835-1897) [Michael's adopted great grandson, son of Jane McDaniel], and Franklin Stoker (1842-1855) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881)]. Lucinda Stoker is also listed on the petition but cannot establish a relationship to Michael Stoker (1762-1838).(22) Refuge found in Illinois. The people of Quincy reached out to help the Mormons fleeing from Missouri. Elizabeth Haven Barlow writes, "The people of Quincy had contributed between four and five hundred dollars for the poor Mormons. God had opened their hearts to receive us. May heaven's blessings rest upon them. We are hungry and they feed us, naked and clothed us. The citizens have assisted beyond all calculations."(23) Footnotes 21. Also included are some of their children who were born after 1838 in Illinois. 22. "Mormon Redress Petitions," pp. 574, 598, 599-601. 23. Elizabeth Haven Barlow in letter to Elizabeth Howel Bullard, 24 February 1839, published in Ora H. Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores." Salt Lake City: Ora H. Barlow, 1968." 10. From an article entitled "The Family" from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. For the full transcriptional listing of the descendants of Michael Stoker and Catherine Stoker, see the notes of Michael Stoker - the following only pertains to this immediate family. Generation "1" is Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller: "The Michael Stoker Family as existed at the time of his death. Those names that are [bracketed] probably were involved in the Missouri experience... 2. [David Stoker], born 23 Mar 1795 in Ashe Co., NC. In 1814 married [Barbara Graybill], born 1 Apr 1792 in Ashe Co., NC, daughter of John Peter Graybill and Christina Wampler. They came with Stoker and Graybill relatives to Jackson Co., OH where David participated in the spring elections of 1816. They moved to Missouri in 1837 and to Illinois in 1839. On May 27, 1852, David died of Cholera contracted while working with his brothers on a ferry at the Missouri River. He was getting ready to bring his family to Utah. His wife, Barbara, came with others of his family three weeks later. She died on October 3, 1872 in Summit, Iron Co., Utah. 3. [Christine Stoker], born 24 Aug 1815 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH., married [John Riley McDaniel], son of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, on Feb 8, 1835 in Jackson Co., OH. Resided in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, and Utah. Christine died on May 10, 1854 in Alpine, Utah Co., Utah. 4. [Electa Jane McDaniel], born Nov. 3, 1835 in Jackson Co., OH, married James Eli Ashcraft in 1854. She died Jun 8, 1858. 4. [Tabitha McDaniel], born Jan 29, 1837 in Jackson Co., OH, married William David Norton on 30 Jan 1855 in Alpine, Utah Co., Utah. She died Dec 11, 1920 in Nephi, Juab, Utah. 3. [John Stoker], born Mar 8, 1817 at Madison, Jackson Co., OH, married [Jane McDaniel], daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley on Jan 21, 1836. John and Jane, the following year moved to Missouri. In 1839 they moved to Illinois; in 1846 to Mt. Pisgah, Iowa; in 1848 to Salt Lake City, Utah and in 1849 to Bountiful, Utah. In 1851, John was ordained bishop of the North Canyon Ward where he served for the next 23 years. In Nov 1869 to Mar 1870 John served a short time mission for the LDS church. He visited many of his relatives in the Midwest at that time. Four years after his release as bishop, John was set apart as a member of the Davis Stake high council. He also served as a patriarch which offices he held until his death caused by a stroke in the spring of 1881. John died Jun 11, 1881 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah. 4. [Alma Stoker], born Dec 7, 1835 in Lick Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio, married Catherine Tolman on Jan 23, 1879. He died Jun 5, 1897. 3. [William Stoker], born Mar 26, 1819 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., OH, married [Almira Winegar], daughter of Samuel Thomas Winegar and Rhoda Cummins, in Oct 1838 at Far West, Caldwell Co., MO. William moved to Illinois where in 1844 he was living six miles south of Nauvoo on the Carthage road. He moved to Mt Pisgah, Harrison Co., Iowa in the exodus from Nauvoo in 1846. He crossed the plains in 1852 and settled Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah. 3. [Nancy Stoker], born Oct 1824 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. Died about 1840 probably in Illinois. 3. [Catherine Stoker], born Jul 24, 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet on May 19, 1850 at Mt Pisgah, Harrison Co., IA. She had moved to Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa with her family. She and Sylvanus moved to Springville, then to Iron Co., where her family was close to her sister, Sarah, and her brother, Michael and their families. 3. [Sarah Stoker], born 26 Jun 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Edward Horace Davis about 1849. They moved to Iron Co., Utah. She died Mar 10, 1908 at Summit Creek, Iron Co., UT. 3. [Michael Stoker], born Sep 12, 1833 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., OH, married Polly Brittann Hughes on Dec 1, 1854." 11. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article: "During the Adams County time period some of the Stoker men found work with a farmer named Coleman Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes lived approximately two miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio. He had first offered work and a home to Elizabeth's husband, James Welker, and soon after David, John W., Michael, and Jacob also obtained work with him. Here they labored diligently trying to earn enough to rebuild their supplies and stock which they had lost during the Missouri struggles. Moving to Bear Creek, Hancock Co., Illinois On July 1, 1839 the Mormon church's prophet and leader, Joseph Smith, called for all church members to settle in and around the Commerce, Illinois area. The town of Commerce was renamed by the church members to Nauvoo. In 1842 the Stoker family had complied. Packing up their belongings they moved north settling their families around the Carthage/Bear Creek area. James Welker's son, John, recorded: "...he found that there was land that could be entered in Hancock County, about 15 miles south of Nauvoo. He moved there and filed on a homestead. Part of it was prairie land and part was timber. He built a large hewed two roomed log house. Then the next thing was to fence and make a farm to make a living off of" (Ibid). The 1842 personal property tax assessment book of Hancock County has records for Stoker, Welker, and Graybill families living within the county. These records indicate the possibility that they lived outside of the cities." Building the Nauvoo Temple The Stoker families were on hand for the building of the temple for their church. It is recorded in the church history that Eller Stoker, Jacob Stoker, and John McDaniel (husband to Christine Stoker) worked on the temple for a period of time. All families were expected to donate time and supplies to the temple project... Life was beginning to flourish again for the families, and happy times were with them. On May 23, 1844 Joseph Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker were initiated and passed into the Nauvoo Lodge of Masons. Two weeks later Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker became lodge members, and on June 8th they were raised to Master Masons. While in Illinois, John Stoker, John W. Stoker, John Welker Eller Stoker, and Jacob Stoker were given church callings of Office of the Seventy. Death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith Living around Carthage the Stoker, Graybill, and McDaniel families were homesteading lands close to those who most violently disagreed with the Mormons and who were constantly calling for their removal. Sometimes these men formed their own vigilante groups trying to scare the Mormons into leaving. Some of the Stoker men folk were called into military duty within the State Militia as recorded in the history of John McDaniel. "Early on June 24, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, and fifteen other members of the Nauvoo city council headed to Carthage to answer the charges filed against them. They passed the home of William Stoker located six miles southeast of Nauvoo on the Carthage Road before 8 A.M.... Sometime after noon, the Stokers saw the mounted riders traveling toward Nauvoo. Arriving at their destination at 2:30, the leaders gathered three small cannons and about two hundred firearms which were turned over to the militia. At nearly midnight the militia delivered the Mormon leaders who came voluntarily to the authorities in Carthage... Thursday June 27 Joseph and his brother Hyrum, were martyred. A mob of about one hundred men with blackened faces gathered about five 'clock in the afternoon. Several stormed the jail where the Smith brothers and a few friends were sequestered. Joseph and Hyrum were shot dead, and John Taylor wounded...the assassins and their comrades fled Carthage to Warsaw and then sought refuge west of the MIssissippi River... Friday June 28, with the bodies of the slain leaders placed in two different wagons, covered with branches to shade them from the hot sun, Willard Richards, Samuel Smith, and Artois Hamilton pulled out of Carthage and headed for Nauvoo. Sometimes shortly after noon, the procession with eight soldiers passed by William Stoker's driving teams pulling the two wagons containing the bodies of the martyrs. Mary Stoker Aitken, a granddaughter of WIlliam Stoker and Almira Winegar, wrote, "My father [John Stephen Stoker] told us that his parents had told him that they had seen the bodies of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum Smith, being taken from Carthage to Nauvoo." ...One of the Stoker relative's narrative mentions that "After the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum in 1844, Simeon Graybill went up to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for public burial" (Ibid). Conflict/Harassment Again. In 1845 the mobbing and burnings began, starting with the outlying settlements. The Stokers were living within the church area called the Highland branch of Illinois. The babies, weddings, and all manner of social life continued on and in July the families were doing more temple work for their ancestors. Again the families grew; new events were attended to. Jacob and John Stoker also joined the Masons and were later raised to Master Masons. Sheriff of Hancock County ordered the saints to organize and protect themselves. "John Welker tells how he and his cousins mutually watched out for each other. His account follows: 'The mob (against) the Latter-day Saints was increasing and I but a boy of 18 was the oldest of the boys that was at hoe. My oldest brother was married and doing for himself. I was the one to look after the family after my father died and when the burning out of the later day Saints by the mob commenced close by I was in a settlement 10 miles for whare {sic} they were burning houses and some of my cousins and relative lived close to whare {sic} I lived. We got together and agreed to take turnes {sic} and watch the mob and do the best we could to protect our homes. Some one was out every night watching their movements. They did not come to our little settlement to burn us out, if they had come some of them would have been hurt. Thare {sic} is many things connected with this I will not write.' (Punctuation added.) Not all of the Stoker relatives were as fortunate as the Welkers, John McDaniel and his wife Christine Stoker, according to one history, "...were greatly persecuted with the other saints and several times were driven out by the mobs. On one occasion they were attacked and forced to flee with a child under each arm while their home was burned" (Ibid). Nauvoo Temple Dedicated. In late 1845 the church's Nauvoo Temple was dedicated and many of the saints came to the temple to perform their own religious (endowment) ordinances. Between January 5 and January 21, of 1846 sixteen heads of the Stoker clan had received their own temple endowment. Michael Stoker Jr. and Catherine Burcham Jacob Stoker and Martha Carr McDaniel Eller Stoker and Margaret Judd Catherine Eller Stoker (widow) Elizabeth Stoker Welker (widow) James W. Welker and Anna Pugh John Stoker and Jane McDaniel John W. Stoker and Sara McDaniel William Stoker and Almira Winegar Records from the Nauvoo temple show that the Stoker family participated in other religious temple activities: Catherine Eller Stoker, Michael Stoker (son), Eller Stoker (son) and wife Margaret (Judd) Stoker (Eller's wife), James Welker and wife Elizabeth Stoker Welker, and Mary (Polly) Stoker (Graybill) all did baptisms by proxy for their deceased relatives." 12. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "John Stoker (1817-1881) and Wives: Jane McDaniel, Harriet Susan Willis, and Jane Allen" in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT." See John's notes for full transcription: "After the first Mormon expedition pushed through the Rocky Mountains to settle in the Utah territory, President Young and some of his members returned to Winter Quarters during the winter of 1847-48 and began organizing more wagon parties to head west as soon as the snows allowed. During this period President Young organized the chain of command for large groups of travelers. First Heber J. Grant and Wilford Woodruff were each to organize a company. Under their direction leaders would be chosen to govern groups of hundreds, fifties, and then tens. Families under Brigham Young's supervision were separated into three divisions with numerous companies in each division. Here Lorenzo Snow was again appointed to be a captain over a hundred families. He in turn selected John Stoker and Herman Hyde to be his two captains, each of them were over a group of fifty families that were then grouped by tens. In addition to the general instructions to keep order in the camps, President Young passed on additional orders gained from the first companies experiences west: take care of the cattle- do not allow them to be abused, there is to be no yelling nor brawling in camp, attend prayers, put out the fires, and go to bed by 9 p.m. Lorenzo Snow's company: 99 Wagons, 321 people, 20 horses, 3 mules, 308 oxen, 188 cows, 38 loose cattle, 25 pigs, 158 chickens, 10 cats, 26 dogs, and 2 doves (Barlow 1968). John and Jane with their family left Kanesville early in the summer of 1848. Records indicate that John's mother and siblings, along with some other Stoker families came west in 1852 under the direction of Captain Isaac Stewart. Within the listed names of the Stewart's Second group of ten are: William Stoker's family, Michael Stoker's family and John McDaniel's family. The names of the individuals within the families were not listed (Church Historical Dept.). Instructions were then given the saints, who had been divided. Thomas Bullock, clerk of the "Camp of Israel," stated that: "On the 1st day of June, Lorenzo Snow's company moved off the ground to the 'Liberty Pole' on the Platte, in order to make room for other wagons that came pouring in from Winter Quarters. (Roberts 1965). Liberty Pole camp was located on the Elkhorn River in Nebraska. In his autobiography, George Morris relates a memorable incident he had during their journey west. His family was assigned to travel under the leadership of John Stoker. "I thought that I had about overcome the spirit of swearing again, until one day after we had traveled some distance on our way towards the valley. Brother Lorenzo Snow was captain of the hundred, John Stoker of 50, Thomas McLellin of the 10, that I traveled with. We were crossing a bad, miry, creek and the captains were the first wagon and the last one in the line. The captain had made a little miscalculation and stopped his team a little too soon so that there was not room for me to drive out on the bank, so I was stopped down in the mire. The captain was standing on the bank to see us out when I ripped out a terrible oath at him for not allowing me room to get out, it was a terrible oath to be sure. In that same award manner in which I had been to swear before, it was all like a streak of fire and brimstone than anything else. I looked and there sat Brother Snow in his buggy on the bank watching the teams cross, he gave me such a look and the captain that I had swarn at stood there looking right at me but neither of them spoke a word to me. They didn't need to for the look they had given me were quite sufficient. They left me and passed on. When I had got out and cooled down I felt fearful mean but they didn't hear anymore swearing from me" (Morris 1995). After leaving Liberty Pole for Utah the company was delayed many times during their journey for the purpose of building bridges, rafts, etc., to help the journey of the other saints coming later. Picture p. 12: "Trail Map of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints western migration. Trail begins at Nauvoo, Illinois and ends at Salt Lake City, Utah. Ensign, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1997." Salt Lake City: Lorenzo Snow's company arrived in Salt Lake City on 24 September 1848. With the arrival of President Brigham Young's three divisions of church members, the total number of people in the Salt Lake valley had grown to 5000. So many people arrived in Utah that by the fall of 1848 the one block size fort had three additions equaling two forts. One facing north side and one facing south, the two connected by gates. When the first company of Mormons reached Utah, besides attending to farming, they built a Fort to shelter the incoming families. As the members would arrive President Young would have them stay only as long as they needed to gather strength, and then he would assign them an area outside Salt Lake City to settle. It is recorded that by the time the companies arrived in the Utah valley their clothing was pretty well gone. "Many were without shoes, and the best and only covering they could get for their feet were moccasins. Their clothing, too, was pretty well exhausted, and the goat, deer, and elk skins which they could procure were most acceptable for clothing, though far from pleasant to wear in rain or snow" (Cannon)." 14. Land deeds for William Stoker in 1837 from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT: A. "Certificate No. 10.147 To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: whereAS William Stoker of Madison County Indiana had deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States, a Certificate of the REGISTER of The LAND OFFICE at Fort Wayne whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said William Stoker according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled "An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands," for the North West quarter of the North East quarter and the South East quarter of the North East quarter of section twenty one in Township Twenty one North of Range Seven East in the District of Lands subject to sale at Fort Wayne Indiana containing Eighty acres according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the SURVEYOR GENERAL, which said tract has been purchased by the said William Stoker. NOW KNOW YE, That the United States of America, in consideration of the Premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN and GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE and GRANT, unto the said William Stoker and to his heirs, the said tract above described: To HAVE and To HOld the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said William Stoker and to his heirs and assigns forever. In Testimony Whereof, I, Martin Van Buren PRESIDENT of The UNITED STATES of AMERICA, have caused these Letters to be made PATENT, and the SEAL of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed. GIVEN under my hand at the City of Washington, the thirtieth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and of the INDEPENDENCE of The UNITED STATES the Sixty first byThe PRESIDENT: Martin Van Buren By A Van Buren Sec'y. Hudson M Garland RECORDER of the General Land Office." B. "THE UNITED STATES of AMERCA Certificate No. 10.146 To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: whereAS William Stoker of Madison County Indiana had deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States, a Certificate of the REGISTER of The LAND OFFICE at Fort Wayne whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said William Stoker according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled "An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands," for the North East quarter of the North West quarter of section twenty one in Township Twenty one North of Range seven East in the District of Lands subject to Sale at Fort Wayne Indiana containing forty acres according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the SURVEYOR GENERAL, which said tract has been purchased by the said William Stoker. NOW KNOW YE, That the United States of America, in consideration of the Premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN and GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE and GRANT, unto the said William Stoker and to his heirs, the said tract above described: To HAVE and To HOld the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said William Stoker and to his heirs and assigns forever. In Testimony Whereof, I, Martin Van Buren PRESIDENT of The UNITED STATES of AMERICA, have caused these Letters to be made PATENT, and the SEAL of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed. GIVEN under my hand at the City of Washington, the thirtieth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and of the INDEPENDENCE of The UNITED STATES the Sixty first byThe PRESIDENT: Martin Van Buren By A Van Buren Sec'y. Hudson M Garland RECORDER of the General Land Office." 15. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following story is about William and Almira Stoker and it is noted as being from the files of Jimmie B. Stoker: "Florence Stoker as told by her father, John Stephen Stoker, "Biographies of William and Almira Winegar Stoker," typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alta Aitken Rowley, 360 W. 550 S., Orem, Utah 84058. "They [William and Almira Stoker] lived in Illinois until the Saints were driven from Nauvoo. They were living along the road between Carthage and Nauvoo at the time of the martyrdom. My father, John Stephen Stoker, who told me this story, said he had heard his mother say she saw the bodies of the Prophet and Hyrum Smith being taken from Carthage to Nauvoo. "When the saints were driven from Nauvoo, WIlliam and Almira Stoker moved into Iowa. They settled at Mt. Pisgah and lived there for six years. Mountain was the burial ground. They buried a little girl six months old at Mt. Pisgah. They lived a year at Council Bluffs, Iowa. William's father, David Stoker, died of cholera at Council Bluffs [Trader's Point] about two or three weeks before the family left for the west. ["My Great-grandfather, David Stoker, died of cholera just before he was to start west with the saints, from Council Bluffs. His brothers were running a ferry boat across the missouri River. He was living at Council Bluffs or Winter Quarters (Trader's Point?). He decided to help them for a while to get some money to finish the journey west. While working on the ferry, he took cholera and died. he was buried at Council Bluffs. (Florence Stoker as told by her father, John Stephen Stoker, "Parents and Brothers and Sisters of my Grandfather, William Stoker.")] "William and Almira Stoker left the Missouri River June 20, 1852. They ferried across the river. They came west in Isaac Stewart's company. "...They arrived in Salt Lake 20 September 1852. They spent about two weeks in Bountiful and Springville, then came to Spanish Fork." 16. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is noted as being from the files of Jimmie B. Stoker: "History of William Stoker. Kathleen Stoker Overton, "History of Wiliam Stoker," The Eller Chronicles, Vol. XI:2 (May 1997), pp. 46-47. My Great-great-grandfather, William Stoker, was born 26, March 1819 in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. His parents, David Stoker and Barbara Graybill, had both been born in Ashe County, North Carolina. David and Barbara and their parents moved to the Great Western Reserve (also called the Ohio) in 1815 where land and opportunity beckoned. They settled in Bloomfield Township in Jackson County and began farming. In 1833 the family was visited by a missionary, John Fisher, and they were introduced to the early Latter-day Saint Church. Most of those who were old enough were baptized that same year. WIlliam was baptized in 1835 at the age of 16. In 1836 some members of the family made a trip to Kirtland, Ohio for the dedication of the Temple and to attend the conference that followed. Then later that same year most of the extended family moved to Far West, Missouri to be with the main body of the Church. William's grandparents, Peter and Christina Wampler Graybill, who were then in their late seventies stayed in Jackson County and died a few years later. William's family withstood the dangers of mob attacks and many hardships. They later moved to Quincy and Nauvoo, Illinois in 1839. By 1846 most of Nauvoo had been vacated and the family settled in Kanesville, now named Council Bluffs, Iowa. Some remained there never making the trip west. William was a sturdy man physically. He weighed about 190 pounds and was fairly tall. As a young man he had left farming to earn his livelihood as a wood chopper tempted by the money he could earn against the low wages of farming. His job was to find dense, suitable lumber on or near the banks of the rivers (Mississippi, Ohio, and tributaries), fell it, cut it into lengths, and build a raft just big enough that two men could handle it. They would load it and then with a long, light pole they from the shore and float down the Mississippi hundreds of miles until they arrived at a suitable saw-mill and sold their cargo. After replenishing their supplies of food and other things they would catch a steamboat north to start over again. As with all rugged work, things did not always go well. Sometimes a raft would become disorganized in midstream and it would take a lot of swimming and hard work to get it in shape again. He became an expert breast stroke swimmer. William married Almira Winegar in Far West, Missouri in October of 1838. Almira was born 27 February 1818 in Homer, New York to Samuel Thomas Winegar and Rhonda Cummings. Her family too had joined the Church in its earliest days. When the Saints were expelled from Nauvoo, they came as far as Mt. Pisgah, Iowa where they lived for six years. In June 1851 [1852] William and Almira started for Utah. They crossed the plains in the Isaac Stewart Company. While coming to Utah there was a stampede of oxen directly in back of William which threatened disaster to one of the wheels of the wagon. The driver of the oxen could not control them. William realizing the danger of damaging his wagon, as well as danger to members of the company, drew back his whip stock and brought the ungovernable oxen to the ground. This act enraged the owner of the oxen and he threatened to whip William. Immediately others brought Captain Isaac Stewart to the scene and he praised William for doing the right thing and probably saving lives. The family settled in Palmyra in 1852. Later they helped lay out and settle the city of Spanish Fork, Utah. Here William built a two room adobe house from some of the adobe from the old fort. He later added a room at a time until there were four rooms and a big front porch. He followed the occupation of farmer having taken up land in different parts of the vacant tracts outside of town. He and Almira had nine children." 17. The following partial excerpt is from the article "Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker's Descendants in Illinois" by Jimmie "B" Stoker, July 30, 1994 from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT, The numbers in the text refer to endnotes at the end of the article. See Catherine Martha Eller's notes for the full and complete transcript which is quite lengthy and only deals with her children in the Illinois period of Mormon history: "On Friday morning, June 28, with the bodies of the slain leaders placed in two different wagons, covered with branches to shade them from the hot sun, Willard Richards, Samuel Smith and Artois Hamilton pulled out of Carthage and headed for Nauvoo. Sometime shortly after noon, the procession with eight solders passed the William Stokers' driving teams pulling the two wagons containing the bodies of the martyrs. Mary Stoker Aitken, a granddaughter of William Stoker and Almira Winegar, wrote, "My father [John Stephen Stoker (1858)] told us that his parents [William and Almira] had told him that they had seen the bodies of the Prophet and his brother, Hyrum Smith, being taken from Carthage to Nauvoo."59 The news of the martyrdom had reached Nauvoo and hundreds of its inhabitants solemnly lined Mulholland Street about a mile east of the temple as the two wagons bearing the dead prophet and patriarch arrived at 3 o'clock. A gloom had fallen over the city. The following day, Saturday, the bodies lay in state at the Mansion House while thousands of Saints filed past the coffins. Joseph and Hyrum were buried clandestinely in the basement of the Nauvoo House so that anyone trying to collect a reward offered for Joseph's head could not find the remains. One of the Stoker relative's narratives mentions that "After the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844, Simeon Graybill went up to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for the public burial."60" 18. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 100-101: "David Stoker4, b. 23 March 1795 in Ashe County, N.C.;d., 27 May 1852 at Winterquarters, Iowa. He m., 1814, Barbara Graybill, b., April 1792 in Ashe County, N.C., d., 3 Oct. 1872 at Summit Creek, Iron Co., Utah. She was a dau. of Peter Graybill and his wife Christina Wampler. (Family Records) The children of David Stoker and his wife Barbara Graybill were: (1) Christina Stoker5, b., 24 Aug. 1815 in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 10 May 1854/56; m., John McDaniel. (2) John Stoker5, b., 8 March 1817, in Madison Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 11 June 1881. He believed in polygamy and had three wives first of whom was Jane McDaniel; b. 24 Feb 1810 in Racoon Twsp. of Gallia Co., Ohio; d., 20 Jan. 1890 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah where both she and her husband lie buried. She was a dau. of James McDaniel and his wife Zibiah McCarley. Children of John Stoker5 and his first wife Jane McDaniel were: (1) Hiram Stoker6, b., 9 Nov. 1840, at Columbus, Adams Co,, Ill.; d., 5 June 1885 (sic). He did not marry. (2) Franklin Stoker6, b., 12 Aug. 1842, Hancock Co., Ill.; d., 25 Sept. 1855. No further records. (3) David Stoker6, b., 28 Sept. 1844, in Hancock Co., Ill.; d. 1. Apr. 1911; m., 3 March 1866, Regena Hogan. (4) Zibiah Stoker6, b., 21 March 1847 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; d., 28 May 1933; m., 5 Apr 1869, Judson Tolman. (5) Sarah Ann Stoker6, b., 10 Oct. 1851 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah; d., 23 Jan. 1922; m., 2 March 1869, Harlan Simmons. (3) William Stoker5, b., 26 March 1819 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 19 March (May) 1892; m. Almira Winegar, b. 27 Feb. 1818 (1819); d., 6 Nov. 1884. She was a dau. of Samuel T. and Rhoda E. (Cummins) Winegar. (4) Nancy Stoker5, b., Oct. 1824, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio. (5) Sarah Stoker5, b. 26 June 1827, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d, 10 June 1900, Another record, probably an error, says she d., 10 March 1908. She married Edward H. Davis. (6) Catherine Stoker5, b., 25 July 1829, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d. 8 Nov. 1882; m., 19 May 1850, Sylvanus Hulet. (7) Michael Stoker5, b., 12 Sept. 1833, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio. He first married Martha C. Frederick. His second wife was Polly or Britan, or Britiania, or Britania Hughes." 19. FHL book 929.273 St67d "Descendants of William Stoker (1819-1892): with a View of his Ancestors," by Jay and Rachel Phillips Deeben, Feb. 2014, pp. 60-70: "William Stoker[1] (1819-1892), by Jay C. and Rachel A. Phillips Deeben. William Stoker, son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill, was born in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson, Ohio on 26 Mar 1819.[2] He was the third child of a family of six children. William accepted the teachings of the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while living in Jackson County, Ohio with his family.[3] Then on 27 Oct 1836, his grandfather, Michael Stoker (1762) and his wife Catherine Martha Eller sold their property in Ohio,[4] and began their travels to Missouri to join the Latter-day Saints. William probably traveled with his family (David and Barbara) about this same time to Missouri. After William arrived in Far West, Missouri he met and courted Alrnira Winegar. She was born 27 Feb 1818, in Horner, Cortland, New York.5 Her parents are Samuel Thomas Winegar and Rhoda Cummins. William and Alrnira were married in October 1838,[6] in Far West, Caldwell, Missouri. When you read church history, their marriage occurred during the strife the Latter-day Saints were going through, just prior to being driven out of Missouri. William didn't leave any journals as far as we could find, but John Welker, a cousin to William did leave some information in his journal. Jimmie "B" Stoker in his writing about "Michael and Catherine Eller's Descendants in Illinois" records an incident from John Welker's journal of the family's travel from Missouri to Illinois. John states, "We traveled through snow and rain and mud and water, laying out in the storms to sleep during the nights. All this I have passed through ... We make our way out of the state of Missouri to the Mississippi River through much suffering and privations."[7] William and his wife, Alrnira, settled in Quincy, Illinois in the first one or two years after arriving in Illinois. The 1840 Federal Census for Quincy, Illinois lists William Stoker with a male child under five, one male between 20 and 30 years of age, and one female between 20 and 30 years of age.[8] The male child that was listed as being under five years of age would have been William and Almira's oldest son, Samuel David Stoker, born 24 Mar 1840. The male that was between 20 and 30 years of age would have been William and the female of the same age group would have been Almira. To earn money to take care of their families the Stoker men would have hired out to some of the local farmers and other business owners that needed help. Jimmy "B" Stoker makes reference to the possibility of William hiring out to a farmer by the name of Coleman Wilkes[9] who lived about eighteen or twenty miles east of Quincy, Illinois. How long they may have worked here is not known. But eventually William and his family moved closer to Nauvoo, Illinois where they lived until they were driven out by the mobs. William and his family were with the church members when they were forced out of Nauvoo, Illinois in the winter of 1845-1846. They crossed the Mississippi River into Iowa and then started their travels to Winter Quarters during 1846. They stopped at Mount Pisgah, Harrison C | Stoker, William (I2524)
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| 2086 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 192, township had a little over 40 families; related families of Michael Stoker and Michael Graybill are in neighboring Bloomfield Township; columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: David Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,0//1,0,0,1,0. Peter Grabill: 1,0,0,1,0,1//0,0,2,0,1. Nancy Henson: 0,1,0,1,0,0//0,1,1,1,0. James McDaniel: 0,0,0,0,0,1//3,2,0,0,1. 1830 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, p. 93a: David Stoker: Males 10-15:2; 30-40:1; female 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1. [Appears to be David, his wife Barbara, and their children: Christina, John, William, Sarah, and Catherine; appears from children enumerated that Nancy may have been dead by 1830.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 2. FHL book 929.273 St67d "Descendants of William Stoker (1819-1892): with a View of his Ancestors," by Jay and Rachel Phillips Deeben, Feb. 2014, pp. 26-31: "Christina Stoker[23] (1815-1854), by Jay Deeben. Christina Stoker, daughter of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill, was born on 24 Aug 1815 in Bloomfield, Scioto,[24] Ohio. During our research of Christina we found that her name was also listed at times as Christine. The name of Christina has been followed here since that is the name that was placed on her headstone. One place where Christine was used was on the list of pioneers that made up the Isaac Stewart Company which left Kanesville, Iowa in June 1852 and arrived in Salt Lake in September 1852. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1833,[25] with other members of her family. She lived through all the persecution that was put upon the church while they were in Missouri and Illinois. When Christina and John started west they stopped at Mount Pisgah, Iowa[26] which was established to be a temporary way station for LDS church members as they fled Nauvoo, Illinois and the persecution that was going on there. Christina and her family stayed here till about 1851 or 1852. Mt. Pisgah, Iowa was shut down in 1852 by church leaders when they requested all the LDS to come to Utah. [Image of Marriage License Jackson County, Ohio, from US/CAN Film 317,419, which reads: John McDaniel to Christina Stucker Feby. 7, 1836. I do hereby certify that by virtue of a License from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Jackson County I have solemnized the right of Marriage between John McDaniels & christena Stoker on the 8 Day of Feby. 1835 as witnessed [unreadable] 1835 [unreadable witness]." Christina married John Riley McDaniel, son of James McDaniel and Zebiah McCarley, on 7 Feb 1835 in Jackson County, Ohio.[27] [Kerry's note: The license is dated 7 Feb but the marriage is dated 8 Feb.] John was born on 10 Jul 1812 in Bloomfield Twp., Scioto County, Ohio.[28] After being married 19 years, having nine children and traveling many miles Christina died the 10 May 1854 in Alpine, Utah.[29] She was the first to be buried in Alpine. Her daughter Electa Jane was next. The names of several of Christina's grandchildren who died young and are buried here are also given on the headstone. John McDaniel died on 11 Nov 1884 in Alpine, Utah, Utah[30] at age 77, and was buried on 15 Nov 1884 in Alpine, Utah, Utah. Children of John McDaniel and Christina Stoker McDaniel[31] (Name - Birth - Place - Death - Place): Electa Jane McDaniel, 3 Nov 1835, Jackson County, Ohio, 8 Jun 1858. Electa married James Eli Ashcraft" the son of Benjamin Ashcraft and Nancy Owens." James was born 15 Feb 1828 in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Tabitha McDaniel[34], 29 Jan 1837, Jackson County, Ohio, 11 Dec 1920, Nephi, Juab, Utah. Tabitha married William David Norton[35] son of John Warren Norton and Dorothy Osborn. William was born on 2 May 1832 in Limestone County, Alabama[36]. John Riley McDaniel, 20 May 1839, Adams County, Illinois, 21 Jul 1909, Alpine, Utah, Utah. John married Sarah Ann Watkins[37] she is the daughter of Robert James Watkins and Mary Smallman. Sarah was born 8 Jan 1847 in Missouri. Matilda McDaniel, 24 Oct 1840, Adams County, Illinois, 24 Aug 1878[38], Alpine, Utah, Utah. Matilda married Thomas Jefferson McCullough[39] son of Thomas McCullough and Mary Hefner. Thomas was born 18 Aug 1826 in White County, Tennessee. Catherine McDaniel[40], 24 Jul 1842, Hancock County, Illinois, 11 Aug 1923, Payson, Utah, Utah. Catherine married Alma Winn[41] son of Minor Winn and Nancy Wilson. Alma was born 4 Apr 1836 in Albion, Edwards, Illinois. George Washington McDaniel[42], 25 Jul 1844, Hancock County, Illinois, 9 Nov 1916, Alpine, Utah, Utah. George married Mary Jane Taylor[43] daughter of William Taylor and Mary Ann Dean. Mary Jane was born 9 Nov 1850 in Birmingham, Warwick, England. James William McDaniel, 13 Sep 1847, Mt Pisgah, Union, Iowa[44], 19 Jan 1947, Bloomfield, San Juan, New Mexico. James married Lovina Mantle[45] daughter of Llwellyn Mantle and Catherine Watkins. Lovina was born 20 Apr 1856 in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah. David Stoker McDaniel, 18 Apr 1849, Mt Pisgah, Union, Iowa, 3 Oct 1912, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. David married Sarah Ann Clark[46] daughter of George Clark and Catherine Gascoigne. Sarah was born 9 Dec 1853 in Selston, Nottingham, England. Michael Sylvester McDaniel, 26 Apr 1854, Alpine, Utah, Utah, 10 Sep 1921, Tetonia, Teton, Idaho. Michael married Emma Dorothea Beck" daughter of Fredrick Beck and Henricke Winters. Emma was born 28 Jul 1857 in Vor Frue, Aalborg, Denmark. Chapter notes for Christina Stoker: 23. Hook, James W., George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America, p.100. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, Call Number: 929.273 EL54h. Reference to the translated record of the German Reform Church of Frederick, Maryland at the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. Book is online at Heritagequest.com under the "Search Books" option from main menu. 24. Jackson County, Ohio was formed from Scioto, Gallia, Athens, and Ross counties in 1816. Any births occurring prior to 1816 would have been in one of the parent counties from which Jackson was formed. The township of Jackson was part of the Scioto County prior to being taken into Jackson County in 1816. Goldbug software, Animap, version 2.6. 25. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, new.Familysearch.org Department, PID: KWJY-VZ6. Repository: new.familysearch.org Utah. 26. In 1846 Mormons established a way station named Mt. Pisgah on the western side of Clarke County in an area that eventually became the eastern side of Union County. This was the temporary home of thousands of Mormons as they traveled west. The last Mormon left in 1852. Website: ( 27. Daughters of the American Revolution. Captain John James Chapter (Ohio), Marriage records, 1818-1865, Jackson County, US/CAN Film 317,419. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 28. new.Familysearch.org 29. Find A Grave, Find A Grave Web site, Find A Grave Memorial# 8409021. Repository: Find A Grave, 30. Headstone in Alpine, Utah, Utah Cemetery. 31. Information on the children of John and Christina McDaniel comes from family records and a Utah Death Certificate, State of Utah Department of Health, Utah - Death Certificate 32. new.Familysearch.org 33. new.Familysearch.org 34. Utah Death Certificate, State Board File No. 94. Name on death certificate and headstone is spelled Tobitha. 35. new.Familysearch.org 36. Utah Death Certificate, State board File No. 10 37. new.Familysearch.org 38. Headstone, in Alpine City Cemetery. 39. new.Familysearch.org 40. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R) (Copyright (c) 1980, 2002), Film Numbers: 1239577, Ref #27404; 178101, Ref #220554, Page #2597; 1239610, Ref #22243, Page #: 94; 1239507, Ref #: 6612. 41. new.Familysearch.org 42. Stoker/Winegar/West/Youd Legacy, Alta Aitken Rowley, Grant Joseph Aitken, Charlene Attryde Aitken, Stoker/Winegar/West/Youd Legacy, p. 30. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, Call Number: 929.273 St67ra. 43. Utah - Death Certificate, State Board of Health File No. 127B 44. Mt Pisgah, Union County, Iowa was a temporary community that existed between 1847 and 1852. This settlement was established to help with the many thousands of Latter-day Saints on their way west from Nauvoo, Illinois. The settlement was abandoned in 1852 when the Latter-day Saints were encourage to move on to Salt Lake City, Utah. 45. new.Familysearch.org 46. new.Familysearch.org 47. BYU-Idaho Special Collections, Special Collections and Family History, Death Records 3. The book "The Henry McDaniel family, 1755-1975," by Esta McDaniel Lee, 1975, FHL 929.273 M141L, p. 82: "Other McDaniels of Gallia and Jackson Counties, Ohio. David McDaniel, b. ca. 1738 m. 5 March, 1801, Elizabeth (Betsy) McCarley in Washington County, Ohio. Gallia County was a part of Washington Coound at that time. David McDanieal was in Ohio long before it became a state for a son James McDaniel was born in what is now Jackson County, 24 Feb. 1762. He married 19 Dec 1805 Zebiah (Sibby) McCarley, b. 10 Dec 1786, Gallia County, Ohio, daughter of John McCarley. She died 5 Feb 1860. James died in Jackson County, 1820. They had the following children: 1. Sarah McDaniel, b. 26 May 1806, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 7 Mar 1857, m. John W. Stoker, 13 Mar 1827. 2. Martha McDaniel, b. 24 Feb 1808, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 4 Feb 1877, m. 1828/29 Michael Stoker. 3. Jane McDaniel, 24 Feb 1810, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah, m. 1836, John Stoker. 4. John McDaniel, b. 10 Jun 1812, Jackson Co., O., d. 11 Nov 1884, Alpine, Utah, m. Christina Stoker. 5. William McDaniel, b. 1814, Jackson Co., O., d. 1889 unmarried. There could have been others." Page 83: "Jackson County Marriage Records. C.D. Massie: 19 Apr 1827 Electa Sally McDaniel to John W. Stoker." 4. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT [Note: spelling corrected by myself.]. From an article entitled "A Brief History of Sylvanus Cyrus & Catherine Stoker Hulet": "David Stoker, also, helped with the building of the Nauvoo Temple and some of the homes in the City of Nauvoo. The Hulets and the Stokers left Nauvoo with other Saints during the cold winter of 1846 and crossed Iowa. It was at Mt. Pisgah that Sylvanus met and fell in love with Catherine Stoker. They were married May 19, 1850, by a Reverend March. Evidently, the Hulets and the Stokers had been in some of the groups who had stayed to protect some of the villages as they were not in the first companies to go to Utah. However, it was soon after Sylvanus and Catherine were married that they started on their journey westward from Mt. Pisgah, with a company of Saints led by Aaron Johnson, who was appointed by President Young. At Winter Quarters Catherine's father, David Stoker, was laid to rest. Catherine's mother, her brothers John, William, and MIchael, and her sisters Christina and Sarah, and Sarah's husband, Edward David, were in the company of the Hulet's. It was the latter part of September when they arrived in Salt Lake City. They thought they had reached their journey's end, but President Young asked the Hulets to go on with some other families to Hobble Creek and help settle that area. It was the first week in October 1850 when they arrived at this place, later named Springville." 5. Per "Heart Throbs of the West," vol. 12, p. 457, by Kate Carter, which contains a list of pioneers of 1851 as compiled by the daughters of Utah Pioneers contains: "Stoker, Christine, b. 24 Aug 1815, Illinois." [Note Illinois is in error]. 6. Worldconnect database ":981899" notes that she was a Utah pioneer arriving to Salt Lake City on 28 Aug 1852 as part of the Isaac Stewart Company. 7. Biography in FHL book 979.036 v.2 "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 1933: "Christina Stoker McDaniel; photo included; born 24 Aug 1815 at Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio; died 10 May 1854 at Mountainville (Alpine), Utah; parents are David Stoker, Sr. and Barbara Graybill; pioneer of 28 Aug 1852 with the Isaac Stewart Company Oxteam and Wagon Train; spouse is John McDaniel; married 8 Feb 1835 in Ohio; death of spouse was 11 Nov 1884 in Alpine, Utah; Children: Electa Jane, 3 Nov 1835 Tabitha, 29 Jan 1837 John Riley, 20 May 1839 Matilda, 24 Oct 1840 Katherine, 24 Jul 1842 George Washington, 25 Jul 1844 James William, 13 Sep 1847 David Stoker, 18 Apr 1849 Silvester, 26 Apr 1854 Christina was born 24 Aug 1815 at Bloomfield township, Jackson, Ohio. She was the eldest of seven children born to David Stoker, Sr., and Barbara Graybill. On 8 Feb 1835 she married John McDaniel. They lived in Ohio during their early married life, and it was here they first heard of the Mormon Church and were among the first people to join. They later moved to Hancock Co., Illinois. They were greatly persecuted, along with the other Saints, and were driven out of their home several times by mobs. On one occasion they were forced to flee their home, both with a child under each arm, and watch while the home was destroyed by fire. John was a bodyguard of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and was captured by the mob before Joseph and Huyrm. They knew he was a good friend and also a very good shot. He was missing for three days and was found tied up and gagged in a corral way out of town, in manure up to his knees. They left Illinois with the other Saints and moved to Iowa, and from there crossed the plains by ox-team in 1852. By then Christine had eight children. She helped her husband and older children drive a flock of 500 sheep across the plains. They stopped at Salt Lake for a short time, then went on to Mountainville, now Alpine, where they were one of the first families to settle. Here they endured many privations of early pioneer life, at one point going without bread for three months. During that time they lived on roots and wild berries with the meat her husband provided by hunting game. Christine died two years after moving to Mountainville from the complications of child birth, leaving the new-born infant in the care of her older children until the father remarried. Christine was a beautiful woman with red hair, pleasing good looks, and a serene countenance." 8. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," which is quoted in its entirety in the notes of David Stoker: "By August of 1815 David and Barbara had settled into family life in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. It was on the 24 August 1815 that their first child was born: Christine Stoker. By the spring of 1816, David's parents had also joined them on the new frontier of the Ohio River Valley. David and his father, Michael, are listed on the Jackson County, Ohio, voting registry for an election that was held on 1 April 1816. Also, David's youngest brother, Eller, was born in Bloomfield, Ohio. John Stoker, second son of David and Barbara, was born north of Bloomfield. He was born on 8 March 1817, in Madison Township, Jackson County, Ohio. William, their next Child, was born 26 March 1819 in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio: [1820 Census:] David Stoker- Head of Family One female age 26-45, (Barbara Graybill age 28), One male age 16-26 (David age 25), One male 10-16 yrs (unknown), One female and two males under the age of 10 (Christena age 5, John age 3 and WIlliam age 1). The record also indicates that four people were engaged in agriculture. Two of these were probably David and Barbara. The record also listed two male slaves. The slaves were listed as one male 26-45 yrs of age and one male under the age of 14. It is interesting to note that between 1815 and 1824 that the family residential township changed four times. It is unknown why this occurred. Madison and Bloomfield Townships are located next to each other. It is probable that one of the following reasons accounts for this: The boundaries continually shifted during this time. The family lived on the border line of the two counties and which one was recorded depended on the person recording the event. The family was constantly on the move. After William, the rest of the children of David and Barbara were born in Bloomfield County, Illinois [KP: typo for Ohio?]: Nancy Stoker- October 1824 (No information on what day) Sarah Stoker- on 20 June 1827 Catherine Stoker- on 24 July 1829 Michael Stoker- on September 1833 David and his family are not listed on the 1830 census records for Ohio or Indiana. (The family of John Stoker listed on the 1830 census in Ohio is that of David's brother, John W. Stoker.) A Change of Religion Between the years of 1830 to 1836 David and Barbara Stoker along with some of the extended family received missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of these missionaries were: Seymour Brunson, John A. Fisher, and Luke Johnson. All baptized members of the Stoker family into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Stoker (David's son) was baptized by Seymour Brunson and Luke Johnson in 1834. David's younger brother, Michael Jr., baptized Barbara in 1836. ('LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.' Andrew Johnson Vol 2 pg. 252. Luke Johnson, Autobiography in 'Millennial Star' 1864, Lewis p 92)... An article in the local paper records that there was strong religious persecution against members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Vega area. This fighting lead to some families leaving Vega. ('Jackson Herald,' Friday, February 27, 1959 and cited in Jim Stoker's Stoker history 1993) It was in the fall and winter of 1836 that David Stoker, his father, Michael, with their families and some of the Graybill families left the Ohio valley traveling west. On the 15 August 1838, David bought 52+ acres of land in Harrison County, Indiana. His brother, William, bought 120 acres in Madison County, Indiana. (Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States- General land Office, records of the Ohio River Valley Survey) Other members of the extended Stoker family were already living in Indiana. David's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, James Welker, were married in Henry County, Indiana in 1828, and it's possible that their first son was born there. Albert Koons, a relative of Catherine Eller (David's mother), lived in Henry County, Indiana along with other Eller families. (The Indiana connections need to be fully researched to understand the detail of the different families movements.)... David and Barbara's first born Child, Christena, married John McDaniel on 8 Feb 1835 in Jackson Co., Ohio. John married Jane McDaniel in 1836 probably in MIssouri. (I have found no official marriage record.)... David, Barbara, and their grown children with their families, moved in to Central Iowa settling at a temporary camp the church called Mount Pisgah. They stayed long enough to replenish their supplies and help others as they could. It is noted in John's record (David's son) that some family members were in Mount Pisgah for nearly two years... Mount Pisgah is located on top of a large knoll. Local residents state that early farmers had removed some of the headstones from the many small cemeteries that dotted the hill. When the railroad came through it built its grades on top of the wagon roads, but there still are many remaining signs of the large community buried in the soil. Dugout depressions can still be seen in the hillsides, while cabin outlines are scattered around the area. The Mormon settlers built many small cabins, fenced in the settlement around the north and east sides down to the Grand River. Gardens were planted, communications centers set up. Today local volunteers from the neighboring towns, in cooperation with the current land owners, are working to map, restore, and provide some tour trails through the area. One local volunteer told this author that some believe there are a lot more graves there than are known. One of the schools has, as part of a history project, a working to find and map out the old rock wall fence. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns some land on the hilltop and has reconstructed a cabin and take care of the small cemetery. This area provides a small visitors center. Most of the hill top area is currently private land and is used for grazing purposes only. The land owner is aware of the history of his land and stated he did not have the heart to plow the area under. It has been left for nature to take care of it... William's family, along with his youngest brother, Michael and his family, and John McDaniel came into the Utah valley with ox teams in the company under the lead of Isaac Stewart. In the History of William Stoker and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints historical records that Stewart's company consisted of 245 people with 53 wagons. The company arrived into Salt Lake City on the 28th of August, 1852. Some family descendants state that Barbara Graybill Stoker, Sarah Stoker and her husband, Edward Davis, were also in this wagon company. In the 'History of Catherine Stoker and Sylvanus Hulet' it states "Catherine's mother, her brothers: William, and Michael and her sisters: Christina, Sarah and her husband Edward Davis, were in the company of the Hulet's and all arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the latter part of August. It was early summer of 1850 that Pres. Brigham Young called the Hulet family to settle in the Hobble Creek area. This area would later be known as Springville, Utah. They arrived in the first week of October in 1850. While at Hobble Creek, Michael, married Polly Brittann Hughes on the 1 Dec. 1854. They had met each other on the trail west... All of David and Barbara's children settled south of the Salt Lake City valley except for: Nancy who died at age 16, and John who settled in Bountiful, Utah with his friend and leader Lorenzo Snow... In the south: Christina and her husband, John McDaniel, settled in Alpine, Utah. Michael and his wife, Polly Hughes, moved south to Summit City, Utah. They eventually moved to Junction City, Utah where he owned a small store. Many of the descendants of David and Barbara Graybill are still living in Utah..." 9. From an article entitled "The Family" from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. For the full transcriptional listing of the descendants of Michael Stoker and Catherine Stoker, see the notes of Michael Stoker - the following only pertains to this immediate family. Generation "1" is Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller: "The Michael Stoker Family as existed at the time of his death. Those names that are [bracketed] probably were involved in the Missouri experience... 2. [David Stoker], born 23 Mar 1795 in Ashe Co., NC. In 1814 married [Barbara Graybill], born 1 Apr 1792 in Ashe Co., NC, daughter of John Peter Graybill and Christina Wampler. They came with Stoker and Graybill relatives to Jackson Co., OH where David participated in the spring elections of 1816. They moved to Missouri in 1837 and to Illinois in 1839. On May 27, 1852, David died of Cholera contracted while working with his brothers on a ferry at the Missouri River. He was getting ready to bring his family to Utah. His wife, Barbara, came with others of his family three weeks later. She died on October 3, 1872 in Summit, Iron Co., Utah. 3. [Christine Stoker], born 24 Aug 1815 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH., married [John Riley McDaniel], son of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, on Feb 8, 1835 in Jackson Co., OH. Resided in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, and Utah. Christine died on May 10, 1854 in Alpine, Utah Co., Utah. 4. [Electa Jane McDaniel], born Nov. 3, 1835 in Jackson Co., OH, married James Eli Ashcraft in 1854. She died Jun 8, 1858. 4. [Tabitha McDaniel], born Jan 29, 1837 in Jackson Co., OH, married William David Norton on 30 Jan 1855 in Alpine, Utah Co., Utah. She died Dec 11, 1920 in Nephi, Juab, Utah. 3. [John Stoker], born Mar 8, 1817 at Madison, Jackson Co., OH, married [Jane McDaniel], daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley on Jan 21, 1836. John and Jane, the following year moved to Missouri. In 1839 they moved to Illinois; in 1846 to Mt. Pisgah, Iowa; in 1848 to Salt Lake City, Utah and in 1849 to Bountiful, Utah. In 1851, John was ordained bishop of the North Canyon Ward where he served for the next 23 years. In Nov 1869 to Mar 1870 John served a short time mission for the LDS church. He visited many of his relatives in the Midwest at that time. Four years after his release as bishop, John was set apart as a member of the Davis Stake high council. He also served as a patriarch which offices he held until his death caused by a stroke in the spring of 1881. John died Jun 11, 1881 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah. 4. [Alma Stoker], born Dec 7, 1835 in Lick Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio, married Catherine Tolman on Jan 23, 1879. He died Jun 5, 1897. 3. [William Stoker], born Mar 26, 1819 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., OH, married [Almira Winegar], daughter of Samuel Thomas Winegar and Rhoda Cummins, in Oct 1838 at Far West, Caldwell Co., MO. William moved to Illinois where in 1844 he was living six miles south of Nauvoo on the Carthage road. He moved to Mt Pisgah, Harrison Co., Iowa in the exodus from Nauvoo in 1846. He crossed the plains in 1852 and settled Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah. 3. [Nancy Stoker], born Oct 1824 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH. Died about 1840 probably in Illinois. 3. [Catherine Stoker], born Jul 24, 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet on May 19, 1850 at Mt Pisgah, Harrison Co., IA. She had moved to Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa with her family. She and Sylvanus moved to Springville, then to Iron Co., where her family was close to her sister, Sarah, and her brother, Michael and their families. 3. [Sarah Stoker], born 26 Jun 1829 in Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co., OH, married Edward Horace Davis about 1849. They moved to Iron Co., Utah. She died Mar 10, 1908 at Summit Creek, Iron Co., UT. 3. [Michael Stoker], born Sep 12, 1833 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., OH, married Polly Brittann Hughes on Dec 1, 1854." 10. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 100-101: "David Stoker4, b. 23 March 1795 in Ashe County, N.C.;d., 27 May 1852 at Winterquarters, Iowa. He m., 1814, Barbara Graybill, b., April 1792 in Ashe County, N.C., d., 3 Oct. 1872 at Summit Creek, Iron Co., Utah. She was a dau. of Peter Graybill and his wife Christina Wampler. (Family Records) The children of David Stoker and his wife Barbara Graybill were: (1) Christina Stoker5, b., 24 Aug. 1815 in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 10 May 1854/56; m., John McDaniel. (2) John Stoker5, b., 8 March 1817, in Madison Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 11 June 1881. He believed in polygamy and had three wives first of whom was Jane McDaniel; b. 24 Feb 1810 in Racoon Twsp. of Gallia Co., Ohio; d., 20 Jan. 1890 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah where both she and her husband lie buried. She was a dau. of James McDaniel and his wife Zibiah McCarley. Children of John Stoker5 and his first wife Jane McDaniel were: (1) Hiram Stoker6, b., 9 Nov. 1840, at Columbus, Adams Co,, Ill.; d., 5 June 1885 (sic). He did not marry. (2) Franklin Stoker6, b., 12 Aug. 1842, Hancock Co., Ill.; d., 25 Sept. 1855. No further records. (3) David Stoker6, b., 28 Sept. 1844, in Hancock Co., Ill.; d. 1. Apr. 1911; m., 3 March 1866, Regena Hogan. (4) Zibiah Stoker6, b., 21 March 1847 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; d., 28 May 1933; m., 5 Apr 1869, Judson Tolman. (5) Sarah Ann Stoker6, b., 10 Oct. 1851 in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah; d., 23 Jan. 1922; m., 2 March 1869, Harlan Simmons. (3) William Stoker5, b., 26 March 1819 in Bloomfield, Jackson Co., Ohio; d., 19 March (May) 1892; m. Almira Winegar, b. 27 Feb. 1818 (1819); d., 6 Nov. 1884. She was a dau. of Samuel T. and Rhoda E. (Cummins) Winegar. (4) Nancy Stoker5, b., Oct. 1824, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio. (5) Sarah Stoker5, b. 26 June 1827, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d, 10 June 1900, Another record, probably an error, says she d., 10 March 1908. She married Edward H. Davis. (6) Catherine Stoker5, b., 25 July 1829, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio; d. 8 Nov. 1882; m., 19 May 1850, Sylvanus Hulet. (7) Michael Stoker5, b., 12 Sept. 1833, in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., Ohio. He first married Martha C. Frederick. His second wife was Polly or Britan, or Britiania, or Britania Hughes." 11. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article: "During the Adams County time period some of the Stoker men found work with a farmer named Coleman Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes lived approximately two miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio. He had first offered work and a home to Elizabeth's husband, James Welker, and soon after David, John W., Michael, and Jacob also obtained work with him. Here they labored diligently trying to earn enough to rebuild their supplies and stock which they had lost during the Missouri struggles. Moving to Bear Creek, Hancock Co., Illinois On July 1, 1839 the Mormon church's prophet and leader, Joseph Smith, called for all church members to settle in and around the Commerce, Illinois area. The town of Commerce was renamed by the church members to Nauvoo. In 1842 the Stoker family had complied. Packing up their belongings they moved north settling their families around the Carthage/Bear Creek area. James Welker's son, John, recorded: "...he found that there was land that could be entered in Hancock County, about 15 miles south of Nauvoo. He moved there and filed on a homestead. Part of it was prairie land and part was timber. He built a large hewed two roomed log house. Then the next thing was to fence and make a farm to make a living off of" (Ibid). The 1842 personal property tax assessment book of Hancock County has records for Stoker, Welker, and Graybill families living within the county. These records indicate the possibility that they lived outside of the cities." Building the Nauvoo Temple The Stoker families were on hand for the building of the temple for their church. It is recorded in the church history that Eller Stoker, Jacob Stoker, and John McDaniel (husband to Christine Stoker) worked on the temple for a period of time. All families were expected to donate time and supplies to the temple project... Life was beginning to flourish again for the families, and happy times were with them. On May 23, 1844 Joseph Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker were initiated and passed into the Nauvoo Lodge of Masons. Two weeks later Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker became lodge members, and on June 8th they were raised to Master Masons. While in Illinois, John Stoker, John W. Stoker, John Welker Eller Stoker, and Jacob Stoker were given church callings of Office of the Seventy. Death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith Living around Carthage the Stoker, Graybill, and McDaniel families were homesteading lands close to those who most violently disagreed with the Mormons and who were constantly calling for their removal. Sometimes these men formed their own vigilante groups trying to scare the Mormons into leaving. Some of the Stoker men folk were called into military duty within the State Militia as recorded in the history of John McDaniel. "Early on June 24, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, and fifteen other members of the Nauvoo city council headed to Carthage to answer the charges filed against them. They passed the home of William Stoker located six miles southeast of Nauvoo on the Carthage Road before 8 A.M.... Sometime after noon, the Stokers saw the mounted riders traveling toward Nauvoo. Arriving at their destination at 2:30, the leaders gathered three small cannons and about two hundred firearms which were turned over to the militia. At nearly midnight the militia delivered the Mormon leaders who came voluntarily to the authorities in Carthage... Thursday June 27 Joseph and his brother Hyrum, were martyred. A mob of about one hundred men with blackened faces gathered about five 'clock in the afternoon. Several stormed the jail where the Smith brothers and a few friends were sequestered. Joseph and Hyrum were shot dead, and John Taylor wounded...the assassins and their comrades fled Carthage to Warsaw and then sought refuge west of the MIssissippi River... Friday June 28, with the bodies of the slain leaders placed in two different wagons, covered with branches to shade them from the hot sun, Willard Richards, Samuel Smith, and Artois Hamilton pulled out of Carthage and headed for Nauvoo. Sometimes shortly after noon, the procession with eight soldiers passed by William Stoker's driving teams pulling the two wagons containing the bodies of the martyrs. Mary Stoker Aitken, a granddaughter of WIlliam Stoker and Almira Winegar, wrote, "My father [John Stephen Stoker] told us that his parents had told him that they had seen the bodies of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum Smith, being taken from Carthage to Nauvoo." ...One of the Stoker relative's narrative mentions that "After the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum in 1844, Simeon Graybill went up to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for public burial" (Ibid). Conflict/Harassment Again. In 1845 the mobbing and burnings began, starting with the outlying settlements. The Stokers were living within the church area called the Highland branch of Illinois. The babies, weddings, and all manner of social life continued on and in July the families were doing more temple work for their ancestors. Again the families grew; new events were attended to. Jacob and John Stoker also joined the Masons and were later raised to Master Masons. Sheriff of Hancock County ordered the saints to organize and protect themselves. "John Welker tells how he and his cousins mutually watched out for each other. His account follows: 'The mob (against) the Latter-day Saints was increasing and I but a boy of 18 was the oldest of the boys that was at hoe. My oldest brother was married and doing for himself. I was the one to look after the family after my father died and when the burning out of the later day Saints by the mob commenced close by I was in a settlement 10 miles for whare {sic} they were burning houses and some of my cousins and relative lived close to whare {sic} I lived. We got together and agreed to take turnes {sic} and watch the mob and do the best we could to protect our homes. Some one was out every night watching their movements. They did not come to our little settlement to burn us out, if they had come some of them would have been hurt. Thare {sic} is many things connected with this I will not write.' (Punctuation added.) Not all of the Stoker relatives were as fortunate as the Welkers, John McDaniel and his wife Christine Stoker, according to one history, "...were greatly persecuted with the other saints and several times were driven out by the mobs. On one occasion they were attacked and forced to flee with a child under each arm while their home was burned" (Ibid). Nauvoo Temple Dedicated. In late 1845 the church's Nauvoo Temple was dedicated and many of the saints came to the temple to perform their own religious (endowment) ordinances. Between January 5 and January 21, of 1846 sixteen heads of the Stoker clan had received their own temple endowment. Michael Stoker Jr. and Catherine Burcham Jacob Stoker and Martha Carr McDaniel Eller Stoker and Margaret Judd Catherine Eller Stoker (widow) Elizabeth Stoker Welker (widow) James W. Welker and Anna Pugh John Stoker and Jane McDaniel John W. Stoker and Sara McDaniel William Stoker and Almira Winegar Records from the Nauvoo temple show that the Stoker family participated in other religious temple activities: Catherine Eller Stoker, Michael Stoker (son), Eller Stoker (son) and wife Margaret (Judd) Stoker (Eller's wife), James Welker and wife Elizabeth Stoker Welker, and Mary (Polly) Stoker (Graybill) all did baptisms by proxy for their deceased relatives." BIRTH: 1. FHL book 929.273 St67d "Descendants of William Stoker (1819-1892): with a View of his Ancestors," by Jay and Rachel Phillips Deeben, Feb. 2014, pp. 18-23: "David Stoker (1795-1852), by Jay Deeben. David Stoker, son of Michael Stoker (1762) and Catherine Eller, was born 23 Mar 1795[1] in Wilkes[2] County, North Carolina. He married Barbara Graybill in February 1814 in North Carolina, probably Ashe County,[3] in Western North Carolina. Barbara Graybill was born 1 Apr 1792,[4] in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Her parents[5] are John Peter Graybill and Christina Wampler. Sometime after David and Barbara were married, probably in early 1815, they moved to Southern Ohio. All of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill's children were born in and around Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio except for their oldest child Christina who was born in August 1815, a year before Jackson County,[6] Ohio was organized. The most likely county of her birth would be Scioto... Barbara Graybill Stoker died 3 October 1872, in Summit, Iron, Utah. Children of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill[21] Stoker (Name - Birth - Place - Death - Place): Christina Stoker, 24 Aug 1815, Bloomfield, Scioto, Ohio, 10 May 1854, Alpine, Utah, Utah. John Stoker, 8 Mar 1817, Madison Twp., Jackson, Ohio, 11 Jun 1881, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. William Stoker, 26 Mar 1819, Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, 19 May 1892, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah. Nancy Stoker, Oct 1824, Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, 1840, Missouri. Sarah Stoker, 20 Jun 1827, Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, 10 Mar 1908, Summit Creek, Iron, Utah. Catherine Stoker, 24 Jul 1829, Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, 8 Nov 1882, Summit, Iron, Utah. Michael Stoker[22], 12 Sep 1833, Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, 2 Sep 1904, Junction, Piute, Utah... There is a chapter on each of David and Barbara's children in this book. Please refer to those chapters for information concerning them. Chapter Notes for David Stoker (1795-1852) 1. Stoker, Elayne, "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881" Volume H, p. 59, (copy of book is on CD in possession of Rachel A Deeben) 2. Ashe County, North Carolina was created from Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1799. Any births, marriages, and deaths that occurred prior to 1799 would be in Wilkes County. Reference obtained from the Animap program from the Goldbug Company. 3. Ashe County was created from Wilkes County in 1799. 4. Stoker, Elayne, "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," p. 59. 5. Stoker, Elayne, "David Stoker and Barbara Graybil1," p. 59. 6. Animap: State of Ohio, Jackson County was created from four counties, Scioto, Gallia, Athens, and Ross in 1816. Animap program from the Goldbug Company..." MARRIAGE: 1. Per biography cited above. 2. Location confirmed per Ordinance Index. 3. FHL Film #301,043 "Jackson County, Ohio Marriages 1831-1843" has the following entry in Marriage Book, Vol. B (1831-1843), page 46: "John McDaniel to Christina Stucker (sic)." License date 7 Feb 1835. Marriage by Seymour Brunson on 8 Feb 1835 by virtue of a license from the Cerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Jackson Co. Seymour Brunson is the Mormon authority and probable missionary who converted the Stokers. 4. FHL book 929.273 St67d "Descendants of William Stoker (1819-1892): with a View of his Ancestors," by Jay and Rachel Phillips Deeben, Feb. 2014, p. 26, has a photo of the marriage record for this couple. It is from Jackson County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1818-1865, Jackson County, US/CAN Film 317,419. It reads: "John McDaniel to Christina Stucker, Feby. 7, 1835. I do hereby certify that by virtue of a License from teh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Jackson County, I have solemnized the right of the marriage between John McDaniels & Christina Stoker on the 8 day of Feb'y 1835 as witnessed by [illegible] Seymour Brunson [illegible]." DEATH: 1. See burial citation below. Worldconnect database ":981899" notes death as 10 May 1854 at Mountainville (Alpine), Utah. BURIAL: 1. FHL film 1750764 "Alpine, Utah Cemetery Records": "John McDaniel, parents are James Daniel and Zibia McCorley, d. 11 Nov 1884." Next entry: "Christina Stoker, parents David Stoker and Barbary Grable, d. 10 May 1854." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories, "FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, p. 92. 2. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, p. 86. 3. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, p. 100. | Stoker, Christina (I2521)
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| 2087 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 192, township had a little over 40 families; related families of Michael Stoker and Michael Graybill are in neighboring Bloomfield Township; columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: David Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,0//1,0,0,1,0. Peter Grabill: 1,0,0,1,0,1//0,0,2,0,1. Nancy Henson: 0,1,0,1,0,0//0,1,1,1,0. James McDaniel: 0,0,0,0,0,1//3,2,0,0,1. [I assume this could be the same James as this database.] 2. The book "The Henry McDaniel family, 1755-1975," by Esta McDaniel Lee, 1975, FHL 929.273 M141L, p. 82: "Other McDaniels of Gallia and Jackson Counties, Ohio. David McDaniel, b. ca. 1738 m. 5 March, 1801, Elizabeth (Betsy) McCarley in Washington County, Ohio. Gallia County was a part of Washington County at that time. David McDaniel was in Ohio long before it became a state for a son James McDaniel was born in what is now Jackson County, 24 Feb. 1762. He married 19 Dec 1805 Zebiah (Sibby) McCarley, b. 10 Dec 1786, Gallia County, Ohio, daughter of John McCarley. She died 5 Feb 1860. James died in Jackson County, 1820. They had the following children: 1. Sarah McDaniel, b. 26 May 1806, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 7 Mar 1857, m. John W. Stoker, 13 Mar 1827. 2. Martha McDaniel, b. 24 Feb 1808, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 4 Feb 1877, m. 1828/29 Michael Stoker. 3. Jane McDaniel, 24 Feb 1810, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah, m. 1836, John Stoker. 4. John McDaniel, b. 10 Jun 1812, Jackson Co., O., d. 11 Nov 1884, Alpine, Utah, m. Christina Stoker. 5. William McDaniel, b. 1814, Jackson Co., O., d. 1889 unmarried. There could have been others." Page 83: "Jackson County Marriage Records. C.D. Massie: 19 Apr 1827 Electa Sally McDaniel to John W. Stoker." 3. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 174: James McDaniel, Zibiah McCarley, children: Martha McDaniel (Stoker), b. July 24, 1808, Galia Co., Ohio, Raccoon Township, died July 4, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Sarah McDaniel (Stoker), b. 26 May 1805, Galia Co., Ohio, Raccoon Township, died Mar. 7, 1857, Trader's Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. 4. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The Stokers join the LDS Church. Mormon missionaries come. During the fall of 1833 Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his family, living in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio first heard the preaching of the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These missionaries exhorted them to join the new church and told them about Joseph Smith receiving inspired revelations from God. In addition the Church was noted for its new scripture, the Book of Mormon. The Stokers were drawn to the message. Many accepted baptism before the end of 1833. They included sixteen-year-old John Stoker (1817-1881) who was baptized November 13, 1833 by Seymour Brunson(1) and four days later his double cousin, fifteen-year-old Joseph Levi Graybill, who was baptized by John A. Fisher.(2) These two grandsons of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) were among the first of the Stoker family to embrace the new church. In 1834 Seymour Brunson moved his family to Bloomfield and organized a branch of the Church.(3) John's parents, David (1795-1852) and Barbara Graybill Stoker, joined the branch during that year. David's younger brother, Michael, Jr., (1805-1858) was affiliated with the Mormons. Evidence of his affiliation with the church comes from the fact that his son, born on July 10, 1834 was named, "William Moroni." Clearly the name Moroni marked Michael as having read the Book of Mormon. Moreover, in his journal Michael, Jr., writes, "The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder." He also baptized William and Barbara Stoker that year.(4) Michael held the Mormon priesthood to officiate in these ordinances. The Stokers and their relatives were very enthusiastic about their new church. They contributed to its growth and sustained its leadership. The McDaniel connection. The children and grandchildren of MIchael Stoker (1762-1838) had an affinity to marry the children of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, neighbors in Jackson County. John W. Stoker (1802-1857) married Electa Sarah McDaniel (1806-1857) on April 19, 1827. Michael Stoker, Jr., (1805-1858) married her sister, Martha Carr McDaniel, on Jan 1, 1829. A grandson, John Stoker (1817-1881), and a granddaughter, Christine Stoker (1815-1854), children of David Stoker (1795-1852), married Jane McDaniel (1810-1890) on January 21, 1836 and John Riley McDaniel on February 8, 1835. Nineteen-year-old John, in addition to marrying Jane, also adopted her son, Alma. Family tradition says that Alma's father would not consider joining the LDS church so Jane left him. About a month after her son's birth, Jane married John Stoker, the nephew of her two brothers-in-law. The Kirtland Temple is dedicated. In the spring of 1836, some members of the Bloomfield branch made the 200 mile trip north to Kirtland, Ohio to attend the dedication of the temple. In that group was Michael Stoker's son-in-law and grandson, Michael Graybill, Sr., and Joseph Levi Graybill. Michael Graybill's wife, Polly Stoker (1792-1864), was expecting the birth of her eleventh Child, a son who was born April 6, 1836. She didn't go with them. Michael Graybill while at the conference and temple dedication at Kirtland was impressed by Sidney Rigdon's two and a half hour sermon. Upon returning to Bloomfield, he named his newly born son, Sidney Rigdon Graybill.(5) Picture p. 3: "Barbara Graybill and her son, John Stoker." Footnotes 1. "The Life of John Stoker," compiled by Eunice Stoker Southwick 2. "Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Vol. III G.K. compiled by Susan Easton Black. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993. p. 149. 3. "Seymour Brunson," LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 3 compiled by Andrew Jenson. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901. p. 331. 4. "The Howard, Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories and including the Bell, Teeple, Mackland, Bardsley, Graybill, Eller, Dick, Oman, Smith, and Koons Families," compiled by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. p. 92. 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993." 5. Gallia County was formed on March 25, 1803 from portions of Adams and Washington counties. Jackson County was formed March 1, 1816 from Ross County. Both Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co. and Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co. adjoin each other. 6. Ancestry.com accessed 28 Feb 2013 from Claudia Ray "Zibiah Mc Carley. Also known as Sibby Mc Carley; Shebby Mc Daniel, Zibiah Birdino Zibiah was born 10 Dec 1786 to John Mc Carley and Martha Carr. She was born in Pennsylvania, moved with her family to Virginia and then to Ohio. In Ohio she met and married James McDonald the 19 Dec 1805 (film 0,317,652) here they spelled her name as Sibby Mc Carley. They were married in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio by Charles Buck Jr. They lived in Raccoon Twp near the Raccoon river in Gallia County, Ohio. They had five children, three girls and two boys. Electa Sarah, Martha, Jane, John and William, James died in 1820, leaving Zibiah with five children ages four to twelve years old. (1820 census.) The 20 of April 1823 Zibiah married Charles Birdino. Here she used the name of Shebby Mc Daniel. Her using the surname of Mc Daniel may indicate the Mc Donald clan using Mc Daniel for Church events. (Film 0,317652) They had two children, Nemiah Wood Birdino and Elizabeth Gabrielle Birdino. Charles had several spelling variations of his surname. It was spelled Birdino on his marriage certificate. Burdinano, Beirdneau and Birdino in the land grant papers. In the 1830 census his name was listed as Charles Burdino. His children always seemed to use the Birdno spelling. Charles Birdino had enlisted in the army and fought in the war of 1812. Because of this he received warrant no. 3809 for 160 acres of bounty land. I believe that his bounty land was located in Jefferson County, Ohio, because Charles Burdino, John Stoker, Michael Stoker and Michael Stoker Jr were all living in Steubenville; Ohio, in the 1830 Census. From the location of their residences next to each other Charles Birdino and Michael Stoker may have both receive bounty lands from the war of 1812. James Mc Donald may have also enlisted in the army for the war of 1812. The 1830 Ohio Census shows a Charles Burdino record with 1 male 5-10 Nehemiah Birdno, 1 male 10-15 William Mc Donald, 1 male 15-20 John McDonald-Mc Daniel, 1 male 60-70 Charles Birdno & 1 female under 5 Elizabeth Birdno, 1 female 20-30 Jane Mc Daniel and 1 female 40-50 Zibiah. (Census) This census proves that Zibiah did not have three more sons with James Mc Donald. If she did they would have been shown on this census record. The three extra sons Van D. Mc Daniel born 13 May 1815, John E. Mc Daniel born 5 Dec 1817 & Andrew G. Mc Daniel born 30 Mar 1820. If she did the census would have shown 2 Males 15-20 & 3 Males 10-15. These three never appeared as sons of James and Zibiah on any records until a computer match and merge was done to create the I.G.I. They should be removed as sons of Zibiah in the New Family Search. Next was the John Stoker family with one male under 5 one male 20-30 John & 1 female under 5, one female 20-30 Electa Sarah Mc Daniel. Next was the Michael Stoker family with one male 10-15, one male 15-20 John, one male 60-70 & one female 10-15 Christina, one female 50-60. Then the Michael Stoker Jr. family with one male under 5, one male 20-30 & one female 5-10, one female 20-30 Martha Mc Daniel. Charles Birdino had received a leg wound while serving in the war of 1812 while fighting in Canada. There was a military hospital in Kanawha, Virginia where he had gone to have his leg checked. He died in Kanawha in 1840 leaving Zibiah a widow again. This time most of her children were grown and married. An article in the Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio Historical Society published in August 19?? gives the following information about the Graybeal and Stoker families. (In 1815 Peter Graybeal Sr and his wife left Ashe County with their son Michael, his wife Mary Stoker and their two young children. Their daughter Barbara Graybeal and her husband David Stoker, Mary's brother and their Stoker in-laws Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker. They were on their way to the Great Western Reserve, which would become Ohio. They selected a location in what became Bloomfield, Jackson County Ohio. Here they learned of the early Latter Day Saint Church and every member of this group of baptismal age became members in 1833. The spelling of their name was changed to Graybill to set them apart as Mormons.) Some books say that the Mc Donald clan was a violent clan so when they joined a church they would change their name to Mc Daniel. Because of the Mc Donald clan using the surname of Mc Daniel I believe that Zibiah and her children who joined the Church were baptized as Mc Daniel. Our John Mc Daniel was baptized in 1 February 1833 by Seymour Brunson. Seymour Brunson's diary says that he baptized a large number of people in Ohio. I believe that Zibiah and her children that were baptized and joined the Church used the name Mc Daniel. All of Zibiah's Mc Daniel children married Stokers except for William who never married, never joined the church and never used the surname of Mc Daniel. Zibiah's oldest daughter Electa Sarah was born 26 May 1806 (film 184,658). She married John W. Stoker. They joined the Mormon Church and came west to Nauvoo and then to Council Bluffs, Iowa where they both died in 1857. They died at Traders Point, Iowa Her next daughter Martha married Michael Stoker Jr. They also joined the church and came west to Nauvoo, and then to Iowa where they both died. Martha died in Council Bluffs, Iowa 4 Feb 1873. Zibiah, her sons John Mc Daniel, William Mc Donald and Nemiah Wood Birdino and daughter Elizabeth Gabriell Birdino also came west with the rest ofthe family as far as Iowa. In the 1850 Iowa census Zibiah and her daughter Elizabeth Birdino were living with Zibiah's son William Mc Donald. His surname was spelled Mc Donal in this census. Jeremiah Birdeno, his wife America and daughter Emily were living next door, or with them. Zibiah remained in Iowa where she died in 1860 at the age of 73 years 16 days and was buried in the Calhoun Cemetery, (film 1,579,041) which is in Harrison County. Harrison county had been a part of Pottawattamie county until 1855. William remained in Iowa and was a farmer. At his death an obituary was printed saying. (William McDonald came in 1854 with his mother, who was of the Mormon Faith. She went to Utah, but he refused to go. He remained in Calhoon township and lived a single life ever afterwards. He accumulated over fifty thousand dollars worth of property. He died in 1885 and his estate was sold at auction.) (film 0,934,944 pg. 454) The probate of William's estate can be found in the (film 1,510,110 pgs 493, 404-496, 504, 510). It tells the names of his sister's family coming to claim his estate. William is buried next to his mother in the Calhoun Cemetery. (Film 1,579,041) I don't think the people who wrote his obituary knew that Zibiah Birdno was the mother of William Mc Donald." 7. Erroneous entries in the old LDS Ancestral File improperly added the following three sons to James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley: Van D. McDaniel, John E. McDaniel, and Andrew G. McDaniel. According to the 1850 census for Morgan, Gallia, Ohio these three individuals were children (ages 16, 10, and 7 respectively) in another family with parents William McDaniel, b. 1806 Ohio, and Sarah ___, b. 1812 Virginia. 8. Another perspective on the origins of James McDaniel/McDonald is provided by family researcher Kenneth McDaniel "As to your question [as to the proof of James being the son of a Henry in Virginia]. Hard evidence is missing. Land grants for Washington eventually Gallia and later Jackson county were destroyed when the British burned Washington D.C. during the war of 1812. Also, most births were never registered in rural areas. The only hard copies available are occasional church christening records (which only give the date of the baptism) and wills. The book you refer to [Esta McDaniel Lee's book] was based on one single document which has since, mysteriously, vanished. This document was a register of revolutionary war veterans, or militia, living in lower Eastern Ohio after 1795. Here were two names, David and James McDaniel, named. What their relation was, was not specified. A document discovered after 1975 shows both James and David had applying for Revolutionary War pensions and that James' father was named Henry. It does not state where these men were born. Who were James and David McDaniel? Speculation ranged on the LDS database from father (David) and son (James) to cousins. My father struggled with this until his death in 2003. Believe me, I have done everything in my power to find the original document mentioned in Esta McDaniel Lee's book. Yet, even though I am convinced it does (or did) exist, it does not prove the two men were born in Ohio. As a professional historian it appalls me how people can form such large theories on so little evidence. My first approach was to check the timeline. I have attached a document which gives a comprehensive timeline of the Ohio valley. Compare this with the following: - James McDaniel was born around 1762 - Henry McDaniel was born around 1735 In 1763, after the end of the French Indian War, was this part of Ohio transferred from the French to the English. There were white settlers in the area, but they were mostly French trappers. British settlers were more often than not chased out either by the French or the Native Americans. What is now called Jackson County was Salt Marsh and used by the Native Americans as a slave labor colony for prisoners of war. In 1770 George Washington surveyed the area for the first time. Even then the area was not considered safe for colonization. The area was opened for land grants finally at the end of 1787. It is thus extremely unlikely that James, and especially, Henry was born in Ohio. The McCarley family, into which James and David married two sisters, first arrived in 1798. This is documented and not disputed. They followed the same route from Western Virginia into Washington (Gallia) county as did most of the Scottish and Irish settlers. Notice that I don't use the word British. Many of the Scottish and Irish immigrants were descendents of Jacobite rebels – which is one theory I am following right now for my family roots. Because of this they tried to avoid any area controlled by British descendents. Legend (and I would like to strongly emphasize this as only legend) has it that James had a falling out with his father and refused to use the name McDaniel except on official documents. David, however, continued using his birth name until his death. This would appear to be supported by the will of Henry McDaniel where James – the oldest son by the way – was bequeathed only one dollar (a nominal sum used to preclude heirs from disputing an inheritance). The entire plantation was given to his wife and a younger son, Isaac. The names Henry and David in the McDaniel line are not very common in this period. Births of David's can be verified only twice – one in Missouri and one in Virginia – and both only because of the father's will. Henry McDaniel appears only once in Virginia. This is the only Henry with a son named David. Again, I reject any birth of Henry McDaniel in Ohio in 1735 unequivocally. To find a Henry having two sons named James and David, both sons later following proven and easily travelled even then migration routes into southern Ohio in the right time frame is far more believable than a fictional Henry living and raising a family in an area which, even for French trappers of the time, was barely inhabitable. As to the McCarley family. Elizabeth and Zibiah McCarley were sisters. Elizabeth was born in 1780 and Zibiah in 1786. David McDaniel married Elizabeth and James married Zibiah. Elizabeth married David in 1801 and Zibiah married James in 1805. Again, look at the dates. If James was born around 1762, he would be 43 and Zibiah 19 – not unrealistic for those times. If David was James' father he would have to have been born at least twenty years earlier which would make him at least 60 when he married Elizabeth who would have been then 21. Not impossible; but unlikely. As to those who disclaim the surname McDaniel as being a bastardization of the name McDonald – this is simply untrue. The McDaniel branch of the McDonald clan were the Northern Irish or Ulster cousins who existed, not because of a mispronunciation, but a difference in spelling of the same word between the two lands. MacDonnell is Scottish (from Gaelic MacDomhnail) while MacDannell is Irish (pronounced MacDah-nnell) the ‘ah' sound in Irish equating with the ‘o' sound in Scottish. The first McDaniel's started appearing outside of Ireland in about 1580 in the Netherlands. After this they appeared for the first time in Virginia and North Carolina between 1690 and 1720. They were mercenaries fighting for and against various European houses. The American McDaniel's were quite often deportees after being captured by the British in battle. In any case, once resettled, they never reverted to the use of McDonald with one, maybe two, exceptions. This is the evidence as it now stands. It is circumstantial, but stronger than anything else presented to date. Since no one has been able to present valid arguments to the contrary, I am continuing on the theory that Henry either arrived from Ulster in the mid-1700's (possible, but again according to the evidence at hand, unlikely) or was descended from one Bryan MacDaniel who was deported from Arklow, Leinster, Ireland in 1686 and settled in Virginia. This, I believe is the most probable. 9. See above note on the origins of James McDaniel/McDonald as provided by family researcher Kenneth McDaniel "In the name of God amen, I Henry McDaniel (his seal) of the County of Monroe and State of Virginia being sick and weak in Body but of sound mind Memory and understanding do make this my last will and testament in manner and form as follows: to wit - first of all I recommend my sole to God who gave it me, secondly at death my body be buried in a decent manner. first as to the raile part of my estate, I leave to my wife Caty the house I now live in together with the field adjoining the same also a gardin lot for her to have it During her time of life and give and bequeath unto my son Isack the Plantation whereon I now live- the part lying below a small branch at the head of a field known by the name of the Boyde field. I further wish and give to my son Isack that part of land that I leave with my wife Caty him to have at her desease and I give to my daughter Peggy the uper end of tract of land I now live on That is from the above named branch at the head of the Boyde field the devide line between Isack and Peggy is to Keep the coarse of ( ? ) Branch to the Backline of ( ? ) survey - and I give to my daughter Peggy one other survey of land of about one hundred and fifty acres adjoining the first mentioned part I give her and I also give unto her so much of my tract of land known by the name of the Cruked Run Survey at the lower end as will make her up three hundred acres of in hole of the land given - above mentioned and I also give unto her the hole of my land lying on the Stinking lick branch - the Balance of the cruked Run land that I have not named to my daughter Peggy I give to my son Isaac and as to the personable part of my estate I wish to be disposed with as hereunder written, first I leave with my wife Caty the hole of my Negroes her to ave them her time of life and at her death I give the hole of them to my son Isack - one only accepted which I give to my Daughter Peggy and she in that to have her choice and I give to my wife Caty two of my cows and one horse Beast and at her death my son Isaac to have them. and I desire the Land I give to my daughter Peggy together with the Negro not to be sold in her time with out her consent. I wish my wife to have her choice in the cows and horse also I leave with my wife the hole of my house hold furniture and as many of my sheep as she may think well to keep - and as many geese as she may think well to keep - her time of life the hole left to her in this my will I give it at her death to my son Isack and as to the Balance of my estate of Kind so ever it may be I give to my son Isack only so much as is hereafter mentioned - that I give unto my son James one Dollar to my son John one Dollar to my son Henry one Dollar and to my son William one Dollar also to my son David one Dollar and I give to my Daughters namely Mary - Nancy - Patsey - and Ann one Dollar to each of them to be paid out of my estate -- and I give unto my Daughters namely, -- hereby appoint Jacob Peck, George Walker gentlemen Executors of this my will together with my son Isack and I hereby Revoke all will or Wills heretofore by me made and declare this my to be my last will and testament as I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty first day of April 1819." Henry McDaniel (Seal) Test Joshua Butcher John Cantley Matt Farley At Monroe June Court." BIRTH: 1. In the following census, James' son William notes his father's birth in Scotland: 1880 US: Calhoun, Harrison, IA, p. 109B: Wm. McDaniel, 64, OH Sco Sco, farmer. Matilda Ratliff, other, KY, housekeeper. Stephen Vittito, 60 KY KY KY, farm laborer. Jared Stoker, nephew, single, 30, IL OH OH, farm laborer. Retta Butler, Gdau., 3m, IA IL unk. MARRIAGE: 1. Email dated 27 Feb 2013 from Claudia Ray | McDaniel or McDonald, James (I455)
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| 2088 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 192, township had a little over 40 families; related families of Michael Stoker and Michael Graybill are in neighboring Bloomfield Township; columns are male 0-10, 10-16, 16-18, 16-26, 26-45, 45+// female 0-10, 10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+: David Stoker: 2,1,0,1,0,0//1,0,0,1,0. Peter Grabill: 1,0,0,1,0,1//0,0,2,0,1. Nancy Henson: 0,1,0,1,0,0//0,1,1,1,0. James McDaniel: 0,0,0,0,0,1//3,2,0,0,1. [I assume this could be the same James McDaniel.] 1830 US: Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, p. 1 of 8 (Note: that index indicates "Burdine," but looking carefully at the actual image, it is "Burdino".): Charles Burdine, males: 1:5-10(Nehemiah Beirdneau), 1:10-15(William McDaniel), 1:15-20(John McDaniel), 1:20-30(uncertain identity), 1:60-70(Charles Birdino); females: 1:0-5 (Elizabeth Beirdneau), 1:20-30(Jane McDaniel), 1:40-50(Zibiah) 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, 28 Nov 1850, p. 173 of 187, house/family 1358 (next door is Jeremiah Birdeno, age 26, b. in Ohio with his wife America, 21, KY, and dau. Emily, 2, IA): William McDonnel, 32, laborer, OH. Zibiah Birdeno, 60, PA. Elizabeth Birdeno, 20, OH. (Note: Jeremiah appears as Nehemiah married to America Steele in several Worldconnect databases.) 1852 Iowa: Birdno or a variation thereof not listed in FHL book heads of household index for the 1852 Iowa census. There is a William Ridenour next to Levi and George Grabel [Graybill] which would be a long shot on a last name correlation except first names vary. Ridenour under that spelling does not show up in 1860 US census for that county. Children on the other hand of the Birdnos continue with Birdno in Utah and Arizona. 1856 Iowa: Ancestry.com for Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa shows N.W. Burdino and family a dozen homes away at 49/57. N.W. is 32 years old and had resided in Iowa 9 years. Birth was Ohio. McDonals (McDaniels) are at 36/39: Wm. McDonal, 35, 10years in Iowa, OH, farmer. Zebiah McDonal, 67, 10 years in Iowa, VA. Elizabeth McDonal, 22, 10 years in Iowa, OH. 1860 US: Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa, p. 11 of 11, 3 Jul 1860, 390/340 (note that Zibiah is not listed from which we can deduce that she probably had died before the census date.): Wm. McDonald, 44, $2500, $1000 farmer, OH. Elizabeth Berdino, 25, house keeper, OH. Jerard Stoner, 16, farm hand, IL. 2. The book "The Henry McDaniel family, 1755-1975," by Esta McDaniel Lee, 1975, FHL 929.273 M141L, p. 82: "Other McDaniels of Gallia and Jackson Counties, Ohio. David McDaniel, b. ca. 1738 m. 5 March, 1801, Elizabeth (Betsy) McCarley in Washington County, Ohio. Gallia County was a part of Washington County at that time. David McDanial was in Ohio long before it became a state for a son James McDaniel was born in what is now Jackson County, 24 Feb. 1762. He married 19 Dec 1805 Zebiah (Sibby) McCarley, b. 10 Dec 1786, Gallia County, Ohio, daughter of John McCarley. She died 5 Feb 1860. James died in Jackson County, 1820. They had the following children: 1. Sarah McDaniel, b. 26 May 1806, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 7 Mar 1857, m. John W. Stoker, 13 Mar 1827. 2. Martha McDaniel, b. 24 Feb 1808, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 4 Feb 1877, m. 1828/29 Michael Stoker. 3. Jane McDaniel, 24 Feb 1810, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah, m. 1836, John Stoker. 4. John McDaniel, b. 10 Jun 1812, Jackson Co., O., d. 11 Nov 1884, Alpine, Utah, m. Christina Stoker. 5. William McDaniel, b. 1814, Jackson Co., O., d. 1889 unmarried. There could have been others." Page 83: "Jackson County Marriage Records. C.D. Massie: 19 Apr 1827 Electa Sally McDaniel to John W. Stoker." 3. Website http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruthhall/McCarley/McCarley.html#i5037 accessed 12 Dec 2008 concerning her parents and siblings: "John McCarley was born in 1754 in possibly York County, PA and died on 17 May 1814 in Gallia County, Ohio. General Notes: John McCarley came to Gallia County, Ohio in 1806, probably from York County, Pennsylvania, via West Virginia. He took patent deed to the west half of section 13, Racoon Township in Febuary 1806, later adding the northeast quarter section 23, Racoon Township John died May 17, 1814 at age 60. Among his chattels were three Bibles, and a pot-still. John, his son William with wife Rachel Totten and his grandson John have been accepted as First Families of Gallia County, Ohio by the Gallia County Genealogical Society. Certificate in the possession of Ruth Hall. John's will: 'In the Name of God, Amen. I, John McCarly, of the County of Gallia and State of Ohio, considering the uncertainty of this mortal life and being of sound mind and memory, Blessed be Almighty God for the same, do make and publish this my Last will and Testament in manner and form following that is today. Further, after all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. Further, I give and bequeath to my three Daughters, Elizabeth, Margaret and Zebiah fifty pounds each including that which they have heretofore received and also I give and bequeath unto my eldest son, William, all the Lands belonging to me on the South Side of Dryrun up on Indian Creek quarter section also twenty acres adjoining the same off Dryrun quarter section. Also all the Land that belongs to me on the East of Racccoon Creek below the mouth of Dryrun. to him, the said William, his heirs and assigns for ever. Also, I give and bequeath unto my son, John, my mills and Dutch Fan and all the Lands that belong to me on the East side of Raccoon Creek above the mouth of the aforesaid Dryrun with one acre remind, the west end of the mill dam by him, the said John, paying four hundred dollars in annual payments, one hundred dollars per year which money to go towards paying up my three daughters their legacies. This I give to the said John, his heirs and assigns forever. The remainder of my estate, real and personal, I wish to be equally divided between my two youngest sons, Samuel and Moses, to them, their heirs and assigns for ever. If either of my two sons mentioned, youngest sons, should decease without leaving lawful heirs, his part to return to the surviving one. Also, I hereby appoint John McCarley, Joseph W. Rose and John Cherington executors of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and seal this twenty sixth day of September, One thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen. John McCarly. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named John McCarley to be his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator. Samuel W. Blagg William Blagg' John married (name unknown). Children from this marriage were: 2 M i. William McCarley was born in 1783 and died on 20 Aug 1869 in Morgan Township Gallia County, Ohio. 3 M ii. John McCarley was born about 1784, died on 31 Dec 1827 in Gallia County, Ohio and was buried in McCarley Private Cemetery. John married Ann Glenn on 9 Jun 1813. Ann Glenn died before 1815. John next married Martha Carr in 1815. Martha was born on 29 Nov 1793, died on 7 Sep 1851 in Gallia County, Ohio and was buried in McCarley Private Cemetery. 4 M iii. Moses McCarley was born in 1799 and died on 17 Jun 1851. 5 F iv. Elizabeth McCarley was born about 1785. Elizabeth married Noah Walp on 16 Aug 1847 in Gallia County, Ohio. Noah was born in 1820 in Pennsylvania. 6 F v. Margaret McCarley was born about 1786. 7 F vi. Zebiah McCarley was born about 1789 in Gallia County, Ohio, died on 3 Feb 1860 in Calhoun, Harrison County, Iowa and was buried in Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa. 8 M vii. Samuel McCarley was born in 1798." The same website also notes: "Zebiah McCarley (John1) was born about 1789 in Gallia County, Ohio, died on 3 Feb 1860 in Calhoun, Harrison County, Iowa and was buried in Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa. Other names for Zebiah were Shebby, Sibby, and Tebiah. Zebiah married James McDaniel on 19 Dec 1805 in Gallia County, Ohio. James was born on 24 Feb 1762 in Jackson, Jackson, Ohio and died on 18 Jan 1820 in Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio Another name for James was McDonald. [Kerry's note: I do not believe Zebiah's birth was in Gallia County since in her 1850 census she says she was born in Pennsylvania which would be more likely considering that Gallia county in Ohio was not really settled until the early 1800s. Also, I James McDaniel's birth would not have been so early in Ohio since this area was not settled until several decades later. One of his children reports in a census that he was from Scotland.] 4. Erroneous entries in the old LDS Ancestral File improperly added the following three sons to James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley: Van D. McDaniel, John E. McDaniel, and Andrew G. McDaniel. According to the 1850 census for Morgan, Gallia, Ohio these three individuals were children (ages 16, 10, and 7 respectively) in another family with parents William McDaniel, b. 1806 Ohio, and Sarah ___, b. 1812 Virginia. 5. The following information was found concerning the two children of Charles and Zibiah: A. Website http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruthhall/McCarley/McCarley.html#i5037 accessed 10 Dec 2008: "Zebiah McCarley next married Charles Beirdneau on 20 Apr 1823 in Gallia County, Ohio. Charles was born in 1766, died on 5 Feb 1860 in Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa and was buried in Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa. Children from this marriage were: i. Nehemia Wood Beirdneau was born on 2 Feb 1824 in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, died on 7 Sep 1901 in Stafford, Graham County, Arizona and was buried on 10 Sep 1901 in Thatcher, Graham County, Arizona. ii. Elizabeth Gabrielle Beirdneau was born on 6 Mar 1827 in Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio and died on 8 Oct 1903. Elizabeth married Perrigrine Sessions on 25 Mar 1865 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Perrigrine was born on 15 Jan 1814 in Newrey, Oxford, Maine, died on 3 Jun 1893 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah and was buried on 6 Jun 1893 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah." B. LDS Ordinance Index shows "ELIZ GABRIELLE BRIDNO" married and sealed to PERIGRINE SESSIONS" on 25 Mar 1865 EHOUS in Salt Lake City. Note that Perigrine Sessions, along with John Stoker, were founders of Bountiful. Stoker's wife, a daughter of Zibiah, may have had something to do with her step-sister's marriage to Peregrine. C. Per Worldconnect database "sgoates4093" of Sharol Goates BIOGRAPHY: 1. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. Selected family related passages from his journal: P. 1: Nov. 1-4, 1869: The journal starts with John leaving as a 52 year old missionary with Jesse N. Perkins as a companion from Salt Lake City on the railroad to Omaha, NE. The railroad had just recently been completed so he details the progress of the transcontinental railway journey. P. 2: Saturday, Nov. 6, 1869: "Went to Bluff City with J.N. Perkins. Sunday 7th, spent the fore noon with Moroni Stoker - took dinner with him." [William Moroni Stoker, 1834-1929, was John's first cousin thru John's father's brother Michael S. Stoker, 1805-1858.] P. 3: "Monday 8th. Went up to Musketoe to see Simeon P. Graybill. Stayed all night. Tuesday 9th, took dinner with Aunt Margaret Stoker, Uncle Eller Stoker's widow, and returned to Aunt Martha's at Trading Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. Wednesday, 10th. Wrote a letter to Mr. Wm. Atkinson in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah. Thursday 11th. Visited Wm. McDaniel in Harrison Co. 40 miles north. Friday 12th. Visited the grave of Zibiah Birdno [could also be Binders], my wife's mother. Saturday 13th. Returned to Aunt Martha's at Trader's Point. Sunday 14th. Spent the day with Aunt Martha's family. Monday 15th. Went to Bluff City to look for a letter but got none and returned to the Point. [Simeon Graybill, 1816-1889, was John's first cousin twice thru his father's sister Polly Stoker, 1792-1864, and thru his mother's brother Michael Peter Graybill. Eller Stoker, 1816-1855, was John's father's brother and married to Margaret Judd, 1822-1893. Aunt Martha was Martha Carr McDaniel, 1808-1873, wife of John's father's brother Michael S. Stoker, 1805-1858. William McDaniel, 1810-1885, is John's brother-in-law. John's Mother-in-law, Zibiah (McCarley) McDaniels, 1786-1860, apparently remarried a Mr. Birdno after her husband James McDaniel, 1762-1820, died.] Pp. 4-9: The journal details their departure from Council Bluffs area by various means including railroad, hack, steamboat, packet boat, hired horses, and on foot with luggage to "Leith Co. 5 miles north of Estillville," Virginia via many detailed waypoints including but not limited to DesMoines, Chicago, Cleveland, Wheeling VA, Burlington on the Ohio River, the "Big Sandy" on the line between Kentucky and Virginia, the "Pound Gap" summit of Cumberland Mountain, the "High Nob the highest point in Virginia." John details with whom they stayed and what hospitality they received. Along the way they see and preach the Gospel to many McLelland/McClelland relatives of his companion. In Leith Co., VA, on Monday, Dec. 13, 1869, he "wrote a letter home to my family and one to Ash[e] Co., North Carolina to David and Henry Graybill" which they mailed the next day from Estillville. [John's mother, Barbara Graybill, had two brothers - Henry, ca1780-ca1843, and David, 1794-1874 - who remained in Ashe Co. where she was born; however, Henry was dead by then but his "Uncle" David responds later on Jan. 22.] Pp. 10-17: They stayed in the area doing missionary work mainly among McClellands. He notes on Christmas day while staying with Samuel McClelland, they went to a meeting and heard a Dunkard preach. On Monday, Dec. 27th, John notes, "wrote a letter to my family also one to my sister-in-law Martha Stoker at Bluff City, Iowa. [Martha Carr (McDaniel) Stoker was whom he referred to as Aunt Martha previously in his journal since she was married to his father's brother Michael S. Stoker, but she was also a sister-in-law since she was the sister to John's wife Jane McDaniel.] John notes on Saturday, Jan. 8th, that he "went to the widow Quillins to inquire concerning the Wampler family." [I am unsure who the widow was, but John's maternal grandmother was Christina Wampler, 1753-1844.] On Tuesday, Jan. 11th, John notes, "Went to Patsy Daughterty's to inquire after my mother's relatives." On Thursday, Jan. 13th, he notes that he "went to Wm. Wampler's, took dinner." [I do not have either a Patsy Daughterty nor William Wampler in my database - they must be of a later generation than John's grandmother Christina Wampler.] He also notes on the same day that he received a letter from his son-in-law J. Tolman and daughter in Utah. On Saturday, Jan. 22nd, John notes, 'Received a letter from my son David Stoker, Davis Co., Utah dated Jan'y 1st, 1870, gave particulars of my son John Stoker's sickness but getting better. Also received a letter from my uncle David Graybill, Ashe Co., Jefferson, North Carolina." On Jan. 24th, he writes back to his uncle David Graybill. Pp. 18-24: Starting on Jan. 26th, 1870, the missionaries are on the move: first to Bristol (VA?), then thru Chattanooga, Nashville, Sparta, to Putnam Co., Tennessee where they did missionary work with the Perkins and Mayberry families who relatives of his companion, Jesse Perkins. On Sunday, Feb. 13th, 1870, John wrote letters to his son David Stoker in Davis Co., Utah and one to Aunt Martha Stoker and cousins in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. On the next day he went to Gainesboro where he received a letter from his son David Stoker. Beginning Feb. 16th, 1870, John proceeds by boat down the Cumberland to Nashville then to St. Louis via the Mississippi River from Cape "Jerido". On Feb. 23rd, took the from St. Louis to Trader's Point where again he sees Aunt Martha. He sends money to his companion in Decatur Co., Iowa to help him get to Council Bluffs. He also sends a letter to Utah asking his family for money for himself and his companion. Pp. 25-33: John arrives Feb. 26 and remains in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa until March 24 when he, Jesse Perkins who arrives March 9, and several other missionaries from the East Coast join up in Omaha for the trip home to Utah by railroad which he notes cost $50.75. Generally he is staying with his Aunt Martha. Some journal entries during that time period dealing with family follow: "Sat., Feb 26th, 1870: Went up to Musketoe Creek to Simeon Peter Graybill, my cousin. Stayed over night. Sunday, 27th. Went to Walker's Grove in Harrison Co. to Sidney R. Graybill, my cousin, with Moroni Stoker to see some sick cousins Michael and Elizabeth Graybill. [Sidney Rigdon, 1836-1893, Michael S., 1827-1910, and Elizabeth, 1833-1891, are siblings and all children of Polly Stoker, John's father's sister.] Stayed over night. Monday 28th. Cold and windy. Remained all day. Stayed all night. Tuesday, March 1st 1870. Returned to Aunt Martha Stoker's at Traders Point. Read a letter from David Stoker, my son, to John A. Stoker, dated Feb'y 21st, 1870. Stayed overnight… Thursday 3d. Cousin Jared Stoker killed 2 turkeys, the 2 weighing 40 lbs. [John Alexander Stoker, 1837-1918, and Jared, 1843-1912, were first cousins and sons of Michael S. Stoker, brother of John's father David.] Stayed over… Tuesday 8th, being my birthday, age 53… Wednesday 9th… was weighed being 184 lbs… Friday 18th… went to Aaron Thomas, took dinner and spent the day with him and family. [Aaron Morris Thomas, 1833-1920, was married to John's first cousin, Elizabeth Jane Stoker, who was the daughter of John W. Stoker, a brother of John's father David.] Returned to Aunt Martha Stoker's… Saturday 19th… Sent a letter to Wm. Atkinson in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, heard from home by a letter wrote to John A. Stoker dated March the 12th, 1870. All was well… Thursday 24th… John A. Stoker and Joseph Stoker took me and Bro. Jesse N. Perkins to Omaha with a wagon. Rained before we got there. Joseph Stoker went over the River with us met about 30 of the missionaries at the St. Charles Hotel. [Joseph Jehiel Stoker, 1846-1921, was a brother of John Alexander and William Moroni Stoker.] Left Omaha at 6 p.m. on the Emigrant Cars for home…" Pp. 33-35: John details the train trip which started March 24th and arrived home in Bountiful March 29th after switching to the Utah Central in Ogden. He notes his arrival "in the midst of family and friends with a hearty God bless you… and a hearty shaking of hands." The missionary journal ends at this point. Pp. 36-227: The balance of John's journal book is genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank, which I did not copy. Besides family, John would also note many other unrelated Stokers who he must have gleaned from books and other sources. He also notes some totally unrelated non-Stoker individuals with whom he evidently has some acquaintance. I have entered the pertinent data with each family in my database. 2. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 174: James McDaniel, Zibiah McCarley, children: Martha McDaniel (Stoker), b. July 24, 1808, Galia Co., Ohio, Raccoon Township, died July 4, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Sarah McDaniel (Stoker), b. 26 May 1805, Galia Co., Ohio, Raccoon Township, died Mar. 7, 1857, Trader's Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. 3. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The Stokers join the LDS Church. Mormon missionaries come. During the fall of 1833 Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his family, living in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio first heard the preaching of the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These missionaries exhorted them to join the new church and told them about Joseph Smith receiving inspired revelations from God. In addition the Church was noted for its new scripture, the Book of Mormon. The Stokers were drawn to the message. Many accepted baptism before the end of 1833. They included sixteen-year-old John Stoker (1817-1881) who was baptized November 13, 1833 by Seymour Brunson(1) and four days later his double cousin, fifteen-year-old Joseph Levi Graybill, who was baptized by John A. Fisher.(2) These two grandsons of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) were among the first of the Stoker family to embrace the new church. In 1834 Seymour Brunson moved his family to Bloomfield and organized a branch of the Church.(3) John's parents, David (1795-1852) and Barbara Graybill Stoker, joined the branch during that year. David's younger brother, Michael, Jr., (1805-1858) was affiliated with the Mormons. Evidence of his affiliation with the church comes from the fact that his son, born on July 10, 1834 was named, "William Moroni." Clearly the name Moroni marked Michael as having read the Book of Mormon. Moreover, in his journal Michael, Jr., writes, "The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder." He also baptized William and Barbara Stoker that year.(4) Michael held the Mormon priesthood to officiate in these ordinances. The Stokers and their relatives were very enthusiastic about their new church. They contributed to its growth and sustained its leadership. The McDaniel connection. The children and grandchildren of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) had an affinity to marry the children of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, neighbors in Jackson County. John W. Stoker (1802-1857) married Electa Sarah McDaniel (1806-1857) on April 19, 1827. Michael Stoker, Jr., (1805-1858) married her sister, Martha Carr McDaniel, on Jan 1, 1829. A grandson, John Stoker (1817-1881), and a granddaughter, Christine Stoker (1815-1854), children of David Stoker (1795-1852), married Jane McDaniel (1810-1890) on January 21, 1836 and John Riley McDaniel on February 8, 1835. Nineteen-year-old John, in addition to marrying Jane, also adopted her son, Alma. Family tradition says that Alma's father would not consider joining the LDS church so Jane left him. About a month after her son's birth, Jane married John Stoker, the nephew of her two brothers-in-law. The Kirtland Temple is dedicated. In the spring of 1836, some members of the Bloomfield branch made the 200 mile trip north to Kirtland, Ohio to attend the dedication of the temple. In that group was Michael Stoker's son-in-law and grandson, Michael Graybill, Sr., and Joseph Levi Graybill. Michael Graybill's wife, Polly Stoker (1792-1864), was expecting the birth of her eleventh Child, a son who was born April 6, 1836. She didn't go with them. Michael Graybill while at the conference and temple dedication at Kirtland was impressed by Sidney Rigdon's two and a half hour sermon. Upon returning to Bloomfield, he named his newly born son, Sidney Rigdon Graybill.(5) Picture p. 3: "Barbara Graybill and her son, John Stoker." Footnotes 1. "The Life of John Stoker," compiled by Eunice Stoker Southwick 2. "Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Vol. III G.K. compiled by Susan Easton Black. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993. p. 149. 3. "Seymour Brunson," LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 3 compiled by Andrew Jenson. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901. p. 331. 4. "The Howard, Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories and including the Bell, Teeple, Mackland, Bardsley, Graybill, Eller, Dick, Oman, Smith, and Koons Families," compiled by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. p. 92. 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993." 4. This individual is mentioned in the following partial quote from an article entitled: "John Stoker (1817-1881) and Wives: Jane McDaniel, Harriet Susan Willis, and Jane Allen" in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT." See John's notes for full transcription: "Beginning in 1869, John filled a short mission. The following is a copy of John's missionary journal, which after he returned was turned into a genealogical records - some believe it was not written by him. It is entered here exactly as it is written. John's journal is on microfilm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. The whereabout of original journal is unknown and many pages have been ripped out before the journal was microfilmed. 'The Journal of John Stoker, 1869 (direct copy from the hard copy, genealogical sheets provided by Ora and Vinal Barlow. The micro film copy shows many pages torn from the journal.) Notes: 1. Parentheses are used to insert words and letters not used in the journal but believed to be meant. 2. After Journal Page 1 below, the abbreviation JP2, JP3, etc. will be used on this transcript. 3. As much as possible we have tried to copy the wording as it was written by John or others who wrote in the journal. 4. A sort of preface is given before page (1) of the journal on the reverse of the cover page. Journal Page 1. (Labeled in error on the original journal.) 'Elders went up to (station) left home on his (my) mission to the United States Nov 1 1869 1/2 past 4 AM Arrived at unita 9 minutes before 9 oclock left on the Cars 35 minutes after 2 oclock Arrived at Green River Tuesday 2nd- 5 minutes past 8 at Point of Rock Station half Past 9 the engine Switched off to Bring on the Main track 6 or 7 Cars of Coal in Running Back to hitch on Ran into the other Cars on the Main track and Broke the Coupling of 2 cars no body was Hurt by the Blessing of God' JP2 (Unlabeled in original journal) '(Minu)tes Past 11 Wednesday 3rd- Arrived at Larima (Laramie) City 1/2 past 7 A.M. left at 11- fixed Cars. Crossed the Bridge in Black Hills 1/2 after 1 Thursday the 4th Arrived at North Platt 20 minutes Past 10 A.M. all well Counted Missionaries 67 Arrived at FT Kearney 1/2 past 4 P.M. Friday the 5th Arrived at Omaha 20 minutes Past 10 A.M. Saturday 6th went to Bluff city with J N Perkins- Sunday 7th Spent the fore Noon with Moroni Stoker- Took Dinner with him' JP3 'Monday 8th went up to Musketoe to See Simoen P Graybill Stayed all night Tuesday 9th took dinner with Aunt Margaret Stoker uncle Eller Stoker's widdow and Returned at Trading Point, Potawatamie Co Iowa Wednesday 10th wrote a letter to Br Wm Atkinson in Bountiful Davis County Utah Thursday 11th visited We McDaniel in Harrison Co 40 Miles north Friday 12th visited the grave of Zibiah Birdno my wifes mother Saturday 13th Returned to Aunt Marthas at Traders Point Sunday 14th Spent the day with Aunt Marthas family Monday 15th went to Bluff City (Council Bluffs) to look for a Letter but gone none and Returned to the Point Traders..." 5. Ancestry.com accessed 28 Feb 2013 from Claudia Ray "Zibiah Mc Carley. Also known as Sibby Mc Carley; Shebby Mc Daniel, Zibiah Birdino Zibiah was born 10 Dec 1786 to John Mc Carley and Martha Carr. She was born in Pennsylvania, moved with her family to Virginia and then to Ohio. In Ohio she met and married James McDonald the 19 Dec 1805 (film 0,317,652) here they spelled her name as Sibby Mc Carley. They were married in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio by Charles Buck Jr. They lived in Raccoon Twp near the Raccoon river in Gallia County, Ohio. They had five children, three girls and two boys. Electa Sarah, Martha, Jane, John and William, James died in 1820, leaving Zibiah with five children ages four to twelve years old. (1820 census.) The 20 of April 1823 Zibiah married Charles Birdino. Here she used the name of Shebby Mc Daniel. Her using the surname of Mc Daniel may indicate the Mc Donald clan using Mc Daniel for Church events. (Film 0,317652) They had two children, Nemiah Wood Birdino and Elizabeth Gabrielle Birdino. Charles had several spelling variations of his surname. It was spelled Birdino on his marriage certificate. Burdinano, Beirdneau and Birdino in the land grant papers. In the 1830 census his name was listed as Charles Burdino. His children always seemed to use the Birdno spelling. Charles Birdino had enlisted in the army and fought in the war of 1812. Because of this he received warrant no. 3809 for 160 acres of bounty land. I believe that his bounty land was located in Jefferson County, Ohio, because Charles Burdino, John Stoker, Michael Stoker and Michael Stoker Jr were all living in Steubenville; Ohio, in the 1830 Census. From the location of their residences next to each other Charles Birdino and Michael Stoker may have both receive bounty lands from the war of 1812. James Mc Donald may have also enlisted in the army for the war of 1812. The 1830 Ohio Census shows a Charles Burdino record with 1 male 5-10 Nehemiah Birdno, 1 male 10-15 William Mc Donald, 1 male 15-20 John McDonald-Mc Daniel, 1 male 60-70 Charles Birdno & 1 female under 5 Elizabeth Birdno, 1 female 20-30 Jane Mc Daniel and 1 female 40-50 Zibiah. (Census) This census proves that Zibiah did not have three more sons with James Mc Donald. If she did they would have been shown on this census record. The three extra sons Van D. Mc Daniel born 13 May 1815, John E. Mc Daniel born 5 Dec 1817 & Andrew G. Mc Daniel born 30 Mar 1820. If she did the census would have shown 2 Males 15-20 & 3 Males 10-15. These three never appeared as sons of James and Zibiah on any records until a computer match and merge was done to create the I.G.I. They should be removed as sons of Zibiah in the New Family Search. Next was the John Stoker family with one male under 5 one male 20-30 John & 1 female under 5, one female 20-30 Electa Sarah Mc Daniel. Next was the Michael Stoker family with one male 10-15, one male 15-20 John, one male 60-70 & one female 10-15 Christina, one female 50-60. Then the Michael Stoker Jr. family with one male under 5, one male 20-30 & one female 5-10, one female 20-30 Martha Mc Daniel. Charles Birdino had received a leg wound while serving in the war of 1812 while fighting in Canada. There was a military hospital in Kanawha, Virginia where he had gone to have his leg checked. He died in Kanawha in 1840 leaving Zibiah a widow again. This time most of her children were grown and married. An article in the Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio Historical Society published in August 19?? gives the following information about the Graybeal and Stoker families. (In 1815 Peter Graybeal Sr and his wife left Ashe County with their son Michael, his wife Mary Stoker and their two young children. Their daughter Barbara Graybeal and her husband David Stoker, Mary's brother and their Stoker in-laws Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker. They were on their way to the Great Western Reserve, which would become Ohio. They selected a location in what became Bloomfield, Jackson County Ohio. Here they learned of the early Latter Day Saint Church and every member of this group of baptismal age became members in 1833. The spelling of their name was changed to Graybill to set them apart as Mormons.) Some books say that the Mc Donald clan was a violent clan so when they joined a church they would change their name to Mc Daniel. Because of the Mc Donald clan using the surname of Mc Daniel I believe that Zibiah and her children who joined the Church were baptized as Mc Daniel. Our John Mc Daniel was baptized in 1 February 1833 by Seymour Brunson. Seymour Brunson's diary says that he baptized a large number of people in Ohio. I believe that Zibiah and her children that were baptized and joined the Church used the name Mc Daniel. All of Zibiah's Mc Daniel children married Stokers except for William who never married, never joined the church and never used the surname of Mc Daniel. Zibiah's oldest daughter Electa Sarah was born 26 May 1806 (film 184,658). She married John W. Stoker. They joined the Mormon Church and came west to Nauvoo and then to Council Bluffs, Iowa where they both died in 1857. They died at Traders Point, Iowa Her next daughter Martha married Michael Stoker Jr. They also joined the church and came west to Nauvoo, and then to Iowa where they both died. Martha died in Council Bluffs, Iowa 4 Feb 1873. Zibiah, her sons John Mc Daniel, William Mc Donald and Nemiah Wood Birdino and daughter Elizabeth Gabriell Birdino also came west with the rest ofthe family as far as Iowa. In the 1850 Iowa census Zibiah and her daughter Elizabeth Birdino were living with Zibiah's son William Mc Donald. His surname was spelled Mc Donal in this census. Jeremiah Birdeno, his wife America and daughter Emily were living next door, or with them. Zibiah remained in Iowa where she died in 1860 at the age of 73 years 16 days and was buried in the Calhoun Cemetery, (film 1,579,041) which is in Harrison County. Harrison county had been a part of Pottawattamie county until 1855. William remained in Iowa and was a farmer. At his death an obituary was printed saying. (William McDonald came in 1854 with his mother, who was of the Mormon Faith. She went to Utah, but he refused to go. He remained in Calhoon township and lived a single life ever afterwards. He accumulated over fifty thousand dollars worth of property. He died in 1885 and his estate was sold at auction.) (film 0,934,944 pg. 454) The probate of William's estate can be found in the (film 1,510,110 pgs 493, 404-496, 504, 510). It tells the names of his sister's family coming to claim his estate. William is buried next to his mother in the Calhoun Cemetery. (Film 1,579,041) I don't think the people who wrote his obituary knew that Zibiah Birdno was the mother of William Mc Donald." BIRTH: 1. Elizabeth B. (Beirdneau) Sessions in the 1900 US Census for Bountiful, Davis, Utah indicates that she was born Mar. 1827 in Ohio and that her father (Charles Beirdneau) was born in Vermont and her mother (Zibiah McCarley) in Pennsylvania. The 1850 census also confirms a birth for Zibiah in Pennsylvania per her report to the census taker. Nehemiah Birdno in the same 1900 census for Graham County, Arizona notes his birth as Feb 1824 in Ohio and that both of his parents were born in Ohio (which we know to be most likely incorrect in regards to his parents.) MARRIAGE: 1. Email dated 27 Feb 2013 from Claudia Ray 2. Married Charles N. Birdno or Bierdneau or Birdneau 20 Apr 1823 in Gallia Co., Ohio. BURIAL: 1. The tombstone in Calhoun Cemetery reads "Zibiah Berdno." Photos available on Find-a-grave. ACTION: 1. Look for Birdno or equivalent in censuses. See John Stoker's journal above. | McCarley, Zibiah (I454)
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| 2089 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1820 US: Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, p. 75-103: Willis Lankston, males: 2(0-10)-0-0-0-1(26-45)-0; females 3(0-10)-0-0-1(26-45)-0 1830 US: DeKalb Co., Georgia, p. 40: Willis Lankston, males 2(15-20), 1(30-40); females: 1(0-5), 2(5-10), 2(10-15), 1(30-40). 1840 US: District 962, Chattooga, Georgia, pg. 1 of 4: Willis Langston, males: 1(15-20), 1 (40-50); females: 1(10-15), 2(15-20), 2 (20-30), 1(40-50). Older son Spire Langston is a neighbor with wife and Children. His age between 20-30. 1850 US: Dist. Town, Chattooga Co., Georgia, p. 108, 30 Oct 1850, family 8: Willis Langston, 59, farmer, $2,000, SC. Nancy, 59, SC. Elizabeth, 32, SC. 1860 US: Dist. Town Valley, Chattooga, Georgia, 17 Jul 1860, p. 121, family 816: Nancy Langston, 58, farmer, GA. (Even though age and birth state are wrong, this Nancy appears to be the closest match.) 1860 slave schedules for the District Town Balley in same county show Nancy Langston owning 6 slaves ages 30, 28, 23, 5, 4, and 2. 2. Jett Hanna [jettplane@aol.com] provided me on 8 Jul 2005 with a copy of his analysis of the Brownlee manuscript as follows. It mirrors my own understanding; however, anything with which I disagree I note in [brackets]. Jett entitles his paper as "Laurens County Area Adair Family Trees." It is broken down by three families: James Adair who married Eleanor, his brother Joseph who married Sarah Laferty, and a William of whom absolutely nothing is known except just his name on the Williams Petition and that Brownlee notes he died 1780-84 and that his estate was administered 1784 per Abbe Wills, p. 10. Text quoted as follows: "This tree is based on Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina, by Mildred Brownlee. This was provided to me by W. Lee Adair, who obtained it from the Laurens County Public Library. Handwritten notes show a date of 1990 on Brownlee's manuscript. I have not examined these deeds personally. In some cases, notes and questions below are my own additions. This analysis seems to discredit some of the trees in the Adair History and Genealogy, and adds significantly to what is know of the Laurens area Adairs. I have not fully finished analyzing this work, and may have left out parts that are not as critical to my work. "Based on this work, it appears very possible that the elder Joseph Adair (m. Sarah, m. Susannah) and his brother James (m. Eleanor) settled in Laurens County at the same time, as suggested by the Adair History and Genealogy. I do not believe, however, that this James was the author of the book on the Indians and reputed patriarch of the Cherokee Adairs. This James was a cooper (barrel maker) according to the deeds. Modern editions of the History of the American Indians suggest that the author James Adair was a direct immigrant to South Carolina, but with no concrete evidence. "The Williams Petition: In the tree, LCW is Laurens County Wills; LCD is Laurens County Deeds. Also mentioned is the Williams petition. This petition is a significant document in analyzing the Laurens County Adairs. Published in the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. XV, No. 1 1987, p. 32-33, the original is #5767, Manuscript Department, Wm. Perkins Library at Duke University. The petition is in support of Colonel James Williams, a militia leader of the Patriots in the Laurens area (Little River Regiment). The petition, signed by members of the Little River Regiment, is directed to the Governor of South Carolina and the Privy Counsel, and attests to Williams' devotion to the Patriot cause. Williams led militia in a number of battles. I suspect that this petition was provided prior to Williams' elevation to the rank of Brigadier General following the Battle of Musgrove Mill, which was fought in what is now Laurens County. Williams had been accused of puffing his role in the battle. Williams went on to die at Kings Mountain - one of the few Patriot casualties that day on October 7, 1780. Williams had run for the South Carolina legislature as a Patriot in 1778, only to lose to Robert Cunningham, the infamous Loyalist leader. For more on Williams, see Draper, "Kings Mountain and Its Heroes," (Cincinnati, 1883). Signers of the Williams petition include the following Adairs: Isaac Adair, Jms. Adair, James Adair, Sr., Joseph Adair, Jr., Joseph Adair, Benjamin Adair, Joseph Adair, Sr., James Adair, Jr, son of James, William Adair, John Adair, and John Adair, Sr., and Alexander Adair. Comparing deed and will records to the names, Brownlee identifies the Adair signers [copies Brownlee's explanations]. Brownlee's identifications look very logical to me. "The Laurens County Adair Tree: 1. James Adair m. Eleanor: 150a land grant to James Adair-same date as Joseph 250a. Both referred to in records as coopers (barrel makers). James, cooper in LCD F/8,9,10, A/185. Eleanor released right of dower on deed dated 2/12/1796; date of transfer by James was 2/24/1784. Which deeds correspond with which dates? See Joseph below. Eleanor was also witness on deed from William Price and wife, Margaret to James Adair, son of James, 2/6/1792. 1.1 Joseph Adair m. Sarah Dillard [Surname Dillard is a Jett addition and I don't believe proven even though many LDS lines use this as well without documentation.]: Joseph Adair, Jr. to Wm. Holland, 120 ac. Release of dower by Sarah, wife of Joseph Jr., and Eleanor, widow of James Adair, dec'd, LCD F/109. Suggests land owned by James m. to Eleanor, but how does it correspond to land grants? If land belonged to Joseph junior by intestacy laws, why wasn't James m. to Hannah on deed, too? LCD G/570 has dower release for Sarah Adair, wife of Joseph. 1.1.1 Thomas Adair m. Rebecca Brown: LCD H/22, Joseph Adair of Duncan Creek to eldest son Thomas Adair. Witness Jane Adair. Dower releases for Rebecca in LCD H/129, H/209, and land purchased H/228. 1.1.2 ?Hannah m. John Jones: see F/8,9,10. 8 & 9: 8/1/1795. 10: 2/25/1784. F/10 is deed from James Sr. and wife Eleanor to John Jones, has witnesses James Adair, saddler, and James Adair, Jr. [Without giving a reason, Jett places Hannah as a possible daughter of Joseph, son of James; however, Brownlee indicates she believes her to be a daughter of the original James and Eleanor which would make her a sister to Joseph son of James. Perhaps a typo on Jett's part.] 1.2 James Adair m. Hannah: Corresponds to James son of James in the Williams petition per Brownlee. James m. Rebecca had a son James, but probably not old enough to sign petition as James m. Rebecca born 1747 per Indiana tombstone. Petition 1780 would mean James m. Rebecca was 33 in 1780; doubtful his son James could be of fighting age. Compare to Adair compilation. LCD M/77-78 reports death of James Adair, Sr., widow Hannah. Hannah Adair's will LCW F/65, proven 1826. James 115(2) 1790 Census. 2 daughters not accounted for. James Jr. was under 16 according to this census. 1.2.1 Elizabeth m. James? Parlmore (Palmer): LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2 Mary m. John Prather: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.2.1 Susannah Prather (Prater?): Witness on will of Hannah LCW F/65. 1.2.2.2 Hannah Prather m. Joseph Dollar 1.2.2.3 Linny m. William Prather 1.2.2.4 Archibald m, Susannah Meadors 1.2.2.5 Martha Prather 1.2.2.6 Betsy/Priscilla Prather m. Daniel Owens 1.2.2.7 James Prather 1.2.2.8 Mary (Molly) Prather 1.2.2.9 Bryce Prather 1.2.2.10 Elinor Prather 1.2.3 Nelly (Eleanor) m. Ramage: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.3.1 Benjamin Ramage 1.2.3.2 John Jewell Ramage 1.2.3.3 Washington Ramage 1.2.4 James Adair Jr.: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.5 Hannah m. Rueben Meadors: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.6 Susannah m. William Cassels (Castles): LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.7 Nancy m. Willis Langston: LCD M/77-78, LCW F/65. 1.2.8 Martha m. Wm. Gamble: LCD M/77-78. 1.2.8.1 Patsey Gamble: LCW F/65." 3. Typescript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina." Compiled by Mildred Brownlee; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction. [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.] "Other land in the adjacent area was purchased by James Adair, Sr. as will be seen by later deeds, he was born 15 May 1752, died 18 Aug. 1818, intestate. Deed Book M. pp. 77-78 - State of South Carolina, Laurens District - Whereas James Adair, Senr., of this District departed this life in the month of August 1818 and at the time of his death was possessed of a personal estate, consisting of negroes, horses, cows, hogs, sheep, waggon, household and kitchen furniture, corn, fodder, cotton and various other property not mentioned, all of which he was possessed of at the time of his death, and leaving a widow Hannah Adair and seven children, also four children of Elizabeth Parlmore (Palmer) in the right of their mother, to wit. John Prather in the right of his wife Mary; Nelly Ramage (a widow); James Adair, Jr., Reuben Meadors in the right of his wife Hannah; Wm. Cassels in the right of his wife Susannah, Willis Langston in the right of his wife Nancy; Wm. Gamble in the right of his wife Martha,all of which are entitled to distributive shares of the said James Adair's estate, that is to say, Hannah. the widow of James Adair, dec'd., is to have one third part of sd. after payment of all just debts and other lawfull expenses that may accrue at the intended sale ... and the remainder of said estate to be equally divided between the eight children of the sd. James Adair ... the four children of Elizabeth Palmore to have their mothers part equally divided between them, share and share alike ... Now for the better distribution and equal division of said estate we, Hannah Adair the wife of James Adair decd., John Prather, Nelly Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, Wm. Cassels, Willis Langston, and Wm. Gamble do agree to sell the estate before described on a credit untill the first day of January 1820 and to divide the proceeds thereof as before directed. Now know all by these presents that we Hannah Adair, John Prather, Nelly Ramage, and James Adair, Junr., Reuben Meadors, William Cassels, Willis Langston and William Gamble, are held and firmly bound unto each other in the following sums, that is Hannah Adair in the sum of three thousand dollars, John Prather in the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, Nelly Ramage in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, James Adair in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, Reuben Meadors in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, William Cassels in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, Willis Langston in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, and William Gamble in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, firmly by these presents in witness whereof we have set our hands and seals this twenty sixth of October 1818. Now the condition of the above obligation is such that if we Hannah Adair, John Prather. Nelly Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, Wm. Cassels, and Willis Langston and William Gamble, stand to keep and perform the foregoing intact by selling the before mentioned estate on a credit untill the first day of January 1820. After giving legal notice of the intended sale, and to give a Bill of Sale to such persons as may purchase at the intended sale, then after payment all just debts of sd. estate as well as expenses that may accrue thereon, and the proceeds to be divided according (to the) foregoing agreement then the above obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue. Witness our hands and seals this day above written. William Cassels, Hannah (X) Adair, Willis Langston, John Prateor, William Gamble, Elenor (X) Ramage, James Adaire, Reuben Meadors Simon Reeder, John L. Abell South Carolina, Laurens District) Personally came before me John L. Able and made oath that he was present & saw Hannah Adair, John Prather, Elenor Ramage, James Adair, Reuben Meadors, William Cassels, Willis Langston, and William Gamble sign, seal, and deliver the within instrument of writing for the uses and purposes therein contained & that he subscribed his name as a witness thereto was present and saw Simon Reeder subscribe his name as a witness to the same. Sworn to before me this 20th Jany, 1829. W.E. Lynch. J.P., J.L. Abell A true record of the original 22nd Jany. 1829. John Garlington. R.M.C. The above agreement regarding the personal property of James Adair, decd., was drawn up a short time after his death; however, it was not recorded until after the death of Hannah Adair. Nothing was done about the real estate of James Adair, decd., until a court action was brought sometime in 1819 by William Cassels & wife regarding partition and division. The land was then exposed to public sale. Deed Bk. K. p. 316 - 3 Jan. 1820, Samuel Downs, Sheriff of Laurens Dist., to Benjamin Adair for $175 highest bid, 100 a. on waters of Duncan Creek, adj. Wm. Taylor, Basil Holland, Jacob Miller, sold for judgment in court petition of Wm. Cassels & wife vs. James Adair, dec'd., etal. Wit: J.H. Irby, John B. Griffin. (This was the tract sold to James Adair, Sr. in 1814 by Jacob Miller. See Deed Bk. K, p. 65.) Deed Bk. L, p.78 - 3 Jan. 1820. Samuel Downs, Sheriff of Laurens Distr. to Hannah Adair. By virtue of a writ of partition from the Court of Common Pleas in which Wm. Cassels, etal, were plaintiffs for the purpose of obtaining a partition & division of a certain tract of land sheriff exposed to sale and sold to highest bidder; Hannah Adair, for the sum of $985, 224 a. on waters of Duncan Creek adj. Thos. McCreary, John Abell and Wm. Copeland, a tract formerly owned by James Adair, Sr., decd.. at the time of his death. Wit: Patillo Farrow, Wm. Taylor. Deed Bk. L. p. 36 - 30 July 1821, Hannah Adair to James Adair for $657, 224 a. whereon I now reside, adj. Thos. McCrary, Wm. Copeland, Thos. Beasley, John Abell, sd. James Adair & John Bryan, subject, nevertheless, to my life estate in that part of land lying on the S side of Allison Creek, being the part whereon the dwelling house now stance. Wit: R. Creswell, J.B. Kennedy. (This was the land Hannah bought from the Sheriff.) In the Court of Equity, 1821 - Reuben Meadors & wife Hannah vs. heirs of James Adair, Sr., dec'd. Petitioners state that James Adair, Sr. died in 1818, leaving a widow, Hannah Adair & the following children: Mary wife of John Prator; Nelly Ramage; James Adair, Jr.; Susannah wife of Wm. Cassels; Nancy wife of Willis Langston; Martha wife of Wm, Gamble; & Hannah wife of Reuben Meadors. That James Adair, Jr. received from his father in his lifetime a tract of land worth $600 and an advancement of personal property; that the other legatees received from their father at the time of their marriages quantities of personal property, except the petitioners who received only a horse worth $40, a cow & calf worth $10, a bed & furniture worth $20. Petitioners seek an accounting of the sale of the real & personal property & equal distribution of the proceeds. Affidavit of James Adair, Jr, states that in the lifetime of his father, he received 100 a. on Duncan Creek. adj. when granted NE on Josiah Greer, SW on Thos. Ellison, other sides vacant, the whole of a tract originally granted to James Hannah. A copy of the deed was submitted as recorded in Deed Bk. H, p. 249. (Records as to resolution of the suit were not included.)... Will of Hannah Adair: "In the name of God, Amen. I Hannah Adair, being in a low and afflicted state; and calling to mind the frailly and mortality of us may think proper, do make and constitute the following my last will and testament. I commend my soul and body into the merciful hands of that God from whom I received them, trusting in him to save through the merit of his son Jesus Christ. It is my desire that my heirs bury my body in a decent Christian manner, hoping and believing God will raise it at the great resurrection day. It is my will after the following sums are paid to some of my grand Children, to wit, to Patsey Gamble, the sum of fifty dollars to be paid to her when she comes of age. To Jinny Beavers one cow and calf, and to all the rest of my grand children whose parents are now dead the sum of one dollar. Then all the rest of my property consisting of negros stock and household furniture to be sold and equally divided among my living children viz Elenor Ramage, James Adair, Hannah Meddors, Susannah Castles, Nancy Langston, with all the money I may leave and debts due to me on note or otherwise to be equally divided among the above mentioned Children, with crop or any other property belonging to me I wish Susannah Castles part to be given to herself for the use of her children. It is not my will that William Castles should have any management of it, but that it should be the property of my daughter Susannah and her children after her. And I do hereby constitute my son James Adair as my executor to put this my will into affect. And I do hereby certify and declare this to be my last will and testament, given under my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of October, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, one thousand eight hunderd and twenty six and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. Hannah (X) Adair (Seal) her mark Signed in presence of us: Thomas S. Leak, Isham Milam, Susannah Prater" Recorded in Book F, Page 65. Recorded date not available. Proven date December 4th, 1826. Bundle 3, Package 9. Children of James and Hannah Adair - 8 in number: 1. Elizabeth Adair, date or birth unknown; she died before her father. Name of her husband not given but is thought to have been James Palmer who died in 1826. His estate was administered by Henry McKelvey with David Gamble and Wm. Copeland, sureties. Estate appraisal was made by Wm. Gamble, Reuben Meadors and James Adair. Names and dates of birth of the Palmer children not known. [NB: one of them was most likely Virginia (Jinny) Palmer who m. William Langley Bevis]. 2. Mary Adair, b. c1771 - mar. John Prather. Their chn: Hannah Prather - mar. Joseph Dollar. Linny Prather - mar. William Dollar. Archibald Prather - mar. his cousin, Susannah Meadors. Martha Prather Betsy? or Priscilla? Prather mar. Daniel Owens. (Daniel Owens thought to have been from Newberry Co. Daniel Owens, son of John Owens and Mary Long of Duncan Creek community died single in 1811.) James Prather Mary (Polly) Prather - b. 1808 Bryce Prather - b. 1810 Elinor (Nelly) Prather - b. 1813 3. Eleanor(Nelly) Adair, b. 2 Jan. 1774 - mar. Benjamin Ramage. [Their chn:] Benjamin Ramage John Jewell Ramage, b. 14 Mar. 1801 - mar. Nancy Weyman Adair. Washington Ramage, b. c1810 - mar. Sarah Ann Wilson - Ala. 4. James Adair, Jr., b. 15 Oct. 1781 - mar. Delilah Holland. [Their chn:] Nancy Weyman Adair, b. 5 Nov. 1805 - mar. Jno. Jewell Ramage. Robert James Adair, b. 2 June 1807 - mar. Sarah Jacks. Elizabeth Adair, b. 17 June 1810 - d. 17 Oct. 1823. Edmond Adair, b. 18 Oct. 1814 - mar. Susan Dillard. Hannah Adair, b. 7 Nov. 1816 - mar. Matthew Simpson. Isaac Adair, b. 21 July 1818 - mar. Sarah Dillard. James Henry Adair, b. 4 Aug. 1820 - mar. Elizabeth Pitts. William H. Adair, b. 31 Oct. 1822 - d. 6 Oct. 1844. 5. Hannah Adair, b. Sept. 1784 - mar. Reuben Meadors. [Their chn:] Susannah Meadors - mar. her cousin Archibald Prather. Paschal Motley Meadors, b. 18 Jan. 1808 - mar. Sarah Ann Miller. Oney Meadors, b. 21 Sept. 1809 - mar. James M. Braddock. Mary (Polly) Meadors - mar. Pearson Martha Meadors, died Nov. 1856, in her 33rd. year, mar. Lemuel Oxner. Reuben Byrum Meadors, died 25 Apr. 1848 in his 24th year, mar. J. Eunice Richey. Their dau. Elizabeth, mar. D..P. Buzzard. James Adair Meadors, b. 15 Oct. 1824, mar. (1) Mary Susan McKittrick, (2) Margaret Adeline Hudgens. ?Ann Meadors, died young? 6. Susannah Adair mar. William Cassels. NFI 7. Nancy Adair mar. Willis Langston. NFI 8. Martha Adair mar. William Gamble. NFI" BIRTH: 1. Rootsweb Worldconnect project: several databases give 11 Sep 1791. Censuses do not conflict. MARRIAGE: 1. From the 1820 census, we see the family had five children under age 10. Assuming a minumum of one and a half years between Children, this would mean a marriage date no later than about 1812. Several databases on Rootsweb's Worldconnect show the oldest son Spire Alford Langston being born 11 Apr 1813 in South Carolina. DEATH: 1. Rootsweb Worldconnect project: several databases give 20 Mar 1869 at Trion District, Chattooga Co., Georgia. | Adair, Nancy (I3755)
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| 2090 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 109-112, note whole township had 527 people living in it, related families include Michael Stoker, Michael Stoker Jr., Alexander Lackey, James Welker, Michael Graybill, and John Stoker: Michael Stoker, Jr. Males 0-5:1; 20-30:1; 60-70:1. Females 5-10:1; 20-30:1. [Appears to be Michael, his wife Martha, and their oldest son Gabriel; unsure who 5-10 year old girl would be since this couple was married only one year before.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 67b, household and family #62 [note judging from 1834 birth of Moroni, it would appear family was Mormon by that date by using a Book of Mormon name for the son]: Michael Stoker, 41, no occupation, NC. Martha, 39, Ohio. Gabriel, 21, laborer, Ohio. David, 18, Ohio. Maroni, 16, Ohio. Alexander, 13, Ohio. Michael, 10, Ill. Jared, 6, Ill. Joseph, 4, Ill. Rebecca, 2, Ill. 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. Census return: Stoker: Michael 46, Martha 44, Gabriel M. [male] 21, David N. 19, William M. 16, John A. 13, James M. 10, Jared 7, Joseph J. 4, Martha R. 2. [Note that the following related families are in this census and very close neighbors: Simeon P. Graybill, Michael/Polly Graybill with Polly's mother Catherine Eller Stoker, Eller/Margaret Stoker, Jacob/Catherine Stoker, Philip/Catherine Gatrost, David/Barbara Stoker, Edward/Sarah Davis, and William/Almira Stoker. Other relatives in same county but separated by several pages of census include the following families: Thomas/Hannah Pilling whose daughter Hannah, later marries William Lenore Graybill, Levi/Patience Graybill, John W./Sarah Stoker, Hannah Ford whose son Martin later marries Zibiah M. Stoker, and John/Sarah Smith.] 1854 Iowa: Kane, Pottawattamie, Iowa, FHL film 1022207. Next door neighbors include Philip "Gastrop," Simeon "Grabill," and Eller Stoker. Neighbor a couple of census pages away include M. Stoker and M. Ford. Census return: M. Stoker, 4 males, 2 females, 1 voter, 1 militia, 6 total. 1856 Iowa: (From Ancestry.com) Kane, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 28 of 63, 175/176 (family of Martin Ford is two doors away); also note the family has been residents of the state for 8 years: Michael Stoker, 51, NC, farmer. (Also includes some agricultural production figures.) Martha, 48, OH. Moroni, 21, OH, farmer. Alexander, 18, MO. M.J., 16, IL. Jared, 13, IL. J.J, 10, IL. Rebecca M., 7, IA. 1860 US: Kane Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 377, entry 562: Martha Stoker, 52, OH, farmer. William M. 25, OH, farmer. John A., 23, OH, farmhand. Michael, 19, IL, farmhand. Jared, 17, IL, farmhand. Joseph, 14, IL. Martha, 12, IL. 1870 US: Council Bluffs P.O., Kane Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 179a, entry 141: Michael Stoker, 29, IL, farmer. Martha, 62, OH, keeping house. Joseph, 24, IL. Martha, 21, IA. Alexander, 32, MO. Mary, 29, Ire. Martha, 7/12, IA. 2. Judging from 1834 birth of Moroni, it would appear family was Mormon by that date by their use of a Book of Mormon name for the son. 3. The book "The Henry McDaniel family, 1755-1975," by Esta McDaniel Lee, 1975, FHL 929.273 M141L, p. 82: "Other McDaniels of Gallia and Jackson Counties, Ohio. David McDaniel, b. ca. 1738 m. 5 March, 1801, Elizabeth (Betsy) McCarley in Washington County, Ohio. Gallia County was a part of Washington Coound at that time. David McDanieal was in Ohio long before it became a state for a son James McDaniel was born in what is now Jackson County, 24 Feb. 1762. He married 19 Dec 1805 Zebiah (Sibby) McCarley, b. 10 Dec 1786, Gallia County, Ohio, daughter of John McCarley. She died 5 Feb 1860. James died in Jackson County, 1820. They had the following children: 1. Sarah McDaniel, b. 26 May 1806, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 7 Mar 1857, m. John W. Stoker, 13 Mar 1827. 2. Martha McDaniel, b. 24 Feb 1808, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 4 Feb 1877 [year appears erroneous], m. 1828/29 Michael Stoker. 3. Jane McDaniel, 24 Feb 1810, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah, m. 1836, John Stoker. 4. John McDaniel, b. 10 Jun 1812, Jackson Co., O., d. 11 Nov 1884, Alpine, Utah, m. Christina Stoker. 5. William McDaniel, b. 1814, Jackson Co., O., d. 1889 unmarried. There could have been others." Page 83: "Jackson County Marriage Records. C.D. Massie: 19 Apr 1827 Electa Sally McDaniel to John W. Stoker." BIOGRAPHY: 1. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of Michael and Martha Stoker and their son "Gabrael". 2. The book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories, "FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, pp. 92, 93: "Michael Stoker, b. 10 Feb 1805, m. Martha Carr McDaniels. Michael was 10 years old when the family went to Ohio. It was there he met and married Martha Carr McDaniels on Jan. 1, 1829. Martha was the daughter of James and Zibiah McCarley McDaniels and was born in Ohio on Feb. 24, 1808. The third son born to Michael and Martha in July of 1834, they named William Moroni, and that is the first date I have of a Mormon name in the Stoker family. Michael Stoker Jr. had the following names and dates in his journal. 'The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder. Then in Oct., 1836 baptized William Stoker and Barbara Stoker. Then in April, 1837, baptized Margaret Judd, David Eller, Tabitha Eller, Mary Sharp, Rhoda Judd.' Rhoda Judd was the mother of Margaret and Tabitha. David Eller was the first cousin to Michael and two years later Margaret married Michael's younger brother Eller Stoker. By noting where the children were born, one can trace the whereabouts of their journeys. By August of 1837, they were in Caldwell County, Missouri. They were at Trader's Point in Pottawattamie County, Iowa in January of 1849 and lived there the rest of their lives, Michael died on March 30, 1858 at the age of 53, and Martha died 15 years later. Trader's Point, an early Indian trading center, was south of Council Bluffs and across the river from Sarpy's Ferry. When the Missouri River changed its course, Trader's Point ended up on the Nebraska side. Michael Stoker's Journal: 'One of the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Michael Stoker, Jr. was born Feb. 10, 1805 in the State of North Carolina. Martha Carr McDaniel was born Feb. 24, 1808 in the state of Ohio. Gabriel Mc N. Stoker was born Oct. 23, 1829 in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio, Friday at 3 P.M. David N. Stoker was born Friday, Feb 2nd, 1832 at 10 P.M. in Bloomfield Township, Jackson Co., Ohio. William Moroni Stoker was born July 10, 183, Friday at 7 A.M. in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio. John A. Stoker was born Wednesday, August 23, 1837 at Long Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri. Michael James Stoker was born Saturday, May 23rd, 1840 at 9 A.M. in Columbus, Hancock County, Illinois. Jared Samuel Stoker was born March 19, 1843 on Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. At Bear Creek, Hancock County, Illinois. Joseph Jehiel Stoker was born April 26, 1846 near Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Ill. Martha Rebecca Stoker was born January 1, 1849 at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. David N. Stoker died at 9:30 o'clock p.m., May 14, 1852 at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. David [should be Gabriel; typo?] McNiel Stoker died May 23, 1852, at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. (They would have been 20 and 23 years old, and died nine days apart.) Michael Stoker Jr. (the father) died March 30, 1858, at Trader's Point. Martha Rebecca Stoker, Thursday, Oct. 19, 1871 at 2:30 A.M. at Tradere of 95 in Union City, Oregon. Jared Samuel Stoker died Dec. 6, 1912, Union, Oregon." 3. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. Selected family related passages from his journal: P. 1: Nov. 1-4, 1869: The journal starts with John leaving as a 52 year old missionary with Jesse N. Perkins as a companion from Salt Lake City on the railroad to Omaha, NE. The railroad had just recently been completed so he details the progress of the transcontinental railway journey. P. 2: Saturday, Nov. 6, 1869: "Went to Bluff City with J.N. Perkins. Sunday 7th, spent the fore noon with Moroni Stoker - took dinner with him." [William Moroni Stoker, 1834-1929, was John's first cousin thru John's father's brother Michael S. Stoker, 1805-1858.] P. 3: "Monday 8th. Went up to Musketoe to see Simeon P. Graybill. Stayed all night. Tuesday 9th, took dinner with Aunt Margaret Stoker, Uncle Eller Stoker's widow, and returned to Aunt Martha's at Trading Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. Wednesday, 10th. Wrote a letter to Mr. Wm. Atkinson in Bountiful, Davis Co., Utah. Thursday 11th. Visited Wm. McDaniel in Harrison Co. 40 miles north. Friday 12th. Visited the grave of Zibiah Birdno [could also be Binders], my wife's mother. Saturday 13th. Returned to Aunt Martha's at Trader's Point. Sunday 14th. Spent the day with Aunt Martha's family. Monday 15th. Went to Bluff City to look for a letter but got none and returned to the Point. [Simeon Graybill, 1816-1889, was John's first cousin twice thru his father's sister Polly Stoker, 1792-1864, and thru his mother's brother Michael Peter Graybill. Eller Stoker, 1816-1855, was John's father's brother and married to Margaret Judd, 1822-1893. Aunt Martha was Martha Carr McDaniel, 1808-1873, wife of John's father's brother Michael S. Stoker, 1805-1858. William McDaniel, 1810-1885, is John's brother-in-law. John's Mother-in-law, Zibiah (McCarley) McDaniels, 1786-1860, apparently remarried a Mr. Birdno after her husband James McDaniel, 1762-1820, died.] Pp. 4-9: The journal details their departure from Council Bluffs area by various means including railroad, hack, steamboat, packet boat, hired horses, and on foot with luggage to "Leith Co. 5 miles north of Estillville," Virginia via many detailed waypoints including but not limited to DesMoines, Chicago, Cleveland, Wheeling VA, Burlington on the Ohio River, the "Big Sandy" on the line between Kentucky and Virginia, the "Pound Gap" summit of Cumberland Mountain, the "High Nob the highest point in Virginia." John details with whom they stayed and what hospitality they received. Along the way they see and preach the Gospel to many McLelland/McClelland relatives of his companion. In Leith Co., VA, on Monday, Dec. 13, 1869, he "wrote a letter home to my family and one to Ash[e] Co., North Carolina to David and Henry Graybill" which they mailed the next day from Estillville. [John's mother, Barbara Graybill, had two brothers - Henry, ca1780-ca1843, and David, 1794-1874 - who remained in Ashe Co. where she was born; however, Henry was dead by then but his "Uncle" David responds later on Jan. 22.] Pp. 10-17: They stayed in the area doing missionary work mainly among McClellands. He notes on Christmas day while staying with Samuel McClelland, they went to a meeting and heard a Dunkard preach. On Monday, Dec. 27th, John notes, "wrote a letter to my family also one to my sister-in-law Martha Stoker at Bluff City, Iowa. [Martha Carr (McDaniel) Stoker was whom he referred to as Aunt Martha previously in his journal since she was married to his father's brother Michael S. Stoker, but she was also a sister-in-law since she was the sister to John's wife Jane McDaniel.] John notes on Saturday, Jan. 8th, that he "went to the widow Quillins to inquire concerning the Wampler family." [I am unsure who the widow was, but John's maternal grandmother was Christina Wampler, 1753-1844.] On Tuesday, Jan. 11th, John notes, "Went to Patsy Daughterty's to inquire after my mother's relatives." On Thursday, Jan. 13th, he notes that he "went to Wm. Wampler's, took dinner." [I do not have either a Patsy Daughterty nor William Wampler in my database - they must be of a later generation than John's grandmother Christina Wampler.] He also notes on the same day that he received a letter from his son-in-law J. Tolman and daughter in Utah. On Saturday, Jan. 22nd, John notes, 'Received a letter from my son David Stoker, Davis Co., Utah dated Jan'y 1st, 1870, gave particulars of my son John Stoker's sickness but getting better. Also received a letter from my uncle David Graybill, Ashe Co., Jefferson, North Carolina." On Jan. 24th, he writes back to his uncle David Graybill. Pp. 18-24: Starting on Jan. 26th, 1870, the missionaries are on the move: first to Bristol (VA?), then thru Chattanooga, Nashville, Sparta, to Putnam Co., Tennessee where they did missionary work with the Perkins and Mayberry families who relatives of his companion, Jesse Perkins. On Sunday, Feb. 13th, 1870, John wrote letters to his son David Stoker in Davis Co., Utah and one to Aunt Martha Stoker and cousins in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. On the next day he went to Gainesboro where he received a letter from his son David Stoker. Beginning Feb. 16th, 1870, John proceeds by boat down the Cumberland to Nashville then to St. Louis via the Mississippi River from Cape "Jerido". On Feb. 23rd, took the from St. Louis to Trader's Point where again he sees Aunt Martha. He sends money to his companion in Decatur Co., Iowa to help him get to Council Bluffs. He also sends a letter to Utah asking his family for money for himself and his companion. Pp. 25-33: John arrives Feb. 26 and remains in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa until March 24 when he, Jesse Perkins who arrives March 9, and several other missionaries from the East Coast join up in Omaha for the trip home to Utah by railroad which he notes cost $50.75. Generally he is staying with his Aunt Martha. Some journal entries during that time period dealing with family follow: "Sat., Feb 26th, 1870: Went up to Musketoe Creek to Simeon Peter Graybill, my cousin. Stayed over night. Sunday, 27th. Went to Walker's Grove in Harrison Co. to Sidney R. Graybill, my cousin, with Moroni Stoker to see some sick cousins Michael and Elizabeth Graybill. [Sidney Rigdon, 1836-1893, Michael S., 1827-1910, and Elizabeth, 1833-1891, are siblings and all children of Polly Stoker, John's father's sister.] Stayed over night. Monday 28th. Cold and windy. Remained all day. Stayed all night. Tuesday, March 1st 1870. Returned to Aunt Martha Stoker's at Traders Point. Read a letter from David Stoker, my son, to John A. Stoker, dated Feb'y 21st, 1870. Stayed overnight… Thursday 3d. Cousin Jared Stoker killed 2 turkeys, the 2 weighing 40 lbs. [John Alexander Stoker, 1837-1918, and Jared, 1843-1912, were first cousins and sons of Michael S. Stoker, brother of John's father David.] Stayed over… Tuesday 8th, being my birthday, age 53… Wednesday 9th… was weighed being 184 lbs… Friday 18th… went to Aaron Thomas, took dinner and spent the day with him and family. [Aaron Morris Thomas, 1833-1920, was married to John's first cousin, Elizabeth Jane Stoker, who was the daughter of John W. Stoker, a brother of John's father David.] Returned to Aunt Martha Stoker's… Saturday 19th… Sent a letter to Wm. Atkinson in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah, heard from home by a letter wrote to John A. Stoker dated March the 12th, 1870. All was well… Thursday 24th… John A. Stoker and Joseph Stoker took me and Bro. Jesse N. Perkins to Omaha with a wagon. Rained before we got there. Joseph Stoker went over the River with us met about 30 of the missionaries at the St. Charles Hotel. [Joseph Jehiel Stoker, 1846-1921, was a brother of John Alexander and William Moroni Stoker.] Left Omaha at 6 p.m. on the Emigrant Cars for home…" Pp. 33-35: John details the train trip which started March 24th and arrived home in Bountiful March 29th after switching to the Utah Central in Ogden. He notes his arrival "in the midst of family and friends with a hearty God bless you… and a hearty shaking of hands." The missionary journal ends at this point. Pp. 36-227: The balance of John's journal book is genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank, which I did not copy. Besides family, John would also note many other unrelated Stokers who he must have gleaned from books and other sources. He also notes some totally unrelated non-Stoker individuals with whom he evidently has some acquaintance. I have entered the pertinent data with each family in my database. 4. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 106-107: Michael Stoker, born Feb. 10, 1805, North Carolina, married Martha McDaniel - father was James McDaniel, mother was Zibiah McCarley. Children: Gabriel McNeel Stoker, born Oct. 23, 1829, Jackson Co., Bloomfield, Ohio. David Newbury Stoker, born July 2, 1832, Bloomfield, Jac. Co., Ohio. John A. Stoker, born Aug 25, 1837, Colewill Co. Michael James Stoker, born May 23, 1840, Columbus, Ill. Jared Samuel, born Mar. 19, 1843 Hancock Co., Ill. Joseph J. Stoker, born April 20, 1845, Hancock Co., Ill. Martha Rebecca Stoker, born Jan. 1 1849 Potawatamie Co., Iowa, died Oct. 9, 1871. 174: James McDaniel, Zibiah McCarley, children: Martha McDaniel (Stoker), b. July 24, 1808, Galia Co., Ohio, Raccoon Township, died July 4, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Sarah McDaniel (Stoker), b. 26 May 1805, Galia Co., Ohio, Raccoon Township, died Mar. 7, 1857, Trader's Point, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. 182-183: Martha Stoker, daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarly was born Feby 24th, 1808, Ohio, Galia Co., Raccoon Township. Gabriel McNeel Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Martha McDaniel was born Oct. 23d, 1829, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township, State of Ohio. David Newbury Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Martha was born July 2d, 1832 Ohio, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township. Wm. Moroni Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born July 20th, 1834, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township, State of Ohio. John A. Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born Aug. 25, 1837, Missouri, Caldwell Co. Michael James Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born May 23d, 1840, Columbus, Adams Co., Illinois. Jared Samuel Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born March 19th, 1843 Illinois, Hancock Co. Joseph Johile Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born April 26th, 1846, Illinois, Hancock Co. Martha Rebecca Stoker, daughter of Michael and Martha was born Jany 1st, 1849, Potawatamie Co, Kane Township, Iowa, Died Oct.19, 1871. 188: Martha Stoker, daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarly, died Feby 4th, 1873, near Council Bluff City, Potawatamie Co., Iowa. 5. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The Stokers join the LDS Church. Mormon missionaries come. During the fall of 1833 Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his family, living in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio first heard the preaching of the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These missionaries exhorted them to join the new church and told them about Joseph Smith receiving inspired revelations from God. In addition the Church was noted for its new scripture, the Book of Mormon. The Stokers were drawn to the message. Many accepted baptism before the end of 1833. They included sixteen-year-old John Stoker (1817-1881) who was baptized November 13, 1833 by Seymour Brunson(1) and four days later his double cousin, fifteen-year-old Joseph Levi Graybill, who was baptized by John A. Fisher.(2) These two grandsons of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) were among the first of the Stoker family to embrace the new church. In 1834 Seymour Brunson moved his family to Bloomfield and organized a branch of the Church.(3) John's parents, David (1795-1852) and Barbara Graybill Stoker, joined the branch during that year. David's younger brother, Michael, Jr., (1805-1858) was affiliated with the Mormons. Evidence of his affiliation with the church comes from the fact that his son, born on July 10, 1834 was named, "William Moroni." Clearly the name Moroni marked Michael as having read the Book of Mormon. Moreover, in his journal Michael, Jr., writes, "The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder." He also baptized William and Barbara Stoker that year.(4) Michael held the Mormon priesthood to officiate in these ordinances. The Stokers and their relatives were very enthusiastic about their new church. They contributed to its growth and sustained its leadership. The McDaniel connection. The children and grandchildren of MIchael Stoker (1762-1838) had an affinity to marry the children of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, neighbors in Jackson County. John W. Stoker (1802-1857) married Electa Sarah McDaniel (1806-1857) on April 19, 1827. Michael Stoker, Jr., (1805-1858) married her sister, Martha Carr McDaniel, on Jan 1, 1829. A grandson, John Stoker (1817-1881), and a granddaughter, Christine Stoker (1815-1854), children of David Stoker (1795-1852), married Jane McDaniel (1810-1890) on January 21, 1836 and John Riley McDaniel on February 8, 1835. Nineteen-year-old John, in addition to marrying Jane, also adopted her son, Alma. Family tradition says that Alma's father would not consider joining the LDS church so Jane left him. About a month after her son's birth, Jane married John Stoker, the nephew of her two brothers-in-law. The Kirtland Temple is dedicated. In the spring of 1836, some members of the Bloomfield branch made the 200 mile trip north to Kirtland, Ohio to attend the dedication of the temple. In that group was Michael Stoker's son-in-law and grandson, Michael Graybill, Sr., and Joseph Levi Graybill. Michael Graybill's wife, Polly Stoker (1792-1864), was expecting the birth of her eleventh Child, a son who was born April 6, 1836. She didn't go with them. Michael Graybill while at the conference and temple dedication at Kirtland was impressed by Sidney Rigdon's two and a half hour sermon. Upon returning to Bloomfield, he named his newly born son, Sidney Rigdon Graybill.(5) Picture p. 3: "Barbara Graybill and her son, John Stoker." Footnotes 1. "The Life of John Stoker," compiled by Eunice Stoker Southwick 2. "Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Vol. III G.K. compiled by Susan Easton Black. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993. p. 149. 3. "Seymour Brunson," LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 3 compiled by Andrew Jenson. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901. p. 331. 4. "The Howard, Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories and including the Bell, Teeple, Mackland, Bardsley, Graybill, Eller, Dick, Oman, Smith, and Koons Families," compiled by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. p. 92. 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993." 6. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The following members of Michael Stoker's family attached their names to a petition in 1843 that they had lived in Missouri and had been driven from their state:(21) David Stoker [Michael's son David (1795-1852)], John Stoker [possibly David's son, John (1817-1881) or Michael's son, John W. (1803-1857)], John McDaniels (1812-1884) [David's son-in-law, husband of his oldest daughter, Christine (1815-1854)], Elles Stoker (1816-1855) [Eller, Michael's youngest son], Mary Stoker (1822-1890) [probably Margaret Judd, Eller's wife]. Catharine Stoker (1773-after 1850) [Michael's wife, Catharine Eller], Jacob Stoker (1812-1893) [Michael's son], Catharine Stoker [Catharine Burcham, Jacob's wife], John Stoker (1803-1857) [Michael's son, John W. Stoker], Sarah Stoker (1806-1857) [John W. Stoker's wife, Electa Sarah McDaniel]. Geo. Graybill (1821-?) [Michael's grandson, George Washington Graybill, son of Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864)], Michael Stoker (1805-1858) [Michael's son], Martha Stoker (1808-1873) [Martha Carr McDaniel, wife of Michael's son, Michael], Gabrael Stoker (1832-1852) [Michael's grandson, son of Michael (1805-1858)], William Stoker (1819-1892) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Almira Stoker (1818-1884) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, grandson, William's wife, Almira Winegar], Samuel D. Stoker (1840-1908) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira], William Stoker (1842-1906) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira]. Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864) or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?)], William Graybill (1825-1880) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Adam Graybill [still looking for this relationship to Michael], Sidney R Graybill (1836-?) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Levi Graybill (1818-1912) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Patience Graybill (1825-1895) [Patience Smith, Michael's granddaughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Levi Graybill (1818-1912)], Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864), or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?), Polly's daughter]. John Stoker (1817-1881) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Jane Stoker (1810-1890) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, Jane McDaniel, wife of John (1817-1881)], Hannah Graybill [Michael's great granddaughter, daughter of Joseph Levi Graybill], Hyrum Stoker (1840-1887) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881) and Jane McDaniel], Alma Stoker (1835-1897) [Michael's adopted great grandson, son of Jane McDaniel], and Franklin Stoker (1842-1855) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881)]. Lucinda Stoker is also listed on the petition but cannot establish a relationship to Michael Stoker (1762-1838).(22) Refuge found in Illinois. The people of Quincy reached out to help the Mormons fleeing from Missouri. Elizabeth Haven Barlow writes, "The people of Quincy had contributed between four and five hundred dollars for the poor Mormons. God had opened their hearts to receive us. May heaven's blessings rest upon them. We are hungry and they feed us, naked and clothed us. The citizens have assisted beyond all calculations."(23) Footnotes 21. Also included are some of their children who were born after 1838 in Illinois. 22. "Mormon Redress Petitions," pp. 574, 598, 599-601. 23. Elizabeth Haven Barlow in letter to Elizabeth Howel Bullard, 24 February 1839, published in Ora H. Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores." Salt Lake City: Ora H. Barlow, 1968." 7. This individual is mention in the following partial quote from an article entitled: "John Stoker (1817-1881) and Wives: Jane McDaniel, Harriet Susan Willis, and Jane Allen" in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT." See John's notes for full transcription: "Beginning in 1869, John filled a short mission. The following is a copy of John's missionary journal, which after he returned was turned into a genealogical records - some believe it was not written by him. It is entered here exactly as it is written. John's journal is on microfilm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. The whereabout of original journal is unknown and many pages have been ripped out before the journal was microfilmed. 'The Journal of John Stoker, 1869 (direct copy from the hard copy, genealogical sheets provided by Ora and Vinal Barlow. The micro film copy shows many pages torn from the journal.) Notes: 1. Parentheses are used to insert words and letters not used in the journal but believed to be meant. 2. After Journal Page 1 below, the abbreviation JP2, JP3, etc. will be used on this transcript. 3. As much as possible we have tried to copy the wording as it was written by John or others who wrote in the journal. 4. A sort of preface is given before page (1) of the journal on the reverse of the cover page. Journal Page 1. (Labeled in error on the original journal.) 'Elders went up to (station) left home on his (my) mission to the United States Nov 1 1869 1/2 past 4 AM Arrived at unita 9 minutes before 9 oclock left on the Cars 35 minutes after 2 oclock Arrived at Green River Tuesday 2nd- 5 minutes past 8 at Point of Rock Station half Past 9 the engine Switched off to Bring on the Main track 6 or 7 Cars of Coal in Running Back to hitch on Ran into the other Cars on the Main track and Broke the Coupling of 2 cars no body was Hurt by the Blessing of God' JP2 (Unlabeled in original journal) '(Minu)tes Past 11 Wednesday 3rd- Arrived at Larima (Laramie) City 1/2 past 7 A.M. left at 11- fixed Cars. Crossed the Bridge in Black Hills 1/2 after 1 Thursday the 4th Arrived at North Platt 20 minutes Past 10 A.M. all well Counted Missionaries 67 Arrived at FT Kearney 1/2 past 4 P.M. Friday the 5th Arrived at Omaha 20 minutes Past 10 A.M. Saturday 6th went to Bluff city with J N Perkins- Sunday 7th Spent the fore Noon with Moroni Stoker- Took Dinner with him' JP3 'Monday 8th went up to Musketoe to See Simoen P Graybill Stayed all night Tuesday 9th took dinner with Aunt Margaret Stoker uncle Eller Stoker's widdow and Returned at Trading Point, Potawatamie Co Iowa Wednesday 10th wrote a letter to Br Wm Atkinson in Bountiful Davis County Utah Thursday 11th visited We McDaniel in Harrison Co 40 Miles north Friday 12th visited the grave of Zibiah Birdno my wifes mother Saturday 13th Returned to Aunt Marthas at Traders Point Sunday 14th Spent the day with Aunt Marthas family Monday 15th went to Bluff City (Council Bluffs) to look for a Letter but gone none and Returned to the Point Traders... JP29 'Br We, H Lee giving information (of) Charles burton making arrangements in N.Y. to have a Company of missionaries to Start from Omaha on the 25th for Utah at 50.75 (or 30.75) the same that it cost us to come down last November- Returned to Trades Point Stayed over night wrote a letter to Wm H Lee Calamazoo Michigan Saturday 12th Cloudy and Cold wint from the North Sent a letter home to Utah to inform our families that we Received their Check of 160.00 and 1 (letter) to Wm H Lee Calamazoo Michigan Stayed over'night 'Sunday 13th Cold wind North East all Day Snowed at night High wind Stayed over night Monday 14th Cold wind in the North East Cloudy and very' JP30 'Cold and Snow Blowing and Elements Stark Blew all night Stayed over night to Aunt Martha Stoker Tuesday 15th very Cold and Blowing wind I the north west colder than the Day before the Elements Still Stark with Snow Blowing Stayed over night Wednesday 16th very Cold wind in the north west the Elements Still Darkened with Snow blowing Wind very Hard more Moderate in the afternoon. Stayed over night Thursday 17th weather more Moderate but Changeable went to Moroni Stokers Spent the Day Took Dinner with him and in the evening Returned to Aunt Martha Stokers Stayed over night' JP31 'Friday 18th pleasant and wind in the South went to Aaron Thomas took Dinner and spent the Day with his family, Returned to Aunt Martha Stokers Stayed over night Saturday 19th wind in the North Cloudy and Cold. Sent a letter to Wm Atkinson in Bountiful Davis Co Utah, heard from home by a letter wrote to John A Stoker Dated March the 12th 1870 All very well Stayed over night 'Sunday 20th wind in the North Cold Sleet last night also cloudy Broke away at Noon Stayed over night Monday 21st Pleasant in the Morning went to Omaha and drawed our money for our Check on the First national Bank Met Br' JP32 'Daniel Carter and Aron Farr, Thomas Rich and a number of Missionaries at the St Charles Hotel Rained Some in the afternoon Returned to Traders Point to Aunt Martha Stokers being quite u(n)well Stayed over night Tuesday 22nd Clear and pleasant Cool wind North West very unwell in the evening Br Wm Neel arrived at Martha Stokers about 10 oclock and (al) the missionaries from the East Came up through St Louis was better in the afternoon Stayed over night Wednesday 23rd Clear and pleasant wind in the South not being well Jesse N Perkins went and got' JP33 'Some plum Sprouts and lilocks Packed up our clothes Stayed over night Thursday 24th Cloudy wind in the South John a Stoker and Joseph Stoker and Br Jesse N Perkins (went) to Omaha with a wagon Rained before we got there Joseph Stoker went over the River with us met about 30 Missionaries at the St Charles Hotel left Omaha at 6 P.M. On the Emigrant Cars for home..." BIRTH: 1. Endowment Record: 24 Feb 1808 at Ashe County, North Carolina. 2. See biographical citation above from Michael Stoker's journal: 'One of the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Michael Stoker, Jr. was born Feb. 10, 1805 in the State of North Carolina. Martha Carr McDaniel was born Feb. 24, 1808 in the state of Ohio. 3. Variant date using age in tombstone as quoted below is 23 Feb 1808. 4. John Stoker's Journal quoted above uses variant date of 24 July 1808 at one entry and 24 Feby 1808 at another entry. 5. Gallia County was formed on March 25, 1803 from portions of Adams and Washington counties. Jackson County was formed March 1, 1816 from Ross County. Both Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co. and Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co. adjoin each other. MARRIAGE: 1. Per Doris Lewis's biography quoted above. 2. FHL Film #301,043 "Jackson County, Ohio Marriages 1816-1843" has no record of any marriage for this couple even though it does have marriages of John W. Stoker and Electa Sally McDaniel in 1827 and John McDaniel and Christina Stoker in 1835. DEATH: 1. Per Doris Lewis's biography quoted above: "Martha Carr Stoker died Tuesday, February 4, 1873 at 2:30 A.M. at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa." 2. John Stoker's Journal quoted above uses variant month of July. I suspect that Stoker, when transcribing the info to his journal, mistook a Feby for July in handwritten script. I have seen the journal and does say July which is what he evidently believed he was writing. In a later entry, 4 Feb 1873 is used in the same Journal. BURIAL: 1. The following name is found on a new memorial stone with 33 other related family members at Graybill/Stoker Cemetery: "Martha Stoker 1808-1873." It is 3 miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa in Garner Township on old Highway 6 (also known as McPherson Highway - not to be confused with the new Highway 6), then a right (south) on State Orchard Road for 9/10ths of a mile, then left (east) on Cedar Lane to the first driveway on the left (north). The address is 21090 Cedar Lane and the cemetery is in their backyard. Get permission from the homeowner first. These directions were corrected from previous directions after my visit May 8, 2007. 2. Tombstone at Graybill Cemetery, Garner Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa: "Martha C., wife of M. Stoker d. 4 Feb 1873, 64y 11m 10d." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Ancestral File 4.19 (27 May 2001). 2. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, p. 115. | McDaniel, Martha (I2543)
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| 2091 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Bloomfield Township, Jackson, Ohio, pg. 109-112, note whole township had 527 people living in it, related families include Michael Stoker, Michael Stoker Jr., Alexander Lackey, James Welker, Michael Graybill, and John Stoker: Michael Stoker, Jr. Males 0-5:1; 20-30:1; 60-70:1. Females 5-10:1; 20-30:1. [Appears to be Michael, his wife Martha, and their oldest son Gabriel; unsure who 5-10 year old girl would be since this couple was married only one year before.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 67b, household and family #62 [note judging from 1834 birth of Moroni, it would appear family was Mormon by that date by using a Book of Mormon name for the son]: Michael Stoker, 41, no occupation, NC. Martha, 39, Ohio. Gabriel, 21, laborer, Ohio. David, 18, Ohio. Maroni, 16, Ohio. Alexander, 13, Ohio. Michael, 10, Ill. Jared, 6, Ill. Joseph, 4, Ill. Rebecca, 2, Ill. 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. Census return: Stoker: Michael 46, Martha 44, Gabriel M. [male] 21, David N. 19, William M. 16, John A. 13, James M. 10, Jared 7, Joseph J. 4, Martha R. 2. [Note that the following related families are in this census and very close neighbors: Simeon P. Graybill, Michael/Polly Graybill with Polly's mother Catherine Eller Stoker, Eller/Margaret Stoker, Jacob/Catherine Stoker, Philip/Catherine Gatrost, David/Barbara Stoker, Edward/Sarah Davis, and William/Almira Stoker. Other relatives in same county but separated by several pages of census include the following families: Thomas/Hannah Pilling whose daughter Hannah, later marries William Lenore Graybill, Levi/Patience Graybill, John W./Sarah Stoker, Hannah Ford whose son Martin later marries Zibiah M. Stoker, and John/Sarah Smith.] 1852 Iowa: not listed under his name in FHL book heads of household index for the 1852 Iowa census. 2. Judging from 1834 birth of brother Moroni, it would appear father's family was Mormon by that date by their use of a Book of Mormon name for the son. 3. Father's journal as quoted below uses McNiel. I have seen it reported also as McNeil by some modern researchers. BIOGRAPHY: 1. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of Michael and Martha Stoker and their son "Gabrael". 2. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows on pages: 106-107: Michael Stoker, born Feb. 10, 1805, North Carolina, married Martha McDaniel - father was James McDaniel, mother was Zibiah McCarley. Children: Gabriel McNeel Stoker, born Oct. 23, 1829, Jackson Co., Bloomfield, Ohio. David Newbury Stoker, born July 2, 1832, Bloomfield, Jac. Co., Ohio. John A. Stoker, born Aug 25, 1837, Colewill Co. Michael James Stoker, born May 23, 1840, Columbus, Ill. Jared Samuel, born Mar. 19, 1843 Hancock Co., Ill. Joseph J. Stoker, born April 20, 1845, Hancock Co., Ill. Martha Rebecca Stoker, born Jan. 1 1849 Potawatamie Co., Iowa, died Oct. 9, 1871. 182-183: Martha Stoker, daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarly was born Feby 24th, 1808, Ohio, Galia Co., Raccoon Township. Gabriel McNeel Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Martha McDaniel was born Oct. 23d, 1829, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township, State of Ohio. David Newbury Stoker, son of Michael Stoker and Martha was born July 2d, 1832 Ohio, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township. Wm. Moroni Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born July 20th, 1834, Jackson Co., Bloomfield Township, State of Ohio. John A. Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born Aug. 25, 1837, Missouri, Caldwell Co. Michael James Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born May 23d, 1840, Columbus, Adams Co., Illinois. Jared Samuel Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born March 19th, 1843 Illinois, Hancock Co. Joseph Johile Stoker, son of Michael and Martha was born April 26th, 1846, Illinois, Hancock Co. Martha Rebecca Stoker, daughter of Michael and Martha was born Jany 1st, 1849, Potawatamie Co, Kane Township, Iowa, Died Oct.19, 1871. 3. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The following members of Michael Stoker's family attached their names to a petition in 1843 that they had lived in Missouri and had been driven from their state:(21) David Stoker [Michael's son David (1795-1852)], John Stoker [possibly David's son, John (1817-1881) or Michael's son, John W. (1803-1857)], John McDaniels (1812-1884) [David's son-in-law, husband of his oldest daughter, Christine (1815-1854)], Elles Stoker (1816-1855) [Eller, Michael's youngest son], Mary Stoker (1822-1890) [probably Margaret Judd, Eller's wife]. Catharine Stoker (1773-after 1850) [Michael's wife, Catharine Eller], Jacob Stoker (1812-1893) [Michael's son], Catharine Stoker [Catharine Burcham, Jacob's wife], John Stoker (1803-1857) [Michael's son, John W. Stoker], Sarah Stoker (1806-1857) [John W. Stoker's wife, Electa Sarah McDaniel]. Geo. Graybill (1821-?) [Michael's grandson, George Washington Graybill, son of Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864)], Michael Stoker (1805-1858) [Michael's son], Martha Stoker (1808-1873) [Martha Carr McDaniel, wife of Michael's son, Michael], Gabrael Stoker (1832-1852) [Michael's grandson, son of Michael (1805-1858)], William Stoker (1819-1892) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Almira Stoker (1818-1884) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, grandson, William's wife, Almira Winegar], Samuel D. Stoker (1840-1908) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira], William Stoker (1842-1906) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira]. Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864) or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?)], William Graybill (1825-1880) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Adam Graybill [still looking for this relationship to Michael], Sidney R Graybill (1836-?) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Levi Graybill (1818-1912) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Patience Graybill (1825-1895) [Patience Smith, Michael's granddaughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Levi Graybill (1818-1912)], Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864), or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?), Polly's daughter]. John Stoker (1817-1881) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Jane Stoker (1810-1890) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, Jane McDaniel, wife of John (1817-1881)], Hannah Graybill [Michael's great granddaughter, daughter of Joseph Levi Graybill], Hyrum Stoker (1840-1887) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881) and Jane McDaniel], Alma Stoker (1835-1897) [Michael's adopted great grandson, son of Jane McDaniel], and Franklin Stoker (1842-1855) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881)]. Lucinda Stoker is also listed on the petition but cannot establish a relationship to Michael Stoker (1762-1838).(22) Refuge found in Illinois. The people of Quincy reached out to help the Mormons fleeing from Missouri. Elizabeth Haven Barlow writes, "The people of Quincy had contributed between four and five hundred dollars for the poor Mormons. God had opened their hearts to receive us. May heaven's blessings rest upon them. We are hungry and they feed us, naked and clothed us. The citizens have assisted beyond all calculations."(23) Footnotes 21. Also included are some of their children who were born after 1838 in Illinois. 22. "Mormon Redress Petitions," pp. 574, 598, 599-601. 23. Elizabeth Haven Barlow in letter to Elizabeth Howel Bullard, 24 February 1839, published in Ora H. Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores." Salt Lake City: Ora H. Barlow, 1968." 4. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT: "The following is a reprint of a newspaper article published in the Jackson [Ohio] Herald, Friday, February 27, 1959 p. 7 which Helen Evans sent to Jim Stoker earlier this year. 'In county's early church history. Mormon incident is recalled at Vega, by Gwyn A. Perry, M.D. In a recent issue of your paper, appeared an article by Mr. Charles Harkins on some of the history of the Vega Methodist Church. Research on the history of the religious denominations of Jackson county reveals that the same area now occupied by this Church was the locale of a shameful incident in the religious history of this county. For it was here that efforts were made to establish a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This sect is popularly called the Mormon Church, a term derived from their Book of Mormon. The various religious denominations in the early days of the county were very intolerant of each other, and this intolerance even extended to members of their own denomination who differed in their theological interpretations. The Baptists were dominant in the southern half of the county, the Methodists in the central and northern part. When a Presbyterian attempted to organize a Sunday School in what is now old Oak Hill, but then known as "Buzzard Roost," the Baptists fought him bitterly as they believed Sunday schools were the work of the Devil. The Methodists were also antagonistic, but their opposition was not with the vigor of the Baptists. The Presbyterians finally established a group in the Jackson area, but for many years it was of little influence. A colony of families of German ancestry settled in the Vega area about 1816, having come from Ashe county, North Carolina and Frederick county, Maryland. Shortly after the Mormon Church was founded in New York state, migrants and missionaries came to this county. Many converts were obtained in this German colony, as well as a few in the town of Jackson. Most of the meetings were held in the Michael Stoker (Stucker) home, where Vega Church is now located. Historical records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tell of these meetings at the Stoker home and in the Jackson settlement in 1832 and 1833... Shortly after the Mormon Church was established in the present Vega area, a Methodist preacher by the name of Borgess came into the county and he made opposition to Mormonism his specialty and was fiery and vehement in his denunciation. Dr. Gabriel McNeel who was one of the strongest characters ever to live in this county was very well thought of by the Stokers; they had named their first born son after him. [Michael Stoker's son, Michael, and wife, Martha Carr McDaniel, named their first son, Gabriel McNeel.] Dr. McNeel, who among his many occupations was also an ordained Methodist minister, attended some of their church meetings but in contrast to Borgess tried to show the fallacy of the Book of Mormon by logic. Although there is a record that occasionally he broke up their services by refusing to keep quiet while their minister was preaching. As all of the orthodox denominations in Jackson county were following the same persecution methods as was being done all over Ohio, the Mormon group of this area were finally forced to sell their lands for whatever price they could obtain and move on. A daughter of one of the families, remained and is buried in the Vega cemetery. The group moved first to Illinois [actually it was to Missouri, then Illinois], then to Iowa and finally to the Utah Territory before they found surcease from religious persecution. Not everyone was opposed to them, however. An individual who was present and witnessed their persecution, recorded in his diary, "I cannot blame the Mormons for hating the people of Jackson county. Mormonism was not met by the mob in our county, but the preachers of all the other denominations were vigilant and bitter in attacking this new doctrine." BIRTH: 1. Mentioned in the book "The Howard Leytham Stoker Von Dollen Family Histories, "FHL 929.273 H833a, by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Ave., Omaha, Nebraska, 68124, pp. 92, 93: "Michael Stoker, b. 10 Feb 1805, m. Martha Carr McDaniels... By noting where the children were born, one can trace the whereabouts of their journeys. By August of 1837, they were in Caldwell County, Missouri. They were at Trader's Point in Pottawattamie County, Iowa in January of 1849 and lived there the rest of their lives, Michael died on March 30, 1858 at the age of 53, and Martha died 15 years later. Trader's Point, an early Indian trading center, was south of Council Bluffs and across the river from Sarpy's Ferry. When the Missouri River changed its course, Trader's Point ended up on the Nebraska side. Michael Stoker's Journal: 'One of the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints... Gabriel Mc N. Stoker was born Oct. 23, 1829 in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio, Friday at 3 P.M... David [should be Gabriel; typo?] McNiel Stoker died May 23, 1852, at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa." 2. Ancestral file reports variant birthdate of 2 Feb 1832 which does not fit with either censuses not father's journal and should be ignored. It also reports 24 Dec 1828; however, I use father's journal as quoted above. MARRIAGE: 1. Probably unmarried considering 1851 census as single and death in 1852. DEATH: 1. Date in Ancestral File uses variant date of 10 Jun 1852; however, I use father's journal date quoted in birth record above. Tombstone does confirm an 1852 year of death. I use place as Trader's Point since it shows up also in father's journal and he was there with his family in 1851 Iowa census. Died about same time as brother David - they would have been 20 and 23 years old, and died nine days apart. 2. Variant per FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, p. 116: "Gabriel McNeil Stoker, b. 23 Oct 1829 in Bloomfield Twsp. of Jackson Co., OH; d. 10 Jun 1852 (gravestone) or 14 May 1852 (family records)." My notes on the tombstone below does not give anything but the year of death and not 10 Jun. BURIAL: 1. The following name is found on a new memorial stone with 33 other related family members at Graybill/Stoker Cemetery: "Gabriel Stoker 1829-1852." It is 3 miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa in Garner Township on old Highway 6 (also known as McPherson Highway - not to be confused with the new Highway 6), then a right (south) on State Orchard Road for 9/10ths of a mile, then left (east) on Cedar Lane to the first driveway on the left (north). The address is 21090 Cedar Lane and the cemetery is in their backyard. Get permission from the homeowner first. These directions were corrected from previous directions after my visit May 8, 2007. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Ancestral File 4.19 (27 May 2001). 2. Mentioned in the FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, p. 87. | Stoker, Gabriel McNiel (I436)
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| 2092 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, p. 1 of 8 (Note: that index indicates "Burdine," but looking carefully at the actual image, it is "Burdino".): Charles Burdine, males: 1:5-10(Nehemiah Beirdneau), 1:10-15(William McDaniel), 1:15-20(John McDaniel), 1:20-30(uncertain identity), 1:60-70(Charles Birdino); females: 1:0-5 (Elizabeth Beirdneau), 1:20-30(Jane McDaniel), 1:40-50(Zibiah) 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 1850 US: Davis County, house/family 117/117: John Stoker, 35, farmer $175, OH. Jane, 38, OH. Alma, 15, OH. Hyram, 11, IL. Franklin, 9, IL. David, 7, IA. Zibiah, 3, IA. 1860 US: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, p. 15 of 23, 15 Jun 1860, house/family 98/91: Jno. Stoker, 44, farmer, $2000, $700, OH. Jane, 50, OH. Harriet, 38, NY. Alma, 25, OH. Jane, 19, OH. Hyrum, 19, IL. David, 15, IL. Jane, 10, IA. Sarah A., 8, NY. Geo, 3, MI. Jno, 2, NY. 1870 US: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, p. 26 of 34, 19 Aug 1870: Household/family 214/215: John Stoker, 53, Bishop, $4000, $1500, OH. Jane, 60, OH. Alma, 35, farm hand, OH. Sarah A., 19, UT. Household/family 215/216: Harriet Stoker, 46, keeping house, NY. John, 13, UT. Catherine, 7, UT. Hiram, 30, laborer, IL. Household/family 216/217: Jane Stoker, 29, keeping house, OH. Maryann, 8, UT. Henry, 6, UT. Lorenzo, 3, UT. Clarissa, 1, UT. 1880 US: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, FHL film 1255336, National Archives Film T9-1336, p. 279C: John Stoker, farmer, 63, married, birthplace: OH, father's and mother's birthplace: NC. Jane Stoker, keeping house, 69, birthplace: OH. Hyrum, works on farm, son, S, 40, IL, OH, OH. Harriet, keeping house, wife, M, 58, NY, CT, VT. Mary A., at home dau, S, 18, UT, OH, OH. Catherine, at home, dau, 16, UT, OH, NY. Henry, at home, son, 15, UT, OH, NY. Lorenzo, at home, son, 13, UT, OH, NY. Jessie, at home, son, 5, UT, OH, NY. 2. Obituary of son David Stoker: "David Stoker Dead. Well Known and Highly Respected Citizen of Davis County Passes. (Special Correspondence.) Farmington, April 3 - David Stoker, until recently Bishop of the East Bountiful ward in Davis stake, died at his home in Bountiful, Saturday morning. During the last four months he had been confined to his bed the greater part of the time with heart and stomach trouble. Bishop Stoker was born in Hancock county, Ill. Sept. 28, 1844. His parents were born in Ohio. In 1836 they moved to Illinois, in which state six children were born to them of whom David was the third son. The family left Illinois in 1846 and after three years of uncertain travel arrived in Utah in 1849. Mr. Stoker spent his early days on the farm in Davis county and his early education was received from the schools then afforded by the country settlements. He was, however, ambitious and intelligent and independent of schooling arose to positions of distinction and trust among his fellow men. He was broad minded, of keen judgment, loving freedom of thought and resenting any encroachments of authority upon the rights and liberties of men. His advice and the wisdom of his counsel were sought by all who knew him. So highly has he been regarded by the citizens of Davis county that their suffrage has elected him to the office of county comisioner and member of Utah legislature. He also held by appointment the position of probate judge, and received the nomination to the office county commissioner at the convention of the Democratic party, Oct. 1910. He has been a stalwart Democrat all his life and is known in the politics of Utah as a legislator and a judge of wisdom and capability. In a religious capacity, Bishop Stoker served his Church on a mission in the Northern States. From which duty he arose in the estimation of his brethren holding various positions, the last in the bishopric of his ward in which he served as counselor to Bishop Call, and later as bishop for a period of 13 years. In religious as in civil matters, his soundness of judgment commended him to the consideration of his fellows. In the industrial world he figured also. He has aided in developing the dry land districts in Davis county, being a promoter in the Davis and Weber canal. He was at his death, president and director in the Bountiful Co-op, the large store which recently burned down. Bishop Stoker leaves a widow, Regeria Hogan Stoker and seven children." Deseret Evening News, Mon., 3 Apr 1911, photo acoumpanies obituary. 3. The book "The Henry McDaniel family, 1755-1975," by Esta McDaniel Lee, 1975, FHL 929.273 M141L, p. 82: "Other McDaniels of Gallia and Jackson Counties, Ohio. David McDaniel, b. ca. 1738 m. 5 March, 1801, Elizabeth (Betsy) McCarley in Washington County, Ohio. Gallia County was a part of Washington Coound at that time. David McDanieal was in Ohio long before it became a state for a son James McDaniel was born in what is now Jackson County, 24 Feb. 1762. He married 19 Dec 1805 Zebiah (Sibby) McCarley, b. 10 Dec 1786, Gallia County, Ohio, daughter of John McCarley. She died 5 Feb 1860. James died in Jackson County, 1820. They had the following children: 1. Sarah McDaniel, b. 26 May 1806, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 7 Mar 1857, m. John W. Stoker, 13 Mar 1827. 2. Martha McDaniel, b. 24 Feb 1808, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 4 Feb 1877, m. 1828/29 Michael Stoker. 3. Jane McDaniel, 24 Feb 1810, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah, m. 1836, John Stoker. 4. John McDaniel, b. 10 Jun 1812, Jackson Co., O., d. 11 Nov 1884, Alpine, Utah, m. Christina Stoker. 5. William McDaniel, b. 1814, Jackson Co., O., d. 1889 unmarried. There could have been others." Page 83: "Jackson County Marriage Records. C.D. Massie: 19 Apr 1827 Electa Sally McDaniel to John W. Stoker." BIOGRAPHY: 1. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of John and Jane Stoker, and their three sons Hyrum, Alma, and Franklin. 2. Listed in Pioneers of 1848 from the files of the daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Journal History, etc.: "Stoker, John, age 31, b. 8 Mar 1817 in Bloomfield, Ohio and wife Stoker, Jane McD., age 38, 24 Feb. 1810, Ohio and their children: Alma, Hyrum, Franklin, David (age 4, 28 Sep 1844, Illinois), Zibiah Jane, Sarah Ann as part of the Young Company. 3. Reference to John Stoker and Jane McDaniel in daughter Zebiah Jane Stoker's biography per the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 3145, photo accompanies article: "Zebiah Jane Stoker Tolman, born 21 May 1847 at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa; died 28 May 1933 at Bountiful, Davis, Utah; parents were John Stoker and Jane McDaniel; pioneer of 18 Sep 1848 in the Brigham Young Wagon Train; spouse was Judson Tolman married 5 Apr 1869 in Salt Lake Endowment House (he died 6 Jul 1916 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah; they had 11 children [see book for Children's names and birthdates]. Zebiah Jane was born in Mt. Pisgah, Iowa on May 21, 1847. She came across the Plains with her parents by ox-team. Her father was one of the leaders of the third company of the first division of the Brigham Young Wagon Company. Their division left the Elkhorn on June 1, 1848 and arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley on Sep. 18, 1848. Zebiah's parents settled in Bountiful where she grew up living the hardy pioneer life. She felt education was very impartant and became a pioneer school teacher for many years in the Bountiful area. She was especially skilled in mathematics and english. She became the fourth wife of Judson Tolman on April 5, 1869 in the Salt Lake Endlowment House. Her father and Judson were good friends. His first wife had died on Feb. 4, 1869. She was 22 years old as she moved in to care for his older family, some as old as she was. She bore Judson eleven children of her own. She was a generous and loving mother. She passed her love of education on to her children. Three of her sons became well known educators in the Utah Schools. Zebiah passed away at her home on May 28, 1933 at the age of 86. Funeral servieces were held in Bountiful Tabernacle and she was buried in the Bountiful City Cemetery." 4. Biography in the book "Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia," p. 252: "John Stoker, Bishop of East Bountiful, Davis county, Utah, was born March 8, 1817, at Bloomfield, Jackson county, Ohio, the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. Becoming a convert to 'Mormonism' he was baptized Nov. 13, 1836, by Seymour Brunson, and cast his lot with the Saints in their gathering places in the States. He emigrated to Utah in 1848 and settled in what was then called the Sessions settlement (now Bountiful). He was ordained a Bishop Jan. 20, 1851, by Brigham Young and set apart to preside over the North Mill Creek Ward, afterwards named Bountiful. Bishop Stoker married three wives, namely Jane McDaniel, who became the mother of six children; Jane Allen, who gave birth to nine children, and Harriet (a widow), who bore her husband two children. In 1869-70 Bishop Stoker filled a short mission to Virginia. He was ordained a Patriarch in 1877 and died June 11, 1881, at Bountiful." 5. Reference to John and Jane in son David Stoker's biography in the book "Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia," p. 253 (photo accompanies article): "David Stoker. Bishop of East Bountiful, Davis county, Utah, was born Sept. 28, 1844, in Hancock county, Ill., the son of John Stoker and Jane McDaniel. The parents spent their early life in Ohio where they were married, and in 1836 they emigrated to Adams county, Ill., and later settled in Hancock county, in the same State. At the time of the exodus (1846) the family came west as far as Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, where they remained until 1848, when they fitted out ox teams preparatory to crossing the plains to Utah, which they did that year in Pres. Brigham Young's train, arriving in Salt Lake City Sept. 23, 1848. The first winter was spent in the Old Fort, and in the spring of 1849 they located at Bountiful, which at that time was sparsely settled in a wild state. There David received his eduaction and became earlier in life a faithful woriker in the Church. In 1866 (March 3rd) he married Miss Regena Hogan, daughter of Erick G.M. Hogan and Harriet Nesteby. Bishops Stoker's whole life was spent in Bountiful, where he assisted in transforming the county from a wild and barren waste to its present prosperous condition. His home was considered one of the finest of its size in the locality. In 1892-1894 he filled a mission to the Northern States. During the Indian troubles in Utah he served in the militia orgainzed to protect the settlers and was in the Black Hawk war for 81 days. After presiding a number of years over the Elders quorum at Bountiful, he was ordained a Seventy and still later a High Priest and chosen as first counselor to Bishiop Chester Call. This position he held till Jan. 19, 1896, when he was ordained a Bishop by Lorenzo Snow and set apart to preside over the East Bountiful Ward. He also served as county commissioner and probate judge of Davis county, and served two terms in the Utah Territiorial legislature. Respected and beloved by his people he died April 1, 1911, at his home at Bountiful." 6. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows: P. 36-48: Franklin Stoker, son of John and Jane Stoker was born Illinois, Hancock County, Aug. 12, 1842. Died in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory, Sept. 27th 1855. Clarissa Stoker, daughter of John and Jane Stoker the Second, born Feby 2d, 1859, Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Died Aug 12th 1870 at midnight in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory of diarea and bloody flux. Jude Stoker, son of John Stoker and Jane Stoker the second. Born April the 2d, 1871. Died Sept. 4th 1872 at 9 o'clock a.m., Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Albert Stoker, son of John and Jane A. Stoker, born march 27th 1873 at 3 o'clock a.m. Blessed by John Stoker mouth, April 3, and Thomas Briggs and John Livingston(?). Died April 4th 1 ½ p.m. Buried April 5th Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Harriet Ann Stoker, daughter of David Stoker and Regina Haugen(?) born March 21st 1873. Died Nov 19th 1873 of scarlet fever and inflammation of the brain. Jesse Stoker, son of John and Jane A. Stoker was born July 17th 1874 at 3 o'clock and 45 minutes a.m. in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. John Stoker, son of John and Harriet S. Stoker, born Feby 11th 1857 in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Died in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory, September 14th 1876 at 6:15 minutes a.m. of typhoid fever. Harriet Eunice, daughter of John and Jane Allen Stoker, born May 13th 1877… blessed August 22d 1877 by Elder Wm. Thurgood… died August 23d in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Jane Allen, wife of John Stoker and daughter of Jude and Mary Ann Allen, born March the 8th 1841, died August the 5th 1877 in Bountiful, Davis County at her residence after nearly three months illness from the affects of child birth. Died Aug 23 1878 Henry Stoker, born in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Feb. 12, 1855. Lorenzo Stoker, born Feby 21 1867 in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah. John Stoker, son of David and Barbary Stoker was ordained Bishop in North Kanyon ward Davis Co., U.T. Jany 20th 1851 under the hands of Pres. Brigham young, Heber C. Kimball, Jedediah M. Grant. Laboured in the same place until August the 4th 1874 when he resigned his office as Bishop to Pres. P. Young on account of ill health not being able to attend to the labours required with the blessings of the priesthood upon him from his past labours. John Stoker, son of David Stoker and Barbara Grabill was born March the 8th 1817 in Jackson County, Ohio. Died at Bountiful, Utah Territory June 11th 1881 at 10 minutes to 7 o'clock p.m. of paralasis. Hyrum Stoker, son of John Stoker and Jane McDaniel, died at Bountiful June 5th 1887. Jane McDaniel Stoker died at Bountiful Jan. 20(?), 1890. Wife of John Stoker. [Entry on p. 43 which is too light to read and with someone I don't recognize. Looks like: Sonia Stoker Born Dec 7, 1835/6 Died June 5th 1897 at Syracuse Ward of Harriet Stoker.] Birth of Jane Allen parents. Jude Allen borned Doillsborough, Essy Co. New York. Oct 12, 1811. Mary Ann Nichloos Allen, born Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1820. Jane Allen Stoker born Parma, Cayuhoga Co., Ohio, March 8, 1841… died Bountiful Davis Co. Aug. 5, 1877. Jude Allen died Feb 13, 1900, aged 88 years. Mary Ann Nchloos died Bountiful Davis Co., January 9, 1860. Rockland, Ida. Oct 14, 1917. Mary Ann Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., May 14, 1862. Henry Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., Feb. 12, 1865. Lorenzo Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., Feb 21, 1869. Clarissa Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., Feb. 21, 1869. Jude Stoker, born April 2, 1871 at Bountiful, Davis Co. Albert Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., March 29, 1878(3?). Jesse Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., July 17, 1874. Harriet Eunice Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., May 13, 1879. Mary Ann Hack Stoker, died at Provo, Utah, May 1, 1903. Henry Stoker, died Salt Lake City, Oct. 12, 1904. Albert Stoker, died April 4, 1873. Harriet Eunice Stoker, died Bountiful, Davis Co., Aug. 12, 1870. Jude Stoker, died Bountiful, Davis Co., Sept. 4, 1872. Mary Ann Stoker was married to James Hack at Salt Lake City 1881, was second wife, died 1st of May 1903 Henry died 12 of Sept 1904, Oct 12, 1904. John Stoker was a captain of Fifties under Pres. Brigham Young's companies in Emigration to Utah from Nauvoo in the year 1848. 7. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The Stokers join the LDS Church. Mormon missionaries come. During the fall of 1833 Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his family, living in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio first heard the preaching of the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These missionaries exhorted them to join the new church and told them about Joseph Smith receiving inspired revelations from God. In addition the Church was noted for its new scripture, the Book of Mormon. The Stokers were drawn to the message. Many accepted baptism before the end of 1833. They included sixteen-year-old John Stoker (1817-1881) who was baptized November 13, 1833 by Seymour Brunson(1) and four days later his double cousin, fifteen-year-old Joseph Levi Graybill, who was baptized by John A. Fisher.(2) These two grandsons of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) were among the first of the Stoker family to embrace the new church. In 1834 Seymour Brunson moved his family to Bloomfield and organized a branch of the Church.(3) John's parents, David (1795-1852) and Barbara Graybill Stoker, joined the branch during that year. David's younger brother, Michael, Jr., (1805-1858) was affiliated with the Mormons. Evidence of his affiliation with the church comes from the fact that his son, born on July 10, 1834 was named, "William Moroni." Clearly the name Moroni marked Michael as having read the Book of Mormon. Moreover, in his journal Michael, Jr., writes, "The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder." He also baptized William and Barbara Stoker that year.(4) Michael held the Mormon priesthood to officiate in these ordinances. The Stokers and their relatives were very enthusiastic about their new church. They contributed to its growth and sustained its leadership. The McDaniel connection. The children and grandchildren of MIchael Stoker (1762-1838) had an affinity to marry the children of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, neighbors in Jackson County. John W. Stoker (1802-1857) married Electa Sarah McDaniel (1806-1857) on April 19, 1827. Michael Stoker, Jr., (1805-1858) married her sister, Martha Carr McDaniel, on Jan 1, 1829. A grandson, John Stoker (1817-1881), and a granddaughter, Christine Stoker (1815-1854), children of David Stoker (1795-1852), married Jane McDaniel (1810-1890) on January 21, 1836 and John Riley McDaniel on February 8, 1835. Nineteen-year-old John, in addition to marrying Jane, also adopted her son, Alma. Family tradition says that Alma's father would not consider joining the LDS church so Jane left him. About a month after her son's birth, Jane married John Stoker, the nephew of her two brothers-in-law. The Kirtland Temple is dedicated. In the spring of 1836, some members of the Bloomfield branch made the 200 mile trip north to Kirtland, Ohio to attend the dedication of the temple. In that group was Michael Stoker's son-in-law and grandson, Michael Graybill, Sr., and Joseph Levi Graybill. Michael Graybill's wife, Polly Stoker (1792-1864), was expecting the birth of her eleventh Child, a son who was born April 6, 1836. She didn't go with them. Michael Graybill while at the conference and temple dedication at Kirtland was impressed by Sidney Rigdon's two and a half hour sermon. Upon returning to Bloomfield, he named his newly born son, Sidney Rigdon Graybill.(5) Picture p. 3: "Barbara Graybill and her son, John Stoker." Footnotes 1. "The Life of John Stoker," compiled by Eunice Stoker Southwick 2. "Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Vol. III G.K. compiled by Susan Easton Black. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993. p. 149. 3. "Seymour Brunson," LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 3 compiled by Andrew Jenson. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901. p. 331. 4. "The Howard, Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories and including the Bell, Teeple, Mackland, Bardsley, Graybill, Eller, Dick, Oman, Smith, and Koons Families," compiled by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. p. 92. 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993." 8. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The following members of Michael Stoker's family attached their names to a petition in 1843 that they had lived in Missouri and had been driven from their state:(21) David Stoker [Michael's son David (1795-1852)], John Stoker [possibly David's son, John (1817-1881) or Michael's son, John W. (1803-1857)], John McDaniels (1812-1884) [David's son-in-law, husband of his oldest daughter, Christine (1815-1854)], Elles Stoker (1816-1855) [Eller, Michael's youngest son], Mary Stoker (1822-1890) [probably Margaret Judd, Eller's wife]. Catharine Stoker (1773-after 1850) [Michael's wife, Catharine Eller], Jacob Stoker (1812-1893) [Michael's son], Catharine Stoker [Catharine Burcham, Jacob's wife], John Stoker (1803-1857) [Michael's son, John W. Stoker], Sarah Stoker (1806-1857) [John W. Stoker's wife, Electa Sarah McDaniel]. Geo. Graybill (1821-?) [Michael's grandson, George Washington Graybill, son of Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864)], Michael Stoker (1805-1858) [Michael's son], Martha Stoker (1808-1873) [Martha Carr McDaniel, wife of Michael's son, Michael], Gabrael Stoker (1832-1852) [Michael's grandson, son of Michael (1805-1858)], William Stoker (1819-1892) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Almira Stoker (1818-1884) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, grandson, William's wife, Almira Winegar], Samuel D. Stoker (1840-1908) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira], William Stoker (1842-1906) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira]. Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864) or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?)], William Graybill (1825-1880) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Adam Graybill [still looking for this relationship to Michael], Sidney R Graybill (1836-?) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Levi Graybill (1818-1912) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Patience Graybill (1825-1895) [Patience Smith, Michael's granddaughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Levi Graybill (1818-1912)], Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864), or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?), Polly's daughter]. John Stoker (1817-1881) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Jane Stoker (1810-1890) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, Jane McDaniel, wife of John (1817-1881)], Hannah Graybill [Michael's great granddaughter, daughter of Joseph Levi Graybill], Hyrum Stoker (1840-1887) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881) and Jane McDaniel], Alma Stoker (1835-1897) [Michael's adopted great grandson, son of Jane McDaniel], and Franklin Stoker (1842-1855) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881)]. Lucinda Stoker is also listed on the petition but cannot establish a relationship to Michael Stoker (1762-1838).(22) Refuge found in Illinois. The people of Quincy reached out to help the Mormons fleeing from Missouri. Elizabeth Haven Barlow writes, "The people of Quincy had contributed between four and five hundred dollars for the poor Mormons. God had opened their hearts to receive us. May heaven's blessings rest upon them. We are hungry and they feed us, naked and clothed us. The citizens have assisted beyond all calculations."(23) Footnotes 21. Also included are some of their children who were born after 1838 in Illinois. 22. "Mormon Redress Petitions," pp. 574, 598, 599-601. 23. Elizabeth Haven Barlow in letter to Elizabeth Howel Bullard, 24 February 1839, published in Ora H. Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores." Salt Lake City: Ora H. Barlow, 1968." 9. FHL film 34803 "Heart Throbs of the West," comp. by Kate B. Carter, v., p. 513. Pioneers of 1848 as part of the Brigham Young Company: John Stoker, 31; Jane McD. Stoker, 38; Alma Stoker; Hyrum Stoker, Franklin Stoker; David Stoker, 4; Zibiah Jane Stoker; Sarah Ann Stoker. 10. FHL book 929.273 St67d "Descendants of William Stoker (1819-1892): with a View of his Ancestors," by Jay and Rachel Phillips Deeben, Feb. 2014, pp. 32-37. The authors do have an error in regards to Harriet Susan Willis' death date: "John Stoker[1] (1817-1881), by Jay Deeben. John Stoker,[2] son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill, was born on 8 Mar 1817 in Madison Twp., Jackson, Ohio. John joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints along with other members of his family in 1833. John married Jane McDaniel,[3] daughter of James McDaniel and Zebiah McCarley, on 21 Jan 1836, in , Hancock, Illinois. Jane was born on 24 Feb 1810 in Racoon Twp., Gallia, Ohio. Jane died 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah.[4] John and his family lived through the trials and challenges that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lived through in Missouri and Illinois. In 1846/1847 they were forced to leave Illinois and make their way to Winter Quarters, Nebraska. In 1848 John and his family[5] traveled with the Brigham Young Company from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake City, Utah.[6] As the company was being organized for the trip West, John Stoker and Herman Hyde were each elected as captains of fifty within Lorenzo Snow's group of one hundred.[7] After arriving in Utah John and his family settled in and around the area known, today, as Bountiful, Utah, just north of Salt Lake City. John Stoker was ordained a bishop in the North Kanyon Ward, Davis County, Utah Territory on 28 Jan 1851, under the hands of Pres Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Jedadiah M. Grants and served until‘4 Aug 1874. While serving as bishop John served a mission to the United States for a period of about five-months, from 1 Nov 1869 thru 29 Mar 1870.[9] During this mission he visited several of the Stoker and Graybill family members that had remained in Iowa and Illinois. John entered the practice of polygamy when he married Harriet Susan Willis,[10] daughter of Erastus Willis and Hannah Cobb, on 26 Oct 1855 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Harriet was born on 21 Dec 1822 in Potsdam, St Lawrence, New York. Harriet died 7 Nov 1882 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah just short of her 60th birthday. John next married Jane Allen,[11] daughter of Jude Allen and Mary Ann Nicholas, on 5 Jul 1857 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Jane was born on 8 Mar 1841 in Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio. Jane died on 5 Aug 1877 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah at age 36. John died on 11 Jun 1881 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah at age 64. Jane McDaniel Stoker died on 20 Jan 1890 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah at age 79. Children of John Stoker and Jane McDaniel Stoker (Name, Birth date, Birth place, Death date, Place of Death): Alma Stoker[12], 7 Dec 1835, Lick, Jackson, Ohio, 5 Jun 1897, Syracuse, Davis, Utah[13]. Alma is the son of Jane McDaniel from a previous marriage whose name is Alma. After John married Jane he adopted Alma and raised him as his own son. Alma Stoker married Catherine Tolman, daughter of Judson Adoninum Tolman and Sarah Lucretia Holbrook, she was born 13 Sep 1861, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Hyrum Stoker[14], 9 Nov 1840, Columbus, Adams, Illinois, 5 Jun 1885, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Franklin Stoker[15], 12 Aug 1842, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, 27 Sep 1855, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. David Stoker[16], 28 Sep 1844, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, 1 Apr 1911, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. David married Regena Hogan[17], daughter of Eric Gautesen Midtboen Hogan and Helge Knudsen, on 3 Mar 1866 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Regena was born 10 Jul 1844 in Keokuk, Lee, Iowa. Another spelling for Hogan is Hoggan. Zibiah Jane Stoker[18], 21 May 1847, Mount Pisgah, Pottawattamie, Iowa, 28 May 1933, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Zibiah married Judson Tolman[19], son of Nathan Tolman and Sarah Hewett, on 5 Apr 1869. Judson was born 14 Jul 1826 in Maine. Sarah Ann Stoker[20], 10 Oct 1851, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 23 Jan 1922, Layton, Davis, Utah. Sarah married Harlon Simmons[21], on 23 Mar 1871 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Harlon was born 28 Feb 1841 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. Children of John Stoker and Harriet Susan Willis Stoker (Name - Birth - Place - Death - Place): John Stoker[22], 11 Feb 1857, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 14 Sep 1876, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. John Stoker, Jr. died at age 19 of Typhoid Fever. Catherine Stoker[23], 10 Dec 1863, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 3 Nov 1917, Roy, Weber, Utah. Catherine married Edwin Theodore Wood, son of Daniel Wood and Emman Maria Ellis, on 28 Jul 1881. Edwin's birth date is on 8 May 1856, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Children of John Stoker and Jane Allen Stoker (Name - Birth - Place - Death - Place): Mary Ann Stoker[24], 14 May 1862 Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 1 May 1903, Provo, Utah, Utah. Mary married James Hack on 19 May 1881 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. James was born September 1835 in Farmham, Surrey, England, John Stoker's Journal indicated that Mary Ann Stoker was James Hack's second wife. Henry Stoker[25], 12 Feb 1865, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 12 Oct 1904, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Henry never married, this was stated on his death certificate. Lorenzo Stoker[26], 21 Feb 1867, East Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 9 Jun 1920 Ogden, Weber, Utah. Lorenzo married Polly Adaline Harnmon, daughter of Levi Byram Hammon and Martha Jane Belnap, on 16 Jul 1888 in Hooper, Weber, Utah. Polly was born on 15 Feb 1873 in Hooper, Weber, Utah. Clarissa Stoker[27], 2 Feb 1869, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 12 Aug 1870, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Jude Stoker[28], 2 Apr 1871, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 4 Sep 1872, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Albert Stoker[29], 27 Mar 1873, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 4 Apr 1873, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Jesse Stoker[30], 17 Jul 1874, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 30 Oct 1942, Roy, Weber, Utah. Jesse married Lettie Matilda Hammon, daughter of Levi Byram Hammon and Martha Jane Belnap. She was born 13 Mar 1833, Hoooper, Weber, Utah. Harriet Eunice Stoker[31], 13 May 1877, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 23 Aug 1878, Bountiful, Davis, Utah. Chapter Notes for John Stoker - 1817: 1. Information on John Stoker and his family was taken from church records, previously written histories of the Stoker family, and personal journal of John Stoker. 2. Hook, James W., "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," p.100. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, Call Number: 929.273 EL54h. And the Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 43. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 3. LDS Church, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register Records 10 Dec 1845-8 Feb 1846 (Original), p. 903. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; Call Number: 977.343/N1 K290. 4. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FarnilySearch," database, FamilySearch ( 5. The following were members of John and Jane's family when they traveled west in 1848: Alma Stoker age 12; David Stoker age 3; Franklin Stoker age 5; Hyrum Stoker age 8; Jane McDaniel Stoker age 38; John Stoker age 31; and Zibiah Jane Stoker age 1. 6. Brigham Young Company left Winter Quarters Nebraska on 5 Jun 1848 and arriving in Salt Lake Valley between 20-24 Sep 1848. Source: Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868. Website: 7. Bullock, Thomas, Journals 1843-1849, fd. 1-4., Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868. Website: 8. Stoker, John , 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 42. Spelling in this note left as found in John's journal. 9. Stoker, John, 1817, p. 1 thru 35. 10. Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia, four volumes, Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941, Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia, four volumes, p. 252. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, Call Number: Online Digital Version, Vol 3. 11. Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 40. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA. Jane Allen's date of birth came from John Stoker's Journal. And the Deseret News (Historical), Repository: Utah Digital Newspaper, 12. LDS Church, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register Records 10 Dec 1845 - 8 Feb 1846 (Original), p. 903. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, Call Number: 977.343/N1 K290. And "Very Unexpected Death, Davis County Clipper, Newspaper, obituary 11 Jun 1897, p. 1. Repository: Utah Digital Newspaper, 13. Davis County Clipper, Newspaper, obituary 11 Jun 1897. Repository: Utah Digital Newspaper 14. Stoker, John , 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 43. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA. And LDS Church, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register Records 10 Dec 1845 - 8 Feb 1846 (Original), p. 903. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, Call Number: 977.343/N1 K29c. 15. LDS Church, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register Records 10 Dec 1845 - 8 Feb 1846 (Original), p. 903. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, Call Number: 977.343/N1 K29c. And Hook, James W., George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America, p. 100. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, Call Number: 929.273 EL54h. And Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817 2journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 36. 16. LDS Church, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register Records 10 Dec 1845 - 8 Feb 1846 (Original), p. 903. And Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 42. And Utah - Death Certificate, State of Utah Department of Health, Utah - Death Certificate (http2//historyresearch.utah.gov/indexes/index.html 17. Utah - Death Certificate, State of Utah Department of Health, Utah - Death Certificate (http2//historyresearch.utah.gov/indexes/index.html 18. LDS Church, "Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register Records 10 Dec 1845 - 8 Feb 1846 (Original)," p. 903. And Hook, James W., "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," p. 100. And Utah - Death Certificate, State of Utah Department of Health, Utah - Death Certificate ( 19. Hook, James W., "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," p. 100. 20. LDS Church, "Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register Records 10 Dec 1845 - 8 Feb 1846 (Original)," p. 903. And Hook, James W., "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," p.100. 21. Hook, James W., "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," p. 100-101. 22. Stoker, John , 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 39. And Deseret News (Historical), Sept 27, 1876, article: Died. Found in Utah Digital Newspapers; website: 23. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch," database, Familysearch ( 24. Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817 p. 48. Repository: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA. And The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, new.Familysearch.org 25. Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 45. And State of Utah Department of Health, Utah - Death Certificate ( 26. Utah - Death Certificate, State of Utah Department of Health, Utah - Death Certificate 275. And Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 45. And The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, new.Familysearch.org 27. Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 37 and p. 47. 28. Ibid. 29. Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 38 and p. 47. And The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Familysearch.org, Family History Department, PID: KWVG-47V 30. Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHLUS/CANFilm 702), p. 39. And The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch," database, FamilySearch ( 31. Stoker, John, 1817, Journal of John Stoker, born 1817: journal beginning November 1, 1869 (FHL US/CAN Film 702), p. 46 and p. 47. And Deseret News (Historical), Deseret News, Deseret News (Historical), Repository: Utah Digital Newspaper, BIRTH: 1. List of "Pioneers of 1848" as noted in husband's Notes indicates age 38, b. 24 Feb 1810 in Ohio. 2. Gallia County was formed on March 25, 1803 from portions of Adams and Washington counties. Jackson County was formed March 1, 1816 from Ross County. Both Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co. and Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co. adjoin each other. MARRIAGE: 1. FHL Film #301,043 "Jackson County, Ohio Marriages 1816-1843" has no record of any marriage for this couple even though it does have marriages of John W. Stoker and Electa Sally McDaniel in 1827 and John McDaniel and Christina Stoker in 1835. 2. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "John Stoker (1817-1881) and Wives: Jane McDaniel, Harriet Susan Willis, and Jane Allen" in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT." See John's notes for full transcription: "On the 21 of January 1836 John married Jane McDaniel. She was the daughter of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, neighbors and good friends the Stokers had met while living in Jackson County, Ohio. (Little is known of the McDaniel family. Jane's brother, John, married John's sister, Christina. The original source of the marriage date and place for John and Jane is unknown. The 1836 is listed in the Ancestral File kept by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) John was a saddle maker by trade. He also worked his farm to raise food and cattle. He adopted Jane McDaniel's infant son, Alma, who was born in December of 1835, one month before their marriage. Family tradition states: Jane's first husband, Alma's father, would not consider joining the Mormon Church and was one of the factors that resulted in their separation. His name is unknown." DEATH: 1. Per burial record. 2. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "John Stoker (1817-1881) and Wives: Jane McDaniel, Harriet Susan Willis, and Jane Allen" in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT." See John's notes for full transcription: "Death Comes Again Time and events had taken its toll on the Stoker families and on 5 August 1877 Jane Allen passed away, shortly after the birth of their daughter and last Child, Harriet Eunice. The final religious calling John held was that of the first Patriarch of Bountiful, a position he held from 1877 until his death on 11 June 1881. "Brother Davis came to me to go with him to see ex-bishop John Stoker, who was very ill. We concluded to change his clothing, as we did not think that he would last long. We administered to him, and he seemed to have something to say to us, but was too weak to speak. We asked the Lord if it was His will to give him his speech, so that he might speak to us once more. June the 11th, I called to see Brother Stoker on my way to the city, which was about 3 a.m. This was the usual time for us to go to town with our loads. Brother Stoker was asleep and resting well, when I arrived home at 7 p.m. he was still breathing, but shortly after he died. He was one of the oldest bishops in the Church" (Carter 1958). Nine years later on 20 January 1890 Jane McDaniel died. Harriet Willis passed away on 7 November 1892 and was buried the next day. Her obituary reads: "Hand of Death. Takes Harriet Stoker Away in Her Seventy First Years. Harriet Stoker passed away last Monday morning after a sickness of many months. As we were unable to find any records of her life our account will be brief and only approximate in many instances. She was born in the state of New York on December 22nd, 1821. Moved to Vermont and later to some city or town in Michigan from which place she came to Utah arrived here sometime in fifty. She went south at the time of the (?). She was married three times: First when she was about seventeen to a man by the name of Sinter and had one child. Later she married a Mr. Giles and had three children. Two children were the result of her last marriage to Bishop Stoker. The funeral services were held in the Tabernacle on Tuesday the eight of Nov. But as it was a cold day and no heating apparatus the turnout was small. Thomas Briggs, C.R. Jones, and Lamont Holbrook were the speakers" (Davis County Clipper Nov 13, 1892). John, his three wives, and the children who died young are buried in the original Bountiful cemetery: Children of John and Jane McDaniel Hyrum and Franklin in 1855. Children of John and Harriet Willis John in 1875. Children of John and Jane Allen Clarissa and Harriet in 1878, Jude in 1872, and Albert in 1873." BURIAL: 1. Per 6 Nov 2002 website John Stoker, b. 1817, d. 1881, "Bishop of Bountiful, 1851-1874," had gold DUP sticker, plot A-1-26-8. Jane McDaniel Stoker, b. 1810, d. 1890, 1st wife to John Stoker, plot A-1-26-7. Harriet S. Willis Stoker, b. 1821, d. 1892, 2nd wife to John Stoker, plot A-1. Jane Allen Stoker, b. 1841, d. 1877, 3rd wife to John Stoker, plot A-1-26-. 2. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "John Stoker (1817-1881) and Wives: Jane McDaniel, Harriet Susan Willis, and Jane Allen" in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT." See John's notes for full transcription: "In the summer of 1999 Jane McDaniel's original headstone was recovered. The cemetery had been vandalized many years before and many headstones removed. A descendant of John Stoker has retrieved it and hopefully it will soon be returned to the cemetery. The homes, in Bountiful, of John's son, David and grandson David, are still standing and occupied. The following pages are copies of the newspaper article citing the finding of Jane's missing headstone. 'Homeowner unearths eerie surprise during remodeling BOUNTIFUL- When Kim Sondrup decided to put a deck in her back yard she was unprepared for what surfaced. 'My stomach turned over when I found them,' Kim said. The 'them' she referred to are six engraved headstones all with dates in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Kim said she was shocked to find headstones in her yard and she immediately stopped digging in fear of what else may lie beneath the surface. She has had a surveyor come to her home which was built in the late 1800s in downtown Bountiful. He said he could not be sure but there was only one area of the yard that seemed to suggest there may be something buried beneath the surface. 'He told me it was his gut feeling this was not an old cemetery,' Sondrup said. One of the headstones is illegible, but those that can be read seem to be members of prominent Bountiful families. Following is a list of the information still legible on the headstones: June McDaniel Stoker. Born Ohio, 1810. Died in Bountiful John Wendel Sarah Currier wife of Joseph G. Hovey Born 1806 Elizabeth Wendel 1850-1913 Joseph Ira Oviatt Son of Lewis and Sarah Born Nov. 11, 1875 Died 1896 Armed with that information, Bountiful Cemetery Superintendent Dan Green checked the record to see if any of the deceased had been buried there. He found that Jane McDaniel Stoker had in fact been buried at the Bountiful City Cemetery in 1890. Her headstone has been replaced with what he believes is a stone created in about the 1950s. His search for other records was not complete at press time. The only other cemetery in Bountiful still in use today does not have any upright markers and was not built until the 1970s. What should happen next is a question no one can answer. 'This doesn't com up every day,' Green said. The problem is that the headstones are so old there would be few living who would notice the fact they are missing and report that information. Sondrup said she had heard one possible explanation when an acquaintance said he had heard a story about some high school kids in the 60s bragging about stealing headstones. 'He thought maybe that was true and they had just decided to dump them in this yard,' Sondrup said. Sondrup said she hopes the publicity will act as a notice to any living family members to come and claim the headstones of their ancestors. 'This was a very strange thing. I don't really know what to do next. This is just weird,' she said. Pictures: "ARE THESE YOUR Long, LOST RelativeS? Kim Sondrup found an unwelcome surprise in her back yard when she began preparing to build a deck. As she dug, she unearthed just below the surface a number of headstones. What to do next is the question she's asking." "GHOST STORIES: At least five of the headstones unearthed at a Bountiful home are legible. The homeowner hopes relatives will claim the markers." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Ancestral File 4.19 (27 May 2001). | McDaniel, Jane (I2531)
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| 2093 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, p. 1 of 8 (Note: that index indicates "Burdine," but looking carefully at the actual image, it is "Burdino".): Charles Burdine, males: 1:5-10(Nehemiah Beirdneau), 1:10-15(William McDaniel), 1:15-20(John McDaniel), 1:20-30(uncertain identity), 1:60-70(Charles Birdino); females: 1:0-5 (Elizabeth Beirdneau), 1:20-30(Jane McDaniel), 1:40-50(Zibiah) 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, 28 Nov 1850, p. 173 of 187, house/family 1358 (next door is Jeremiah Birdeno, age 26, b. in Ohio with his wife America, 21, KY, and dau. Emily, 2, IA): William McDonnel, 32, laborer, OH. Zibiah Birdeno, 60, PA. Elizabeth Birdeno, 20, OH. 1856 Iowa: Ancestry.com for Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa shows N.W. Burdino and family a dozen homes away at 49/57. N.W. is 32 years old and had resided in Iowa 9 years. Birth was Ohio. McDonals (McDaniels) are at 36/39: Wm. McDonal, 35, 10years in Iowa, OH, farmer. Zebiah McDonal, 67, 10 years in Iowa, VA. Elizabeth McDonal, 22, 10 years in Iowa, OH. 1860 US: Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa, p. 11 of 11, 3 Jul 1860, 390/340: Wm. McDonald, 44, $2500, $1000 farmer, OH. Elizabeth Berdino, 25, house keeper, OH. Jerard Stoner, 16, farm hand, IL. 1870 US: Can't find in Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa. 1880 US: Calhoun, Harrison, IA, p. 109B: Wm. McDaniel, 64, OH Sco Sco, farmer. Matilda Ratliff, other, KY, housekeeper. Stephen Vittito, 60 KY KY KY, farm laborer. Jared Stoker, nephew, single, 30, IL OH OH, farm laborer. Retta Butler, Gdau., 3m, IA IL unk. 2. The book "The Henry McDaniel family, 1755-1975," by Esta McDaniel Lee, 1975, FHL 929.273 M141L, p. 82: "Other McDaniels of Gallia and Jackson Counties, Ohio. David McDaniel, b. ca. 1738 m. 5 March, 1801, Elizabeth (Betsy) McCarley in Washington County, Ohio. Gallia County was a part of Washington Coound at that time. David McDanieal was in Ohio long before it became a state for a son James McDaniel was born in what is now Jackson County, 24 Feb. 1762. He married 19 Dec 1805 Zebiah (Sibby) McCarley, b. 10 Dec 1786, Gallia County, Ohio, daughter of John McCarley. She died 5 Feb 1860. James died in Jackson County, 1820. They had the following children: 1. Sarah McDaniel, b. 26 May 1806, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 7 Mar 1857, m. John W. Stoker, 13 Mar 1827. 2. Martha McDaniel, b. 24 Feb 1808, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 4 Feb 1877, m. 1828/29 Michael Stoker. 3. Jane McDaniel, 24 Feb 1810, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah, m. 1836, John Stoker. 4. John McDaniel, b. 10 Jun 1812, Jackson Co., O., d. 11 Nov 1884, Alpine, Utah, m. Christina Stoker. 5. William McDaniel, b. 1814, Jackson Co., O., d. 1889 unmarried. There could have been others." Page 83: "Jackson County Marriage Records. C.D. Massie: 19 Apr 1827 Electa Sally McDaniel to John W. Stoker." 3. This individual is mention in the following partial quote from an article entitled: "John Stoker (1817-1881) and Wives: Jane McDaniel, Harriet Susan Willis, and Jane Allen" in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT." See John's notes for full transcription: "Beginning in 1869, John filled a short mission. The following is a copy of John's missionary journal, which after he returned was turned into a genealogical records - some believe it was not written by him. It is entered here exactly as it is written. John's journal is on microfilm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. The whereabout of original journal is unknown and many pages have been ripped out before the journal was microfilmed. 'The Journal of John Stoker, 1869 (direct copy from the hard copy, genealogical sheets provided by Ora and Vinal Barlow. The micro film copy shows many pages torn from the journal.) Notes: 1. Parentheses are used to insert words and letters not used in the journal but believed to be meant. 2. After Journal Page 1 below, the abbreviation JP2, JP3, etc. will be used on this transcript. 3. As much as possible we have tried to copy the wording as it was written by John or others who wrote in the journal. 4. A sort of preface is given before page (1) of the journal on the reverse of the cover page. Journal Page 1. (Labeled in error on the original journal.) 'Elders went up to (station) left home on his (my) mission to the United States Nov 1 1869 1/2 past 4 AM Arrived at unita 9 minutes before 9 oclock left on the Cars 35 minutes after 2 oclock Arrived at Green River Tuesday 2nd- 5 minutes past 8 at Point of Rock Station half Past 9 the engine Switched off to Bring on the Main track 6 or 7 Cars of Coal in Running Back to hitch on Ran into the other Cars on the Main track and Broke the Coupling of 2 cars no body was Hurt by the Blessing of God' JP2 (Unlabeled in original journal) '(Minu)tes Past 11 Wednesday 3rd- Arrived at Larima (Laramie) City 1/2 past 7 A.M. left at 11- fixed Cars. Crossed the Bridge in Black Hills 1/2 after 1 Thursday the 4th Arrived at North Platt 20 minutes Past 10 A.M. all well Counted Missionaries 67 Arrived at FT Kearney 1/2 past 4 P.M. Friday the 5th Arrived at Omaha 20 minutes Past 10 A.M. Saturday 6th went to Bluff city with J N Perkins- Sunday 7th Spent the fore Noon with Moroni Stoker- Took Dinner with him' JP3 'Monday 8th went up to Musketoe to See Simoen P Graybill Stayed all night Tuesday 9th took dinner with Aunt Margaret Stoker uncle Eller Stoker's widdow and Returned at Trading Point, Potawatamie Co Iowa Wednesday 10th wrote a letter to Br Wm Atkinson in Bountiful Davis County Utah Thursday 11th visited We McDaniel in Harrison Co 40 Miles north Friday 12th visited the grave of Zibiah Birdno my wifes mother Saturday 13th Returned to Aunt Marthas at Traders Point Sunday 14th Spent the day with Aunt Marthas family Monday 15th went to Bluff City (Council Bluffs) to look for a Letter but gone none and Returned to the Point Traders... JP29 'Br We, H Lee giving information (of) Charles burton making arrangements in N.Y. to have a Company of missionaries to Start from Omaha on the 25th for Utah at 50.75 (or 30.75) the same that it cost us to come down last November- Returned to Trades Point Stayed over night wrote a letter to Wm H Lee Calamazoo Michigan Saturday 12th Cloudy and Cold wint from the North Sent a letter home to Utah to inform our families that we Received their Check of 160.00 and 1 (letter) to Wm H Lee Calamazoo Michigan Stayed over'night 'Sunday 13th Cold wind North East all Day Snowed at night High wind Stayed over night Monday 14th Cold wind in the North East Cloudy and very' JP30 'Cold and Snow Blowing and Elements Stark Blew all night Stayed over night to Aunt Martha Stoker Tuesday 15th very Cold and Blowing wind I the north west colder than the Day before the Elements Still Stark with Snow Blowing Stayed over night Wednesday 16th very Cold wind in the north west the Elements Still Darkened with Snow blowing Wind very Hard more Moderate in the afternoon. Stayed over night Thursday 17th weather more Moderate but Changeable went to Moroni Stokers Spent the Day Took Dinner with him and in the evening Returned to Aunt Martha Stokers Stayed over night' JP31 'Friday 18th pleasant and wind in the South went to Aaron Thomas took Dinner and spent the Day with his family, Returned to Aunt Martha Stokers Stayed over night Saturday 19th wind in the North Cloudy and Cold. Sent a letter to Wm Atkinson in Bountiful Davis Co Utah, heard from home by a letter wrote to John A Stoker Dated March the 12th 1870 All very well Stayed over night 'Sunday 20th wind in the North Cold Sleet last night also cloudy Broke away at Noon Stayed over night Monday 21st Pleasant in the Morning went to Omaha and drawed our money for our Check on the First national Bank Met Br' JP32 'Daniel Carter and Aron Farr, Thomas Rich and a number of Missionaries at the St Charles Hotel Rained Some in the afternoon Returned to Traders Point to Aunt Martha Stokers being quite u(n)well Stayed over night Tuesday 22nd Clear and pleasant Cool wind North West very unwell in the evening Br Wm Neel arrived at Martha Stokers about 10 oclock and (al) the missionaries from the East Came up through St Louis was better in the afternoon Stayed over night Wednesday 23rd Clear and pleasant wind in the South not being well Jesse N Perkins went and got' JP33 'Some plum Sprouts and lilocks Packed up our clothes Stayed over night Thursday 24th Cloudy wind in the South John a Stoker and Joseph Stoker and Br Jesse N Perkins (went) to Omaha with a wagon Rained before we got there Joseph Stoker went over the River with us met about 30 Missionaries at the St Charles Hotel left Omaha at 6 P.M. On the Emigrant Cars for home..." 4. Ancestry.com accessed 28 Feb 2013 from Claudia Ray "Zibiah Mc Carley. Also known as Sibby Mc Carley; Shebby Mc Daniel, Zibiah Birdino Zibiah was born 10 Dec 1786 to John Mc Carley and Martha Carr. She was born in Pennsylvania, moved with her family to Virginia and then to Ohio. In Ohio she met and married James McDonald the 19 Dec 1805 (film 0,317,652) here they spelled her name as Sibby Mc Carley. They were married in Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio by Charles Buck Jr. They lived in Raccoon Twp near the Raccoon river in Gallia County, Ohio. They had five children, three girls and two boys. Electa Sarah, Martha, Jane, John and William, James died in 1820, leaving Zibiah with five children ages four to twelve years old. (1820 census.) The 20 of April 1823 Zibiah married Charles Birdino. Here she used the name of Shebby Mc Daniel. Her using the surname of Mc Daniel may indicate the Mc Donald clan using Mc Daniel for Church events. (Film 0,317652) They had two children, Nemiah Wood Birdino and Elizabeth Gabrielle Birdino. Charles had several spelling variations of his surname. It was spelled Birdino on his marriage certificate. Burdinano, Beirdneau and Birdino in the land grant papers. In the 1830 census his name was listed as Charles Burdino. His children always seemed to use the Birdno spelling. Charles Birdino had enlisted in the army and fought in the war of 1812. Because of this he received warrant no. 3809 for 160 acres of bounty land. I believe that his bounty land was located in Jefferson County, Ohio, because Charles Burdino, John Stoker, Michael Stoker and Michael Stoker Jr were all living in Steubenville; Ohio, in the 1830 Census. From the location of their residences next to each other Charles Birdino and Michael Stoker may have both receive bounty lands from the war of 1812. James Mc Donald may have also enlisted in the army for the war of 1812. The 1830 Ohio Census shows a Charles Burdino record with 1 male 5-10 Nehemiah Birdno, 1 male 10-15 William Mc Donald, 1 male 15-20 John McDonald-Mc Daniel, 1 male 60-70 Charles Birdno & 1 female under 5 Elizabeth Birdno, 1 female 20-30 Jane Mc Daniel and 1 female 40-50 Zibiah. (Census) This census proves that Zibiah did not have three more sons with James Mc Donald. If she did they would have been shown on this census record. The three extra sons Van D. Mc Daniel born 13 May 1815, John E. Mc Daniel born 5 Dec 1817 & Andrew G. Mc Daniel born 30 Mar 1820. If she did the census would have shown 2 Males 15-20 & 3 Males 10-15. These three never appeared as sons of James and Zibiah on any records until a computer match and merge was done to create the I.G.I. They should be removed as sons of Zibiah in the New Family Search. Next was the John Stoker family with one male under 5 one male 20-30 John & 1 female under 5, one female 20-30 Electa Sarah Mc Daniel. Next was the Michael Stoker family with one male 10-15, one male 15-20 John, one male 60-70 & one female 10-15 Christina, one female 50-60. Then the Michael Stoker Jr. family with one male under 5, one male 20-30 & one female 5-10, one female 20-30 Martha Mc Daniel. Charles Birdino had received a leg wound while serving in the war of 1812 while fighting in Canada. There was a military hospital in Kanawha, Virginia where he had gone to have his leg checked. He died in Kanawha in 1840 leaving Zibiah a widow again. This time most of her children were grown and married. An article in the Wellston, Jackson County, Ohio Historical Society published in August 19?? gives the following information about the Graybeal and Stoker families. (In 1815 Peter Graybeal Sr and his wife left Ashe County with their son Michael, his wife Mary Stoker and their two young children. Their daughter Barbara Graybeal and her husband David Stoker, Mary's brother and their Stoker in-laws Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker. They were on their way to the Great Western Reserve, which would become Ohio. They selected a location in what became Bloomfield, Jackson County Ohio. Here they learned of the early Latter Day Saint Church and every member of this group of baptismal age became members in 1833. The spelling of their name was changed to Graybill to set them apart as Mormons.) Some books say that the Mc Donald clan was a violent clan so when they joined a church they would change their name to Mc Daniel. Because of the Mc Donald clan using the surname of Mc Daniel I believe that Zibiah and her children who joined the Church were baptized as Mc Daniel. Our John Mc Daniel was baptized in 1 February 1833 by Seymour Brunson. Seymour Brunson's diary says that he baptized a large number of people in Ohio. I believe that Zibiah and her children that were baptized and joined the Church used the name Mc Daniel. All of Zibiah's Mc Daniel children married Stokers except for William who never married, never joined the church and never used the surname of Mc Daniel. Zibiah's oldest daughter Electa Sarah was born 26 May 1806 (film 184,658). She married John W. Stoker. They joined the Mormon Church and came west to Nauvoo and then to Council Bluffs, Iowa where they both died in 1857. They died at Traders Point, Iowa Her next daughter Martha married Michael Stoker Jr. They also joined the church and came west to Nauvoo, and then to Iowa where they both died. Martha died in Council Bluffs, Iowa 4 Feb 1873. Zibiah, her sons John Mc Daniel, William Mc Donald and Nemiah Wood Birdino and daughter Elizabeth Gabriell Birdino also came west with the rest ofthe family as far as Iowa. In the 1850 Iowa census Zibiah and her daughter Elizabeth Birdino were living with Zibiah's son William Mc Donald. His surname was spelled Mc Donal in this census. Jeremiah Birdeno, his wife America and daughter Emily were living next door, or with them. Zibiah remained in Iowa where she died in 1860 at the age of 73 years 16 days and was buried in the Calhoun Cemetery, (film 1,579,041) which is in Harrison County. Harrison county had been a part of Pottawattamie county until 1855. William remained in Iowa and was a farmer. At his death an obituary was printed saying. (William McDonald came in 1854 with his mother, who was of the Mormon Faith. She went to Utah, but he refused to go. He remained in Calhoon township and lived a single life ever afterwards. He accumulated over fifty thousand dollars worth of property. He died in 1885 and his estate was sold at auction.) (film 0,934,944 pg. 454) The probate of William's estate can be found in the (film 1,510,110 pgs 493, 404-496, 504, 510). It tells the names of his sister's family coming to claim his estate. William is buried next to his mother in the Calhoun Cemetery. (Film 1,579,041) I don't think the people who wrote his obituary knew that Zibiah Birdno was the mother of William Mc Donald." BIRTH: 1. LDS Temple Index Bureau card Logan temple, no. 15465, book B, p. 436: William James Thomson McDaniel, b. 12 Feb 1816 in Jackson co., Ohio, d. 11 Apr 1885, heir: Nehemiah Wood Birdno who is a brother, bapt. 4 May 1886, end. 7 May 1886. Also William's cemetery gravestone in Calhoun, Harrison, Iowa states his name as "William J.T. McDonald." William maintained the McDonald surname but many in the family used McDaniel. 2. Gallia County was formed on March 25, 1803 from portions of Adams and Washington counties. Jackson County was formed March 1, 1816 from Ross County. Both Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co. and Bloomfield Twp., Jackson Co. adjoin each other. | McDaniel or McDonald, William James Thomson (I453)
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| 2094 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, New York, p. 13 of 24: Phillip Frederick, males: 2@10-15 (Matthew and Ambrose), 1@20-30 (Unknown; can't be Peter since he died 1827); 1@40-50 (Philip); females: 1@10-15 (unknown), 1@15-20 (Herriott), 1@50-60 (Catherine). 2. David Fry, a descendant of David Frederick through is daughter Mary Elizabeth Frederick Gibbs has four pages of dog-eared pages from a family bible which he believes to be David's. There is no other known extant samples of David Frederick's handwriting except for his signature when he was in his 70's on his Mexican War pension application forms. There is no publisher nor publishing date. David received them through his mother. His contact info is 195 Shady Hill Lane, Double Oak, TX, 75077, 817-430-9432, Abraham G. Frederick married to Miss Adelia Annis Oct. the 16th AD 1825. [David's brother.] David Frederick was born September the 15th AD 1801. Abraham G. Frederick was born Nov. the 27th AD 1802. [David's brother.] Adelia Frederick was born April the 3rd AD 1809. [Wife to Abraham.] Oliva A. Frederick was born March the 21st 1827. [Abraham and Adelia's child.] Abram C. Frederick was born May the 13th 1829. [Abraham and Adelia's child.] Ambrose Frederick was born Oct. the 14th AD 1818. [Probably David's brother.] Matthew Frederick was born April 14th AD 1820. [Probably David's brother.] Peter F. Frederick dide[sic] March the 27th AD 1827 in the 17 year of his age. Abraham G. Frederick dide Febuary the 20th AD 1830 in the 27th year of his age. [David's brother.] BIRTH: 1. Ordinance Index entry quoted below gives: "Peter Francis Frederick, b. 1810, Herkimer, New York, died 27 May 1827." | Frederick, Peter Francis (I3576)
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| 2095 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Dover, Monmouth, New Jersey. (Neighbors include Joseph Johnston, age 40-50, next door, and Samuel Bennett, three doors away, age 30-40.): Aaron Bennett, males: 1@5, 1@20-29, 1@30-39, 1@70-79; females: 1@20-29, 1@30-39, 1@50-59. [Aaron and Naomi would be the two oldest.] 2. Ancestry.com's "US Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970" for Asher C. Bennett, of Indiana, membership #25848, 1915. He states his lineage as: Asher C. Bennett, b. 4 Jun 1876. Son of William Harrison Bennett, b. 1842, and Melissa Jane Davis, b. 1850, m. 1870. G.son of George W. Bennett, b. 1810, d. 1865, and Nancy Hawkins, b. 1810, d. 1895. Gg.son of Moses Bennett, b. 1 Jul 1787, d. 4 Apr 1846, and Patience Imley. Ggg.son of Aaron Bennett, b. 1751 in Monmouth Co., NJ, d. 5 Dec 1834 in New Jersey, and Margaret Bennett. War service record: "Aaron Bennett, served as a Sergeant in the Companies of Captains Reuben Randolp and Bennett. Second Regiment Monmouth co. New Jersey Militia, Colonels Elisha Laurence and Samuel Forman, enlisted Nov. 1776, promoted Orderly Sergeant,.Served every alternate month until the close of the Revolutionary War 1783. 3. Ancestry.com's "Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900": Aaron Bennett, New Jersey, b. in R.I. #S.597 and #5136. Monmouth Co. in the State of New jerseey who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Randolph of the N.J. Militia. Pension applied for in 1831 and approved 4 Mar 1833. 7 Jun 1832 application notes, residing at Dover Twp., age 82, b. 17 Aug 1750. He joined Nov. 1776 under Captain Ruben Randolph of the Twp. of Stafford in Monmouth Co., monthly every other month in the capacity of Orderly Sergt. for between 2 or 3 years. "Capt. Randolph was court-martialled and broke, or in some way displaced - David Bennett was appointed Captain in his place who was a brother of this applicant" under whom he served as Orderly Sergeant every other month and occasionally upon alarms until the end of the war. His area of service included the townships of Dover and Stafford and into Burlington Co. He was constantly "under arms to repel the attacks of the British and Refugees, who through the numerous Inlets and Bays along that part of the Coast found an easy and ready access by means of then shipping to all that part of the County bordering upon the oceans - that numerous salt works were erected all along the Shore, and one great object of the enemy was to destroy them and the militia was frequently called out to guard them - That at Toms River which was Head Quarters for the Militia in that part of the County - there was a Blockhouse erected and fortified with some piece of artillery - that a member of the Militia were constantly stationed there, until the Block House was destroyed by the British he thinks in 1781. It was at the time defended by Capt. Ruddy who was taken by the British and hanged." He spent some time guarding the Block House. He was "out under Col. Lawrence with the Militia, when the British rebels entered Egg Harbor Inlet and landed their forces at Chesnut Necks in Egg Harbor Township, Burlington County, and remained for two or three days plundering the inhabitants and burning their buildings - they were finally driven off by the Militia under Col. Lawrence - that this applicant was sent with an armed boat into the Bay to watch the movements of the Rebels - and therefor had no part in the skirmish - that another time he was in service in Toms River - a British rebel entered Cranberry Inlet with British and Refugees - Cap. Bennett's, Capt Jenkin's and Capt. Stout's Companies of Militia were ordered down, attacked the Rebels, and forced her to Sea - that as Orderly Sergeant he was frequently sent to transport and guard British and Refugees taken prisoner to the Gaols at Monmouth - always a hazardous duty in consequence of the efforts that their friends made to rescue them." He has no discharge papers or documents and all the officers he served under are dead. He knows no one can testify to his service except for Zachariah Hawkins. He was born August 17, 1750 at Coventry County, Rhode Island and that his age is recorded on his family bible. He was living in Stafford Twp. [Monmouth Co.] when he entered the service. Zachariah Hawkins, age 78, testifies he has known Aaron for 60 years and confirmed his service. Garret Irons and Samuel White of Dover testify also in his behalf. Some later third party correspondence inquiring about the pension mentions David Bennett, Aaron's brother, died in Oneida, NJ. It is not stated whether Aaron Bennett was ever married or not. 4. Ancestry.com's "New Jersey Tax Lists" for Dover Twp., Monmouth, NJ: Aaron Bennett: Oct 1783, Jun 1789, Jun 1793, June 1796. 5. From Mike Morrissey: "Men enrolled in the Militia in Dover in 1793" (ages 18-45). These are the only men listed with the corresponding surnames. The Irons family are potentially related by James Irons marrying Nelle Longstreet, a daughter of Gisbert Longstreet: Phillips: Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Richard, and Andrew. Johnston: George, William, and Benjamin. Winner: Isaac. Bennett: Aaron. Irons: James and John. There may be other surnames of interest, but these are all that Mike provided to me by email. 6. Email from Mike Morrissey 17 Jun 2004 mikemorr@hotmail.com: "Reuben Haines had a store near Toms River. His account book for 1816-1822 (mostly 1816-1818) was abstracted in the "Genealogical Magazine of NJ." Among the names listed were: Aron Bennett [later husband of Naomi] Moses Bennett [son of Aaron] Garrett Irons [1st cousin of Naomi] Ezekial Johnson Jacob Johnson Joel Johnson [brother of Naomi] Jonathan Johnson [brother of Naomi] Joseph Johnson [possible brother of Naomi] Joshua Johnson Samuel Johnson (& daughter) [possible brother of Naomi] Richard Phillips Samuel Phillips William Phillips [son of Andrew and Naomi] Mr. Winner [KP note: probably Isaac since probably all of Isaac's oldest children were in Ohio or on their way] Mrs. Winner Except for the Irons, I have listed all those of a given surname. Andrew Phillips is not listed. That does not prove he was dead, but it is likely. The only Bennetts listed are Aaron and his son, Moses. That makes it seem likely that he was the 3rd husband of Naomi." BIRTH: 1. Ancestry.com's "Rhode Island Births, 1636-1930": Aaron Bennett, 25 Aug 1750, son of Samuel Bennett, Jr. and Sarah Bennett. According to Rev. War pension application, Aaron was b. in Coventry Co., RI, 17 Aug 1750. We may be looking at the same Aaron. MARRIAGE: 1. At the FHL, I checked "Marriages of Monmouth Co., 1795-1843" and did not find any entries for either Aaron Bennett or Andrew Phillips. | Bennett, Aaron (I3064)
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| 2096 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, p. 217, on same page is James Adair. William Gamble, males: 2(0-5), 1(5-10), 1(10-15), 1(15-20), 1(20-30), 1(40-50); females: 1(0-5), 1(10-15), 1(20-30), 2(60-70). 1850 US: Talladega District, Talladega, Alabama, 5 Dec 1850, p. 221 of 278, family #1535: William Gamble, 63, farmer, SC. Mary Gamble, 46, SC. George M. Gamble, 24, physician, $500, SC. John B. Gamble, 20, student, SC. Frances R. Gamble, f, 11, AL. Lucretia Gamble, 8, AL. Mary S. (or L.) Gamble, 4, AL. Nancy Finney, 79, SC (presumably mother-in-law). Elizabeth Dillard, 73, SC. (Tombstone in same cemetery as William states: "Elizabeth Dillard Eldest Sisster of W.M. Gamble Sr. Born Laurence District S.C. 1759 d. 5-25-1860.") Andrew Blackston, 33, cousin, GA. 2. 1850 Slave Schedules for Talledega, Talladega, Alabama, show over 39 slaves owned by William Gamble and even more with his son George M. Gamble. 3. From Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":3100461" of Jeff Gamble entitled "Gamble Ancestry" email jgambl02@juno.com 23 Oct 2005: "Mary Finney; Birth: 1803 in Laurens County, South Carolina; Death: 6 Jul 1851 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama; Burial: 1851 Liberty United Methodist Church, Hackneyville; Note: Tombstone transcript: "Mary C. Gamble, Consort of William Gamble, Born in the Laurence District S.C. 1803, d. 7-6-1851 52 years." "William Gamble; Birth: 1786 in Laurens County, South Carolina; Death: 13 Jul 1854 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama; Burial: 1854 Liberty United Methodist Church, Hackneyville. Notes: On December 2, 1811, Benj. Lewis sold 104 acres of land to Wiliam Gamble for $60 [Laurens Co. Deed Bk J, p. 265]. William Gamble plat for 22 acres on Duncan's Creek, Laurens District February 20, 1816 [SC plat index]. On May 7, 1818, William Gamble sold 183 acres of land on Duncan's Creek to John Brown for $700. Land being part of three tracts of land, one part granted to James Gamble and the other granted to Wm. Price and the third tract granted to William Gamble. Filed Jan 1, 1819 [Laurens Co. Deed Bk K, p. 231]. On September 6, 1819 James Adair sold 185 acres of land on Miller's Fork of Duncan's Creek to William Gamble for $825 [Laurens Co. Deed Bk K, p. 235]. On July 16, 1821, Christopher Gamble sold 70 acres of land to William Gamble for $400. Land being part of a tract of land originally granted to James Gamble on the waters of Duncan Creek on the south side of Miller fork.[Laurens Co. Deed Bk L, p. 36]. On March 1, 1824, Isaac Gamble sold 199 acres of land on Duncan Creek to William Gamble for $160. Land lying on Brown's Creek, a branch or fork of Duncan's Creek. [Laurens Co. Deed Bk L, p. 153]. William moved from South Carolina to Alabama between 1830 and 1837. Purchased 40 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 5, 1837. Land located at the south west quarter of the north east quarter of section 9, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 40 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 5, 1837. Land located at the north west quarter of the south east quarter of section 9, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 80 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 5, 1837. Land located at the east half of the north west quarter of section 9, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 80 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 5, 1837. Land located at the east half of the north east quarter of section 17, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 80 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 1, 1839. Land located at the west half of the north east quarter of section 8, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 160 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 1, 1839. Land located at the south west quarter of section 15, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 40 acres from the Mardisville land office on January 10, 1839. Land located at the north east quarter of the north east quarter of section 8, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Will of William Gamble August 1854. Wife Mary. Lists Children: Martha Garrent, James A. Gamble, George M Gamble, Ellon Ross, John B Gamble, Nancy Thomas, Frances Gamble, Lucretia Gamble, Louezer Gamble. Tombstone Transcript: "William Gamble, husband of Mary Gamble, born in Laurence District S.C. 1786, d. 7-13-1854, 69 years." Father: James Gamble; b: Bef. 1755. Mother: Rachel ???; b: Bet. 1756 and 1774. Marriage 1 Martha Adair; Children: Martha Gamble. Marriage 2 Mary Finney; b: 1803 in Laurens County, South Carolina; Children: Ellen Gamble James Anderson Gamble; b: 1822 in Laurens County, South Carolina George Marion Gamble; b: 16 Feb 1824 in Laurens County, South Carolina John Bluxford Gamble; b: Abt 1830 in Laurens County, South Carolina Nancy Gamble; b: Abt 1830 in Laurens County, South Carolina Francis Gamble; b: Abt 1839 in Talledega County, Alabama Lucretia Gamble; b: Abt 1845 in Talledega County, Alabama Mary Louisa Gamble; b: 20 May 1846 in Talledega County, Alabama Sources: Title: Tombstone, Liberty United Methodist Church, Hackneyville, Tallapoosa, Alabama." 4. James Williams Petition listing the Adair family Patriots. Note that Thomas Adair's parents are the ones listed as number 4 (Joseph and Sarah) and his grandparents are number 3 (James and Eleanor). Most of the other Adairs were brothers or cousins. The petition has come to me from Mildred Brownlee's manuscript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina" and also from the "South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research," vol. 15, p. 32. James Williams was one of the most renowned Patriots of the Laurens area and this listing of signers of the petition of the area gives us a good source of patriots also associated with him. Col. James Williams and Capt. Josiah Greer were also military leaders of many of these same individuals during the 1778 American invasion of British East Florida per the source of Doctor George Ross' medical reimbursement papers quoted in this database under Rebecca Montgomery's notes. This petition typescript is item #5767, Manuscript Dept., Wm. M. Perkins Library at Duke University, Durham NC. Submitted by Mrs. Mary Ann McCrary and published with permission of the Manuscript Dept. This petition pre-dates the Battle of Kings Mountain (7 Oct 1780), as Col. James Williams was killed at that time. [NB: a second version of the petition was located in the South Carolina Library in 1999 and the gaps in the Duke University petition were filled in as indicated by brackets.] {Any notes or comments added by me are in these brackets.} "To his Excellen[cy John Rutledge, E]sq. Governor & Commander in Chief in & [over th]e state of South Carolina, the Honourable the privy Counsel, the Honourable the Senate & House of Representatives in General Assembly. Whereas we (the zealous friends to our country, and to all who love and distinguish themselves in her cause) do understand & are exceeding sorry to hear that there are false & [evilly designing] Accusations either lying on or about to shortly be laid against James Williams, our present Colonel in & over Little River Regiment, and designed (as we believe) by the private Enemies of our country to deprive us of so worthy a friend of his Country in general a good officer to us in particular & thereby do a very singular Piece of Service to the common enemies of America. We do briefly & anxiously remonstrate this: that we experimentally know Colo. James Williams to have been a zealous Patriot from the commencement of the America contest with Briten; and to have always stood foremost in every occasion when called upon to the defence of his country. We do further declare that we have never known said Colo. [Jas.].Williams to distress any individuals in the Regiment who voluntarily & judiciously, when legally called upon and commanded to the field, have turned out in the Defence if their Native Rights & Privileges together with that of their Country; & we do avow it from our knowledge, that whensoever Colo. Jas. Williams either directly or indirectly executed any distressing things, it was upon the stubborn & refractory, whose practices of obstinacy declare them inimical to their country: & and that this he did, as being last promissing Effort to reduce them to the dutiful obedience of loyal & fellow citizens. Without delaying you; we your humble Petitioners do earnestly beg that you will hear this our faithful Remonstrance & proceed with our respected Colo. James Williams & all such unjust & disaffected Clamours as may come before you against him, as your superior Judgements may direct: only begging leave to conclude with this one Remark, that doubtless you know that such clamours are frequently the necessary Effect of Disaffection to the Country. [Signed:] Robt. McCrery Lt. Colo.; George Davis, Capt.; Matthew McCrar[e]y, Lt.; George Young; Matthew Cunningham; Andrew McCrary; James Greer; [James Dillard]; [John Owens]; [Samuel Ewing]; [William Davis]; [Absolom Filby]; [John McCrary Sener]; [John McCrary Juner]; [Robert Long]; [Matthew McCrary]; [William Bean]; [John Williams J.P {note J.P. is crossed out}]; [Wm. Arthur Capt.]; Josiah Greer; Joseph Ramage; John Robinson; John Bourland; John Greer Juner; Isaac Adair; Jms. Adair; [Thos McCrery J.P.]; [James Ones]; [Andrew Ones]; [John Watson]; [Hughes Manford (?)]; [David Watson]; [Isaac Greer]; [James Ralley]; [John Ramage]; [John Glenn]; [John Jones (M L. (?)]; Henry Atwood; James Adair, Sr.; Joseph Adair Jr.; Joseph Adair; Benjamin Adair; Joseph Adair Sr.; James Adair Jr., son of James; [William Adair]; [John Finney]; [John Adair]; [John Adair Sener]; [James Craige]; [William Craig]; [James Howerton]; [Phillip Whitten]; [John Gray]; [John Greer]; [James Montgomery]; Thomas Ewing; William Blake; James Gamble; [Edward Stapleton]; [John Gamble]; [William Huddleston]; [James Huddleston]; [Alexander Adair]; [Benjamin Willson]; [Benja. Goodman]; [Daniel Williams] Suggested identification of the Adairs who signed this petition: 1. Isaac Adair - Killed in Apr. 1781, left widow, Ruth. 2. Jms. Adair - b. 1747, son of' Joseph Adair, Sr.; mar. Rebecca Montgomery. 3. James Adair, Sr. - died before 1796; wife, Eleanor. 4. Joseph Adair, Jr. - Son of above James & Eleanor; wife Sarah. 5. Joseph Adair - died 1812; son of Joseph Adair, Sr. 6. Benjamin Adair - died 1823; son of Joseph Adair, Sr.; wife Nancy. 7. Joseph Adair, Sr. - died 1789-90; wife: Susannah. 8. James Adair, Jr., son of James - son of James Adair & wife Eleanor; died 1818, wife Hannah. 9. William Adair - died 1780-84. Estate administered 1784, Abbe. Wills, p. 10. 10. John Adair - died 1813 in Ga., wife Jane; son of Joseph Adair; grandson of Joseph Adair, Sr. 11. John Adair, Sr. - Killed in 1782, wife Sarah. Abbe. Wills, p. 10. Probable son of Joseph Adair, Sr. {Kerry's note: or maybe James Adair, Sr.} 12. Alexander Adair - Scotch-Irish immigrant in 1767? See Protestant Immigrants to SC - Janie Revill, p. 74. {Note the above suggestions are as provided by Mildred Brownlee. I make the following additions of individuals related to the Adairs: 13. James Gamble - father of William Gamble who marries Martha Adair, daughter of James Adair who was son of James Adair, Sr., the original settler and cooper. 14. Robert Long - Son of Susannah Murdough from her first marriage before she married Joseph Adair the cooper. 15. John Owens - Husband of Mary Long. Mary was the sister of Robert Long and a daughter of Susannah Murdough from her first marriage before Joseph Adair. 16. John Ramage - Husband to Jean or Jane Adair, the daughter of Joseph Adair the cooper and his first wife Sarah Laferty. 17. George Davis - Died 1781- 1783. First husband to Elizabeth Adair, daughter of Joseph Adair, Jr. and Elizabeth ___. 18. James Montgomery - Father to Rebecca who married James Adair, the saddler and son of Joseph Adair the cooper. James' other daughter Isabella married Dr. George Ross who was a physician with many of the above in their East Florida expedition in the early days of the Rev. War. 19. John Jones - There were two John Jones in the area at the time. One was the husband of Hannah Adair, daughter of James and Eleanor Adair. Unsure which John Jones this may be. Our John Jones died before Sep 1788." MARRIAGE: 1. William and Mary had a son James who is buried in the same cemetery as they. His gravestone gives the following inscription: "James Gamble Husband of Irena Gamble Eldest son of Wm. & Mary Gamble b1822 d 5-4-1851 33 Years without Stain or Blemish on his Character." This would mean they were married no later than 1821. 2. Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":2995972" of Debby Martinez email jmartinez2030@satx.rr.com 23 Oct 2005 reports one daughter from the marriage of William Gamble and Martha Adair who they named Martha Gamble. The database reports her as Martha "Patsy" J. Gamble, b. bet. 1818-1821 in Laurens Co., South Carolina and married to unknown spouse 1 Jan 1839 in Talladega County, Alabama. Other Worldconnect sites also report one daughter named Martha as well. This would lead to a conclusion that Martha Adair died young. The 1821 Court of Equity settling James Adair's estate notes that as of Aug 1818 when he died with a will, Martha, his daughter, was living. Hannah Brotherton Adair's will of 25 Oct 1826 notes her grandchild's name as Patsy Gamble but no mention of her deceased daughter Martha or her now remarried son-in-law William Gamble. William with his second wife had several children including a James whose tombstone in the same cemetery as his parents note as being born in 1822 to William and Mary. It would appear that Martha Adair probably died by 1820 after giving birth to one child. DEATH: 1. Death is suggested to be in Tallapoosa Co. due their burial in that county; however, they were very large slave owners in the 1850 census in Talladega County. On the surface it would seem unlikely that they would have just recently moved at their ages and then present econonic circumstance, however, they did in fact move. William's will would have been probated in the county where he was living at the time of his death. Talledega Co. Deed Bk I page 356 states, "... and the said William Gamble did since that time and since said bond was executed removed to the county of Tallapoosa and has since departed this life ...". Here is a link to the deed. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSPL-1W3F-F?i=706&cat=522386 BURIAL: 1. Tombstone inscriptions are on the web at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/tallapoosa/cemeteries/libertymeth.txt: "William Gamble Husband of Mary Gamble born in Laurence District S.C. 1786 d 7-13-1854 69 Years (this is inscribed on the top of the tomb) Uprightness." "Mary C. Gamble Consort of William Gamble born in the Laurence District S.C. 1803 d 7-6-1851 52 Years (this is inscribed on the top of the tomb also) Amiableness." There are also some descendants as well in the same cemetery. | Gamble, William (I3763)
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| 2097 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Laurens Co., South Carolina, p. 217, on same page is James Adair. William Gamble, males: 2(0-5), 1(5-10), 1(10-15), 1(15-20), 1(20-30), 1(40-50); females: 1(0-5), 1(10-15), 1(20-30), 2(60-70). 1850 US: Talladega District, Talladega, Alabama, 5 Dec 1850, p. 221 of 278, family #1535: William Gamble, 63, farmer, SC. Mary Gamble, 46, SC. George M. Gamble, 24, physician, $500, SC. John B. Gamble, 20, student, SC. Frances R. Gamble, f, 11, AL. Lucretia Gamble, 8, AL. Mary S. (or L.) Gamble, 4, AL. Nancy Finney, 79, SC (presumably mother-in-law). Elizabeth Dillard, 73, SC. Andrew Blackston, 33, cousin, GA. 2. From Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":3100461" of Jeff Gamble entitled "Gamble Ancestry" email jgambl02@juno.com 23 Oct 2005: "Mary Finney; Birth: 1803 in Laurens County, South Carolina; Death: 6 Jul 1851 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama; Burial: 1851 Liberty United Methodist Church, Hackneyville; Note: Tombstone transcript: "Mary C. Gamble, Consort of William Gamble, Born in the Laurence District S.C. 1803, d. 7-6-1851 52 years." "William Gamble; Birth: 1786 in Laurens County, South Carolina; Death: 13 Jul 1854 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama; Burial: 1854 Liberty United Methodist Church, Hackneyville. Notes: On December 2, 1811, Benj. Lewis sold 104 acres of land to Wiliam Gamble for $60 [Laurens Co. Deed Bk J, p. 265]. William Gamble plat for 22 acres on Duncan's Creek, Laurens District February 20, 1816 [SC plat index]. On May 7, 1818, William Gamble sold 183 acres of land on Duncan's Creek to John Brown for $700. Land being part of three tracts of land, one part granted to James Gamble and the other granted to Wm. Price and the third tract granted to William Gamble. Filed Jan 1, 1819 [Laurens Co. Deed Bk K, p. 231]. On September 6, 1819 James Adair sold 185 acres of land on Miller's Fork of Duncan's Creek to William Gamble for $825 [Laurens Co. Deed Bk K, p. 235]. On July 16, 1821, Christopher Gamble sold 70 acres of land to William Gamble for $400. Land being part of a tract of land originally granted to James Gamble on the waters of Duncan Creek on the south side of Miller fork.[Laurens Co. Deed Bk L, p. 36]. On March 1, 1824, Isaac Gamble sold 199 acres of land on Duncan Creek to William Gamble for $160. Land lying on Brown's Creek, a branch or fork of Duncan's Creek. [Laurens Co. Deed Bk L, p. 153]. William moved from South Carolina to Alabama between 1830 and 1837. Purchased 40 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 5, 1837. Land located at the south west quarter of the north east quarter of section 9, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 40 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 5, 1837. Land located at the north west quarter of the south east quarter of section 9, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 80 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 5, 1837. Land located at the east half of the north west quarter of section 9, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 80 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 5, 1837. Land located at the east half of the north east quarter of section 17, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 80 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 1, 1839. Land located at the west half of the north east quarter of section 8, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 160 acres from the Mardisville land office on September 1, 1839. Land located at the south west quarter of section 15, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Purchased 40 acres from the Mardisville land office on January 10, 1839. Land located at the north east quarter of the north east quarter of section 8, township 22-S, range 7-E in Talledega County, Alabama. Will of William Gamble August 1854. Wife Mary. Lists Children: Martha Garrent, James A. Gamble, George M Gamble, Ellon Ross, John B Gamble, Nancy Thomas, Frances Gamble, Lucretia Gamble, Louezer Gamble. Tombstone Transcript: "William Gamble, husband of Mary Gamble, born in Laurence District S.C. 1786, d. 7-13-1854, 69 years." Father: James Gamble; b: Bef. 1755. Mother: Rachel ???; b: Bet. 1756 and 1774. Marriage 1 Martha Adair; Children: Martha Gamble. Marriage 2 Mary Finney; b: 1803 in Laurens County, South Carolina; Children: Ellen Gamble James Anderson Gamble; b: 1822 in Laurens County, South Carolina George Marion Gamble; b: 16 Feb 1824 in Laurens County, South Carolina John Bluxford Gamble; b: Abt 1830 in Laurens County, South Carolina Nancy Gamble; b: Abt 1830 in Laurens County, South Carolina Francis Gamble; b: Abt 1839 in Talledega County, Alabama Lucretia Gamble; b: Abt 1845 in Talledega County, Alabama Mary Louisa Gamble; b: 20 May 1846 in Talledega County, Alabama Sources: Title: Tombstone, Liberty United Methodist Church, Hackneyville, Tallapoosa, Alabama." 3. Parents are reported as John Finney and Nancy Monford per Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database ":2995972" of Debby Martinez email jmartinez2030@satx.rr.com 23 Oct 2005. Nancy Finney is living with Gambles in 1850 census. DEATH: 1. Death is suggested to be in Tallapoosa Co. due their burial in that county; however, they were very large slave owners in the 1850 census in Talladega County. On the surface it would seem unlikely that they would have just recently moved at their ages and then present econonic circumstance, however, they did in fact move. William's will would have been probated in the county where he was living at the time of his death. Talledega Co. Deed Bk I page 356 states, "... and the said William Gamble did since that time and since said bond was executed removed to the county of Tallapoosa and has since departed this life ...". Here is a link to the deed. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSPL-1W3F-F?i=706&cat=522386 BURIAL: 1. Tombstone inscriptions are on the web at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/tallapoosa/cemeteries/libertymeth.txt: "William Gamble Husband of Mary Gamble Born in Laurence District S.C. 1786 d 7-13-1854 69 Years (this is Inscribed on the top of the tomb) Uprightness." "Mary C. Gamble Consort of William Gamble Born in the Laurence District S.C. 1803 d 7-6-1851 52 Years (this is Inscribed on the top of the tomb also) Amiableness." There are also some descendants as well in the same cemetery. | Finney, Mary (I3733)
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| 2098 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, p. 93a: David Stoker: Males 10-15:2; 30-40:1; female 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1. [Appears to be David, his wife Barbara, and their children: Christina, John, William, Sarah, and Catherine; appears from children enumerated that Nancy may have been dead by 1830.] 1840 US: Quincy, Adams, Illinois, the following related families living in near proximity to each other (with exception of John McDaniel and his wife Christina Stoker, all of David Stoker's siblings, children, and mother are accounted for and it confirms his father Michael was dead by 1840): P. 43a: David Stoker, males 5-10:1; 40-50:1//females 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1. [David, his wife Barbara, and their children Sarah (13), Catherine (11?), and Michael (6). Note daughter Nancy not in census which means she was probably deceased by then.] Simeon P. Grabell [Graybill], males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [David's nephew: Simeon and his wife Amanda Hill and their two oldest children.] Jacob Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 20-30:1. [Younger brother to David: Jacob and his wife Catherine and their oldest child.] P. 44a: Eller Stoker, males 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 15-20:1; 60-70:1. [Youngest brother to David: Eller with his wife Margaret and their oldest child and probably their mother Catherine Eller.] James Walker [Welker], males 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 30-40:1//females 5-10:2; 40-50:1. [Living next door to Eller and ages work perfectly that this is James Welker and Elizabeth Stoker, who is David's sister.] John W. Stoker, males 0-5:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 30-40:1. [John and his wife Electa Sarah and their six oldest children.] John Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 0-5:1; 5-10:2; 20-30:1. [David's son: John and his wife Jane and their children.] P. 52a: William Stoker, males 0-5:1; 20-30:1//females 20-30:1 (father-in-law Samuel Winegar is next door). [David's son William and his wife Almira with their child.] P. 55a: Michael Stoker, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 10-15:1; 30-40:1// females 30-40:1. [Michael, his wife Martha, and their five oldest children.] 1850 US: Davis County, house/family 117/117: John Stoker, 35, farmer $175, OH. Jane, 38, OH. Alma, 15, OH. Hyram, 11, IL. Franklin, 9, IL. David, 7, IA. Zibiah, 3, IA. 1860 US: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, p. 15 of 23, 15 Jun 1860, house/family 98/91: Jno. Stoker, 44, farmer, $2000, $700, OH. Jane, 50, OH. Harriet, 38, NY. Alma, 25, OH. Jane, 19, OH. Hyrum, 19, IL. David, 15, IL. Jane, 10, IA. Sarah A., 8, NY. Geo, 3, MI. Jno, 2, NY. 1870 US: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, p. 26 of 34, 19 Aug 1870: Household/family 214/215: John Stoker, 53, Bishop, $4000, $1500, OH. Jane, 60, OH. Alma, 35, farm hand, OH. Sarah A., 19, UT. Household/family 215/216: Harriet Stoker, 46, keeping house, NY. John, 13, UT. Catherine, 7, UT. Hiram, 30, laborer, IL. Household/family 216/217: Jane Stoker, 29, keeping house, OH. Maryann, 8, UT. Henry, 6, UT. Lorenzo, 3, UT. Clarissa, 1, UT. 1880 US: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, FHL film 1255336, National Archives Film T9-1336, p. 279C: John Stoker, farmer, 63, married, birthplace: OH, father's and mother's birthplace: NC. Jane Stoker, keeping house, 69, birthplace: OH. Hyrum, works on farm, son, S, 40, IL, OH, OH. Harriet, keeping house, wife, M, 58, NY, CT, VT. Mary A., at home dau, S, 18, UT, OH, OH. Catherine, at home, dau, 16, UT, OH, NY. Henry, at home, son, 15, UT, OH, NY. Lorenzo, at home, son, 13, UT, OH, NY. Jessie, at home, son, 5, UT, OH, NY. 2. Obituary of son David Stoker: "David Stoker Dead. Well Known and Highly Respected Citizen of Davis County Passes. (Special Correspondence.) Farmington, April 3 - David Stoker, until recently Bishop of the East Bountiful ward in Davis stake, died at his home in Bountiful, Saturday morning. During the last four months he had been confined to his bed the greater part of the time with heart and stomach trouble. Bishop Stoker was born in Hancock county, Ill. Sept. 28, 1844. His parents were born in Ohio. In 1836 they moved to Illinois, in which state six children were born to them of whom David was the third son. The family left Illinois in 1846 and after three years of uncertain travel arrived in Utah in 1849. Mr. Stoker spent his early days on the farm in Davis county and his early education was received from the schools then afforded by the country settlements. He was, however, ambitious and intelligent and independent of schooling arose to positions of distinction and trust among his fellow men. He was broad minded, of keen judgment, loving freedom of thought and resenting any encroachments of authority upon the rights and liberties of men. His advice and the wisdom of his counsel were sought by all who knew him. So highly has he been regarded by the citizens of Davis county that their suffrage has elected him to the office of county comisioner and member of Utah legislature. He also held by appointment the position of probate judge, and received the nomination to the office county commissioner at the convention of the Democratic party, Oct. 1910. He has been a stalwart Democrat all his life and is known in the politics of Utah as a legislator and a judge of wisdom and capability. In a religious capacity, Bishop Stoker served his Church on a mission in the Northern States. From which duty he arose in the estimation of his brethren holding various positions, the last in the bishopric of his ward in which he served as counselor to Bishop Call, and later as bishop for a period of 13 years. In religious as in civil matters, his soundness of judgment commended him to the consideration of his fellows. In the industrial world he figured also. He has aided in developing the dry land districts in Davis county, being a promoter in the Davis and Weber canal. He was at his death, president and director in the Bountiful Co-op, the large store which recently burned down. Bishop Stoker leaves a widow, Regeria Hogan Stoker and seven children." Deseret Evening News, Mon., 3 Apr 1911, photo acoumpanies obituary. 3. The book "The Henry McDaniel family, 1755-1975," by Esta McDaniel Lee, 1975, FHL 929.273 M141L, p. 82: "Other McDaniels of Gallia and Jackson Counties, Ohio. David McDaniel, b. ca. 1738 m. 5 March, 1801, Elizabeth (Betsy) McCarley in Washington County, Ohio. Gallia County was a part of Washington Coound at that time. David McDanieal was in Ohio long before it became a state for a son James McDaniel was born in what is now Jackson County, 24 Feb. 1762. He married 19 Dec 1805 Zebiah (Sibby) McCarley, b. 10 Dec 1786, Gallia County, Ohio, daughter of John McCarley. She died 5 Feb 1860. James died in Jackson County, 1820. They had the following children: 1. Sarah McDaniel, b. 26 May 1806, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 7 Mar 1857, m. John W. Stoker, 13 Mar 1827. 2. Martha McDaniel, b. 24 Feb 1808, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 4 Feb 1877, m. 1828/29 Michael Stoker. 3. Jane McDaniel, 24 Feb 1810, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., O., d. 20 Jan 1890, in Bountiful, Utah, m. 1836, John Stoker. 4. John McDaniel, b. 10 Jun 1812, Jackson Co., O., d. 11 Nov 1884, Alpine, Utah, m. Christina Stoker. 5. William McDaniel, b. 1814, Jackson Co., O., d. 1889 unmarried. There could have been others." Page 83: "Jackson County Marriage Records. C.D. Massie: 19 Apr 1827 Electa Sally McDaniel to John W. Stoker." 4. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. Bibliography: Barlow, Ora H. The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores. Published by Ora H. Barlow. Sponsor: The Israel Barlow Family Association, 1968 p 11, 269, 426, 451, 483 Bennett, Richard Edmond. Mormons at the Missouri 1846-1859. 1946 p. 309 Cannon, George Q. History of Church as published in the Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 19 p. 60. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Carter, Katie. Pioneer Heritage. Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Salt Lake City, UT. 1958 Vol. 3 p. 272, 300 Daughters of Utah Pioneers. East of Antelope Island. History of the First Fifty Years of Davis County, 2nd edition, Carr Printing Co., Bountiful, UT. 1961 p 21, 70, 115, 320, 366, 491 An Enduring Legacy. Lesson Committee. Salt Lake City, UT. 1987 p. 207 Foy, Leslie T. The City Bountiful, Utah's second settlement from pioneers to the present. Horizon Publishers, 1975 p. 49, 50, 55, 80-81, 133 Gabbott, Mabel Jones. A Tabernacle in the Land Bountiful. Church Library and Archives 1992 Hancock County, Illinois Property Tax Assessment 1842 Johnson, Clark V. Mormon Redress Petition. Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict. Religious Studies Center. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT. 1992 Johnson, Luke. Autobiography in Millennial Star 26 (1864), typescript, BYU-S, published by Infobases International Incorporated, Provo, UT. 1995 p. 835-836 Morris, George. Autobiography, typescript, BYU-S, published by Infobases International Incorporated, Provo, UT. 1995 p. 50-51 Nauvoo Endowment Temple Record. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Archives. Salt Lake City, UT. Pratt, Parley P. Autobiography. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Historical Dept. Salt Lake City, UT. 1874 p 381 Roberts, B.H. Comprehensive History of the Church. Vol. 3 Chp. 72, Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young University Press, Provo, UT. 1965 p. 40, 49, 50, Chp. 83 p 319 Stoker, Eunice Southwick. Short History of John Stoker. Published by the John Michael Stoker Family Association" BIOGRAPHY: 1. The book "Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict," edited by Clark V. Johnson, contains a copy of the "Scroll Petition" dated 28 Nov 1843 at Nauvoo, IL addressed to the U.S. Congress by members of the LDS Church who had property destroyed by Missouri mobs in the 1830's. Included with over a couple thousand signatures are those of John and Jane Stoker, and their three sons Hyrum, Alma, and Franklin. 2. Listed in Pioneers of 1848 from the files of the daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Journal History, etc.: "Stoker, John, age 31, b. 8 Mar 1817 in Bloomfield, Ohio and wife Stoker, Jane McD., age 38, 24 Feb. 1810, Ohio and their children: Alma, Hyrum, Franklin, David (age 4, 28 Sep 1844, Illinois), Zibiah Jane, Sarah Ann as part of the Young Company. 3. Children from marriage with Harriet Willis per Ancestral File v.4.19; all children were born in Bountiful, Davis, Utah: John, b. 11 Feb 1857, d. 14 Dec 1876 at Bountiful, UT. Catherine, b. 10 Dec 1863, d. 3 Nov 1817 at Roy, Weber, UT. 4. Children from marriage with Jane Allen per Ancestral File v.4.19; all children were born in Bountiful, Davis, Utah: Mary Ann, b. 14 May 1862, d. 1 May 1903 in UT. Henry, b. 12 Feb 1865, d. 12 Oct 1904 in UT. Lorenzo, b. 21 Feb 1867, d. 9 Jun 1920 at Ogden, UT. Clarissa, b. 2 Feb 1869, d. 12 Aug 1870 at Bountiful, UT. Jude, b. 2 Apr 1871, d. 4 Sep 1872 at Bountiful, UT. Albert, b. 29 Mar 1873, d. 4 Apr 1873 at Bountiful, UT. Jesse, b. 17 Jul 1874, d. 30 Oct 1942 at Roy, Weber, UT. Harriet Eunice, b. 13 May 1877, d. 23 Aug 1878 at Bountiful, UT. 5. From 30 Nov 2002 website a. January 16, 1851, Horace S. Eldridge served a notice on me of my being appointed the Judge of Davis County, and State of Deseret. President Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and others from Salt Lake City came and held a meeting in our Ward and appointed John Stoker Bishop and ordained him to that office. Bishop Stoker made choice of Perigrine Sessions as his first councilor and Moses Daily as his second councilor and they were ordained to their office. b. In the fall of 1852 the books for tithing was transferred into the hands of several Bishops throughout the valley. Bishop John Stoker wished me to act as his clerk in the settling of the tithing and keeping of the books which I did. It was attended with considerable trouble as many of the brethren were careless and not settled tithing for years in which they were far in the rear on settlement and some became somewhat troubled in their feelings, but the man that was punctual in settling and paying felt it a privilege to be on hand to meet all demands with joy as it helped to build up the Kingdom of God on the earth. c. ... Sept. 4, 1854. About the first of May, President Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Jedediah M. Grant called a meeting at the school house in our district and decided that there be a city laid off in this place making the school house the northwest corner running east about three fourths of a mile, thence south about three fourths of a mile, thence west about three fourths of a mile, thence north about three fourths of a mile to the place of beginning that the street running north and south be six rods wide, east and west three rods wide and that there be four acres in each block and that there be a center block for public buildings and for the brethren to build their good houses in the city and for the families of the brethren to move into the city but let their poor cabins remain on their farms. They said if the brethren would do this they would be richer in five years than if they remained on their farms. I was acting as Bishop John Stoker's first councilor at this time and had been for a year or so in the place of Perigrine Sessions who had been sent on a mission to England. d. In 1854, we were directed to wall in the city Bountiful with a wall 12 feet high, six feet wide at the bottom and two feet at the top with a gradual slope on each side with suitable port holes and bastions for to be used against an enemy who might attack us and to defend us from the Indians. My tax for 1854 on city wall $651.45. Tax for 1855 on city wall $509.46. My full tax on city wall was $1160.91. I was appointed one of the superintendents on the city wall with Bishop John Stoker and Chester Loveland, by the County Court for Davis County. The people generally paid up their first assessment in building their proportion of wall in 1854 and the balance in the summer of 1855. There was over three miles of this wall to be built around the city to make a good fort at an average of over $30.00 per rod. This to be done in all the settlements throughout the Territory of Utah. Ours was built of powdered clay laid up in plank and then wet sufficiently to make a hard cement sufficient to dry and become hard to stand the weather with a ditch on the outside to prevent horse-men from approaching the wall. e. In December 1856 I offered my resignation as Probate Judge of Davis County to John Stoker and John D. Parker, two members of the Legislature of the County Davis as my health was poor and had been for a considerable time. f. In 1857 in February by the request of Bishop John Stoker I resigned my office as his councilor which I had acted in for four years and had done the best I could in assisting him in the duties of that office which with other duties had occupied much of my time for the last four years. g. [During the Utah war] it was thought best for the people to move away to the southern settlements for the present and if the army were determined to continue their threatened vengeance upon the Latter-day Saints we would burn up our cities and lay our farms desolate as we found them upon our approaching the valley rather than that our enemies should again share our property as they had done in our former drivings in the states. How long we had got to flee before our enemies we did not know. Much of our crops for the spring were in and what was not in was left without being put in to a crop. The brethren commenced moving from the northern settlements and our roads were continually filled with wagons, teams, stock, sheep, horses, hogs, etc. by night and day so as to get moved away before the snow would get out of the mountains so that the army could come in. The army consisted of about ten thousand regular soldiers besides teams, army followers some three or four thousand more with orders for as many to follow as would be needed to wipe out Mormons from among the mountains. I had hauled some twenty loads of my own and left it out of doors as the most of our loading had to be left as there could be no storage found. We moved about from 70 to 150 miles when the brethren had got the country cleaned of everything that could be taken away and every man was ready with his torch to set fire to his hard earned labor at a moments notice. President Buchannan and his cabinet finding his expedition against the Mormons rather unpopular and expensive business to be carried on to gain any credit to himself or the nation as the country was prepared ready for the burning. He thought best to send three commissioners to enquire into the circumstances of his sending an army to drive and kill the Saints offering at the same time to grant a full and complete pardon for all and every evil that might have transpired previous to the gracious pardon if the people would let the army into the valley and the citizens would again return to their homes they should not be molested in their persons or in their property. Governor Cummings having come into the valley and General Johnson having marched his army through Great Salt Lake City, June 26, 1858 and camped at camp Floyd, about 45 miles from the city of Salt Lake and by the proclamation of Gov. Cummings for the people to return home peaceable. The brethren began to move to their homes about the first of July 1858 when we found that our grain was ready for harvesting and by the blessings of God it was a good crop. I had some 1300 bushels of wheat besides barley, oats and without any irrigation except the rains that fell which was enough to make a good crop. I got back the 4th day of July and found my grain ready for the harvest. Thus God had over ruled everything for the best as wagons, mules, goods etc., were plenty and our grain brought a fair price with a ready market for the army which they were now ready to pay for instead of their plundering it from the Mormons as they having done it in the states in our former persecution. Great Salt Lake City, Jan. 22, 1858, a list of the names to form a prayer circle in North Canyon Ward, selected by Heber C. Kimball. Names: John Stoker, Bishop, Daniel Carter - 2nd councilor, Anson Call, Chester Loveland, Jeremiah Willey, Israel Barlow, P.G. Sessions, James Duncan, Thomas F. Fisher, Martin Wood, William Atkinson, John Ellis, E.G.M. Hogan, Joseph Holbrook, John W. Lasley. The prayer circle of North Canyon Ward was organized by choosing John Stoker President, Joseph Holbrook clerk. The prayer circle was held at P. G. Sessions upper room which dedicated for that purpose and kept up until April 4, 1858 when it adjourned till further instructions which did not continue after the move south. After our return from the south on the night of the 24 July, 1858, North Canyon Ward, during the day I had meditated somewhat on the difference that now existed and that which had been our lot in years gone by. The night of the 24th of July I dreamed the following: I thought I saw the people in great commotion and they did not know what to do. While many were a saying let us do this others let us do that, etc. I said unto them, "Have you faith in the hymn you sometimes sing, "On the Rock of Enoch Founded. What can shake your sure repose, etc." Some said they used to believe in it but they did not know so well about it now. I told them if they had faith as they once did that they were founded on the rock of Enoch. That God could open these mountains and hide up this people from all their enemies and none could harm them. I thought I was near a grist mill in the valley and there appeared to be a large ledge of rocks near by. I said let us go up and see that ledge. When we came to where it was it was rough and craggy. I said to my brethren, "Will you help me to make an opening in this ledge?" They seemed unwilling and began to laugh at me. I then began to beat away at the ledge myself and soon I found a small opening which gave my brethren some hopes. I continued to beat away until I had made a large opening so that teams, wagons, herds, etc. could easily pass in to this cave but I soon found the passage obstructed by large stones having fallen from the sides and over head and there began to be a murmuring again and to know what they should do. I told them we would remove them. They began to be angry at me and wanted to know if I thought we were going to stay here and blast those large rocks out of the way. I said no, I would remove them for them so I laid hold of them and threw them out of the way into the sides of the cave so we had a free passage. We passed along quite well a little distance and it began to be dark. Bishop Stoker said we should have to have candles before we could go further. I said, "No, it was the poorest light that ever a man had. It was nothing but borrowed light at best." He looked quite angry at me and said what would you do. I said, "I would have the light of God to fill the cave the same as God had before he made the sun and moon in the beginning. He said he would rather see me do it than hear me tell of doing it. I then said, "In the name of God, let this cave be filled with light." I thought the light came forth from the sides out of the ground and overhead out of the rocks so that every crevice and corner was filled with a bright light and it filled the cave above the brightness of the sun and we began to travel on in the cave and there began to be murmurings again with the people saying that if all our flour and provisions should give out we should starve to death, and our clothes would wear out and we would be naked. I said unto them, "Have you not seen that God opened this cave, that he gave me power to remove those rocks at the mouth of the cave. That he had filled the cave with light and now why do you murmur?" Said I, "If you had faith in God your flour would never fail, your clothes would never wear out but you are a going into a good country and the Lord can send you goods until you would not know what to do with them." Says I, "Brother Telford you will have your peach orchard or one like unto it. I shall have my farm or one like unto it except it will be a wet farm for you have not murmured because it was a dry farm nor because you did not get in half of your proportion of water but have been patient, wherefore your farm shall become wet." I said further, "We are a going where gold will be so plenty that it will be like cobble stones in the road." You would not stoop to pick it up and the cave had become very wide with a plenty of timber, grass for our cattle, etc. And I began to be sorrowful, for I did not know whether I had done all things right as I thought no one had told me to do as I had done. About this time I thought Brother Brigham Young came along with his family, teams, wagons, herds, etc. and brother Heber Kimball's family, teams, etc. Brother Brigham says, "Brother Joseph go ahead you have found the right road and have done right." I felt glad that Brother Brigham knew what I had done and that it was in the right place so we continued our journey in the cave and it still continued to grow larger. Finally Brother Brigham said he wanted me to go on a mission to the mouth of the cave. I said I would go and started forthwith and when I came to the mouth of the cave I looked and marveled at what I saw; for I saw that our enemies were camped about four miles from the mouth of the cave in a circle with many of the Mormons with them and that the light that was in the cave formed that circle. It was light to the faithful but darkness to our enemies. When the faithful came to the light they came forward to the mouth of the cave but many of our enemies endeavoring to follow them being encouraged by the Mormons among them to do so. But as they came forth into the light Egyptian darkness to them the most of them perished by their own hand and few escaped, swearing they would never be caught in that darkness again. And I began to think of my mission and I began to speak and say, "Come here by your tens, your fifties, your hundreds, your thousands and your tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and your millions," and I stopped talking and I heard my voice go from mountain to mountain and from hill to hill and says I, "It has gone I think to the end of the earth. I wonder if this is what he wanted of me. I cannot think of nothing more. I will go back." Brother Brigham asked me if I had been to the mouth of the cave. I told him I had. He asked me what I had done. I told him what I had said. He said it was right. It was what he wanted. I thought what had been shown me was the deliverance of the Saints and I should help do it and what had been shown Charles W Stodard was the power by which they, the Saints should fight our enemies and while I contemplated those things I became as clear as transparent glass. I could see myself and all within me and also in others for nothing was hid from my sight. (I saw Bishop Stoker. He was walking by candle light borrowed from others.) I saw many in the ward who made a great profession but were hypocrites. I could see them in all grades from the highest to the lowest, and I wished I might always see them as well as myself but was told I could not now but I should have the privilege of this great gift hereafter, and I awoke from sleep and behold it was a dream. But I felt comforted to think that the Lord by his spirit should visit me in my night's repose to enlighten my mind, so may I always be faithful even unto the end h. I continued to send back teams, means, etc. to help in the emigration from year to year as usual. My tithing for 1859 amounting to $204.00. I have settled the tithing in North Canyon Ward for eight years and found my own fire wood and rooms to attend to the business and the tithing amounting in the eight years to something over fifty thousand dollars and often found my own paper, ink, etc. free of any charge to the tithing office or to Bishop John Stoker. i. July 8, 1864 went to Provo, by the invitation of President Brigham Young, for a two days meeting in company of John Stoker Bishop and Anson Call with a number from Davis County and brother Kimball and many others from Great Salt Lake City. There was much valuable instruction given to benefit the Saints. President Young told the people to take care of their grain and not sell it to our enemies to rob ourselves as it was our duty to lay away and store up our wheat, a surplus for each year, enough for our families and our dependents for seven years to come so that at the expiration of seven years we would have bread for that length of time in our store houses as it was the council of God to his people for their salvation. j. In March 1869 there was a new organization in our Mercantile Institution which resulted in Bishop Stoker being appointed President which relieved me from further duties at this. k. A clipping found in the journal from the Deseret News: "Fifty Years Ago." The Deseret News of fifty years ago, dated March 18, 1863, referred to the dedication of the building on Saturday the 14th says: "A large concourse of people as per report, were in attendance. Pres. Young, Kimball and Wells, and several others who went from the city, started early in the morning in order to be in session as the services were to commence at 10 a.m." After stating that Pres. Young and those accompanying him returned on Sunday evening, March 15. The News offers the following naive apology for failing to give a more extensive report of the services, the issue for the following week being also silent on the subject: "Having been favored with a special invitation to be present on the occasion, we should have been pleased if circumstances had permitted; but as they did not, and having no reporter there, we can neither give the particulars of the dedicatory ceremonies, nor allude to the preaching and teaching which followed." Previous mention, however, had been made of the active generosity of Anson Call, Judge Holbrook, Bishop Stoker and others in pushing forward the work of completion after all other apparent sources of revenue had been exhausted. While the estimated cost had been $60,000, the actual outlay on construction, thought The News on the 4th of Mar. "has been the work of the people unitedly, and if any have done more than others it has been because they have had the ability to do so, and they do not, as we have been informed, wish to be lauded for having done that which according to Scripture, was their duty to do." 6. Reference to John Stoker and Jane McDaniel in daughter Zebiah Jane Stoker's biography per the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 3145, photo accompanies article: "Zebiah Jane Stoker Tolman, born 21 May 1847 at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa; died 28 May 1933 at Bountiful, Davis, Utah; parents were John Stoker and Jane McDaniel; pioneer of 18 Sep 1848 in the Brigham Young Wagon Train; spouse was Judson Tolman married 5 Apr 1869 in Salt Lake Endowment House (he died 6 Jul 1916 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah; they had 11 children [see book for Children's names and birthdates]. Zebiah Jane was born in Mt. Pisgah, Iowa on May 21, 1847. She came across the Plains with her parents by ox-team. Her father was one of the leaders of the third company of the first division of the Brigham Young Wagon Company. Their division left the Elkhorn on June 1, 1848 and arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley on Sep. 18, 1848. Zebiah's parents settled in Bountiful where she grew up living the hardy pioneer life. She felt education was very impartant and became a pioneer school teacher for many years in the Bountiful area. She was especially skilled in mathematics and english. She became the fourth wife of Judson Tolman on April 5, 1869 in the Salt Lake Endlowment House. Her father and Judson were good friends. His first wife had died on Feb. 4, 1869. She was 22 years old as she moved in to care for his older family, some as old as she was. She bore Judson eleven children of her own. She was a generous and loving mother. She passed her love of education on to her children. Three of her sons became well known educators in the Utah Schools. Zebiah passed away at her home on May 28, 1933 at the age of 86. Funeral servieces were held in Bountiful Tabernacle and she was buried in the Bountiful City Cemetery." 7. Biography in the book "Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia," p. 252: "John Stoker, Bishop of East Bountiful, Davis county, Utah, was born March 8, 1817, at Bloomfield, Jackson county, Ohio, the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. Becoming a convert to 'Mormonism' he was baptized Nov. 13, 1836, by Seymour Brunson, and cast his lot with the Saints in their gathering places in the States. He emigrated to Utah in 1848 and settled in what was then called the Sessions settlement (now Bountiful). He was ordained a Bishop Jan. 20, 1851, by Brigham Young and set apart to preside over the North Mill Creek Ward, afterwards named Bountiful. Bishop Stoker married three wives, namely Jane McDaniel, who became the mother of six children; Jane Allen, who gave birth to nine children, and Harriet (a widow), who bore her husband two children. In 1869-70 Bishop Stoker filled a short mission to Virginia. He was ordained a Patriarch in 1877 and died June 11, 1881, at Bountiful." 8. Reference to John and Jane in son David Stoker's biography in the book "Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia," p. 253 (photo accompanies article): "David Stoker. Bishop of East Bountiful, Davis county, Utah, was born Sept. 28, 1844, in Hancock county, Ill., the son of John Stoker and Jane McDaniel. The parents spent their early life in Ohio where they were married, and in 1836 they emigrated to Adams county, Ill., and later settled in Hancock county, in the same State. At the time of the exodus (1846) the family came west as far as Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, where they remained until 1848, when they fitted out ox teams preparatory to crossing the plains to Utah, which they did that year in Pres. Brigham Young's train, arriving in Salt Lake City Sept. 23, 1848. The first winter was spent in the Old Fort, and in the spring of 1849 they located at Bountiful, which at that time was sparsely settled in a wild state. There David received his eduaction and became earlier in life a faithful woriker in the Church. In 1866 (March 3rd) he married Miss Regena Hogan, daughter of Erick G.M. Hogan and Harriet Nesteby. Bishops Stoker's whole life was spent in Bountiful, where he assisted in transforming the county from a wild and barren waste to its present prosperous condition. His home was considered one of the finest of its size in the locality. In 1892-1894 he filled a mission to the Northern States. During the Indian troubles in Utah he served in the militia orgainzed to protect the settlers and was in the Black Hawk war for 81 days. After presiding a number of years over the Elders quorum at Bountiful, he was ordained a Seventy and still later a High Priest and chosen as first counselor to Bishiop Chester Call. This position he held till Jan. 19, 1896, when he was ordained a Bishop by Lorenzo Snow and set apart to preside over the East Bountiful Ward. He also served as county commissioner and probate judge of Davis county, and served two terms in the Utah Territiorial legislature. Respected and beloved by his people he died April 1, 1911, at his home at Bountiful." 9. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 100-101, notes children of John and Jane Stoker as follows - but he misses the oldest Alma: Hiram, b. 9 Nov 1840 at Columbus, Adams Co., Ill.; d. 5 Jun 1885. He did not marry. Franklin, b. 12 Aug 1842 in Hancock Co., Ill, d. 25 Sep 1855. David, b. 28 Sep 1844 in Hancock Co., Ill.; d. 1 Apr 1911; m. 3 Mar 1866, Regena Hogan. Zibiah, b. 21 Mar 1847 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; d. 28 May 1933; m. 5 Apr 1869 Judson Tolman. Sarah Ann, b. 10 Oct 1851 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah; d. 23 Jan 1922; m. 2 Mar 1869, Harlan Simmons. 10. FHL film 702: "Journal of John Stoker, b. 1817; Journal starts November 1, 1869." John was the son of David Stoker and Barbara Graybill. The first 35 pages detail his mission taken from Utah to Virginia and Tennessee through Council Bluffs, Iowa, which I have summarized and included with his notes in this database. Pp. 36-227, the balance of John's journal, are genealogical notations of family. Many pages are blank. Besides family, the journal also notes many other unrelated Stokers who were probably gleaned from books and other sources. It appears as if maybe his son David may have taken over the book later. Many entries are repetitive at different times. Pertinent data for this family or individual is quoted verbatim as follows: P. 36-48: Franklin Stoker, son of John and Jane Stoker was born Illinois, Hancock County, Aug. 12, 1842. Died in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory, Sept. 27th 1855. Clarissa Stoker, daughter of John and Jane Stoker the Second, born Feby 2d, 1859, Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Died Aug 12th 1870 at midnight in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory of diarea and bloody flux. Jude Stoker, son of John Stoker and Jane Stoker the second. Born April the 2d, 1871. Died Sept. 4th 1872 at 9 o'clock a.m., Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Albert Stoker, son of John and Jane A. Stoker, born march 27th 1873 at 3 o'clock a.m. Blessed by John Stoker mouth, April 3, and Thomas Briggs and John Livingston(?). Died April 4th 1 ½ p.m. Buried April 5th Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Harriet Ann Stoker, daughter of David Stoker and Regina Haugen(?) born March 21st 1873. Died Nov 19th 1873 of scarlet fever and inflammation of the brain. Jesse Stoker, son of John and Jane A. Stoker was born July 17th 1874 at 3 o'clock and 45 minutes a.m. in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. John Stoker, son of John and Harriet S. Stoker, born Feby 11th 1857 in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Died in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory, September 14th 1876 at 6:15 minutes a.m. of typhoid fever. Harriet Eunice, daughter of John and Jane Allen Stoker, born May 13th 1877… blessed August 22d 1877 by Elder Wm. Thurgood… died August 23d in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Territory. Jane Allen, wife of John Stoker and daughter of Jude and Mary Ann Allen, born March the 8th 1841, died August the 5th 1877 in Bountiful, Davis County at her residence after nearly three months illness from the affects of child birth. Died Aug 23 1878 Henry Stoker, born in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah Feb. 12, 1855. Lorenzo Stoker, born Feby 21 1867 in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah. John Stoker, son of David and Barbary Stoker was ordained Bishop in North Kanyon ward Davis Co., U.T. Jany 20th 1851 under the hands of Pres. Brigham young, Heber C. Kimball, Jedediah M. Grant. Laboured in the same place until August the 4th 1874 when he resigned his office as Bishop to Pres. P. Young on account of ill health not being able to attend to the labours required with the blessings of the priesthood upon him from his past labours. John Stoker, son of David Stoker and Barbara Grabill was born March the 8th 1817 in Jackson County, Ohio. Died at Bountiful, Utah Territory June 11th 1881 at 10 minutes to 7 o'clock p.m. of paralasis. Hyrum Stoker, son of John Stoker and Jane McDaniel, died at Bountiful June 5th 1887. Jane McDaniel Stoker died at Bountiful Jan. 20(?), 1890. Wife of John Stoker. [Entry on p. 43 which is too light to read and with someone I don't recognize. Looks like: Sonia Stoker Born Dec 7, 1835/6 Died June 5th 1897 at Syracuse Ward of Harriet Stoker.] Birth of Jane Allen parents. Jude Allen borned Doillsborough, Essy Co. New York. Oct 12, 1811. Mary Ann Nichloos Allen, born Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1820. Jane Allen Stoker born Parma, Cayuhoga Co., Ohio, March 8, 1841… died Bountiful Davis Co. Aug. 5, 1877. Jude Allen died Feb 13, 1900, aged 88 years. Mary Ann Nchloos died Bountiful Davis Co., January 9, 1860. Rockland, Ida. Oct 14, 1917. Mary Ann Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., May 14, 1862. Henry Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., Feb. 12, 1865. Lorenzo Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., Feb 21, 1869. Clarissa Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., Feb. 21, 1869. Jude Stoker, born April 2, 1871 at Bountiful, Davis Co. Albert Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., March 29, 1878(3?). Jesse Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., July 17, 1874. Harriet Eunice Stoker, born Bountiful, Davis Co., May 13, 1879. Mary Ann Hack Stoker, died at Provo, Utah, May 1, 1903. Henry Stoker, died Salt Lake City, Oct. 12, 1904. Albert Stoker, died April 4, 1873. Harriet Eunice Stoker, died Bountiful, Davis Co., Aug. 12, 1870. Jude Stoker, died Bountiful, Davis Co., Sept. 4, 1872. Mary Ann Stoker was married to James Hack at Salt Lake City 1881, was second wife, died 1st of May 1903 Henry died 12 of Sept 1904, Oct 12, 1904. John Stoker was a captain of Fifties under Pres. Brigham Young's companies in Emigration to Utah from Nauvoo in the year 1848. P.103: David Stoker, born Mar. 23, 1795, died May 27, 1852. Barbara Graybill wife of David Stoker and daughter of Peter Graybill and Christenia Wampler, died Oct. 3, 1872, Summitt, Utah. Children: John Stoker, born 8 Mar 1817, died 11 June 1881 Bountiful, Utah. Sarah Stoker, born 26 Jun 1827, married Edward H. Davis. Willam Stoker. Michael Stoker. 11. 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 and copy of Susan Easton Black's book on LDS Members. Also included is: A. Land records: Property T4 R7 (Bear Creek Township) below Carthage. B. 70s Records: Quorum 3. C. Ordained a high priest by Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball 30 Jan 1851 in Utah. D. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, v. 3, pp. 252-3: Ordained a Bishop 20 Jan 1851 by Brigham Young and a Patricarch in 1877. He was set apart to preside over the North Mill Creek Ward. In 1869 and 1870 he filled a short mission to Virginia. 12. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT [Note: spelling corrected by myself.]. From an article entitled "A Brief History of Sylvanus Cyrus & Catherine Stoker Hulet": "David Stoker, also, helped with the building of the Nauvoo Temple and some of the homes in the City of Nauvoo. The Hulets and the Stokers left Nauvoo with other Saints during the cold winter of 1846 and crossed Iowa. It was at Mt. Pisgah that Sylvanus met and fell in love with Catherine Stoker. They were married May 19, 1850, by a Reverend March. Evidently, the Hulets and the Stokers had been in some of the groups who had stayed to protect some of the villages as they were not in the first companies to go to Utah. However, it was soon after Sylvanus and Catherine were married that they started on their journey westward from Mt. Pisgah, with a company of Saints led by Aaron Johnson, who was appointed by President Young. At Winter Quarters Catherine's father, David Stoker, was laid to rest. Catherine's mother, her brothers John, William, and MIchael, and her sisters Christina and Sarah, and Sarah's husband, Edward David, were in the company of the Hulet's. It was the latter part of September when they arrived in Salt Lake City. They thought they had reached their journey's end, but President Young asked the Hulets to go on with some other families to Hobble Creek and help settle that area. It was the first week in October 1850 when they arrived at this place, later named Springville." 13. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. The following is a partial excerpt from the longer article entitled "David Stoker and Barbara Graybill," which is quoted in its entirety in the notes of David Stoker: "By August of 1815 David and Barbara had settled into family life in Bloomfield, Jackson County, Ohio. It was on the 24 August 1815 that their first child was born: Christine Stoker. By the spring of 1816, David's parents had also joined them on the new frontier of the Ohio River Valley. David and his father, Michael, are listed on the Jackson County, Ohio, voting registry for an election that was held on 1 April 1816. Also, David's youngest brother, Eller, was born in Bloomfield, Ohio. John Stoker, second son of David and Barbara, was born north of Bloomfield. He was born on 8 March 1817, in Madison Township, Jackson County, Ohio. William, their next Child, was born 26 March 1819 in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio: [1820 Census:] David Stoker- Head of Family One female age 26-45, (Barbara Graybill age 28), One male age 16-26 (David age 25), One male 10-16 yrs (unknown), One female and two males under the age of 10 (Christena age 5, John age 3 and WIlliam age 1). The record also indicates that four people were engaged in agriculture. Two of these were probably David and Barbara. The record also listed two male slaves. The slaves were listed as one male 26-45 yrs of age and one male under the age of 14. It is interesting to note that between 1815 and 1824 that the family residential township changed four times. It is unknown why this occurred. Madison and Bloomfield Townships are located next to each other. It is probable that one of the following reasons accounts for this: The boundaries continually shifted during this time. The family lived on the border line of the two counties and which one was recorded depended on the person recording the event. The family was constantly on the move. After William, the rest of the children of David and Barbara were born in Bloomfield County, Illinois [KP: typo for Ohio?]: Nancy Stoker- October 1824 (No information on what day) Sarah Stoker- on 20 June 1827 Catherine Stoker- on 24 July 1829 Michael Stoker- on September 1833 David and his family are not listed on the 1830 census records for Ohio or Indiana. (The family of John Stoker listed on the 1830 census in Ohio is that of David's brother, John W. Stoker.) A Change of Religion Between the years of 1830 to 1836 David and Barbara Stoker along with some of the extended family received missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of these missionaries were: Seymour Brunson, John A. Fisher, and Luke Johnson. All baptized members of the Stoker family into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Stoker (David's son) was baptized by Seymour Brunson and Luke Johnson in 1834. David's younger brother, Michael Jr., baptized Barbara in 1836. ('LDS Biographical Encyclopedia.' Andrew Johnson Vol 2 pg. 252. Luke Johnson, Autobiography in 'Millennial Star' 1864, Lewis p 92)... An article in the local paper records that there was strong religious persecution against members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Vega area. This fighting lead to some families leaving Vega. ('Jackson Herald,' Friday, February 27, 1959 and cited in Jim Stoker's Stoker history 1993) It was in the fall and winter of 1836 that David Stoker, his father, Michael, with their families and some of the Graybill families left the Ohio valley traveling west. On the 15 August 1838, David bought 52+ acres of land in Harrison County, Indiana. His brother, William, bought 120 acres in Madison County, Indiana. (Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States- General land Office, records of the Ohio River Valley Survey) Other members of the extended Stoker family were already living in Indiana. David's sister, Elizabeth and her husband, James Welker, were married in Henry County, Indiana in 1828, and it's possible that their first son was born there. Albert Koons, a relative of Catherine Eller (David's mother), lived in Henry County, Indiana along with other Eller families. (The Indiana connections need to be fully researched to understand the detail of the different families movements.)... David and Barbara's first born Child, Christena, married John McDaniel on 8 Feb 1835 in Jackson Co., Ohio. John married Jane McDaniel in 1836 probably in MIssouri. (I have found no official marriage record.)... Other church members fled into Adams County, Illinois as the local citizens promised them safety. David, his brothers, and brother in law found work on farms south of Columbus, Illinois. The 1840 census records for Adams County, list David, his son John, and their extended families. After taking time to restock and restore, the Stoker families moved further west as did the body of their church; into the state of Illinois. Their prophet and leader, Joseph Smith sent word to all church members to gather in and around the town of Commerce, Hancock County, Illinois where they could homestead new land and start over. It was a piece of swamp land on the bend of the Mississippi River heavily infested with disease carrying insects. The people drained the swamp land and built a city that housed thousands of church members. The name of Commerce was changed to Nauvoo. Tax and historical records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints show that some of the Stoker families settled a few miles south of the city of Nauvoo... David's grandson, David, (son of John Stoker and Jane McDaniel), was born in Nauvoo... David, Barbara, and their grown children with their families, moved in to Central Iowa settling at a temporary camp the church called Mount Pisgah. They stayed long enough to replenish their supplies and help others as they could. It is noted in John's record (David's son) that some family members were in Mount Pisgah for nearly two years... Mount Pisgah is located on top of a large knoll. Local residents state that early farmers had removed some of the headstones from the many small cemeteries that dotted the hill. When the railroad came through it built its grades on top of the wagon roads, but there still are many remaining signs of the large community buried in the soil. Dugout depressions can still be seen in the hillsides, while cabin outlines are scattered around the area. The Mormon settlers built many small cabins, fenced in the settlement around the north and east sides down to the Grand River. Gardens were planted, communications centers set up. Today local volunteers from the neighboring towns, in cooperation with the current land owners, are working to map, restore, and provide some tour trails through the area. One local volunteer told this author that some believe there are a lot more graves there than are known. One of the schools has, as part of a history project, a working to find and map out the old rock wall fence. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns some land on the hilltop and has reconstructed a cabin and take care of the small cemetery. This area provides a small visitors center. Most of the hill top area is currently private land and is used for grazing purposes only. The land owner is aware of the history of his land and stated he did not have the heart to plow the area under. It has been left for nature to take care of it... In 1847 David's son, John, was asked to join with church leader Lorenzo Snow and leave Mount Pisgah. They would help supervise one of three groups of saints moving on that summer to the next gathering spot for the church: Winter Quarters, Nebraska, on the Missouri River... All of David and Barbara's children settled south of the Salt Lake City valley except for: Nancy who died at age 16, and John who settled in Bountiful, Utah with his friend and leader Lorenzo Snow... John Stoker with his wife Jane McDaniel, arrived in the Salt Lake Valley September 24, 1848 having stayed with Lorenzo Snow's company the entire way. Their first winter was spent within the Salt Lake City fort and in the spring of 1849 John was called by the church president to move his family to the north helping to settle Session's Settlement, now known as Bountiful, Utah..." 14. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The Stokers join the LDS Church. Mormon missionaries come. During the fall of 1833 Michael Stoker (1762-1838) and his family, living in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio first heard the preaching of the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These missionaries exhorted them to join the new church and told them about Joseph Smith receiving inspired revelations from God. In addition the Church was noted for its new scripture, the Book of Mormon. The Stokers were drawn to the message. Many accepted baptism before the end of 1833. They included sixteen-year-old John Stoker (1817-1881) who was baptized November 13, 1833 by Seymour Brunson(1) and four days later his double cousin, fifteen-year-old Joseph Levi Graybill, who was baptized by John A. Fisher.(2) These two grandsons of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) were among the first of the Stoker family to embrace the new church. In 1834 Seymour Brunson moved his family to Bloomfield and organized a branch of the Church.(3) John's parents, David (1795-1852) and Barbara Graybill Stoker, joined the branch during that year. David's younger brother, Michael, Jr., (1805-1858) was affiliated with the Mormons. Evidence of his affiliation with the church comes from the fact that his son, born on July 10, 1834 was named, "William Moroni." Clearly the name Moroni marked Michael as having read the Book of Mormon. Moreover, in his journal Michael, Jr., writes, "The names of the members who were baptized by me in February, 1836. Baptized James Toinbuson and ordained him an elder." He also baptized William and Barbara Stoker that year.(4) Michael held the Mormon priesthood to officiate in these ordinances. The Stokers and their relatives were very enthusiastic about their new church. They contributed to its growth and sustained its leadership. The McDaniel connection. The children and grandchildren of MIchael Stoker (1762-1838) had an affinity to marry the children of James McDaniel and Zibiah McCarley, neighbors in Jackson County. John W. Stoker (1802-1857) married Electa Sarah McDaniel (1806-1857) on April 19, 1827. Michael Stoker, Jr., (1805-1858) married her sister, Martha Carr McDaniel, on Jan 1, 1829. A grandson, John Stoker (1817-1881), and a granddaughter, Christine Stoker (1815-1854), children of David Stoker (1795-1852), married Jane McDaniel (1810-1890) on January 21, 1836 and John Riley McDaniel on February 8, 1835. Nineteen-year-old John, in addition to marrying Jane, also adopted her son, Alma. Family tradition says that Alma's father would not consider joining the LDS church so Jane left him. About a month after her son's birth, Jane married John Stoker, the nephew of her two brothers-in-law. The Kirtland Temple is dedicated. In the spring of 1836, some members of the Bloomfield branch made the 200 mile trip north to Kirtland, Ohio to attend the dedication of the temple. In that group was Michael Stoker's son-in-law and grandson, Michael Graybill, Sr., and Joseph Levi Graybill. Michael Graybill's wife, Polly Stoker (1792-1864), was expecting the birth of her eleventh Child, a son who was born April 6, 1836. She didn't go with them. Michael Graybill while at the conference and temple dedication at Kirtland was impressed by Sidney Rigdon's two and a half hour sermon. Upon returning to Bloomfield, he named his newly born son, Sidney Rigdon Graybill.(5) Picture p. 3: "Barbara Graybill and her son, John Stoker." Footnotes 1. "The Life of John Stoker," compiled by Eunice Stoker Southwick 2. "Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Vol. III G.K. compiled by Susan Easton Black. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993. p. 149. 3. "Seymour Brunson," LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. 3 compiled by Andrew Jenson. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901. p. 331. 4. "The Howard, Leytham, Stoker, Von Dollen Family Histories and including the Bell, Teeple, Mackland, Bardsley, Graybill, Eller, Dick, Oman, Smith, and Koons Families," compiled by Doris Lewis, 2017 So. 80th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. p. 92. 5. Vivian Graybill, "Michael Graybill, Sr." Typescript sent to Jim Stoker by Alice Graybill Russell, 6120 Wincanton Dr., Shreveport, LA 71129 on October 6, 1993." 15. The following is a partial quote from an article entitled: "The Michael and Catherine Eller Stoker family as early Mormons in Ohio and Missouri," by Jimmie "B" Stoker, November 24, 1993, as reprinted in the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See the notes of Michael Stoker (1762-1838) for the full transcript of this article: "The following members of Michael Stoker's family attached their names to a petition in 1843 that they had lived in Missouri and had been driven from their state:(21) David Stoker [Michael's son David (1795-1852)], John Stoker [possibly David's son, John (1817-1881) or Michael's son, John W. (1803-1857)], John McDaniels (1812-1884) [David's son-in-law, husband of his oldest daughter, Christine (1815-1854)], Elles Stoker (1816-1855) [Eller, Michael's youngest son], Mary Stoker (1822-1890) [probably Margaret Judd, Eller's wife]. Catharine Stoker (1773-after 1850) [Michael's wife, Catharine Eller], Jacob Stoker (1812-1893) [Michael's son], Catharine Stoker [Catharine Burcham, Jacob's wife], John Stoker (1803-1857) [Michael's son, John W. Stoker], Sarah Stoker (1806-1857) [John W. Stoker's wife, Electa Sarah McDaniel]. Geo. Graybill (1821-?) [Michael's grandson, George Washington Graybill, son of Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864)], Michael Stoker (1805-1858) [Michael's son], Martha Stoker (1808-1873) [Martha Carr McDaniel, wife of Michael's son, Michael], Gabrael Stoker (1832-1852) [Michael's grandson, son of Michael (1805-1858)], William Stoker (1819-1892) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Almira Stoker (1818-1884) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, grandson, William's wife, Almira Winegar], Samuel D. Stoker (1840-1908) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira], William Stoker (1842-1906) [Michael's great-grandson, son of William and Almira]. Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864) or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?)], William Graybill (1825-1880) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Adam Graybill [still looking for this relationship to Michael], Sidney R Graybill (1836-?) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Levi Graybill (1818-1912) [Michael's grandson, son of Polly Mary Stoker], Patience Graybill (1825-1895) [Patience Smith, Michael's granddaughter-in-law, wife of Joseph Levi Graybill (1818-1912)], Mary Graybill [possibly Michael's daughter, Polly Mary Stoker (1792-1864), or his granddaughter, Mary Ann Graybill (1830-?), Polly's daughter]. John Stoker (1817-1881) [Michael's grandson, son of David], Jane Stoker (1810-1890) [Michael's granddaughter-in-law, Jane McDaniel, wife of John (1817-1881)], Hannah Graybill [Michael's great granddaughter, daughter of Joseph Levi Graybill], Hyrum Stoker (1840-1887) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881) and Jane McDaniel], Alma Stoker (1835-1897) [Michael's adopted great grandson, son of Jane McDaniel], and Franklin Stoker (1842-1855) [Michael's great grandson, son of John Stoker (1817-1881)]. Lucinda Stoker is also listed on the petition but cannot establish a relationship to Michael Stoker (1762-1838).(22) Refuge found in Illinois. The people of Quincy reached out to help the Mormons fleeing from Missouri. Elizabeth Haven Barlow writes, "The people of Quincy had contributed between four and five hundred dollars for the poor Mormons. God had opened their hearts to receive us. May heaven's blessings rest upon them. We are hungry and they feed us, naked and clothed us. The citizens have assisted beyond all calculations."(23) Footnotes 21. Also included are some of their children who were born after 1838 in Illinois. 22. "Mormon Redress Petitions," pp. 574, 598, 599-601. 23. Elizabeth Haven Barlow in letter to Elizabeth Howel Bullard, 24 February 1839, published in Ora H. Barlow, "The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores." Salt Lake City: Ora H. Barlow, 1968." 16. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article: "During the Adams County time period some of the Stoker men found work with a farmer named Coleman Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes lived approximately two miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio. He had first offered work and a home to Elizabeth's husband, James Welker, and soon after David, John W., Michael, and Jacob also obtained work with him. Here they labored diligently trying to earn enough to rebuild their supplies and stock which they had lost during the Missouri struggles. Moving to Bear Creek, Hancock Co., Illinois On July 1, 1839 the Mormon church's prophet and leader, Joseph Smith, called for all church members to settle in and around the Commerce, Illinois area. The town of Commerce was renamed by the church members to Nauvoo. In 1842 the Stoker family had complied. Packing up their belongings they moved north settling their families around the Carthage/Bear Creek area. James Welker's son, John, recorded: "...he found that there was land that could be entered in Hancock County, about 15 miles south of Nauvoo. He moved there and filed on a homestead. Part of it was prairie land and part was timber. He built a large hewed two roomed log house. Then the next thing was to fence and make a farm to make a living off of" (Ibid). The 1842 personal property tax assessment book of Hancock County has records for Stoker, Welker, and Graybill families living within the county. These records indicate the possibility that they lived outside of the cities." Building the Nauvoo Temple The Stoker families were on hand for the building of the temple for their church. It is recorded in the church history that Eller Stoker, Jacob Stoker, and John McDaniel (husband to Christine Stoker) worked on the temple for a period of time. All families were expected to donate time and supplies to the temple project... Life was beginning to flourish again for the families, and happy times were with them. On May 23, 1844 Joseph Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker were initiated and passed into the Nauvoo Lodge of Masons. Two weeks later Levi Graybill, Eller Stoker, and Michael Stoker became lodge members, and on June 8th they were raised to Master Masons. While in Illinois, John Stoker, John W. Stoker, John Welker Eller Stoker, and Jacob Stoker were given church callings of Office of the Seventy. Death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith Living around Carthage the Stoker, Graybill, and McDaniel families were homesteading lands close to those who most violently disagreed with the Mormons and who were constantly calling for their removal. Sometimes these men formed their own vigilante groups trying to scare the Mormons into leaving. Some of the Stoker men folk were called into military duty within the State Militia as recorded in the history of John McDaniel. "Early on June 24, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, and fifteen other members of the Nauvoo city council headed to Carthage to answer the charges filed against them. They passed the home of William Stoker located six miles southeast of Nauvoo on the Carthage Road before 8 A.M.... Sometime after noon, the Stokers saw the mounted riders traveling toward Nauvoo. Arriving at their destination at 2:30, the leaders gathered three small cannons and about two hundred firearms which were turned over to the militia. At nearly midnight the militia delivered the Mormon leaders who came voluntarily to the authorities in Carthage... Thursday June 27 Joseph and his brother Hyrum, were martyred. A mob of about one hundred men with blackened faces gathered about five 'clock in the afternoon. Several stormed the jail where the Smith brothers and a few friends were sequestered. Joseph and Hyrum were shot dead, and John Taylor wounded...the assassins and their comrades fled Carthage to Warsaw and then sought refuge west of the MIssissippi River... Friday June 28, with the bodies of the slain leaders placed in two different wagons, covered with branches to shade them from the hot sun, Willard Richards, Samuel Smith, and Artois Hamilton pulled out of Carthage and headed for Nauvoo. Sometimes shortly after noon, the procession with eight soldiers passed by William Stoker's driving teams pulling the two wagons containing the bodies of the martyrs. Mary Stoker Aitken, a granddaughter of WIlliam Stoker and Almira Winegar, wrote, "My father [John Stephen Stoker] told us that his parents had told him that they had seen the bodies of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum Smith, being taken from Carthage to Nauvoo." ...One of the Stoker relative's narrative mentions that "After the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum in 1844, Simeon Graybill went up to Nauvoo to help guard the secretly hidden bodies of Joseph and Hyrum. Fearful the anti-Mormon mob might try to do further violence to Joseph and Hyrum's bodies, their caskets were filled with sand for public burial" (Ibid). Conflict/Harassment Again. In 1845 the mobbing and burnings began, starting with the outlying settlements. The Stokers were living within the church area called the Highland branch of Illinois. The babies, weddings, and all manner of social life continued on and in July the families were doing more temple work for their ancestors. 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| 2099 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: New Jersey, Monmouth County, Dover Township, P.374: George K. Winner, 1 M 20-30, 2 F Under 5, 1 F 15-20. [Probably George, his wife, and Mary Ann and Elizabeth]. Note: Other Winners in NJ census: Abby Winner, Gloucester Co., Egg Harbor Twp., p.198; Isaac Winner, Sussex Co., Green Twp., p.187 [note: there are two Isaacs listed with exactly same info]; Samuel Winner, Burlington Co., Evesham Twp., p.84. Further research needed to reconstruct Winner families in New Jersey. Dover township is now part of Ocean County since 1850. 1840 US: New Jersey, Monmouth County, Dover Township, FHL film 016518: George K. Winner, Males (Ages: 1@under 5, 3@20-30, 1@30-40), Females (2@Under 5, 1@5-10, 1@10-15, 1@20-30), Four listed as Coastal Sailors. [Supposition: George was one of the "20-30" males and an "Ocean" sailor, the other three were sailing associates or relatives, the boy was Moroni [under 5], George's wife [20-30], Mary or Elizabeth [10-15; but why only 1 listed?], Louisa [5-10], Emmajean and possibly an unknown daughter [2@under 5: this is confusing - was there another unknown girl who died before the Ship Brooklyn sailing thus explaining the large gap of 6 to 7 years in childbirths?]. 1850 US: No record; San Francisco's portion of US Census was lost due to earthquake or fire. 1852 US: California Statehood Census, Los Angeles County (pre-San Bernardino), p. 143; note this census began June 1852 in this county with county wide results of 7831 total residents of which 2494 were white males and 1597 were white females. It's preface to the state compilation says that only about 5 in every 6 were counted due to the frontier and mobile nature of the population. Note that the second location is last residence. George K. Winneo, 46, N.J., Utah, Farmer Hanna, 46, N.J., Utah Mary Ann, 23, N.J., Utah Emojine, 15, N.J., Utah Moroni, 10, N.J., Utah Israel, 8, N.J., Utah Adalade, 7, Cal., Cal. This census is important and invites several interesting comments as follows: i. Some of the info seems close but suspect and may have been given by a neighbor; they had not lived in Utah, the WINNEO misspelling of WINNER, and the ages vary: Adalades' age would mean she was born in 1845 [unlikely] before arriving in CA in 1846, Moroni's age is at variance to the 1870 census, etc. 2. Search for 1880 census for California for an "Emma" born 5 years either side of 1837 born in NJ provides one possibility: Emma MacDonald, 45, b. NJ, wife of J.B. MacDonald [50, KY, brick builder], with no birthplaces listed for either J.B or Emma's parents. Two children shown, Belle age 20, and Cordelia age 12. Census is for Marysville, Yuba, CA, p. 399A. 3. Arrived with her family via the ship Brooklyn in Yerba Buena (San Francisco) 31 Jul 1846. With her family as 1852 pioneers in San Bernardino, California mormon colony. 4. "Passenger List per Brooklyn from New York, Capt. A.W. Richardson, June 22, 1846," found in Hawaii by Mr. John D. Fretwell, 4012 Maywood Dr. S., Fresno, CA 93703-3330. Copy of original which was folded and contained all names on ship: "Manifest of Passengers on board Ship Brooklyn wharf A.C. Richardson is master... [contains a full listing including the following] George K. Winner, United States, 39 years, Coasting Captain. Hannah Winner, United States, 37 years. Six children." 5. A reference to the Winners in a publication of the California Historical Society: California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 14 (March 1935) pp 58-73, also (June 1935) pp. 175-182: 'A Mormon Mission to California in 1851; From the Diary of Parley Parker Pratt' pp. 72,73,175: 'Sunday 20th. Preached at 11 & 3 in a large room. A goodly number of persons out to hear and good attention. At intermition Baptized Charles Wesley Wandle - & Cyrus Grey, who had fallen into transgression but now came forward, confessing and forsaking their sins. At evening met with the Brethren at the house of Brother Winner. Confirmed the two foregoing persons and called upon the Saints & others to forsake every thing sinful & renew their covenants & help with their prayers, faith, and Means, in the work of God giving the privilege to all that wished to be rebaptized. A number became candidates, Confessing their sins with a determination to reform. Monday 21st. repared to the water and re-baptized eight persons whose names were as follows: George K. Winner, Hanna P. Winner, Richard Knowles, Sarah Knowles, John Phillips, Ruth Morey, Jacob Hayes, Renalder Mory a new member. The same evening met at the house of Brother Winner & organized a Branch of the Church confirming the above named persons in Membership and in all their former standing... July 28. ...Again in the evening at Bro Winner's. The remainder of the week spent chify in writing and instructing numerous inquirers. Sat'y, Aug. 3d. Baptized, in San Francisco Bay, the following persons, Quartus S. Sparks, Mary H. Sparks, Miron Warner, Sarah Warner, Emma Jane Winner. Sunday Aug 4th. Preached twice to an attentive audience, in the Adelphi Theatre. In the evening held meeting at Bro. Winner's. Confirmed those baptized the day previous, and blessed several children... Aug. 19th. Repaired to the water at the North Beach. Rebaptized William Stout and baptized Wm. J. McGehee, Wm. M. Fuller and Moroni Winner. Confirmed them at my residence the same day... Sept. 1st. Elder Geo. K. Winner was then unanimously chosen and set apart to preside over the San Francisco Branch, P.P.Pratt being honorably dischargd from the duties of the same, with the view of a mission to Chile. Fellowship was then withdrawn from Samuel Brannan by a unanimous vote for a general course of unchristianlike conduct, neglect of duty, and for combining with lawless assemblies to commit murder and other crimes.(A reference to the Vigilance Committee of 1851, of which Brannan had been the foremost organizer and first president).)" [This information in the "Diaries" of P.P.Pratt is more detailed than the "Autobiography" book.] MARRIAGE: 1. Scott H. Partridge, ed., "Thirteenth Apostle: The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832-1877," Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2016). From the dairy of Amasa M. Lyman at San Bernardino, California: "July 26, 1853; Tuesday: This morming let Br Ja[me]s Baily have thirty dollars in cash to aply on adobies." "December 18, 1853; Sunday …I married Mr. James Baily and Miss Imogene Winers…" [Emma Gene Winner, daughter of George King Winner was 16 years old.] "June 5, 1854; Monday: Br [James] Baily commenc[ed] making my adobies for my house." 2. Another version of the Lyman diary is from https://www.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/das-mem/patron/v2/TH-904-77227-1080-15/dist.txt?ctx=ArtCtxPublic accessed 8 Dec 2020: "July 19, 1853: Today I purchased adobes for the store, and engaged Brother James Bailey to make adobes for the Domingues house." "December 18, 1853: In the evening I married Brother James Bailey and Miss Emogene Wimmer." ACTION: 1. Check further into Emma MacDonald cited above. | Winner, Emma Gene (I1210)
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| 2100 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1830 US: New Jersey, Monmouth County, Dover Township, P.374: George K. Winner, 1 M 20-30, 2 F Under 5, 1 F 15-20. [Probably George, his wife, and Mary Ann and Elizabeth]. Note: Other Winners in NJ census: Abby Winner, Gloucester Co., Egg Harbor Twp., p.198; Isaac Winner, Sussex Co., Green Twp., p.187 [note: there are two Isaacs listed with exactly same info]; Samuel Winner, Burlington Co., Evesham Twp., p.84. Further research needed to reconstruct Winner families in New Jersey. Dover township is now part of Ocean County since 1850. 1840 US: New Jersey, Monmouth County, Dover Township, FHL film 016518: George K. Winner, Males (Ages: 1@under 5, 3@20-30, 1@30-40), Females (2@Under 5, 1@5-10, 1@10-15, 1@20-30), Four listed as Coastal Sailors. [Supposition: George was one of the "20-30" males and an "Ocean" sailor, the other three were sailing associates or relatives, the boy was Moroni [under 5], George's wife [20-30], Mary or Elizabeth [10-15; but why only 1 listed?], Louisa [5-10], Emmajean and possibly an unknown daughter [2@under 5: this is confusing - was there another unknown girl who died before the Ship Brooklyn sailing thus explaining the large gap of 6 to 7 years in childbirths?]. 1850 US: No record; San Francisco's portion of US Census was lost due to earthquake or fire. 1852 US: California Statehood Census, Los Angeles County (pre-San Bernardino), p. 143; note this census began June 1852 in this county with county wide results of 7831 total residents of which 2494 were white males and 1597 were white females. It's preface to the state compilation says that only about 5 in every 6 were counted due to the frontier and mobile nature of the population: Winneo, George K. 46 MW N.J. Utah Farmer " Hanna 46 FW " " " Mary Ann 23 FW " " " Emojine 15 FW " " " Moroni 10 MW " " " Israel 8 MW " " " Adalade 7 FW Cal. Cal. This census is important and invites several interesting comments as follows: i. No David Frederick [Mary Ann's future husband] even though he had moved to S.B. at least by 22 Mar 1852 where the colony clerk notes him making a payment to the colony. Mary Ann living at home unmarried, yet her daughter Georgiana will be born within 6 months or less. This lends credence to Daisy Van Wagoner's grandfather's [Mary Ann's great grandson] handwritten note that Georgiana's father was not David Frederick but a possible "George Oakley" [or a variation thereof since he slightly misspells other names on the note]. There is no such individual yet found in my research for either San Bern. or San Fran. or from 1860/70 censuses of adjoining states; however, there is a merchant George Oakes in 1851 in S.Fran. just a couple of blocks from where Winner's property was in 1846 in Bancroft's History - could he have fathered the child out of wedlock or a quickly annulled marriage in early March 1852 perhaps leading to George's removal of his family 3 Mar 1852 from San Fran. to San Bern. She was married to David Frederick by 1 May 1854 since she is mentioned in Amasa Lyman's journal as the wife of David; he was twice her age which may be explained perhaps by marriage to a woman with an out-of-wedlock child. This is merely conjecture on my part at this point and Georgiana may just have been a premature baby who did in fact die six months after birth and the marriage of David and Mary Ann may have in fact preceded conception. ii. Some of the info seems close but suspect and may have been given by a neighbor; they had not lived in Utah, the WINNEO misspelling of WINNER, and the ages vary: Adalades' age would mean she was born in 1845 before arriving in CA in 1846, Moroni's age is at variance to the 1870 census, etc. iii. Mother's name listed as "Hanna" which coincides with P.P. Pratt's diary entry of "Hanna P. Winner". 2. Nothing concrete has been found on Louisa to date. I have found the following possibilities which remain very speculative at this time: A. 1853 CA: FHL Book "San Francisco County, Oct 1852" census for California State by F.A. Nesbitt, stamped page 247, shows: "Winner, Louisa, age 15, sex FW, no occupation, birthplace N.Y., residence N.Y.." Sequentially, she is listed with the family of Jacob Graves [age 42, laborer, and from N.Y.], his wife Mrs. Graves [age 38, from N.Y.], and their five children [Eveline, Harriet, Ann Eliza, Noel, and Geo. T., ages 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1 respectively all born N.Y.]. Louisa is not shown in 1852 California state census with rest of the Winner family in San Bernardino, CA [who moved there March 1852]. This could be the right Louisa since she is young, alone, and perhaps attached to a family as "help." The age is a contradiction since if she were born in 1830 as has been supposed, but unsubstantiated thus far, she would have been 22. The reported birthplace of N.Y. could be a census taker's error by his assuming she matched the rest of the family. B. Reviewed an index for 1870 US: San Mateo County of California [FHL film 545587] for every female with the first name of Louisa - none shown as the appropriate age nor from New Jersey. C. California statewide 1880 census search for California for any Louisa born 5 years either side of 1830 in California provides only one possibility: Louisa Leith, 50, widow, NJ NJ NJ in San Francisco, p. 59B, living at #5 Folsom Ave. There is a son with her age 24, born in CA, a seaman, showing father born in Scotland (but not listed). This bears further research. Same Louisa shows in 1870 census for 11th Ward, San Francisco, p. 170 with no husband noted, dwelling 1261, family 1143: Louisa Leith, 45, keeps house, $15,000 real estate, $5,000 personal prop., NJ. John Leith, 15, CA, father foreign born. Same Louisa shows up in the 1860 census for the 2nd District in San Francisco, dwelling 964, family 969; the presence of Catherine Marr, who looks like perhaps a mother, is problematic in regards to this being Louisa Winner: Louisa Leith, 31, dressmaker, b. NJ. Catherine Marr, 63, b. NJ. John H. Leith, 5, b. CA. D. LDS Ordinance Index shows a Louisa Winner marrying a Linal Robson in Logan County, Ohio, 2 Aug 1862. Seems too far removed from California to be right one, but one should be aware of same just in case. E. Source unknown but appears to be some type of passenger list to San Francisco, p. 232. Shows the ship "New Orleans" arriving 14 Dec 1852 from Panama. Among the passengers is a "Mrs. Louisa Winner." No other Winners nor additional information on Louisa shown. The "Mrs." makes this entry unlikely for our Louisa. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Arrived with her family via the ship Brooklyn in Yerba Buena (San Francisco) 31 Jul 1846. 2. "Passenger List per Brooklyn from New York, Capt. A.W. Richardson, June 22, 1846," found in Hawaii by Mr. John D. Fretwell, 4012 Maywood Dr. S., Fresno, CA 93703-3330. Copy of original which was folded and contained all names on ship: "Manifest of Passengers on board Ship Brooklyn wharf A.C. Richarson is master... [contains a full listing including the following:] George K. Winner, United States, 39 years, Coasting Captain. Hannah Winner, United States, 37 years. Six children." ACTION: 1. Check further into Louisa Leith shown above in 1870/1880 census. | Winner, Louisa (I1205)
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