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| 2151 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Bridgwater, Washtenaw, Michigan, 19 Sep 1850, p. 34 of 39, household/family 3: Dennis Lancaster, 48, $3000, Ireland. Harriet, 36, NY. Franklin, 16, farmer, MI. Ann E., 14, MI. Louisa, 11, MI. William, 7, MI. Dorinda, 3, MI. Degarmo, 2/12, m., MI. George Coville, 22, farmer, NY. 1860 Washtenaw Co., MI Census, pg. 56 (FHL film 0803563), Bridgewater Twp.: Family: Lancaster, Franklin, 26, m. farmer, 200, MI. Lancaster, Mary, 22, m, MI. Family: Lancaster, Dennis, 60, m, farmer, 5000, 2500, b. Ireland. Lancaster, Harriet, 48, f, NY. Lancaster, William, 18, m, MI, school. Lancaster, Dorinda, 13, f, MI, school. Lancaster, Degarmo, 10, m, MI, school. 1870 US: Clinton P.O., Bridgewater, Washtenaw, Michigan, p. 11of 37, 21 Jul 1870: Dennis Lancaster, 66, $12500, farmer, Ire. Harriet, 57, keeping house NY. De Garme, 20, farm laborer, MI. BIRTH: 1. From age reported at time of death. MARRIAGE: 1. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. The following is a partial excerpt concerning the following relation to David Frederick: 1828-1851; Washtenaw Co., Michigan - Marriage Records (FHL film 1019064) P. 152: April 18, 1833, Washtenaw Co, Michigan. Md. Dennis Lancaster to Hannah Frederick in Bridgewater by Howell B. Norton. [I would like to see the original of this to confirm if the handwritten name is Hannah mistakenly transcribed by Mary Lou for Harriet.] P. 312: Received for Record the 15th day of March 1847 married April 30, 1846 John Palmer of Lenawee County aged 27 to Nancy Frederick of Bridgewater aged 19 years at the residence of Dennis Lancaster in the town of Bridgewater in presence of John Tyrel and Lady both of Clinton, Lenawee Co. By D.W. Palmer J.P. 2. LDS IGI extracted marriage record. DEATH: 1. Gendis Search: Michigan Department of Community Health: Dennis Lancaster, d. 2 Dec 1870, ledger p. 160, record 70, at Bridgewater, Washtenaw, MI., white, married, age 67 y 1 m 2 d, heart disease, b. in Ireland, farmer, no father's name recorded, recorded 27 May 1871. | Lancaster, Dennis (I2209)
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| 2152 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Can't find. 1860 US: Can't find. 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. 1880 US: Can't find. 1900 US: Can't find. BIRTH: 1. Obituary. 2. Sealing to spouse ordinance record at EHOUS in 1868 indicates Mary Keefe born 6 May 1841 at Abbyfail, Limerick, Ireland. Endowment record has same date but location is noted as Billough, Limewick, Ireland with parents as Michael and Mary Keefe. DEATH: 1. Per obituary. OBITUARY: 1. Improvement Era, v. 8, p. 474, April 1905: "Saturday, 25th, in Baker City, Oregon, Mary K. Stoker, born in Abbyfale, County Limerick, Ireland, May 6, 1841, came to Utah with her parents in 1852." | Keefe, Mary (I354)
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| 2153 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Circleville, Pickaway, OH, p. 204a, entry 527: Jacob Stoker, 64, farmer, MD. Ann, 53, PA. George, 24, farmer, PA. Ann M. 25, OH. Eliza, 18, OH. Charlotte, 16, OH. Catharine, 14, OH. Emaline, 9, OH. 1860 US: Did not find in index search under names Jacob, Ann, Anna, Maria, Mary Stoker or Stocker. 2. Possibly referred to in the following from 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..." 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. From an article entitled: "Michael Stocker 1731-1819 with wives: Ana Barbara Romerin, Elisabeth Fah, and Mary (Anna Maria) Adams." See notes of Johan Michael Stocker for complete text of which the following is a small part: A. "[Johan] Michael Stocker completed three other land transactions while living in the Somerset, Ohio area. The dates recorded on these are: 4 May 1815, 22 April 1816, and 5 June 1816. During this time Ohio's population was rapidly growing. The state began taking part in the federal tax collections. This action also helped keep records of Ohio earlier settlers. There are two tax listings for members of the Stocker/Stoker family between 1810 and 1819: 1810 Jacob Stoker of Wayne Twp., 1816 Jacob Stoker and John Stocker Sr. of Wayne Twp. (Powell 1971) B. "Federal tax records for 1819 must have been counted out in the first two months of the year. For within this listing is the tax records for: 1819 John Stoker of Perry Co., 1819 John Stoker Jr., & John Stoker Sr., of Dingmonsburg Town." 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. From an article entitled: "Michael Stocker 1731-1819 with wives: Ana Barbara Romerin, Elisabeth Fah, and Mary (Anna Maria) Adams." See notes of Johan Michael Stocker for complete text of which the following is a small part: "Surviving Children Johanna, with her family, also moved from Frederick, Maryland to Ohio. She died in Hamilton Twp., Franklin, Ohio. It was around the year of 1815 that Michael, (Michael and Ana's son), moved his young family from North Carolina to Vega, Jackson County, Ohio. They settled approximately 60 miles south of his father's family. In the early 1830's Michael and his family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, left Ohio, and moved west. He died in the Missouri. Jacob married Mary Swinehart. John married Catherine Koons. Both John and Jacob purchased land in Montgomery, Ohio in June of 1816 and both are found on the 1830 census for Fairfield County, Ohio as head of households. Maria Salome married a Mr. Reynolds. Maria Barbara married a Mr. Burdoon. Anna Margareth married Mr. Phillip Baker. Mary never married. She died on the 5 Sep 1839 and is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery by her father. Catherine married a Mr. Hidlebaugh. Charlotta married John Binckley." 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. From an article entitled: "Michael Stocker 1731-1819 with wives: Ana Barbara Romerin, Elisabeth Fah, and Mary (Anna Maria) Adams." See notes of Johan Michael Stocker for complete text of which the following is a small part: "Michael Stocker died on 26 March 1819 in Somerset, Perry County, Ohio. His third wife, Mary, died in the year of 1822. I do not have the location of Mary's death/burial at this point of writing. Michael's last will and testament was signed on 10 May 1818 listing the existing family: (note the Anglicized names used) Wife: Mary, Sons: Michael (Ana's son) John (Elizabeth's son) Jacob (Mary's son) Daughters: Mary (Marie Catherine) Catherine (Eva Catherine?) Charlotte Margaret (Anna Margareth?) Barbara (Maria Barbara) Salome (Maria Salome) Magdalene (Johanna Magdalene) The will of Michael Stocker was proved in special court, Court of Common Pleas, 17 April 1819, Perry County, Ohio." 6. Mentioned in father's will dated 10 May 1818: "...my sons, Jacob, Michael and John and my daughters, Mary, Catherine, Charlotte, Margaret, Barbara, Salome and Magdalene..." See full quotation in his notes. Jacob, with his mother Mary, are named executors of the will. 7. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 82-83: "Jacob Stoker, b. 22 May 1785, Frederick Co., MD." 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. 88-97: "Michael Stoker, doubtless, was the son of Michael Stoker (Stocker) who settled in Frederick Co., Md. about the middle of the 18th century. No other family of the Stoker (Stocker) name was found by this writer in any of the early Frederick Co. records. The 18th century translated records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. established about 1746, show many Michael Stoker (Stocker) entries beginning with the birth, on 1 Apr 1758, of Anna Barbara, daughter of 'Mich. Stocker' and his wife 'Ana Barb.' On p. 552 of a copy of these church records, now in possession of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland, will be found a recording of eight children of Michael Stocker, the youngest named George, born 13 Nov 1781. The first of these children was named Marie Barbara, born 1 Apr 1758. She doubtless was the same as or the twin of another daughter named Anna Barbara mentioned above as having been born on the same date. Another record shows, again, the birth of Marie Barbara, daughter of Michael Stocker born 1 Apr 1758; baptized 15 May 1758. Thus the church records contain three separate entries of the birth on 1 April 1758, of a daughter to Michael Stoker (Stocker) as follows: a. 'On 1 Apr. 1758 to Mich. Stocker et uxori Ana Barbara a daughter Anna Barbara. Witnesses (to baptism) Marie Barbara filia coelebs Michael Roemers.' Filia Coelebs means unmarried daughter of.' b. '1758, 1 April to Michael Stoker a daughter Marie Barbara, sponsored by Barbara Romerin, baptized 15 May 1758.' c. '1758, 1 April to Michael Stocker a daughter Marie Barbara, sponsored by Barbara Romerin, baptized 15 May 1758.' As already stated, page 552 of the church book records, on one single page, the birth of eight children to Michael Stocker the last child of whom, named George, was born 13 Nov 1781 and baptized 7 Jun 1782. The first seven of these recordings obviously were made in 1769, the 8th having been put there in 1782 as will be explained later. Preceding the names of the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th and 7th Child, the symbol ϯ was added to show, doubtless, that the child was deceased when the record was made. The record, on page 552 of the church records, is as follows: a. 1 April 1758, to Michael Stocker a child Marie Barbara; ϯ godmother, Barbara Romerin; baptized 15 May 1758. b. 1 Jan 1760, to Michael Stocker, a child Johana Magdale, godparents, Heinrich Hanth (and wife) Magdalena. Date of baptism not stated. (Note by JWH - On page 454 of the church record is shown the marriage on 2 Nov 1784 'by license' of Johanna Magdalena Stockern and Johann Jost Stimmel, Michael Stocker, Peter Stimmel and John and Peter Schnog serving as witnesses.) c. 20 May 1762, to Michael Stocker, a child Michael; godparents Michael Romer (and wife) Charlotte Amalia, (Amalis). Date of baptism not stated. (Note by JWH - This writer believes that this was the Michael Stocker who married Catherine Eller.) d. 26 Aug 1764, to Michael Stocker, a child, Elizabeth; ϯ godmother, Elizabeth Romerin. Date of baptism not stated. e. 24 May 1767, to Michael Stocker, a child Balthasar; ϯ godparents, Balthsar Bock (and wife) Rosina. Date of baptism not stated. f and g. 11 gbr 1769 (two children) to Michael Stocker, namely a child Marie Barbara; godparents, Johannes Haas (and wife) Mar. Barbara, and a child Christina; godmother, Christina Romerin, ledig, meaning unmarried. Baptized 19 gbr. 1769. (Note gbr is usually an abbreviation in German for born but in this case probably means November of possibly February.) h. 13 Nov 1781, to Michael Stocker, a child, George; sponsor George Bens. Baptized 7 Jun 1782. The above record of children of Michael Stocker, together with others shown below are interesting in two ways. First it will be noted that one of the sponsors in every case bore the same given name as the child. It was a custom in early German families to select as godmother or godfather of children being baptized the person for whom the child was named, usually a close relative and in some cases a respected friend. Second, as was shown by the first record quoted above and as will be shown by other records quoted below, Michael Stoker's wife as late as 24 March 1766 (Deed Record) was Barbara and as early as 12 April 1770 (Deed Record) was Elizabeth. That these two wives, Barbara and Elizabeth, were spouses of the same Michael Stocker is definitely established by the land records of Frederick County but, as the two next following church records show, Michael Stocker's full name was Joh. (John) Michael Stoker. a. Page 564 of the translated church records at Maryland Hist. Soc. - Johannes, son of Joh. Michael and Elizabeth Stoker, b. 4 Jan 1772 and baptized 9 Feb 1772. (Note by JWH - p. 233 of the church records show that Johannes Stocker, aged 19, was confirmed on 22 Apr 1791. A translated record of the German Reformed Church of Frederick Co., Md., p. 196, found at the Gen. Soc. in SLC shows a child Marianna Stocker, was born to Johannes and Catherina Stocker 10 Aug 1809. Susan Kuntz (Frentz) was her godmother. A Catherina Stoker (sic) is mentioned as a dau. in the will of John Coons (sic) of Frederick Co., Md. dated 23 Dec. 1816 and proved 6 Mch. 1817. (Liber H.S, No. 2, p. 55, Frederick Co., Md. Wills.)) b. Page 591 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City - Marie Salome, dau. of Michael and Elizabeth Stocker b. 9 May 1773; bap. 27 June 1773. Her godparents were John Michel and Salome Alex (sic). c. Page 617 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Maryland Hist. Society [Baltimore] - Marie Barbara, dau. of Joh. Michael and Elizabeth Stoker, b. 23 Dec 1774; bapt. 16 Apr 1775. Her godparents were Johannes and Marie Barbara Hass. d. Pages 638 and 1017 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City - Eva Margreth, dau. of Michael and Elizabeth Stocker, b. 22 Jul 1776; bap. 10 Nov 1776. Her godparents were Jacob and Margreth Bens. This child died 12 Sept. 1777, aged 1 year. One may wonder why these four children were not listed with other children of Michael Stoker on page 552 of the church record (supra). After mentioning seven additional, more or less pertinent, translate church records the reason for this, as this writer sees it will be explained. a. Page 407 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Maryland Hist. Society, Baltimore, it is shown that Michael Stoker and Mary Adams were married, by license, 21 Jun 1778. The witnesses were Abraham Fah and his wife Juliana and Adam and Peter Schnock. Frederick Co. Marriage Records show that Michael Stoker and Mary A___, the spelling not complete, on 1 Jun 1778, were given a license to be married. b. Page 209 [of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Maryland Hist. Society, Baltimore] shows that Michael Stoker born 24 May 1862 and Magdalena Stockern (sic) born 1 Jan 1760 were confirmed. These two were brother and sister, children of Michael and Barbara Stoker (Stocker), their birth dates in their confirmation checking substantially with those recorded on page 552 of the same translated church record. c. Page 664 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City shows that Anna Margareth, daughter of Michael and Anna Marie Stocker was born 15 May 1779 and baptized 24 July 1779. Her godparents were Adam and Anna Margareth Schnock. d. Page 686 [of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City ] shows that Marie Catharina, daughter of Michael and Anna Maria Stocker was born 4 Sept. 1780. e. Page 752 [of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City] shows that Jacob, son of Michael and Anna Maria Stocker, was born 22 May 1785. His sponsors at baptism were his parents. f. Page 113 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City, Utah, shows that Charlotte, daughter of Michael Stocker, was born 19 Feb 1788. Her mother's name was not given. Her godparents were Peter and Julia (Juliana) Schnock (Schnod). g. Page 1017 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City shows that Elizabeth, wife of Michael Stoker died 10 Oct 1777 at the age of 33 years. It should be kept in mind that the only Stoker (Stocker) family found in the early church, land or court records of Frederick County, Maryland was one headed by Michael. The only suggestion of a Stoker of Stocker of another given name was the same Michael in the recordings of his children by his second wife, Elizabeth. In those recordings he was called Joh. Michael Stoker. Deed Records in Frederick Co., calling him a saddler in every case and showing his wife to have been Barbara in March 1766 and Elizabeth in April 1770 proves the two Michaels to have been the same person. The second wife, Elizabeth, died 10 Oct 1777 at the age of 33. On 21 Jun 1778 he married Mary (Marie) Adams as already shown. This writer explains the one page record that is found of Michael Stoker's (Stocker) children in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick Co., Md. as follows. When his first two daughters (twins probably) were born he had them baptized or recorded as they were born. When his twins, Marie Barbara and Christina were born in 1769 he had them baptized and recorded and when this was being done he decided to record all of his other children, four of whom had not been recorded, naming their godparents from memory. This would account for all of these children appearing on one page where immediately prior entries were 1769 and immediate subsequent ones 1770. When children of his second wife, Elizabeth, came he had them baptized and recorded. Apparently there were four of them, one named Johannes, b. 4 Jan 1772, another named Marie Salome, b. 9 May 1773, the third was Marie Barbara b. 23 Dec 1774 and the fourth Eva Margreth b. 22 Jul 1776 - d. 12 Sep 1777. Then on 10 Oct 1777 his wife, Elizabeth, aged 33, died and on 21 Jun 1778 he married Mary (Marie) Adams, his third wife. The first child of the third marriage was Anna Margareth, b. 15 May 1779. She was baptized and recorded. The second child by this third marriage was Marie Catherina, born 4 Sep 1780 and bapt. 4 March (May) 1781. She probably died young. The fourth child was Georg b. 13 Nov 1781. This child was baptized 7 Jun 1782 and the baptism recorded not on the current page of the record book but squeezed in on the 1769/1770 page where other children of Michael Stoker (Stocker) had been recorded enmasse. Thus we have on the 1769/1770 page of the church book a record of eight children of Michael Stoker (Stocker) born between 1758 and 1782 appearing on that page with other children of his who were born after 1769 appearing on other pages. The fact that his son Georg was so recorded is pretty conclusive proof that all of the eight Stoker (Stocker) children on that one page had the same father. The symbol ϯ apparently was to indicate that the child was deceased and, doubtless, was inserted when the baptism of the son George was recorded. Other entries in the church records show Michael Stocker (Stoker) and his wife, Anna Maria, had two other children, one named Jacob, b. 22 May 1785, and the other named Charlotte, b. 19 Feb 1788, making 17 children as follows: By first wife Barbara: 1. Anna Barbara Stocker, b. 1 Apr 1758. She died young. 2. Marie Barbara Stocker, b. 1 Apr 1758, the same as or twin of [Anna Barbara]. She died young. 3. Johana Magdale Stocker, b. 1 Jan 1760. 4. Michael Stocker, Jr., b. 20 May 1762 (24 May 1762 or 24 Mar 1762). 5. Elizabeth Stocker, b. 26 Aug 1764. She died young. 6. Balthasar Stocker, b. 24 May 1767. He died young. 7. Marie Barbara Stocker, b. 11 ??? 1769. [Twin of Christina.] She died young. 8. Christina Stocker, b. 11 ??? 1769. Twin of [Marie Barbara]. She died young. By second wife Elizabeth: 9. Johannes Stocker, b. 4 Jan 1772. 10. Marie Solome Stocker, b. 9 May 1773. 11. Marie Barbara Stocker, b. 25 Dec 1774. 12. Eva Margreth Stocker, b. 22 Jul 1776, d. 12 Sep 1777. By third wife Anna Marie Adams: 13. Anna Margareth Stocker, b. 15 May 1779. 14. Marie Catherina Stocker, b. 4 Sep 1780. 15. George Stocker, b. 13 Nov. 1781, bapt. 2 Jun 1782. 16. Jacob Stocker, b. 22 May 1785. 17. Charlotte Stocker, b. 19 Feb 1788. [Note: James Hook totally missed one child, Eva Catherina, who was born between George and Jacob; see her notes for church record documentation.] 9. 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 Stocker 1731-1819 with wives: Ana Barbara Romerin, Elisabeth Fah, and Mary (Anna Maria) Adams." See notes of Johan Michael Stocker for complete text of which the following is a small part: "The 1790 census record for Frederick Maryland lists for Michael Stocker: 2 white free males over age 16 Michael and his son Michael- age 28 (Ana's son) 2 white males under age 16 Johannes- age 12 (Elizabeth's son) Jacob- age 5 (Mary's son) It is this authors belief that by 1790 there should have been three boys listed on the census record. It is possible that Georg was not alive in 1790. There are no church records for Georg in Frederick except for that of his birth and baptism. In the original hand written record a cross mark has been put next to all deceased Stocker Children. Georg's record also has this mark next to it that he was deceased at the time the record was made. Georg is also missing from the will of his father Michael Stocker. Next on the census record is the listing of seven white, free, females but they are not separated by ages. These individuals should be: Wife- Mary (Anna Maria) Maria Barbara- age 16 (Elizabeth's daughter) Marie Salome- age 17 (Elizabeth's daughter) Anna Margareth- age 11 (Mary's daughter) Marie Catherine (Mary)- age 10 (Mary's daughter) Eva Catherina- age 6 (Mary's daughter) Charlotta- age 2 (Mary's daughter) Johanna Magdalena is not listed on the census with this family as she married (Yost) Jost Stimmel in 1784." 10. 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 Stocker 1731-1819 with wives: Ana Barbara Romerin, Elisabeth Fah, and Mary (Anna Maria) Adams." See notes of Johan Michael Stocker for complete text of which the following is a small part: "The Third Family The Evangelical Lutheran Church record lists a marriage on 21 June 1778 for: "Michael Stocker and Mary Adams by License. Witnesses: Abraham Fah and wife Juliana, Adam and Peter Schnock." (Abraham Fah was a brother to Elisabeth.) This is also recorded in the Marriage and Burial in the Monocacy Church 1743-1811 in Frederick City Historical Offices. In the collaborated retranslation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Records by Hinke and Reinecke, all entries for Mary Adams are listed as Anna Maria Adams. The next record of Michael is a land record, dated 19 November 1778, in which Michael and Mary sold part of her dower land (Deed Book RP1 p.519). Michael and Mary's children [a.] Anna Margareth b. 15 May 1779 bp. 24 July 1779, Sponsors: Adam and Anna Margaretha Schnock. [Footnote 12. "A hand written record is found in the Church Record [Evangelical Lutheran], 1742-1910 Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick, Maryland) located in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. US/CAN Film #1414857." [b.] Marie Catherina, b. 4 Sep 1780 bp. 4 Mar 1781, no sponsors listed. Marie was also known as Mary. [Footnote 13. "A hand written record is found in the Church Record [Evangelical Lutheran], 1742-1910 Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick, Maryland) located in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. US/CAN Film #1414857." [c.] Georg b. 13 Nov 1781, Bp. 2 Jun 1782, Sponsor: Georg Bentz. [Footnote 14. "Georg is not listed in the same hand written record with Anna Margareth and Maria. In Frederick Weiser's translation he states that the name for Georg is not listed. But on the hand written record located in Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland on microfilm, Cr. Fred. 1 #437. Zion Luth-Ch, recs (1871-1877) and index Evan. Luth Ch 1742-1877, pp. 1-1048, Index I-N, page 552 the name of Georg with his sponsor is given."] [d.] Eva Catherina b. 31 Jan 1784. [Footnote 15. "Hand written record is found in the Church Record [Evangelical Lutheran], 1742-1910 Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick, Maryland) located in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. US/CAN Film #1414857."] [e.] Jacob b. May 22, 1785 Sponsors: His parents. [[Footnote 16. "Hand written record is found in the Church Record [Evangelical Lutheran], 1742-1910 Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick, Maryland) located in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. US/CAN Film #1414857."] [f.] Charlotta b. Feb 19 1788 bp. 28 Sept 1788, Sponsors: Peter Schnook, Juliana. [Footnote 17. "Charlotta is not listed in the same hand written record with Anna Margareth, Maria, Eva, and Jacob. William Hinke does include her in his translation Church Record of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Frederick, Maryland; Vol 1 1746-1833."] 11. FHL film 496745, item 11, Typescript "A Brief Statement of the Stimmel and Plum Ancestors from 1740 Down to and Including the Names of the Fourth Generation," compiled by John Stimmel, 220 W. Tenth Ave, Columbus, Ohio, May 1902. This typescript is the source of the statement that the immigrant Joh. Michael Stocker came to America from Alsace Loraine and lived in Maryland from 1735 to 1790. The statement of Alsace Loraine is significant since more modern research now strongly suggests he was from Goersdorf, which is in Alsace Loraine. In reviewing this statement there are some obvious problems -- Michael has been proven to have been in Maryland long after 1790; additionally, he would have been only about 5 years of age to have been in America in 1735, which is unlikely since no possible parents of his have been found in America. How to explain the date discrepancy -- Mr. Stimmel wrote this in 1902, which was 48 years after Charlotte (Stocker) Binckley (1788-1877) was 70 and the quoted source of the information. The transcript: "MICHAEL STOKER'S FAMILY No. 1. Michael Stoker was of German descent. They came from Alsace Loraine, between France and Germany. Michael lived in Frederick County, Maryland, from about 1735 to 1790. He was married three times. From these unions there were eleven children, namely; By first wife, Michael, Hannah Magdalene; by second wife, Salome, John and Barbara; by third wife, Margaretta, George, Catharine, Mary, Jacob and Charlotte. Hannah Magdalene was born 1760. She married Yost Stimmel. Charlotte married a Mr. Binckley; they came to Ohio many years ago and settled in Perry County, near Somerset. I received the above largely from Mrs. Binckley when she was 70 years old. John and Jacob Stoker also came to Ohio and settled at Rushville, Perry County. The Stoker family, formerly of Circleville, are descendants of Jacob. YOST STIMMEL'S FAMILY No. 2. The Stimmels are of German descent. I have no authentic account of them further than Yost Stimmel, who was born about 1756, in Frederic County, Maryland. It will be seen by the title page that there were two Yost Stimmels in Frederic County, Maryland, from 1768 to 1795. Yost Stimmel, Sr., married Hannah Magdalene Stoker, who was born 1760; They were married about 1784. They remained in Frederic County until the spring of 1795, when they removed to Hampshire County, Virginia according to a deed made to them of 250 acres of land in said county. The farm was on Mill Creek about eight miles southwest of Romney. From this union there were four sons and four daughters, namely (name, birth, death, age at death): Michael, 1786-1859, 73 Hannah Magdalene, 1788-1839, 51 Peter, 1789-1844, 55 Daniel, 1791-1863, 72 Elizabeth, 1794 -, - Jacob, 1796-1853, 57 Catharine, 1798-1886, 88 Mary Ann, 1801-1876, 75 Yost Stimmel died in November, 1805, aged 49 years, and was buried on his farm. Mrs. Stimmel remained there until 1812, when she rented her farm and with the most of her family came to Ohio and settled on a farm two miles north of Pickaway County line (Lockbourne not being laid out until 1831). She remained there until June 1814, when she died, aged 54 years. She was buried in the Landes graveyard[d], now known as the Stimmel graveyard. The heirs then all joined together in one deed and sold the 250 acre farm in Virginia, to Zachariah Arnold in November, 1814, for the consideration of $1800 cash in hand." 12. FHL book 929.273 "Some Descendants of Michael Stoker 1731-1819," compiled by Kathleen Stoker Overton (ca. 2003?), p. 62. This book does a good job of tracing several non-Mormon descendancy lines from the original immigrant. "Maria Catherina Stoker (Mary) Mary was born 4 September 1780 in Frederick, Maryland to Michael Stoker and his third wife, Anna Maria Adams. Her birth was recorded in records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. She moved to Perry County, Ohio with her parents when a young woman. She did not marry and her Father made sure he left property and money in his will to care for her and she lived the remainder of her life in Reading Township. Mary wrote a will on 7 August 1839 and made John M Davis the executor. She left property and money to Allen O Binckley, Philander Binckley, George M Binckley and John Milton Binckley who are all children of her full sister Charlotte. She left one hundred dollars to George Hildebaugh the son of her sister Catherine. She willed and bequeathed four hundred dollars to her full brother Jacob Stoker and the balance of her estate real and personal to go to her sister Charlotte Binckley. Mary died on the 5 September 1839 and is buried in the Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery on Gay Street in Somerset, Perry County. Her tombstone says she was 48 years old at the time of her death. This does not match up with her birth date in Frederick County, Maryland. It is about 10 years off as it also is with her sister Charlotte. Sources of Information 1- Will of Michael Stoker who died in 1819 in Perry County, Ohio. 2- Will of Mary Stoker dated 1839 in Perry County, Ohio - a copy in our possession. 3- "George Michael Eiler and Descendants of His in America" by J.W. Hook. 4- Picture of her tombstone taken in the Lutheran Evangelical Cemetery in Somerset, Ohio." 13. FHL book 929.273 "Some Descendants of Michael Stoker 1731-1819," compiled by Kathleen Stoker Overton (ca. 2003?), pp. 64-66. This book does a good job of tracing several non-Mormon descendancy lines from the original immigrant. "Jacob Stoker Jacob Stoker was born 22 May 1785 in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland. His parents are Johann Michael Stoker and Anna Maria (Mary) Adams. His birth was recorded and he was baptized in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick. He had some schooling as he could read and write. The family moved to Perry County, Ohio sometime after 1805. Jacob married Anna Maria Swinehart on 29 May 1823 in Perry County, Ohio. She is the daughter of Andreas and Salome Swinehart. The couple moved to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio where they farmed. Jacob's Father must have had faith in him as he was made administrator of his will over older sons. Anna Maria died on 7 September 1852 in Circleville and is buried in High Street Cemetery. Jacob died before 1860 and is also buried there. Many years ago the Mayor of Circleville thought this cemetery looked messy with broken stones and it was difficult to cut the grass around them and so he had them all removed and put down by the creek that flows through the North end of the cemetery. The townspeople were very upset by this and the Mayor was not reelected. The children of Jacob and Anna Maria are… Sources of Information 1- "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America" by J.W. Hook page 94. 2- Last will and testament of his Father, Michael Stoker, where Jacob is listed as Administrator and also a beneficiary. 3- 1850-60-70-80-1900-1910-1920 Federal Census of Pickaway County, Ohio. 4- 1900-1910-1920 Federal Census Hancock County, Ohio. 5- Printout from Forest Cemetery of all Stokers buried there. Also photographs of tombstones taken in 1997. 6- Letter from the Pickaway County, Ohio Historical Society explaining the disposal of tombstones from High Street Cemetery dated 5-29-98 in our possession. Also list of Stokers buried there. 7- Perry County, Ohio partition records concerning descendants of Michael Stoker dated 10-3-1823 from "Gateway to the West-Ohio" Volume 3. 8- "Descendants of Jacob Stoker" from the Pickaway County Genealogical Society." BIRTH: 1. See christening record. CHRISTENING: 1. Per LDS extraction program of film #883605 item 1, "The Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, parish register 1743-1811 [actual start of 1737]. 975.287/F1 V26 w v. 1-2" as cited with online Ordinance Index: "Jacob Stocker, b. 22 May 1785, christened 12 Sep 1785 with parents listed as Michael and Anna Maria Stocker." Ordinance work reference is Film 824392 IT 2, batch C504181. 2. Per LDS extraction program of film #13933, "Evangelical Lutheran or Lutheran Congreation of Zmiddletown, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland" as cited with online Ordinance Index: "Jacob Stocker, christened 12 Sep 1785 with parents listed as Mich. and Anna Maria Stocker." Ordinance work reference is Film 13933 IT 2, batch C507701. MARRIAGE: 1. Family Search's "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994": Jacob Stoker, m. 29 May 1823 at Perry, Ohio, to Mary Swinehart (FHL film number: 910669). DEATH: 1. A 2002 Ordinance Index entry reports death after 1850 in Perry Co., Ohio; however, he is in Circleville, Pickaway Co., OH with his large family making a death place in the latter more probable. 2. Named in father's 1818 will executed at Somerset, Perry, Ohio. | Stoker, Jacob (I2463)
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| 2154 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Circleville, Pickaway, OH, p. 204a, entry 527: Jacob Stoker, 64, farmer, MD. Ann, 53, PA. George, 24, farmer, PA. Ann M. 25, OH. Eliza, 18, OH. Charlotte, 16, OH. Catharine, 14, OH. Emaline, 9, OH. 1860 US: Did not find in index search under names Jacob, Ann, Anna, Maria, Mary Stoker or Stocker. 2. FHL book 929.273 "Some Descendants of Michael Stoker 1731-1819," compiled by Kathleen Stoker Overton (ca. 2003?), pp. 64-66. This book does a good job of tracing several non-Mormon descendancy lines from the original immigrant. "Jacob Stoker Jacob Stoker was born 22 May 1785 in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland. His parents are Johann Michael Stoker and Anna Maria (Mary) Adams. His birth was recorded and he was baptized in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick. He had some schooling as he could read and write. The family moved to Perry County, Ohio sometime after 1805. Jacob married Anna Maria Swinehart on 29 May 1823 in Perry County, Ohio. She is the daughter of Andreas and Salome Swinehart. The couple moved to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio where they farmed. Jacob's Father must have had faith in him as he was made administrator of his will over older sons. Anna Maria died on 7 September 1852 in Circleville and is buried in High Street Cemetery. Jacob died before 1860 and is also buried there. Many years ago the Mayor of Circleville thought this cemetery looked messy with broken stones and it was difficult to cut the grass around them and so he had them all removed and put down by the creek that flows through the North end of the cemetery. The townspeople were very upset by this and the Mayor was not reelected. The children of Jacob and Anna Maria are… Sources of Information 1- "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America" by J.W. Hook page 94. 2- Last will and testament of his Father, Michael Stoker, where Jacob is listed as Administrator and also a beneficiary. 3- 1850-60-70-80-1900-1910-1920 Federal Census of Pickaway County, Ohio. 4- 1900-1910-1920 Federal Census Hancock County, Ohio. 5- Printout from Forest Cemetery of all Stokers buried there. Also photographs of tombstones taken in 1997. 6- Letter from the Pickaway County, Ohio Historical Society explaining the disposal of tombstones from High Street Cemetery dated 5-29-98 in our possession. Also list of Stokers buried there. 7- Perry County, Ohio partition records concerning descendants of Michael Stoker dated 10-3-1823 from "Gateway to the West-Ohio" Volume 3. 8- "Descendants of Jacob Stoker" from the Pickaway County Genealogical Society." BIRTH: 1. See Death citatation below. MARRIAGE: 1. Family Search's "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994": Jacob Stoker, m. 29 May 1823 at Perry, Ohio, to Mary Swinehart (FHL film number: 910669). DEATH: 1. Online Ordinance Index of 2003 notes Anna Maria Swinehart, b. 18 Apr 1798 at Northumberland Co., PA to Andreas and Salome Schweinhart, d. 7 Sep 1852 at Circleville, Pickaway, OH. | Swinehart, Anna Maria (I17)
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| 2155 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, New York, with mother and her second husband: Amos Palmer, 56, VT, farmer. Adelia M., 41, CT. A.C. Frederick, 21, NY, farmer. Mary E. Palmer, 17, NY. Ellen M., 15, NY. Chloe, 82, NY? 1865 State: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, NY: Amos Palmer, husb. #2, VT, farmer. Adelia M., 56, wife #2, b. Washington. Abram C. Frederick, 36, stepson, b. Orleans, farmer. Clarissa, 32, stepdau. in law, b. Broome. Frances, 11, stepgranddau., b. Orleans. Hercules, 9, stepgrandson, b. Orleans. 1892 State: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, NY: Abraham Frederick, 46, Orleans, farmer. Clarissa, 41, wife, Broome. Francew, 21, dau., Orleans. Carl H., 19, son, Orleans, carpenter. Mina B., 4, dau., Orleans. Adelia (Amos) Palmer, 65, mother, Washington. 2. The middle initial "M" is from the Ordinance Index. Also shows up in burial notes of her son Abraham - see his notes. 3. Mentioned in probate of "Abram G. Frederick." Photocopy of last will and testament dated 12 Feb 1830 on file with me. It was made in the 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." 4. The ancestry of Adelia Annis from the website of the Annis Family Association 10 Dec 2005 http://www.angelfire.com/mi/annisall/Charles.html#18. She is in the fourth generation. See website for other relatives - I streamline the descendancy to Adelia as follows: "Charles Annis of Barnstable County, MA and his Descendants - First Four Generations: First generation: "Charles Annis is often referred to as "The other Charles Annis," by many Annis family researchers. He has often been mistaken as the son of Abraham Annis {1668-1738}, Charles Annis 1692/1693. This is understandable as the two men shared the same Christian name as well as the same approximate birth date. It is beyond question that Charles Annis, grandson of Cormac Annis, removed to Wells, York County, ME soon after the birth of his first child in 1717. The birth and baptism records of his other nine children, born between 1719 and 1740 are all recorded at Wells and there can be little doubt that Charles remained in Wells until a year before his death in 1741. Charles Annis of Barnstable County was present for the birth of his seven recorded children at Truro during the period 1717-1732. There has been no positive record that Charles was descended from, or even related to Cormac Annis of Newbury... Charles Annis was born abt. 1693 in Barnstable County Massachusetts, and died aft. 1732 in Truro, Barnstable County, MA. He married Rebekah ___? about. 1717 in Barnstable County, MA. The birth records of the children of Charles Annis, and his wife, Rebekah, and some early tax records are nearly all that can be found concerning this early Annis colonist. Truro, Massachusetts is located in Barnstable County, and includes the peninsula leading to the famous Cape Cod area of Massachusetts. Charles may have later removed to Boston, as the Vital Records of that city show that most of his children are recorded as having been married there. In an inventory of the estate of Thomas Howes, found in the Probate Records of Barnstable County, dated September 12, 1700, a "Charles Annes" is mentioned as having been owed money from the estate. This may have been the father of the Charles that is the subject of this volume, but unfortunately the vital records of Truro, were almost completely destroyed in a fire. There may have been other children.. In the Pioneers and Taxpayers in 1794 of Newtown are found the names of Charles Annis and Charles Annis, Jr. This is no doubt Charles (3) and his son, Charles. Although Charles (3) was married in Boston, he must have returned to Barnstable County and was residing there in 1794. Children of Charles Annis and Rebekah ?? are: 1. Napthaly Annis, b. Jan 6, 1717/18, Truro, Barnstable, MA. 2. Thomas Annis, b. Apr 2, 1724, Truro, Barnstable, MA; d. Abt. 1770, Truro, Barnstable, MA. 3. Rebecca Annis, b. Apr 17, 1726, Truro, Barnstable, MA; m. Daniel Mendon, Apr 10, 1746, Truro, Barnstable, MA. 4. Rachel Annis, b. Mar 4, 1727/28, Truro, Barnstable, MA; m. Josiah Newell, Nov 23, 1749, Boston, MA. 5. Charles Annis, b. Mar 16, 1729/30, Truro, Barnstable, MA; d. Aft. 1794, Newtown, Barnstable, MA. 6. Jonathan Annis, b. Aug 4, 1732, Truro, Barnstable, MA. Generation No. 2: 2. Thomas Annis (Charles) was born April 2, 1724 in Truro, Barnstable, MA, and died Abt. 1770 in Truro, Barnstable, MA. He married Lydia Deane February 17, 1756 in Truro, Barnstable, MA, daughter of Thomas Deane and Lydia Cole. She was born July 7, 1728 in Truro, Barnstable, MA, and died October 18, 1772 in Liverpool, Queens Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. After Thomas Annis died, Lydia remarried, and removed to Liverpool, Nova Scotia where she died on October 18, 1772. She had taken her son James with her to Nova Scotia, but Thomas Jr. stayed in Massachusetts. Children of Thomas Annis and Lydia Deane are: 7. Thomas Annis, b. Mar 4, 1756, Truro, Barnstable, MA; d. Aft. 1800, Cambridge, Washington, NY ?. 8. James Annis, b. 1762, Truro, Barnstable, MA; d. Jun 9, 1840, Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada. 9. Lydia Annis. Generation No. 3: 7. Thomas Annis (Thomas, Charles) was born March 04, 1756 in Truro, Barnstable, MA, and died Aft. 1800 in Cambridge, Washington, NY ?. He married Kate Colter. She was born in Ireland, and died Aft. 1794. Children of Thomas Annis and Juliette Colter are: 15. Mary Annis, b. Jul 26, 1779, Massachusetts; d. 1863, Clarendon, Orleans, NY. 16. Anna Annis, b. 1782, Massachusetts. 17. Alexander Annis, b. 1784, Massachusetts; d. Mar 27, 1863, Clarendon, Orleans, NY. 18. Joseph Annis, b. 1786; d. Oct 1828, Clarendon, Orleans, NY. 19. Thomas Annis, b. Sep 17, 1787, Cambridge, Washington, NY; d. Oct 10, 1852, Burr Oak, St. Joseph, MI. 20. Nancy Annis, b. 1789, Cambridge, Washington, NY; m. ?? MOW. 21. Eleanor Annis, b. Apr 28, 1793, Springfield, NY; d. May 10, 1828, Ripley, NY. 22. James Annis, b. 1794, Cambridge, Washington, NY; d. 1871, Laphamville, Kent, MI. Generation No. 4: 17. Alexander Annis (Thomas, Thomas, Charles) was born 1784 in Massachusetts, and died March 27, 1863 in Clarendon, Orleans, NY. He married Annie Curtis abt. 1799 in Cambridge, Washington, NY, daughter of Comfort Curtis and Rachel ??. She was born 1789 in Massachusetts, and died August 14, 1854 in Clarendon, Orleans, NY. Alexander was a farmer and removed to Owego, Tioga County, New York before 1800. In 1810 he was residing at Cambridge, New York again, but before 1820 he went westward again, this time to Sweden, Genesee County, New York. The area was at that time very much a wilderness, but he finally settled at Clarendon, Orlean County, New York, built up a good farm, and became quite prosperous. His brothers, James, Thomas, and Joseph had also settled on adjoining farms. Family tradition claimed that Anna Curtis was a sister of "old General Curtis." The birth order of the three eldest daughters is unknown. Alexander and his wife Anna are buried at Pettingill Cemetery, Clarendon, NY. Children of Alexander Annis and Annie Curtis are: 44. Harriet Annis, b. New York; d. Byron Center, Kent, MI; m. Royal Palmer. 45. Juliet Annis, b. Clarendon, Orleans, NY; d. Ionia, Ionia, MI; m. Harrison Worden. 46. Sally Ann Annis, b. Clarendon, Orleans, NY. 47. Amanda Annis, b. Feb 2, 1808, Cambridge, Washington, NY; d. Apr 8, 1882, Clarendon, Orleans, NY. 48. Adelia Annis, b. Nov 22, 1809, Cambridge, Washington, NY; d. Dec 19, 1894, Clarendon, Orleans, NY; m. Abraham Frederick. 49. Mary Jane Annis, b. 1811, New York; d. Aft. 1897, Clarendon, Orleans, NY; m. Ira Bronson. 50. Alexander Curtis Annis, b. Jan 8, 1825, Clarendon, Orleans, NY; d. Apr 16, 1889, Lockwood, Nelson Township, Kent, MI. 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: "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 Independent; 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. Date from Annis Family Association history quoted above is 22 Nov 1809. Date with burial record is 3 Mar 1809. I use the latter. DEATH: 1. Date from Annis Family Association history quoted above is 19 Dec 1894. Date with burial record is 18 Dec 1894. I use the latter. BURIAL: 1. Burial listings as found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyorlean/hllsdf.htm: Hillside Cemetery - Town of Clarendon, Orleans County, New York: "Adelia M. Annis Palmer, b. 3 Mar 1809, d. 18 Dec 1894 in Clarendon, NY. Wife of ? Frederick and Amos, dau. of Alex Annis and Annie Curtis." 2. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. Quoted from FHL film 0844649 "History of Clarendon, Orleans County, New York," p. 345, burial of second husband Amos Palmer in the "Old Christian" graveyard: "1865 - Amos Palmer, 72." SOURCES_MISC: 1. Annie Conley | Annis, Adelia M. (I3573)
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| 2156 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, New York, with mother and her second husband: Amos Palmer, 56, VT, farmer. Adelia M., 41, CT. A.C. Frederick, 21, NY, farmer. Mary E. Palmer, 17, NY. Ellen M., 15, NY. Chloe, 82, NY? 1855 State: Barre Twp., Orleans, NY: Abram Frederick, 25, farmer, Orleans. Clarissa M., 21, wife, Saratoga. Frances, 1, dau., Orleans. William Temple, boarder, Chenango, Carp. 1865 State: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, NY: Amos Palmer, husb. #2, VT, farmer. Adelia M., 56, wife #2, b. Washington. Abram C. Frederick, 36, stepson, b. Orleans, farmer. Clarissa, 32, stepdaug. in law, b. Broome. Frances, 11, stepgranddau., b. Orleans. Hercules, 9, stepgrandson, b. Orleans. 1892 State: Clarendon Twp., Orleans, NY: Abraham Frederick, 46, Orleans, farmer. Clarissa, 41, wife, Broome. Francew, 21, dau., Orleans. Carl H., 19, son, Orleans, carpenter. Mina B., 4, dau., Orleans. Adelia (Amos) Palmer, 65, mother, Washington. 1900 US: Clarendon, Orleans, NY, p. 16 of 31, 16/18 Jun 1900, number 201/206: Russel D. Holt, Apr 1862, 38, md. 9 years, NY NY NY, salesman groceries. Mira B. Holt, wife, Feb 1872, 28, md. 9 years, 1 total child and 1 living, NY NY NY. Gladys Holt, dau., Oct 1898, 1, NY NY NY. Abraham Frederick, father-in-law, 71, May 1829, widowed, NY NY NY 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.] 3. Mentioned in probate of "Abram G. Frederick." Photocopy of last will and testament dated 12 Feb 1830 on file with me. It was made in the 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." 4. FHL film #0590829 has the following for Abram C. Frederick: Grantee Deed Index, Vol. 5, 1830-1950: Grantee: Abram C. Frederick. Grantors, book, Lot, Twp., Range, Quantity: Albert E. Snyder, 110, 121, 200, 3-100.000, 60 A Ex. Theodore Merchant, 114, 393, 200, 3-100.000, 60 A Ex. Mary E. Mower, 114, 395, 200, 3-100.000, 60 A Ex. Asem...th A. Soles, 114, 396, 200, 3-100.000, 60 A Ex. Helen M. Whitnell, 114, 394, 200, 3-100.000, 60 A Ex. 5. From the book "History of Clarendon from 1810 to 1888," publ. 1889 by Courier Co of Buffalo, NY, p. 264, in a section entitled "Constables," "A.S. Frederick" is listed for 1865. 6. From the book "History of Clarendon from 1810 to 1888," publ. 1889 by Courier Co of Buffalo, NY, p. 379: "In the sounds of sweet music Clarendon has ever been at the front... the following list of the old home band, which was the delight of the town some years ago... Abram Frederick... This band was an honor to Clarendon, and should have been kept up for all time, as it discoursed excellent music, and caused the hearts of many to rejoice." 7. 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." 8. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. Quoted from FHL film 0844649 "History of Clarendon, Orleans County, New York": P. 171, On Wyman Road: "To the west of Milliken lives Abram Frederick, who formerly lived on the Amos Palmer place, but who resided here since 1866. William Avery cleard most of the Abram Frederick lands, and across the way was one Jesse Griswold, who owned to the Tousley road." P. 191, Barre Road: "Across the way from John Downs, lately stood an old frame-house with a porch in front, where Orson Tousley one figured in partial-payments, and Amos Palmer and Abram Frederick lived in the dust past." P. 366: "George P. Preston has kindly furnished the following list of the old home band, which was the delight of the town some years ago: Albert Turner, Guy Salsbury, Alexander Salsbury, Alphonso D. Cook, Abram Frederick, Frederick Glidden, George P. Preston, Theodore Stone, John N. Beckley and Frank Storms." BIRTH: 1. See burial info. MARRIAGE: 1. See burial info. BURIAL: 1. Burial listings as found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyorlean/hllsdf.htm: Hillside Cemetery - Town of Clarendon, Orleans County, New York: Frederick, Abraham C.; May 31, 1829; May 1, 1909; Clarendon NY; Hus. of Clarissa, Son of Abraham Frederick & Adelia M. Annis MD [plot:] Div 49. Frederick, Clarissa Cole; Jan 27, 1832; May 6, 1894; Clarendon NY; Wife of Abraham C., Dau of Lewis Cole & Cordelia Merchant. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Annie Conley | Frederick, Abraham C. (I3575)
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| 2157 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Davis Co., Utah, p. 18 of 33, 120/120, (3 doors from John Stoker): Hyrum D. Buys, 48, NY. (Shows as "Bays" in index but the actual record does say "Buys".) Elizabeth, 38, NY. Charlotte, 16, NY. Mary, 14, NY. Sarah, 13, NY. Edward, 9, IL. Amanda, 6, IL. Hyrum, 5, IL. Joseph, 2, IA. 1860 US: Alpine, Utah, Utah, 2 Oct 1860, p. 5 of 5, 3634/2843: Jno. McDonal, 48, farmer, $200, $600, OH. Sarah A., 22, NY. Geo. W., 15, IL. Jas. 14, IA. Davd, 12, IA. 1870 US: Alpine, Utah, Utah, 1 Sep 1870, p. 2 of 6, house/family 14/14 (next door is John R. McDaniel, 33, OH and his family): John McDaniel, 57, farmer, $300, $300, OH. Sarah, 30, NY. Sarah, 11, UT. Christina, 9, UT. Elizabeth, 8, UT. John, 6, UT. Martha, 4, UT. Anderson, 2, UT. 1880 US Alpine, Utah, Utah, FHL film 1255338, National Archives Film T9-1338, p. 251C: John McDaniel, occupation: farmer, age 66, married, birthplace: OH. Sarah McDaniel, occ.: keeping house, age 40, birthplace: NY, MI, NY. Several children of second wife also noted from ages 1 through 16 all born in Utah. 2. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 8 Dec 2002. Parents are Hiram Debaun Buys, Waterford, Saratoga, NY, and Elizabeth Huntington, b. 1813 at Albany, Albany, NY. All concur birth as 14 Feb 1839 at Albany, Albany, NY and place of death as Provo, Utah, Utah. Burial date as 24 Sep 1905. Most show middle name as Delilah and all show last name as Buys (no Buoys). Appears to be at least two children: Christina McDaniel, b. 10 Nov 1860 at Alpine, Utah, Utah; Elizabeth McDaniel, b. 21 Aug 1862 in Alpine, Utah, Utah BIRTH: 1. Per cemetery records cited below. 2. Per Ancestry.com cited above. DEATH: 1. Per cemetery records cited below. 2. Per Ancestry.com cited above. BURIAL: 1. "Index to Utah County Cemeteries," ed. Diane R. Parkinson, copy in BYU Provo Library: "Sarah B. McDaniel, b. 1839, d. 21 Sep 1905, bur. Provo, Ut. Cemetery." 2. Utah State Historical Society website for Burials Database: "Sarah B. McDaniel, b. 1839, Albany, New York, d. 21 Sep 1905, Provo City Cemetery, Blk. 5, Lot 53, source: Sexton records." 3. Date per Ancestry.com cited above. | Buys, Sarah (I549)
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| 2158 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 14, Decatur, Iowa, p. 326b, dwellings 39-42, 30 Oct 1850; note there are only about 16 pages of census for this area versus 188 for Pottawattamie County; also note that the families of George, Charles, Henry, Stephen Hales and their mother Mary Ann Thompson were all neighbors - Mary Ann's husband had died in 1846 and she remarried to William Thompson; she dies herself in about 6 months: Dwelling 39: William Thompson, 46, farmer, Scotland. Mary A., 51, Eng. Daniel 17, farmer, Canada. David 19, farmer, Scotland. William, 15, Canada. Maria, 12, MO. Orville, 9, Ill. Dwelling 40: George Hales, 28, printer, Eng. Sarah A., 27, NY. Mary A., 6. Harriett, 4, Iowa. Dwelling 41: Charles Hales, 33, bricklayer, Eng. Julia A., 26, NY. Eliza A., 9, IL. Julia A., 8, IL. George G., 6, IL. Mary J. 4, IL. Charles H., 2, IL. Henry H. Hales, 21, farmer, Eng. Eliza A., 20, PA. Dwelling 42: Stephen Hales, 30, stonecutter, Eng. Eveline, 20, VT. Stephen, 1, IA. 1860 US: Ward 15, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 6 Jul 1860, p. 6 of 16, house 1049, family 49: George Hales, 37, printer, $600, $300, Eng. Sarah Ann, 37, NY. Louisa Ann, 24, Eng. Mary Ann, 15, OH. Harriet, 13, IA. George W., 7, UT. Elizabeth, 6, UT. Ellen, 4, UT. Willard, 4, UT. Serina, 6/12, UT. Amelia, 6/12, UT. 1870 US: Beaver City, Beaver, Utah, 18 Jul 1870, p. 19, family 161: Sarah A. Hales, 47, keeps house, NY. George W., 17, laborer, UT. Clara E., 10, at home, UT. Charles, 5, UT. 1880 US: Beaver City, Beaver, Utah, FHL film 1255335, NA film T9-1335, p. 13A: George Hale, Printer, M, 57, Eng Eng Eng. Louiesa A., keeping house, wife, M, 45, Eng Eng Eng. Willard G., laborer, son. S, 24, UT Eng Eng. Irene, dau., S, 21, UT Eng Eng. Caroline, domestic servant, dau., 19, UT Eng Eng. Harriet I., domestic servant, dau., 14, UT Eng Eng. Rhoda, dau., 11, UT Eng Eng. John A., son, 8, UT Eng Eng. William B., son, 4, UT Eng Eng. Polygamous wife next door: Sarah A. Hale, keeping house, self, 57, NY, NY, NY. George, carpenter, son, S, 27, UT, Eng, NY. Charles, laborer, son, S, 15, UT, Eng, NY. 1900 US: Beaver City, Beaver, Utah, p. 16a [says Sarah was a widow but she was actually the polygamous wife of George Hales who also lived in Beaver in 1900]: Schofield, Thomas, Mar 1856, 44, marr. 20 yrs., Eng Eng Eng., immigrated 1867, farmer. Clara, Jan 1862, 38, marr. 20 yrs., 8 total children, 5 living, UT, Eng, NY. Amelia, Jan 1881, 19, S, UT, Eng, NY, sales woman. Walter, son, Jul 1887, 12, UT, Eng, UT, at school. Newel, son, Aug 1892, 7, UT, Eng, UT, at school. Lucile, dau., Jun 1895, 4, UT, Eng, UT. Emma, dau., Dec 1897, 2, UT, Eng, UT. Sarah A. Hales, mother-in-law, Jan 1823, 77, widow, 1 child total and 1 living, NY, NY, NY. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002: Notes parents as William Gregory and Electa Ann (Fellows) Gregory. 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 are those of George and Sarah Ann Hales. 3. From Hales Chronicles online www.hales.org: "A daughter of George Hales, Rhoda Alice Hales Tanner, and a granddaughter, Irene Tolton Hammand, provided a sketch containing much of the following material. Another granddaughter, Vera Hales Quilter, also supplied information. I have combined the sketches and added information from an article by Kerry Ross Boren, The Agony of a Mormon Polygamist, Old West Magazine, (Austin, Texas: Western Publications, Summer 1972)... On the thirtieth of November of that same year he returned to Quincy, Illinois and married Sarah Ann Gregory. The following spring he went with her to visit her family in Cincinnati, Ohio where they remained about a year and where their first child was born. On his return to Nauvoo he worked again in the Times and Seasons office, and while there printed the first copy of the Nauvoo Neighbor. Sarah Ann Gregory was born on January 26, 1823 in Burns, Allegheny County, New York. She was the first child born to William and Electa Ann Fellows Gregory. When she was about a year old her parents moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where her eleven brothers and sisters were born. Of this large family only one sister and two brothers grew to maturity and married. William Gregory was a Methodist minister and a very religious and humble man. One wonders what his reaction was when his twenty year old daughter was baptized into the Mormon Church in July of 1843. George Hales continued to work on the Temple at Nauvoo and he and his wife received their endowments there on December 23, 1845. There are some who claim that this temple was never completed, but George and Sarah Ann as well as others in this Newsletter provide testimony to the fact that ordinance work was done there prior to the time the saints left Nauvoo. When the saints were driven from Nauvoo early in 1846, George was with the first company to leave for the west, and tells of crossing the Mississippi in his wagon on the ice. On March 26, 1846 he was made clerk of the fourth fifty in William Clayton's company when it was organized into fifties. George and Sarah Ann went as far as Garden Grove, Iowa, where they remained until 1850... By early 1850 George and Sarah Ann and their three daughters were ready to leave Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Iowa to make the long trek to Utah. Aunt Vera remembers that they were in the Edward Hunter company consisting of 261 pioneers in 67 wagons. This company left on July fourth and arrived in Salt Lake City on October 13, 1850... On the seventeenth of October in 1852, George married a second wife, Louisa Ann Eddins. They were married by Dr. Willard Richards. She was born on May 10, 1834 at Cradley, Hereford, England and was the daughter of George and Ann Smith Eddins... The two families of George Hales lived next door to each other on a one acre lot in Beaver. Sarah Ann had a house on the south and Louisa Ann had a house on the north. The close proximity of the two families set the stage for some interesting situations. Aunt Vera tells this story, 'On one occasion grandpa engaged a man to come and build a cellar for Louisa. The gentleman went to Grandma Sarah Ann and said, 'Where do you want your cellar built, Mrs. Hales?' Grandma said she hadn't ordered a cellar, but the man insisted. Of course grandma gladly told him where she wanted it. The truth soon came out, and grandpa hired the man to make Louisa a cellar, as there wasn't too much he could do about grandma.' Aunt Vera relates, 'Grandpa's oldest son, my Uncle George, who was always mindful of his mother, visited her as often as he could in Beaver. On one of these visits she seemed so alone that he persuaded her to sell her home and move to Huntington with him where he and his family could take better care of her. She did go with him and took along an Indian girl named "Lizzie" Crow (Diane Elizabeth Crow), whom she had raised... George Hales attended church on September 8, 1907 at Beaver and died later that evening. He is buried in the Beaver cemetery. Louisa Ann preceded him in death, dying on April 17, 1906 at Beaver. She is also buried in the Beaver cemetery. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales was happy and contented in Huntington where she spent her last days. She seemed to enjoy having her grandchildren with her. She passed peacefully away on December 27, 1908 at the age of eighty-five years and was lovingly laid to rest at the Huntington cemetery." 4. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007) provides the following information (also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com): Sarah was a member of the nauvoo 1st Ward per "Nauvoo: Early Mormon...Series 1839-46, by Lyman Platt, 1980. 5. The book "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah," p. 909 [note some of this information appears wrong or mixed up with another George Hales; i.e. birth and death dates for George, birth date for Sarah, and perhaps Louisa with the last name of Tripp]: "George Hales (son of Stephen Hales of Province of Ontario, Canada), Born 1813 in England. Came to Utah with a contingent of the Mormon Battalion. [George wasn't in MB, so he must of been part of the 1847 pioneer party with whom the Sick Detachment from Pueblo, Colorado met up with at Green River.] Married Sarah Ann Gregory, Nauvoo, Ill. (dau. of William Gregory of Ione, Ill.). She was born Jan. 26, 1814. Their children: Mary, m. Hyrum Burgess; Charles, m. Eva May Burgess. Family home Beaver, Utah. Married Louisa Tripp, Salt Lake City (daughter of John Tripp and Jess Ess of Salt Lake City). She was born 1825. Their children: Libbie, m. William Bird; Willard, m. Jean Frasier; Rena, m. Sheff Tanner; Caroline, m. Frank Talton; Harriet, m. Julius Bernson; Rhoda, m. Rollin Tanner; Bartlet. Family home Beaver, Utah. High Priest; ward teacher. Justice of peace. Member Nauvoo Legion. One of the earliest workers in Deseret news pinting office at Richfield, Utah. Printer and shoemaker. Died 1898, Beaver, Utah." 6. See husband's notes for extensive family biography written by daughter Harriot Electa Hales Fotheringham, which includes many mentions of Sarah as mother. 7. FHL film 34803 "Heart Throbs of the West," comp. by Kate B. Carter, which are listing of pioneer companies to Utah. The following information appears inconsistent due to the two separate entries and age discrepancies - probably erroneous or poorly done data: V. 9, p. 488 (1848-part of Mormon Battalion co.): George Hales, 35; Sarah Ann G. Hales, 34; Mary. V. 11, p. 417 (1850-part of Mormon Battalion co.): George Hales, 28; Sarah A.G. Hales, 7; Sarah Jane Hales, 12. BIRTH: 1. Date and place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Website gives year of birth as 1822 which varies from obituary cited below which gives year of birth as 1823 and that she died in 1908 at age 85. I use the 1823 year for my date. 2. Parents are William Gregory and Electa Ann Fellows per LDS family group sheets. 3. FHL film 392655 "LDS Patriarchal Blessings Index", three blessings: A. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, b. 26 Jan 1822 at Burns, Allegheny Co., New York, parents William Gregory and Electa Ann Gregory. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch Henry W. Hales. Vol. ___, p. 16[?]. B. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, b. 26 Jan 1823 at Burnes, Alleghany Co., New York, parents William Gregory and Electa Ann ___. Blessing date 28 Nov 1877 at Beaver City, Beaver, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch John Smith. Vol. 50, p. 78. C. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, b. 26 Jan 1823 at Burns, Alleghany Co., New York, parents William Gregory and Electa Ann F. Gregory. Blessing date 10 Feb 1874 at Beaver, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch Daniel Tyler. Vol. 540, p. 54. MARRIAGE: 1. "Compilation of Marriages," Lyndon W. Cook, Provo, Utah, July 1980: "George Hales and Sarah Ann Gregory, 30 Nov 1843, at Nauvoo, by William Huntington, Sen., Recorded 6 Dec 1843 ('Nauvoo Neighbor' [Nauvoo newspaper], 6 Dec 1843, and 'A Record of Marriages in the City of Nauvoo, located at the Historical Dept. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints')." 2. FHL film 889392. 3. Ancestry.com's "Marriages in the Nauvoo Region, 1839-1845," by Susan Easton Black, 1981, has a compilation using modern vital data collected from other third party sources for each of the spouses. The marriage source is not given and the author summarizes the marriage as: George Hales and Sarah Ann Gregory, 30 Nov 1843. DEATH: 1. Date and place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. BURIAL: 1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Notes: Sarah Ann (Gregory) Hales, b. 26 Jan 1822 at Burns, Allegany, NY, d. 27 Dec 1908 at Huntington, UT of causes incident to old age, bur. Huntington City Cemetery K_35_07, parents are William Gregory and Electa Ann Fellows Gregory. OBITUARY: 1. "Huntington. Death of Mrs. George Hales. Nauvoo Veteran and Utah Pioneer Closes Honored Career at 85. Special Correspondence. Huntington, Emery Co., Jan. 2. - Mrs. Sarah Ann Gregory Hales, one of the early pioneers of the Church, died at the home of her son George W. Hales in Huntington on Dec 27. She was born in 1823; joined the Church in early girlhood, and passed through all the early persections of the Church; was well acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith; and was in Nauvoo when Joseph and Hyrum were assassinated at Carthage. She was married in the Nauvoo Temple to George Hales. Mrs Hales was the daughter of William Gregory, an early day Mormon. She came to Utah in 1849, where her husband the next year got a position on the Deseret News as a printer. The family moved to Utah county at the time of the move in 1858, and in 1861 moved to Beaver soon after which Mr. Hales went into the newspaper business. Mrs. Hales was the mother of 10 children, six of whom passed away before her. Her four children surviving are Mrs. Harriet Fotheringham of St. George, George W. Hales of Huntington, Clara Scofield of Davis county and Charles H. Hales of Carbon county, Utah. Mr. and Mrs Hales lived very much of a pioneer life and were highly respected members of the Church. Mrs. Hales' funeral was held on Dec. 29, the speakers were Patriarch Charles Pulsipher, Elder D. C. Woodward and Counselor J. H. Killpack, who spoke kind words for the deceased and sympathy and comfort for the living." Deseret Evening News, Friday, Jan. 8, 1909. SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website 2. Ordinance Index 1.02 3. FHL film 34803 "Heart Throbs of the West," comp. by Kate B. Carter, v. 8, p. 447. List of pioneer company participants; information is similar to content I already have. | Gregory, Sarah Ann (I1403)
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| 2159 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 14, Decatur, Iowa, p. 326b, dwellings 39-42, 30 Oct 1850; note there are only about 16 pages of census for this area versus 188 for Pottawattamie County; also note that the families of George, Charles, Henry, Stephen Hales and their mother Mary Ann Thompson were all neighbors - Mary Ann's husband had died in 1846 and she remarried to William Thompson; she dies herself in about 6 months: Dwelling 39: William Thompson, 46, farmer, Scotland. Mary A., 51, Eng. Daniel 17, farmer, Canada. David 19, farmer, Scotland. William, 15, Canada. Maria, 12, MO. Orville, 9, Ill. Dwelling 40: George Hales, 28, printer, Eng. Sarah A., 27, NY. Mary A., 6. Harriett, 4, Iowa. Dwelling 41: Charles Hales, 33, bricklayer, Eng. Julia A., 26, NY. Eliza A., 9, IL. Julia A., 8, IL. George G., 6, IL. Mary J. 4, IL. Charles H., 2, IL. Henry H. Hales, 21, farmer, Eng. Eliza A., 20, PA. Dwelling 42: Stephen Hales, 30, stonecutter, Eng. Eveline, 20, VT. Stephen, 1, IA. 1860 US: Spanish Fork City, Utah, Utah, p. 229, 23 Aug 1860, family 1629: Charles H. Hale, 48 farmer, $300, $800, Eng. Julia A., 35, NY. Frances, 23, Eng. George G., 17, laborer, IL. Mary J., 13, IA. Charles H., 11, IA. Joseph L., 9, IA. John T., 7, UT. Stephen F., 5, UT. William, 2, UT. Maria J., 7/12, UT. Lucy E., 3, UT. Mary, 4/12, UT. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Story from "Grafton, Ghost Town on the Rio Virgin" by Lyman D. and L. Karen Platt, 1998, ISBN 9-939771-11-x, page 71 and 72: "On Apr.2, 1866 Joseph and Robert M. Berry, brothers, and Mary Isabel Hales Berry, wife of Robert, who had settled in Long Valley, who had been visiting in Grafton, began their return trip by way of Short Creek (now known as Colorado City) and Kanab. They were advised that if they took this route the Indians would kill them. But they paid little attention to the warnings and left. When the Berry family did not arrive in Kanab as expected, the alarm was spread and a posse was organized. At Cedar Knoll near Short Creek there was a dry wash where the wagon, pulled by a team of mules, had to go into a deep depression and then up a steep incline to get out. The three had run their wagon trying to escape, but had been caught in this wash. When the posse reached this wash, they found the bodies of the Berry family and their mules. The Piute Indians had fallen onto them at this vantage point during their attempt to cross the wash. An arrow had hit one of the mules under the collar and caused the animal so much pain that the horse reared and bucked, giving the Indians the opportunity to surround the wagon. The victims fought bravely, but were overpowered. James H. Jennings (Cantrell, "The Indians of Grafton") reports that he was 'riding up from Toquerville with a dispatch, when I got to Grafton, they had just received word of the killing of the Berry brothers out south. A Mr. Sedwick and Palmer took the back seat out of a buggy and went out and brought the bodies into Grafton.' William B. Maxwell wrote about the Berry killings from Winsor (Mt. Carmel), on Apr. 12, 1866, to George A. Smith. Among other things he said that he believed that Joseph Smith Berry's thigh was broken in the first attack. They escaped and got back to the Kanab road with the intention of going to Ezra Strong's place but they were attacked a second time at which point one of the horses was likely wounded, which kept them from getting away, and they were surrounded and killed. '...they were shot with guns and arrows. It appears that the woman was the last to suffer; she was abused all they wanted and then shot with a gun and arrows. The bodies were neither scalped nor stripped. The brothers who were killed had with them three revolvers, one rifle, and one double-barreled shotgun. We found two of the revolvers and the rest were gone. There was one Navajo left on the ground which I am satisfied is the chief Banashaw (Pan-a-shank), known by us as Spanish Shanks. I have seen him when alive and when dead and it is the same. He is very noted, as he was very grey and also had lost his upper front teeth which was the case with this one that was killed. The Indians who were about twenty-six in number drove off from my ranch a number of cattle which had left Long Valley and gone out. The brethren were found on Saturday by some men from Grafton who were hunting stock. They were removed to Grafton and buried on Monday the 9th.'(Church Historian's Office, "Journal History of the Church" - manuscript volumes housed at the Church Historian's Library, 50 East North Temple - Apr. 12 1866, page 1). During the funeral services held at Grafton, Piute Indians came into town brazenly wearing their war bonnets and with their faces painted. They looked through the windows of the old log church house that the pioneers had built, laughed and said 'wino manik', meaning 'very good' in Piute. Captain Andrus was at the funeral and he said, 'I will make them think "very good"' and he left the service and went up the street to his home to get his rifle. The Indians apparently knew who he was for they immediately left the church and went down into the thick underbrush on the river bottom, crossed the Virgin and went into the foothills north of town. When Captain Andrus returned with his rifle, it was too late to use it." 2. The book "A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876" edited by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks, v. 2, p. 248, explanatory note #7: "The attempt to consolidate all the small villages into one strong community grew out of widespread Indian unrest and threatened attack in 1866. On Jan. 8 of that year, Dr. James M. Whitmore and Robert McIntyre were killed near Pipe Springs; on April 2, Joseph and Robert Berry and the latter's wife were killed near Short Creek. The plan and method of consolidation were outlined in the following letter from Brigham Young: 'Great Salt Lake City, May 2nd, 1866. To Pres. Erastus Snow and the Bishops and Saints of Washington and Kane Counties. Greetings. Dear Brethren, The recent occurrences in your counties, and the threatened repetition of these scenes prompt us to write to you this epistle. To save lives and the property of the people in your counties form the marauding and bloodthirsty bands which surround you, there must be thorough and energetic measures of protection taken immediately. Many of your settlements at present time are too weak to successfully resist attack, or to prevent their stock being driven off by any band of Indians, however contemptible, who may choose to make a descent upon them. These small settlements should be abandoned, and the people who formed them should, without loss of time, repair to places that can be easily defended, and that possess the necessary advantages to sustain a heavy population. There should be from 100 to 500 good and efficient men in every settlement; but not less than 150 well-armed men; and their horses should always be where they can put their hands upon them. Where there are several settlements which do not have this number of men, there should be places selected where the requisite number can concentrate. At all points where the settlements are manintained, good and substantial forts, with high walls and strong gates, should be erected, and the people move into them. Corrals also should be built, so convenient to the forts and in such a strong manner, that they can be easily guarded, and the stock kept safe in them from every attack...' It may be added that though a few outlying ranches were temporarily abandoned, the elaborate plans of defense outlined by Brigham Young were never carried out. A maximum number of settlers had already established themselves at every available spring and strream and no futher concentration of population was possible because of lack of water. Only the walls of Fort Pearce were erected to protect the stock herders in the wilderness west of St. George." 3. From the book "Our Pioneer Heritage," Lesson for Nov. 1964, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, SLC, compiled by Kate B. Carter, chapter "Blackhawk Indian War," pp. 204-206: "Massacre of the Berrys. Robert Madison Berry was born February 3, 1841, and Joseph Smith Berry was born December 9, 1843, at Dresden, Weekly County, Tennessee, the sons of Jesse and Armelia Shanks Berry. About the year 1842 the Gospel message was being preached in their locality and Elders Amasa Lyman, Benjamin Cluff and Lyman Wight converted the Berry family, who left soon afterwards for Nauvoo, where Jesse Berry died. The mother and children were pioneers to Utah in 1849, settling in Spanish Fork a few years later. In 1862 John W., William, Robert and Joseph Berry with their families, were called to help colonize the St. George area. In the spring of 1866, Joseph and Robert Berry with Isabelle Hales Berry, the latter's wife, were returning from a trip to Salt Lake City. They stopped at Kanarraville and while there the two-year-old baby girl of Robert and Isabelle died. The Berrys resumed their journey, traveling in a light wagon, camping for noon, April 2, 1866, at Short Creek, where they were attacked by Piutes, who it is claimed had been following them from Corn Creek in Millard County. Their dead bodies were found several days later by John and William Berry. The details of the tragedy will never be known. It appears that they attempted to escape by running their horses across the country and finding they could not do so, fought desperately for their lives, but in vain. One dead Indian was found nearby. Joseph was found lying face down in the wagon box; his leg had been bandaged, no doubt, while they were fleeing as fast as they cold from the Indians. Isabelle had been shot through the head with a six-shooter and was lying on the ground, while Robert's body was astride the wagon tongue with the head leaning into the wagon. The Indians said afterward that Robert was a "heap brave fighter." Robert and Joseph were large men, tall of stature. The burial of these pioneers took place at Grafton, Utah. In "Church Chronology" it is recorded that this massacre occurred four miles from Maxfield's Ranch on Short Creek, Kane County, Utah. There is a small knoll between Short Creek and Kane Beds which marks the place and is called Berry Knoll. When President Young heard of this outrage on the part of the Indians, he sent word to Cedar City for the men of that place to form a company of militia and go to Berryville and escort the people back to Dixie. The late John Parry of Cedar City was a member of that escort, and furnished the writer much of the information for this sketch. Coal Creek John, Indian chief of the Cedar band of Indians who were Piutes, was one of those who killed the Berry brothers. He was large of stature, tall and commanding, with long braids hanging down and decorated with many colors. He and his braves again appeared on the scene just as the settlers were ready to leave with the escort. He was wearing a shirt which William Berry recognized as his brother's, awakening in him the spirit of revenge. He determined to kill the chief. The other settlers knew that they would all be killed if William were allowed to do as he felt, so they reasoned with him to see the result of such action. He refused to be consoled and was locked up until his anger subsided. The settlers, although very frightened that the Indians would attack them, talked peace and the red men did not cause further trouble at this time. The road through the valley ran on the west side of the creek. When the company reached a ravine in the mountains called the Calf Pasture, a small son of George Spencer wanted to ride on the mules and his father granted his wish, but he had not ridden far when he fell off and was run over and killed. The company halted and made a coffin from one of the wagon boxes and buried him at the mouth of Calf Pasture. It was near this place that a Piute Indian, Old Mose, came up to the company. When he saw how frightened the people were, he said, 'Ti-wiga Ti-ca-boo' meaning he was friendly and extended his hand for a handshake. Long after this when settlers returned, he visited among the people and often related this incident. Before he closed his visit, he would ask for flour and it was usually given to him. The hostile band again appeared when the company reached Short Creek. The settlers talked peaceably with them and any trouble that might have occurred was averted. But the people knew that the band was following them and kept a vigilant watch. The men took turns standing guard. It was June and the nights were cool. Joseph Hopkins, who stood guard toward the cool part of the early morning, wore his wife's flannel petticoat over his shoulders because he did not have a coat. They arrived at their destination in safety. When they reached Long Valley they found their crops growing nicely and unmolested. Some of the men stayed there during the summer and fall to care for the crops and finish the harvesting, while others returned with loads of provisions for their families at home. When they reached the Elephant seven miles below Mount Carmel, the Indians attacked them and there was a skirmish in which one Indian was killed. Hyrum Stevens was shot through the breast by an Indian named Humpie, but the wound was not fatal. The Indians rode off with five of their horses, so the white men were unable to haul their provisions any further. The others received orders from Major Russell of Dixie to leave their crops on the ground and return to Dixie. They left the valley where the Zion-Carmel Highway now takes off, going over Bernt Flat, thence to Blue Springs on Kolob and from there to Virgin and Rockville. Hyrum Stevens rode a horse the whole distance as it was less painful than to ride in a wagon. He had been shot with a musket army gun, and it was three days before the bullet was removed. Then it was cut out with a dull knife. His wife, hearing of the accident, had come to meet them with a wagon and team, but he preferred riding the horse. He was 26 years old at the time and recovered, raised a large family and lived to the age of 83 years. In passing over the area at Elephant afterwards, the settlers found large holes where the Indians had buried the corn and potatoes that had been left lying on the ground, and which had later been dug up and used by the Indians. The next spring the settlers came into Long Valley again and took back grain and potatoes which they had stored the fall before. -Hattie Esplin." 4. Received from Don and Carolyn Adair, 2003. Mary E. Adair Adams was a daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair, also in this database - see his notes for full quotation. The following parts are her contact with the murder site of the Berrys: "Mary E. Adair (1858-1926). A Short Sketch of the Life of Mary Elizabeth Adair Adams: Mary Elizabeth Adair was born at Washington, Washington County, Utah on April 15, 1858 to Thomas Jefferson Adair and Mary Vancil Adair. She was the first white girl born in the town of Washington. Her parents were pioneers of the early days in Dixie (Southern Utah.) While Mary was still young her parents and their family of eight children moved to Kanab then to Upper Pahreah, Kane County, Utah. On this trip their company was the first to find the camp and the murdered bodies of the Berry Brothers and wife. The Indians had killed them near Pipe Springs on Short Creek. After the family got to Kanab Mary saw an Indian with one of the men's clothes on. She always dreaded that road after that. She was of a nervous disposition and was so afraid of Indians. She spent a miserable young life in new countries. At the age 17 Mary met John S. Adams at a fourth of July dance. They were married the next spring on May 17, 1876. John and Mary Adams had thirteen children over the next 24 years. Mary and J.S. went to Long Valley (near Orderville, Utah) to live... In 1889 John S. Adams concluded he could make more freighting with oxen than with four horses so he traded the four horses for six oxen. But he had to walk so much to drive the oxen and he got his feet wet so often, he contracted rheumatics from which he suffered terribly and in 1892 the Dr. at Fort Apache advised him to move to a warmer locality so the family of Father, Mother, and eight daughters and one son started for Dixie Utah with two wagons and four horses on the third of May 1893. John S. was hardly able to get in and out of the wagon for the first few days. But grew better as the climate changed so Mary E. and her girls had to take most of the responsibility of the first part of the trip. They managed very well until they came to the Winslow crossing of the Little Colorado River. When they arrived there they found that a few days before a loaded wagon had gone down in the quicksand. Most of the load had been carried out but they could still see the box of the wagon above the water. So they were afraid to cross and their father knew of an old road without crossing the river if they went through the old settlement of Sunset on the Little Colorado River. So they started on this old road knowing they would have to make road some of the way. This was a very hard day on the whole family. The family was camped quite far from they spring they had to get water from because it got about dark before they got in sight of the trees at the spring. The horses were tired so they camped and John S. and his son, Ben, took the horses and canteens and went to get water. Just after they left those left behind could see a company of about sixty Navajo Indians on the road on the other side of the river. They had been to Flagstaff trading and were drunk. Mary and her children were sure frightened. John S. and his son, Ben, had gotten to the spring when they heard the Indians coming. They got the horses in the willows until the Indians passed. The father got back into camp about 11 o'clock. The next day they went to the Indian trading post on the Little Colorado River. There they saw a sheep with two heads and tails alive and well. They went from there to Moencopi, now Tuba City. They had to stay there for a week because the Indians were angry over a cowboy whipping an Indian with his quirt. Their wagons were searched. Mary was sure nervous. The family crossed the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry two days after leaving Moencopi. The river's water was high so they had to wait three days before they could cross. This was a very hard trip on Mary. Mary showed her children where the Berry brothers and wife were killed by Indians when she was a girl..." BIRTH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Burials Database; 8 Jan 2002. DEATH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Burials Database; 8 Jan 2002. 2. Death info from Grafton Cemetery as noted in the book cited above, p. 142/143 which also notes birth date of 4 Jun 1846 and death date of 2 Apr 1866. BURIAL: 1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Burials Database; 8 Jan 2002. 2. Per website 3. Photo of cemetery and gravestone on file. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per www.hales.org 21 Dec 2002. 2. 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 Susan Black's entry in her book "Early LDS Members." | Hales, Mary Isabell (I160)
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| 2160 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 14, Decatur, Iowa, p. 326b, dwellings 39-42, 30 Oct 1850; note there are only about 16 pages of census for this area versus 188 for Pottawattamie County; also note that the families of George, Charles, Henry, Stephen Hales and their mother Mary Ann Thompson were all neighbors - Mary Ann's husband had died in 1846 and she remarried to William Thompson; she dies herself in about 6 months: Dwelling 39: William Thompson, 46, farmer, Scotland. Mary A., 51, Eng. Daniel 17, farmer, Canada. David 19, farmer, Scotland. William, 15, Canada. Maria, 12, MO. Orville, 9, Ill. Dwelling 40: George Hales, 28, printer, Eng. Sarah A., 27, NY. Mary A., 6. Harriett, 4, Iowa. Dwelling 41: Charles Hales, 33, bricklayer, Eng. Julia A., 26, NY. Eliza A., 9, IL. Julia A., 8, IL. George G., 6, IL. Mary J. 4, IL. Charles H., 2, IL. Henry H. Hales, 21, farmer, Eng. Eliza A., 20, PA. Dwelling 42: Stephen Hales, 30, stonecutter, Eng. Eveline, 20, VT. Stephen, 1, IA. 1860 US: Spanish Fork City, Utah, Utah, p. 229, 23 Aug 1860, family 1629: Charles H. Hale, 48 farmer, $300, $800, Eng. Julia A., 35, NY. Frances, 23, Eng. George G., 17, laborer, IL. Mary J., 13, IA. Charles H., 11, IA. Joseph L., 9, IA. John T., 7, UT. Stephen F., 5, UT. William, 2, UT. Maria J., 7/12, UT. Lucy E., 3, UT. Mary, 4/12, UT. 1870 US: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, p. 4 of 37, 1 Aug 1870, house 31, family 28: George G. Hales, farmer, $250, $225, IL. Tryphena, 24, IL. George, 5, UT. Julia A., 3, UT. Hiel B., 2/12, UT. 1880 US: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, NA film T9-1338, p. 189D: G. G. Hales, sawyer, 36, UT OH Wales. Maria H., wife, 37, US Eng US. Lewis H., son, 15, MA MA MA. George, son, 14, UT US IL. Julia Ann, dau, 12, UT US IL. Bradford, son, 10, UT US IL. Charles, son, 7, UT US IL. Moses G., son, 5, UT US IL. Wm. E., son, 4, UT US IL. Triphinia, dau., 2, UT US IL. Lawrence, son, 3m, UT US IL. 1900 US: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, p. 29 of 39, 16 Jun 1900, house 228, family 241: Gillet G. Hales, Mar 1844, 56, md. 27 years, IL Eng OH, farmer. Maria, wife, Dec 1842, 57, md. 27 years, 6 total children all living, MA MA MA. Gillet Jr., son, Aug 1874, 25, s, UT IL MA. Lawrence, son, Mar 1880, 20, s, UT IL MA. David, son, May 1882, 18, UT IL MA. Alice, dau., Nov 1884, 15, UT IL MA. Lily, dau., Dec 1886, 13, UT IL MA. May (Mary?), dau., June 1891, 8, UT IL MA. 2. In the execution of father's last will and testament, this individual shown as living at Spanish Fork, Utah on 22 Jun 1889. 3. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by Daughters of Utah Pioneers for Mariah Henrietta Gay Mendenhall Hales mentions the children born to her and George as follows: Gillett Moses, 10 Aug 1874 William Elmer, 4 Dec 1875 Tryphena Louisa, 9 Dec 1877 Lawrence Gay, 10 Mar 1880 Davis E., 10 May 1882 Alice Lucretia, 20 Nov 1884 Also mentioned is that Mariah was often left alone with the children while George worked in Spanish Fork Canyon at a sawmill. George was sent to England as a missionary for two and one half years. When he returned, he brought a young widow convert, Fanny Glen, and her small daughter Lillian. George later married Fanny who died following the birth of their first Child, a little girl name Mae. 4. Polygamous court case papers of the U.S. District Courts for the Territory of Utah 1870-1896; National Archives, FHL film 1,616,338 and 1,616,340. The microfilm series starts with this background paper: "The system of territorial government established by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was a model for later legislation of the same kind, including the act establishing the territorial government of Utah, passed Sep. 9, 1850 (9 Stat. 455). But the balance between federally appointed territorial governors and judges on the one hand and territorial legislatures on the other, which worked well enough for the rest of the U.S. territories, did not work in Utah. There the Mormon community had already established its own 'State of Deseret' in 1849, and the federal attempt to graft its own authority onto the existing structure was a failure. The teritorial government in Utah retained the character of its Mormon predecessor for some two decades, its members looking to Brigham Young for leadership. Federal appointees had to work within the existing polity because there was very little, short of a full-scale war, that Congress or the Executive in Washingon could do to protect and support them. After the Union victory in the Civil War and the coming of the transcontinental railroad to Salt Lake City, federal authority began to assert itself, nowhere more emphatically than in the courts. Crusading federal Judge James B. McKean, appointed in 1870, attacked the 'probate' courts for usurping judicial powers properly belonging to the federal courts in the territory. These local probate courts had been recognized along with the federal courts by the 1850 establishment law, and the territorial legislature had, by an act passed on Feb. 4, 1852, given them the same powers as the federal courts, reducing the latter to judging the few cases that locals were willing to take before them. McKean managed to change this situation somewhat, succeeding in convening grand juries to investigate persons suspected of plural marriage and obtaining hundreds of indictments and convictions for adultery and bigamy. Some of these cases reached the Supreme Court, which promptly threw them out on grounds that the federal judge in Utah had no authority to try such cases. Congress took the hint and also its first real step toward righting the balance of authority in Utah in 1874 by passing the Poland Laws (18 Stat. 255), which officially returned the probate courts to their original status as administrators of wills and estates. In addition, the offices of territorial marshal and attorney general, which had overlapped similar federal offices, were abolished. On Mar. 22, 1882, Congress took an even more decisive step: the Edmund-Tucker Act (22 Stat. 30) made polygamy a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment. It also disqualified persons who believed in or practiced polygamy from holding public office or participating in jury duty. The passage of this act sent many prominent Mormons into hiding and intimidated the rest of the community. Beween 1888 and 1893 more than 1,000 verdicts in cases of unlawful cohabitation were secured. Undoubtedly federal court acions played a significant role in the church's decision in 1890 to end its approval of plural marriage. This action signaled the beginning of the accommodation of the church to the national system. After five unsuccessful attempts by the territorial government, Utah was finally granted statehood on Jan. 4, 1896 (28 Stat. 111)." Files for case No. 1703 (and cases 433 and 472), 1st District Court, Utah Territory, for Geo. G. Hales include the following documents: a. Case 1703: Indictment for Polygamy, May 19, 1888. Grand jury witnesses: Maria H. Hales, Charles S. Hales, Gillet Hales, Mary Ann Mellor, John F. Mellor, Jane Bradford. Partial text: "The Grand Jurors of the United States of America, within and for the district aforesaid, at the term and in the Territory aforesaid, being duly empanelled, sworn and charged, on their oaths do find and present that George G. Hales late of said district, heretofore, to-wit: on or about the fifth day of May in the year of our Lord 1873, and at the County of Utah in the Territory aforesaid did marry and take to wife one Maria H. Hales and did then and there have her as his lawful wife. That afterwards to wit on the 11th day of Nov. A.D. 1885 at this County of Cache in the Territory aforesaid wed within the jurisdiction of this Court, and whilst his lawful wife the said Maria H. Hales was still alive he the said George G. Hales did unlawfully marry and take to wife one Mary Ann Mellor thereby committing the offence of Polygamy against the form of the statute of the said United States, in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the same." b. Case 1703: Subpoena, County of Weber, Dec. 1, 1891: US Marshal subpoenas the Grand Jury witnesses to the Ogden City courthouse on Dec. 11, 1891. Partial text: "I hereby certify that on the first day of Dec. 1891 in Spanish Fork, Utah Co., I personally served the written subpoenas on Maria H. Hales, Gillet Hales, and Jane Bradford by reading to each of them the written contents and on the 8th day of Dec., 1891, I duly served the written subpoena on Charles H. Hales at Mammoth Hollow, Juab County by reading to him the written contents. And I further certify that John F. Mellor is dead and Mary Ann Mellor is in Mexico and not within the jurisdiction of this Court." c. Case 1703: Affidavit Order Requiring Witness to Give Reconizance with Surety, May 19, 1888, request for Arrest Warrant for Mary Ann Mellor who is key witness against George G. Hales for polygamy, "said witness being a plural wife or pretended wife of said Hales." d. Case 1703: Warrant for Arrest, May 19, 1888, Ogden City, Mary Ann Mellor, bail of $1000. e. Case 1703: Warrant for Arrest, June 13, 1888, Ogden City, Mary Ann Mellor, bail of $1000. Mary Ann arrested in Spanish Fork and in Marshall's custody in Provo City 13 Jun 1888. f. Case 1703: Warrant for Arrest, May 19, 1888, Ogden City, George G. Hales for polygamy, bail of $3000. George arrested in Spanish Fork and in Marshall's custody 10 Aug 1888. g. Case 1703: Bond, $3,000 for Geo. Hales. Signed by John T. Hales and William P. Hales on Aug. 10, 1889. h. Case 433: Indictment for Unlawful Cohabitation, Feb 27, 1888. Grand jury witnesses: Mariah H. Hales, Mary Ann Miller, Julia Ann Betts, Stephen Hales, Gillett Hales, John F. Miller. Partial text: "The Grand Jurors of the United States of America, within and for the district aforesaid, at the term and in the Territory aforesaid, being duly empanelled, sworn and charged, on their oaths do find and present that George G. Hales late of said district, heretofore, to-wit: on the eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord 1885, in the said district, Territory aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction fo this court, and divers days thereafter, and continuously between the day last aforesaid and the 23rd day of February in the year of our Lord 1888 then and there, did unlawfully claim, live and cohabit with more than one woman as his wives, to-wit: with Mariah H. Hales and Mary Ann Miller against the form of the statute of the said United States, in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the same." i. Case 472: Indictment for Unlawful Cohabitation, Feb 27, 1888. Grand jury witnesses: Mariah H. Hales, Mary Ann Miller, Julia Ann Betts, Stephen Hales, Gillett Hales, John F. Miller. Partial text: "The Grand Jurors of the United States of America, within and for the district aforesaid, at the term and in the Territory aforesaid, being duly empanelled, sworn and charged, on their oaths do find and present that George G. Hales late of said district, heretofore, to-wit: on the fifth day of May in the year of our Lord 1872, in the said district, Territory aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction fo this court, then and there did marry and take for his lawful wife one Mariah H. Gay, whose name is to the Grand Jurors otherwise unknown; that afterwards to wit on the 10th day of Nov. A.D. 1885 in said district and Territory and whilst the said Mariah H. Hales was still alive, he the said George G. Hales, feloniously married and took to wife one Mary Ann Miller, whose name is the the Grand Jurors otherwise unknown, thereby committing the crime of Polygamy against the form of the statute of the said United States, in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the same." j. Case 472: Subpoena, County of Utah, Jan. 4, 1888: US Marshal served subpoenas in Spanish Fork to the Grand Jury witnesses to appear in the Provo City courthouse on Feb. 23, 1888. k. Case 472: Affidavit For Warrant, April 11, 1888, request for Arrest Warrant for Mary Ann Mellor who is key witness against George G. Hales for unlawful cohabitation, bail set at $300. l. Case 472: Bond, $2,000 for Geo. Hales. Signed by James A. Bean and John W. Turner on March 12, 1888. m. Case 472: Subpoena, County of Utah, Sep. 24, 1890: US Marshal served subpoenas in Spanish Fork to the Grand Jury witnesses to appear in the Provo City courthouse on Oct. 2, 1890. n. Case 472: Case dismissed: "In the First District Court, Southern Division sitting in Provo. The United States of America vs. George G. Hales. No. 472 - Indictment for Polygamy. It appearing satisfactorily to the District Attorney that the evidence to convict in this cause cannot be procured, and that the ends of justice do not require a further prosecution, by leave of the Court the smae is hereby dismissed. Dated Feb. 17, 1892. United States Attorney." BIOGRAPHY: 1. No source given but found on the Internet by others and sent to me: "Gillett Hales was a son of Charles Henry Hales and Julia Ann Lockwood. He was born at Nauvoo, Illinois, on March 19, 1844. His parents left Nauvoo with the Mormon exodus westward within his first two years. At the age of eight he left on the final phase of the trek westward to Utah with his parents and five brothers and sisters. They left with a group of saints and endured many hardships and much suffering. He remembered his grandmother, Mary Ann Hales Thompson, when she passed away and was buried on the plains. They were in John Taylor's Company, and reached Salt Lake City in August of 1852. They lived in Salt Lake City and Cottonwood until 1858, when the family moved to Spanish Fork. During his early childhood the family suffered much for want of food. Many times they had only greens to eat. His father went to Camp Floyd to work shortly after Johnston's Army arrived in Utah. They were sent by the government because of rumors that had reached the east about the Mormons. When he came home he had considerable clothing for the children. This made them very happy as the mother had made suits and dresses from seamless sacks and canvas. Hales had few opportunities for an education, but attended the school taught by Silas Hillman for a short time. He learned the trade of brick mason from his father, and helped him build the Spanish Fork City Hall, Coop Store, and many homes and school houses. He and his brothers formed a lumber and planing-mill company, and furnished much material for the homes at that time. On October 15, 1864 he married Tryphena Bradford. She and her two brothers, Sylvester and Pleasant J. Bradford, were married the same day, so they had a real celebration. Hales was a Black Hawk Indian War veteran, serving in Sanpete and the Home Guard. Everything went well with the Hales family until April 15, 1873, when his wife, Tryphena, became suddenly ill and in a few hours died. She left four children: George, seven; Julia Ann, five; Hial B., three; and Stephen, nine months. Aunt Jane Bradford cared for the baby for some time as she had a nursing baby of her own. In May of 1873 he married Mariah Gay Mendenhall, a widow with three children. To this union were born six additional children: Gillett, William, Louisa Tryhpena, Alice, Laurence, and David. George Gillett Hales was a Counselor to Bishop George D. Snell for seventeen years. In 1886 he married Mary Ann Mellor. This marriage produced one son, John Gillett. This marriage ended in divorce and Mary Ann moved to Arizona. In 1886 he was called on a mission for the Church to England, leaving his eldest son, George, to care for his family as best he could. This was a great responsibility for a boy of 21, but he did the best he could. Perhaps this mission and separation from his family was the cause of the divorce from Mary Ann. In the fall of 1889 he returned home. The U.S. Marshals were still raiding the country for people in the church that were practicing plural marriage, a tenant of the gospel. Before he left England, Apostle George Teasdale, President of the European Mission, told him he would not have to spend time in the penitentiary. This was fulfilled. He was arrested, summoned into court, but was always dismissed. In the latter part of 1889 George Gillett married a widow, Fanny Glenn. She had a daughter, Lilly, which he adopted. Fanny made her home at Fountain Green, Sanpete County. Fanny and George Gillett Hales had a son, Robert Glenn Hales, who died in 1891 when he was 14 months old. A daughter, Rosa Mae was born in 1892. Fanny died in October of 1892 and was buried at Fountain Green. About 1897 a group of people from Spanish Fork moved to Big Horn, Wyoming. George Gillett and two of his sons, Steve and Lawrence, went with him. Here they took up land. As his family did not want to leave Spanish Fork, after a few years he came home, leaving Steve there as his family was with him. While there Lawrence got him a wife from Missouri by correspondence. This proved to be very successful. Later, they all returned to Spanish Fork and their Wyoming adventure was almost a failure. In 1903 George Gillett was made Superintendent of the State Infirmary at Provo. While there, his son Will became ill in Idaho, so he traveled there. On his return home he took a bad cold which developed into pneumonia. His lungs were weak as he had had pneumonia twice before, so he only lasted a few days. George Gillett Hales died January 30, 1907. His son, George, was away at the time, so the body was held until he returned. He was buried on February 7, 1907. He was a High Priest in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and devoted much of his time to the Church throughout his life." BIRTH: 1. Obituary says Nauvoo, March 19, 1843. This evidently is an error in the years and should be 1844 considering the birth date of his older sister in mid 1842. Archival family group sheets has always used 1844. 2. FHL film 392655 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index": George Gillett Hales, b. 19 Mar 1844 at Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, parents Charles Henry and Julia Ann Hales. Blessing date 7 Sep 1869 at Spanish Fork, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch John Smith. Vol. 44, p. 375. MARRIAGE: 1. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by Daughters of Utah Pioneers for Mariah Henrietta Gay Mendenhall Hales indicates she married George Gillett Hales, m. 5 May 1873 (he dies 21 Jan 1906 at Spanish fork, Utah, Utah. She married Louis H. Mendenhall when she was 17 and they moved to Franklin, ID. Louis passed away in 1867, leaving Mariah with three small children. Mariah and her children returned to Spanish Fork and lived with her mother, who was also a widow with seven sons. In 1873, Mariah married George G. Hales, a widower with four small children. Six additional children were born to them, making a family of thirteen children. See her notes for full citation. 2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by Daughters of Utah Pioneers indicates marriage 15 Oct 1864 in Salt Lake City. They were married in the Endowment House the same day with Tryphena's two brothers. See her notes for full citation. 3. Appears as if George and Maria Gay were married a second time civilly perhaps due to polygamous issues per Western States Marriage Records Index per http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/fhc/gbret.idc ID Number 205240 George G. Hales (48) Residence: Spanish Fork Maria H. Gay (50) Residence: Spanish Fork County of Record Sanpete Co., Utah Place of Marriage: Manti Date of Marriage: 18 Jan 1893 Volume 2; page 368. DEATH: 1. FHL film 873714 "Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah Cemetery Records" copied by Nora W. Carter, 1944: "George Gillet Hales, b. 19 Mar 1844, Nauvoo, Ill., son of Charles Hales and Julia Ann Lockwood, (married.) d. 31 Jan 1907. bur. Spanish Fork, Utah." 2. Mariah Henrietta Hales DUP biography indicates 21 Jan 1906 without documentation. 3. Obituary says body had been kept one week before burial on 7 Feb 1907. 4. Another obituary says death was 31 Jan 1907. BURIAL: 1. FHL film 873714 "Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah Cemetery Records" copied by Nora W. Carter, 1944: "George Gillet Hales, b. 19 Mar 1844, Nauvoo, Ill., son of Charles Hales and Julia Ann Lockwood, (married.) d. 31 Jan 1907. bur. Spanish Fork, Utah." 2. Per obituary. 3. "Index to the Utah County Cemeteries, 1850's to 1996," compiled by Diane R. Parkinson and located at the family history center at the BYU Provo library: George Gillet Hales 19 Mar 1844 - 31 Jan 1907 Spanish Fork. OBITUARY: 1. "Death of Geo. D. Hales. This morning George D. Hales, superintendent of the county infirmary died of pneumonia after a week's illness. Mr. Hales was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hales and was born in Nauvoo, March 19, 1843. He came to Utah in 1850 and has resided since then in Spanish Fork, the major portion of the time, where he has been prominent in civil and religious affairs. He has been superintendent of the infirmary for three years. A wife, 22 children, and a large number of relatives survive him. The remains will be taken to Sapnish Fork for burial." Deseret News, Thurs., 31 Jan 1907. 2. "The remains of George S. Hales will be buried today. Services are to be held in the third ward meeting house at 1 o'clock. the body has been kept one week awaiting the arrival of his son, Bishop Hales, who was in the Deep Creek country at the tie of his father's death." Spanish Fork Press, Thurs., 7 Feb 1907. SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website 2. Per Ancestral File. 3. 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 Susan Black's entry in her book "Early LDS Members." | Hales, George Gillette (I159)
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| 2161 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 14, Decatur, Iowa, p. 326b, dwellings 39-42, 30 Oct 1850; note there are only about 16 pages of census for this area versus 188 for Pottawattamie County; also note that the families of George, Charles, Henry, Stephen Hales and their mother Mary Ann Thompson were all neighbors - Mary Ann's husband had died in 1846 and she remarried to William Thompson; she dies herself in about 6 months: Dwelling 39: William Thompson, 46, farmer, Scotland. Mary A., 51, Eng. Daniel 17, farmer, Canada. David 19, farmer, Scotland. William, 15, Canada. Maria, 12, MO. Orville, 9, Ill. Dwelling 40: George Hales, 28, printer, Eng. Sarah A., 27, NY. Mary A., 6. Harriett, 4, Iowa. Dwelling 41: Charles Hales, 33, bricklayer, Eng. Julia A., 26, NY. Eliza A., 9, IL. Julia A., 8, IL. George G., 6, IL. Mary J. 4, IL. Charles H., 2, IL. Henry H. Hales, 21, farmer, Eng. Eliza A., 20, PA. Dwelling 42: Stephen Hales, 30, stonecutter, Eng. Eveline, 20, VT. Stephen, 1, IA. Censuses: 1870 US: Kanarah, Kane, Utah, 18 Jul 1870: Family 4, (note that John Berry was polygamous with two wives - Julia being the second. Also note that the girl with Julia is actually Julia's niece from her brother Charles Henry Hales): John Berry, 47, farmer, TN. Jane, 39, MS. John M., 16, UT. Mary I., 14, UT. William W., 12, UT. Nancy A., 10, UT. James F., 9, UT. Cynthia L., 7, UT. Eliza E., 5, UT. Robert A., 3, UT. Joseph S., 1, UT. Family #5: Julia Berry, 27, keeping house, IL. Sarah I. Berry, 2, UT. 1880 US: Kanara, Kane, Utah, NA film T9-1336, p. 424d (Sarah I. is Sarah Isabelle Hales, the daughter of Charles Henry Hales and Sarah Ellen Hunt making her the niece of Julia Ardence (Hales) Berry, Charles Hales sister. Apparently, when Sarah's mother Sarah Hunt died in 1868, the several month old Sarah Isabelle was adopted by her aunt Julia and her husband John Berry. This also explains how Sarah Isabelle met her husband George Davis in Kanara whereas Charles Henry Hales and his family lived elsewhere in southern Utah.] John W. Berry, farmer, M, 58, TN, VA, - . Jane E., keeping house, wife, M, 49, IN, - , - . John M., stock raiser, son, S, 26, UT, TN, IN. Nancy A., At home, dau, S, 21, UT, TN, IN. James T., Works on farm, S, 19, UT, TN, IN. Thurza E., At home, dau., 15, UT, TN, IN. Joseph S., Works on farm, S, 10, UT, TN, IN. George A., S, 6, UT, TN, IN. Julia A., At home, wife, M, 37, IL, Eng, NY. Sarah I., At home, dau, S, 11, UT, Eng, IN. 1900 US: Cedar City, Iron, Utah, p. 257a: James Rickards, Nov 1847, 52, m. 6 years, OH Maryland OH, engineering. Julia, wife, Jul 1842, 57, m. 6 years, 3 total children all living, IL Eng NY. Julia, dau., Apr 1883, 17, S, UT OH IL. 2. Some records use variations of her middle name including Ardence or Ordinia. Her burial record gives name as Julia Ardena. BIOGRAPHY: 1. In the execution of father's last will and testament, this individual shown as living at Kanarra, Iron, Utah on 22 Jun 1889. BIRTH: 1. Father's autobiography gives birth in June of 1842. 2. Per Burial Index cited below. MARRIAGE: 1. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by the daughters of Utah Pioneers has a biography of Catherine Maxwell Truman, Jacob Truman's first wife: "...Upon her arrival in the valley, she learned that a Mr. Gaddis, the man who had helped pay her way to Utah with the intention of marrying her when she arrived, already had a wife. Elizabeth said, 'I will be the second wife to no man!' Elizabeth later met Jacob Mica Truman, from New York. They were married three months later on Dec. 21, 1856 with Brigham Young officiating. Although she said she would not be a second wife, that was exactly what she was. Jacob had married Elizabeth Boyce on April 19, 1849, and was living in South Cottonwood... Catherine and Elizabeth were able to build a good relationship. Often indeed, did Catherine's fiery temper have the upper hand. Some felt sorry for the gentler Elizabeth, but can remember well their mutual anger when their husband brought home a third wife, Julia, on June 14, 1857. They made him see his error, and soon the new Mrs. Truman left..." 2. From the website www.softcom.net/users/paulandsteph/jmt/elizabethshistory.html 8 Dec 2002 in the biography of Catherine Maxwell, one of Jacob Truman's wives: "...Often indeed did her fiery scotch temper have the upper hand. Many of the neighbors felt sorry for the gentle Elizabeth Boyce, Jacob Truman's first wife. But well do they remember the mutual anger at Jacob when he brought home a third wife, Julia Ardena Hales, whom he had married 14 Jun 1857. Together they made him see the error in bringing Julia there as she did not fit in with them. Alice Hunt Jones, a granddaughter of Rhoda Maria, relates the following incident: 'I will just have to relate a little incident told to me by a granddaughter of Catherine's (Libby Terry). One morning Aunt Katie (as she was more commonly known) was getting ready to go milk the cows, she had her little brass milk bucket in her hand ready to go, when Julia said to her, 'I slept with Jacob last night, but all you slept with was little Jacob.' At that Aunt Katie threw the bucket at Julia's head, but Julia ducked in time to miss it.' Julia finally left and divorced Jacob..." DEATH: 1. Per website 2. Utah State Historical Society Burials Database online: Julia Ardena Rickards, b. 17 Jul 1842 in England [error, should be IL], d. 2 Nov 1919 due to pneumonia, bur. at Cedar City Cemetery D-25-02-05. 3. Death Certificate found on Family Tree accessed 11 Jun 2013. BURIAL: 1. Per Burial Index cited above. SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website 2. 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 and Susan Black's entry in her book "Early LDS Members." | Hales, Julia Ardena or Ardence (I158)
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| 2162 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 14, Decatur, Iowa, p. 326b, dwellings 39-42, 30 Oct 1850; note there are only about 16 pages of census for this area versus 188 for Pottawattamie County; also note that the families of George, Charles, Henry, Stephen Hales and their mother Mary Ann Thompson were all neighbors - Mary Ann's husband had died in 1846 and she remarried to William Thompson; she dies herself in about 6 months: Dwelling 39: William Thompson, 46, farmer, Scotland. Mary A., 51, Eng. Daniel 17, farmer, Canada. David 19, farmer, Scotland. William, 15, Canada. Maria, 12, MO. Orville, 9, Ill. Dwelling 40: George Hales, 28, printer, Eng. Sarah A., 27, NY. Mary A., 6. Harriett, 4, Iowa. Dwelling 41: Charles Hales, 33, bricklayer, Eng. Julia A., 26, NY. Eliza A., 9, IL. Julia A., 8, IL. George G., 6, IL. Mary J. 4, IL. Charles H., 2, IL. Henry H. Hales, 21, farmer, Eng. Eliza A., 20, PA. Dwelling 42: Stephen Hales, 30, stonecutter, Eng. Eveline, 20, VT. Stephen, 1, IA. 1880 US: Richfield, Sevier, Utah, FHL film 1255338, NA film T9-1338, p. 478D: George Ogilvie, farmer, M, 47, Nova Scotia, GA, Nova Scotia. Eliza A. Ogilvie, keeping house, wife, M, 39, IL, Eng, Nova Scotia. Geo. W. Ogilvie, son, S, 20, UT, NS, IL. Mary I. Ogilvie, dau., S, 17, UT, NS, IL. Chas. H. Ogilvie, son, 15, UT, NS, IL. BIOGRAPHY: 1. In the execution of father's last will and testament, this individual shown as living at Richfield, Sevier, Utah on 22 Jun 1889. 2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude" by Daughters of Utah Pioneers (photo accompanies article): "Eliza Ann Hales Ogilvie, b. 27 Nov 1840 at Quincy, Adams, Illinois, d. 4 Jan 1899 at Richfield, Sevier, Utah, parents are Charles Henry Hales and Julia Ann Lockwood, pioneer of Sep 1852 of the Edward Hunter Wagon Company, m. Dr. George Ogilvie 2 Mar 1857 (he died 23 Sep 1918 at Richfield, Sevier, Utah), children: Eliza Ann, 16 Apr 1858 George William, 15 Mar 1860 Mary Isabella, 28 Jul 1862 Charles Henry, 13 Mar 1865 Joseph, 8 Jul 1867 (died at 9 months) Eliza became a responsible person very early in her life since she was the oldest of 12 children in her family. She helped her mother wherever she could during very trying times. Her family experienced the persecution of the mobs before and after the murder of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum Smith. Eliza endured hardships of pioneer life and the sorrow of losing her beloved grandmother, Mary Ann Hales, on the journey to Utah. The Hales family was traveling with the Edward Hunter Wagon Company and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in Sep. 1852. Eliza married Dr. George Ogilvie and they became the parents of five children. They were some of the original settlers of Richfield, Utah. She was called to be Relief Society President during the time the silk industry was started and continued in the presidency for 8 years. During the Indian troubles, the settlers of Richfield were advised to move north to larger settlements for safety. They moved back to Spanish Fork from about 1867 until 1870 before they returned to Sevier Valley. Eliza's son, Charles Henry, was shot and killed instantly when he was 20 years old. Eliza's life was one of hard work and service to others. Her childen and grandchildren loved her and enjoyed the biscuits she made for breakfast every morning. She and her husband did a lot of temple work in the Manti temple. She remained faithful to the principles of the gospel until her death on Jan. 4, 1899." BIRTH: 1. Date and place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002; notes place as Nauvoo, Illinois. 2. Per DUP biography cited above. MARRIAGE: 1. Per DUP biography cited above. DEATH: 1. Date of 9 Jan 1899 per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002; notes cause as diabetes and father Charles H. Hales. 2. Per DUP biography cited above except that it has a variant date of 4 Jan 1899. BURIAL: 1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002; notes A.06.09.04., 2. Tombstone reads: "George Ogilvie, April 24, 1834 - Sept. 28, 1918. Eliza Ann, his wife, Nov. 27, 1840 - Jan. 5, 1899. Pioneers of 1852-1854." SOURCES_MISC: 1. 18 Dec 2002 website 2. 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). Data is basically Susan Easton Black's Early LDS Members and other data already included above. | Hales, Eliza Ann (I157)
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| 2163 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 14, Decatur, Iowa, p. 326b, dwellings 39-42, 30 Oct 1850; note there are only about 16 pages of census for this area versus 188 for Pottawattamie County; also note that the families of George, Charles, Henry, Stephen Hales and their mother Mary Ann Thompson were all neighbors - Mary Ann's husband had died in 1846 and she remarried to William Thompson; she dies herself in about 6 months: Dwelling 39: William Thompson, 46, farmer, Scotland. Mary A., 51, Eng. Daniel 17, farm aqer, Canada. David 19, farmer, Scotland. William, 15, Canada. Maria, 12, MO. Orville, 9, Ill. Dwelling 40: George Hales, 28, printer, Eng. Sarah A., 27, NY. Mary A., 6. Harriett, 4, Iowa. Dwelling 41: Charles Hales, 33, bricklayer, Eng. Julia A., 26, NY. Eliza A., 9, IL. Julia A., 8, IL. George G., 6, IL. Mary J. 4, IL. Charles H., 2, IL. Henry H. Hales, 21, farmer, Eng. Eliza A., 20, PA. Dwelling 42: Stephen Hales, 30, stonecutter, Eng. Eveline, 20, VT. Stephen, 1, IA. 1860 US: Spanish Fork City, Utah, Utah, p. 229, 23 Aug 1860, family 1629: Charles H. Hale, 48 farmer, $300, $800, Eng. Julia A., 35, NY. Frances, 23, Eng. George G., 17, laborer, IL. Mary J., 13, IA. Charles H., 11, IA. Joseph L., 9, IA. John T., 7, UT. Stephen F., 5, UT. William, 2, UT. Maria J., 7/12, UT. Lucy E., 3, UT. Mary, 4/12, UT. 1870 US: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, p. 8, 1 Aug 1870, family 56 (note Sarah Isabelle, Charles' 2 year old child from his deceased first wife is not with the family): Charles Hales, 21, Carpenter, $100, $100, Iowa. Elizabeth, 20, keeping house, UT. 1880 Census shows Charles Henry Hales in two places with each of his two families and as probably polygamous: A. Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, NA film T9-1338, p. 188B: Charles Henry Hales, carpenter, age 31, b. OH, father b. Eng., mother b. PA. Elizabeth Hales, wife, 29, b. UT, father b. IL, mother b. NC. Mary Hales, dau., 9, UT, OH, UT. John T. Hales, son, 6, UT, OH, UT. Melvina Hales, dau., 9m, UT, OH, UT. B. Parowan, Iron, Utah, FHL film 1255336, (National Archives Film T9-1336), p. 354C (Interesting to note that they lived in Parowan at the same time as Jane Hanks and Martha Frederick Shoemaker): H. Charles Hales, Cabinet Maker, age 31, b. IA, Father b. Eng. and Mother b. NY. A. Jemima Hales, age 17, b. UT, mother born MO. A. George Hales, son, age 9M, b. UT 1900 US: Junction, Piute, Utah, ED 114, p. 229, June 2 and 4, 1900 US: Hales, Charles H., head, b. Sept. 1848, age 57, m. 22 years, b. IA, fa. b. Eng., mo. b. NY, farmer. Gemima A., wife, Mar 1863, 37, m. 22 years, 8 total children, 6 living, b. UT, fa. not noted, mo. b. MO. William H., son, July 1883, 16, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Orval W., son, Apr 1889, 11, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Asel L., son, Apr 1889, 11, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Jennie A., dau., Oct 1891, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Erwin G., son, Jul 1898, s., b. UT, fa. b. IO, mo. b. UT. Julia A., mother, Aug 1824, 75, widow, 12 total children, 9 living, b. NY, fa. b. Rhode Is., mo. b. MA. 2. Deed information found in the Piute County Recorder's Office, 31 Mar 2005, in person, Junction, Utah: a. Piute County Book A "Index to Mortgages" by date of filing: 23 Jan 1895, Deed book. 7, p. 303, cancelled 30 Sep 1897, from Charles H. Hales and wife to D.C. Thompson, lot in Junction. This piece of land is the land on which the Hales built their hotel and residence and which we have old and new photos. The deed and current platting shows this as Lot 4, Block 5, Plat B, of Junction Townsite. It is on the northwest corner of Highway 89 and 100 South. On the same property is an newer building housing a small antique business. The original barn behind the building has mainly fallen in - it has the reputation of having once stabled Butch Cassidy's horses. The original lot was the whole quarter of the block. The northwest corner of the block to the south of this house on the same side of the street was owned by the Stoker family (specifically D.W. Stoker, Michael's son - currently the older homes on the east side center of that block are still owned by Stokers. 13 Jan 1903, Bk. 1, p. 410, cancelled 20 Aug 1908, from Charles H. Hales and wife to State of Utah, land. The deed book shows this land bought 12 Jan 1903 and described as the SW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Section 4 and the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 9 in Township 30 South Range 3 West, Salt Lake Meridian and which was described as containing 80 acres more or less. It is pasture land northeast of town currently owned by the Piute Reservoir Association. I did not see the land but it was described to me as without structures and for agricultural purposes only. It is currently on or near the shores of the Reservoir. Michael Stoker also had some nearby land described in the 9 Feb 1898 deed where he gave partial interest to two sons as the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 and the E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 34 Township 29 South Range 3 W, Salt Lake Meridian. PHOTOS: 1. "Blackhawk War Veterans Medal" photo from Tom and Karen Hales Kermen of Aloha, Oregon. One of Karen's uncles owns the medal and Tom believes he lives in California. 2. I have a photo of a family grouping with with wife and Children. I also have some photos of the Hales Hotel in Junction Utah. BIOGRAPHY: 1. In the execution of father's last will and testament, this individual shown as living at Junction, Piute, Utah on 22 Jun 1889. 2. Three Patriarchal Blessings: A. FHL film 392655 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index": Charles Henry Hales, b. 7 Sep 1848 at Garden Grove, Ducater Co., Iowa, parents Charles H. Hales and Julia Ann Lockwood. Blessing date 5 Oct 1890 at Junction, Piute Co., Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch Joseph E. Heywood. Vol. 164, p. 14. B. FHL film 392655 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index": Charles Henry Hales, b. 17 Sep 1848 at Garden Grove, Iowa, parents Charles Henry Hales and Julia Ann Lockwood. Blessing date 28 Feb 1875 at Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch Morris Phelps. Vol. 687, p. 23. C. Patriarchal Blessing, LDS Archives 690-365: "Spanish Fork Utah Co June 28, 1891. A Patriarchal blessing given by G.W. Brimhall upon the head of Charles Henry Hales son of Charles Henry Hales and Julia Ann Lockwood. Born Garden Grove, Dakota Co.[should be Decatur Co.], Iowa State Sept. 17, 1848. Bro. Chas. by Virtue and authority of the holy Melchisedek Priesthood by which I have been ordained to bless the fatherless I lay my hands upon your head. Thou are a son of Joseph who was sold into Egypt even the Hebrew boy born in the tents of Ephriam and undoubted right to the blessing of the holy fathers, prophets, seers, and revelators. See thou honor as one of the diadems in the crown of thy father and mother and thou shalt live in good health of body with good judgement of mind to labor in Zion for to build up Zion. Thou shalt open thy mouth when thou art called to be a judge and judge right judgement and plead the cause of the poor and place a blanket upon the widows shoulder and coverings for the orphans feet. I seal upon thee long life upon the earth. Thou shalt be mighty in testimony in preaching the gospel of christ for the salvation of the souls of the children of men. I seal upon thee the gift of the holy spirit that thou shalt interpret the language of a strange people that is of the house Israel unto whom the Lord will send thee and thou shalt bring them up to the centre Stake of Zion to build the walls round about and holy house unto the most high. A warranted deed which is in thy father for lands in the regions round about thou shalt inherit as one of his legal heirs. I seal upon thee a crown of imperial majesty and government of thyself all the days of thy mortal life. Thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord. No poisonous reptile shall harm thee and the viper shall not leave its venomous in thy bosom for I seal upon thee to forgive all mankind their trespasses and sins. I seal upon thee eternal life to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection and be glorified with the the redeemed of the Lord. Even so. Amen. Sina Brimhall Rec." 3. From Hales Chronicles online at www.hales.org mentions Charles in the autobiography of grandson Melvin Donald Hales: "It was a cold and dreary day in Junction, Piute County, Utah, when to my knowledge I made my first appearance on this earthly hemisphere as a mortal being on January 3rd, 1910. I was privileged to have, to my estimation, the most wonderful earthly parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Heber Hales, that has been brought forth in any dispensation since the beginning and creation of this earth. My first recollection of my Childhood was during a period of time that my father was Marshall and it was one of his duties to ring the church bell at 9 p.m. every night signifying that it was curfew time and that all youngsters should be home. This obligation he delegated to us Children. There were five of us children at this time: Lorin, Ernest, Wildon, myself and Jesse. Jesse was only two years old at this time so Lorin and I paired off and Ernest and Wildon. We had many varied experiences during our Childhood as some of the Ute Indians weren't too friendly and had maintained an hostile attitude toward the white settlers in the Junction area which my Grandfather Hales had been instrumental in settling. While I encountered no violence personally, some of my Father's relatives were massacred. Listening to my parents and friends discussing many of the interesting events that took place with the Indians never failed to fill us with dread and I was more than a little reluctant to retire at night..." 4. Tom Kermen's email of 19 Jan 2003, Kermen@att.net, included the following letter from Wanda Hales, aunt of his wife Karen Viola Hales. Wanda indicates the following information was given by Mary Ann Jensen (wife of Orval Woodruff Hales) as told to her by Jemima Ann: "Jemima Ann Adair was born March 27, 1863 at a small town called 'The Muddy' just over the Arizona line. Mother was Ann Chestnut Adair. Father was George Washington Adair. Another family by the name of Carson was at this same place at the same time. Jemima Ann's mother died at the time of her birth and the Carson family had just lost their new born baby. George Adair gave Jemima Ann to the Carson family to raise as their own. The Carson family then moved to Parowan. She always thought they were her parents until she married when she was told her real name. She married Charles Henry Hales the 29th of March 1878 just two days past her 15th birthday. They settled in Kanarra where her first boy was born. She was married in polygamy, the third wife. Two more sons were born to her at Kanarra. In 1885 they homesteaded a farm in Junction where she spent the rest of her life. A daughter, May, died in 1895 at age 6 from a typhoid epidemic. Her husband also contracted typhoid which caused complications and left him a semi-invalid. They bought a town lot and built a large hotel 1902-1903 with the help of her boys. She had eight children including a set of twins. Charles Henry Hales was a carpenter by trade. He built a large recreation hall for the community before he built the hotel. He also made all the caskets for the burials at that time. Charles Henry Hales died in 1908 [error; should be 1907]. Jemima Ann worked hard all her life, first on the farm and later running the hotel. She died Jan. 2, 1919." 4. Online Utah Digital Newspaper Collection. 1891 Apr 18. Provo "Evening Dispatch." "Before Judge Blackburn - Henry Hales Gets One Month and Costs - ... Henry Hales, charged with unlawful cohabitation, withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered one of guilty. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in the penitentiary and costs ..." 5. Copy of newspaper article in my possession from the "Piute County," 20 Nov 1903, which has a small advertisement which reads as follows: "The Travelling Publis will be pleased to learn that the Commodious Junction House, Junction, Utah, has been opened. Terms Reasonable. Charles H. Hales, Prop. Central Location." BIRTH: 1. Patriarchal Blessing cited above. 2. Per tombstone. 3. Junction Ward Records: A. FHL film 26044 LDS Membership Records for Junction Ward, Panguitch Stake, Utah, p. 37, Junction Ward was created 19 Mar 1887 when the Kingston Ward was dissolved and two new wards created: Junction and Kingston. Charles H. Hales, Jr., b. 17 Sep 1848 at Gardengrove, Decater, Iowa to Charles H. Hales and Julia A. Lockwood, bapt. 1856 by Charles H. Hales, ordained a Priest by Geo. Wilkins, ordained an Elder in 1866 by T. C. Martell, rebapt. and reconf. 1877 by Geo. G. Hales. J.A. Hales, b. 27 Mch 1863 at Washington, Washington, Utah to Geo. W. Adair and Ann Chestnut, bapt. 1871 by V. Carson, conf. 1871 by R.F. Gould Children: Geo. Ammon Hales, b. 24 Aug 1879 at Kanarra, Kane, Utah, blessed by Thos. Deavenport, bapt. 24 Aug 1887 by C.H. Hales, conf. 28 Aug 1887 by C.H. Hales Chas. H. Hales, b. 30 Mch 1881 at Parowan, Iron, Utah, blessed by ___ Skougard, bapt. 22 Sep 1889 by John Morrill, conf. 22 Sept. 1889 by J.H. Langford Wm. H. Hales, b. 25 Jul 1883 at Parowan, Iron, Utah, blessed by Peter M. Jensen Ida May Hales, b. 18 Apr 1886 at Junction, Piute, Utah, blessed 13 June 1886 by James W. Baysen Orval Woodruff Hales, b. 19 Apr 1889 at Junction, Piute, Utah, blessed 19 May 1889 by R.A. Allen Acel Leonard Hales, b. 19 Apr 1889 at Junction, Piute, Utah, blessed 19 May 1889 by C.H. Hales Remarks for all individuals: Taken into Junction Ward. B. FHL film 26044 LDS Membership Records for Junction Ward, Panguitch Stake, Utah, recorded in 1911: #613 Charles H. Hales, b. 17 Sep 1848 at Garden Grove, Dacatur, Iowa to Chas. H. Hales, died April 2, 1907. [Wife] #614 Jamima Ann (Adair) Hales, b. 27 Mch 1863 at Washington, Washington, Utah to George Adair. Dead. [Children:] #615 Erwin Glen Hales, b. 5 Jul 1897 at Junction, Piute, Utah, to Chas. H. Hales and Jamima A. Adair, bapt. 30 Jun 1906 by John Morrill, conf. 1 Jul 1906 by John Morrill. Removed. #616 Jennie Elmira Hales, b. 26 Oct 1891 at Junction, Piute, Utah, to Chas. H. Hales and Jamima A. Adair, bapt. 1 Jul 1900 by John Morrill and conf. 1 Jul 1900 by Horace Morrill. Removed. #617 George Ammon Hales, b. 27 Aug 1879 at Kanarrah, Kane, Utah, to Chas. H. Hales and Jamima A. Adair, bapt. 24 Aug 1887 by Charles H. Hales, conf. 28 Aug 1887 by Charles H. Hales. Dead Oct. 31, 1897. #618 Ida May Hales, b. 18 Apr 1886 at Junction, Piute, Utah, to Chas. H. Hales and Jamima A. Adair, bapt. 5 Jul 1894 by John Morrill and conf. 5 Jul 1894 by Charles H. Hales. Dead 30 Jan 1895. BURIAL: 1. Per Hales tombstone in Junction Old Cemetery [which is across the street from the New Hilltop Cemetery] apparently placed very recently [older white tombstone still exists] which reads: Grandfather Charles Henry, Sept. 17, 1848 - Apr. 7, 1907. Grandmother Jemima Ann Adair, Mar. 27, 1863 - Jan 2, 1919. Children: Ida May, Apr. 18, 1886 - June 30, 1895. George Ammon, Aug. 24, 1879 - Oct. 31, 1897. I also have on file a handwritten map of this cemetery where someone identified 42 names and their locations. On this list are the four individuals above and they are buried in the northeast corner. None of the other 38 names appear connected to my family history. The compiler of the information does state that the names of many others are long forgotten. 2. Obituary below makes it clear his death date was April 2. LDS membership also states April 2. Even though the majority of Hales descendants use April 7, April 2 appears to be the correct date. OBITUARY: 1. "Junction. Black Hawk Veteran Dead. Charles Henry Hales Closes Eventful Career at 59. Special Correspondence. Junction, Piute Co., April 3. - Charles Henry Hales, who has been a very prominent citizen here for about 22 years, died here at 6 o'clock yesterday morning after an illness that took him to his bed about a month ago. Mr. Hales was born Sept. 17, 1848 at Garden Grove, Decatur county, Ia. His parents were members of the Mormon Church before he was born, and in the fall of 1852, when he was four years old, they came to Utah and settled in Little Cottonwood, from there they went to Spanish Fork where Mr. Hales spent his boyhood. In 1878 he moved to Kanarra, Iron county where he met and married Jemima Ann Adair. From there they went to Parowan, where they lived until 1884 when they came to Junction and have lived here until the present time. Mr. Hales is the father of 15 children. He leaves a wife and 10 children still living to mourn his death. He was one of the veterans of the Black Hawk war, having served under Col. John Nuttall. He was a faithful member of the Mormon Church." Deseret Evening News, Friday, 5 Apr, 1907, p. 3. SOURCES_MISC: 1. FHL 0026044 (Junction Ward). 2. Per family group sheet archive record Submitted by: W.H.Hales, 4627 East 53 St. Maywood, CA; new: 3925 Kisle Ave. Ogden, UT. ACTION: 1. Look at source film of Junction Ward; hasn't yet been verified by me. 2. Learn more about Black Hawk War. 4. Find death info on Elizabeth Thompson. Might be in Kanarra or Parowan since husband Charles lived in Kanarra from 1878 and moved thereafter to Parowan until he moved to Junction in 1884. On the other hand, her last child of record appears to have been born in Spanish Fork in 1879 after the 1878 move date of Charles to Kanarra. 5. Obituary mentions he had 15 children - I have only records for 14. Who is the fifteenth Child? Obituary also mentions 10 living at the time of his death which is correct to my records - so the missing child may have died young. 6. There is a Charles Hales of Utah listed in Ancestry.com's "Utah Index to Indian War Service Affidavits, 1909-19 Record. It is on reel 5, but must be seen in person. The following is the information where the record can be found. Description: War with the Native Americans plagued the United States for much of the time between 1865 and 1890. This time period has come to be known as the Indian War period. Beginning in 1909 in Utah veterans of the Indian wars, under the direction of the Board of Commissioners of Indian War Records, completed affidavits of their service. Most of the affidavits were created in 1909 and 1910. However, there are a few that date as late as 1919. The affidavits provide information such as the veteran's name, residence, age, date of enrollment in the military, type of company, captain's name, length of service, etc. If a veteran was deceased his wife or children could fill out an affidavit in his place. Affidavits were filled out mainly to authenticate pension claims. This database is an index to the affidavits. The index includes the veteran's name and the reel number on which a microfilmed copy of the record is located. The microfilmed copies are Series 2217 located at the Utah State Archives. For more information about this particular set of records or to learn how to contact the Archives or where the Archives are located please visit their website (Utah State Archives and Records Services Source Information: Utah State Archives and Records Service. Utah Index to Indian Wars Service Affidavits, 1909-19 [database online]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2003. Original data: Utah. Utah. Commissioner of Indian War Records. Indian War Service Affidavits, 1909-1919. Series 2217. Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, Utah. | Hales, Charles Henry (I134)
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| 2164 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 137b, dwelling and family 1165 [Note: first two children are from Samuel Carson, third is from Moses Pearson, and last two are from John Price]. Neighbor to William Mangum: John Price, 34, farmer, TN Eliza, 40, TN Valentine, 18, AL Elizabeth, 16, AL Margaret, 11, AL Rebecca, 5, MS George, 2, MS 1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 26 Jul 1860, p. 1037, household 1284, family 1109, July 27, 1860 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price William Mangum, Cyrus Mangum, Samuel N. Adair are all listed as neighbors): Jno. Price, 44, D'Labor, TN. Eliza J., 50, TN. Rebecca D., 14, MS. Thoms, 12, IA. Hyrum, 9, MO. Joseph, 6, UT. Eliza J., 3, UT. Wm. Freem [Freeman?], 50, carptr., $300 personal property, MO. 1880, National Archives film T9-1339, p. 373D for Washington, Washington, Utah: John Price, Bee raiser, Self M M W 64 TN Fa:VA Mo: TN Eliza Jane Price, Keep house, wife F M W 69 TN Fa:SC Mo:SC 2. Parents are George Price, b. 30 Dec 1787 at Caswell, NC, d. 23 Feb 1861 at Lincoln, TN and Pheta Ann Hodge, b. 23 Nov 1794 at Lincoln, TN, d. 16 Mar 1857 at Lincoln, TN per website 26 Feb 2002 BIOGRAPHY: 1. Note: ten names of the first men to Dixie were among Adairs, Mangums, Richeys, and Prices who were all interrelated by marriage. Excerpt taken from book "Under Dixie Skies," a history of Washington County, Utah [similar accounts are found in the books "I Was Called to Dixie" by Andrew Karl Larson, 1961, p. 67 and "A History of Washington County, From Isolation to Destiny," by Douglas D. Alder and Karl F. Brooks, pp. 28, 29]: "(Samuel Adair) In keeping with Brigham Young's policy of making the Church self-sustaining, a company was called to settle on the Mill Creek (which is now part of Washington Co.) primarily for the purpose of raising cotton. What should be more logical than to send men who had had experience in cotton culture? A number of converts who came from the South were accordingly called to go into what was later known as Utah's Dixie. Two groups went in the spring of 1857. The first group, consisting of ten families under the leadership of Samuel Adair [apparently, Robert D. Covington and Samuel J. Adair were the leaders of two groups, who were called to the 'Cotton Mission'], left Payson, Utah on the 3rd of March and arrived at the site of what was subsequently called Washington on the 15th day of April. They camped near the river on a piece of land later designated as the "Sand Plot," but on the advice of Amasa Lyman, who was passing through on his way from San Bernardino to Salt lake City, they moved up to the place where the town now stands. The second company [under Covington] left Salt lake City early in April and camped on the 5th of May at the Samuel Adair Spring, on the east side of the valley, just a short distance north of the present US highway 91. The following were members of the two original companies and others who settled at Washington in 1857. Robert D. Covington, Harrison Pearce, James B. Regran [or Reagan], Willam B. [or R.] Slade, Joseph Smith, William Hawley, John Couch Sr., John Couch Jr., John Mangum, James [B.] Wilkins, Alfred Johnson, John W. Freeman, James D. McCullough, William H. Crawford, Umpstead Rencher, Balus Spouse [or Sprouse], James Richie [or Richey], Samuel Adair, Oscar Tyler, George Spencer, Jr., J. Holden, Joseph Adair, Joseph Hatfield, William Dameron, Preston Thomas, William Fream, George [W.] Adair, [Samuel?] Newton Adair, John Clark, Thomas W. Smith, Simes [or Sims] B. Matheny, Stephen and William Dugas [or Duggins], William J. Young, Enoch Dodge, John Price, and Robert Lloyd. William Darby Cooper was also an early settler. [Bleak, 'Annals of the Southern Utah Mission,' p. 34, the heads of the families listed by Bleak also include in addition to those above: Upstead Rencher, George Hawley, John Hawley, John Adair, Thomas Adair, J. Holden, William Mangum. Later research by Harold Cahoon of the Washington City Historical Society has added the following names to the original settler list: Newton L.N. Adair [Samuel Newton Adair?], John W. Clark, James Nichols Mathews, Gabriel R. Coley, and John D. Lee.] The trial that the settlers of Washington, in Washington Co., were to endure were probably the most discouraging and severe of any of the early settlers of Utah. When Robert Gardiner passed through the town on his way to settle in St. George in December 1861, he reflected that of all the trials he had to endure, the prospect of his wives and children one day looking like the poor malaria plagued creatures he saw in Washington was what appalled him most of all. He says in his journal: 'Here we found some of our old neighbors who received us very kind but the appearance of these brethren and their wives and children was rather discouraging. Nearly all of them had the fever and ague or chills as they called it in this country. They had worked hard and worn out their clothes and had replaced them from the cotton they had raised on their own farms which their women had carded, spun, and wove by had, colored with weeds. Men's shirts, women's dresses and sunbonetts were all made of the same piece; and their clothes and their faces were of the same color, being a kind of blue, as most everyone had the chills. This tried me more than anything I have had seen in my Mormon experience thinking that my wives and Children, from the nature of the climate, would have to look as sickly as those now around me.' This coupled with the trouble and struggle they had trying to build a dam in the Virgin River for irrigation purposes, which was washed out every spring, made the life of the saints that settled Washington probably the most trying of any early settlers." The book "History of Washington County" adds: "Their new home was to be called Washington, as determined in advance by Brigham Young and his counselors, Its location was also fixed - the benchland overlooking the Washington fields. The town was located near several fine springs which have favored the community above others in Dixie. The fields likewise provided a lush expanse of farmland. Washington appeared to have advantages over other communities, but this did not prove to be so. Those broad fields were formed by ancient floods; and modern floods would haunt Washington - not the town but the irrigation projects. And the springs created marshes. There insects would spread malaria. So the Washington Saints were spared little; their plight, fighting malaria and rebuilding washed-out dams, would equal, if not surpass, the tests their neighbors encountered." 2. Two monuments erected in Washington, Washington, Utah: A. "Adair Spring, The Birthplace of Utah's Dixie, Washington City, Utah - Erected by the citizens of Washington City & The Washington City Historical Society, 1996. In early 1857 Brigham Young called a group of Southerners on a cotton mission to Southern Utah to raise cotton. Samuel Newton Adair [this is a mistake; should be Samuel Jefferson Adair], the leader of ten families, arrived at this spot April 15, 1857, after leaving Payson, Utah on March 3. They camped here a short time and then moved down near the Virgin River on what became known as the Sand Plot. Apostle Amasa M. Lyman who was passing through the area recommended they move back to the spring area which they did. Robert Dockery Covington arrived here May 5 or 6, 1857, with 28 more Southern families. They left the Salt Lake area shortly after the LDS Spring Conference held around April 6. On May 6 or 7 a two day meeting was held at this site under the direction of Isaac C. Haight, President of the Parowan Stake. They sang songs, prayed and selected Robert D. Covington to be the President of the LDS branch, and Harrison Pearce and James B. Reagan as assistants. Wm. R. Slade and James D. McCullough were appointed Justices of the Peace, John Hawley and James Matthews as constables, G.R. Coley as stray pound keeper and Wm. R. Slade, Geo. Hawley and G.W.Spencer as school trustees. They named their city Washington. It was too late to plant wheat, so they prepared the ground for corn and went right to work making dams and ditches to water their crops. Their homes were their wagon boxes, willow and mud huts and dugouts dug in the bank east of this monument. Their new home soon was called 'Dixie'. Those who came in the spring of 1857 were: [43 names listed "and others; the following names are those related.] Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Rickey [Richey], James." B. "'Utah's Dixie' - Washington City Founded 1857. Erected by the Washington City Historical Society, November 1994. This monument is erected in honor and memory of the founders of Washington City. The settlers who arrived in 1857 were sent here by Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for the purpose of grwoing cotton to clothe the Mormon pioneers and to colonize the territory. Those early pioneers named their city on May 5 or 6, 1857 in honor of George Washington and also called the area 'Dixie' in remembrance of their former homes in the South. Living in the arid desert proved extremely difficult. Reocurring challenges such as malaria (ague or chills and fever), the lack of food, poor water, and other diseases disabled and decimated the settlers. The Virgin River, providing water to irrigate fields, was crucial to the settlers. However frequent flash floods, washed out the dams built to divert water from the river to the fields. This resulted in starvation and undue hardship. It took the pioneers thirty-four years to conquer the mighty "Rio Virgin" doing so with the completion of the Washington Fields Dam in 1891. [Pioneer names arranged into three groups; 43 'and others' in 1857, 19 in 1860, and 26 'and others' in 1861-62. The names that follow are only those related.] i. 1857: Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Richey, James. ii. 1860 US: Adair, Wesley; Mangum, Cyrus; Mangum, Joseph M. iii. 1861-62: [none]." 3. The book "Utah's 'Dixie' Birthplace," by Harold P. Cahoon and Priscilla Cahoon, pp. 272-276, has a map and lists landowners as of the resurvey of 1873. Names are spelled as recorded. Relations included are: John M. Adair, blk. 15, lot 3. [SE corner of Main and 1st S.] John Price, blk. 34, lot 8. [SW corner of 2nd N and 1st E.] Wesley Adair, blk. 34, lot 10. [ 4th lot N on W side of 1st E halfway between 1st and 2nd N.] Samuel [J.] Adair, blk. 35, lots 1,11,12. [NW corner of 1st N and 2nd E.] Samuel N. Adair, blk. 35, lots 3,4. [2nd and 3rd lot N on E side of 1st E between 1st N and 2nd N.] Levi W. Hancock, blk. 41, lots 1,2,3,6. [Southern 2/3 of block between 1st and 2nd W and 2nd and 3rd N.] James Richey, blk. 34, lot 2. [NE corner of Main and 1st N.] 4. Reference to John Price in Elizabeth Carson's biography per the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 2060, no photo in article: "Elizabeth Carson Lewis Lewis Mortensen, born 10 Aug 1833 in Carrelltown, Pickens, Alabama; died 23 Jun 1901 at Parowan, Iron, Utah; parents Samuel Carson and Eliza Jane Adair Carson Pearson Price; pioneer of 1851; spouses (1) David Lewis married 4 Aug 1852 at Salt Lake Endowment House (he died 2 Sep 1855 at Parowan, Iron, UT), (2) Tarleton Lewis married 1856 in Parowan (he died 22 Nov 1890 at Teasdale, Wayne, Utah), and (3) Niels Otto Mortensen married 1862 in Parowan (he died 7 Apr 1912); had two children with first husband, none with second husband, and five with last husband [see book for names and birthdates]... Elizabeth was converted to the LDS Church as a young woman in Mississippi. She left Mississipppi in November of 1845 with her mother; step-father, John Price; her brother, Valentine Carson; and two half sisters. They arrived in Nauvoo on March 6, 1846 and moved on to Winter Quarters where they put in crops and worked at various jobs to get some means to travel to the Salt Lake Valley. They were finally able to start for the valley in the spring of 1851 and arrived in late summer of that same year. Elizabeth married David Lewis in the Salt Lake Endowment House on August 4, 1852 and they had two children before she was left a widow at the age of 22 with two small daughters. They had also purchased two Indian boys to save them from slavery. Elizabeth learned to understand and speak the Indian languange and raised these boys to adulthood. She married her brother-in-law with the idea that he would take care of her. He was called to establish and supervise other settlements and left her in Parowan. They had two sons together, but she needed to go to work to support her family which now consisted of six children. One of her employers was Neils O. Mortensen. She was providing care for his invalid wife. After his wife died in early 1862, the church sanctioned her marriage to Neils. They made their home on a farm west of Parowan. She was known as a welcoming hostess to the young people of the area, often having musical evenings and dancing parties in her home. She was an excellent cook." 2. Biography of a son of John Price and Eliza Jane Adair from Don and Carolyn Smith, 2003: "Joseph Smith Price. Joseph Smith Price was born on July 2, 1853 in Salt Lake City, Utah, just before the sixth anniversary of the founding of that city on July 24, 1847. He was born to John Price and Eliza Jane Adair who had crossed the plains in covered wagons in 1851 (see Heartthrobs of the West, v. 12, pp. 429-463). Joseph went by "Jode" all his life. He had two older sisters who had been born in 1847 and 1849 en route across the plains, and his oldest sister Rebecca had been born in Alabama. Jode's parents had been sealed together for eternity in the Endowment House in January, 1853, a few months before his birth. In the 1860's the family was called by Brigham Young to move to St. George to help colonize that territory. Jode married Ann Alger on 2 Mar 1874 in St. George, Utah. Their first Child, Joseph Hyrum Price was born on 29 Apr 1875, but he did not live long. Their second Child, Sarah Olivia, who went by Eva all of her life, was born on 23 Nov 1876 in St. George. The St. George temple, the first L.D.S. temple completed in Utah, was first ready for temple work in January, 1877. Jode and Ann had their marriage sealed for eternity there on their third anniversary on 2 Mar 1877. Their third child Josie Viola was born in Parowan, Utah, in 1879, and then Claude was born in Diamond Valley in 1882. Twins Addie and Ida were born in 1886, but they also did not survive. Then Lucille was born on 7 Mar 1890. Their youngest child John was born in 1895, but he died that year. These last four children were born while they lived in St. George. The Price's owned a hotel in St. George. Then they moved to Pioche, Nevada where they also owned a hotel. Ann was a great cook and they also employed an excellent Chinese cook. He made some wonderful pies with a beautiful crimped border. One day when Ann asked him how he made the beautiful edging on the pies, he promptly removed his false teeth and used them to crimp the pie's edge. Needless to say, she was totally shocked at the sight. Then they moved back to Salt Lake City, where they owned the Virginia Hotel on Broadway (Third South) on the north side of the street between State and Main Street. They owned it there in 1907 because their granddaughter Kathryn Worsley still remembers the story of when her three-year old brother Bus (born in 1904) dumped the contents of a spitoon over his head when he visited their hotel. They were also there in 1910 when Kathryn remembers watching Halley's comet with them. Jode and Ann had a strong pioneer spirit and didn't like to settle anywhere too long. They traded their interest in the hotel and purchased a large tract of land to homestead as one of about two families in Oasis, Utah, near Delta. While they lived there, their grandchildren Katie and Anna came to visit in 1912, when Anna was about 2 and Katie 6 years old. Anna crawled under the fence to go pet a baby pig and the mother sow started to charge her to protect it. Jode turned white as a sheet and jumped the fence and swept her out of the way in time and then barely jumped over the fence to save himself from the sow's fury. Anna was so impressed with her grandparents that she renamed herself JoAnn in their honor, by which name she went during all of her adult life. Oasis was so small that when it came time for Katie and JoAnn to return to Salt Lake, Jode built a fire on the railroad tracks to stop the train to pick them up. Apparently that was the standard procedure. After only a few years, they left Oasis, and moved to California where in their later years they lived with their daughter Josie and her husband Claude Snow. Jode Price passed away in Los Angeles on 2 Jun 1932 at age 78." 3. I visited Washington, Utah and in looking at the old land ownership, I found lots for the following related individuals. The streets are located on a typical Mormon grid with Main St. being the starting street north/south and Telegraph being the same east west: -Samuel Adair owned the three adjacent southern lots of the six lots on the west side of 2nd E. from 1st N. to 2nd N. This was directly across the street from the Adair Springs. The blocks here are with 12 lots with the dividing line between the six back to back running north south. -Wesley Adair, owned the next lot directly north of Samuel Adair's (leaving 2 from his lot to the corner of 2nd N and 2nd E. -Samuel N. Adair owned two lots directly behind Samuel Adair. They were the second and third lots going north from 1st N. and 1st E. on the east side of 1st E. -James R. Richey owned the first lot of six going north from Main and 1st N. on the east side of Main. -Valentine Carson owned a lot on the same side of the same street as James Richey except it was the sixth or last lot north whereas Richey's was the first. -John Price owned the lot directly behind Valentine Carson's on the southwest corner lot of 2nd N. and 1st E. -John M. Adair owned the southeast corner of Main and 1st S. That particular block is divided into quarters, so he has one quarter of the block. The other blocks described above for his relations were divided into twelve with six back to back (alley between the six and six runs north/south). BIRTH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database 1 Jan 2002. Name given is John Price. 2. Date and county and state per website of Paul Price http://www.softcom.net/users/paulandsteph/gtp/ancestors.html 2 Jan 2002. Name given is John Buren Price. 3. Town of Lynchburg in Lincoln, Tennessee per Ancestral File v4.19. DEATH: 1. Utah State Historical Society Burials Database online: John Price, b. 20 Nov 1815, d. 11 Jan 1893, bur. Washington City Cemetery. 2. Date and place per website of Paul Price http://www.softcom.net/users/paulandsteph/gtp/ancestors.html 2 Jan 2002. 3. Per website BURIAL: 1. Per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database 1 Jan 2002. 2. Tombstone in the old part of Washington City Cemetery with photos on file: Frontside: "Price: John 20 Nov 1815 - 11 Jan 1893; Eliza Jane Adair 11 Nov 1810 - 16 Aug 1892, sealed for time and all eternity January 14, 1853;" backside: "Children: John, Valentine, Elizabeth, William, Margaret Jane, Rebecca Ann, George Thomas, John Wesley, Hyrum Wiley, Joseph Smith, Eliza Jane." Stone is newer and includes an engraving of the St. George temple. | Price, John Buren (I1410)
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| 2165 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 137b, dwelling and family 1166, neighbor with John Price: William Mangum, 39, AL. Sarah, 33, AL. Caroline, 15, AL. Sarah, 12, AL. Cyrus, 10, AL. 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: Mangum: William 39, Sarah 36, Amelia C. 16, Sarah F. 12, Cyrus F. 10, Marinda 0. [Note next door neighbors are the Thomas/Mary Adair and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.] 1880 US: Hoytsville, Summit, Utah, NA T9-1338, FHL T9-1338, p. 19B: Alfred G. White, marr., 28, Eng Eng Eng, school teacher. Sarah F., wife, 30, AL AL AL. 2. Reviewed 24 Nov 2002 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect. BIOGRAPHY: 1. The book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "Sarah Francis Mangum, born Sept. 29, 1840 Pickens Co., AL. Married David Crockett Cazier. Died Oct. 28, 1889 Nephi, Juab, Utah." 2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 3338, no photo in article: "Sarah Frances Mangum Richey Cazier White was born 11 Sep 1838 in Pickins County, Alabama, to William Mangum and Sarah Ada Adair and died 28 Oct 1889 at Logan, Cache, Utah [Note: not sure if this is an error - the story below seems to indicate Salt Lake City which is also what most databases also show for death]; pioneer of 1852 Wagon Train; spouses and Children: Spouse no. 1: James Richey, married 1857 [should be 1853 per Ordinance Index citation below], he dies 7 Aug 1890 in Ft. Wingate, New Mexico; no children. Spouse no. 2: David Crockett Cazier, married 7 Jun 1857, he dies 19 May 1929 at Nephi, Juab, Utah; Children: David William, 14 May 1858 Adelbert, 4 Apr 1860 Sarah Ellen, 2 Apr 1862 (died at 4 weeks) Orson, 19 Jul 1863 Edwin Ear, 25 Aug 1865 Spouse no. 3: Alfred White, married after 1875 in Nephi, Juab, Utah, the death date is unknown; no children. Sarah Francis was born at Pickins County, Alabama, 1838, into a family of six children. She was eight when her parents arrived in Nauvoo on Jan. 15, 1846. They arrived to find they could not stay. Persecution was forcing every one out of Illinois and Missouri and by weeks end they were following the Saints across the Mississippi River traveling West. They stopped for one month at Mt. Pisgah, and while there Sarah Francis' one year old brother died, and was buried in the Mt. Pisgah burial grounds. The family continued to Council Bluff and stayed four and one half years, another short stay at the Bongo River where Marinda Elizabeth, a one year eight month sister died of cholera and a few days later, at Loup Fork, Sarah's mother became so ill from the disease that her family could only watch helplessly as her life slipped away, on July 3rd, 1852. Sarah Francis was near her fourteenth birthday when they reached the Salt Lake Valley. the family spent the winter in Brigham City and in the Spring of 1853, William married Delight Potter, then the Mangums moved to Payson for four years. Sarah, for a while lived with her aunt Lucinda Richey, and for three months was James Richeys's wife also. She did not like that marriage, got a divorce and went, with her brother Cy Mangum, to Nephi. In David Cazier's writings he says, 'A beautiful girl named Sarah Francis came to Nephi with her brother. With me it was a case of love at first sight... I didn't know how to start things, at last I noticed that she was bare footed. I went all the way to Salt Lake City by ox-team to get her a pair of shoes, which she greatly appreciated. I was 23 and she was 19. We did not have a wedding like couples have today. If I'd had to pay for a license, I could not have done so. Then Sarah Francis took what little belongings she had in a basket and we both carried this basket and walked the long distance to my adobe hut which was half a dugout. Sarah even borrowed a dress to get married in. When the first baby came, we had nothing for clothes so Sarah had to take cotton and wool from beneath the quilts and spin on the old spinning wheel to make clothes for the baby. We were the happiest couple that I ever seen.' Orson Cazier, her fourth Child, later told his grand daughter Marion Blackett, that when his father took Eliza Naylor in polygamy his parents had been married for about nine years. His mother tried but after eleven years, could not adjust to polygamy and in 1875, being thirty-seven years of age, divorced his father David Cazier. Sarah Francis then opened a store down on Main Street and his father would go down often to visit her, chop wood for her and eat with her. Sarah Francis later married Alfred White who had been a school teacher in Nephi, and they were married for fourteen years. In 1889, while living in Salt Lake City with her son Ed, Sarah Francis caught typhoid fever and passed away at the Deseret Hospital (L.D.S.) on Oct. 29, 1889 at the age of 51. David Cazier had her brought back to Nephi for burial, for he always loved her, but he was stubborn and she was proud." 3. LDS Church History Department, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859, Shirts Branch (except as noted), 1848-1851: Rebecca F. Mangum, dau. of John. Sarah Mangum, wife of Wm. Sarah F. Mangum, dau. of Wm. Siras Mangum, son of Wm. William Mangum, bro. of John. Caroline Mangum, dau. of Wm. Elmina D. J. Mangum (blessed). Elmina Drucila (Buoyo Branch, 1850) with the Michel Stephens family. Emaline Mangum, ?wife of Joseph Mangum. John Mangum. Mary Ann Mangum. Murthey L. Mangum (possibly Martha Elizabeth, 4th child of John) 4. From 31 Dec 2005 Rootsweb.com Worldconnect database "ldshistorical": "Cazier, David, a High Councilor in the Juab Stake of Zion and a resident of Nephi Juab co., Utah, is a son of William Cazier and Pleasant Drake, and was born May 1, 1834, in Oldham county, Kentucky. The family moved to Moltry county, Ill., in 1840. Elder Cazier writes: "My father and mother joined the Church in 1845 and moved with their family to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1846, where they shared with the Saints in the general hardships of that time. My brothers James and John enlisted in the Mormon Battalion; my mother died in the fall of 1846 in a hay shed and was buried in a coffin made of a hollowed-out log; there were no flowers in evidence at her funeral. My father went into Missouri to split rails, thereby earning corn and pork wherewith to feed his family. We resided in Iowa for four years and when we departed from that territory to migrate to Utah, we left a good house. We settled in Nephi in 1851, being among the first settlers of that place. I was baptized in 1852 and took an active part in the Walker and Black hawk wars. Together with my brothers John and Samuel, I also participated in the Echo canyon campaign during the winter of 1857–58." "Nephi—The first election in Nephi was conducted on the first Monday in May, 1852, according to the Deseret News of December 11, 1852. Officers elected were Josiah Miller, Mayor; Timothy B. Foote, Charles H. Bryan, John Carter and Isaac Grace, Aldermen; Amos Gustin, John Cazier, David Webb, James Crabb, Cleon Elmer, Levi Gifford, Ichabod Gifford, Thomas Tranter and Miles Miller, Councilors; Zimri H. Baxter, Assessor and Collector; William Cazier, Treasurer; Israel Hoyt, Marshal; and Charles Sperry, Supervisor of Streets." David's brother, John Cazier, was a Mormon Battalion veteran (as was also another brother James Cazier) who married Mary Ann Adair. The following is found in the online Ordinance Index FHL film 183393, p. 156, dated 21 Jul 1853 OTHER between John Cazier, b. 14 Mar 1821 at Wood Co., Virginia and Mary Ann Adair, b. 13 Jun 1837 at Pickens Co., Alabama. John Cazier, md. Mary Ann Adair before she married John Valentine Carson. She was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair and Frances Rogers; Thomas is brother of my direct ancestor Samuel Jefferson Adair. After Mary Ann dies, John Valentine Carson later marries in 1855 Hannah Waggle (sealed 1857) and they adopt Jemima Ann Adair, dau. of Geo. Washington Adair and his first wife Ann Chestnut. From Worldconnect, it appears John had at least a couple dozen children due to polygamous wives. He does not appear to have had any children by Mary Ann Adair. The marriage with Mary Ann Adair was short-lived. Both James and John Cazier were members of the Willis Sick Detachment at Pueblo and would have known David Frederick and Ebenezer and Jane Hanks. BIRTH: 1. Online Ordinance Index has 11 Sept 1838; death information below has 11 Sep 1838. Marriage record to James Richey in Endowment House has 11 Sep 1837. Perhaps the year 1837 was fudged for 1838 so she did not appear quite so young on Apr. 28, 1853 when she married. MARRIAGE: 1. The following information is derived from LDS Ordinance Index, LDS Ancestral File v4.19, and Ancestry.com 24 Nov 2002 databases "dcazier" and ":838418": James Ritchie (Richey): EHOUS extracted LDS temple sealing record for James "Ritchie" and "Sarah Frances Mangum" for 28 Apr 1853; this is James "Richey." They later separate as noted above in the citation from "Pioneer Women." David Crockett Cazier: David Crockett Cazier, 7 Jun 1857, Nephi, Juab, UT. Ancestral File indicates she was divorced from this individual. David Cazier was born 1 May 1834 in Brownsville, Oldham, KY to William Cazier and Pleasant Drake. He died 19 May 1929 and was buried 22 May 1929 in Nephi, Juab, Utah. 5 children were born to this marriage: David, Adelbert, Sarah Ellen, Orson, and Edwin Earl all born in Nephi from May 1858 to Aug 1865. David marries second Eliza Naylor about 1866 in Salt Lake City. 1880 census for Nephi, UT for David Cazier, 46 years old, born in KY shows wife as Eliza, age 38, from England with 3 children: Adelbert, Orson, and Edwin ages 20, 17, 14 respectively and probably of first marriage. It appears they get divorced and she dies 1 Jan 1893. David's marries his third wife, Sarah Ann Warrilow, 30 Nov 1892 in Manti, UT; she dies Aug 1912. He marries his fourth wife, Mary Amelia Amass, 30 Aug 1921. Alfred George White: 1880 census for Hoytsville, Summit, UT shows Sarah married to Alfred G. White but she gives perhaps a false age of 30 when she is really 40; he is 29. He appears to have actually been born 11 Dec 1854 in Bermondsey, Southwark, Surrey, Eng. to William White and Elizabeth Pollow Warn and he died 6 Jun 1932 with no location given. He also marries Mary Alice Wilkinson in 1881. 2. "The Record of James Richey," written by James Richey on December 9, 1855 including a few extracts from his journal with memories by his son, James Moroni Richey, edited and compiled by Susan Sherwood Arnett, 928 E. La Vieve Lane, Tempe, AZ, 85284, 602-839-2882, fax 839-2740, email: warnett@amug.org DEATH: 1. The "Utah State Historical Society Burials Database" on the web states birth 11 Sep 1838 and death 28 Oct 1899 under the name Sarah M. Cazier in the Nephi City Cemetery - she is buried in close proximity to David Cazier. Same burial database also has a Sarah F. White born in Alabama, d. 28 Oct 1889 SLC, UT with note that she was removed to Nephi, Utah. 2. Per biography cited above. Citation also gives reason and circumstances of her death. SOURCES_MISC: 1. FHL film 2056023-2056026, especially film 5 which contains Mangum-Adair materials. Title is "George Addison Mangum's Genealogical Collection" which is his lifetime work donated to library in 1998; he was born in Utah in 1922, of Blackfoot, ID and is perhaps a brother to Ivey Mangum Hale. Brief summary includes: 2056023, item 1, book of remembrance; item 2, surname index of changes and volumes; item 3, Person materials; 2056024, items 3 thru 6 and 2056026, Mangum/Adair materials. Included are many family group sheets of sidelines and downlines, many of them unconnected. 2. 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. | Mangum, Sarah Frances (I690)
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| 2166 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 137b, dwelling and family 1166, neighbor with John Price: William Mangum, 39, AL. Sarah, 33, AL. Caroline, 15, AL. Sarah, 12, AL. Cyrus, 10, AL. 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: Mangum: William 39, Sarah 36, Amelia C. 16, Sarah F. 12, Cyrus F. 10, Marinda 0. [Note next door neighbors are the Thomas/Mary Adair and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.] 1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 27 Jul 1860, page 1035 indicates house #1292 and family #1116 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price, William Mangum, Cyrus Mangum, Samuel N. Adair are all listed as neighbors): Jno. M. Adair, 25, farmer, $150 real estate, $200 personal property, AL. Eliza J., 24, MS. Emily J., 3, UT. Jno., 2, UT. Cyrus Mangum, 21, F.Labor, MS. S.N. Adair, 21, F.Labor, MS. 1880 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah, National Archives film T9-1336, FHL 1255336, p. 398A: Cyrus Mangum, Lumberman, 37, AL Fa:NC Mo:TN Sarah, Keeping house, wife F M W 34 Australia Fa:IRE Mo:IRE Edwin F., Farming, Son, 18 CA Aus Ire. Richard, Farming, Son, 14, UT Aus Ire. Sarah F., At home, Dau., 12, UT Aus Ire. Adelia, Dau., 10, UT Aus Ire. Wallace, Son, 7, UT Aus Ire. Loran, son, 1, UT Aus Ire. 2. Enid Beagley Willardson is of this line. She is prominent on research of our common George King Winner line. Per her own research pedigree and family group sheets, she descends through Cyrus Mangum's marriage with Sarah Allen, b. 30 Sep 1844, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, m. 8 Nov 1861, Washington Co., UT, d. 18 Jun 1934, SLC, UT, bur. Nephi, Juab, UT. The line continues through their daughter Sarah Frances Mangum, b. 1 Jan 1868, Nephi, Juab, UT, m. James Edward Cole, 27 Oct 1884, Nephi, Juab, UT, d. 30 Jun 1939, Nephi, Juab, UT. [James Edward Cole b. 18 Jan 1860, Nephi, Juab, Utah and was the son of William Cole, b. 11 Dec 1828, Bishop's Frome {Cradley, Herefordshire}, England and Emma Jenkins. William's parents were John Cole and Mary James. Mary James parents are John James and Betty ___.] The line continues through James and Sarah's daughter Sarah Thelma Cole, b. 12 May 1895, Nephi, Juab, Utah, d. 28 Mar 1989, San Diego, CA. 3. "THE Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue Number 56, July 2005: "INDIAN WARS PENSION (Microfilm Records of claims for service at National Archives, Washington, D.C.): Cyrus Mangum, Widow Sarah A. Mangum, WA-12293. UT 2 May 1917, served 1866 UT Militia Cavalry, died 29 Sept. 1896, Corrine, UT. James M. Mangum, Widow Rebecca F., WA-10852 AZ 8 Oct. 1909, UT Mounted Volunteers. John W. Mangum, SA-1577735, UT 19 Apr. 1927, Disc. 1872 UT Militia. John William Mangum, widow Eliza Olive, WA-1622552 AZ 18 Aug. 1928, served 1867-8 UT Militia, died 19 March 1926, Colona Juarez, Mexico. Joseph Mangum, Widow Mariah L., SA-16782 UT 3 July1919, WA-16298 UT 10 Feb. 1923, served 1866-71, UT Militia Cavalry, died 7 Dec. 1922 Bicknell, UT." BIOGRAPHY: 1. Copy from National Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers: "The Biography of Cyrus and Sarah Allen Mangum," written by Phillas Mangum Whitehead: "My grandfather Cyrus Mangum was born Sept. 29, 1840, Itawamba Co., Mass. [Mississippi] Son of William Mangum and Sarah Adair, baptized 1848, and endowed Nov. 11, 1872. Sarah Allen Mangum, my grandmother, was born Sept. 30, 1844 in Sydney, Australia. She was the daughter of Richard and Esther Hays Allen. Her father was baptized into the Latter-day Saint Church by Amasa Lyman and she became a member of the same church under the hands of William Hyde. When grandmother was ten years old her father, mother, and their six children sailed for America on a small sailing vessel. The ocean was very rough and took three months to make the journey. The children all had the measles during the trip and were very sick. After about seven weeks on the water, Sarah's mother gave birth to a baby boy and after the third day became very sick and passed away from exposure on the eighth day. She was buried on an island. The baby followed the mother two weeks later. Arriving in America the family settled in San Bernardino, California, where they endured many hardships incident to pioneer life which they were not used to. They spent three years in this district and then moved to Utah. When grandmother was thirteen years of age she met a Bishop Crosby and wife who persuaded her father to let her go and live with them in Santa Clara, Utah. Here she was taught to do house work, spin, and weave. She told of how she had to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and work hard all day. She was never allowed to take her bed until everything was done and all the children were asleep. When she was 16 years old she met Cyrus Mangum. He was a fine looking man and highly respected coming from a very good pioneer family. His grandfather was a general and fought under George Washington and Jefferson. Mrs. Crosby was very opposed to having boys call on grandmother so in order to see Cyrus she would steal out at night and meet him when they thought she was in bed. When Mrs. Crosby finally did find out that she was meeting young Mangum she was very angry and forbid her seeing him again. One moonlight night the young couple eloped on horseback and went to his father's home where they were married. They lived with his people for some time then moved to Nephi where they made their home. He was very active in theatrical work during the early days of Nephi, taking prominent parts in plays produced in the Old Social Hall. While on the way to Nephi a baby boy was born to them. The baby was four days old when they had to cross a wide stream. The ladies of the company brought quilts and blankets which they packed around her and the baby and propped her head as high as possible in order to escape from drowning while crossing. Grandmother held the baby as high as she could to keep him dry while crossing the stream but even then the water came up to her nose but they escaped without injury. They were held up three days at this point for the bedding to dry. Grandmother stated that through faith and her prayers she escaped without even a cold. Their life in Nephi included the pioneer trails [trials] of making a home and a living and raising a family. One day while wandering through the canyons Grandmother found a stream of water coming out of the hillside. It was white and very salty so they piped it out and established the Salt Works which they run for many years. They had nine children born to them, four of whom are still living: Edward Mangum of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Sadie Cole of Los Angeles,Cal.; Mrs. M. T. Lyon and Mrs. Effie Jacobs, both of Salt Lake City. Grandfather married a second wife, Mary Tranter, then they moved south where we have heard little of them until his death, Sept. 29, 1896. The last thirty years of grandmother's life has been spent with her children in Salt Lake City. She died June 18, 1934 at Salt Lake City, she had 52 grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren." 2. The book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "Cyrus Franklin Mangum, born Sept. 29, 1840 Itawamba County, Mississippi. Married Sarah Allen and Mary Tranter. Died Sept. 29, 1896 Corrine, Box Elder Co., Utah." 3. Mentioned in sister's biography in the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 3338, see Sarah for full quote: "Sarah Frances Mangum Richey Cazier White was born 11 Sep 1838 in Pickins County, Alabama, to William Mangum and Sarah Ada Adair... pioneer of 1852 Wagon Train... Sarah Francis was born at Pickins County, Alabama, 1838, into a family of six children. She was eight when her parents arrived in Nauvoo on Jan. 15, 1846. They arrived to find they could not stay. Persecution was forcing every one out of Illinois and Missouri and by weeks end they were following the Saints across the Mississippi River traveling West. They stopped for one month at Mt. Pisgah, and while there Sarah Francis' one year old brother [William Young] died, and was buried in the Mt. Pisgah burial grounds. The family continued to Council Bluff and stayed four and one half years, another short stay at the Bongo River where Marinda Elizabeth, a one year eight month sister died of cholera and a few days later, at Loup Fork, Sarah's mother became so ill from the disease that her family could only watch helplessly as her life slipped away, on July 3rd, 1852. Sarah Francis was near her fourteenth birthday when they reached the Salt Lake Valley. The family spent the winter in Brigham City and in the Spring of 1853, William married Delight Potter, then the Mangums moved to Payson for four years. Sarah, for a while lived with her aunt Lucinda Richey, and for three months was James Richeys's wife also. She did not like that marriage, got a divorce and went, with her brother Cy Mangum, to Nephi..." 4. Two monuments erected in Washington, Washington, Utah: a. "Adair Spring, The Birthplace of Utah's Dixie, Washington City, Utah - Erected by the citizens of Washington City & The Washington City Historical Society, 1996. In early 1857 Brigham Young called a group of Southerners on a cotton mission to Southern Utah to raise cotton. Samuel Newton Adair [this is a mistake; should be Samuel Jefferson Adair], the leader of ten families, arrived at this spot April 15, 1857, after leaving Payson, Utah on March 3. They camped here a short time and then moved down near the Virgin River on what became known as the Sand Plot. Apostle Amasa M. Lyman who was passing through the area recommended they move back to the spring area which they did. Robert Dockery Covington arrived here May 5 or 6, 1857, with 28 more Southern families. They left the Salt Lake area shortly after the LDS Spring Conference held around April 6. On May 6 or 7 a two day meeting was held at this site under the direction of Isaac C. Haight, President of the Parowan Stake. They sang songs, prayed and selected Robert D. Covington to be the President of the LDS branch, and Harrison Pearce and James B. Reagan as assistants. Wm. R. Slade and James D. McCullough were appointed Justices of the Peace, John Hawley and James Matthews as constables, G.R. Coley as stray pound keeper and Wm. R. Slade, Geo. Hawley and G.W.Spencer as school trustees. They named their city Washington. It was too late to plant wheat, so they prepared the ground for corn and went right to work making dams and ditches to water their crops. Their homes were their wagon boxes, willow and mud huts and dugouts dug in the bank east of this monument. Their new home soon was called 'Dixie'. Those who came in the spring of 1857 were: [43 names listed "and others; the following names are those related.] Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Rickey [Richey], James." b. "'Utah's Dixie' - Washington City Founded 1857. Erected by the Washington City Historical Society, November 1994. This monument is erected in honor and memory of the founders of Washington City. The settlers who arrived in 1857 were sent here by Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for the purpose of grwoing cotton to clothe the Mormon pioneers and to colonize the territory. Those early pioneers named their city on May 5 or 6, 1857 in honor of George Washington and also called the area 'Dixie' in remembrance of their former homes in the South. Living in the arid desert proved extremely difficult. Reocurring challenges such as malaria (ague or chills and fever), the lack of food, poor water, and other diseases disabled and decimated the settlers. The Virgin River, providing water to irrigate fields, was crucial to the settlers. However frequent flash floods, washed out the dams built to divert water from the river to the fields. This resulted in starvation and undue hardship. It took the pioneers thirty-four years to conquer the mighty "Rio Virgin" doing so with the completion of the Washington Fields Dam in 1891. [Pioneer names arranged into three groups; 43 'and others' in 1857, 19 in 1860, and 26 'and others' in 1861-62. The names that follow are only those related.] i. 1857: Adair, George W.; Adair, John M.; Adair, Joseph; Adair, Newton (L.N.)[Samuel Newton]; Adair, Samuel [Jefferson]; Adair, Thomas; Mangum, John; Mangum, William; Price, John; Richey, James. ii. 1860 US: Adair, Wesley; Mangum, Cyrus; Mangum, Joseph M. iii. 1861-62: [none]." 5. LDS Church History Department, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859, Shirts Branch (except as noted), 1848-1851: Rebecca F. Mangum, dau. of John. Sarah Mangum, wife of Wm. Sarah F. Mangum, dau. of Wm. Siras Mangum, son of Wm. William Mangum, bro. of John. Caroline Mangum, dau. of Wm. Elmina D. J. Mangum (blessed). Elmina Drucila (Buoyo Branch, 1850) with the Michel Stephens family. Emaline Mangum, ?wife of Joseph Mangum. John Mangum. Mary Ann Mangum. Murthey L. Mangum (possibly Martha Elizabeth, 4th child of John) BIRTH: 1. FHL film 26401 "Early LDS Church Records of Payson, Utah; Baptisms at Payson": Syrus Franklin Mangum, b. Inawamba co., Miss., 29 Sep 1840, no priesthood quorum, rebapt. by Jos. Curtis and reconf. by J.B. Bracken, J. Curtis, C.B. Hancock on 14 Dec 1855. MARRIAGE: 1. Ancestral File v4.19 mentions Sarah Allen, m. 8 Nov 1861 at Santa Clara or St. George, UT and possibly a Mary Tranter. "Utah State Historical Society Burials Database" has Sarah Allen parents: Richard Allen and Esther Haynes, b. 30 Sep 1844 Sydney, Australia, d. 18 Jun 1934, cause listed is old age, buried in Nephi Vine Bluff Cemetery. No listing for Cyrus. Same burial database does mention Mary Tranter Mangum, b. 1855, d. 29 Oct 1928, SLC, UT. DEATH: 1. Obituary with picture of wife, Tues., June 19 [no newspaper name nor year]: "Sarah A. Mangum, Pioneer of 1857, Dies at Salt Lake Home. Mrs. Sarah Mangum, 89, widow of Cyrus Mangum, and a resident of Utah for 76 years, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Matthew T. Lyon, 1329 13th East street. Mrs. Mangum was born in Australia, Sept. 30, 1844, and came to Utah with her parents when 13 years old, settling in the pioneer community of St. George. After her marriage she moved to Nephi and has lived there until recent years. She was the mother of nine Childen, four of who survive. They are: Mrs. Lyon, Edwin C. Mangum of Helper, Utah; Mrs. Sarah E. Cole of San Diego, Cal. and Mrs. Effie M. Jacobs of Salt Lake. Surviving are also 35 grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 12:30 pm in the Deseret Mortuary. The body will be taken to Nephi for interment." 2. Obituary of daughter, 1939, unknown newspaper but probably Salt Lake City: "Sarah F.M. Cole. Nephi - Funeral services will be conducted in Juab LDS stake tabernacle Sunday at 2:30 p.m. for Mrs. Sarah F. Mangum Cole, 71, widow of James C. Cole, who died Friday morning. Internment will be in Nephi City cemetery, directed by Anderson funeral home. Mrs. Cole was born in Nephi on Jan. 1, 1868, a dau. of Cyrus and Sarah Mangum. She had spent most of her life in Nephi, with the exception of the past few years spent in San Diego, Cal. She had been active in the LDS Relief Society, for many years stake secretary, and also a member of the North ward choir. Survivors include six sons and daughters; two sisters; a brother, 21 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren." MISC_SOURCES: 1. Per Paul Price's website 2. 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. | Mangum, Cyrus Franklin (I459)
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| 2167 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 137b, dwelling and family 1190, neighbor with Arta Emaline [Hannah] Mangum: John Mangum, 32, AL. Mary, 26, AL. Frances, 7, IA. Martha, 2, IA. 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: Mangum: John 24, Mary A. 27, Frances 7, Martha 5, Joseph E. 0. Also in household is Elen Bardsley 23. [Note next door neighbors are the Thomas/Mary Adair and William/Sarah Mangum families. Note also that John Mangum marries Ellen polygamously in 1853 in Utah. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.] 1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 27 Jul 1860, page 1035 indicates house #1291 and family #1115 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price, William Mangum, Cyrus Mangum, Samuel N. Adair are all listed as neighbors): Ja's M. Mangum, 40, DLabor, $175 real estate, $250 personal property, AL. Frances, 16, AL. Ja's H., 11, UT. Jno. W., 10, UT. Heber, 8, UT. Martha, 5, UT. Frances, 1, UT. 1870 US: Kanab, Kane, Utah, p. 2 of 2, family 7 (next door to his brother John): James Mangren, 50, $200, $900, farmer, NY. Frances, 24, keeping house, IL. Mary, 24, no occupation, IL. John W. 18, UT. Heber, 17, UT. Frances, 13, UT. Jane, 1, UT. Amanda, 1, UT. 1880 US: Springerville Village, Apache, Arizona, NA T9-0036, FHL 1254036, p. 14A: James Mangran, marr., 60, AL SC - , farmer. R. Frances, wife, 33, MS AL MS. 2. From the book "Nutrioso and Her Neighbors," by Nina Kelly and Alice Lee [bracketed notes by myself]: p. V: "Nutrioso has never been a large town, perhaps no more than 800 at any one time." [Photo of Nutrioso in 1896 is included with article.] p. 31: "Alpine is about 8 miles southeast of Nutrioso, elev. 8,000', at the head of the San Francisco River. It is on the SE side of the Continental Divide while Nutrioso is on the NW side of the watershed." pp. 37-39: "[In speaking of Willard Lee] While they were living in Clarkston, not far from Kanab, a call came for settlers for Arizona. Late in the summer of 1879, a company started for Arizona. Besides Willard Lee's family were Abner Martin [married to dau. of James Mitchel Mangum], Samuel Neuton [Newton] Adair, John Will Mangum [son of James Mitchel], James Mitchel Mangum, Charles Y. Webb, Abe Winsor, Jacob Hamblin's wife Priscilla, Lora Brown (a widow), and others joined the company as they traveled along.[I believe Samuel J. Adair was with his son Samuel N. on this trip but I cannot prove it.] The road from Kanab led across a barren expanse into the Kaibab Forest. After ascent of the Buckskin Mountains, the trail road wound in and out through the tall pines and cedar trees, then down, down, down they went as if descending into a pit. Trees were left behind. High jagged sandstone cliffs of the Colorado Plateau loomed higher and higher. Camp was made where there was water. Often this necessitated traveling far into the night. Water barrels were carried on the sides of the wagons which furnished sufficient water for domestic use. On they traveled and camped by Houserock springs. On the vermillion colored walls they etched their names and date of trip close by other names and dates of earlier travelers who had passed that way. As they continued their journey, the cliffs began to close in. Emmit Wash and Soap Creek were passed and camp made about one mile from the huge crack in the plateau where ran the mighty muddy Colorado River... Down to the Ferry crossing. The approach to Lee's Ferry was rough and lay in a hollow at the lower end of Glen Canyon. The rapid waters emerge from the canyoun upon a reef of hard rock which slows the stream where it ripples, eddies, and sparkles in its slower course approaching the rapids just below the crossing. Just below the rapids, the Paria Creek flows into the Colorado River... The large float boat was long enough to carry two wagons at one time. The boat was propelled by oars with three men. The boat was towed upstream by horses on the bank pulling it alongside the bank for a short distance then headed up the stream at an angle and driven by oars, aided by the current that forced it across to the opposite side some distance below where it started. Two rowboats were also taken up the side of the bank above the crossing and turned into the stream leading some good swimming stock to decoy the rest of the stock to the other side. With shouts and maneuvering of the boats and swimming stock the stock swam across to the south side... The rough, rocky ascent of Lee's Back Bone was crossed and down on to the rolling plains at the foot of Echo Cliffs they went. There were the hot dry rolling plains with little vegetation and the long dusty trail of the Indian Country, the land of the Navajos... The men were always alert for Indians. When the Little Colorado was reached, all were relieved... In crossing the river, some of the stock got stuck in quicksand... In the settlements of Sunset and Joseph City, they found friends who come three years before. After a few days rest, they continued on south up the Little Colorado River. The river was a slow, sluggish stream winding its way throuht the sandy bed during the hot dry summer months but was a roaring muddy torrent during floods in the upper reaches of the stream. Through the petrified trees, up and down, in and out, the trail led on and on deeper into the untamed wilderness of the high mountains of snow-covered pine trees... Most of the company remained that winter at Springerville... The next spring Willard moved up on Little Nutrioso Creek. Nutrioso was a sparsely-settled valley in June 1880... In what later became the Lower town in the newly acquired Jones Valley were... George Adair, his wife and six children, and George Jr., his wife and one child." pp. 51-52: "Rebecca Frances Mangum was born in Mississippi. She came to Arizona with her husband James Mitchel Mangum in 1879, then lived in at Richville for a few years. In 1883 they moved to Nutrioso. Her experiences on the frontier had given her some knowledge of medecine and home remedies. Her handloom for carpet-weaving consisted of a frame work with a roller at each end, over which the warp threads were stretched, running through a series of eyelets called heddles. The machine was four and a half feet high, the same in width, and about six feet in length. The timbers used were hardwood, about five inches square. They fastened together with wooden pins. The wool threads were drawn alternately through the warp. The rags were sewn together and wound on shuttles. After the loom was threaded with the warp, the weaver sat down and by a foot treadle lifted half the warp up so the shuttle could be sent across between the lines of warp. Then by a second treadle, the warp was lowered and the woof of the rag was pounded into place by the reed attached to a heavy part of the frame work. This process was repeated over and over until the desired number of yards were made. Many rugs and carpets were woven on this loom." [Photo of Rebecca is on page 36 and in my files.] pp. 52: "John Mangum (son of John and Rebecca Knowles Mangum) b. 1817, Alabama; died 1889 at Bush Valley (Alpine), Arizona. He married 1) Mary Ann Adair (daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Rebecca Brown Adair) b. 1824, Alabama; died 1898, Utah. Children and their spouses (*these couples raised families in Nutrioso): William Perry, MS, 1841, Sarah Booth. *Rebecca Frances, MS, 1843, James Mitchel Mangum. Laney Ann, MS, 1846, d. in 1846-47. Martha Elizabeth, MS, 1848, d. in 1848. Joseph Eslen, MS, 1850, Maria Lucinda Heath. John, IA, 1852, 1. Martha Ann Smith; 2) Edith Chynowith. *Lucinda, UT, 1854, James Wilson Wilkins. Cyras[Cyrus] - twin, UT, 1856, Unity Alexander. Harvey - twin, UT, 1856, d. young. *Mary Abigail, UT, 1858, William (Billy) Hamblin. Amy Caroline, UT, 1860, James O. Wilkins. Juliella, UT, 1861, d. young. David Newton, UT, 1862, Elizabeth Thornton. *Sarah Ellen, UT, 1864, Ebenezer Cherry. John Mangum married 2) Ellen Bardsley (daughter of William Bardsley). Children and their spouses: George Albert, UT, 1856, Betsy Jane Hamblin. Ellen, UT, 1858, d. in 1864. pp. 52-53 has family listing and details of John Mangum, son of John and Mary Ann Adair Mangum. See hardfile for copy. p. 53: "James Mitchel Mangum (son of John and Rebecca Knowles Mangum) b. 1820, Alabama; died 1888, Nutrioso, buried in St. Johns. He married 2) Rebecca Frances Mangum (dau. of John and Mary Ann Adair Mangum) b. 1843, Mississippi; d., 1928, Duncan, Arizona." children and spouses: Winnie Frances (Franti), UT, 1859, Abner Catlin Martin. James Alma, UT, 1864, d. 1870. Nephi, UT, 1868, d. 1868. Amanda Charlotte, UT, 1877, d. 1877. pp. 53-61 has several family listings and details of the following individuals for which I copied the pages for my hardfile [too far removed from the subjects of my files]: George Albert Mangum, son of John and Ellen Bardsley Mangum. Joseph Mangum, son of George Albert Mangum. Emery Kay Mangum, granddau. of George Albert Mangum. Cyrus Mangum, son of John and Mary Ann Adair. John Will Mangum, son of James Mitchel and Eliza Jane Clark Mangum. Ebenezer Griffen Cherry, husband to Sarah Ellen Mangum who is daughter of John and Mary Ann Adair Mangum. Abner Caitlin Martin, husband to Winnie Frances Mangum who is daughter of James Mitchel and Rebecca Frances Mangum Mangum. James Wilson Wilkins, husband to Lucinda Mangum who is daughter of John and Mary Ann Adair Mangum. pp. 59-60 [corrections by me]: "Samuel Neuton [Newton] Adair lived in Nutrioso 1883-1885. His father, Samuel Jefferson Adair, came to Arizona with his son, Samuel Neuton. He crossed the plains from South Carolina [Mississippi, not S.C.] to Utah in 1846 [1852, he left Nauvoo in 1846] and moved to Dixie in Southern Utah. He was a farmer. He [Samuel J.] died in Nutrioso and was buried in at St. Johns, Arizona [unproven but possible], in 1889. When Abe was about 18 months old (about 1871), he fell into a cold spring of water. After his folks got him out, his mother wrapped him in a blanket and put him to bed. The next morning his legs, from the waist down, were paralyzed. Until his death in 1933 in Luna, NM, he was unable to walk. That was over 62 years. He had a very strong back and shoulders. For years, his legs were his burro. He rode the little burro nearly every place he went. He never married but lived with his parents at Luna, NM. Theomas Jefferson was born in 1884, at Nutrioso. He lived with his parents. He went on a mission for the Mormon Church to Arkansas. After 18 months he was released because he was ill. He started home and got as far as St. Johns, AZ, July 23, 1906. He became so ill he was unable to continue n home. He died Aug. 1, 1906 at St. Johns, AZ. Samuel Neuton Adair (son of Samuel Jefferson and Jamima Catherine Mangum Adair) b. 1839 MS; died Luna, NM. He married Helen Gennett Brown (dau. of Abraham and harriet Sheldon Brown) b. 1845, Kirtland, OH; d. 1933, Luna, NM." children and their spouses: Charles Neuton, Washington, UT, 1865, Mary Elva Woolsey. Harriet Gennet, Washington, UT, Owen Washington Clark. Byron Abraham (Abe), Washington, UT, 1869, d. unmarried. Jamima Jane, Washington, UT, 1871, Wm. C. Baldwin. Wm. Orin, Washington, UT, d. in 1876. Mary Virginia, Washington, UT, John H. Petty. Anna Catherine, Washington, UT, James S. McFate. Sarah Edna, Concho, AZ, 1881, Wm. S. Laney. Olive Josephine - twin, Nutrioso, 1884, Charles R. Stewart. Thomas Jefferson - twin, Nutrioso, 1884, d. unmarried in 1906 at St. Johns. Marcus Owen, Luna, NM, 1886, Annie Fuentis. pp. 60-61: "George Washington Adair (son of Samuel Jefferson and Jamima Catherine Mangum Adair) b. 1837, Pickens County, AL, buried 1909, Hammond, NM. He married Ann Catherine Chessnutt, b. 1844, Missouri; d. 1863, Washington, Utah." Their children and spouses: George Washington, UT, 1861, Almira Hamblin. Jamima Ann, UT, 1863, Charles Henry Hale [Hales]. George Washington Adair married 20 Emily Tyler. (The following was taken from US 1880 census on Nutrioso Creek, Apache County.) [Census follows.] George Washington Adair Sr. and George Washington Adair Jr. were both in the U.S. census of 1880 at Nutrioso, but they did not stay. They went to Alpine and stayed until Samuel Neuton Adair and his father came to Nutrioso in 1883, then George W. Jr. moved his family to Nutrioso for a few years. p. 61: "George Washington Adair (son of George Washington and Ann Catherine Chessnut Adair) b, 1861, Santa Clara, Utah; died 1934, Bloomfield, NM. He married Almira Hamblin (dau. of Wm. Haynes and Betsy Leavitt Hamblin) b. 1860, Gunlock, Utah; d. 1941, Mesa, AZ." children and their spouses: George Wm., b. on the trail before Lee's Ferry, 1880, d. in 1880 in Alpine. Leroy, Alpine, AZ, 1882, Martha Black. Don Carlas, Nutrioso, 1884, d. in 1886 in Nutrioso. Bertha, Nutrioso, 1886, 1) Thos. Finch; 2) John Finch. Clarence Duane, Nutrioso, 1888, Ruth Gardner. Lenor Ann, Overton, NV, 1891, d. in 1906. Guy R., Nutrioso, 1892, Pearl Irene FairChild, d. 1959 in Mesa but bur. in Nutrioso. Emily Parentha, Paria, UT, 1894 Joseph Rulon Ashcroft. Betsy Olive, Overton, NV, 1896, Scheyler Edward Fuller. Alfred Chessnutt, Price, UT, 1898, Helen Victoria Hill. Blanche Grace, Hammond, NM, 1900, d. in 1920, unmarried. p. 61: "John Wesley Adair (son of Thomas Jefferson and Rebecca Brown Adair) b. 1820, TN; died May 1903, Nutrioso, AZ. He married Rebecca Mangum, (dau. of John and Rebecca Knowles Mangum) b. 1814, TN. They did not have any Children. Rebecca (Becky) had three children by a previous husband, Joseph Adair (son of James and Rebecca Adair). John Wesley Adair was a member of the Mormon Battalion. He was a brother to Samuel Jefferson Adair. He marched from the Missouri River through Southern Arizona, to Los Angeles. After they came to Nutrioso, he would entertain the children by telling of his experiences in the Battalion and of the mobs in Nauvoo, Illinois." The children were: Joseph Newton, d. young. Rebecca Frances, m. Jeremiah Staynor. Lucinda, m. Orin Sherwood. pp. 222-223: "Judge George H. Crosby wrote a column in the St. Johns Observer for a time and among his articles was a lovely one on Nutrioso 40 years before. He called it Nutrioso As It Was." [Some quotes follow:] "Then there was George Adair, the best hunter of all those mountain settlements, and incidentally one who always knew all the community news. And Mrs. Lucinda Wilkins and Aunt Francis Mangum, who soon after, became widows and who have spent their lives caring for the sick - both had hearts of gold." pp. 251-256: Hand drawn plot and block land map with the following comments: "John Staniford from Alpine built Jerry Harradence's house on Block 18, Lot 2. When George Adair moved, he sold the field east of town to Jim Webb. Jim built a large barn. He sold his place to Jerry Harradence, who established a tannery south of the barn." "Ebb and Nell Cherry lived on Block 23 Lot 2..." "George and Em Adair had 6 children. They lived in the field east of Block 17. The house was a 2-room sawed dove-tailed with logs 6 inches by 10 feet. He sold to Jim Webb all of the field east of the creek when George moved to Utah [New Mexico?]. George's father lived with him. Samuel Jefferson Adair was born in 1806 in South Carolina. He died in July 1889 at Nutrioso and was buried at St. Johns. Part of the time Samuel Jefferson lived with his son Nute." "Wesley and Rebecca Adair lived on 9-2, a one-room log house bouth from Lime Hamblin. Wesley had been in the Mormon Battalion. He lived 20 years in Nutrioso and died in 1903." "James Mitchel and Frances Mangum lived on 10-2. He moved in after Joe Lewis moved away." "Cy and Unity Mangum lived on 10-2. When Joe Lewis moved on 10-2, he lived there about 4 years." " Wilson and Lucinda [Mangum] Wilkins lived on 15-4. There were 8 chidren. They moved to 10-3, a 2-room sawed log house." "Abner and Frances [Mangum] Martin lived on 7-4. They had 5 children. One child died with scarlet fever in 1886. Frances also lived on 14-1 and 2-3." "Jerry and Rebecca Adair Stayner lived on 10-1 then they moved to Watts Creek east of the Lower Town. From there they moved to 9-2, a 1-room log house. He sold to Charles Webb. Charles sold to Lime Hamblin." "Jim and Fred Wilkins were sons of Wilson Wilkins by a previous marriage. They were not married and lived in a 1-room log house on 10-4. Billy Hamblin built the house. Fred went ot Utah and Jim married Caroline Mangum. There were 2 houses on this lot and Jim and Fred lived in the east one. Mary Ann [Adair] Mangum and her son Neuton [Newton] lived in the west house. It was a 1-room log." 3. "The Mangum-Mangham-Mangrum Journal," Issue Number 56, July 2005: "INDIAN WARS PENSION (Microfilm Records of claims for service at National Archives, Washington, D.C.): Cyrus Mangum, Widow Sarah A. Mangum, WA-12293. UT 2 May 1917, served 1866 UT Militia Cavalry, died 29 Sept. 1896, Corrine, UT. James M. Mangum, Widow Rebecca F., WA-10852 AZ 8 Oct. 1909, UT Mounted Volunteers. John W. Mangum, SA-1577735, UT 19 Apr. 1927, Disc. 1872 UT Militia. John William Mangum, widow Eliza Olive, WA-1622552 AZ 18 Aug. 1928, served 1867-8 UT Militia, died 19 March 1926, Colona Juarez, Mexico. Joseph Mangum, Widow Mariah L., SA-16782 UT 3 July1919, WA-16298 UT 10 Feb. 1923, served 1866-71, UT Militia Cavalry, died 7 Dec. 1922 Bicknell, UT." BIOGRAPHY: 1. Biographical info per the book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, p. 516, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale [see book for photos of him and his wife Mary Ann Smith]: "James Mitchell Mangum, the third child of John Mangum and Rebecca Canida Knowles, was born Jan. 6, 1820 at Springville, St. Clair Co., Alabama. He married first Eliza Jane Clark in Aug. of 1844 [no source given and I dispute date per marriage source below]. She is the daughter of Samuel Clark and Phirley or Ferrely Adair, born Aug. 11, 1827 at Green Co., Alabama. She died in 1862 [disputed, should be 1859 per source cited under her death notes]. James married second Rebecca Francis Mangum, his niece, in Aug. of 1849 [definite typo considering she would've been only 6 years old and her first child isn't born until 15 Jan 1859]. She is the daughter of John Mangum and Mary Ann Adair, born Oct. 10, 1843 at Stawambee [typo for Itawamba Co.], Alabama. She died Apr. 13, 1938 at Duncan, Greenlea [Greenlee] Co., Arizona. James married third Mary Ann Smith in 1866 at Salt Lake City, Utah. She is the daughter of Thomas Washington Smith and Sarah Ann Boren, b. Sept. 27, 1844 at Pigeon Creek, Iowa. She died June 12, 1912 at Tropic, Garfield, Co., Utah. James died Feb. 4, 1888 at Nutrioso, Apache Co., Arizona. James and Eliza had six children: a. Joseph Daniel, b. 1844, [Itawamba Co.?], Mississippi; d. 1846. b. James Harvey, b. 29 Nov 148, SLC, UT. c. John William, b. 14 Nov 1850, Provo, Utah, UT. d. Heber C., b. 7 Oct 1852, Payson, Utah, UT. e. Martha Jane, b. 5 May 1855, Payson, UT. f. Lydia An, b. 31 Aug 1857, Washington, Utah. James and Rebecca Francis had four children: (for a complete record see Rebecca Francis Mangum, daughter of John Mangum and Mary Ann Adair.): a. Winnie Frances Coley, b. 15 Jan 1859, Washington, Washington, Utah. [Kerry's note: The Coley child is most likely a child of Rebecca's first marriage - see notes below.] b. James Alma, b. 17 Jun 1864, Diamond Valley, Wash., Ut; d. 6 Jan 1870, Washington, UT. c. Nephi, b. 20 Nov 1868, Washington, UT; d. 20 Nov 1868, Washington, UT. d. Amanda, b. 20 Jun 1877, Washington, Utah; d. 4 Feb 1878, Washington, UT." 2. LDS Church History Department, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859, Shirts Branch (except as noted), 1848-1851: Rebecca F. Mangum, dau. of John. Sarah Mangum, wife of Wm. Sarah F. Mangum, dau. of Wm. Siras Mangum, son of Wm. William Mangum, bro. of John. Caroline Mangum, dau. of Wm. Elmina D. J. Mangum (blessed). Elmina Drucila (Buoyo Branch, 1850) with the Michel Stephens family. Emaline Mangum, ?wife of Joseph Mangum. John Mangum. Mary Ann Mangum. Murthey L. Mangum (possibly Martha Elizabeth, 4th child of John) 3. Per a manuscript, part of the "George Addison Mangum Collection," FHL film 2056025, item 5: " Frances Mangum, Daughter of John Mangum and Mary Ann Adair, by Fay Ollerton. A student of pioneer times in Mormondom often feels the sameness of the lives, especially of the women . A cursory study reveals one hardship and trial after another varied only by a different kind of test to go colonizing and sweetened only by the light of faith which seemed never to wane. Yet life held something deep and fine for them, even for the unknown who moved in obscure places. It was something that compensated for the seemingly barren years. Perhaps it was because they tasted more deeply of the creative spirit than most of us today; they could see in the rough trails they were marking the smooth highways of later years. Whatever it was there was a purpose in their existence. A purpose so fine that it obliterated the sorrows and made of futility a thing less than a shadow. One of these women who served silently in the building of our West was Rebecca Frances Mangum the second child of John Mangum and Mary Ann Adair. Born in one of the little square counties of Mississippi close to the Alabama border (she was born 10 Oct 1843 in Itawamba Co., Mississippi). Whether her parents were members of the Church when their eldest daughter was born her record does not say (note her parents joined the Church in 1845). It states only that Frances was born in 1843 and that two years later the family moved to Iowa, and that they were living there when the Mormon Battalion was mustered into service. Nine years after her birth the family had progressed as far west as Nebraska and in 1852 they started towards Deseret. (Note they lived in the Shirtses north of Kanesville, Iowa, for a time and were probably present when Oliver Cowdery came back to the Church. Several families were left to raise crops for future families coming through. The Mangums were with these families.) Like all the years of pioneer migration, the summer of 1852 was a hard one. Little Frances was to become so inured to suffering and privation that she regarded them as part of life. She walked most of the way to Payson, Utah, though she was not yet nine years of age. The sight of the dead (cholera then was raging) wrapped in their cottonwood bark burial clothes and the war whoops of the Indians became common things as she plodded along the sunflower trail. Once in Utah Frances' odyssey had barely begun. She was to live the rest of her life in obscure places watching the sparse green fields make inroads against the silver sage, and to see church spires and crude school houses reared where the Indians and rattlesnakes had lately held sway. From Payson the family soon moved to Nephi, where for the next few years the pioneer girl was to see with interested eyes her men folk erecting a ten foot mud wall about the little town as a protection against the Indians. In 1857 when the pioneers were resting with some security behind their fortress, Brigham Young issued a call for intrepid families to go farther South in Dixieland and cultivate cotton. John Mangum ever willing for new ventures responded. Frances was almost a woman grown now and must do a woman's work. (Not nearly 14 years old.) One of her first duties was the getting of cottonseed. There was no gin then and the girl must labor at the tedious process of separating the thick seed from the cotton and then have John Mangum pay 25 cents a pound for the finished product. Later in the season when the cotton lay like snow on the brown stalks she picked it, then wove and spun it into dress material for the sons and daughters of Zion. Courtship, like hardships, came early but did not last so long; it was commonplace for a girl to be married in her early teens. In the year 1857 she met Gabriel Coley, presumably from Texas since Frances' record states that he returned there. In April 1858 in the frirst bloom of a Dixie spring they were married by Apostle Amasa Lyman. Within a year their only child Winnie Frances was born, but the added burden proved too much for Gabriel; and with one gesture he forsook both his family and church for what he consdered the easier life in Texas. The next year Frances married James Mitchell Mangum. Three children all of whom died in infancy were born to them. Frances must have felt some peace and stability for they lived continuously in the southland until 1869, when she and James were called to pioneer Kanab. They were ten years among the red hills and the cedars ["adobes" in a different account] before they followed the Mormon Trail to Arizona and Apache Country. Old Geronimo was on the war path with his cruel braves and Frances was to feel once more the excitement and torment of earlier years. In 1888 James Mangum died. For a few years she struggled against ill health and poverty. Her old spirit and energy returned for she was needed in the little settlements of Apache Co. Four years before her husband's death, Bishop Benjamin Noble knowing full well her sturdy qualities, her gentleness with the sick and her intelligence, set her apart as a midwife. If her calling previous to this time had been to pioneer the waste places hereafter she was to aid souls into the places she had prepared for them. Night or day for years she was subject to call in the little town where she lived or over perilous mountain paths. All in all with no special aid she brought more than four hundred infants into the world and her fees for all of them would scarcely pay one child's entry into life in the year 1931. She was not destined to spend her days peacefully in the home her husband had reared for her. It was in 1897 that her daughter Winne's husband died leaving her a legacy of nine children. When Frances was not in the sick room, she was sewing and weaving and turning almost any kind of honest task into money for her grandchildren. In 1917 she packed her household goods and moved again this time to Central, a little town in the eastern part of Arizona. Ten years of this and she made her last journey to Duncan, a tiny place where she was to spend her last days with her daughter and an unmarried grandson. Duncan was not far as miles go from her first Utah homes, but she was to feel that an eternity of experience separated the two. She died when she was 85 years old (13 Apr 1928) still in possession of her mental faculties and of her zest for life and her faith in the Church that had led her from river land of the Old South to the dry spaces of the West. Rebecca Frances' second husband lost his first wife Eliza Jane Clark in 1862. Rebecca married to him in August 1959 so she was a polygamous wife [and] so she had to mother his six children." [Kerry's note: Eliza actually died in 1859.] BIRTH: 1. FHL Film 2456: "Early LDS Church Membership Records for Nutrioso, Arizona": Record of the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nutrioso Ward, St. Johns Stake of Zion. Page 20 entries: No numbering but this group together: John Wesley Adair; father: Thomas Adair; mother Rebecca Brown; b. 18 Feb 1821 at Green Co., Alabama; first baptized Dec 1844 by James Richey; first confirmed Dec 1844 by J. Richey; ordained to 26 Quorum of Seventies Sep 1845 by William McBride; rebaptized Mar 1857 by Bp. Covington; reconfirmed 1857 by Harrison Pierce. Rebecca, father: John Mangum; mother: Rebecca Knowles; b. 10 Aug 1814 at Giles Co., Tennessee; first baptized Nov. 1845 by R? Mathews; first confirmed Nov 1845 by Gibson; rebaptized Dec 1847; reconfirmed Dec. 1847. James Mitchell Mangum; father: John Mangum; mother: Rebecca Knowles; b. 6 Jan 1820 at Springville, St. Clair, Alabama; first baptized 1844 by A. ?undin; first confirmed by Bryant Knowlin; ordained 3 May 1885 by Joseph Young into 17 Quorum Seventies; rebaptized 1848; reconfirmed 1848 by A. Covington. Rebecca Frances Mangum; father: John Mangum; mother: Mary Ann Adair; b. 10 Oct 1843 at Ettawamba, Mississippi; first baptized 14 Feb 1851; first confirmed 14 Feb 1851 by J.J. Bigler; rebaptized Jan 1876 by J. Hamblin; reconfirmed Jan 1876 by L. ?. Nuttall. Orson B. Arnold; father: Thomas Arnold; mother Hannah Brewin; b. 10 Feb 1857 at Sheephead,, England; first confirmed 6 Sep 1888 by Hyrum Chapman. 4. Www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch indicates the following individuals were part of the William West Lane Company of 1852 in travelling the Mormon Pioneer Overland Trail to Salt Lake City. Departure was 24 June 1852 with arrival in Salt Lake Valley 24 Sep. 1852. Approximately fifteen families who had lived since spring 1851 at a welfare "poor farm" forty miles north of Kanesville, Iowa, called Lanesborough, were organized into this company under the leadership of their bishop, William West Lane. Those included in the company of John Mangum's family: John Mangum (35) Mary Ann Adair Mangum (29) William Perry Mangum (10) Rebecca Francis Mangum (8) Joseph Eslem Mangum (1) John Wesley Mangum (Infant) Sariah Mangum (36). Died 5 Jul 1852 enroute. (Sarah or Sally Adair - sister-in-law to John, married to his brother William.) A. The following is a trail excerpt of this company. The source of Trail Excerpt: Clark, Davis, Autobiography, in Erold Clark Wiscombe, The Descendants of Maria Burr, John Clark and William West Lane, [1975], 12-14. Read Trail Excerpt: In the early spring of 1852, Apostles Orson Hyde and Ezra T. Benson came to the Grove and counselled all to move to the Salt Lake Valley. Bishop Lane acted accordingly and on the 24th of June 1852 the Clark-Lane families crossed the Missouri River to head west. Bishop Lane was in charge of the 51st Company with Jacob Bigler and Lorenzo Johnson as counselors. The group traveled only a few days when cholera broke out in camp and several died. Bishop Lane was stricken ill and the camp halted at Look [Loup] Fork for two days to allow him to recover. He felt somewhat better, so the company moved on. Three days later Davis' mother, Maria Lane, became ill with the cholera. She became sick about 9 o'clock in the morning after the company had started. They had to keep moving to reach the next water spot but the wearisome journey proved too much for her in this condition and she passed away at 4 p.m. that afternoon, 5 July 1852. This was on Davis' 20th birthday. The family peeled the bark off from a cottonwood tree to make a coffin for her. She was buried along the trail three days journey west of Loop [Loup] Fork. For the second time Bishop Lane had become a widower. The next day the wagon train moved on, but Bishop Lane's condition grew worse. On the 8th of July, just three days after the death of his wife, he too died. The train took some good boxes and patched them together to make a coffin for him. Twelve others, besides Bishop Lane and his wife, died of the cholera. Two other men were shot by Indians. Davis now found himself the foster father of a younger sister and brother, Flora and Enoch; four step sisters (Children of Bishop Lane by his first wife); and five little half sisters, the eldest 10 years and the youngest barely three years old. A family of 12 at the age of 20, and not even a wife to assist him. The four step sisters were cared for by others, but he continued to bring the five half sisters on to Utah. One morning after turning the cattle loose to graze, the Indians slipped down a ravine, and between the stock and camp and stampeded the herd, and fired at the guard. They ran to camp. We had just fourteen horses in camp that had not been turned out. We armed ourselves and mounted as quickly as possible, by this time we could see nothing but a cloud of dust in the distance. We pursued them and overtook them some eight or ten miles away. Some of the weaker stock had given out and laid down. We attacked the Indians and fired on them, and they on us; we chased them away and started back with the cattle. We had to leave some on the way that gave out. No water, and the day was very hot. We got back to camp late; there was considerable anxiety in camp till we got back. In a few more days we reached game country, plenty of antelope and buffalo. Often we would see hundreds in sight. The people in camp wanted some meat, and I had a good horse, so five men went out and chased buffalo several hours and returned to camp without any. I went out after they returned and killed one bull. They took out several yoke of oxen and dragged the buffalo into camp. After that I kept the company well supplied while passing through the country. Buffalo were now starting to get scarce. I saw one lone bull a mile away. I rode after it and killed it on the bank of a small stream called Le Bout [La Bonte]. I dismounted to take out the tongue, as I usually did, as it was considered a dainty. While in the act, I heard a whoop, and looking up, I saw four Indians on ponys coming lively. I mounted without fear, thinking I could out run them, looking back I saw that I was gaining on them, then I saw some fifteen or twenty more Indians had ridden around the hill and got in front of me. The river was east of me some two or three hundred yards. I made a dash for it, thinking to plunge in, but when I got there I dared not, the banks were too high and boulders below, and the current was too swift. In a moment or two I was surrounded. They were armed with bows and arrows, spears and tomahawks. They drew their weapons and made motions as if they were going to chop me to pieces. I noticed they pulled the arrows to head, would let the strings fly and hold on to the arrow. I could not understand a word of their lingo. They took me five or six miles to their camp on the bank of a creek. Their squaws were drying and smoking buffalo meat, spread on scaffolds made of willows. Some of the boys and squaws unsaddled our horses and took them away. The Indians pulled me along with them into a big tent. Some squaws brought in some kettles of boiled buffalo meat. They went to eating and motioned for me to eat also. I did not feel very hungry just then. Soon after, a person came in, I did not know whether he was an Indian or White man. He looked a bit like both. He had on a buckskin coat fringed and beaded, pants made of scotch plaid, a hat on his head and moccasins on his feet. He asked me in English how I came to be there. I told him the circumstances. He said he was part French and lived with the Indians. They were Arapahoes out on a buffalo hunt. I asked him what they were going to do with me, but he said he did not know. He did not seem to be very communicative. He asked me if there was any whiskey or brandy in our train. It happened that we had supplied ourselves with a ten gallon keg of brandy and a ten gallon keg of whisk[e]y at Kanesville before starting. An idea struck me that I might make some of that useful in getting back to camp. I told him we had some, but it was locked in a big box in the wagon I drove and slept in. I gave him to understand if he would go with me to camp, I would let him have some. In several hours three ponies and my horse were saddled and bridled and my gun was given to me. They told me to get on and go the [sic] our camp. He mounted one pony and two Indians on the other two. We reached our camp just as it was getting dark. The folks in the camp were getting quite anxious about me. I gave them some whiskey to drink and gave the Frenchman a bottle to take away. The next morning the teams were all hitched up just ready to pull out, when some forty or fifty Indians rode up in war paint and armed. Mr. Frenchman came inside of the circle of wagons and acted as the interpreter. The Indians wanted salt, sugar, blankets, shirts, and whiskey. They demanded a certain amount of each for passing through their country. The Indians were all mounted. They were spread in a circle a few yards outside the circle of wagons. They streached over half way around the wagons. The Frenchman stood just at the end of the wagon tongue. I stood on the front rounds of the wagon where I could reach my gun. Some of the men in camp did not want to comply with their demands. There was some back talk. The Indians commenced going through warlike maneuvers, and some of them had done the same thing they did to me before. Some of the men were getting nervous and the women quite frightened. I too got nervous, grabbed my gun, cocked it drawn down on the Frenchman. I told him if he moved I would shoot him. He saw that I had the drop on him. I told him he could not move from where he was at until the Indians left. Some of the men remonstrated with me for my foolhardiness, but by this time we were all excited. I had gone so far now that I dared not retract. The Frenchman jabbered with the Indians a little while, then they rode off about two hundred yards and bunched up. I then let the Frenchman go. The Indians disappeared over the hill. We did not move camp for some time. We finally pulled out with great caution, with every man's gun ready. The guard was doubled for several nights for fear of an attack by the Indians. Several nights some Indians crept close to camp to steal horses. The horses snorted, one of the guards walked toward the Indians, and got shot by them. He died after reaching the valley. Nothing more of note occurred and we reached Salt Lake City on the 24th day of Sept. 1852." B. "Trail excerpt with deaths of Elizabeth and Sariah Mangum noted. Source of Trail Excerpt: Gardner, Benjamin, Notebook 1851-1862. Excerpt: "June the 13th 1852 the North Pigeon Company was organized under the direction of E T Benson[,] Benjamin Gardner was appointed Captain of the Company it being the tenth fifty[;] Jude Allen was appointed Capted [Captain] of the guard and Joseph Nichlas [Nicholas] assistant[.] Beverly C Boren was apointed Clerk[.] Crost Misourie [Missouri] river on the 21[st] of June[.] by request of Elder Benson A P Chesley remained there also on the 29 Lorenzo Jo[h]nson[,] JC Hall[,] Agrip[p]a Coopper [Cooper] and Br Read returned to the river order of E T Benson as guard[.] they was furnished with fore [four] horses[,] guns[,] provision June 30 Brother Larson died[.] Emaly [Emily] Marinda Jo[h]nson died the 29[th] aged 2 years[,] 9 months and Elizabeth Marrinda Mangum died on the 30th aged 1 year[,] & 9 mo[,] 8 9 day[s] and Sariah Mangum on the 5th of July aged 36 y[,] 11 mon[,] 27 days[;] on the 5th Mariah Lane aged 46 years [;] on the 8th William Lane aged 55 years [;] on the 11th Alfred Hunt 5 years[,] 4 m[,] 11 days[;] on the 12 LouCrecia [Lucretia] Jane Boren aged 1 year 10 months[,] 2 days[.] The only daughter of B C and M.J. Boren and on William Francis Beal on the 12th aged 2 years[,] 5 months[,] 3 days and on the 16 Hosea Berian Boren aged 12 years[,] 7 mon[,] 11 days and on the 19th Catharine Wilson aged 2 years[,] 7 m[,] 16 days[,] and on the 29th Jude Allen Juneyer [Junior] aged 1 year[,] 1 month[,] 4 days on the 7th of July Lorenzo Jo[h]nson and J C Hall returned to the Company and on the [illegible] night of the 24th of July A P Chesley and Agrippa Coopper [Cooper] returned in Company with E T Benson[,] John Taylor[,] Erastus Snow and [blank space] Richards and others and on the 25th A meeting was held and much instruction given after which E.T. Benson consider BIRTH: 1. FHL film 392669 "LDS Patriarchal Blessings Index", three blessings: A. Rebecca Frances Mangum, b. 10 Oct 1843 at Itawamba Co., Mississippi, parents John and Mary Ann Adair. Blessing date 25 Dec 1855 at Nephi, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch William Cazier. Vol. 137, p. 112. B. Rebecca Frances Mangum, b. 10 Oct 1843 at Flambo Co., Mississippi, parents John and Mary Ann Adair. Blessing date 25 Dec 1855 at Nephi City, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch Isaac Morley. Vol. 15, p. 98. C. Rebecca Frances Mangum, b. 10 Oct 1843 at Itawamba Co., Mississippi, parents John and Maryan Adair. Blessing date 25 Dec 1855 at Nutrioso, Apache Co., Arizona. Patriarch James Richey. Vol. 388, p. 84. MARRIAGE: 1. Per undated handwritten note of Glenn H. Martin and Wealthy Bigler Martin of Gilbert, AZ, included on FHL film 2056025, item 5, George Addison Mangum collection of his research notes: "Aunt Rebecca Frances Mangum daughter of John Mangum Jr. and Mary Ann Adair oldest child to live born 10 Oct 1843 married Mr. Coley [Gabriel Reynolds Coley] who deserted her and baby Winnie Frances, then she married her Uncle James Mitchel Mangum, born 1820. Winnie Frances was adopted by James Mitchel and she married Abner C. Martin in Utah then moved to Arizona." A daughter of the Coley marriage, Winnie Frances Coley, b. 15 Jan 1859, Washington, Washington, Utah, would indicate a marriage sometime after late 1858. Some undocumented family group sheets do indicate a marriage date of Aug 1859. New Family Search accessed 24 Mar 2012 shows "temple" marriage: 2 Apr 1858 "OTHER". DEATH: 1. Per LDS archival family family group sheet prepared by Mrs. Rula M. Robinson of Arizona. 2. Per online image of death certificate at website http://genealogy.az.gov/azdeath/036/10362587.pdf: Arizona death certificate no. 140, Rebecca Francis Mangum, resident for 4 months at Duncan, Greenlee, AZ, d. 13 Apr 1928 at 12 pm due to apoplexy, widow of James Mangum (died), age 85 y 6 m 4 d, no occupation, b. at Itwamba, Mississippi, no parents listed, informant was Jesse B. Martin, BURIAL: 1. Family Tree accessed 23 Mar 2013. SOURCES_MISC: 1. FHL film 2056023-2056026, especially film 5 which contains Mangum-Adair materials. Title is "George Addison Mangum's Genealogical Collection" which is his lifetime work donated to library in 1998; he was born in Utah in 1922, of Blackfoot, ID and is perhaps a brother to Ivey Mangum Hale. Brief summary includes: 2056023, item 1, book of remembrance; item 2, surname index of changes and volumes; item 3, Person materials; 2056024, items 3 thru 6 and 2056026, Mangum/Adair materials. Included are many family group sheets of sidelines and downlines, many of them unconnected. 2. FHL Film 1697868 and book "The Mangums of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Utah, and Adjoining States," by John T. Palmer, Ph.D. Santa Rosa, CA 95409, 1993, 3rd ed. 3. 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. | Mangum, Rebecca Frances (I2204)
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| 2168 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 98a, dwelling 542, 28 Sep 1850, next door is George and Mary Graybll: John Smith, 51, SC. Sarah, 43, NY. Lydia, 16, IN. Stephen, 14, IN. Joseph, 12, IN. Rhoda Ann, 9, IL. Hyrum 6, IL. Samuel Carlos, 4, IA. Abraham, 1, IA. 1852 Iowa: not listed as an individual in FHL book heads of household index for the 1852 Iowa census; probably part of his father's household. 1860 US: Macedonia P.O., Grove Twp., Pottawattamie, IA, p. 417, entry 849, next door neighbors to Levi Graybill and Peter Frame [husband of Lydia Smith]: Stephen Smith 24, farmer, IN. Mary C., 23, NY. Henry, 3, IA. George M., 6/12, IA. 1870 US: Wheeler's Grove P.O., Grove Twp., Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 160a, dwelling 25 [same neighborhood as Levi, Salathiel Graybill, and his mother Sarah Winegar Smith]: Stephen Smith, 33, farming, $1000, $600, IN. Mary, 32, housekeeping, NY. Henry, 12, IA. George, 10, IA. Clara, 8, IA. Willard, 5, IA. 1880 US: Grove Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, NA T9-0361, FHL 1254361, p. 122D: Stephen Smith, marr., 44, IN SC NC, farming. Mary C., wife, 43, NY PA PA. Henry, son, s, 22, IA IN NY. George, son, s, 21, IA IN NY. Clara, dau., s, 18, IA IN IN. Willie E., 15, IA IN IN. 1895 Iowa: Grove Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa: Stephen Smith, 58, OH. Mary C., 57, NY. Arthur, 13, Potta. Co. IA. Geo. M. Smith, 35, Potta. Co. IA. Mattie E. Smith, IN. Mande M. Smith, 7, Potta. Co. IA. Nellie B. Smith, 7, Potta. Co. IA. 1900 US: Grove Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 94A: Stephen Smith, Jan 1836, 64, m. 44 years, IN NC SC, farmer. Mary C., wife, May 1837, 63, m. 44 years, 5 total children all living, NY PA PA. Arthur J., son, Dec 1887, 18, S, IA IN NY, farm laborer. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Susan Easton Black, compiler, "Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," (Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1993, copy in Family History Library in Salt Lake City), p. 506: "Stephen Smith. Birth: 28 Jan 1836, New Castle, Henry, Indiana. Death 29 Dec 1907, near Macedonia, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Stephen Smith moved to Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, and then to Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa, in his youth. He settled near Macedonia, Pottawattamie, Iowa, in 1847, where her resided until his death. He was baptized a member of the RLDS on 7 Jun 1863 by W.H. Kelley. Sources: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A and 1872-1905, Book C; 'Saints' Herald' Obituaries, 1908, p. 142; 'The History of the RLDS, p. 325." 2. 12 Jul 2002 email from Ron Romig, Archivist, RLDS Church in Independence, Missouri: a. "I tracked the reference to History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, vol 3: 324 -The following-named persons were baptized by Elder William H. Kelley: Stephen Smith, E. W. Knapp, James Otto, E. F. Hyde, and P. E. Knapp. Early Reorganization Minutes, Book A (of membership records) adds: Stephen Smith was confirmed by E. C. Briggs and W. Baldwin, citing Herald vol. 4 (1863):28." b. "October RLDS Conference, 1859, held at the barn of Israel L. Rogers in Kendall Co., Ill. April 9th A.M. Conference met. Bro Beebe, delegate from the Farm Creek Branch in Mill's Co. Iowa presented the following report: "Organization of the Farm Creek Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S. of Mill co. Iowa. Were organized on the 16th of Oct. 1859 by giving in their names as follows: Calvin Beebe, Mrs. Submit Beebe, John Smith, Sariah Smith, John Richards, Harriet Richards, Richard Y. Kelly, Sariah E. F. Kelley, Levi Graybill, Patience Graybill, Elxander Liles, Frances M. Liles, Calvin A. Beebe{e}, Angeline C. Beebe, Joseph Smith, Rachel Smith, Stephen Smith, William H. Kelley <1>(this day was rebaptized) Henry Winegar, Mrs. Frances L [Page 63] Richards, Mrs. Elizabeth Winegar, Mrs Ann Strong, Sariah A. Flesher, Mrs Alice Osler, after which they chose Calvin Beebe, President; John Smith, Priest; Richard Y. Kelly, Deacon. Early Minutes of the Reorganization, 62-63." "I leave it to you to resolve the contradictory baptismal dates for the mentioned Stephen Smiths." 3. See notes of father John Smith for extensive biography on entire family including this individual and their spouses. 4. 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 Jno. and Sarah Smith and some of his children from his first wife who was deceased at the time of the petition: Hannah, Elizabeth, Stephen. Jos., and Rhoda A. 5. FHL film 934962, items 3 and 4, "History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa," by Field and Reed, 1907: Pg. 197: "Grove Township... Many of these early settlers left Nauvoo intending to go to Utah, but for one reason or another they paused here and finally concluded to remain and few, if any, have had cause to regret it. The first to organize a religious body in the township were the Latter Day Saints. E.W. Briggs and W.W. Blair were the organizers, and the original members were John Smith and wife, E.W. Knapp and wife, A.J. Field and wife, James Otto and wife, Levi Graybill and wife, John Winegar and wife, Joseph Smith and wife, and Stephen Smith. John Smith was their first president and E.W. Knapp the first clerk. Services were held at residences of the different members and later at schoolhouses, but the society becoming more numerous and wealthy, in 1874 they erected a modest church building at a cost of $763. The membership had increased until in 1881 it had reached ninety and maintained a regular Sabbath School." Pp. 1066-1067: "Stephen Smith, now living retired but still residing on his farm on section 27, Grove township, came to Pottawattamie county about the 1st of November, 1847. On this day he arrived in Council Bluffs, where he spent the winter. In the following April his father arrived in Macedonia township, bringing his family with him, and there he built the first house within what is now the borders of the township. John Smith, the father, resided there for eight years or more, and in the fall of 1853 or 1854 became a resident of Grove township, settling on section 8, where he continued to reside until his death occurred, in 1870, when he was 72 years of age. His remains were interred in the cemetery of the Latter Day Saints in Grove township. He was a farmer by occupation and at one time he built the first saw mill on Farm creek, which he operated for several years, thus becoming associated with the industrial development as well as the agricultural interests of the county. In politics he was originally a whig, but upon the dissolution of that party became a republican. He served for several terms as supervisor from his township and was a member of the county board when the first courthouse at Council Bluffs was built. As a determined pioneer and influential citizen he was well known in this county. His birth had occurred in North Carolina and he had resided for some time in Indiana prior to coming to Iowa. The wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Martha Koonts, was born in Indiana, and from that state they removed to Adams county, Illinois, where the death of Mrs. Smith occurred, in 1840. Stephen Smith was born in Henry county, Indiana, January 28, 1836. His father wedded a second time, having wedded Miss Sarah Winegar in Adams county, Illinois, after losing his first wife. She accompanied her husband to Pottawattamie county and died here in 1882 [error; should be 1880]. By the two marriages there were seven sons and six daughters. Those of the family who came to Pottawattamie county were: Mary, Patience, Hannah, Elizabeth, Lydia, Rhoda [error: Lydia Rhoda is one individual and not two], Anna, Stephen, Joseph, Hiram, Carlos and Abraham. Two brothers of the family died in early Childhood. Of the children Stephen, Lydia, and Abraham are still living, the sister being a resident of Cheyenne county, Kansas, while the brother makes his home in northwestern Nebraska. Stephen Smith was eleven years of age when he came with his father to Pottawattamie county. In Illinois he had attended subscription schools, but owing to the fact that this county was a frontier district in which the homes were widely scattered he had no educational advantages in this locality. He has always followed farming as a life work. In early days he underwent the hardships, privations and experiences incident to pioneer life and performed the arduous task necessary to the development of a new farm, but as the years passed he was very successful and now is enabled to live retired in the enjoyment of all the comforts and some fo the luxuries of life. In Mills county, Iowa, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Mary C. Frain, who was born May 31, 1837, and was brought to Iowa at an early period in its development when about five years of age. The family home was established in Cedar county, where both her father and mother died. To her husband she has been a faithful companion and helpmate on life's journey and they have reared a family of five children: Henry A., living in Macedonia; George M., of Fremont county, Iowa; Mrs. Clara V. Bogue, of Eagle county, Colorado; Willard E., a farmer of Macedonia township; and Arthur J., at home. Mr. Smith of this review was reared in the faith of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, but is not connected therewith at the present time. In politics he is an earnest republican, having supported the party since casting his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. He has served in various township offices and as township trustee altogether for about seventeen years, a fact which indicates his fidelity to duty and the confidence and trust reposed in him by his fellowmen. Wherever known he is held in high esteem and his good qualities entitle him to the record which is uniformly given him, while his close application and industry in business have justly merited the success that has came to him through his farming operations." 6. FHL film 934962, items 3 and 4, "History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa," by Field and Reed, 1907, includes the following biographies of Stephen's sons: Pp. 995, 996 biography of son Henry Smith: "Henry A. Smith, now living in the village of Macedonia, has for a long period been connected with the farming and stock-raising interests of the county and is now engaged to some extent in carpentering and building. His birth occurred in this township, October 13, 1857, his parents being Stephen and Mary (Frain) Smith, who are now residing in Grove township, this county, where the father follows farming, to which pursuit his entire life has been devoted. In their family were four sons and a daughter: George M., who is now living practically retired in Tabor, Iowa; Willard E., whose home is in Macedonia township; Clara V., the wife of C.E. Bogue, of Glenwood Springs, Colorado; and Arthur J., at home. The other member of the family is Henry A. Smith, who was reared to the occupation of farming abnd has always resided in this county. He was a pupil in the public schools and when he he had mastered the common branches of English learning, he turned his attention to acricultural pursuits as a life work. He has prospered in his undertakings, bringing his fields under a high state of cultivation, and through his practical and progressive methods of tilling the soil has secured good crops, which have brought a very satisvactory price on the market. He is now the owner of two excellent farms in Macedonia township, one comprising 120 acres of land and the other containing 80 acres. He now leaves the active work of the farm to others, but still gives personal supervision to his places. In 1901 he removed to the village of Macedonia and erected a residence, which he has since occupied. For five years he was engaged in the hardware business but has now retired from commercial pursuits. He is, however, engaged to some extent in carpentering and building and is thus identified with the improvement of the town. Mr. Smith was married, in Grove township, in 1883, to Miss Ella Travis, a native of Jefferson county, Iowa, and unto them have been born three children: Grace, Fae and Harry, all at home. In his political views Mr. Smith is a republican and his fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, have frequently called him to positions of political preferment, so that he has filled all the township offices. He has been trustee, township clerk, and in Grove township is now serving as a member of the council. His duties have been discharged with promptness and fidelity and his worth as a public-spirited citizen is widely acknowledged. He belongs to the Masonic lodge at Macedonia, and he and all his family are members of the Christian church of Grove township. In the community they are much esteemed and their circle of warm friends is an extensive one." Pp. 1059-1060 biography of son Willard E. Smith: "Willard E. Smith, who is engaged in general agricultural pursuits on section 27, Macedonia township, was born May 12, 1865, in Grove township, this county, and is therefore a representative of one of its old families, his parents, Stephen and Mary (Frain) Smith, being still residents of Grove township. Their family numbered four sons and a daughter: Henry, of Macedonia; George, of Tabor; Clara, the wife of Charles Bogue, of Colorado; Willard E., of this review; and Arthur, at home. No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for Willard E. Smith in the days of his boyhood and youth. He remained with his parents until he attained his majority, with the exception of two years spent in Colorado and Montana - 1884 and 1885. He was engaged in mining in the former state and was employed upon a ranch in the latter. He then returned home, was married at the age of 21 years and started out in life on his own account as a farmer of Grove township. He first rented 160 acres in Macedonia township, whereon he resided for three years. On selling that property he made investment in 240 acres, constituting the northwest quarter and the west half of the southwest quarter of section 24, Grove township, which he now owns. In March, 1905, however, he bought his present farm and took up his abode upon this place, comprising 180 acres on sections 22 and 27, Macedonia township. He therefore has a total of 420 acres in the two farms and is cultivating both tracts, raising grain and stock. He is a large stock feeder and shipper, and his business is bringing to him a very gratifying financial return. Pleasantly situated in his home life, Mr. Smith was married in 1887 to Miss Susan Knox, who was born in Youngstown, Ohio, October 21, 1867, and came here at the age of ten years with her parents, Andrew and Matilda (Young) Knox, natives of Ireland, who were married, however, in Massachusetts. The family home was established in Grove township when Mr. Knox brought his wife and children to Iowa and upon the farm which he there developed and cultivated both he and his wife spent their remaining days. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born eight children: Ruby, Lois, Lottie, Ralph, Dart, LeRoy, Violet and Lyle. The family attend the Presbyterian church and Mr. Smith belongs to Ruby lodge, No. 415, A .F. & A. M., of Macedonia. For one term he served as trustee of Grove township, but has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking, although he gives stalwart allegiance to the republican party." 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, pp. 110-111, lists the following children: Henry Almond, b. 1857, m. Ella F. Travis. George Marion, b. 1859, m. Martha Pickerill. Clara Viola, b. 1861, m. Charles Edgar Bogue. Willard E., b. 1865, m. Susan Knox. Madeline. Arthur John, b. 1881, m. Sena Nelson [date looks odd?] 8. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 125-140: "Stephen and Mary lived one year at Trader's Point, an old Indian trading post that once stood on the banks of the Missouri River, opposite Bellevue, NE. In the spring of 1857, they settled in Macedonia Twp., Potta. Co., IA. In 1865, they moved to the farm at Wheeler's Grove. Their children were Henry Almond, George Marion, Clara Viola, Willard Elmer and Arthur J. About 1839, George Frain walked to Cedar Co., IA. He acquired a farm of 40 acres, built a shanty and then a log house 16 feet square, sawing out the slabs for floors and doors. Later, he added a 16 feet square bedroom, a lean-to. He built a sod fence around his farm and dug a ditch outside the fence so nothing could jump over it. This also served as a fire prevention ditch. There were Indians in the neighborhood, and many nights, he slept on the slanting roof of the shanty and heard them come into the room below hunting for food and then leave. He raised potatoes, beans and some corn. He stayed there all summer. The next spring, George brought his wife and children Mary Catherine, Peter, Rachel and Elizabeth to their new home in Cedar Co., IA. They got on a raft with a shanty on it at Pittsburg, PA, came down to the mouth of the Ohio River, then up the Mississippi river on a steamboat to Muscatine, Iowa, then to the farm. Mary Catherine also had sister, Margaret, born after the family came to Iowa, and a brother, Levi, 18 years old at the time, who stayed in New York. Brother, Peter, settled on a farm 1/2 mile east of Silver City. When Mary Catherine was 18 years old, Peter went back to Cedar Co., to visit and she went home with him to Silver City. They promised to come back to Cedar Co, in a year but never made it. It was 13 years before she went back. In the meantime, she married Stephen Smith, who was a brother to Peter's wife, Lydia, When she did return to Cedar Co, she made the trip on horseback, taking her 18 month old son, Henry, with her. Stephen often told his sons, and later his grandsons, of the time he went with his father to and Indian camp to see Chief Fontenelle. it seems the Indians had driven his father's horses across the Missouri River to their camp. John Smith talked to the chief, told him how necessary it was he should have his horses to farm with. They went back home, and the next morning the horses were back on the farm." Extensive downline follows in the book. BIRTH: 1. Date per tombstone. 2. Date per RLDS citation herein; Unsure about accuracy of "New Castle" vs "Liberty Twp." MARRIAGE: 1. According to biography of son Henry Smith, mother is Mary Frain. According to censuses, middle initial is "C." Quote from the article "Why Didn't You Go West, John Smith?," by Gregory Smith from "The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, vol. 19, 1999, RLDS Library Archives, P.O. Box 1059, Independence, MO 64051 [see notes for John Smith for full citation]: "Lydia and her brother Stephen Smith, married a Frain brother and sister from New York." Stephen's sister Lydia's husband is Peter Frain. 2. Per FHL film 934962, items 3 and 4, "History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa," by Field and Reed, 1907, biography of Stephen Smith cited above: "In Mills county, Iowa, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Mary C. Frain, who was born May 31, 1837, and was brought to Iowa at an early period in its development when about five years of age. The family home was established in Cedar county, where both her father and mother died. To her husband she has been a faithful companion and helpmate on life's journey and they have reared a family of five children..." 3. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 125-140: Stephen Smith married Mary Catherine Frain 16 Nov 1856 in Mills Co., IA. "She was b. 31 May 1837, Fayetteville, Onandaga Co., NY; d. 12 Nov 1923, Macedoina, IA; bur. Wheeler's Grove Cemetery, Potta. Co., IA. She was daughter of George Frain and Mary Painter. She came to Iowa in 1854." See more biography on her above. DEATH: 1. Date per tombstone and RLDS obituary citation herein. RLDS obituary notes location of death as Macedonia; however, 1907 biography above says he was actually in Grove township which is not exactly Macedonia. Being he died later that same year, I use Grove township as place of death. BURIAL: 1. Picture of tombstone on website for "Mormon Cemetery" located in Grove Township of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, four miles east of Macedonia on County Road G66/Pioneer Trail.: 2. This individual listed in this 11 Nov 2002 website 3. Copy of complete printed cemetery listing from FHL book 977.771 V3e, vol. 1, Bk. 3-5 in hard file 90 with John Peter Graybill. OBITUARY: 1. "Saints' Herald," RLDS publication, v. 55 (Feb. 5, 1908), p. 142: "Smith. - Near Madeconia, Iowa, December 29, 1907, Stephen Smith. Born January 28, 1836, New Castle, Indiana. While yet a small boy he moved with his parents to Nauvoo, Illinois; and with a body of Saints moved to Garden Grove, Iowa; and later, in 1847, to Macedonia, Iowa, where he has since remained. He joined the church in early manhood and remained a member through life. He lived to a good, ripe age, and leaves many friends to mourn with the family, the loss of a friend and neighbor. The funeral was at the old home; sermon by Daniel Hougas." [Note: according to the 1907 biography cited above, Stephen was not involved with the RLDS faith at the time this obituary was written per the following partial quote: "Mr. Smith of this review was reared in the faith of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, but is not connected therewith at the present time..."] SOURCES_MISC: 1. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 125-140. 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. 151-152. | Smith, Stephen (I638)
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| 2169 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, p. 96b, entry 519: Martin Potter, 58, Rhode Island. Ann Potter, 55, New York. John Dewitt, 18, Iowa. Polly Ann Dewitt, 15, IA. Delight Potter, 22, New York. Next door family: Reuben Dewitt, 25, Iowa. Charlotte Dewitt, 19, OH. John Dewitt, 4, Iowa. Sarah Dewitt, 2, Iowa. 1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enumerated 27 Jul 1860, page 1035 indicates house #1292 and family #1116 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price, William Mangum, Cyrus Mangum, Samuel N. Adair are all listed as neighbors): Wm. Mangum, 50, Herdsman, $250 real estate, $300 personal property, AL. Delight, 30, NY. Henry, 8, IA. Adison, 6, UT. Jno., 4, UT. Wm. C., 2, UT. Delila A., 2/12, UT. Cyrus, 16, MS. 1870 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enum. 6 Jul 1870, Roll 1613 Book 1, p. 413b, household 75, family 73 (related neighbors out of a total of 108 homes include the following heads of households: John Wesley Adair, Charles Searles, John Milton Adair, Valentine Carson, William Mangum, Jeremiah Stayner, and Samuel J. Adair); note that it appears census taker got spouses birth states mixed up: William Mangum, 59, farmer, $150 real estate, $250 personal property, NY. Delight, 39, Invalid, TN. Joseph H., 17, work on farm, IA. Martha, 16, keeping house, UT. John A. 13, at home, UT. Delila, 10, UT. Mary J., 6, UT. Emily A., 4, UT. 1880 US: National Archives film T9-1339, p. 375C for Washington, Washington, Utah: William Mangum, Laborer, Self M M W 68 TN Fa:SC Mo:PA Delight Mangum, Keep house, Wife F M W 47 NY Fa:NY Mo:NY Delighly Mangum, House keeper, Dau F S W 20 UT Fa:TN Mo:NY 3 boarders with last names of Stringham and Farley 1900 US: Circleville, Piute, Utah shows "Delight Mangun" living with her daughter Mary Jane Alger. Delight is a 60 year old widow with 10 children total and three living. 2. Parents are Arnold Potter, b. 11Jan 1804 at Salisbury, Herkimer, NY, d. 2 Apr 1872 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, and Almira Smith, b. abt. 1808 at Salisbury, Herkimer, NY. They were married in 1823. 3. Children per family group sheet prepared by Enid Willardson for marriage with Sarah Delight Potter: She notes mother, Sarah, married (2) William Boothe. [Edits per the book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, p. 30, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale.]: a. Martin Addison, b. 21 Jan 1854, Payson, Utah, Utah, m. Mary Jane Ruby, 26 Jan 1877, d. 10 Mar 1891. [Mangum Book states death place was Circleville, Piute, UT.] b. John Arnold, b. 25 Nov 1855, Payson, Utah, Utah, m. Mary Ellen Crow, 16 Feb 1877, d. 14 Jan 1940. c. William Carlos, b. 18 Jun 1858, Santa Clara or Washington, Washington, UT, d. Aug 1863. [Mangum Book states birth and death places were both Washington, Washington, UT.] d. Delila Ann, b. 30 May 1860, Washington, Washington, UT, d. 27 Aug 1887. [Mangum Book states birth place as St. George.] e. David Jacob, b. 30 May 1862, St. George or Washington, Washington, UT, d. Nov 1862. [Mangum Book states birth place as St. George.] f. Mary Jane, b. 14 or 19 Jan 1864, Washington or Diamond Valley, Washington, UT, m. (1) Joseph Algar, m. (2) Peter Pitts, d. 14 Oct 1928. [Mangum Book states birth date 11 Jan 1864 at Diamond Valley; Death 14 Oct 1923 McGill, White Pine, Nevada.] g. Emily Almira, b. 2 or 10 Mar 1866, Washington, Washington, UT m. Levison Hancock, d. 1953. [Mangum Book states birth 20 Mar 1866; death 11 Nov 1950 Bluebell, Duchesne, Utah.] h. Harriet Adeline b. 13 Jan 1869, Washington, Washington, UT, d. Jun 1869. [Mangum Book states death place Washington, Wash., UT.] Alt. edit as follows: children per family group sheet prepared by Enid Willardson: She notes mother, Sarah, married (2) William Boothe. [Modifications added per Ancestry.com database "Piute".] a. Martin Addison, b. 21 Jan 1854, Payson, Utah, Utah, m. Mary Jane Ruby, 26 Jan 1877, d. 10 Mar 1891 [of 9 Mar 1992 in Circleville, Piute, UT and bur. same place]. b. John Arnold, b. 25 Nov 1855, Payson, Utah, Utah, m. Mary Ellen Crow, 16 Feb 1877, d. 14 Jan 1940 [in Nampa, Canyon, ID and bur. 19 Jan 1940 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID]. c. William Carlos, b. 18 Jun 1858, Santa Clara or Washington, Washington, UT, d. [27] Aug 1863. d. Delila Ann, b. 30 May 1860, Washington, Washington, UT, d. 27 Aug 1887. e. David Jacob, b. 30 May [or Mar] 1862, St. George or Washington, Washington, UT, d. Nov 1862. f. Mary Jane, b. 14 or 19 Jan 1864, Washington or Diamond Valley, Washington, UT, m. (1) Joseph [Johnson] Algar [or Alger], m. (2) Peter Pitts, d. 14 Oct 1928 [or 27 Dec 1926]. g. Emily Almira, b. [20] Mar 1866, Washington, Washington, UT m. Levison Hancock [17 Oct 1879 in St. George, Washington, UT], d. 1953 [or 11 Nov 1950 in Pleasant Valley, Duschesne, UT]. h. Harriet Adeline b. 13 Jan 1869, Washington, Washington, UT, d. Jun 1869. 4. William Mangum and Sarah Delight Potter's daughter, Emily Almira Mangum, b. 20 Mar 1866 in Washington, Washington, Utah, married 17 Oct 1879 Levison Hancock, the son of Levi Hancock. Levi had five wives, one of which was a Richey who were associated with the Mangum family. BIOGRAPHY: 1. The book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "Sarah Delight Potter, second wife of William Mangum, was born Sept. 9, 1830, the daughter of Arnold Potter and Almyra Smith at Salisbury, Herkimer County, New York. She met William Mangum when he was called to take supplies for the snowed-in emigrants at Winter Quarters. They were married April 3, 1853 in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Utah by Brigham Young. After the marriage, her home was made in Payson, Utah where they lived for four years. At this time the family was called to go to Washington, Wash. Co., Utah to raise cotton in Utah's 'Dixie'. Besides raising cotton, they also raised 'Cain', sugar cane for molasses, and ten children. From Mary Ann Chapman Richey the following information has been obtained: 'Sarah Delight Potter was a very fine woman. She was crippled with rheumatism after her first Child, Martin Addison, was born. Her husband, William, built her a special chair out of red cedar. The right arm of this chair was left hollow. In this area she kept her sewing materials, needles and yarn. She was always knitting stockings for her family and neighbors. She kept her home in a very clean and beautifully scrubbed condition. Her table was even scrubbed white. After William's death she moved with her daughter, Mary Jane Alger to the Smoot Ward, Lincoln Co., Wyoming. At this time she was so crippled that she could not be alone. A special fork carved out of red cedar had been made for her so that she could feed herself. This fork is now in the possession of her granddaughter, Josephine Alger Olson of McGill, Nevada.' Sarah Delight died in Smoot Ward, Lincoln Co., Wyoming June 9, 1905. She was so very kind and sweet that everyone who knew her loved her..." MARRIAGE: 1. Info given at live temple marriage sealing was "3 Apr 1853 at Payson, Utah, Utah." BURIAL: 1. FHL book 921.273-H191L, FHL film 6100585 "Levison Hancock, Emily Hancock and their Descendants": "Desiring to know the exact location of her great-grandmother's grave Delta Hale spent many years in research. Letters were written to the Stake Genealogical Chairmen in Wyoming and other places. She went to McGill, Nevada, to see the children of the daughter, Mary Jane Alger. She was told by her daughters, Sarah DeWitt Dobson and Josephine Alger Olsen, that she was buried in Smoot, Lincoln County, Wyoming, in the village cemetery. By going to Smoot and talking with Hugh Finlayson, an ex-Bishop of Smoot Ward, and Martha Swabb, a native of Smoot in her 80th year and living in the house in which Sarah Delight died, the exact spot or location of the grave was found. On the last Saturday in September in 1962, Delta Hale took a granite headstone to Sarah's grave. With the help of Bishop Finlayson, who furnished sand and gravel and water to mix the cement which Delta had secured, the headstone was erected. Delta's husband, Horace Hale, and her third son, Wilford M. Hale were very instrumental with the others mentioned, in the placing of the headstone. When Sarah Delight was buried, a row of white stones had been put around the grave along with a row of posts about three feet high. In the top of the posts a log chain had been put to encircle the grave. Through the years the posts and the log chain have disappeared. A flood over the graveyard had deposited several inches of silt and dirt. This of course, had covered the white rocks. On going to the home of Martha Swabb in Smoot, it was found that she had cared for the grave. Martha Swabb went to the cemetery with Delta Hale to help with the location of the grave. Some small cottonwood trees were growing at the spot indicated by Martha, and upon digging down near the roots of the trees, the white rocks were located. Thus the location and the placing of the headstone of Sarah Delight's grave were accomplished. A few weeks later, Delta Hale located the grave of William Mangum in the cemetery at Circleville, Piute County, Utah. This was accomplished through the help of the sexton, LaPearl Beater and Margaret Fox. A matching headstone to the one placed on Sarah Delight's grave was placed on the grave of William Mangum. LaPearl Beater and Margaret Fox had cared for and decorated William's grave for many years. They are both dead now." Kerry's note: a photo accompanies the article showing the headstone. It reads "S. Delight P. Mangum, Sept. 9, 1830-June 9, 1905." | Potter, Sarah Delight (I1313)
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| 2170 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 144b, dwelling 1267, family 1268: James Wareha[?]d, 37, PA. Harriet, 32, OH. Seth, 5, IL. Hellen Jefferds, 11, Unknown. 1860 US: Jack's Valley, Carson, Utah Territory, p. 156, dwelling #1874, family #1874 (on this same page was Jacob N. Winter & family): Wm. H. Winter, age 30, male, occupation Stock raiser, born Indiana. Eliza age 20, female, born Michigan. Anne Jane age 2, female, born Utah M. Snider, 30, male, born Indiana [William's Aunt Jane Spurgeon married Daniel Snider; perhaps M. Snider is a cousin or other relative.] Elias Williams, 21, male Susan Maria 25, female, servant "Piute Indian" 1900 US: Reported by another family researcher that she can be found in Oregon and that she reports her birthplace as Michigan. 1910 US: North Powder Precinct, Union, Oregon, p.33b, 3rd Street, dwelling #44, family #45: William F. Haines, 72, married 3 times, Ohio Unk. Unk., lawyer of civil cases. Hellen L., wife, 70, married 2 times, Michigan PA Unk. 2. Per 8 Jul 2003 email from Annie Conley A. She died 30 Nov. 1918 in North Powder, OR. I know this because I have visited the cemetery where she is buried and I have a photo of her headstone. I also found the information in the Union Co., OR Cemetery Records and the Oregon Death Index for 1903-1970. Her husband at the time of her death was William F. Haines. She married him 21 Jan 1905 (Oregon Marriage Records) and he was the father of Helen's son-in-law. B. Helen's name in her father's Bible is spelled "Helin." Her mother died when she was very young. Helen is said to be short and broad. When Helen's mother died her father, gave her to Oren Jefferds and his wife Zerena Rogers Jefferds (later Zerena Nolan) in Dec. 1844. Helen lived in Nauvoo, IL with the Jefferds, also Mormons, and left there during the famine and crossed the plains with a wagon train when she was 12 years old. Oren Jefferds died in March 1869. Zerena was still living in 1886 when Helen visited there with daughter Clara. C. Helen was married first to Seely Owen. She was the third wife in a Mormon household. She left Owen on March 25, 1857 because the first wife was very abusive to her. The bishop released her from the marriage. She had no children by this marriage. She was working as a domestic in the household of Jacob Winter when he and his brother William (my husband's great grandfather) decided to move west to Jack's Valley, Nevada. Helen went with them. And sometime on that trip she moved into William's wagon. She and William Winters were never legally married. She filed for divorce from William twice in Nevada and it was denied both times. She later filed for divorce in Oregon and it was granted in 1892. She later married William Haines. D. In the fall of 1875 Helen took all the children (there were 12 in all, 8 living in 1875) except George and went to Utah to visit her foster mother. Her daughter Clara was born on this trip. She returned early in 1877 and in the spring she moved with the children to Petaluma, CA. It was after this that William married Matilda Duncan. In April of 1879 she was confined to Napa State Hospital (in California) and William took the children (except Anna, who was married) back to Elko Co., Nevada where his wife, Matilda took care of them. In Feb. 1880 she was released from the hospital and moved in with Anna and her husband. Anna is my husband's grandmother. Six months later William traveled to California and took her back to his home in Nevada. About 1882 William, Helen and the children moved to Oregon. William and Helen were not living as man and wife. Most of the time they lived in separate houses. Matilda did not go until later. E. I have all the divorce records and a group of stories written by Helen's youngest daughter Clara. These stories tell about Clara's Childhood. And living with her mother and "stepmother." But the divorce records tell a very interesting story too. 3. From Leslie Wood 18 Jul 2003 P. 43 - "I would here say David Fredrick lost his wife and gave us his daughter Helen Louisa who was born June 19 1839. She came to our house in December 1844, lived with us until she was married in Salt Lake City." P. 55 - "I should say here that our girl Helen Louisa lived with us until November 27, 1853. She was sealed to Seley [Seely] Owen, his first wife abusing her, pounding with clubs and chairs. She left and came home from time to time. Bishop Richards, finding she could not live with them advised her to leave for good. She got a bill March 25th 1857 and was married June 1858 to Wm. Winter and moved to Carson Valley. She has had four girls now - June 1862 and the second one died when about 10 months old." "Anna Jane born March 30, 1859; Zerena Elizabeth born Aug 30, 1860; Catherine H. born October 25, 1861; Sarah Bell born December 2, 1862; George Snider born September 17, 1863." 4. Excerpts from "Journal of Oren Jefferds," MS1425, Historical Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT. Note that journals are lengthy and only brief excerpts of immediate genealogical interest follow. Also note that I have made punctuation and capitalization corrections for easier reading: Page 43: "I would here say David Fredrick lost his wife and gave us his daughter Hellen Louisa who was born June 19th, 1839. She came to our house in Dec. 1844, lived with us until she was married in Salt Lake City. I and my wife Zerena received our endowments in the House of the Lord January the eighth, 1846. We landed on the Misourie River the next fall. Built a house in Winter Quarters - lived in it two winters: 47 and 48. Lost one or two cows the first winter and in the spring mooved back over the River on Honey Creek. Fenced 5 acres of hand plant[e]d corn; raised 200 bush[els], 40 of potatoes, 100 turnips. Built mee a house. Staid untill the 18 of Nov. then I and my wife in com. with Owen Cole started for Ohio in 1848; had a hard time traveling - got snowbound, staid in Westpoint over winter - arrived there the 17 of Dec. Staid and worked untill April 23, 1849 then started again for Ohio - traveled untill the 19[th] of May; we a[r]rived at James Thompson's in [the] Michigan town of Ypsilanti who married my wife's sister Harriet... [Oren (and family?) continue to travel through New York, Ohio, Michigan and finally returns to Kanesville Jan. 1851. He notes his preparation to leave for the West.]" Page 49: "...the next June the 6th, 1852, started in Co. No. 6, David Wood Captain of the fifty - Isaac Boosenbank Company of ten [p. 50] for Salt Lake Valley home... Arrived in Great Salt Lake City September the 20th at Moses Demmings in first Ward; went to Little Cottenwood 23d. Bought 20 acres of land in Big Field..." Page 55: "I would say here that our girl Helen Louisa lived with us until November 27, 1853. She was sealed to Seley [Seely] Owen, his first wife abusing her, pounding with clubs and chares. She left and came home from time to time. Bishop Richards, finding she could not live with them advised her to leav for good. She got a bill March 25th 1857 and was married June 1858 to Wm. Winter and moved to Carson Valley. She has had four girls now - June 1862 and the second one died when about 10 months old. Anna Jane born March 30, 1859; Zerena Elizabeth born Aug 30th, 1860; Catherine H. born Oct. 25, 1861; Sarah Bell born Dec. 21, 1862; George Snider born Sep. 17, 1863. 5. Helen is referred to as Mary's sister in the following transcriptions of letters from David Frederick living in San Bernardino, to daughter Mary in Utah; originals with David Fry: May 20, 1853: "Marry, my daughter, I again take my pen to write a few lines to you. I am well and I hope that you injoy the blessing I hav ben today and had my likeness taken that is have two cases, the one I sende to you and the other I calculate sende to Nancy by male as soon I can write to hur and receive an answer yours. I sende by Brol Wm. Perkins who has ben to the sandwich Islands on a mission is on his way to the Lake. He resides in the thirteenth warde near Mr. Beans Store and if you call on him you may get it. I did not recave line from you the last maile man. Bro Lyman and kids hav not returned as yet but we expect them in about two weakes, then if I do not receave a leter from yu I shall be sadley disappointed. I want to visit Hellin Loisa as often a you can and teach hir the principels of right and to be sobere minde to reflect uppon the princepels of virtu and honesty and not to forget hir Father for he deziers to see hir wonse more while in the flesh. These few linese from you father and friend in the new and ever lasting covenant. Give my respects to Bro Scofields father and you uncal and aunt and all inquiren friends. /signed/ David Frederick" BIRTH: 1. Online Ordinance Index info cited below. MARRIAGE: 1. William Winter stated in court that he and Helen were never married. 1892 judgement in Oregon marital case states 18 Jul 1857 (see citation with Helen's notes). Same case indicates Matilda Anne Stoddard or Duncan married William 9 Apr 1877 in Davis Co., Utah. Alternate marriage date Jun 1858 is date that was in Helen's adopted father Orin Jefferd's journal. 2. Haines: Western States Marriage Record Index at http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/fhc/getid.idc?m_id=159984: Groom: William F. Haines: Bride: Helen L. Winters; County of Record: Union Co., Oregon; Place of Marriage: Union County; Date of Marriage 24 Jan 1905; Volume G; Page 451. 3. Divorce court house records of William and Helen Winter provided by Annie Conley 25 Jul 2003: A. "This Indenture made the 30th day of January A.D. 1877 between W. H. Winters, party of the first part and Helen L. Winters, his wife, the party of the second part, both of Elko County, State of Nevada witnesseth: Whereas unhappy differences have arisen and do now exist between said parties, and by reason of the same they have agreed and do now agree, to live separate and apart from each other during their natural lives. Now therefore, the said party of the first part in consideration of the premises and in pursuance thereof does hereby covenant to and with the said Helen L. Winters, party of the second part, his wife that notwithstanding the marriage existing between them, it shall and may be lawful to and for said Helen L. Winters at all times hereafter to live separate and apart from him, the said Wm. H. Winters, and the said W. H. Winters shall not, nor will he compel her to cohabit or live with him and that the said Helen L. Winters shall be to all intents and purposes freed from the power, will or control of the said W. H. Winters, and that he shall not, nor will not, at any time hereafter under any pretense whatever sue or prosecute and person that may receive, harbor or protect her. That he will not claim any of her property, money, clothes or jewelry, that she now has or may hereafter so acquire, and the said Helen L. Winters does hereby promise covenant and agree to and with the said W. H. Winters in the same manner and to the same extant that she so covenants with the said first party that she refrains from any and all acts towards him, that he has covenanted above to refrain from as against her. And it is further covenanted and agreed to and between the said parties that the said first party shall and does, from the date hereof, release and discharge said second party from all obligations to keep and support George S. Winters aged 15 years and Henry F. Winters aged six years (both of them issue of the marriage of said parties) but covenants and agrees to raise and educate said children with a parent's care, and the said Helen L. Winters covenants and agrees to and with said W. H. Winters to release and discharge from all expenses and responsibility with the raising and schooling of the following children the issue of said marriage; Catherine Helen aged 10 years, Eliza G. aged eleven years, Josephine M. aged 8 years, Alice aged two years and Clara their infant daughter. And that she will raise and school all of said last named children at her own expense and charge, and look to their raising and comfort with a parents care. And the said second party further covenants and agrees to and with said first party, that she will from the date hereof release said first party from all obligation to keep or support her, and will not contract any debt or bill against said first party. And in consideration of the premises the said first party agrees to and with the said second party that upon the signing and executing of this indenture of agreement and contracts, that he will execute to the said second party his promissory notes as follows: One note for One Thousand Dollars due and payable on the first day of May 1877. One note for One Thousand Dollars due and payable on the first day of May 1878 and one note for One Thousand Dollars due and payable on the first day of May 1879 and that all of said notes shall be payable in United States Coin, and the said first party agrees to accept said notes in full satisfaction of all her right title and interest in and to all the common and community property now owned by the said parties consisting of both real and personal property. Wm. H. Winters. Helen L. Winters. State of Nevada. County of Humboldt. On this thirtieth (30th) day of January A.D. One thousand eight hundred and seventy seven personally appeared before me, Chas. A. LaGrave, County Recorder in and for the said Humboldt County, Wm. H. Winters and Helen Winters, his wife, whose names are subscribed to the annexed instrument as parties thereto, personally known to me to be the same persons described in and who executed the said annexed instrument as parties thereto. Who each of them acknowledged to me that they, each of them respectively, executed the same freely and voluntarily and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and the said Helen L. Winters, wife of the said Wm. H. Winters, having been by me first made acquainted with the contents of said instrument acknowledged to me, on examination apart from and without the hearing of her husband, that she executed the same freely and voluntarily without fear or compulsion or undue influence of her husband and that she does not wish to retract the execution of the same. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. Chas. A. LaGrave, County Recorder. Recorded at request of Wm. H. Winters Tuesday January 30th A.D. 1877 @ 30 minutes past 1 P.M. Chas. A. LaGrave, County Recorder, by Geo. F. Fell, Dep. No. 195. B. Judgment Roll. In the Circuit Court, September Term, 1892. Judgment Renderer. 9-14-1892. Helen L. Winter, Plaintiff vs W. H. Winter, Defendant. Judgment for Plaintiff. Filed Sept. 17, 1892. L. J. Rouse, Clerk. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Wallowa. Helen L. Winters, Plaintiff vs W. H. Winters, Defendant. Complaint in Equity. Plaintiff for cause of suit against the above named defendant complains and alleges; That plaintiff is now and for more that one year last past has been a resident of the State of Oregon, and that defendant is now a resident of Wallowa County Oregon. That plaintiff and defendant were intermarried on or about the 18th day of July A.D. 1857 in the Territory of Utah and that they ever since have been and still are husband and wife. That there have been born the issue of said marriage twelve children, five of whom are now dead and four of full age and providing for themselves. That one son, Frank Winters aged twenty years, and two daughters, Alice Winters aged seventeen years, and Clara Winters aged fifteen years, live in Wallowa County Oregon. That on or about the first day of July A.D. 1888, the defendant commenced against plaintiff a course of cruel and inhuman treatment and personal indignities rendering her life burdensome, by then and there introducing into his family and house in Wallowa County Oregon, one Matilda Stoddard or Matilda Duncan, as she was sometimes called, and by then and there installing and placing said Matilda Stoddard in charge of defendant's said home and household as mistress and making and compelling plaintiff to become subservient to her. That at said time defendant moved plaintiff out of the house and home theretofore occupied by plaintiff and defendant and their children and placed therein the said Matilda Stoddard as his mistress in the place and stead of plaintiff, and that defendant has continued to and does now keep the said Matilda Stoddard in his said house and home as his mistress and is now living with her as such. That defendant has by his said acts excluded plaintiff from her place in the family of defendant and compelled plaintiff to live apart and separate from him and to seek another home and place in which to live and provide for herself. That defendant was not in any way morally or legally bound or obliged to support the said Matilda Stoddard, but wrongfully, and unlawfully, and without cause or provocation placed her in his said house and family over plaintiff, and to gratify his own desires. That while plaintiff lived near defendant on her own premises, to which he had compelled her to move, defendant allowed and permitted said Matilda Stoddard to ill treat and abuse plaintiff by then and there applying to plaintiff and her children vile and degrading language and epithets by calling plaintiff a whore and an illegal wife of defendant and her children by him illegitimate. That the said Matilda Stoddard boasts and threatens that she will turn plaintiff and her children out of the premises of defendant and prevent her or them from receiving any benefit or use of the property of defendant. That defendant persisted in so keeping said Matilda Stoddard in his said house and home against the protests of plaintiff and without her consent. That by so doing he excluded plaintiff from her place in his household as his lawful wife and from the society of her children to the degradation of herself and Children. That ever since the said first day of July 1888, defendant has and now does support and provide for the said Matilda Stoddard as his mistress to the exclusion of plaintiff; that plaintiff could not live in the same house with said Matilda Stoddard and defendant compelled plaintiff to move from their said home in order to give the said Matilda Stoddard a place in his house, and that by the said acts of defendant he has compelled plaintiff to live separate and apart from him to the shame and scandal of plaintiff and her children. That by the said cruel and inhuman treatment of plaintiff by defendant and the said personal indignities placed upon her by defendant, plaintiff's life was and has been rendered burdensome to her. That the defendant is not a proper person to care for and educate the two children of plaintiff and defendant, Alice Winters and Clara Winters, and that plaintiff can and is willing to support and care for them. That plaintiff was by the said treatment of her by the defendant compelled to and she does now by her own labor support herself, and that defendant does not in any way contribute thereto. That she had no property or means except one piece of land in Wallowa County, Oregon now in the possession of defendant and from which plaintiff receives no income, and that in order for her to prosecute her suit for a dissolution of the marriage contract of plaintiff and defendant as herein demanded it is necessary that defendant pay into Court for the use of plaintiff a reasonable sum for that purpose and to support plaintiff during the pendency of this suit. And plaintiff alleges that the sum of $500.00 for attorney fees, $250.00 for Court expenses and taking testimony and the sum of $50.00 per month for the support of plaintiff during the pendency of this suit, are reasonable sums for those purposes. And plaintiff alleges that she has at all times been to defendant a true and faithful wife and that the said acts of defendant in his said treatment of her were done without cause or provocation on the part of, or from plaintiff. That defendant is the owner and in possession of in Wallowa County, Oregon, the following descried lands and personal property, which property was the result and accumulation of plaintiff's and defendant's joint work during their married life, to wit: All of Section One (1) Township Three (3) South of Range Forty-five (45) East of Willamette Meridian, also the South East Quarter of Section Twenty-seven (27); East Half of North West Quarter and South West Quarter of North West Quarter of Section Thirty-four (34) Township Three (3) North of Range Forty-seven (47) East of Willamette Meridian and the South West Quarter of North West Quarter and West Half of South West Quarter of Section Twenty (20) North West Quarter of North West Quarter of Section Twenty-nine (29) Township One (1) South of Range Forty-six (46) East Willamette Meridian of the aggregate value of about Ten Thousand Dollars. Also horses and cattle of the value of about $5,000.00. That it is necessary, in order to protect the rights of plaintiff, that an order be made by this Court restraining defendant from in any manner transferring or incumbering any of his said property until the final orders of this court. And plaintiff alleges that she is entitled to the one half of all the said property of defendant as her portion. And plaintiff further alleges; That on or about the first day of April A.D. 1890, defendant willfully deserted plaintiff in Wallowa County, Oregon, by then and there, taking into his house one Matilda Stoddard, as his mistress and compelling plaintiff to move out of their said home theretofore occupied by plaintiff and defendant and thereby excluding plaintiff from her place as his lawful wife and compelling her to seek other and different places of abode separate and apart from defendant. That by the said conduct of defendant plaintiff has been compelled to and does now support herself without any aid or assistance from defendant. That ever since the said first day of April A.D. 1890, defendant has and still does wrongfully and unlawfully keep and support the said Matilda Stoddard as his mistress in his home and dwelling house in Wallow County, Oregon. That the said desertion of plaintiff by defendant was and is without provocation on part of plaintiff and has continued to the present time. And plaintiff further alleges; that on or about the 10th day of Oct. A.D. 1890, defendant committed adultery with one Matilda Stoddard, otherwise known as Matilda Duncan, by then and there having sexual intercourse with said Matilda Stoddard in Wallowa County, Oregon at the residence and dwelling of defendant the more specific time of which is to this plaintiff unknown. That the said adultery was committed by defendant without cause or provocation on the part of plaintiff. That the plaintiff is entitled to a decree of this Court forever dissolving the bonds of Matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant, and that she is the owner of and entitled to the one half of all property of defendant. Wherefore plaintiff prays this Court: First; For and order of this Court restraining the defendant from in any manner transferring and incumbering any of his property, real or personal, until the final determination of this suit. Second; That the defendant be ordered to pay into Court for plaintiff the sum of $500.00 for attorney fees and the sum of $250.00 for paying expenses and of taking testimony, and the further sum of $50.00 per month for the support of plaintiff. Third; That upon the final hearing of this suit plaintiff have a decree forever dissolving the bonds of Matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant. Fourth; That plaintiff be awarded the care and custody of Alice Winters and Clara Winters daughters of plaintiff and defendant. Fifth; That plaintiff be decreed to be the owner of the one half of all the property now owned by plaintiff, to wit: All of Section One (1) Township Three (3) South of Range Forty-five (45) East of Willamette Meridian, also the South East Quarter of Section Twenty-seven (27); East Half of North West Quarter and South West Quarter of North West Quarter of Section Thirty-four (34) Township Three (3) North of Range Forty-seven (47) East of Willamette Meridian and the South West Quarter of North West Quarter and West Half of South West Quarter of Section Twenty (20) North West Quarter of North West Quarter of Section Twenty-nine (29) Township One (1) South of Range Forty-six (46) East Willamette Meridian of the aggregate value of about $15,000.00 and horses and cattle to the value of about $5,000.00 besides other personal property including farming implements and household effects, and that defendant be decreed to deliver over to plaintiff the one half of said personal property or pay her the value thereof. Sixth; That plaintiff have and recover of defendant her costs and disbursements of this suit. Seventh; That plaintiff have such other and further relief as the Court may seem just in the premises. J. H. Slater & Son, Attorneys for Plaintiff. State of Oregon, County of Union. I, Helen L. Winters, being duly sworn say that I am the plaintiff in the above entitled suit and believe the foregoing complaint to be true. Hellen L Winters. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of September A.D. 1891. W. T. Slater. Notary Public in & for Oregon. C. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Wallowa. Helen L. Winters, Plaintiff vs William H. Winters, Defendant. Restraining Order. Whereas, the plaintiff in the above entitled suit has asked a decree of said Court dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant and that plaintiff be decreed to be the owner of one half of all the property of said defendant, and; Whereas the plaintiff has asked an order of this Court directed to said defendant restraining and forbidding defendant from in any manner transferring his property, real and personal or encumbering the same until the termination of this suit, and to pay into Court for plaintiff the sum of $500.00 for her attorney's fees and the sum of $250.00 to pay Court expenses and for taking testimony, and the sum of $50.00 per month for the support of plaintiff. Now therefore based upon the facts alleged and set forth in the complaint of plaintiff filed in said cause, it is hereby ordered that the said defendant be and he is hereby restrained and prohibited from in any manner transferring or incumbering any property, real or personal, belonging to him until the final termination of this suit, and it is further ordered that defendant within 30 days after service of this order upon him pay into Court for the plaintiff the sum of $200.00 for attorney fees and the sum of $150.00 for Court expenses and expenses of taking testimony and the further sum of $50.00 per month until the termination of this suit for the support of plaintiff, or before the expiration of said time show cause why he should not comply with said order. It is further ordered that this order be served upon defendant by delivering to defendant a copy thereof certified to by the Sheriff of Wallowa County, Oregon. Dated at Chambers this 7th day of September A.D. 1891. James A. Fee. Circuit Judge. State of Oregon, County of Wallowa. I hereby certify that I served the foregoing restraining order of the Court within Wallowa County, Oregon this the 11th day of September 1891 on the within named defendant W. H. Winters by delivering to him in person a true copy of said order prepared and certified to by me as Sheriff of said County. Thomas Humphreys, Sheriff. D. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Wallowa. Helen L. Winters, Plaintiff vs William H. Winters, Defendant. Summons: To W. H. Winters, the above named defendant; In the name of the State of Oregon; You are hereby notified to be and appear in the above entitled Court and answer the complaint therein filed against you in the above entitled cause within ten days from the service of this summons upon you, if served in Wallowa County, Oregon, but if served within any other County of the State of Oregon then within twenty days from the service of this summons upon you. And defendant will take notice that if he fail so to appear and answer, the plaintiff will for want thereof apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. J. H. Slater & Son. Atty. for plaintiff. State of Oregon, County of Wallowa. I hereby certify that I served the within summons within said County this 11th day of September 1891 on the within named defendant, W. H. Winters, by delivering a true copy thereof prepared and certified to by me as Sheriff together with a copy of the complaint prepared and certified to by L. J. Rouse, Clerk of said County, to the said W. H. Winters in person. Thomas Humphreys, Sheriff of Wallowa County, Oregon. State of Oregon, County of Wallowa. Service of summons and copy of complaint accepted this 14th day if Sept. 1891 in Wallowa Co., Oregon. Chas. F. Hyde, Dist. Atty. E. Be it Remembered, That at a Regular Term of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of Wallowa, began and held at the Court House in Enterprise, in said County and State, on Monday, the 14th day of September, A.D. 1891, the same being the second Monday in said month, and the time fixed by law for holding a regular term of said Court, when were present: The Hon. James A. Fee, Judge, Presiding, Charles F. Hyde, Dist. Attorney, L. J. Rouse, Clerk, Thomas Humphreys, Sheriff. When, on Wednesday the 16th day of September A.D. 1891, or the third Judicial day of said Term, among others, the following proceedings were had, to wit: Helen L. Winter vs William H. Winter. Now at this time this cause being called and J. D. Slater appearing for plaintiff and it appearing that the time for answering has not expired this cause is continued for the Term. Jas. A. Fee. F. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Wallowa. Helen L. Winters, Plaintiff, vs William H. Winters, Defendant. Comes now the above named defendant and demurs to the first alleged cause of suit in plaintiff's complaint on the following ground towit; 1st: That said alleged cause of suit does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of suit. Defendant demurs to the second alleged cause of suit in said complaint on the following grounds, towit; 1st: That said second alleged cause of suit does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of suit. Defendant demurs to the third alleged cause of suit in said complaint on the following grounds, towit; 1st: That said third alleged cause of suit does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of suit. Defendant further demurs to the whole of said complaint on the following grounds, towit; 1st: That said complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute any cause of suit. 2nd: That several causes of suit have been improperly united. 3rd: That the suit has not been commenced within the time limited by the code of Civil Procedure. Ivanhoe & Sheahan and R. Eakin. Attorneys for Defendant. G. The Circuit Court for Wallowa County, State of Oregon. Helen L. Winter, Plaintiff vs William H. Winters, Defendant. Affidavit of W. H. Winter. I, W. H. Winter, being first duly sworn say, That I am the defendant above named and have a good, sufficient, valid, existing defense to the complaint filed in the above entitled action and to each alligation contained in said complaint, as I am informed by my counsel, to whom I have made a full and detailed statement of all the facts I am able to move in all my relations with the plaintiff above named. That on or about February 1857 I first met the plaintiff in Utah Territory, and that at that time plaintiff was the wife of one ____ Owen, and possessed of no property, but serving as a domestic doing general housework in the house of my brother. That at that time I was the owner and possessed of as the result of my own labor, property of the value of not less that $2000.00. That plaintiff's husband, the said Owen, was a Mormon in religion, and the community in which he and plaintiff lived was settled by people of that religious faith, and any gentile who in any manner opposed on interfered with Mormon affairs or families was in actual and imminent danger of being mysteriously murdered and his property stolen or confiscated by the church. That myself and brother and his family were all gentiles and the religious sentiment in said community was so violent against all gentile people at that time that we were in constant danger and we were compelled to secretly leave said community and flee across the mountains, intending to go to the state of California, taking with us our property, consisting principally of live stock. That plaintiff repeatedly begged me to take her from the rule, control and oppression of her said husband, who cruelly and inhumanly mistreated her to my actual knowledge. That I took plaintiff, at the risk of my own life and property and at my personal expense, as she had no means of her own, and escaped from said Mormon settlement with her, my brother and his family, through the mountainous wilds of Utah and what is now Nevada, then inhabited only by wild animals and hostile tribes of Indians, traveling about 1000 miles and finally settling in Carson Valley near the foot and on the east side of Sierra Nevada Mountains. That this valley at that time was almost wholly unsettled and not less than 80 miles from the nearest established settlement. That myself and plaintiff settled in Carson Valley where I obtained land and entered extensively into the stock business for the California market, and lived in said valley for 17 years. That during said time I accumulated property to the value of about $10,000.00. That during the year 1866, plaintiff left my home sometime in the spring, and as soon as I found out where she was I provided her suitable board and lodging at a respectable hotel at Carson City for the summer, thinking a summer's rest might do her good. In the same year, while so absent she commenced a suit against me for divorce in Ormsby County, Nevada and upon the evidence that she was the wife of said Owen, and had never been married to me, and I had not abandoned her, said suit was dismissed. That sometime during the fall of the same year, 1866, plaintiff returned to my house and continued to live there until sometime in the fall of 1875 when she wanted to visit her people in Utah, and asked to take the children with her. I furnished her the means to travel with and she took all the children but my son George who followed sometime about Christmas the same year. She remained in Utah on this visit until sometime in the early part of 1877 when she returned to Winnemucca, Nevada, some 75 miles from my place. During all her stay in Utah I supported her and the children, who were going to school. I repeatedly wrote her while she was away this time, asking her to return, but she refused wanting to live in Utah. When I first met her at Winnemucca on her return I had not had an answer to any of my letters for many months, and was surprised to meet her. I asked her when she wanted to come home. I had taken my son George to that place to send him away to school and she said she would not come home at all, but wanted her share of the property to take the children to California to school. I offered to send all the children then old enough to attend school, but she flatly refused to return to my home, and demanded a share of my property. Finally plaintiff and defendant entered into a written agreement at this time agreeing that plaintiff and defendant would live separate and apart during the remainder of their natural lives. And plaintiff therein, in consideration of the conditions of said agreement, in writing, covenanted to and with me that she would not in any manner or under any pretenses whatever sue or prosecute me for any of my property I then had, or might after that time acquire. That plaintiff released me in said agreement from any liability for her support and agreed to care for, educate and rise, with a parents care, all her daughters then with her, being Catherine Helen, Josephine M., Alice and Clara, and I was to educate, raise and care for all her sons, being George S. and Henry F. That in said agreement I bound myself to pay plaintiff out of my property the full sum of $3,000.00 all of which I fully paid to, or for, plaintiff at or before the maturity of said obligation, which said $3,000.00 plaintiff then and there accepted in full of all claims against me or my property. Sometime in the spring of said year she took all her said children and went to Petaluma, California where I purchased for her a nine acre farm planted to orchard and vineyard for which I spent $150 per acre. She moved onto this farm with her children to send them to the graded or high schools of Petaluma. I lived all this time in Elko County of Nevada, engaged in the business of ranching and raising stock. I sent my son George to plow and farm her land at her request and to go to school. Sometime in 1879, I think, George wrote me that his mother, the plaintiff, had spent all the money, was greatly in debt and had been sent to the asylum as insane. He said his sisters were without a home or any place to stay. I sent him word at once to get them cared for and I would come down and fix things up as soon as possible, and sent him money to come home that he might help me care for the stock, as he had no home where he was. Inside of a month or two I went to California where plaintiff had lived with her children, settled in full all outstanding debts of plaintiff and her children and brought the children all back with me to Nevada, first having obtained the consent of my wife, Matilda, mentioned in plaintiff's complaint, to bring said children to my home and care for them. As I now remember it cost me about $800.00 in money to make said trip and settle said outstanding debts. While in California at this time I went to the asylum at Napa City to see the plaintiff who was both sick and insane, and the authorities would not allow her removal or in any manner interfered with and I was compelled to return to my home without her, and unable to do anything for her. Sometime in the spring of 1880, I think it was, I again went from my home in Nevada to the asylum at Napa, California to see plaintiff and got permission from the physicians to remove her to the home of her married daughter at Petaluma, thinking the change might help her. She seemed to improve and I was again compelled to return to Nevada, leaving her at the home of her daughter, the doctors having ordered that if she did not improve to have her returned. In about six months from this time plaintiff sent me word that she was much better, and wanted to come to see and be with her children. I immediately sent the money to pay her expenses and she came at once to my home in said Elko County, Nevada. That in April 1877, after said separation between me and plaintiff I was lawfully and regularly married to one Matilda Stoddard in Davis County, Utah Territory, and ever since have been and now am the lawful husband of the said Matilda. That when plaintiff returned to my house after said confinement in the asylum for the insane she seemed much more feeble in mind than ever before, and was very wilful, not wanting my wife to have any control over plaintiff's children, and my wife, having become attached to the children, wished exclusive control over them. The house was not large enough for us all, and I was extremely embarrassed by my surroundings. I fully realized that my wife should be mistress of my household, and that plaintiff was the natural mother of the children in controversy, and I wanted to avoid anything that might further affect her mind. After carefully considering the matter I sold out my lands, and my wife Matilda said if I would buy her a farm in Utah, she would like to return there and live near her children by a former husband. I wanted to come to Oregon and she would not come with me. I bought her a farm as she desired and she went to Utah to live where she remained until some time in the summer of 1888, when she came to Wallowa County, Oregon where she has ever since lived and now lives with me as my wife. That I sent the plaintiff and her children, when I sold out in Nevada, to Oregon, while I went to Wyoming Territory with a band of horses to sell. After selling said band of horses, I came to Oregon, and sometime in March 1882 I brought plaintiff and her children to Wallowa County, Oregon, where plaintiff has continuously resided at my home in said county until about July 1888. Plaintiff at her own request was moved from my house to a house I had built on a quarter section of land adjoining my place, that I had secured and improved at about $1,000 expense to myself and had deeded to plaintiff. When my wife wanted to come from Utah to my home in Oregon, I made the fact known to plaintiff and her children, and all of them expressed a willingness to have her come, and at their own instance were moved onto the farm of plaintiff, a distance of about 300 yards from the house I then lived in and still occupy as a home. That I supported plaintiff and her children at my own expense while they remained on said farm of plaintiff and have at all times when permitted so to do, provided for, supported and cared for plaintiff and any of her children. I am possessed of and own certain personal and real property in Wallowa County, Oregon, of the value of about $11,000, and that I owe, over and above any and all amounts due me, between five and six thousand dollars. I have about 200 head of cattle, not of a marketable class, and about 500 tons of hay which unless fed by me to steers for the spring of 1892 will result in great loss to myself and cause me to lose not less that $4,000, including the loss to me of 140 acres of grain. That all of said hay and grain were grown by me with the intention of feeding all of the same to beef cattle for the market of 1892, and unless allowed to use the same for that purpose I will suffer great and irreparable loss in both means and credit. That the restraining order in this suit has so impaired my credit in the business circles of Wallowa County, Oregon, that I have so far been unable to secure money to pay the hired help I was compelled to have in harvesting my said crop of hay and grain and unless said order is removed from my property it will be sacrificed by my creditors as I can neither sell it or get the money to pay them, or use it as a basis for credit. That plaintiff owns in her own name and unincumbered the following described real estate in Wallowa County, State of Oregon, to wit; N. W. 1/4 Section 6, Twp. 3 N. Range 46, E.W.M. and that said tract of land in it's present state of improvement is worth not less that $800.00 as a basis for business or money credit. That plaintiff is not obliged to work for her own support, and that said tract of land, properly managed, will support plaintiff as well as she is now supported by her own efforts. That plaintiff left said tract of land some time in the spring of 1890, unknown to me and has remained absent ever since, and I have simply kept up repairs and cultivation of said land and paid all taxes thereon to keep the same intact for plaintiff. That I have at all times used every effort and means at my command to prevent my wife from abusing in any manner the feelings of plaintiff and her children, and that neither my wife or anyone else has ever been either permitted or allowed by me to in any manner abuse, mistreat or insult the feelings of plaintiff and any such conduct on her part was without my knowledge or consent. That I have not now and never had an unkind feeling for the plaintiff but always have and always will render plaintiff and her children any assistance they may need that I can. Wm. H. Winter. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of September 1891. D. W. Sheahan. Notary Public for Oregon. Submitted at Chambers. Filed Oct. 6, 1891. L. J. Rouse, Clerk. H. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Wallowa. Helen L. Winters, Plaintiff vs William H. Winters, Defendant. To Helen L. Winter and J. H. Slater & Sons, your attorneys: You and each of you will please take notice that the defendant W. H. Winter, by his attorneys, Ivanhoe & Sheahan, will apply to James A. Fee, one of the Judges of the Sixth Judicial Dist. for the State of Oregon, at Chambers in the Court House at Pendleton, Umatillia County, Oregon on Wednesday, the 21st day of Oct. 1891, at ten o'clock A.M. of said day for an order dissolving the injunction heretofore granted herein, the said cause to be heard upon the pleadings and affidavits herein. Ivanhoe & Sheahan. Attys for deft. I. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Wallowa. Helen L. Winters, Plaintiff vs William H. Winters, Defendant. Comes now the defendant above named answering the complaint of plaintiff above named and for defense to plaintiff's alleged cause of suit denies and alleges as follows, towit: 1st: Denies that plaintiff and defendant were intermarried on or about the ___ day of July 1857, or on any other date, or time, or at all, in the Territory of Utah, or in, or at any other place, or at all, or that they ever since said date, or since any other date, or time, or at all, have been, or now are, or ever were husband and wife. Denies that there have been born as the issue of said alleged marriage twelve, or any other number of children. Denies that on or about the first day of July 1888, or any time, times, or at all, defendant commenced against plaintiff a course of cruel or inhuman treatment, or personal indignities, or rendering her life burdensome, or by then or there, or at any other time or place, introducing into his family or house in Wallowa County, Oregon, or elsewhere one Matilda Stoddard, or Matilda Duncan, or did then, or there, or at any other time or place, install, or place said Matilda Stoddard, or anyone else, in charge of defendant's home, or household as his mistress, or did make or compel plaintiff to become subservient to her, or to anyone else. Denies that at said time, or at any other time, defendant moved plaintiff out of the house, or home or other place, theretofore, or at any time occupied by either plaintiff or defendant, or any of their children, or place therein the said Matilda Stoddard, or anyone else, as his mistress, or in the alleged place or stead of plaintiff, or that defendant has continued to, or now does, or ever did keep the said Matilda Stoddard or anyone else in his house or home as his mistress, or is now, or ever has been living with her or anyone else, as such, or in any other manner, except as his lawful wife. Denies that defendant has by said alleged acts, or any other acts, or otherwise, excluded plaintiff from her alleged place in the family of defendant, or compelled plaintiff to live separate, or apart from him, or to seek another home or place in which to provide for herself, or any one else. Denies that defendant was not morally or legally bound or obliged to support the said Matilda Stoddard, or that he wrongfully, or unlawfully, or without cause placed her in his house or family, or over plaintiff, or to gratify his own desires, or otherwise, except as his lawful wife. Denies that defendant compelled plaintiff to move to her own premises near defendant, or that while plaintiff lived thereon, defendant allowed or permitted the said Matilda Stoddard, or anyone else, to ill treat, or abuse plaintiff, by then or there, or at any other time or place, applying to plaintiff or her children, vile, or degrading language, or epithets, or by calling plaintiff a whore, or illegal wife of defendant, or her children by him illegitimate, or in any other manner, or at all. Denies that defendant persisted in so keeping said Matilda Stoddard, or anyone else, in his house or home, or against the protests of plaintiff, or without her consent, or otherwise, or at all, except as his lawful wife, or that by so doing he excluded plaintiff from her alleged place in his household, as his alleged lawful wife, or from the society of her children, or to the degradation of herself, or Children, or anyone else, or otherwise, or at all. Denies that ever, or at any time, since the first day of July 1888, or since, or at any other time, times, or at all, defendant has, or now does, or ever did, or now does, support, or provide for the said Matilda Stoddard as his mistress, or otherwise, except as his lawful wife, or to the exclusion of plaintiff, or anyone else, or that plaintiff could not live in the same house with the said Matilda Stoddard, or that defendant compelled plaintiff to move from their alleged home, or other place, to give the said Matilda Stoddard, or anyone else, a place in his house, or that by said alleged acts, or otherwise, or at all, defendant has compelled plaintiff to separate, or apart from him, or to the shame or scandal of plaintiff, or her children, or otherwise, or at all. Denies that by said alleged cruel, or inhuman treatment of plaintiff, by defendant, or the said alleged personal indignities, alleged to be placed upon her by defendant, or otherwise, or at all, plaintiff's life was, or ever has, or now is rendered burdensome to her. Denies that plaintiff was by the said alleged treatment, or any treatment of her by defendant compelled to, or that she now by her own labor support herself, or that defendant does not contribute thereto. Denies that plaintiff has no property or means, except one piece of land in Wallowa County, Oregon. Denies that the said piece of land is now or ever has been in the possession of defendant, except for the purpose of caring for the same for plaintiff and preventing waste thereon. Denies that plaintiff receives no income from said piece of land, or that in order for her to prosecute this suit it is necessary that defendant, or anyone else, pay into Court, or otherwise, for the use of plaintiff, or anyone else, a reasonable, or any sum, for that or any other purpose, or to support plaintiff during the pendency of this suit, or otherwise or at all. Denies that the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, or any other sum whatever, for attorneys' fees, or for any other purpose, or at all, or the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, or any other sum whatever, for Court expenses, or taking testimony, or for any other purpose, or at all, or the sum of Fifty Dollars, or any other sum what ever, per month, or at any other rate, for the support of plaintiff during the pendency of this suit, or for any other purpose, are reasonable sums for said alleged purposes, or for any other purpose, or purposes, or at all. Denies that plaintiff has at all times, or at any time, times, or at all been to defendant a true, or faithful, or other wife, or any wife to defendant at all. Denies that the said alleged acts of defendant, or any other acts of cruelty were done by defendant in his treatment of plaintiff, or without cause or provocation on the part of or from plaintiff, or otherwise, or at all. Denies that any property, either real or personal, or any part thereof, owned by, or in the possession of defendant, is, or ever was the result, or accumulation of plaintiff and defendant's joint work during their alleged married life, or the result, or accumulation of any work or labor in any manner of plaintiff or any one else except defendant himself. Denies that defendant's real estate is, or ever was of the aggregate, or other value of Ten Thousand Dollars or any other sum, greater that Seven Thousand Dollars. Denies that it is necessary in order to protect the alleged rights, or any rights of plaintiff, or any one else, that an order be made by this Court, or any other power, restraining defendant from transferring, or incumbering his property, or any part thereof, or until the final or other orders of this Court, or other power, or otherwise, or at all. Denies that plaintiff is entitled to the one half, or any other part, or any at all, of defendant's property as her portion, or otherwise, or at all. And for defense to plaintiff's second alleged cause of suit defendant denies: 1st: Denies that on or about the first day of April 1890, or any other time, times, or at all, defendant willfully or otherwise deserted plaintiff, in Wallowa County, Oregon, or elsewhere, by then, or there, or at any other time, or place, taking into his house one Matilda Stoddard or anyone else, as his mistress, or compelling plaintiff to move out of the home, or other place alleged to be theretofore occupied by plaintiff and defendant, or thereby excluding plaintiff from her alleged place as his alleged lawful, or other wife, or any wife at all, or compelling her to seek any other or different place, or places of abode separate, or apart from defendant, or otherwise, or at all. Denies that by said alleged conduct of defendant, or any one else, plaintiff ever has been compelled to, or now does support herself, or any one else without any aid, or assistance from defendant, or otherwise, or at all. Denies that ever, or at any time, either since, or before the first day of April 1890, or any other time, or at all, defendant had, or still does wrongfully or unlawfully keep, or support the said Matilda Stoddard, or any one else as his mistress, or otherwise except as his lawful wife, in his home, or dwelling house, in Wallowa County, Oregon, or elsewhere. Denies that said alleged desertion of plaintiff by defendant ever was, or now is without provocation on the part of plaintiff, or otherwise, or at all, or has continued to the present time, or any other time, or at all. And for defense to plaintiff's third alleged cause of suit defendant denies: 1st: Denies that on or about the tenth day of October 1890, or at any other time, times, or at all, defendant committed adultery with one Matilda Stoddard, or otherwise known as Matilda Duncan, or anyone else, by then or there, or at any other time, or place, having sexual intercourse with the said Matilda Stoddard in Wallowa County, Oregon or elsewhere, or at all except as his lawful wife. Denies that said alleged adultery was committed by defendant without cause, or provocation on the part of plaintiff, or otherwise, or at all. Denies that plaintiff is, or ever was entitled to a decree of this Court, forever, or at all, dissolving the alleged bonds of matrimony, or anything else, now, or ever, or at any time alleged to be existing between plaintiff and defendant, or otherwise or at all. Denies that plaintiff is entitled to a decree of this Court that she is the owner of, or entitled to the one half, or any other part, or any at all, of all, or any part of the property of defendant, or any other decree whatever. And for a second, separate, further and more complete defense to each and all of plaintiff's alleged causes of suit defendant alleges: 1st: That heretofore towit; on or about the 15th day of April 1866, plaintiff commenced a suit for divorce against defendant by filing a complaint in a Court of General Common Law and Equity Jurisdiction, towit, the District Court of the State of Nevada, for Douglas County, in which complaint plaintiff alleged a marriage between herself and defendant in 1857, in Utah Territory, the same as alleged in plaintiff's complaint in this suit, and prayed for a decree of divorce against defendant on the grounds of abandonment and desertion. 2nd: That defendant answered plaintiff's complaint in said suit in said last named Court and for defense thereto denied the alleged marriage between plaintiff and himself, and also denied that any marriage ever, or at any time existed between plaintiff and himself, and further denied the abandonment, or desertion as alleged by plaintiff in her said complaint in said suit, or otherwise, or at all. 3rd: That afterwards towit; on or about the 15th day of July 1866, said suit was duly and regularly tried in and by the said District Court of the State of Nevada, for the said Douglas County, upon the issues of marriage, desertion and abandonment, as raised and joined by defendant's said answer and the Court having thereupon found that plaintiff had failed to establish the allegation of marriage and that there was no marriage between herself and defendant as set forth in her complaint, it was thereupon considered, ordered, adjudged, and decreed, by said last named Court, in which said suit was pending, which Judgment and decree was by said Court duly given and made that plaintiff's said suit should be, and was, thereby dismissed. 4th: That said Judgment and decree of the said District Court of the State of Nevada for Douglas County, in favor of defendant and against plaintiff is unsevered and still remains in full force and effect, and defendant hereby pleads the same in bar of this suit. And for a third, separate, further and more complete defense to each and all of plaintiff's alleged causes of suit defendant alleges: 1st: That heretofore towit; on or about the 30th day of January 1877, in Elko County, State of Nevada, plaintiff and defendant made and entered into an agreement to and with each other, in which among other agreements, plaintiff did agree to and with defendant that in consideration of the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, to be paid to her by defendant, that she would and did then and there withdraw and forever release defendant from all and every of her claims and pretended claims or demands of what ever nature she then had or claimed to have against defendant or his property which he then had, or should thereafter acquire, and to all and every part of the same. 2nd: That defendant duly paid to plaintiff the whole of the said sum of Three Thousand Dollars according to the terms of said agreement, which said sum plaintiff then and there accepted in full satisfaction of all claims and pretended claims which she then had, or claimed to have upon defendant and his property which he then had, or should thereafter acquire, or to any part thereof. And for a fourth, separate, further and more complete defense to each and all of plaintiff's alleged causes of suit defendant alleges: 1st: That heretofore, towit; on or about the 9th day of April 1877, in Davis County, Utah Territory, defendant and Matilda Stoddard were duly, regularly and lawfully intermarried and ever since said date have been and now are husband and wife, and living and cohabiting together as such. 2nd: That the said Matilda Stoddard is now known as Matilda Anne Winter and is the same person named in plaintiff's complaint, and alleged in said complaint to have been taken by defendant into his house and home, and with whom said complaint alleges defendant to have committed the alleged adultery. And for a fifth, separate, and further defense to each and all of plaintiff's alleged causes of suit defendant alleges, that plaintiff should not be permitted to allege that she is, or ever was the wife of defendant, for the reason: 1st: That during all the time, ever since defendant's said marriage to the said Matilda Stoddard, to wit; the 9th day of April 1877, plaintiff has conducted and represented herself towards defendant and all the world as a single and unmarried woman, and led defendant and all the rest of mankind, during all of said time, to believe her to be such, and to act upon such belief; and plaintiff has further led all mankind to believe from her statements, actions and conduct that the said Matilda Stoddard, now known as Matilda Anne Winter, was during all of said time defendant's lawful wife, and that plaintiff has never at anytime during all, or any, of said time pretended, claimed, or represented herself to be defendant's wife, nor claimed, nor pretended to claim any right or interest in, or to, any of defendant's property, nor joined with him in the execution of any conveyances of the same. 2nd: That during all of said time defendant and his wife Matilda Anne Winter have joined in the execution of conveyances and incumbrances to and upon defendant's property, and obtained credit by so doing, without any objection or dissent on the part of plaintiff, although plaintiff was fully aware of all and every of such transactions at the time the same were made and executed. Wherefore defendant prays for a decree of this Court that this suit be dismissed and that the prayer of plaintiff's complaint be denied; that defendant recover from plaintiff his costs and disbursements in this suit and such other and further relief as to the Court may seem agreeable to equity and good conscience. Ivanhoe & Sheahan, Attorneys for Defendant. State of Oregon, County of Wallowa. I, Wm. H. Winter, being first duly sworn say; that I am the defendant in the above entitled suit and have heard the foregoing answer read, and that the contents thereof are true as I verily believe. Wm. H. Winter. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of October 1891. D. W. Sheahan. Notary Public for Oregon. J. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Wallowa. Helen L. Winters, Plaintiff vs William H. Winters, Defendant. Affidavit of J. P. Gardner. State of Oregon, County of Wallowa. I, J. P. Gardner, being first duly sworn say, I am well acquainted with plaintiff and defendant, and have known them intimately for about 9 years ever since they came to Wallowa County, State of Oregon. During all this time, it was generally understood in the neighborhood where they lived, that they were not husband and wife, there was no other understanding that I know of. William lived close neighbors for five years and during that time plaintiff and defendant frequently visited at my house and I visited at defendant's, and during all this time the plaintiff and her girls did defendant's house work and I saw and knew of no other circumstance or fact inconsistent with the fact that plaintiff was either divorced from or unmarried to defendant. From my association with the plaintiff and defendant and the general understanding, defendant during all this time had a living and lawful wife in Utah who signed, as his wife, all his mortgages and deeds to real property. J. P. Gardner. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of Sept. 1891. D. W. Sheahan. Notary Public for Oregon. Submitted at Chambers. Filed Oct. 6th 1891. L. J. Rouse, Clerk. K. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Wallowa. Helen L. Winters, Plaintiff vs William H. Winters, Defendant. Affidavit of Mary C. Stubblefield. State of Oregon, County of Wallowa. I, Mary C. Stubblefield, being first duly sworn say I am the wife of R. F. Stubblefield, and have been well acquainted with both plaintiff and defendant between seven and eight years, I knew them slightly before that. During that time they have frequently visited at our house and I have often been at the place of defendant and at these visits they often remained over night with us and I at defendant's place, and plaintiff and defendant always occupied separate beds, and did not represent themselves as living with each other as husband and wife. During all this time it was my perfect understanding from defendant and his children, and otherwise, by what they told me that the plaintiff was the divorced wife of defendant, and that since said divorce defendant had married a wife who still lived in Utah and defendant cared for and supported her. They spoke of her by the name of Tilda. In all my talk and all I have heard from other sources and from plaintiff, who has nursed me in sickness and stayed at my house for | Frederick, Helen Louisa (I3567)
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| 2171 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 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.] 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. 1880 US: Can't find if in fact he was married. There is only one Jared Stoker nationally and he is in Calhoun Harrison County, Iowa, single, about 30 and living with an uncle, William McDaniel, which is in fact his mother's maiden name. The birthdate is off a bit but the similarity is too close to disregard. Census for 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. 1900 US: Union, Union, Oregon, p. 32 of 35, 19 Jun 1900, 333/337: James Stoker, Mar 1843, 57, md. 14 years, IL, Unk Unk, day laborer. [This is Jared.] Minnie, wife, Sept 1853, 46, md. 14 years, 3 total children all living, Den Den Den. immigrated 1874 with 26 years in the US. Gertrude, dau., Dec 1888, 11, IA IL Den. George, son, Nov 1889, 10, IA IL Den. Harry, son, Apr 1891, 9, IA IL Den. 1910 US: Precinct #1, Union, Oregon, p. 177b, dwelling 163, family 168: Jared S. Stoker, head, 67, married once 25 years, IL NC NC, farm laborer. Mine, wife, 56, m. once 26 years, Den Den Den, 4 total children with 3 living. Gertrude, E., dau., 24, single, IA IL Den, teacher. George W., son, 20, single, IA IL Den, farm laborer. Harry D., son, 18, single, IA IL Den, farm laborer. 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. Three Children: A. Social Security Death Index: George Stoker, b. 9 Nov 1889, d. Sep 1975, last residence Baker City, Baker, OR, ssn 542-52-4363. Harry Stoker, b. 26 Apr 1891, d. Apr 1967, last residence Baker City, Baker, OR, ssn 543-10-5252. Gertrude Tulley, b. 28 Dec 1887, d. Sep 1985, last res. Eugene, Lane, OR, ssn 540-32-7148. B. Oregon Death Index on Ancestry.com: George Wil Stoker, b. Nov 1889, d. 22 Sep 1975 in Baker Co., OR, death cert. #75-13530. Harry D. Stoker, d. 6 Apr 1967 in Baker Co., death cert. 4741. Gertrude Elv Tulley, b. 28 Dec 1887, d. 20 Sep 1985, d. cert. 85-17247, Lane County, husband Harry. C. World Connect: Gertrude E. Stoker, b. 28 Dec 1887 in or near Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, IA., d. 20 Sep 1985 in Eugene, Lane, OR., m. 28 Dec 1910 in Union, Union, OR to Henry Melvin Tulley, b. 5 Feb 1883. Parents noted as Jared Stoker and Rasmine Daamgaard. D. Ordinance Index: George Stoker, b. 1890, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Bap. and End done 2001 and 2002. Harry D. Stoker, b. 26 Apr 1891, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Bap. and End done 2001 and 2002. 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, 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... Jared Samuel Stoker was born March 19, 1843 on Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. At Bear Creek, Hancock County, Illinois. [Not in journal but in Doris' book;] Jared Samuel Stoker died Dec. 6, 1912, Union, Oregon." 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. 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'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…o 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. 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: 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. BIRTH: 1. Per father's journal entry quoted above in biography. 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 "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: "Jared Stoker was born in, Iowa on March 19, 1843 and died at Union, Oregon on December 5, 1912. (Could not read the name of the place in Iowa)" DEATH: 1. Per website www.heritagetrailpress.com/Death_Index which is the online Oregon Death Index. It notes: Jared S. Stoker, d. 8 Dec 1912 in Union Co. per certificate #3780. Entry in Doris Lewis's book cited above in biography and James Hook's cited below indicate 6 Dec 1912; however, I use the death certificate date. 2. See birth comments above for John Welker's variant death date of 5 Dec 1912. BURIAL: 1. Per Internet site ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/or/union/cemeteries/union-m-z.txt which is a listing of Stokers in the Union Cemetery of Union, Union, OR: Earl M., d. 1 Sep 1893. Minnie E., b. 1853, d. 1936, age 83. Michael J., 22 Jul 1922. Jared S., b. 1843, d. 7 Dec 1912, age 69. W.M., b. 1834, d. 1929, age 95. Cora, b. 1846, d. 19 Jul 1928, age 82. 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. 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. | Stoker, Jared Samuel (I408)
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| 2172 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 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.] 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 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. Reviewed Ancestral File Oct 2003. 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, 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... Martha Rebecca Stoker was born January 1, 1849 at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa... Martha Rebecca Stoker, Thursday, Oct. 19, 1871 at 2:30 A.M. at Trader's Point, Pottawattamie County, Iowa." 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. BIRTH: 1. Tombstone and Ordinance Index. 2. Per father's journal quoted in biography above. MARRIAGE: 1. Unmarried, buried with maiden name. DEATH: 1. Per father's journal quoted in biography above and tombstone quoted below. This is the date I use. 2. John Stoker's Journal quoted herein uses variant death date of 9 Oct 1871. BURIAL: 1. The following name is found on a new memorial stone with 33 other related family members at Graybill/Stoker Cemetery: "Martha R. Stoker 1849-1871." 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: "Marta R. D. 19 Oct 1871, 22 y 9 m 18 d." 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. 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. 116. | Stoker, Martha Rebecca (I357)
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| 2173 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 78b, 13 Sep 1850, entry 217: Samuel Adair, 46, Laborer, SC. Nancy, 39, VA. John, 18, AL. George, 15, AL. Samuel, 12, AL. Rufus, 7, MS. Mary, 13, TN. Robert, 7, TN. Benjamin, 5, TN. Jemima, 4, IA. Joshua, 1, IA. 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: Adair: Samuel 45, John M. 18, George 16, Samuel N. 14, Rufus A.B. 10, Jemima 6, Joshua 1. [Note Samuel appears recently separated from his second wife by the time of this census and she is living several pages away in the census under her first married name of Maynard with her children of the Maynard marriage. Joshua Adair is listed twice – once with Nancy Maynard and once with Samuel Adair; evidently the final custodial arrangements for Joshua were not yet settled by the time of the census. Nancy's next husband Andrew Allen is not in the census confirming that Andrew Allen was not a factor in the breakup of Samuel and Nancy's marriage. Her fourth husband Evins O'Banion is listed in the county's census put several pages away. Samuel Adair is also several pages away as well. This confirms the fact that Samuel went west in June 1852 was not the immediate cause of their separation by this census in Sep. 1851. Also note that John and Permelia, his son-in-law and daughter, are living next door. Also the following related families are living as neighbors to each other in the county but several census pages away from Samuel: Thomas/Mary Adair, John/Mary A. Mangum, and William/Sarah Mangum. ] 1852 Iowa: Pottawattamie County: Thomas Adair, 6, 4, 1, 1. Samuel Adair, 8, 3, 1, 1. Note also an Andrew Allen and a Jude Allen family is listed 7 and 8 entries below; Andrew Allen marries Samuel's separated wife after 1852 [Nancy did not go west, nor does Andrew Allen; Andrew's first wife Eunice who he separates from because he doesn't want to go west does go to Utah in same company as her children and Samuel in 1852. Jude's daughter Jane eventually marries Bishop John Stoker.] The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, and Thomas Adair. Source for the following entry is FHL film # 505,913 (index in FHL book 979.2X22u); Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Samuel Adair Roxana " Ann " John M. " George " Jane " Newton " Rufus " Catherine " William " Joseph " Emily " Ezra T. " Joshua " Eliza J. " 1860 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, 25 Jul 1860, pg. 1017, #1240/1087 (Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, Wesley Adair, James Richey, Geo. W. Adair, James Mangum, John Mangum, Valentine Carson, John Price are all listed as neighbors): Saml Adair, 51, farmer, $200 real estate, $650 personal property, AL. Roxanna M., 66, Eng. Catharine G., 14, IA. 1880 US: South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, FHL film 1255337, National Archives Film T9-1337, p. 268B: Frederick Rugg, Farmer, 37, Eng Eng Eng. Jemima Rugg, Keeping House, Wife, 35, IA VA VA. Mary Rugg, Dau., 7, UT. John Rugg, Son, 5, UT. Sarah Rugg, Dau., 3, UT. George Rugg, Son, 2 mo., UT. 1900 US: Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, roll 1685, book 1, p. 124a [I assume "Nellie" is Sarah Ellen Rugg – no separate entry for Sarah or Ellen Rugg was found in the census.]: Fred Rugg, July 1843, 56, married 34 years, Eng Eng Eng, emigrated 1856 and was naturalized, farmer. Jemima, wife, Apr 1846, 54, married 34 years, 10 total children of which 5 are living, IA AL AL. John, son, Jan 1875, 25, S, UT Eng IA, day laborer. Nellie, dau., Jul 1877, 22, S, UT Eng IA. George, son, Mar 1880, 20, S, UT Eng Iowa, day laborer. Emma, dau., Sep 1882, 17, S, UT Eng IA. 1920 US: Precinct 11, Murray City, Salt Lake, Utah, p. 138, 9 Jan 1920, 6263, family 83, next door his Ruth's mother and grandmother: Erwin G. Hales, head, rents, 22, UT IA UT, lumberyard truck driver. Ruth L., wife, 19, UT UT UT. Guenavere, dau., 3/12, UT UT UT. Family 84: Jemima C. Rugg, head, owns, 73, widow, IL AL USA. Sarah L. Rugg, dau., 43, widow, UT Eng IL. George D. Rugg, son, 39, single, UT Eng IL, general farming. 2. Various spellings in other family group sheets of Jemima or Gemima or Jamima Kathrine. 3. Mentioned as a surviving widow in her husband's obituary of 20 Feb 1918. 4. The following is a small excerpt of a larger listing (see Samuel Newton Adair's notes for full transcription), which was received in digital form from Don and Caroline Smith, 2003. Regardless of the title – "Family Records of Samuel Newton Adair" – I am not sure if this is really a transcript of records kept by Samuel Newton Adair or not. Some death dates given for some of the individuals are after the date Samuel Newton Adair himself died. I spoke in person with Collins Chapman of Mesa, Arizona, in Feb. of 2006. He did not recognize it. Collins' family is the source of most of the biographical information on Samuel and Collin's mother was responsible for the autobiography of Samuel Newton Adair who dictated it to her. The following came to me as an addendum to a typed copy of that autobiography; however, I have now seen a portion of the original handwritten dictation and find no such attachment. The following therefore has no documented source that I can find thus far and should be used with caution: [A.] "Father: Samuel Jefferson Adair; Mother: Jamima Mangum; Children: Rebeca Francis Adair William Jefferson Adair John Milton Adair George Washington Adair Pamelia Jane Adair Samuel Newton Adair Joseph Jasper Adair Rufus Columbus Adair Jamima Kathrine Adair Ezra T. Adair [B.] "Samuel Jefferson Adair - Born at Lawrence Co., South Carolina, March 28, 1806. Baptized by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 27, 1845. Confirmed by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 30, 1845. Ordained an Elder by Daniel Thomas, a High Priest by John Young in 1855. Married Jamima Mangum. Filled a mission to Southern Utah in 1857. Migrated from Mississippi to Nauvoo, Illinois on Jan. 10, 1846. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, July 6, 1889." [C.] "Jamima Mangum - married Samuel Jefferson Adair. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847. Rebeca Francis Adair - Born and died at Pikens County, Alabama. William Jefferson Adair - Born at Pikens County, Alabama. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847. John Milton Adair - Born at Pickens County, Alabama. Married Eliza Jane Richey. Died at Lincoln County, Nevada. George Washington Adair - Born at Pickens County, Alabama, married Ann Chestnut. Died at San Juan, New Mexico. Pamelia Jane Adair - Born at Pikens County, Alabama. Married Charles D. Searle at Payson City, Utah in 1856. Died at Ashley, Uintah County, Utah about 1884. Samuel Newton Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi, Dec. 11, 1839. Baptized by Samuel Jefferson Adair, in 1847. Ordained an Elder by John Freeman. Ordained a High Priest by Apostle Erastus Snow, at Luna, New Mexico Nov. 24, 1885. Married to Helen Gennett Brown by Robert Covington at Washington, Utah, Dec. 15, 1863. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18, 1867. Patriarchal Blessing by Emer Harris. Filled Mission to Moqice [Moqui] Village - Went Nov. 1862. Returned on Jan. 10, 1863. Migrated from Mississippi to Nauvoo. Died at Luna, New Mexico, May 16, 1925. Joseph Jasper Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847. Rufus Columbus Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi. Died at Washington City, Utah, Aug. 2, 1858. Jamima Katherine Adair - Born at Des Moine, Iowa. Married to Frederick Rugg at Washington, Utah, Jan. 11, 1866. Ezra T. Adair - Born at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, 1848. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, 1848." BIOGRAPHY: 1. Copy of newspaper in my possession from Salt Lake City's "Deseret News," vol. 24, no. 49, 5 Jan 1876: "Information Wanted. – J. T. Adair, Magnolia County, lowa, is desirous of learning of the whereabouts of the following parties supposed to be in Utah, and who left Council Bluffs in 1850 or 1851 – Samuel Adair (father of the inquirer) John Adair, Newton Adair, George Adair (the latter a half brother) and Catherine Adair. When last heard from the parties named were at Washington, Washington County, Utah. Mr. Adair also wishes to hear from B. F. Maynard who when last heard from was in Dry Canyon, Tooele Co. Any of the persons named desiring to communicate with Mr. J. T. Adair, should address as above." BIRTH: 1. FHL film 392631 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index": Jemima Catherine Adair, b. 6 Apr 1846 at Lexington, Iowa, parents Samuel and Jemima Adair. Blessing date 19 Feb 1856 at Payson, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch John Young. Vol. 25, p. 217. 2. Alt. birthplace used by some is Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, but I have not seen documentation for this. MARRIAGE: 1. Location per Robin Adair. He does not give source. BURIAL: 1. Per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database 1 Jan 2002. Name given is Jenima Rugg which spelling may be a misspelling. Note site did not have dates for birth nor death but did have location of death as Murray, UT. Cemetery location of "01 069 7." Robin Adair uses alternate death date of 19 Apr 1926. SOURCES_MISC: 1. Per 3 Jan 2002 gedcom of Robin Adair; email: robadair@thegrid.net. He is descendant through Daniel Tyler Adair. | Adair, Jemima Catherine (I1418)
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| 2174 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 78b, 13 Sep 1850, entry 217: Samuel Adair, 46, Laborer, SC. Nancy, 39, VA. John, 18, AL. George, 15, AL. Samuel, 12, AL. Rufus, 7, MS. Mary, 13, TN. Robert, 7, TN. Benjamin, 5, TN. Jemima, 4, IA. Joshua, 1, IA. 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: Adair: Samuel 45, John M. 18, George 16, Samuel N. 14, Rufus A.B. 10, Jemima 6, Joshua 1. [Note Samuel appears recently separated from his second wife by the time of this census and she is living several pages away in the census under her first married name of Maynard with her children of the Maynard marriage. Joshua Adair is listed twice - once with Nancy Maynard and once with Samuel Adair; evidently the final custodial arrangements for Joshua were not yet settled by the time of the census. Nancy's next husband Andrew Allen is not in the census confirming that Andrew Allen was not a factor in the breakup of Samuel and Nancy's marriage. Her fourth husband Evins O'Banion is listed in the county's census put several pages away. Samuel Adair is also several pages away as well. This confirms the fact that Samuel went west in June 1852 was not the immediate cause of their separation by this census in Sep. 1851. Also note that John and Permelia, his son-in-law and daughter, are living next door. Also the following related families are living as neighbors to each other in the county but several census pages away from Samuel: Thomas/Mary Adair, John/Mary A. Mangum, and William/Sarah Mangum. ] 1852 Iowa: Pottawattamie County: Thomas Adair, 6, 4, 1, 1. Samuel Adair, 8, 3, 1, 1. Note also an Andrew Allen and a Jude Allen family is listed 7 and 8 entries below; Andrew Allen marries Samuel's separated wife after 1852 [Nancy did not go west, nor does Andrew Allen; Andrew's first wife Eunice who he separates from because he doesn't want to go west does go to Utah in same company as her children and Samuel in 1852. Jude's daughter Jane eventually marries Bishop John Stoker.] The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, and Thomas Adair. Source for the following entry is FHL film # 505,913 (index in FHL book 979.2X22u); Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Samuel Adair Roxana " Ann " John M. " George " Jane " Newton " Rufus " Catherine " William " Joseph " Emily " Ezra T. " Joshua " Eliza J. " 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: Adair: Samuel 45, John M. 18, George 16, Samuel N. 14, Rufus A.B. 10, Jemima 6, Joshua 1. [Note Samuel appears recently separated from his second wife by the time of this census and she is living several pages away in the census under her first married name of Maynard with her children of the Maynard marriage. Joshua Adair is listed twice – once with Nancy Maynard and once with Samuel Adair; evidently the final custodial arrangements for Joshua were not yet settled by the time of the census. Nancy's next husband Andrew Allen is not in the census confirming that Andrew Allen was not a factor in the breakup of Samuel and Nancy's marriage. Her fourth husband Evins O'Banion is listed in the county's census put several pages away. Samuel Adair is also several pages away as well. This confirms the fact that Samuel went west in June 1852 was not the immediate cause of their separation by this census in Sep. 1851. Also note that John and Permelia, his son-in-law and daughter, are living next door. Also the following related families are living as neighbors to each other in the county but several census pages away from Samuel: Thomas/Mary Adair, John/Mary A. Mangum, and William/Sarah Mangum.] 2. The following is a small excerpt of a larger listing (see Samuel Newton Adair's notes for full transcription), which was received in digital form from Don and Caroline Smith, 2003. Regardless of the title – "Family Records of Samuel Newton Adair" – I am not sure if this is really a transcript of records kept by Samuel Newton Adair or not. Some death dates given for some of the individuals are after the date Samuel Newton Adair himself died. I spoke in person with Collins Chapman of Mesa, Arizona, in Feb. of 2006. He did not recognize it. Collins' family is the source of most of the biographical information on Samuel and Collin's mother was responsible for the autobiography of Samuel Newton Adair who dictated it to her. The following came to me as an addendum to a typed copy of that autobiography; however, I have now seen a portion of the original handwritten dictation and find no such attachment. The following therefore has no documented source that I can find thus far and should be used with caution: [A.] "Father: Samuel Jefferson Adair; Mother: Jamima Mangum; Children: Rebeca Francis Adair William Jefferson Adair John Milton Adair George Washington Adair Pamelia Jane Adair Samuel Newton Adair Joseph Jasper Adair Rufus Columbus Adair Jamima Kathrine Adair Ezra T. Adair [B.] "Samuel Jefferson Adair - Born at Lawrence Co., South Carolina, March 28, 1806. Baptized by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 27, 1845. Confirmed by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 30, 1845. Ordained an Elder by Daniel Thomas, a High Priest by John Young in 1855. Married Jamima Mangum. Filled a mission to Southern Utah in 1857. Migrated from Mississippi to Nauvoo, Illinois on Jan. 10, 1846. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, July 6, 1889." [C.] "Jamima Mangum - married Samuel Jefferson Adair. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847. Rebeca Francis Adair - Born and died at Pikens County, Alabama. William Jefferson Adair - Born at Pikens County, Alabama. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847. John Milton Adair - Born at Pickens County, Alabama. Married Eliza Jane Richey. Died at Lincoln County, Nevada. George Washington Adair - Born at Pickens County, Alabama, married Ann Chestnut. Died at San Juan, New Mexico. Pamelia Jane Adair - Born at Pikens County, Alabama. Married Charles D. Searle at Payson City, Utah in 1856. Died at Ashley, Uintah County, Utah about 1884. Samuel Newton Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi, Dec. 11, 1839. Baptized by Samuel Jefferson Adair, in 1847. Ordained an Elder by John Freeman. Ordained a High Priest by Apostle Erastus Snow, at Luna, New Mexico Nov. 24, 1885. Married to Helen Gennett Brown by Robert Covington at Washington, Utah, Dec. 15, 1863. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18, 1867. Patriarchal Blessing by Emer Harris. Filled Mission to Moqice [Moqui] Village - Went Nov. 1862. Returned on Jan. 10, 1863. Migrated from Mississippi to Nauvoo. Died at Luna, New Mexico, May 16, 1925. Joseph Jasper Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa about 1847. Rufus Columbus Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi. Died at Washington City, Utah, Aug. 2, 1858. Jamima Katherine Adair - Born at Des Moine, Iowa. Married to Frederick Rugg at Washington, Utah, Jan. 11, 1866. Ezra T. Adair - Born at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, 1848. Died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, 1848." BIOGRAPHY: 1. From email of 26 Dec 2001 email of Norma Entrekin [nje@mindspring.com]: "The History of Samuel Newton Adair dictated to his granddaughter, Mary Gennette Adair Chapman, tells us a little more about the family called Adair. '... My father and I took a trip to Payson and while there my brother, Rufus was killed accidentally with a pistol. (Note: some records say Rufus died at Winter Quarters, on Aug 2, 1847 at age 3 1/2; this would seem to contradict the other records, if correct.)..." 2. From Carolyn Smith, Autobiography of Samuel Newton Adair, Luna, New Mexico, Sept. 15, 1919: "... We reached home June 30, 1858. I was ordained an Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by John Frieman and Gabrial Cooley. I and my father took a trip to Payson, Utah County and while there my brother Rufus was killed accidentally with a pistol from the hands of Charles Hall. We returned to Washington and remained there until the year 1860..." BIRTH: 1. Date of 9 Feb 1844 as quoted below per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database 1 Jan 2002 . 2. Variance per obituary quoted below is 10 Feb 1844 which is derived from the age calculation given in obituary. 3. FHL film 392631 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index": Rufus B. Adair, b. 9 Feb 1844 at Mississippi, parents Samuel and Jemima Adair. Blessing date 19 Feb 1856 at Payson, Utah. Patriarch: John Young. Vol. 25, p. 206. DEATH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database 1 Jan 2002. 2. Per website 3. Per obituary. 4. Typescript "Washington City Cemetery, Washington, Utah," by Cuba Hall Lyle, St. George, Utah, 1986 describes the incompleteness and lack of vital records in early Washington: "...the lack of complete LDS Ward records (only 1880 - 1900 and 1907- 1940's) for the Cotton Mission which began in Washington in the spring of 1857. Consequently, many of the early dates, etc., shown are from family records or memories. The Washington City Offices did not keep death and burial records by location until 1961 when the new sections were platted. Old ward records, city records, LDS family group sheets, federal census records and the 1871 and 1881 school census records of Washington City have all played a part in this material, but, for documentation, some could be questionable. So many families moved on to greener pastures and had no way to leave permanent grave markers." On this list the following are included: Adair, Ann Catherine, b. 11 Apr 1844, d. 27 Mar 1863, parents are William Albert and Johanna Chesnut, spouse is George Washington Adair. Adair, Emily Jane, b. 2 Nov 1855, d. 1860, parents are John Milton Adair and Eliza Jane Richey. Adair, Olive P., b. 27 Nov 1864, d. 28 Nov 1864, parents are George Washington Adair and Emily Prescenda Tyler. Adair, Rufus Columbus, b. 9 Feb 1844, d. 2 Aug 1858, parents are Samuel Jefferson Adair and Jemima Catherine Mangum. Adair, William Orin, b. 12 Oct 1873, d. 18 July 1876, parents are Samuel Newton Adair and Helen Gennette Brown. Carson, Hannah Marie, b. 14 May 1864, d. 14 May 1864, parents are Valentine Carson and Hannah Waggle. BURIAL: 1. Per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database 1 Jan 2002. 2. Email from Harold Cahoon, Washington City researcher, 6 Jul 2003: Burials listed in the Washington City Cemetery (this can be found on site and includes all of the cemeteries in Washington County) www.lofthouse.com/USA/washington/cemetery/wash1.html My note "nothing" means they were not listed on the lofthouse list nor the list that the Wash. Cemetery has. "No head stone" means they were listed on the lofthouse list and are listed in the City's record as not having a head stone. I do not know if the city has any better records in their office. Ann Chestnut Adair, no head stone. Mary Ann Adair Carson, nothing. Olive Parintha Adair, no head stone. Rufus Columbus Burlison Adair, no head stone. Samuel P. Adair, nothing. Ellen Bardsley Mangum, nothing. Eliza Jane Clark Mangum, no headstone, b. 11 Aug 1827, d. 21 Feb 1859, spouse James Michel Mangum, fa. Samuel Clark, mo. Adair. Eliza Jane Adair Price buried in row 36; I would assume there is a marker for this grave. 3. In an effort to locate and place tombstones in Washington, Utah, I sent the following 6 Jul 2003 email to Barry Blake, city cemetery official wcparks@ci.washingtoncity.state.ut.us [phone is 435-634-9850 ext. 321]: "My friend and fellow researcher Harold Cahoon gave me your name as the contact for the Washington Cemetery. He spoke to you about locating an early pioneer gravesite for Ann Chestnut Adair, wife to George Washington Adair, and daughter-in-law to Samuel Jefferson Adair whose new statue was just dedicated as the founder of Washington. At age 9, her parents had been murdered somewhere on the Mormon Trail to Utah and she and two younger siblings were tied to a cow and left to wander helplessly. Samuel found her and adopted her. She eventually marries Samuel's son George. Harold indicates that you do indeed have a record that she is buried in your older cemetery but that the location has been forgotten over the years. Several people would like to contribute to a memorial stone for her. Ann died at age 19 on 27 Mar 1863. Are there any experts with expertise in regards to those early plots that could pinpoint it more accurately. I have found death records of Ann's closest relations who died around the same time and are supposedly buried in the same cemetery which may help to pinpoint her or at least get as close as we can with what available plot maps you have. They are: Mary Ann Adair Carson, d. 27 Apr 1861, bur. 29 Apr 1861. (Wife of the Valentine Carson who adopts Ann's baby upon her death and cousin to Ann's husband George.) Olive Parintha Adair, d. at birth 28 Nov 1864, oldest child of George and his second wife Emily Tyler who he married after Ann's death. Rufus Columbus Burlison Adair, bur. Aug 1858, George's younger unmarried brother. Samuel P. Adair, d. 30 Jan 1871, another young child of George and Emily Tyler Adair. Ellen Bardsley Mangum, d. 22 Jan 1864, wife of John Mangum who was a cousin of Samuel J. Adair. Eliza Jane Clark Mangum, d. 21 Feb 1859, wife of James Mitchel Mangum who was brother to John Mangum and also a cousin to Samuel J. Adair. Eliza Jane Adair Price, d. 16 Aug 1892, bur. 18 Aug 1892, mother of Valentine Carson noted above, sister of Samuel J. Adair, later wife of John Buren Price. As you research the plots for the above and their proximity to each other and potentially Ann's, could you advise me as to which one are definitely platted with stones, platted without stones, or just plain unplatted. What arrangements are needed by us with your department?" 15 April 2005 follow-up note by Kerry Petersen: I have received no reply to the above. I have now personally visited the city cemetery and the city records office; they cannot verify her gravesite. The city clerk mentioned that they do not excavate graves in the old part of the cemetery because they know there are so many unmarked gravesites. Of the people listed above, I could only find a stone for John and Eliza Jane Adair Price. No further action possible. OBITUARY: 1. Per FHL film 26588, item 3, death notice in the Deseret News for 18 Aug 1858: "Died, Washington City, 2 Aug 1858, Rufus C., son of Samuel and Gemima Adair, 14 years 5 months 21 days." | Adair, Rufus Columbus Burleson (I1138)
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| 2175 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 78b, 13 Sep 1850, entry 217: Samuel Adair, 46, Laborer, SC. Nancy, 39, VA. John, 18, AL. George, 15, AL. Samuel, 12, AL. Rufus, 7, MS. Mary, 13, TN. Robert, 7, TN. Benjamin, 5, TN. Jemima, 4, IA. Joshua, 1, IA. Note: this census locates Samuel in Iowa in 1850 with a previously unknown wife [at least unknown among Utah Adair histories]. It appears Nancy brings into this marriage three children of a previous marriage [Mary, Robert, and Benjamin] who were all born in Tennessee. It also shows a son Joshua only a year old whose birthdate Amy Von Cannon [Iowa descendent of Joshua] states as 25 Dec 1849; this would put a marriage between Samuel and Nancy to approximately no later then March 1849. Samuel's first wife Jemima died 28 Apr 1848. The following census has all of the right children in the proper order except Permelia (Pamelia) who is not listed. It is interesting that the exact next entry [#218] has John Holden, 21, Tenn. and Pamelia, 15, Ala. – could this be Pamelia, George's twin sister, who is misrepresenting her age as not 13 [due to a marriage to this John of which we were not previously aware] but as 15 which in turn leads the family to say that George is also 15 and not 13. My opinion is that this is definitely proof that Samuel's second wife was Nancy ___ and that further documentation and research is needed to more fully develop this. She may very well have not wanted to leave Iowa leading to a separation with Samuel and her retaining her previous natural children plus their common [we assume] son Joshua. Years later when the RLDS was organized, Nancy and Joshua join like most of the Iowa Saints who remained behind from those who went to Utah. This would explain why Samuel may never have been sealed to Nancy, unlike his other wives, in an LDS temple even though he had the opportunity to do so in Utah. 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: Adair: Samuel 45, John M. 18, George 16, Samuel N. 14, Rufus A.B. 10, Jemima 6, Joshua 1. [Note Samuel appears recently separated from his second wife by the time of this census and she is living several pages away in the census under her first married name of Maynard with her children of the Maynard marriage. Joshua Adair is listed twice - once with Nancy Maynard and once with Samuel Adair; evidently the final custodial arrangements for Joshua were not yet settled by the time of the census. Nancy's next husband Andrew Allen is not in the census confirming that Andrew Allen was not a factor in the breakup of Samuel and Nancy's marriage. Her fourth husband Evins O'Banion is listed in the county's census put several pages away. Samuel Adair is also several pages away as well. This confirms the fact that Samuel went west in June 1852 was not the immediate cause of their separation by this census in Sep. 1851. Also note that John and Permelia, his son-in-law and daughter, are living next door. Also the following related families are living as neighbors to each other in the county but several census pages away from Samuel: Thomas/Mary Adair, John/Mary A. Mangum, and William/Sarah Mangum.] Maynard: Nancy 43, Mary E. 13, Robert 6, Benjamin F. [or T.] 4, Joshua 1. Also in same household is Mary Walker 10 and Charle Hughs 14. 1852 Iowa: Statistical only for Pottawattamie County and of no value in locating Joshua Adair. The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. This may have caused some confusion among descendants of Joshua as to his whereabouts in the mid-1950's as per remarks of Amy Von Cannon: "I was thinking that maybe there was a custody fight and Samuel came and took Joshua to Utah against Nancy's wishes. It would explain why Andrew Allen [Nancy's husband after Samuel?] was in Utah at that time also and why they ran to Kansas and when they came back they had Joshua as Joshua Allen on a Census for 1860 Iowa, Harrison County." The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, Thomas Adair, and Aaron Adair. I don't believe Joshua was ever in Utah but was however listed as noted below. Source for the following entry is FHL film # 505,913 (index in FHL book 979.2X22u); Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Samuel Adair Roxana " Ann " John M. " George " Jane " Newton " Rufus " Catherine " William " Joseph " Emily " Ezra T. " Joshua " Eliza J. " 1860 US: Magnolia P.O., Raglan Township, Harrison, Iowa, p. 782, dwelling 196, household 180, enumerated 22 Jun 1860 US: Andrew Allen, 78, farmer, $800, $500, VA. Nancy F., VA. Joshua, 9, IA. Emma J., 4, IA. 1870 US: Belvidere, Monona, Iowa. p. 249b, dwelling and family #23 (note there are several Rickman families as neighbors looking like relatives - census taker has them all marked mulatto): Thomas Rickman, 51, mulatto, farmer, $400, OH. Rebecca Rickman, 72, mulatto, KY, keeps house. Joseph Rickman, 16, mulatto, at home, IA. Nancy, 14, mulatto, IA. Ellen, 10, mulatto, IA. Joshuay Adair, 18, mulatto, laborer, IA. Eliza R. Adair, 19, servant, IL. Rebecca Adair, 9/12, mulatto, IA. 1880 US: Jordon, Monona, Iowa, Source: FHL film 1254357 (National Archives Film T9-0357), page 92C, enumerated on June 8, 1880: J. Adair, Self, M, M, W, 30, IA ___ ___, farm hand. Eliza, Wife, F, M, MU, 29, IL OH KY, keeping house. Florence, Dau., F, S, MU, 7, IA IA IL. Willie, Son, M, S, MU, 5, IA IA IL. Daniel, Son, M, S, MU, 3, IA IA IL. Mary, Dau., F, S, MU, 1, IA IA IL. Eliza's parents: US 1880 Census Place: Jordon, Monona, Iowa Source: FHL film 1254357, National Archives Film T9-0357 Page 91A: Thomas RICKMAN, Self, M, M, MU, 62, OH OH OH, farmer. Rebecca, Other, F, M, MU, 72, KY KY KY, keeping house. Rebecca Adair, GDau, F, S, MU, 11, IA IA IA. Rebecca living with Rickman grandparents in 1880 is Joshua's eldest child. 1885 From Jeanie Aldredge: Nebraska State Census, Burt County Enumeration District 94, Decatur Village, enumerated on June 25, 1885 [some obvious errors in census], all ages were at last birthday prior to June 1, 1885: Johana Adair, white male, 35, teamster, IA, NY, TN. Elisa C. Adair, white female, 33, wife, Housekeeper, IL, OH, TN. Florence, white female, 12, attending school, IA. Daniel, white male, 8, attending school, IA. Mary, white female, 6, attending school, IA. Margret, white female, 4, IA. Lillie, white female, 2, IA. Walter A., white male, 2 months old born in May of 1885. 1890 UPRR Business Gazetteer, Burt County, Business Listing: J.T. Adair, Justice, Decatur, Burt County, Nebraska. 1890 Business Directory and Farmer's List of the Nebraska Gazetteer: J.T. Adair, Farmer. 1900 US: Decatur, Burt, Nebraska, p. 37A, June 1, 1900, all noted as White for race: Joshua Adair, W, Dec 1848, 50, m. 30 years, IA TN TN, day labor. Eliza, wife, W, Nov 1848[?], 49, m. 30 years, 13 total children with 11 living, IA OH IN. John W., son, Jan 1874, 26, S, IA IA IL, day labor. Daniel L., son, Dec 1875, 24, S, IA IA IL, day labor. Walter, son, March 1884, 16, S, NE IA IL, day labor. Clyde, son, March 1887, 13, S, NE IA IL, at school. Samuel, son, Oct 1888, 11, S, NE IA IL, at school. Ralph, son, Aug 1890, 9, S, NE IA IL. Thomas, son, Aug 1893, 6, S, NE IA IL. 1920 US: Per Amy Morris-Vuncannon: "Joshua and Eliza lived with John William & Lorena (Belle) and my grandfather Marvin in Blackbird Township in 1920. I have the 1920 census." 1930 US: Blackbird, Thurston County, Nebraska Census, enumerated on April 7, 1930: Joshua T. Adair, head, rent. 2. Amy VunCannon believes the middle name to be Tumeric which is what her side of the family always used; however she offers no documentary proof for it. Jeannie Aldredge uses Tumer. Death certificate says "Teumer." Judging from the obituary and death certificate cited below, I have used Tumer. 3. Email of family researcher and Joshua descendent Amy VunCannon, Feb 2002, 1. Samuel Adair 2. Joshua Tumeric Adair 3. John William Adair 4. Marvin Clyde Adair 5. Betty Lou Adair 6. Amy L. Morris, I would be Samuel's ggg-granddaughter" 4. 5 Mar 2002 email from family researcher Jeanette Marie Aldredge Jeanette Marie Aldredge, b. 7 Aug 1963 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Janice Arline Price, b. 1 Apr 1943 at Onawa, Monona, Iowa & Jimmy Lee Aldredge, son of Newton William Aldredge and Edna May Reed, b. 1 May 1941 at Gravity, Taylor, Iowa. Arthur Sinclair Price, b. 20 Jun 1918 at Onawa, Monona, Iowa, d. 1 Jul 2002 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa & Lillian Olena Swenson, b. 18 Dec 1921 at Soldier, Monona, Iowa, d. 14 Mar 2002 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Lillian May Adair, b. 29 Jan 1883, East of Turin, Belvidere Township, Monona, Iowa, d. 1 Feb 1952 at Onawa, Monona, Iowa & John Edwin Price, b. 20 Oct 1876, West of Whiting, Maple Landing, Monona, Iowa, d.28 Jul 1958 at Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa. Joshua Tumer Adair & Eliza Arilla Rickman Samuel Adair & Nancy Fountain White I started this genealogy project as a school project several years ago & most of the information was originally given to me by my grandfather, Arthur Price. My grandfather will be 84 years old in June of this year [since deceased]. He has given me a few tidbits about visiting Joshua & Eliza Adair when they lived on the banks of the Missouri River. Joshua & Eliza were buried in unmarked graves at the cemetery in Decatur, Burt County, Nebraska, until 1996, when my grandfather had a tombstone placed on their graves. Joshua & Eliza's children were: Florence, John William, Daniel, Mary, Margaret A. Martha, Lillian May, Walter Ray or A., Samuel, Ralph A., Anna, Tommy, Bennie and Clyde. I have a postcard that is addressed to Mrs. J.T. Adair, Route 2, Walthill, Nebraska. It is postmarked Oct. 19, 1920. It's a birthday postcard & says "To My Dear Old Mother," Lillian Price. Lillian is my great grandmother. So, Joshua & Eliza were apparently living in Walthill, Nebraska in 1920. My records show that Samuel Adair & Nancy Fountain White-Adair had six children: Newton Adair, George Adair, Benjamin Adair, Lucy Adair, Nancy Adair & Joshua Tumer Adair. I have no further information on these Children. [Kerry's note: some of these are Samuel and and his first wife's Gemima's children.] As I stated previously, most of this information was obtained from my grandfather several years ago (about 1976) so I'm unsure if this list of children is complete, or for that matter, completely accurate. My grandfather's siblings have all preceded him in death." 5. On file from Jeannie Aldredge, I have a 40 page Nancy Fountain White descendancy listing with research notes. I have cited all information concerning this specific individual into these notes. 6. Itawamba County Marriage Books 1-3 (http://www.rootsweb.com/~msitawam/marriage.html) lists 30 marriages performed by Samuel Adair. Other records note his registering with the county as a "Christian Minister" on 5 Apr 1841. The last date of 3 Nov 1845 shows that they did not leave for Nauvoo, Illinois prior to that date. There is one entry for Joshua Toomer performing a marriage 3 Aug 1837; there may be some tie with this individual and Samuel since Samuel would later have a son in 1849 with his second wife, Nancy White, in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, whom they would name Joshua Tumer Adair. Can't prove an association but it seems more than coincidence. 7. "In 1841 members of the Tannahill family of Scotland immigrated to the new county of Itawamba. After coming down the Tennessee River they landed at Easport in the new county of Tishomingo. A letter dated January 19, 1842 from Fulton to England recollects the journey to Itawamba County: "...on a Sunday night we landed at the town of Easport (containing four log cabins) and the next day we started through the Forest Track for Fulton, Mary mounted on horseback and Robert and I on foot. I carried my gun, but got no chance to shoot. We saw some deer, but they did not allow us to get near them. It was a most awful night at Easport. By the help of poles to steady us, Mary and I got up the bank and got lodging that night in a cabin. The people said they had never seen such a thunderstorm. We did not sleep much. There was in the same room, three men and two females. This is the universal practice here - no separate sleeping appartments. We lay and listed to the thunder rolling overhead and the lightning flashing through a hundred chinks in the cabin...When we got to Mr. T's (Joshua Toomer in Fulton), we found all our people well except Mother... There is very little money current here. Mr. T. is glad to have the yearly accounts of the farmers settled by the cotton which can be turned into specie at Mobile ... I wrote this in my own log cabin, which barring a few chinks is not a bad one...The country here is but thinly settled as it is only six years since the Indians left it ... We live on bread of Indian corn which is the only kind used here. Their hogs are excellent being fed in the woods on nuts and acorns ... All men here are not merely nominally but really equal. The other day a man was taken up here for going to shoot a neighbour. The sheriff allowed him to go at large about the town ... he rode about the town, whooping, crowing like a cock and dared the officer at the point of a knife to lay a hand on him ... Two men have been shot in Mr. Toomer's store." 8. The 1840 US census for Itawamba County, Mississippi, at which time and place Adairs and Mangums lived, the census taker was Joshua Toomer, who may the individual upon whom Samuel Adair based the name of his son Joshua Tumer Adair. 9. From Susan Easton Black's book of Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of LDS: "Adair, Joshua. Birth: 25 Dec 1848, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa Death: 1 Aug 1938, Nebraska Joshua Adair was baptized a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 29 October 1876 at Magnolia, Harrison, Iowa, by P. Caldwell. He was expelled on 1 July 1909 and rebaptized on 30 July 1916 in Nebraska by Hubert Case. He was reconfirmed by Hubert Case and J.M. Baker. Source: RLDS Deceased Files." [Note per Email of family researcher and Joshua descendent Amy VunCannon, Feb 2002, 10. 20 Aug 2002, Jeannie Aldredge wrote: The following info is from the 1982 Monona County History Book under a section regarding Jordan Township: "Finally, in 1873, the primary election took place and the following were elected as Jordan Township's first officers: George Montague, President; J.T. Adair, Clerk; Samuel Rickman and Thomas Rickman, Directors; and J.M. Ballantyne, Treasurer." "The first marriage in the township was that of Daniel Butler, sometimes known as Daniel Rickman, and Miss Eunice Allen." Jeannie's notes: Joshua was married to Eliza Arilla Rickman and Joshua's mother, Nancy, was married to Andrew Allen. Andrew Allen's first wife, believed to be Eunice. Since the info from the book refers to Eunice as a "Miss," probably not the same person, but could be in error. Another researcher, Barbara Eades, states: Andrew & Eunice may have had a daughter by the name of Eunice. Eunice, Andrew's wife was quite elderly when she left Iowa with her grown children and headed for Salt Lake City. She rode on the back of the wagon of her son Luke (boy I hope his name was Luke been a while since I looked at this). She never saw Andrew or the children that stayed in IA again and died in UT. 11. Amy VunCannon has a copy of the 24 Jan 1910 marriage certificate for John William Adair of Burt County, Nebraska showing J.T. Adair as Justice of the Peace. John was Joshua's son. 12. Mentioned in his step-sister's obituary: Vol. 54, "The Correctionville News," Thursday, May 7, 1936, NO. 50: "Life of Mrs. Emma Taylor. Mother of Mrs. Joseph Johnson buried at Morehead Friday, where she was Pioneer resident. Emma Jeanette Allen was born at Magnolia, Iowa, August 24, 1855, and departed this life Wednesday, April 29, 1936, at Correctionville, Iowa, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Johnson. She had attained the age of 80 years, 08 months, and 5 days. On July 21, 1874, she was united in Marriage to Chas. Taylor at Magnolia, Iowa. To this union 9 children were born. Her husband passed away Feb. 4, 1914. Also, two children, Frank and Agnes preceded her in death. Mrs. Taylor was baptized in the Christian Church on October 15, 1895, and remained faithful to her God until her death. She was a kind neighbor and a loving mother. She lived nearly all of her life in and around Moorehead, and being an early pioneer she endured much to rear her family. She is survived by her four sons, Guy of Stewart, NEB., John of Salix, Ray of Moorehead, and Bruce of Pisgah; three daughters, Mrs. Joe Lamb of Blencoe, Mrs. J. T. Johnson of Correctionville, and Mrs. Claude Coberly of Moorehead. One brother, J.T. Adair of Macy, Nebr., and 29 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Moorehead Christian Church in charge of the pastor. Mrs. Wilmer Johnson sang "Does Jesus Care," and "The Old Rugged Cross" accompanied by Mrs. Nash at the piano. Burial was made in the Spring Valley Cemetery." [My note: Looked up Macy, NE where Joshua is noted as living and it is in Thurston County, NE.] 13. Extracts from 15 page biography or Eunice Miner with photos received 31 Aug 2003 from Barbara L. Eades 14. Emails from Jeannie Aldredge at A. 25 Aug 2002: No Mormon affiliation was maintained through our family. As far as I know, my g.grandmother, Lillian May Adair, did not have an affiliation neither. Grandpa never mentioned anything about the Mormons. He never spoke much about his grandfather Joshua even in response to my direct inquiries. I think the problem could be that Eliza, Joshua's wife, and Lillian their daughter as well as their other children were listed in the censuses as "mulatto" which could either be Indian or negro mixture. There is an LDS affiliation noted on Joshua's death certificate which is most likely Reorganized LDS. In checking out history of churches in Decatur, Nebraska: "The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in 1879 in a small log school house southeast of Decatur. A new frame building was erected in 1886 and used until 1903 when the present building was dedicated." There are no regular LDS early churches listed in the area. B. 13 Sep 2003: Joshua came through with [should be: was born among] the Mormons to Kanesville Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, later known as Council Bluffs. He then left the Mormons and went up the Missouri river and grew to manhood in Harrison County, Iowa. He suffered for several years before his death, but bore his sufferings passionately. At the time of his death, he had twenty-seven grandchildren and thirty-two great-grandchildren. Joshua studied law under a friend, William Hubbard, an Attorney in Onawa, Monona County, Iowa. After a long career of active law practice in Iowa and Nebraska, he served as a Judge, as well as, holding various offices of trust in Iowa and Nebraska. He was a kind and loving husband and father and was remembered for the kind and loving aid which he gave to Eliza, when he was scarcely able to care for himself, during her seven years of illness. Hunting, fishing and trapping was the Adair's source of income and when Joshua was older and his eye was not as accurate as it was in the days when he sniped wild turkeys from tall trees with a muzzle loading rifle, the sons carried on the family tradition. C. 13 Sep 2003: 08.15.2002 note from Dorothy Hotchkiss: I never knew Uncle Jot but always knew of him & where he lived (Macy, NE). My oldest sister, Eddith, taught school on Holman's Island. Amy Vuncannon said 2 of his boys ran the ferry boat across the Missouri River to the Island. Mom & my Dad would go to visit when they took her to the island. I don't remember my ever going to his home, nor do I remember the boys. Uncle Jot was my Gma Taylor nee Allen's 1/2 brother. Jot did live close to the Indian Reservation on the River. My grandparents lived near there at one time too. I have studio pix of Indian family "Our Neighbors on the Reservation". D. 13 Sep 2003: Residence 1: October 1920, Living at Route 2, Walthill, Nebraska. Residence 2: April 29, 1936, Living in Macy, Thurston County, Nebraska at the time of his sister Emma's death. E. For detailed list of children and their spouses, see notes to Joshua's wife. F. "Joshua and Eliza were well acquainted with the hardships and problems of pioneer days. They lived on the banks of the Missouri River, about 3/4 of a mile from the corner of Mission Rock, a rock that the government put in where the river came around. Joshua was a master of these treacherous waters and rowed the river well into his 80's. Joshua sold fish for a living and Grandson Arthur Price, recalls that he and his family would go to visit them and they would come across the river and pick them up in fishing boats. They had two boats and they would load four to five people in each boat. They would then row up the Iowa side of the river a long distance so that when they got to Mission Rock, they could drift back down the river. Then, they would row back up the Nebraska side and drift over to their car to go home. Grandson Arthur Price remembers that while visiting his grandparents on one occasion, the winds were very strong. Normally, the winds would settle down after sunset, so they decided to wait until after dinner to row back across the river. Arthur and his family were living East of Onawa, Monona County, Iowa at the time and they still had milking and other chores to do at home. After dinner, they started out across the river; however, the winds were still too strong and they were forced to turn back and "spend the night with the Indians." Sometimes, while living on the banks of the river, bodies of people who had drowned would be pulled from the river. If they were unidentifiable, or did not have any next of kin, Joshua would give them a proper burial in his cemetery plot. Therefore, at the cemetery in Decatur, Burt County, Nebraska, where Joshua and Eliza are buried, there are several unmarked graves nearby. In 1884, Joshua and Eliza moved from Iowa to a log cabin in Nebraska, where they resided until their deaths. In the early 1870's, they became members of the Latter Day Saints Church of Jesus Christ and their faith was such that it entitled them to many moments of happiness and blessings. They were always happy to express themselves in the gospel of which they believed and loved. This pioneer couple believed they claimed a distinction, since they owned and resided in a log cabin similar to those built by pioneers. Joshua and Eliza saw the establishment of the first newspaper, "The Journal," and Joshua was a faithful reader." 15. Copy of newspaper in my possession from Salt Lake City's "Deseret News," vol. 24, no. 49, 5 Jan 1876: "Information Wanted. – J. T. Adair, Magnolia County, lowa, is desirous of learning of the whereabouts of the following parties supposed to be in Utah, and who left Council Bluffs in 1850 or 1851 - Samuel Adair (father of the inquirer) John Adair, Newton Adair, George Adair (the latter a half brother) and Catherine Adair. When last heard from the parties named were at Washington, Washington County, Utah. Mr. Adair also wishes to hear from B. F. Maynard who when last heard from was in Dry Canyon, Tooele Co. Any of the persons named desiring to communicate with Mr. J. T. Adair, should address as above." 16. Notes of D. Neil Allen, 5534 S 1425 East, South Ogden, UT 84403, 801-476-6854, viking893@msn.com received 25 Jul 2015. This is a draft of his working paper being refined and prepared for a future publication. Neil had previously published a book on Charles Allen and his descendants, "Out of Strawbery Banke." The transcript: "5. Joshua Tumer ADAIR was born on 25 Dec 1849 in Kanesville, Pottawattamie, IA. He died on 2 Aug 1938 at the age of 88 in Decatur, Burt, NE. He was buried on 5 Aug 1938 in Decatur, Burt, NE, Hillcrest Cemetery.13 Joshua Tumer ADAIR and Eliza Arilla RICKMAN were married on 10 Oct 1869 in Onawa, Monona, Iowa, United States. Eliza Arilla RICKMAN, daughter of Thomas H. RICKMAN and Rebecca Ann BENET, was born on 22 Oct 1850 in Jasper, Illinois, United States. She died on 8 Aug 1936 at the age of 85 in Walthill, Thurston, Nebraska, United States. She was buried on 11 Aug 1936 in Hillcrest Cemetery, Burt, Nebraska, United States. Joshua Tumer ADAIR and Eliza Arilla RICKMAN had the following children: +11 i. Rebecca Anna ADAIR, born abt Oct 1869, Belvidere Township, Monona, Iowa, United States. 12 ii. Benjamin ADAIR was born after 1870 in Iowa, United States. He died on 4 Mar 1873 at the age of 3 in Magnolia, Harrison, Iowa, United States. 13 iii. Florence ADAIR was born in 1873 in Iowa City, Wright, Iowa, United States. She died. +14 iv. John William ADAIR, born Jan 1874, Monona County, Iowa, USA; married Malinda MOWERY, 19 Jul 1900, Onawa, Monona, Iowa, United States; married Lorena Isabelle MCKINLEY, 24 Jan 1910, Decatur, Burt, Nebraska; died 1 Feb 1952. 15 v. Daniel L. ADAIR was born in Dec 1875 in Iowa, United States. He died on 25 Jun 1885 at the age of 9. 16 vi. Mary ADAIR was born in 1879 in Iowa City, Wright, Iowa, United States. She died in 1962 at the age of 83 in Decatur, Burt, Nebraska, United States. +17 vii. Margaret Armantha ADAIR, born 1881, Magnolia, Harrison, Iowa, United States; died 1943, Decatur, Burt, Nebraska, United States. +18 viii. Lillian May ADAIR, born 1883, Iowa, United States; died 1943, Decatur, Burt, Nebraska, United States. 19 ix. Walter Ray ADAIR was born on 14 Mar 1885 in Nebraska, United States. He died on 30 Apr 1974 at the age of 89 in Nebraska, United States. 20 x. Annie ADAIR was born on 14 Mar 1885 in +21 xi. Clyde Lemont ADAIR, born 14 Mar 1887, Decatur, Burt, Nebraska, United States; died 6 Nov 1933, Nebraska, United States. 22 xii. Samuel Barlett ADAIR was born on 17 Oct 1888 in Nebraska, United States. He died on 21 Jun 1947 at the age of 58. +23 xiii. Ralph A ADAIR, born 28 Aug 1892, Decatur, Burt, Nebraska, United States; died 5 Oct 1971, Oakland, Burt, Nebraska, United States. 24 xiv. Thomas ADAIR was born in Aug 1893 in Nebraska, United States. He died. Footnotes: 13. Find A Grave. Memorial# 36414909 Spouse:Eliza Arilla Rickman Adair (1850 - 1936)." BIRTH: 1. Date from Amy VunCannon and Jeannie Aldredge and is consistent with 1850 and 1880 censuses. Place per RLDS membership record, obituary, and death certificate. Note that there are discrepancies from the various secondary extraneous sources as to Joshua's year of birth even though the various entries are consistent as to day and month. Marvin Adair in his biography cited above listed it as 1847; LDS records list it as 1849 or 1845; baptism records for the RLDS has it listed as 1848. Death Certificate states he was 88 years, 7 months, and 8 days old at time of death on Aug. 1 [may be 2 subject to handwriting], 1938. Obituary also says 1849. MARRIAGE: 1. Online Ordinance Index states Monona Co., Iowa; Amy Von Cannon states "Preparation Settlement" which I don't find on current maps; she explains that it is now part of "Preparation State Park" and that there are a couple of cabins in the field and a sign that states old town of Preparation and Belvidere. Both use same date for marriage. She notes October 10, 1869, Onawa, Preparation Canyon, Monona County, Iowa and that this wedding was among the first performed in Monona County in 1869. Obituary says 1868 in Onawa, Iowa; Onawa is in Monona County. DEATH: 1. "State of Nebraska, Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, No. J7022. Place of Death: Burt Co., Decatur Township, Decatur City. Length of residence in city or town where death occurred: 3 days. Full name: Joshua Teumer Adair. Residence: Macy, Thurston County, Nebraska. Male, white, widowed. Wife: Eliza Arilla Adair. Age: 88 years, 7 months, 8 days. Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done: Carpenter. Industry or business in which work was done: General. Total time (years) spent in the occupation: Unknown. Birthplace: Cainsville (Council Bluffs), Pottawattamie Co., Ia. Name of father: [blank]. Father's birthplace: Unknown. Name of mother: [blank]. Mother's birthplace: Unknown. Informant: Decatur, Nebr. Burial place: Decatur, Nebr.; Date: Aug. 3, 1938. Undertaker: Racily, Walthill, Nebr. Filed Sep. 15, 1938. Date of death: Aug. [1st or 2nd – hard to read], 1938. I hereby certify that I attended deceased form July 29, 1938 to Aug. [1st or 2nd – hard to read], 1938. I last saw him alive on July 29, 1938; death is said to have occurred on the date stated above, at 1 a.m. The principle cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: angina heart. He had been having angina spells for several days. Contributary causes of importance not related in principal cause: old age. Was disease or injury in any way relating to occupation of deceased? No. Signed: E.A. Sears, M.D., Decatur, Nebr." OBITUARY: 1. Copy of actual article provided by Jeannie Aldredge; she states there is no date nor newspaper listed with clipping. Text: "The Obituary of Joshua T. Adair. Joshua Tumer Adair, son of Samuel Adiar, was born in Caniville [Kanesville], Pottawattamie County, Ia. (now called Council Bluffs) in 1849. Grew to manhood in Iowa, studied law under a friend Wm. Hubbard, attorney of Onawa Ia. and after a long career of active law practice and as judge, he passed away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Walters Tuesday, August 2, 1938 in his 88th year. He was united in marriage to Eliza Arilla Rickman in 1868 at Onawa, Iowa who preceded him in death August 9, 1938 at the Walthill hospital, Walthill, Neb. To this union was born Bennie and Tommy, who died in Childhood; one daughter, Mrs. Chas. Owens and two sons: Daniel and Clyde, who preceded him in death. There remains to mourn his demise, three daughters: Mrs. Mary Rogers of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mrs. Wm. Buck of Decatur, Neb.; and Mrs. Ed Price of Onawa, Iowa, and four sons; Will, Walter, Ralph, and Samuel of Macyn, Neb.; 27 grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren. He was a kind and loving husband and father and is remembered for his loving kindness to his invalid wife, who suffered for seven long years. He cared for her when he was scarcely able to care for himself. For many years he and his wife were members of the L.D.S. Church of Jesus Christ and their faith was such that it entitled them to many moments of happiness and blessings and they were always happy to express themselves in the Gospel of which they beloved. The funeral was conducted by Elder Amos Lamson from the L.D.S. church in Decatur on Wednesday, August 3rd and burial was made in the local (Hillcrest) cemetery." BURIAL: 1. Per Jeanie Aldredge: Joshua and Eliza were buried in unmarked graves until 1996, when Grandson Arthur Price had a tombstone placed on their graves in Decatur, Burt County, Nebraska. PHOTO: 1. Several photos provided by Jeannie Aldredge and her family and in my files. Two with Joshua: a. Eliza, his wife sitting in a chair with Joshua standing next to her with a cane. Both appear quite elderly. b. Joshua rowing a wooden boat across a very large river [Missouri?] as an elderly man. | Adair, Joshua Tumer (I529)
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| 2176 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: District 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 78b, 13 Sep 1850, entry 217: Samuel Adair, 46, Laborer, SC. Nancy, 39, VA. John, 18, AL. George, 15, AL. Samuel, 12, AL. Rufus, 7, MS. Mary, 13, TN. Robert, 7, TN. Benjamin, 5, TN. Jemima, 4, IA. Joshua, 1, IA. Note: this census locates Samuel in Iowa in 1850 with a previously unknown wife [at least unknown among Utah Adair histories]. It appears Nancy brings into this marriage three children of a previous marriage [Mary, Robert, and Benjamin] who were all born in Tennessee. 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: Maynard: Nancy 43, Mary E. 13, Robert 6, Benjamin F. [or T.] 4, Joshua 1. Also in same household is Mary Walker 10 and Charle Hughs 14. [Nancy appears recently separated from her second husband Samuel Adair by the time of this census and living under her first married name of Maynard with her children of the Maynard marriage. Joshua Adair is listed twice - once with Nancy Maynard and once with Samuel Adair; evidently the final custodial arrangements for Joshua were not yet settled by the time of the census. Nancy's next husband Andrew Allen is not in the census confirming that Andrew Allen was not a factor in the breakup of Samuel and Nancy marriage. It also appears their separation was by Sep. 1851 long before his June 1852 departure to the west for which some family researchers have given as the reason for their separation. Her fourth husband is listed in the county's census put several pages away. Samuel Adair is also several pages away as well.] 2. Does not seem to appear in 1860 and later censuses of Iowa nor in Civil War service with any Iowa regiment. May be dead by 1860. Not listed in Susan Black's books of LDS or RLDS members. BIRTH: 1. Birthplace consistently given as Tennessee in censuses. Older sister born in Gibson Co., TN. | Maynard, Robert (I478)
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| 2177 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: District 61, Knox, Indiana, 930: Aquilla Trulock, 28, Indiana Susannah Trulock, 35 Mary Trulock, 9 Jemima Trulock, 5 1855 State: Township 12, Coles, Illinois: A. Trullock, males: 0-10:1; 30-40:1; females: 0-10:2 (unclear - maybe 3); 10-20:1; 30-40:1 1860 US: Charleston Township, Coles, Illinois, 1615: Aquilla Trulock, 36, IN Mary J Trulock, 28, IL Winfield S Trulock, 8, IL Martha A Trulock, 5, IL Allen H Trulock, 3, IL Matilda Watson, 8, IL 2. International Genealogical Index reports two other marriages for Acquila Trulock which may or may not be this Acquilla: Susan Haskins, m. 2 Aug 1850 at Knox, Indiana; Mary J. Watson, m. 14 Jul 1859 at Coles Co., Illinois [from LDS extracted marriage record]. 3. Darlene Garant Worldconnect database ":2832569" accessed 5 Mar 2014: Aquilla Trulock. Enlisted 30 May 1862 at Charleston, Illinois Distinguished Service Side Served: Union State Served: Illinois Unit Numbers: 391 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 30 May 1862 Enlisted in Company C, 68th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 20 June 1862. Regimental History (three months). Source: The Union Army, vol. 3. Sixty-eighth Infantry. - Col., Elias Stuart; Lieut.-Col., Houston L. Taylor; Maj., George W. Lackey. This regiment was enlisted in response to a call made in the early summer of 1862, for state troops to serve for the period of three months as state militia, and the muster of the regiment was effected early in June. Shortly after it was organized a petition was circulated and very generally signed by both officers and men, asking that the term of enlistment be changed from that of state militia to volunteers, and that the regiment be sent into the field. In accordance with the petition the regiment was mustered into the U. S. service, and on July 5 received marching orders. Leaving Camp Butler it proceeded by rail to Wheeling, W. Va., arriving there on the 7th. From there it went to Washington and was on duty in and about Alexandria, Va., until its term of enlistment had expired. It then returned to Camp Butler and was mustered out on Sept. 26. DEATH: 1. Per cemetery record. 2. Acquilla is not in the LDS obituary index for Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune papers. He also is not found in the Utah Digital Newspaper collections as of 2014. The Ogden papers started after 1869 and most likely no obituary exists. The only reference found is a notice in 1865 in Salt Lake City issued by the Postmaster notifying many people including Acquilla Trulock of uncollected mail prior to the mail being put into the "Dead File." 3. Acquilla and Sarah's son Acquilla Chestnut Trulock is buried in close proximity in Ogden City Cemetery at plot E-2-43-1W: Acqirilla Trulock, b. 12 May 1866 at Ogden, d. 7 Oct 1914 ot Ogden, parents are Acquilla Truelock and Sarah Chestnut. Also in close proximity is Priscilla Truelock, d. 15 Jul 1870 in Ogden with no other info. Don't confuse the father Acquilla with his son Acquilla who married Rose Margrett Wootton (Rose is also buried in Ogden). BURIAL: 1. Ogden City Cemetery online: Aguilla D. Truelock, d. 29 May 1869 at Ogden, bur. A-3-4-10. | Trulock, Aquilla D. (I2045)
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| 2178 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dover Twp., Ocean, NJ, 11 Sep 1850, 290/292 (next door are Andrew Phillips, age 34, fisherman, wife Sarah, and family; next to Andrew is Richard Phillips, 36, fisherman, wife Eliza, and family): William Phillips, 58, fisherman, $1000, NJ. Lydia, 50, NJ. William, 26, fisherman, NJ. Thomas, 19, fisherman, NJ. Alice, 17, NJ. Acksah, 15, female, NJ. James, 9, NJ. Elizabeth Stout, 58, NJ. 2. Mike Morrissey -Richard A. Phillips, b. 1817 NJ, m. 24 Nov 1847 Eliza Ann ___, 5 children listed. -Andrew J. Phillips, b. 1829 NJ, m. Sarah ___, b. 1826, 3 children listed. -Jacob O. Phillips, b. abt. 1822 in Monmouth, NJ, m. Ann ___, b. 1827 in NJ. 1870 census shows Jacob Phillips, age 52, wife Margaret, son Michael, age 28, living next door to Obe Phillips. This may be the son of William. 2 children listed. -Lydia Ann Phillips, b. abt. 1823. -William J. Phillips, b. 1824. -Thomas Phillips, b. 1831 in NJ, m. Charity ___, b. 1834 in NJ, 3 children listed. -Axsea E. Phillips, b. 1835. -James Phillips, b. 1842. 3. Monmouth County Archives and also NJ State Archives, Monmouth co., vol. B2, p. 597: Deed poll and indenture between Isaac Winner selling his land of about 70 acres between Toms River and Long Swamp16 Oct 1819 to William Phillips [son from his wife's first marriage to Andrew Phillips]. Deed notes both parties are of Dover. Value of transaction was $10 and recorded 21 Oct 1819. 4. NJ State Archives, Monmouth co., vol. I-2, p. 57: Deed poll and indenture between Naomy Winner and Obediah H. Phillips to William Phillips selling a lot of about 70 acres on the North side of Toms River 21 Oct 1824 to William Phillips [sons from her first marriage to Andrew Phillips]. Deed notes all parties are of Dover. Value of transaction was $20. Deed has great detail about the location of the lot. No relationships stated. 5. 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." | Phillips, William (I3239)
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| 2179 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Dover Twp., Ocean, NJ, 11 Sep 1850, 317/319: William Phillips, 58, fisherman, $1000, NJ. Lydia, 50, NJ. William, 26, fisherman, NJ. Thomas, 19, fisherman, NJ. Alice, 17, NJ. Acksah, 15, female, NJ. James, 9, NJ. Elizabeth Stout, 58, NJ. | Lydia (I3066)
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| 2180 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Found in Kirtland, Lake, Ohio 1880 US: 1880 US: Concho Creek, Apache, Arizona, 11 Jun 1880, 153/156: S.N. Adir, 40, farmer, MS AL AL. Helen J., 35, OH VT VT. Chas. Newton, 15, UT MS OH. Hariete J, 13, UT MS OH. Byron A., 11, UT MS OH. Jesmmine J., 9, UT MS OH. Mary Virginia, 4, UT MS OH. Annie K., 1, UT MS OH. 1900 US: Precinct no. 37, Socorra Co., New Mexico, P. 121a: Samuel Adair, b. Dec 1839, age 60, married 36 years, b. Mississippi, no listing for parents birthplaces, farmer. Jennett, wife, b. Apr 1845, age 55, married 36 years, 11 total children of which 10 are still living, b. Ohio, both parents born in Vermont. Byron A., son, b. Mar 1869, age 31, single, b. UT, MS, OH, unable to work. Mary V., dau, b. Feb 1876, age 24, single, b. UT, MS, OH. Annie, dau., b. May 1879, age 21, single, b. UT, MS, OH. Edna, dau., b. Nov 1881, age 16, single, b. AZ, MS, OH. Josephine, dau., b. May 1884, age 16, single, b. AZ, MS, OH. Thomas J., son, b. May 1884, age 16, single, b. AZ, MS, OH. Marcus O., son, b. Oct 1886, age 13, single, b. NM, MS, OH. 2. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 8 Dec 2002. Parents are Abraham Brown, b. 1808 in Londonderry, Windham, VT, and Harriet Amanda Sheldon, b. 1806 in Andover, Windsor, VT. 3. Parents are Abraham Brown and Harriett Sheldon. Note about Abraham: the book "Grafton, Ghost Town on the Rio Virgin" p.116, shows Abraham on the list of property owners in Washington City prior to 1873 and is principally of those that owned land in 1863. Abraham was born 31 Aug 1808 at Londonderry, Windham, Vermont and died 23 Apr 1891. Harriet Sheldon was born 8 Aug 1806 at Andover, Windsor, Vermont and d. 18 Jul 1883. They married 25 Mar 1834. 4. "Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia," p. 577: "Adair, Thomas Jefferson [Samuel and Helen's son], an Elder who died away from home, filling a mission for the Church, was born May 28, 1884, at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, the son of Samuel Newton Adair and Helen J. Brown. His grandparents on his father's side were among the noted residents of Nauvoo, Illinois, and his grandparents on his mother's side were associated with the Church in Kirtland, Ohio, where his grandfather Brown assisted in the erection of the Kirtland Temple. His parents were among the early settlers in Apache County, Arizona, and were staunch Latter-day Saints. Thomas J. was baptized Sept. 1, 1892, by his father and was ordained successively to the offices of Priest and Elder. He was set apart for a mission to the Southwestern States April 1, 1904, and was appointed to labor in Arkansas, where he spent twenty-eight months as a faithful, energetic missionary. While thus engaged he contracted a disease and being released from his mission he started for home and arrived at St. Johns, Arizona, July 23, 1904[6?]. His parents who lived about seventy-five miles from St. Johns, were notified, but when they arrived at his bedside he was unable to travel further, and getting gradually worse, he died Aug. 1, 1906, at St John's. Elder Adair was greatly respected by all who know him. He had received a good education, had attended the Stake academy at St. Johns, and taken the missionary course prior to going on his mission. He was noted for his exceptionally energetic and lively disposition and ever showed the greatest loyalty and devotedness to the Church." 5. From the book "Nutrioso and Her Neighbors," by Nina Kelly and Alice Lee, p. 180, has a group photo of "Old Folks Reunion in Luna, 1928" with "Genett Adair" photographed sitting in the front row. Copy of photo on file. 6. The following is a small excerpt of a larger listing (see Samuel Newton Adair's notes for full transcription), which was received in digital form from Don and Caroline Smith, 2003. Regardless of the title - "Family Records of Samuel Newton Adair" - I am not sure if this is really a transcript of records kept by Samuel Newton Adair or not. Some death dates given for some of the individuals are after the date Samuel Newton Adair himself died. I spoke in person with Collins Chapman of Mesa, Arizona, in Feb. of 2006. He did not recognize it. Collins' family is the source of most of the biographical information on Samuel and Collin's mother was responsible for the autobiography of Samuel Newton Adair who dictated it to her. The following came to me as an addendum to a typed copy of that autobiography; however, I have now seen a portion of the original handwritten dictation and find no such attachment. The following therefore has no documented source that I can find thus far and should be used with caution: [A.] Father: Samuel Newton Adair; Mother: Helen Gennett Brown Adair; Children: Charles Newton Adair Harriett Gennett Adair Byron Abraham Adair Jamima Jane Adair William Oran Adair Mary Virginia Adair Anna Cathrine Adair Sarah Edna Adair Olive Josephine Adair Thomas Jefferson Adair Marcus Owen Adair Sheldon Genealogy: Father: William Sheldon; Mother: Hannah Sheldon; Children: William Sheldon Sophrona Sheldon Sylvester Sheldon Harriet Sheldon Hannah Sheldon Brown Genealogy: Father: Abraham Brown; Mother: Harriet Sheldon Brown; Children: Newel Abraham Brown Harriet Amanda Brown Byron Welman Brown Austin Milton Brown Clinton Oran Brown Helen Gennett Brown Leveret Wesley Brown [B.] Samuel Newton Adair - Born at Itawomba County, Mississippi, Dec. 11, 1839. Baptized by Samuel Jefferson Adair, in 1847. Ordained an Elder by John Freeman. Ordained a High Priest by Apostle Erastus Snow, at Luna, New Mexico Nov. 24, 1885. Married to Helen Gennett Brown by Robert Covington at Washington, Utah, Dec, 15,1863. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18, 1867. Patriarchal Blessing by Emer Harris. Filled Mission to Moqice Village - Went Nov. 1862. Returned on Jan. 10, 1863. Migrated from Mississippi to Nauvoo. Died at Luna, New Mexico, May 16, 1925. [C.] Helen Gennett Brown - Born at Kirtland, Ohio, April 4, 1845. Married to Samuel Newton Adair, by Robert Covington at Washington, Utah, Dec. 15, 1863. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City, June 18, 1867. Migrated from Ohio to Nauvoo. Died at Luna, New Mexico, Jan. 11, 1933." [D. Children of Samuel Newton Adair:] Charles Newton Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah Jan. 13, 1865. Baptized by Robert F. Goold Aug. 23, 1874. Confirmed by Samuel Newton Adair, Aug. 23, 1874. Married to Mary Elva Woolsey by William Johnson at Thatcher, Arizona, March 19, 1888. Endowed at Arizona Temple Oct. 24, 1935. Migrated from Utah to Arizona, Nov. 11, 1879. Died at Eager, Arizona, Aug. 16, 1939. Harriet Gennett Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, Nov. 13, 1866. Married Owen W. Clark at Salt Lake City Temple, Nov. 26, 1884. Byron Abraham Clark - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, March 9, 1869. Ordained a Deacon by Samuel Newton Adair, March 6, 1884. Migrated from Utah to Arizona. Died at Luna, New Mexico April 29, 1933. Jamima Jane Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, June 29, 1871. Married to William C. Baldwin by Gilbert D. Greer at Luna, New Mexico. Died at Taylor, Arizona, June 8, 1919. William Oran Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, Oct. 12, 1873. Died at Washington, Utah, July 18, 1876. Mary Virginia Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, Feb. 23, 1876. Baptized by Lemuel A. Pace, May 1, 1884. Confirmed by Benjamin Noble, May 1, 1884. Married to John Henry Petty, May 24, by Melvin Swapp at Luna, New Mexico. Endowed at St. George Temple. Died at Luna, New Mexico, April 4, 1908. Anna Catherine Adair - Born at Washington City, Washington County, Utah, May 11, 1879. Baptized by Samuel B. Tenney, Aug. 1, 1889. Confirmed by William H. Reynolds, Aug. 1, 1889. Married to James Smith McFate, April 21, 1904, by Amon McFate at Luna, New Mexico. Endowed at St. George, Utah. Died at Luna, New Mexico, July 13, 1916. Sarah Edna Adair - Born at Concho, Apache County, Arizona, Nov. 27 1881. Blessed by Samuel Newton Adair. Baptized by William H. Reynolds, June 5, 1890. Confirmed by Gilbert D. Greer. Married to William S. Laney by John R. Windsor at Salt Lake City, Oct. 8, 1909. Endowed at Endowment Room, Salt Lake Temple. Died at Luna, New Mexico, Dec. 11, 1918. Olive Josephine Adair - Born at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, May 28, 1884. Blessed by Samuel N. Adair, May 28, 1884. Baptized by Samuel N. Adair, Sept. 1, 1892. Confirmed by M. H. Thompson Sept. 1, 1892. Married to Charles Ronald Stewart by J. J. Hale, at Luna, New Mexico, Nov. 26, 1906. Endowed at Mesa Temple, Mesa Arizona, May 24, 1928. Died at Luna, New Mexico, April 12, 1937. Thomas Jefferson Adair - Born at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, May 28, 1884. Blessed by Samuel N. Adair, May 28, 1884. Baptized by Samuel Newton Adair, Sept. 1, 1892. Confirmed by M. H. Thompson, Sept. 1, 1892. Ordained a Deacon by Samuel N. Adair, Jan. 31, 1897. Ordained a Priest by Samuel N. Adair, Dec. 28, 1902. Ordained a Teacher by Samuel N. Adair, May 20, 1901. Endowed at Salt Lake City, 1904. March 21, 1904, left on a Mission to Arkansas. Returned from his Mission to St. Johns, Arizona, where he died Aug. 1, 1906. Thomas spent 28 months in the Mission Field in Arkansas. He became ill with typhoid malaria fever and was honorably released to return home. He only got to St. Johns, where he died. Marcus Owen Adair - Born at Luna, Socorro County, New Mexico, Oct. 8, 1886. Blessed by Samuel N. Adair, Jan. 6, 1887. Baptized by Samuel N. Adair, Sept. 5, 1895. Confirmed by W. H. Reynolds, Sept. 5, 1895. Ordained a Deacon by Samuel N. Adair, Dec. 28, 1902. Married to Anna Fuentes, April 21, 1914, by A. J. Kent at Luna, New Mexico. Died at Luna, New Mexico, Dec. 8, 1926. BIOGRAPHY: 1. I received from A.C. (Collins) Chapman a hard copy of his 16 page biography entitled "Nettie Adair aka Mary Genette Adair Chapman, Some Remembrances of her Growing up Years (A Taped Interview)," by A.C. Chapman, January 2006. The following passage records her memories about her grandparents Samuel Newton and Helen Genett Brown Adair as follows: Pp. 6-7: Question: "Tell us a little about your grandmother Adair. What was her name? Answer: "Her name was Helen Genette Brown Adair. (Could you tell us a little of what you remember about her?) She was born in Kirtland, Ohio and came across the plains. (Do you remember her birthday?) It was the 4th of April, in 1848. As I said, I would always go up and help her with her dishes and her work. I can remember that she had a little red bottle that she called her camphor bottle. She would put a little alcohol and some camphor it it and every night just before she went to bed, she would tip that bottle up one time on her tongue. Question: "That was kind of like the asafetida bags that people wore to keep away contagious diseases or whatever was going around. Answer: " Yes, and she never had a cold and was never sick or anything like that. She kept this camphor bottle on the mantle in plain sight, and we all knew what it was and what it was for. I think they first moved to Concho. They were called from Washington, Washington County in Utah, and Concho was the first place that they settled in Arizona. Later on they moved to St. Johns and were then called to settle in Nutrioso. and after that they moved to Luna, New Mexico. Question: "What type of woman was she physically, was she tall, short or what?" Answer: "She was short and rather heavy set. (What were her favorite things?) Well, I have the quilt of daddy's that she made for him when he was quite young. She liked to make quilts, and she would crochet and knit. Daddy gave this quilt to me, and as you are the oldest son, you will get it if you want it. She made it for him before he ever got married. Question: "So you remember any stories she used to tell you about coming across the plains?" Answer: "No, I don't, I sure don't. If she did I just don't remember it. In those days we just didn't record the histories like we should have. There are so many things we could have written if we had just realized how much they would have meant to us in later years. Grandmother was a woman that didn't talk very much. We don't know but very little about her family. She didn't talk about them too much. I do remember that while she was alive, she had a brother by the name of Leveret Brown. He lived in Salt Lake, and she would talk about him from time to time. She also had a sister who lived down at Safford, Arizona, and she would come up and see her a lot. We called her Aunt Mandy.(Harriet Amanda Brown Tyler was Helen Genette Brown's oldest sister who died in January of 1906.)" Question: "What do you remember of about your grandfather, Samuel Newton Adair?" Answer: "Not too much. Grandfather Adair was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi in 1839. He was a cotton farmer when he was young. (Do you remember how he came into the Church?) No. I don't, but he wasn't born in the Church. After he joined the Church, he was called by Brigham Young to settle in Washington County, Utah to help start the cotton industry there. I helped him write his history after I got home from my mission, and I have it here in my book. Grandpa was very religious, and I think he was in the bishopric when the Luna Ward was first organized. He always worked in the Church." Question: "Was he a cattleman along with your father?" Answer: "No, he was more of a farmer. He had a little farmland, and did quite a bit of farming. (This was in Luna?) Yes. He was one of the earlier settlers of Luna. After living in St. Johns for a while, the family moved to Nutrioso, and then came from there to Luna. (Was there anyone living in Luna when he moved there?) Oh yes, there were a few families, but not too many." PHOTO: 1. Photo on file received from A.C. (Collins) Chapman. BIRTH: 1. FHL Film 2456: "Early LDS Church Membership Records for Nutrioso, Arizona": Record of the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nutrioso Ward, St. Johns Stake of Zion. Page not noted: S.N. Adair; father: Samuel J. Adair; mother: Jamima Mangum; b. 11 Dec 1839 at Eightywomby [Itawamba Co.], Mississippi; first baptism: 1847 by S.J. Adair; first confirmation: 1847 by J?.; ordained an Elder. Hellen G.B. Adair; father: Abraham Brown; mother: Harriet Sheldon; b. 4 Apr 1845 at Kirtland,, Ohio. Charles Newton Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. 13 Jan 1864 at Washington, Washington, Utah; blessing 1865; first baptism: 23 Aug 1874 by RlH. Gould; first confirmation: 23 Aug 1874 by S.N. Adair. Hariet G. Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. 13 Nov 1866 at Washington, Washington, Utah. Byron A. Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. 9 Mar 1869 at Washington, Washington, Utah; blessing 1869 by S.N. Adair; first bapt 1869 by S.N. Adair; first baptism: 2 Oct 1879 by McCrery. Jamima J. Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. 29 Jun 1871 at Washington, Washington, Utah; blessing 1871. Mary V. Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. 23 Feb 1876 at Washington, Washington, Utah; blessing 1876; first baptism: 1 May 1884 by S.A. Pace; first confirmation: 1 May 1884 by B. Noble. Annie C. Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. 11 May 1879 at Washington, Washington, Utah; blessing 1879. Sarah E. Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. at Erastus, Apache, Arizona; blessing by S.N. Adair. Olive Josephine Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. 28 May 1884 at Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona; blessing 28 May 1884 by S. N. Adair. Thomas J. Adair; father: Samuel N. Adair; mother: H.G.B. Adair; b. 28 May 1884 at Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona; blessing 28 May 1884 by S. N. Adair. MARRIAGE: 1. Per website 2. Website: "Western States Marriage Record Index": Groom Last Name: Adair Groom First Name: Samuel Newton Groom Residence: Washington, Washington, Utah Bride Last Name: Brown Bride First Name: Helen Gennett Bride Residence: Washington, Washington, Utah Place: Washington City Date: 15 Dec 1863 County of Record: Cache State: Utah Volume: 1 Page: 27 Marriage ID: 242578 Comment: Source: LDS Genealogical Surveys (FHC #1,059,454) BURIAL: 1. Photo on file of tombstone in the Luna Cemetery: "Genet Adair, 1845-1933." Also many of her descendants are in this same cemetery. | Brown, Helen Gennett (I1400)
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| 2181 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Ingham, Ingham, Michigan, p. 34b, house 305, family 305 [note that Ambrose Fredericks lives 7 doors away]: Mathew D. Frederic, 39, farmer, $150 real estate, NY. Harriet, 28, PA. Ira J., 3, male, MI. Andrew S., 7/12, MI. 1860 US: Dansville P.O., Ingham Township, Ingham, Michigan, p. 78, household 602, family 612: M.D. Frederick, 42, farmer, NY. H.O., 38, PA. A., m., 10, MI. C.E., m., 8, MI. 1870 US: Dansville P.O., Ingham Township, Ingham, Michigan, p. 72a, household 95, family 95: A.S. Fredericks, 51, farmer, $4500 real estate, $1420 personal property, NY. Harriet O., 49, keeping house, PA. Andrew P., 20, at home, MI. Clarance E., 18, at home, MI. 1880 US: Ingham Township, Ingham, Michigan, p. 290a, household 25, family 25: Mathew D. Fredrick, 51, farmer, NY NY NY. Harriet O. Fredrick, 57, wife, PA PA PA. Next house: Clarence Fredrick, 27, farmer, MI NY PA. Emma Fredrick, 26, wife, keeping house, MI Eng MI. Ermy[?] Fredrick, 7, MI MI MI. Two houses away: Andrew P. Frederick, 29, farmer, MI NY PA. Josephine Frederick, 28, wife, NY NY NY. 1900 US: Not listed with family but Mathew's second wife is. See his census notes. 2. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. The following is a partial excerpt concerning the following relation to David Frederick (see David's notes for a full transcript of Mary Lou's notes). What is interesting is the probate mention of Jonathan Demuth as an uncle to Matthew Frederick. Should this have been a son-in-law since his wife Harriet was the dau. of Jonathan as noted in the death record of Harriet. The same probate mentions a son of Jonathan named Reuben Demuth, who appears as a witness at the first wedding of Ambrose Frederick (a brother of Matthew). Needs investigating. Consider the following: A.1838-1867; Ingham Co. Michigan Marriages (FHL book 977.426 V 25m), p. 63: Ambrose Frederick, 30, Ingham Twp. and Cecilia Northrup, 19, Vevay, 11 Apr 1850, by H. Parker, J.P. Rherben Dermuth (or Demuth) and Choney Converse, Vevay, Witnesses. 2:188. B. 1867; Abstracts of the Early Probate, (FHL book US/Com 977.426) pg. 2a, Record of Ingham Co., MI 1838-1869: #118, Demuth, Jonathan, dcd. PA 22 Apr 1856 by John W. Phelps, creditor. Jonathan Demuth of Vevay of there 16 Jan 1856 intest. Heirs: dau. Emma Demuth in Lenawee Co., Reuben Demuth in California, nephew Mattias Fredericks, one daughter, George Demuth in Ingham Co., widow in Ingham Twp. Repair of estate to Benjamin Demuth 18 Mar 1857. Final Acct. Petition 12 Nov 1860 by John W. Phelps Adm." [Kerry's note: See wife's record which confirms that Matthew was the son-in-law of Jonathan.] 4. The 1850 census shows "Jonathan Demotte," 50, b. NY living in Scio, Washtenaw, MI with Susan, 45, NY; Anna, 20, MI; and George, 15, MI. BIRTH: 1. Derived from census records. MARRIAGE: 1. Marriage had to be previous to birth of first son Ira in 1847. DEATH: 1. Death preceded Mathew's second marriage in 1886. 2. Gendis Search: Michigan Department of Community Health: Harriet O. Frederick, d. 1 Feb 1886, ledger p. 316, record 7, at Locke, Ingham, MI, white, md., age 64y4m16d, dropsy, b. in Penn., farmer's wife, father Jonathan Demmoth. Record date is 9 May 1887. BURIAL: 1. Image on Find a Grave #46923189 at Fairview Cemetery in Danville, Ingham, Michigan. Image of obituary accompanies page and reads: "Mrs. M. D. Frederick, another of the noble pioneer mothers of Ingham county, died at her home in Ingham, on the 1st inst. She was born at Easton, Pa., Sept. 13, 1822, and came to Michigan, settling in Washtenaw county when but 12 years of age. For 38 years she had been a resident of Ingham. Her death is sincerely mourned by a large circle of warm friends. She leaves a husband and two sons, grown to manhood. Funeral services at family residence on the 2d inst. Remains taken to Dansville cemetery for burial." | Demuth, Harriet Olive (I3580)
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| 2182 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Ingham, Ingham, Michigan, p. 34b, house 305, family 305 [note that Matthew D. Frederic lives 7 doors away]: Ambrose Fredericks, 32, farmer, $80 real estate, NY. Cecilia Fredericks, 19, PA. John Torrey, 43, farmer, Unknown. Isabelle Torrey, 15, PA. John Torrey Jr., 11, PA. 2. Appears that Cecilia and Melissa were possible sisters as reported in their separate marriages to Ambrose Frederick. Ambrose in the various censuses only shows his wife Cecilia in the 1850 census and then Melissa thereafter, which coincides with the marriage records below. See the following: Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. The following is a partial excerpt concerning the following relation to David Frederick: 1838-1867; Ingham Co. Michigan Marriages (FHL book 977.426 V 25m): P. 63: Ambrose Frederick, 30, Ingham Twp. and Cecilia Northrup, 19, Vevay, 11 Apr 1850, by H. Parker, J.P. Rherben Dermuth (or Demuth) and Choney Converse, Vevay, Witnesses. 2:188. P. 63: Ambrose Frederick, 31, Ingham Twp. and Miss Melissa Northrup, 22, Vevay, 7 Aug 1851, at house of Thomas Northup, Vevay, by Hiram Parker, J.P. Thomas Northrup and Emily Northrup, Vevay. Witnesses. 2:207-208. (MLS note: I mention Ambrose and Mathew Frederick, marriages and Land Records. These two young men are mentioned in David's Bible Records and have land just across the border from David when he was in Handy Township, Livingston county, Michigan. Whether they are relatives or not will have to be searched and confirmed or not. There are also a number of Fredericks in Washtenaw County who have names simlar to some of those found in our Fredericks family. However, there are also several families in both these Counties with the name Frederick who migrated from northern Michagan, and are not related to our Frederick family.) 1850; Ingham Co., Marriage, Michigan, (FHL film 0976571): Pg. 188: Ambrose Frederick to Cecelia Northrup. State of Michigan, County of Ingham, 394, I hereby certify that, Ambrose Frederick of Ingham age 30 years and Ceclia Northrup of Vevoy age 19 years were by me this day joined in marriage according to law in Vevoy in presence of Rheuben Demuth and Chaucy Converse of Vevay. Vevoy April 1tth 1850. H. Toiben, J. of Peace. A true copy of the original recorded this 6th day of May 1850. H.P. Atwood, Clerk. Pg. 207-208: Ambrose Frederick to Melissa Northrup, 463. I hereby certify that Mr. Ambrose Frederick of the township of Ingham in the County of Ingham and State of Michigan of the age of 31 years and Miss Melissa Northrup of Vevoy in the county and state aforesaid of the age of twenty two years on the seventh day of August A.D. 1851 at the residence of Thomas Northrup in the township of Vevoy in said county of Ingham were by me joined in marriage agreeably to law and that there were present at the time of such marriage and witnessed the same. Thomas Northrup and Emily Northrup both of Vevoy in said county of Ingham. Thiam Parker Justice of the Peace. A true copy of the original recorded this 11th Day of Sept 1851 P.Law Clerk. 1867; Abstracts of the Early Probate, (FHL book US/Com 977.426) pg. 2a, Record of Ingham Co. 1838-1869: #281, Thomas Northrup, dcd. PA. e Aug 1863 by Emily Northrop. Thomas Northrop of Vevay of there 11 Mar 1863 intest. Heirs: petitioner (widow), children Malissa Frederick (wid. of Ambrose Frederick of Montcalm, Co.) and V. Harcourt Northrop of Ingham Co., Admi. to self Adm. bd. 21 Sep 1863 to James Fuller - Inventory Mentions land in Vevay. Disch. of Admin. 22 Jan 1867 to James Fuller. 3. From the book "The Northrup-Northrop Genealogy: A Record of the Known Descendants...," by Ansel Judd Northrup, 1908, p. 886: "Thomas Northrup (son of Enos), b. 6 Oct 1804; m. ___, d. 11 Mar 1863, aged 58 years 5 months 5 days, in Ingham Co., Mich. [Children:] A. E__ B. (Enos B.?); d. 23 Apr 1863, aged 23 years 6 months 25 days. B. Cecelia; m. A. Frederick; d. 20 Sep 1851, aged 20 years.. C. Velancourt. Living in Toledo, Ohio." DEATH: 1. Per Worldconnect database " | Northrup, Cecelia (I4601)
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| 2183 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Ingham, Ingham, Michigan, p. 34b, house 305, family 305 [note that Matthew D. Frederic lives 7 doors away]: Ambrose Fredericks, 32, farmer, $80 real estate, NY. Cecilia Fredericks, 19, PA. [Cecilia was probably John Torrey's daughter judging from age, that the other Torrey children were also born in PA, and that the families are together.] John Torrey, 43, farmer, Unknown. Isabelle Torrey, 15, PA. John Torrey Jr., 11, PA. 1860 US: Fairplain, Montcalm, Michigan, p. 705, dwelling #214, family #37: Ambrose Frederick, 42, farmer, $500 real estate, $150 personal property, NY. Melissa, 32, PA. Morris, 7, MI. Cora, 4, MI. Herbert, 2, MI. 1870 US: Greenville P.O., Fair Plains Township, Montcalm, Michigan, p. 120a, dwelling #186 family #189: Ambrose Fredrick, 52, day laborer, $600 personal property, NY. Malissa, 40, keeping house, PA. Horace, 18, MI. Cora, 13, MI. Herbert, 11, MI. Elenor, 9, MI. Sarah, 4, MI. Kate, 2, MI. 1880 US: Orient, Osceola, Michigan, household 108, familly 111: Ambrose Fredrick, 62, farmer, widowed, NY NY NY. Herbert, son, 22, works on farm, MI NY Florida. Katie, 11, dau., MI NY Florida. 1900 US: Find no Fredericks in Orient, Osceola, Michigan. 2. Rootsweb Worldconnect 8 Jan 2006 database "meandlee" of Lisa McGuigan Herbert Frederick, b. 12 Jan 1858, d. 11 Jul 1889. | Frederick, Herbert (I3594)
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| 2184 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Ingham, Ingham, Michigan, p. 34b, house 305, family 305 [note that Matthew D. Frederic lives 7 doors away]: Ambrose Fredericks, 32, farmer, $80 real estate, NY. Cecilia Fredericks, 19, PA. [Cecilia was probably John Torrey's daughter judging from age, that the other Torrey children were also born in PA, and that the families are together.] John Torrey, 43, farmer, Unknown. Isabelle Torrey, 15, PA. John Torrey Jr., 11, PA. 1860 US: Fairplain, Montcalm, Michigan, p. 705, dwelling #214, family #37: Ambrose Frederick, 42, farmer, $500 real estate, $150 personal property, NY. Melissa, 32, PA. Morris, 7, MI. Cora, 4, MI. Herbert, 2, MI. 1870 US: Greenville P.O., Fair Plains Township, Montcalm, Michigan, p. 120a, dwelling #186 family #189: Ambrose Fredrick, 52, day laborer, $600 personal property, NY. Malissa, 40, keeping house, PA. Horace, 18, MI. Cora, 13, MI. Herbert, 11, MI. Elenor, 9, MI. Sarah, 4, MI. Kate, 2, MI. 1880 US: Orient, Osceola, Michigan, household 108, familly 111: Ambrose Fredrick, 62, farmer, widowed, NY NY NY. Herbert, son, 22, works on farm, MI NY Florida. Katie, 11, dau., MI NY Florida. 2. Rootsweb Worldconnect 8 Jan 2006 database "meandlee" of Lisa McGuigan Katie Frederick, b. 22 Sep 1868 in Michigan, d. 23 Sep 1961. Married 9 Jan 1889 in Mecosta Co., MI, John P. Schooley, b. Dec 1863 in Canada, d. bet. 1912 - 1920 at Fork, Mecosta, Michigan. Nickname: Jack. Parents: Murty Schooley and Annabell S. Collingwood. 3. 8 Jan 2006 Worldconnect database "mpardo49" MARRIAGE: 1. Married John P. Schooley 9 Jan 1889 at Mecosta County, Michigan, United States. | Frederick, Kate (I3591)
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| 2185 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Miami Township, Clermont, Ohio, 10 Sep 1850, 918/918: Henry Kelley, 33, carpenter, CT. Rebecca, 21, OH. Mary E., 1, OH. 2. This family seems to disappear after 1850 in the censuses. MARRIAGE: 1. "Brown County, Ohio, Marriages, 1818-1850": -Azubah A. Winner and WIlliam Jones, 23 Apr 1848, G128." -Emy (21) Winner and William Conklin, 8 Nov 1831, upon the oath of Isaac Winner. D70. -Lowis Winner and George Mitchell, 11 Dec 1828, upon oath of applicant and Isaac Winner, D13." -Mary Winner and Isaac Scott, 1 Dec 1855. [This would be Mary Whited's second marriage after Isaac Winner, son of Jonathan, died.] -Sarah Winner and James Brown, 2 May 1833, D87. -Rebecca Winner and Henry Kelley, 3 Sep 1848, G136. | Kelly, Henry (I2993)
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| 2186 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Perry Twp., Brown, Ohio, 6 Aug 1850, 551/554: Isaac Winner, 48, stone mason, NJ. Mary, 38, MD. Sarah J., 1, OH. John Whitehead, 10, unknown. 1860 US: Perry Twp., Brown, Ohio, 8 Jun 1860, 173/173: Isaac Scott, 67, farmer, $300, OH. Mary, 44, OH. Nelson, 22, laborer, OH. William, 21, laborer, OH. Isaac, 17, laborer, OH. Elizabeth, 14, OH. Sarah Winner, 11, OH. 1880 US: Sterling Twp., Brown, Ohio, 15/16 Jun 1880, 245/246, living next door is Theodore's parents Deloe (63) and Rua (58) Stockton with five of their children (15-25): Theodore Stockton, 34, farmer, OH NJ OH. Sarah, 30, wife, housekeeping, OH OH OH. Stella, 10, dau., OH OH OH. Myrtle, 6, dau., OH OH OH. Owen, 1, son, OH OH OH. Mary Scott, 55, none [relationship], housekeeper, OH OH OH. [This is Mary (Whited) Winner, Sarah's mother, b. 1815-1817, probably as a widow, with an error in age that should be 65.] 2. Information gleaned from Worldconnect on Sarah Winner's husband Theodore Stockton: Theodore, Birth: 14 Jan 1846 in Brown Co., OH. Death: 29 Apr 1899 in Brown Co., OH. 1864 - Civil war - Theodore Stockton enlisted 15 Feb 1864 at age 18 as a private. Enlisted in Company K, Ohio 160th Infantry Regiment 14 May 1864 and mustered out 07 Sep 1864 at Zanesville, Ohio. (Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio) 1886 Mar 26 - Civil War Pension Index - Theodore Stockton applied as an invalid. 1899 - Civil War Pension Index- Widow Sarah Stockton applied for pension May 12 1899. MARRIAGE: 1. Familysearch's "Ohio, County Marriages, 1790-1950," Reference Number: bk. G, p. 98, FHL Film 384274: "Isaac Winner and Mary Whited, 22 Apr 1847, Brown Co., Ohio." 2. FHL book "Marriages Brown County, Ohio, 1851-1900": -"Isaac Scott and Mary Winner, 1 Dec 1855 (H-8:169)." This is the second marriage for Mary Whited who first married Isaac Winner 22 Apr 1847. -"Theodore Stockton and Sarah Winner 9 Jan 1869 (5:442)." This is the marriage of Isaac and Mary (Whited) Winner's daughter Sarah J. | Mary (I3210)
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| 2187 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Perry, Brown, Ohio, 17 Aug 1850, 802/807: William B. Conklin, 39, farmer, $4000, NJ. Ama, 40, NJ. Lucinda, 14, OH. Benjamin F., 13, OH. [Benjamin and Jonathan, ages 23 and 21, show up in the 1860 census in Pike County, IL, with their uncle Benjamin Winner.] Jonathan W., 11, OH. Elizabeth, 9, OH. James M., 7, OH. Sarah A., 3, OH. George W., 1, OH. Three households away is probable brother and father; 805/810: Wansor Conklin, 48, farmer, NJ. Ann, 38, OH. Caleb, 17, OH. Asenath, 8, OH. Caleb Conklin, 70, NJ. MARRIAGE: 1. "Brown County, Ohio, Marriages, 1818-1850": -Azubah A. Winner and WIlliam Jones, 23 Apr 1848, G128." -Emy (21) Winner and William Conklin, 8 Nov 1831, upon the oath of Isaac Winner. D70. -Lowis Winner and George Mitchell, 11 Dec 1828, upon oath of applicant and Isaac Winner, D13." -Mary Winner and Isaac Scott, 1 Dec 1855. [This would be Mary Whited's second marriage after Isaac Winner, son of Jonathan, died.] -Sarah Winner and James Brown, 2 May 1833, D87. -Rebecca Winner and Henry Kelley, 3 Sep 1848, G136. DEATH: 1. 1860 US: Does not show up in 1860 with her husband who has a different wife named Celia. There is a daughter, Mariah Conklin, age 7, in that census. There are also children surnamed Day in the same census, who are probably children of Celia's earlier marriage. This would mean a death for Amy from 1853 to 1860. | Winner, Amy (I3206)
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| 2188 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Ridgeway Township, Lenawee, Michigan, p. 232b [previous family is John and Nancy Palmer, ages 61 and 57 respectively - probably his parents]: John C. Palmer, 32, farmer, $900, NY. Nancy, 24, NY. Martha E., 9, MI. Sarah, 2, MI. John H., 1, MI. 1860 US: Ridgeway Township, Lenawee, Michigan, p. 163 [3 or 4 other Palmer families next door to John C. Palmer]: John C. Palmer, 42, farmer, $3,500, $965, NY. Nancy, 35, NY. Deborah, 18, MI. Sarah, 13, MI. Henry, 11, MI. Albertus, 9, MI. William Armstrong, 21, farm laborer, MI. 1870 US: Ridgeway Township, Lenawee, Michigan, p. 455a: John C. Palmer, 52, farmer, $8000, $700, NY. Nancy, 45, keeping her house, NY. Henry, 21, works on farm, MI. Albertus, 18, works on farm, MI. Martin, 7, MI. Edward, 2, MI. 1880 US: Ridgeway Township, Lenawee, Michigan, p. 377C, NA Film T9-0591 [Problem? Nancy's record shows father born in PA and mother in MA.]: John C. Palmer, 63, farming, NY, NY, VT. Nancy, wife, 55, keeping house, NY, PA, MA. Martin, son, single, 16, at school, MI, NY, NY. Edward, son, single, 11, at school, MI, NY, NY. Albertus E., son, married, 28, boarding, MI, NY, NY. Ottie A. Palmer, dau.-L., married, 22, boarding, MI, NY, NY. 2. See extraction citation with marriage notes below. By entering the batch number on LDS Family Search IGI, I find the following other Frederick marriage extractions from Washtenaw Co., Michigan which may or may not be related: Alexander Frederik and Emiline Cody, 4 Feb 1835. Hannah Frederick and Dennis Lancaster, 18 Apr 1833. Elanor Frederick and William Clark, 4 Jan 1836. Abigail Frederick and Frederick Valentine, Abt. 30 Nov 1837. Sylvia Frederick and James W. Cole, 10 Feb 1831. 3. Nancy in Michigan is referred to as Mary's sister in the following transcriptions of letters from David Frederick living in San Bernardino, to daughter Mary in Utah; originals with David Fry: April 18, 1853: "My daughter Marry, I improve the opertunity of writing a few lines. I am well and hav enjoned the blessing of health ever sinsens I came to this place and I hope that you are injoying the same. I did not write the last mail, it left so soon I had not time. The wether is warm and plesant and all is pease with us and the Lord has blessed us in everything that we have undertaking & I feel to adore his name for the same. I intended to write sister in Michigan and uncales unto as hav a mile from the coste to this place and to Salt Lake therefore I hope that we will apprciate the blesing and write often. I hope you will excuse all misstake and write every opertunity, this from your Father in haste. I pray God my hevenly Father to bless you with health and all needful blessing and prezurv life that we may beholde each other face to face again is my prare, Amen /signed/ David Frederick" May 20, 1853: "Marry, my daughter, I again take my pen to write a few lines to you. I am well and I hope that you injoy the blessing I hav ben today and had my likeness taken that is have two cases, the one I sende to you and the other I calculate sende to Nancy by male as soon I can write to hur and receive an answer yours. I sende by Brol Wm. Perkins who has ben to the sandwich Islands on a mission is on his way to the Lake. He resides in the thirteenth warde near Mr. Beans Store and if you call on him you may get it. I did not recave line from you the last maile man. Bro Lyman and kids hav not returned as yet but we expect them in about two weakes, then if I do not receave a leter from yu I shall be sadley disappointed. I want to visit Hellin Loisa as often a you can and teach hir the principels of right and to be sobere minde to reflect uppon the princepels of virtu and honesty and not to forget hir Father for he deziers to see hir wonse more while in the flesh. These few linese from you father and friend in the new and ever lasting covenant. Give my respects to Bro Scofields father and you uncal and aunt and all inquiren friends. /signed/ David Frederick" BIRTH: 1. FHL film 928159, it. 4; book "History of the Adams, Evarts, Merriman, and White Families," by J.M. Adams, West Lebanon, NY, 1894, pp. 30-33: "Eli Evarts. Born in Guilford, Conn., Oct. 23, 1773; married June 24, 1798, Susanna Merriman who was born Feb. 3, 1777; she was a descendant of the Cromwell element in England; she died in Clarendon, N.Y., July 29, 1848. Eli died in Clarendon, Nov. 25, 1834. Children: Abigail, b. in Richmond, Oct. 7, 1799. Polly, b. in New Lebanon, N.Y., Sept. 21, 1801. [This is Mary Evarts who married David Frederick.] John, b. in New Lebanon, July 10, 1803. Sarah, b. in Stamford, Vt., May 30, 1805. Dennis, b. in Stamford, Aug. 24, 1809. Martin, b. Riga, N.Y., July 21, 1812. Louisa, b. Riga, May 1, 1815, d. June 24, 1882. Louisa d. unmarried." Same source also gives the parentage of Sarah Ann Evarts who married John Evarts, the brother to our Mary: Sarah Ann was the daughter of John Evarts and Polly Law. She was b. June 3, 1811: "John Evarts, b. 13 Aug 1789 died 21 Apr 1832; married Polly Law, 10 Mar 1810, who died 14 Oct 1832. Children; All these were born in Richmond, Mass.: Sarah Ann, b. 3 Jun 1811. [m. John Evarts] Minervia, b. 27 Dec 1815. Hannah, b. 22 May 1818. Clark, 18 Mar 1820. Mary, b. 20 Sep 1821. Isaac R., b. 4 Nov 1823. Lucretia, b. 28 Sep 1825. Henry, b. 20 Jul 1827. Laney, b. 16 Mar 1829. Charles, b. 28 Mar 1831." Same source further details the family of John Evarts and Sarah Ann Evarts: "Sarah Ann Evarts. Born in Richmond, Mass., Jan. 3, 1811; married John Evarts at New Lebanon, June 9, 1831. John and Sarah Ann joined the Mormons; they were among those that journeyed from Nauvoo, enduring many hardships along the way. They finally located at Salt Lake, Utah. John died at Centerville, Utah, Sept. 9, 1874. Sarah died a few years earlier. No children." Same source further details Polly's [Mary] family: "Polly Evarts. Born in New Lebanon, N.Y., Sept. 21, 1801; married David Fredericks, Jan. 16, 1825; died Oct. 2, 1837, at Farmington, Mich. Children: Nancy, b. at Barre, N.Y., Dec. 16, 1825. Mary, b. at Barre, m. Gideon Gibbs." Same source further details Nancy's and Mary's family: "Nancy Fredericks. Born at Barre, N.Y., Dec. 16, 1825; married John Palmer; lived at Ridgeway, Mich. After her mother's death Fredericks married again, joined the Mormons and took Mary with him; but Nancy being unwilling to go was secreted by her father's relatives and did not go. Children: Sarah; John Henry; Albertus; Martin; Edward. Mary Fredericks. Married Gideon Gibbs, of Salt Lake City, and lives there. Children: Euphrenia E., b. 18 Sep 1858. Sarah A., b. 17 May 1860. Mary J., b. 28 Dec 1861, d. 29 Sep 1863. Gideon A., b. 24 Nov 1864. John E., b. 7 Jan 1868. Francis R., b. 26 Feb 1873, d. 5 Dec 1884. All these were Mormon Children." MARRIAGE: 1. There appears to be a contradiction between both of these records for dates and county; both counties were independent from 1822 on. Why the discrepancy, I don't yet know, but the extraction would generally be more accurate based on my experience: A. A later LDS extraction sealing 14 Dec 1983 in Ogden Temple indicates marriage between "Nancey Frederick and John Palmer 30 Apr 1846 at Washtenaw County, Michigan with husband being age 27 and wife age 19 at time of marriage. Source given FHL film 1019064 V.0-1, Batch No. M518841, dates 1828-1851. Extraction records are some of the most reliable since they come from the actual original records themselves. B. Website: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/lenawee/vitals/marriage/dbn-apr4-2003.txt which has Lenawee County, Michigan Dibean Marriage Index: "Fredericks, Nancy - John C. Palmer, Lenawee Co., 1 Apr 1846." 2. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. The following is a partial excerpt concerning the following relation to David Frederick: 1828-1851; Washtenaw Co., Michigan - Marriage Records (FHL film 1019064) P. 152: April 18, 1833, Washtenaw Co, Michigan. Md. Dennis Lancaster to Hannah Frederick in Bridgewater by Howell B. Norton. P. 312: Received for Record the 15th day of March 1847 married April 30, 1846 John Palmer of Lenawee County aged 27 to Nancy Frederick of Bridgewater aged 19 years at the residence of Dennis Lancaster in the town of Bridgewater in presence of John Tyrel and Lady both of Clinton, Lenawee Co. By D.W. Palmer J.P. DEATH: 1. Husband's obituary confirms that they had always lived in Ridgeway since it says he had resided there for 66 years. BURIAL: 1. Per website Palmer, John C. 1816-1894 Palmer, Nancy, 1826-1892 Also listed in adjacent cemetery plots are other Palmers who appear to be John's parents and probable siblings as follows: Palmer, John, d. May 28, 1861, age 75 yr. Palmer, Nancy, wf. John, d. 25 May 1865, age 74. Palmer, Leonidas, son J. and N., d. 6 Mar 1843, age 18. Palmer, Fenner, 1818-1904 Palmer, Phebe L., wf. Fenner, d. 23 May 1862, age 40 yr, 3 mo. There is also another dozen or more Palmers scattered in cemetery born in the 1840's or later who may be later generation Palmers and possible relations. I do not find John's first wife. The following appear to be probable children of John and Nancy judging from similarities with the censuses cited above: Grouped as a pair: Palmer, Henry, 1849-1921 Palmer, Almira, 1857-1919 SOURCES_MISC: 1. Website http://www.walterpalmer.com has downline genealogy of the Palmer family from the original colonist down to John C. Palmer family including his two wives and their children and spouses. | Frederick, Nancy (I1076)
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| 2189 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Ridgeway Township, Lenawee, Michigan, p. 232b [previous family is John and Nancy Palmer, ages 61 and 57 respectively - probably parents]: John C. Palmer, 32, farmer, $900, NY. Nancy, 24, NY. Martha E., 9, MI. Sarah, 2, MI. John H., 1, MI. 1860 US: Ridgeway Township, Lenawee, Michigan, p. 163 [3 or 4 other Palmer families next door to John C. Palmer]: John C. Palmer, 42, farmer, $3,500, $965, NY. Nancy, 35, NY. Deborah, 18, MI. Sarah, 13, MI. Henry, 11, MI. Albertus, 9, MI. William Armstrong, 21, farm laborer, MI. 1870 US: Ridgeway Township, Lenawee, Michigan, p. 455a: John C. Palmer, 52, farmer, $8000, $700, NY. Nancy, 45, keeping her house, NY. Henry, 21, works on farm, MI. Albertus, 18, works on farm, MI. Martin, 7, MI. Edward, 2, MI. 1880 US: Ridgeway Township, Lenawee, Michigan, p. 377C, NA Film T9-0591 [Problem? Nancy's record shows father born in PA and mother in MA.]: John C. Palmer, 63, farming, NY, NY, VT. Nancy, wife, 55, keeping house, NY, PA, MA. Martin, son, single, 16, at school, MI, NY, NY. Edward, son, single, 11, at school, MI, NY, NY. Albertus E., son, married, 28, boarding, MI, NY, NY. Ottie A. Palmer, dau.-L., married, 22, boarding, MI, NY, NY. Living next door: Henry Palmer, married, 31, farming, MI, NY, NY. Almira, wife, married, 22, keeping house, MI, NY, NY. 2. See extraction citation with marriage notes below. By entering the batch number on LDS Family Search IGI, I find the following other Frederick marriage extractions from Washtenaw Co., Michigan which may or may not be related: Alexander Frederik and Emiline Cody, 4 Feb 1835. Hannah Frederick and Dennis Lancaster, 18 Apr 1833. Elanor Frederick and William Clark, 4 Jan 1836. Abigail Frederick and Frederick Valentine, Abt. 30 Nov 1837. Sylvia Frederick and James W. Cole, 10 Feb 1831. BIRTH: 1. Online Ordinance Index records cited below. MARRIAGE: 1. Ordinance Index indicates a previous marriage to Bertha Madama Simonds 22 Aug 1839 at Ridgeway, Lenawee, Michigan per temple work done by Duane Allen Rowley 7 Feb 1964. Bertha's ordinance work per FHL film 456431 submitted by Duane at same time indicates her parents are Mooney Simonds and Deborah Welch and that she was born 2 Feb 1824 at York, Livingston, New York and died 20 May 1845 at Ridgeway, Lenawee, Michigan. Work done is baptism 8 Sep 1961 and end. 18 Oct 1961. 2. There appears to be a contradiction between both of these records for dates and county; both counties were independent from 1822 on. Why the discrepancy, I don't yet know, but the extraction would generally be more accurate based on my experience: a. A later LDS extraction sealing 14 Dec 1983 in Ogden Temple indicates marriage between "Nancey Frederick and John Palmer 30 Apr 1846 at Washtenaw County, Michigan with husband being age 27 and wife age 19 at time of marriage. Source given FHL film 1019064 V.0-1, Batch No. M518841, dates 1828-1851. Extraction records are some of the most reliable since they come from the actual original records themselves. b. Website: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/lenawee/vitals/marriage/dbn-apr4-2003.txt which has Lenawee County, Michigan Dibean Marriage Index: "Fredericks, Nancy - John C. Palmer, Lenawee Co., 01 Apr 1846." 3. Received 30 Jul 2003 from Frederick descendant and researcher Mary Lou Spaulding, 1502 Haney Dr., Hays, KS 67601, 785-628-6465. The following is a partial excerpt concerning the following relation to David Frederick: 1828-1851; Washtenaw Co., Michigan - Marriage Records (FHL film 1019064) P. 152: April 18, 1833, Washtenaw Co, Michigan. Md. Dennis Lancaster to Hannah Frederick in Bridgewater by Howell B. Norton. P. 312: Received for Record the 15th day of March 1847 married April 30, 1846 John Palmer of Lenawee County aged 27 to Nancy Frederick of Bridgewater aged 19 years at the residence of Dennis Lancaster in the town of Bridgewater in presence of John Tyrel and Lady both of Clinton, Lenawee Co. By D.W. Palmer J.P. DEATH: 1. Online Ordinance Index records cited below. OBITUARY 1. FHL book 977.431/A1 V2m, vol. 2, "Marriages, Births, Deaths and Misc. News Items Transcribed from the "Michigan Messenger," newspaper was published by at Adrian, Lenawee Co., Michigan; by the Lenawee County Family Researchers, a Genealogical Society, 2003, p. 134 under the date of Wed., 28 Nov 1894: "John C. Palmer, aged 78, died at his home in Ridgeway Sunday, of apoplexy. He is the father of A.E. Palmer, of the furniture works of this city; and has lived on the old homestead farm sixty-six years." BURIAL: 1. Per website Palmer, John C. 1816-1894 Palmer, Nancy, 1826-1892 Also listed in adjacent cemetery plots are other Palmers who appear to be John's parents and probable siblings as follows: Palmer, John, d. May 28, 1861, age 75 yr. Palmer, Nancy, wf. John, d. 25 May 1865, age 74. Palmer, Leonidas, son J. and N., d. 6 Mar 1843, age 18. Palmer, Fenner, 1818-1904 Palmer, Phebe L., wf. Fenner, d. 23 May 1862, age 40 yr, 3 mo. There is also another dozen or more Palmers scattered in cemetery born in the 1840's or later who may be later generation Palmers and possible relations. I do not find John's first wife. The following appear to be probable children of John and Nancy judging from similarities with the censuses cited above: Grouped as a pair: Palmer, Henry, 1849-1921 Palmer, Almira, 1857-1919 SOURCES_MISC: 1. Website http://www.walterpalmer.com has downline genealogy of the Palmer family from the original colonist down to John C. 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| 2190 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts, p. 10 of 27, 1 Aug 1850, house 84, family 88: Selah Talmadge, 61, farmer, $3000, CT. Esther, 60, CT. 2. Website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/aqwg1829.htm: A. "Deacon Selah Talmadge was born 28 Dec 1788 in Wolcott, New Haven, Connecticut. He died 6 Oct 1859 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. Selah married Laura Gillette on 13 Feb 1814 in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts. Parents are John Talmadge, b. 8 Mar 1755 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut and Lucretia Moulthrop, b. 1756 in East Haven, New Haven. Laura Gillette was born 4 Aug 1791 in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts. She died 28 Nov 1845 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. Laura married Deacon Selah Talmadge on 13 Feb 1814 in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts. They had the following children: Thomas Talmadge was born 20 Jan 1815 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. Sylvanus Talmadge was born 11 Apr 1818 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. He died 25 May 1854 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. Nelson Talmadge was born 26 May 1820 and died 24 Nov 1856. Philura Talmadge was born 27 Oct 1822 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. Mary Talmadge was born 24 Feb 1825 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. John Talmadge was born 30 Oct 1830 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. He died 16 Oct 1852 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts. Selah W. Talmadge was born 28 Apr 1833 in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts." B. Site gives the following references: a. Talmadge, Arthur White, "The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage Genealogy," (New York: Grafton Press, 1909. FHL US/CAN Film #1,321,029 Item 2.), p. 104, Family History Library. b. "Congregational Church Records, Southwick, Massachusetts, 1773-1895," FHL US/CAN Film #234,575 Item 1, p. 68, Family History Library. c. Church Records, Southwick, MA, p. 68. 3. Ancestry.com's "Connecticut Town Marriage Records": Selah Talmadge of Southwick and Esther Tuttle, widow of North Haven, 22 Dec 1846. Marriage performed by Ira H. Smith. 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. 5. Not found in the book "Families of Ancient New Haven," by Donald L. Jacobus (New Haven, 1981), 7 vols. SOURCES_MISC: 1. 26 May 2007 Worldconnect database "annegillette" of Anne Gillette | Talmadge, Selah (I1358)
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| 2191 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Stonelick Township, Clermont, Ohio, 23 Aug 1850, 649/649: William Jones, 28, laborer, OH. Zubia, 29, OH. Harvey, 1, OH. MARRIAGE: 1. "Brown County, Ohio, Marriages, 1818-1850": -Azubah A. Winner and WIlliam Jones, 23 Apr 1848, G128." -Emy (21) Winner and William Conklin, 8 Nov 1831, upon the oath of Isaac Winner. D70. -Lowis Winner and George Mitchell, 11 Dec 1828, upon oath of applicant and Isaac Winner, D13." -Mary Winner and Isaac Scott, 1 Dec 1855. [This would be Mary Whited's second marriage after Isaac Winner, son of Jonathan, died.] -Sarah Winner and James Brown, 2 May 1833, D87. -Rebecca Winner and Henry Kelley, 3 Sep 1848, G136. | Jones, William (I3223)
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| 2192 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US: Stonelick Township, Clermont, Ohio, 23 Aug 1850, 649/649: William Jones, 28, laborer, OH. Zubia, 29, OH. Harvey, 1, OH. MARRIAGE: 1. "Brown County, Ohio, Marriages, 1818-1850": -Azubah A. Winner and WIlliam Jones, 23 Apr 1848, G128." -Emy (21) Winner and William Conklin, 8 Nov 1831, upon the oath of Isaac Winner. D70. -Lowis Winner and George Mitchell, 11 Dec 1828, upon oath of applicant and Isaac Winner, D13." -Mary Winner and Isaac Scott, 1 Dec 1855. [This would be Mary Whited's second marriage after Isaac Winner, son of Jonathan, died.] -Sarah Winner and James Brown, 2 May 1833, D87. -Rebecca Winner and Henry Kelley, 3 Sep 1848, G136. | Winner, Azubah A. (I3222)
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| 2193 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1850 US:Pottawattamie Co. (District No. 21), Iowa, p. 78a, entry 218: John Holden, age 21, M., born Tennessee, noted as being over age 20 and illiterate. Pamela, age 15, F., born Alabama. Note entry No. 217 just before John Holden: Samuel Adair, 46, Laborer, S.C.; Nancy, 39, Va.; John, 18, Ala.; George, 15, Ala.; Samuel, 12, Ala.; Rufus, 7, Mississippi; Mary, 13, Tenn.; Robert, 7, Tenn.; Benjamin, 5, Tenn.; Jemima, 4, Iowa; Joshua, 1, Iowa. This census locates Samuel in Iowa in 1850 with a previously unknown wife [at least unknown among Utah histories]. It appears Nancy brings into this marriage three children of a previous marriage [Mary, Robert, and Benjamin] who were all born in Tennessee. The following census has all of the right children in the proper order except Permelia (Pamelia) who is not listed; however, the next entry [#218] has John Holden, 21, Tenn. and Pamelia, 15, Ala. This is Pamelia, George's twin sister, who is misrepresenting her age as not 13 [due to a marriage to this John of which most Utah family histories were not previously aware] but as 15 which in turn perhaps leads the family to say that George is also 15 and not 13. I also looked several pages either way of this entry to look for other Holdens which I did not yet find but who I believe were somewhere in Iowa at the time. 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: Holden, John R. 23, Permelia 14. Also in household is Permelia Bardsley 31. [Living next door is Permelia's father Samuel Adair.] 1852 Iowa: not listed in FHL book heads of household index for the 1852 Iowa census. 1860 US: Searched Nephi, Juab, Utah and Payson, Utah, Utah without results. 1870 US: Chicken Creek Settlement, Juab, Utah, p. 2, 14 Jul 1870, household/family no. 8: R. John Holden, 42, $400/200 farmer, b. OH. Samantha A., 31, IL. Samantha L, 1, UT. Polly Ann, 2, UT. John R., 3/12, UT. 1880 US: Township 40, Nez Perce, Idaho, FHL film 1254173, NA film T9-0173, p. 253C: John R. Holden, 51, b. TN, farmer, parents b. TN. Semantha, wife, 41, b. TN, keeping house, parents b. TN. Polly A., dau., 12, b. UT, parents b. TN. John R., son, 10, b. UT, parents b. TN. George E., son, 4, b. UT, parents b. TN. 1900 US: East Moscow, Latah, Idaho, p. 199, household 334: Samantha A. Holden, b. May 1839, 61, widow, 6 total children 4 living, b. Illinois, farmer. George E., son, b. May 1876, single, Utah, Tennessee, Illinois, farmer. 2. There is a likely and probable but thus far unproven connection between the John Holden who married Permelia Adair and the John Holden who shows up later in Utah/Idaho records married to Cemantha Russell. The following comments are some research to date into this question. Per 30 Jul 2003 email from Don Smith a. Also note that as of 2 Apr 2003, there are several sites on Rootsweb Worldconnect posted by individuals appearing to be direct descendants of John R. and Samantha A. Holden giving some additional information. No site yet reports a first marriage to Permelia Adair. Samantha's name is given as Cemantha Ann Russell, b. 26 May 1839 in Cass Co., Illinois, m. 11 Dec 1861, d. 17 Feb 1913 in Moscow, Latah, Idaho, with parents as Amasa Russell and Hannah Celinda Knight. Up to 6 children appear to be born to the couple as follows not necessarily in this order: Joshua Amasa Hannah Mariah Cementha Lurana, b. 5 Sep 1862 in Payson, Utah, Utah, d. bef. 1916 at Goldendale, Washington. Polly Ann, b. 4 Feb 1868 in Celina, Utah, d. 27 Sep 1931 in Moscow, Latah, Idaho. John Riley, b. 4 Apr 1870. George Ernest, b. 25 May 1876, d. 1942 at Clarkston, Washington. b. An online search of Mormon pioneer overland travel companies from 1847-1868 provides one promising search result: "J. Holden and 4 unnamed others" with no age nor further information except sources listed as: Journal History, Supp. after 31 Dec 1852, p. 2; Deseret News, 18 Sep. 1852, p. 2; John Somers Higbee, Reminiscences and Diaries, 1845-1866, vol. 3. They were part of 190 individuals of the 1852 John S. Higbee/James W. Bay Company who departed from Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs) on 31 May 1852 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley between 13-20 Aug. 1852. Website: 3. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 15 Apr 2003. 4. 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?]. BIRTH: 1. Surmised from 1850 census. MARRIAGE: 1. Per book "Early American Marriages: Iowa to 1850" by Jordan R. Dodd per Ancestry.com subscription: John R. Holden to Parmelia Jane Adair on 31 Dec 1849 in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa. 2. Per FHL book 977.771 V2p" Pottawattamie Co., IA Early Marriages 1848-1869" and Internet site www.genexchange.org for Pottawattamie IAGenExchange marriage records indicate: "Parmelia Jane Adair, John R. Holden, 31 Dec 1849." DEATH: 1. His wife Samantha shows as a widow in 1900 living in Moscow, Latah, Idaho (see 1900 census cited above). ACTION: 1. Look up early Utah territorial census to confirm Don Smith's research note above. | Holden, John R. (I3522)
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| 2194 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1851 British: District 5, Drigg, Cumberland, England, residence at 55 Brigstones: Joseph Burnhope, mar., 40, rail lab. Ann, wife, 41. Margaret, dau., 13. Isabella, dau., 11. Isaac, son, 9. Elizabeth, dau., 7. William, son, 5. Jane, dau., 2. 1861 British: Frizington, Cumberland, England, p. 84, #30 Rattenrow: Joseph Burnhope, 50, Lab(orer) Iron Bre Pit, b. Northumberl., Hexham. Ann, wife, 51, b. Northhumberl., Hexham. Mary Ann, dau., unm., 24, Serv., b. Northumberl., Haydonbridge. Isaac Hunter, son, unm., 20, mines iron, b. Northumberl., Haydonbridge. Jane, dau., 12, scholar, b. Cumberland, Drigg. Ann, 10, scholar, b. Cumberland, Drigg. Joseph, son, 6, scholar, b. Cumberland, Bootle. Dorothy, dau., 5, scholar, b. Cumberland, Bootle. 5 boarders: John Birkett, Isaac Coulson, William Davison, Michael Mattison, and Thomas Dobsen Hetherington. 1871 British: Frizington, Cumberland, England, p. 40 of 64, #149: Joseph Burnope, 60, platelayer, b. Northumberland. Ann, wife, 51, b. Northhumberland. Joseph, son, 16, miner, b. Cumberland. James McHollam, son in law, 25, miner, b. Ireland. Ann McHollam, dau., 21, b. Cumberland. Joseph McHollam, gson, 5 mos., b. Cumberland. Elizabeth A. Burnipe, g.dau., 12, b. Cumberland. Alexanders Meal, gson, mar., 30, miner, b. Isle of Man. 2 unrelated boarders. 1881 British: Parkgate, Arlecdon, Cumberland, England per FHL 1342250, RG11-5183/31, p. 10. Joseph's brother Isaac was also a platelayer: Joseph Burnhope, marr., 72, Hexham, Northumberland, Eng., Platelayer. Ann, wife, marr., 72, Newbiggon, Northumberland, Eng. Joseph, son, unmarr., 27, Bootle, Cumberland, Eng., Iron miner. Richard Simpson, son in law, widower, 42, Dalton, Lancashire, Eng., Iron miner. Elizabeth Simpson, niece, 11, Arlecdon, Cumberland, Eng. Richard Flinn, boarder, unm., 46, Ireland, Iron miner. BIOGRAPHY: 1. The following christenings are from a transcription book of Haydon Bridge baptisms 1654-1665 and 1677-1991, which I cut off at 1880. There are only two sets of Burnhopes listed - seven children of Joseph Burnhope and Elizabeth and the first five children of Joseph Burnhope (1811-1881) and Ann Hunter. The following are the latter: Mary Ann Catherine Burnhope, d. of Joseph and Ann, Haydon Bridge, Mar 1837. Isabella Burnhope, d. of Joseph and Ann, Haydon Bridge, 17 Mar 1839. Isaac Hunter Burnhope, s. of Joseph and Ann, Haydon Bridge, 25 Apr 1841. Elizabeth Burnhope, d. of Joseph and Ann, Haydon Bridge, 17 Sep 1843. William Burnhope, s. of Joseph and Ann, Haydon Bridge, 22 Feb 1846. CHRISTENING: 1. Ancestry.com's "England and Wales Christening Records" shows a Ann Hunter, dau. of Thomas Hunter, chr. 17 Nov 1810 in Whitley (near Hexham), Northumberland. This is the closest I can find so far, but may or may not be our Ann. There are other Ann Hunters born in Northumberland within a couple years either way of 1810. MARRIAGE: 1. Hexham Marriage Transcripts, 1754-1861: 7 Jun 1834, Jsp. Burnhope of the parish and Ann Hunter of the parish. Wit. Ra. Weatherly, Doro. B???. 2. Online Ordinance Index FHL film, batch M109171, extracted marriage record for Joseph Burnhope and Ann Hunter, 7 Jun 1834 at Hexham, Northumberland, England. Note that in one of the censuses quoted above, there is a son with the middle name of Hunter. DEATH: 1. Surmised from census. | Hunter, Ann (I892)
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| 2195 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1851 Eng: Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, p. 8 of 29, #34: Robert Mattinson, 47, mariner, b. Durham, Sund. Ann, wife, 39, b. Yorkshire, Mir'd. Susanna, dau., 17, b. Durham, Sund. Robert, son, 15, app. shipwright, b. Lancashire. John, son, 11, b. Yorkshire, Leeds. George, son, 7, b. Cheshire, Staly B. 1880 US: Payson, Utah, Utah, NA film T9-1338, p. 215C: Robt. Mattinson, farmer, M, 42, Eng Eng Eng. Betsey, keeping house, wife, M, 30, Eng Eng Eng. Elizabeth A., at home, S, 10, UT Eng Eng. Lauretta S., at home, S, 8, UT Eng Eng. Minnie W., at home, S, 6, UT Eng Eng. Annia, at home, S, 4, UT Eng Eng. Robt. F., at home, S, 1, UT Eng Eng. Ann Mattinson, mother, W, 68, Eng Eng Eng. John Mattinson, brother, clerk, S, 41, Eng Eng Eng. 1900 US: 2nd Ward, Payson, Utah, Utah, p. 155A: Robt. Mattison, Jul 1835, 64, marr. 31 years, Eng Eng Eng, immigrated 1856, Stockman. Betsie C. wife, Jun 1848, 51, marr. 31 years, 10 total children all living, Eng Eng Eng, immigrated 1868. Minnie, dau., Sep 1876, 23, S, UT Eng Eng. 2. Sunderland, England LDS Branch records 1843-1855; 1869, Newcastle Conference, 004484181 Image 201 of 574; (FHL film 87035) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6L5S-Z42?i=200&cat=516964 Entry 23: "Elder, Isaac Burnip, born at Wheamelly, Northumberland, Nov. 15th, 1808. Baptized June 5th, 1847, at Hendon by Ebr Gillis. Confirmed by C. Phelps. Moved (removed) Oct 1849, S Shields." Entry 25: "Elizabeth Burnip, born Oct. 22, 1806 at Heddon-in-the-Wall, [Northumberland]. Baptized June 5th, 1847 by William Knox. Confirmed by C. Phelps. Moved (removed) Oct 1849, S Shields." Entry 26: "William Burnip, born Aug. 18, 1832 at Sunny Side, North[umberland]. Baptized 25 Sep 1847 at Hendon by William Knox. Confirmed by William Knox. Moved (removed) Oct 1849, S Shields." Entry 27: "Mary Ann Burnip, born April 24, 1835 at Hexham. Baptized Sep 25th, 1847 by William Knox. Confirmed by William Knox. Moved (removed) Oct 1849, S Shields." Entry 28: "Joseph Burnip, born June 22, 1837 at Hexham, North[umberland],. Baptized Sep 25th, 1847 by William Knox. Confirmed by William Knox. Moved (removed) Oct 1849, S Shields." Entry 29: [listed with the Isaac Burnhope family]: "Robert Mattinson, born 16 Jul 1835 at Ashton Underline, baptized 25 Sep 1847 at Hendon by Wm. Knox and confirmed by Wm. Knox." PHOTOS: 1. Photo on file from website http://mattinsons.com/robertmattinsonIII.JPG BIOGRAPHY: 1. Biographical sketch of Robert Mattinson, "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah," pg. 1027: "Mattinson, Robert (son of Peter Mattinson, born Dec. 3, 1803, and Ann Shaw, born Feb. 6, 1812, of Sunderland, Eng.). He was born July 16, 1835, Lancashire, Eng. Came to Utah Nov. 30 1856, Edward Martin handcart company. Married Betsy C. Burnhope (daughter of Isaac Burnhope and Elizabeth Charlton, latter a pioneer Aug. 19, 1868, John R. Murdock company). She was born in England. Their children: E.A., m. James Nolan; Laura S., m. Peter Borup; Marie, m. Richard Barrett; Ann, m. J.F. Rushter; R. Frank; H.B. b. Nov. 24, 1880; Effie M., m. E.O. Simons; Joseph B., m. Ella Balch; Roy B. b. Sept. 11, 1891; Veatus b. Oct 16, 1893. Family home Payson, Utah." 2. Parents: Robert Mattinson, born 3 Dec 1803 at Sunderland, Durham, England and died 15 Oct 1856 on the plains on the north side of the Platte River in Nebraska and Ann Pshaw (Shaw?) born 6 Feb 1812 at Mirfield, Yorkshire, England and died 22 Mar 1898 at Payson, Utah, Utah. Father was baptized 3 Apr 1848 and mother on 16 Feb 1847. 3. Autobiography; 4 Nov 2002 source: Jake Mattinson. E-mail Returning to Camp Floyd I bought a team and wagon. My brother George, with others took these and went to the States for the first telegraph wire for the Desert Telegraph Company. He was gone all summer. The spring of 1862, I again went to work for John Sharp, one of my old employers. It was here I was called from the Twentieth Ward to go to the States for the emigration. I took two missionaries with me, George and Samuel Nelson, and did not return until the following October. I went again on the mail land. I was working at Canyon Station and when President Lincoln was assassinated, the message was read at every station along the line. I stayed one year at this place. Myself and my partner were there alone one night when the Indians came upon us. They had one hundred head of horses they had stolen. The station had been burned and eight soldiers killed previous to my going there. We were in bed as the Indians rode up to the door. We let them in and they asked for some water and something to eat. We pointed out where we kept the things and did not move. They asked if we were frightened but we said no. They did not harm us at that time and soon left the station. After Lincoln's assassination, Miller and Russell started to run daily coaches and made a success of it. I married Miss Betsy C. Burnhope, August 23, 1869, and have made Payson my home ever since." Also included on webpage: "Robert Mattinson, son of Robert and Frances Mattinson, born December 19, 1804, Sunderland, County of Durham, England. Baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints April 3, 1848, by Elder William Knox. Ann Pshaw Mattinson, daughter of Mathew and Susanna Shaw, born February 6, 1812, Mirfield, County of Yorkshire, England. Baptized February 16, 1847, by Elder Candland. Robert Mattinson, son of Robert and Ann Pshaw Mattinson, born July 16, 1835, Ashton, Underline, Lancashire, England, Baptized September 25, 1847, by Elder William Knox. Died December 6, 1922 [note that this date appears to be erroneous when compared with obituary]. Betsy C. Mattinson, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Burnhope, born June 19, 1848, Stay-the-Voyage, county of Durham, England. Baptized August 16, 1862, by Elder M. C. Farnsworth. Died August 17, 1922. Robert and Betsy Mattinson were married August 23, 1869, Salt Lake City, by Daniel H. Wells in the Endowment House. Isaac Burnhope, son of William and Mary Burnhope, born August 1805. Baptized by Elder William Knox. Died February 14, 1869, Salt Lake City. [Note dates are in variance to what I use.] Elizabeth Burnhope, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Charlton, born October 21, 1803. Baptized by Elder William Knox." [Note date is in variance to what I use.] BIRTH: 1. Per obituary. 2. Per autobiography. 3. Sunderland Branch LDS Records, Durham, England, 1843-1855, 1869; FHL film 87035, p. 1 [listed with the Isaac Burnhope family]: "Robert Mattinson, b. 16 Jul 1835 at Ashton Underline, bapt. 25 Sep 1847 at Hendon by Wm. Knox and confirmed by Wm. Knox." 4. Per burial index cited below. MARRIAGE: 1. Per obituary. 2. Per autobiography. Also per biographical citation above: "Robert and Betsy Mattinson were married August 23, 1869, Salt Lake City, by Daniel H. Wells in the Endowment House." DEATH: 1. Utah State Historical Society Burials Database, online: Robert Mattinson, b. 16 Jul 1835, d. 6 Dec 1919, Payson City Cemetery 30_7_1, father is Robert Mattinson. BURIAL: 1. Per obituary. 2. Per burial Index cited above. 3. Not found in the "Index to the Utah County Cemeteries, 1850's to 1996," compiled by Diane R. Parkinson and located at the family history center at the BYU Provo library. OBITUARY: 1. "Last Tribute Paid Pioneer of Payson. (Special Correspondence.) Payson, Dec. 8. - Funeral services for Robert Mattinson were held today at 1 o'clock in the Second ward chapel, Counselor Joseph D. Stark in charge. The opening prayer was by Joseph S. Bills. The speakers were John C. Taylor and J. S. Page. Selections were sung by the ward choir and Prof. Carl O. Nelson and Arthur Jones sang a duet. The closing prayer was by Jesse S. Taylor. The grave was dedicated by Isaac Hansen. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. Robert Mattinson, son of Robert and Ann Pshaw Mattinson was born July 16, 1835, at Ashton Underline, Lancashire, England. At the age of 20 he with his parents, two brothers and one sister, who had joined the Church in 1847, came to America. They landed at Boston and from there traveled to Chicago by railroad. From there they traveled to Iowa City, where they joined Martin's handcart company and commenced the journey to Utah. They suffered all the privations and hardships of that company and landed in Salt Lake City, Nov. 30, 1856. He served as guard at the time the troops arrived from the east. In the spring of 1858 he was called with others to go to the White Mountains. They gathered their company, tools, seeds and plows to put in crops, but the country was so dry nothing could be raised. He returned to Salt Lake City in September of the same year and found everything quiet. He worked at various jobs and when the poney [sic] express started he went to work as a teamster in a government train of six yoke of owen. He worked with the stage for some years until the railroad was built. He was working at Canyon station when President Lincoln was assinated [sic]. He married Betsy C. Burnhope, Aug. 23, 1869, and moved to Payson, where he had since made his home. He is survived by his wife, four sons and five daughters, also 22 grandchildren." Obituary in the Salt Lake City newspaper, Deseret Evening News, Wed., 10 Dec 1919, p. 3. 2. "Death of One of the Martin Handcart Pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barnett, of the Pertola cafe, have returned from Payson where they attended the funeral services for Robert Mattinson, the father of Mrs. Barnett. Although 84 years old, Mr. Mattinson was in excellent health until Thanksgiving day when he slipped while sweeping snow from his porch. He received injuries which resulted in his death. Mr. Mattinson was born July 16, 1835, in England and came to Utah with the Martin handcart company in 1856. He underwent terrible hardships upon this trip. His father's death occurred on the journey to Utah. The pioneer leaves his wife, one brother, George Mattinson and the following children: Mrs. Emma Borup of Eureka, Mrs. Minnie Barnett of Ogden, Mrs. Vetus Bingham of Benjamin, Mrs. Elizabeth Simons, Frank, Henry, Joseph and Roy Mattinson of Payson. On August 3 last, Mr. and Mrs. Mattinson and their children held a celebration at Payson, the date marking the golden wedding anniversay of the marriage of the Mattinsons." Newspaper clipping on file with no citation but probably of Ogden, Utah. | Mattinson, Robert (I204)
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| 2196 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1851 Eng: Chirton, Northumberland, p. 4 of 38, #16, residing at Whitehill Point, with his first wife: Nicholas Boak, mar. 36, joiner, b. Cumberland, Mill House. Elizabeth, wife, mar., 38, b. Cumberland, Alston. William, son, 13, black striker, b. Cumberland, Alston. Nicholas, son, 10, b. Durham, Shields. Elizabeth, dau., 6, b. Cumberland, Sebergham. Sarah, dau., 5, b. Cumberland, Carlizle. Thomas Hilton, 20, visitor, seaman, b. Lancashire, Oldham. 1880 US: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, NA Film T9-1338, p. 191C: Nicholas Boak, farmer, M, 65, Eng Eng Eng. Elizabeth Boak, keeping house, wife, M, 71, Eng Eng Eng. Thomas Boak, labourer, son, S, 37, MO, Eng, Eng. 2. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 8 Dec 2002. 3. FHL film 231907 "High Priest Records for Spanish Fork": "9 Jan 1870 Nicholas Boak ordained a High Priest by Elder Geo. W. Wilkins." 4. The following names are found in the following document: "Names of Persons and Sureties indebted to the Perpetual Emigrating Fund company 1850 to 1877," (also known as the 1877 Debtors Index) by Richard L. Jensen and Marine C. Ward. Document in PDF form found at Boak, Nicholas - Elizabeth. Margaret: 1868. Burnhope, Isaac - Elizabeth. Thomas, Betsey: 1868. CHRISTENING: 1. Online Ordinance Index has the following extracted record per FHL Printout film 6904690, film source 0090593, dates 1738-1875, batch C059291: Nicholas Boak, christened 21 Jul 1814, Castle Sowerby, Cumberland, England with parents Nicholas and Sarah Boak. Note that this christening takes place 2 days before the the date of birth of 23 Jul 1814 as reported in burial records and by Nicholas himself in the various temple ordinances in which he participated during his lifetime. The Christening record would take precedence in my mind. MARRIAGE: 1. Charlton: Per wife's obituary: 1872. BURIAL: 1. FHL film 873714 "Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah Cemetery Records" copied by Nora W. Carter, 1944: "Nicholas Boak, b. 23 July 1814, Cumberland, England, son of Nicholas Boak and Sarah Skurr, d. 6 Nov 1896, bur. Spanish Fork, Ut." [Note there are two other Boak entries which are children (b. 1846 and 1851 in England) of Nicholas Boak and Elizabeth Irving.] 2. "Index to the Utah County Cemeteries, 1850's to 1996," compiled by Diane R. Parkinson and located at the family history center at the BYU Provo library: 23 Jul 1814 - 6 Nov 1896 Spanish Fork. | Boak, Nicholas (I1775)
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| 2197 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1851 Eng: District 4, All Saints Parish, East Minicipal Ward, Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, p. 23 of 59: James Spens, mar. 54, master printer, b. in Scotland. Isabella, wife, mar. 52, b. Scotland. Sarah A., dau., unmd., 22, b. Durham, Gateshead. Nathaniel, son, 13, b. Scotland. William, son, 11, b. Scotland. John, son, 9, b. Scotland. 1880 US: 1st to 10th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, NA film T9-1337, p. 14C: Nathaniel Spens, painter, M, 43, Scot, Scot, Scot. Mary, keeping house, wife, M, 29, Scot, Scot, Scot. Isabella, dau., S, 19, Eng, Scot, Scot. Eliz'h, at school, dau., 14, UT, Scot, Scot. Jas., at school, son, 10, UT, Scot, Scot. Thos., son, 8, UT, Scot, Scot. Mary Jane, dau, 6, UT, Scot, Scot. Eliz'h, dau, 4, UT, Scot, Scot. Nathaniel, son, 7M, UT, Scot, Scot. Eliz'h Campbell, mother-in-law, W, 58, Scot, Scot, Scot. 1900 US: Mt. Pleasant precinct excluding Mt. Pleasant City, Sanpete, Utah, p. 174A [living next door to a son James Spens]: Nathaniel Spens, Jun 1836, 63, m. 31 years, Sco Sco Sco, emigrated 1863, farmer. Mary, wife, Aug 1848, 51, m. 31 years, Sco Sco Sco, emigrated 1867. Nathaniel A., son, Oct 1879, 20, S, UT Sco Sco, farm laborer. John A., son, May 1884, 16, S, UT Sco Sco. Sarah, dau., Feb 1889, 11, S, UT Sco Sco. Clara, dau., May 1891, 9, S, UT Sco Sco. Jacob Graf, servant, Apr 1889, 11, UT Ger Ger, farm laborer. BIOGRAPHY: 1. From website Nathaniel's Birth and Boyhood. Nathaniel Spens, son of James Spens and Isabella Irvine, was born June 21, 1838 at Number 10 East Richmond Street in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He was baptized two months and two days later Aug 23, 1838 at 24 Waterloo Place in Edinburgh in the New Jerusalem Church... Nathaniel's parents James and Isabella Irvine Spens, were born in Scotland. The birth date for James Spens that the family has of Jan 9, 1797 fits James's age given on the 1851 census. James, the son of Colonel James Spens was a copperplate printer master by trade. He married Isabella Irvine, the daughter of the late John Irvine, potter of Westpans, East of Edinburgh. James and Isabella gave their names for marriage by proclamation at the Cannongate Parish in Edinburgh on May 16, 1817. James was living at Parries close, Cannongate and Isabella was from Reids Close, Cannongate, Drummonds Land 2nd Story. According to a pocket notebook that James kept, Nathaniel was the 11th of thirteen children born to James and Isabella. Four of his older brothers and sisters were baptized in Saint Cuthbert's Parish church in Edinburgh; Thomas in 1817, James in 1819, Gilchrist in 1822, and Isabella in 1834. Sarah Ann (1829) and Robert (1830) were both baptized in St. Mary's Gateshead Parish. Mitchel (1824), James (1833, died age two weeks), Mary (1836), William (1840) and John (1842) are all thought to have been born in Scotland but do not appear to have been formerly [formally] christened or registered at birth. Elisabeth (1826) was born in Newcastle/Upon Tyne, England according to family documents and Census reports; however neither her birth nor christening has been found. Around the time of Nathaniel's birth there were recurring religious agitation in both England and Scotland with respect to ministerial authority in matters of church discipline, patronage abuse and theological "moderatism." It appears that James and Isabella readily took an interest in the reforms, either in defiance of political patronage or because they were searching for the truth. After 1836 James and Isabella did not register their children with the Church in Scotland nor in England. Nathaniel's baptism in the New Jerusalem Church in Edinburgh was recorded on a registration paper which, according to Nathaniel's niece Isabella, daughter of his sister, Sarah Ann, "The register has made a mistake with the name (Nathaniel, son of James SPENCE)." Subsequently Nathaniel's birth registration was not completed (Letter written to the cousins on March 20, 1940 from 23 Edward St, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England). A bitter blow to the established church of Scotland was a breach referred to as the Disruption of 1843 which led to the formation of the Free Church of Scotland by a third of the ministers and most of their flocks. The New Jerusalem Church espoused a new dispensation of doctrinal truth derived from the theological writings of Swedish nobleman Emanuel Swedenborg. Followers of this faith maintained that the Last Judgment took place in 1757, that the former Heaven and Earth had passed away; that the New Jerusalem descended in the form of the "New Church." They subsequently believed that the second Advent of the Lord had been realized in a spiritual sense. The New Jerusalem Church members met in a stone building situated in Percy Street in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Erected in 1822, this building seated 403 persons. On April 22, 1839 John James Spens was born to Nathaniel's oldest brother, Thomas, and his sister-in-law, Ester. Ten-month-old Nathaniel became an uncle to his brother's baby. Although his nephew's life was a short seven months, it was the beginning of being Uncle Nat to at least twenty-two nieces and nephews. A month before Nathaniel's second birthday, his brother, William, was born on May 23, 1840 and Nathaniel lost his place as the baby of the family. Sisters Bertha, Bessie, Sarah Ann and Isabella were probably happier about the arrival of William than was Nathaniel, but with that many sisters the two-year-old did not lack for motherly care and attention. That same year, on December 22, 1840, a second nephew was born and named Thomas Brown Spens (later known as William Brown Spens), a brother to John James. As Nathaniel neared the age of four, he was quite used to babies arriving so the birth of his brother, John Spens, on March 13, 1842 was probably taken in stride. Like Nathaniel, neither William's nor John's births were registered in the parish records. On October 17, 1845 in Barony Parish, the final reading of marriage banns took place for Elizabeth Spens. No one had objected so the following month, on November 14, 1845 Nathaniel's sister Bessie married John Leck in Glasgow. Perhaps all the Spenses gathered there for the wedding or perhaps they were living there - this family has an unexplained history of moving. By 1851 the Spens family had moved from Scotland to England, a move they had made several times prior to Nathaniel's birth. The family had previously lived in Newcastle-Upon Tyne and in Gateshead, just south of Newcastle across the River Tyne in Durham County. In April 1851 when the Census was taken, James Spens, age 54, and Isabella, 52, were living in the East Municipal Ward of the Parish of All Saints in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne - a Scottish family with a noticeable accent. Nathaniel, 13 years old; William, 11; and John, 9 were living at home. Nathaniel's widowed sister, Sarah A., age 22, was also with her parents, having recently lost her husband, Thomas Raey Matthews (a watchmaker by trade) and her 14-month-old daughter, Bertha Spens Matthews. Although sorrow had brought Sarah home, her presence was a blessing. Early in May, 1851, Nathaniel's mother began to have great difficulty breathing. The doctor was called and, after an examination, said she was suffering from "phthisis" (the wasting away of tissue). Sarah helped provide tender care during the next five weeks of her mother's progressive emaciation. Isabella Spens died June 12th of tuberculosis of the lungs and was buried June 15th in the Jesmond General Cemetery in unconsecrated ground in Ward 11, Section 2E. The fact that Sarah Ann was also home to care for her three young motherless brothers endeared her to them. This tie will later withstand religious differences and defy the great physical distance between herself and Nathaniel. Nathaniel Is Apprenticed. Nathaniel was now old enough to learn a trade. His oldest brother had become an engraver like his father and his brother William was begging to learn that trade. Nathaniel apparently had other interests. Surely he must have loved to draw. James agreed to have his son, Nathaniel, "bound out" or apprenticed to William Jackson, Printer and Glazier. Papers were signed on March 29, 1852 and on June 18, 1852, just prior his 14th birthday and only a year after his mother's death, Nathaniel was apprenticed to Mr. William Jackson. For seven years Nathaniel served as he learned the painting trade at 4 Newgate Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Mr. Williams lived at 2 St. Mary's Place. The Indenture papers read as follows: "This Indenture witnesseth that Nathaniel Spens, son of James Spens of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, copper plate printer, hath of his own free will and with the consent of the said James Spens, his father, testified by his executing these presents and with consent (that) put himself Apprentice to William Jackson of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, aforesaid Printer and Glazier - to learn the Art with him after the manner of an apprentice to serve from the day of the date hereof unto the full end and term of seven years from thence next following to be fully complete and ended, during which term the said apprentice, his master faithfully shall serve, his which keep, his lawful commands every which gladly do. He shall do no damage to his said master, nor see to be done of others, but to his power shall tell in faith with give warning to his said Master. Of the same he shall not waste the goods of his said Master nor lend them unlawfully to any, he shall not commit fornication nor contract matrimony within the said term; shall not play at cards or dice tables or any other unlawful games whereby his said Master may have any loss with his own goods or others during the said term without license of his said Master; he shall neither buy or sell, he shall not haunt taverns or playhouses nor absent himself from his said Master's service day or night unlawfully. But in all things as a faithful apprentice he shall behave himself towards his said Master and all this during the said term. "And the said William Jackson for himself, his executors, administrators and assigns doth covenant, promise and agree by these presents to and with the said Nathaniel Spens, the said apprentice, that he, the said William Jackson, his executors, administrators, or assigns shall and will teach, learn and instruct him, the said apprentice, or cause him to be taught, learned and instructed in the trade of Painter and Glazier which he useth by the best means that he can with all circumstances thereunto belonging and will well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said Nathaniel Spens the wages, following, that is to say, the sum of two shillings and six pence per week for the first and second years of the said term, the sum of three shillings and six pence per week for the third and fourth years of the said term, the sum of five shillings per week for the fifth year of the said term, and the sum of six shillings per week for the sixth and seventh years of the said term, such wages payable only during the time the said Nathaniel Spens shall be working for and employed by the said William Jackson. The said James Spens finding unto the said apprentice sufficient meat, drink, washing, lodging and all other necessaries during the said term. "And for the true performance of all and every said covenants and agreements either of the said parties bindeth himself unto the other by these presents. In witness whereof the parties above named to these indentures interchangeably have put their hands and seals the nineteenth day of June and in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, defender of the Faith and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. "Note: The indenture Covenant article or contract must bear date the day it is executed and what money or other thing is given or contracted for the clerk or apprentice must be inserted in words at length, otherwise the Indenture will be void and the Master or Minstrel's forfeit fifty pounds and another penalty and the apprentice be disabled to follow the trade or be made free." "Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Richard Hanson." (Signature of Nathaniel, James and William). From the apprenticeship agreement, Nathaniel's wages can be seen to increase with his skill. Beginning with "the sum of two shillings and six pence per week for the first and second years," then progressing to three shillings and six pence per week for the third and fourth years, five shillings per week for the fifth year, and finally, six shillings per week for the sixth and seventh years. The money was not for shelter or meals as the apprenticeship paper clearly shows James Spens responsible for food and lodging. Due to many changes in the family, Nathaniel probably lived in more than one place during the next seven years. There are family memories that suggest Nathaniel had to walk seven miles each day during at least part of the apprenticeship. Some believe Nathaniel stayed with his sister, Sarah, during that time. By 1853 Sarah had moved to Red Barns. She and Cuthbert Douse, a joiner by trade, and a widow, were married at St. Anne's Chapel on June 7, 1853. Her father, James Spens, was a witness to her second marriage. William, only two years younger than Nathaniel, learned the copper plate printing trade of his father, either from his father or from his brother, Thomas Spens who had been taught by James Spens. Thomas taught his son, Thomas Brown Spens, who was seven months younger than William and may also have taught his younger brother to be an engraver. By this time Thomas Spens's work was well known. Soon T. Spens would be moving his China, Glass & Earthenware business from 6 Mosely Street to Grey Street, the most prestigious street in the business section of the city. The business on Grey Street would be known as Spens, William Brown, Thos. S. & Son, lithographers, engravers. Nathaniel's brother, William, would also be known as an engraver by trade. Young John, or Jack Spens, was also "bound out" at the age of thirteen. John chose to become a confectioner and was bound on February 16, 1855, according to James's pocket notebook. James Spens was a man of sorrows. Not only had he recently buried his wife, but on May 19, 1853 his daughter, Bertha (born May 14, 1822 in Edinburgh and christened Gilchrist) died, age 31, at Temperance Row with James present. The death record lists the cause of her death as apoplexy (a stroke caused by cerebral hemorrhage). Bertha was buried in unconsecrated ground, Ward 11, Section 2E, grave 3, presumably near her mother. The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Friday, May 27, 1853 noted under Deaths: In this town on the 19th inst., in Temperance-row, Shieldfield, aged 31, Bartha (sic), daughter of Mr. James Spens. "Bartha" is a reminder of James's strong Scottish accent. James Spens courted and married Jane Gray Davison after banns in the St. Peter's Parish Church in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on July 30, 1855. Their residence was in Leazes Lane. Jane Gray Davison was a widow some years younger than James and had at least three young children, Thomas Henry, Bilton George, and a daughter. As a child Jane Gray was christened 26 Sep 1819 at Lesbury, Northumberland, England, the daughter of Henry Gray (or Grey), labourer, and Jane Archbold. Jane married Bilton Davison by banns in the Anglican Church of St. Andrew in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on April 11, 1840. During the first three years of Nathaniel's apprenticeship, many changes have been noted. Bertha had died, Sarah had remarried, John had begun his apprenticeship and someone had begun to instruct William in the engraving trade. Sarah had moved and so had Nathaniel's father. Not only had James moved but he had also remarried and now Nathaniel had at least two step-brothers and a step-sister, not to mention a step-mother! In addition, Nathaniel had four new nieces and nephews born. Finally, on May 15, 1856, there was one more change - Nathaniel's half-brother, Robert Henry Spens (later to be known as Robert James Davison) was born. At the time of Robert's birth, the family was living at Hall's Court in Leazes Lane in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. By the Summer of 1859 Nathaniel had completed his seven year apprenticeship agreement with Mr. Jackson. Like most young men, Nathaniel was full of knowledge and ready to strike out on his own. Apparently Nathaniel did not go home, or at least not for long. There is some speculation that he went to Germany for a time to learn to be be an artist. One painting, thought to be called, "Lake Hotel," is painted on a wood panel as was often done in Europe and appears to have been painted on location. (Sadly, this painting is not dated or signed.) From the 1861 Census report, it appears that all was not well with James and his new wife. Neither Jane nor their nearly 5-year-old son, Robert, was with James, but were living with Jane's children. James was listed as a printer and widower, aged 64, born in Scotland. He was living with his daughter, Sarah Ann and son-in-law, Cuthbert Douse at 61, Elswick East Terrace in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Nathaniels' brothers, William, 21, and John, 19, were also living with the Douses, bringing the household to a total of 10 persons. The Census indicates that John was married but the marriage certificate indicates he was a bachelor in 1863 at the time of his marriage. The family appears to have moved to this address within the year as they were not listed in the 1860-61 Ward Directory. Nor did they have an entry in the 1861-62 Directory suggesting that their abode at this address was fleeting. Sometime during or after completing his apprenticeship, Nathaniel is thought to have gone to the continent to learn how to paint, perhaps to Baden, Germany. On the back of one of his paintings - a beveled wooden panel - is written, "Bottom, Germany." Sometime later, Nathaniel went to live with his sister, Bessie, in Glasgow. He was lucky enough to be there in time to help out with the legal requirements of the birth of his niece - Nathaniel registered little Margaret Leck in the 1860 births in the District of Milton in the Borough of Glasgow on November 20th, nineteen days after her birth. He reported to the clerk that he had been present at the time of Margaret's birth. Five months later, Nathaniel, age 22, is still in Glasgow. In the 1861 Census he is listed as a lodger at his sister's home and his occupation is given as painter. Jane Ann Burnhope. Later in 1861 Nathaniel returned to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and, on Sep 4, 1861, he married Jane Ann Burnhope - a Mormon! Nathaniel's brother, John, a confectioner, was present as a witness along with John Findley who has appeared as a witness on numerous other occasions. The wedding took place in the St. John's Parish Church "according to the rites and ceremonies of the Established Church after banns." We do not know the story of Nathaniel's introduction to Jane Burnhope or to the Latter-Day Saints, or the Mormons, as they were disparagingly called. Did he meet the missionaries while walking to and from his work? Or perhaps Jane Burnhope introduced him to the missionaries. What is known is that Thomas Wallace was a traveling Elder and married to Jane Ann Burnhope's sister, Mary Ann Burnhope and that later Nathaniel and Jane Ann would follow Mary Ann and Thomas Wallace to Utah. There are no records of Nathaniel's church affiliation after his baptism in the New Jerusalem Church nor of his family continuing with the Swedenborgian faith. Unlike the large building of the New Jerusalem Church in Edinburgh where Nathaniel had been christened, the Latter-Day Saints in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne were grateful for the small rented meeting room on Nelson Street in which to worship. According to the Sunderland and South Shields Branch records, Jane Ann Burnhope was born Jan 18, 1840 in Boldon, Durham, England and baptized May 31, 1853 in Hendon Bay. Her baptism record can be found in the South Shields Branch in Northumberland. Her personal decision to be baptized and accept the gospel was encouraged and supported by her parents, Isaac Burnhope and Elizabeth Charlton who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints a few months prior to Jane Ann. Unlike the Burnhopes' joy over their daughter's affiliation with the Mormons, Nathaniel's marriage to a Mormon seems to have resulted in a division among family members. If not earlier, a division among the Spens family members became apparent following Nathaniel's decision to be baptized a Mormon on March 4, 1862. According to The Manuscript History of the British Mission, Elder Moses F. Farnsworth arrived in England on the 14th of August, 1862, shortly after Nathaniel's baptism and labored in the Newcastle-on-Tyne District as a traveling Elder, until called, on the 1st of May, 1863, to preside over said district. There does not appear to be any record of the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Branch activities in the early 1860s to verify Nathaniel's self-reported baptism date. During the first three years of their marriage, Nathaniel and Jane had two children and prepared to gather to Zion. First, Isobell Irvine, (pronounced Arvin by the Scotts, and thus written by the British registrar) was born in Jarrow, South Shields, Durham, England May 10, 1862 and named after Nathaniel's mother. Twelve months later, William Burnhope Spens was born 7 May 1863 in Jared, Durham, England, according to family tradition - there is no birth registration for William. On April 23, 1861, Jane Ann's sister, Mary Ann Burnhope Wallace left England for America, traveling with her husband Thomas Michael Wallace and daughter Annie (born 18 April 1860) on board the ship "Underwriter." Mary Ann states they came to America "for the Gospel's sake, "arriving in New York 22 May 1861. As Jane Ann and Nathaniel would later learn the Wallace family traveled to Winter Quarters and remained there from 2 June 1861 until 30 June 1861, at which time they began the trek across the plains by ox team with Captain Ira Eldredge. She noted that the captain was very kind and "had the mothers with babies ride all the way" while their husbands walked. This family arrived in Salt Lake City 15 September 1861 and in the spring of 1862 settled in American Fork where they bought a large one-room log home with one window. The first payment of $150 was made by selling their best clothes. On January 9, 1862 Nathaniel's sister, Sarah, lost her second husband, Cuthbert Douse. At that time Sarah and her family were living at 61 East Elswick Lane in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. James Spens reported Cuthbert's death and listed the same address as his own. Crossing the ocean. Between 1841 and 1855, most Mormon converts traveled to "Zion" by sailing to New Orleans then up the Mississippi River to various departure points. After 1856, however, options included travel by railroad from New York to Chicago and beyond. Elder George Q. Cannon, president of the European Mission, chartered three ships in 1864, "The General McClellan," "The Monarch of the Sea" and "The Hudson." These three ships transported a total of 2,633 Saints from Liverpool to New York City. The latter two ships made the voyage in 36 and 45 days respectfully [respctively]. In general immigrations to the U.S were very low due to the on-going Civil War. Undaunted, Jane and Nathaniel prepared to travel to the land of Zion to join with the Saints. Jane Ann must have looked forward to reuniting herself with her dear sister, Mary Ann. Among their possessions to be taken were Nathaniel's graining brushes, a small photograph album and a wooden-panel painting by Nathaniel. On Saturday, May 21, 1864 just after Willie's first birthday, Nathaniel and his little family sailed from Liverpool, England for New York City aboard "The General McClellan," commanded by Captain G. D. S. Trask. The following account is taken from the Millennial Star: "This ship was chartered to sail on the 20th ult. but, owing to the rain which set in, the upper deck could not be used for the purpose of examination of passengers, who had, consequently; to undergo inspection between decks. This put them to some inconvenience and discomfort, but, not withstanding this, we did not hear one unkind word or one ill-natured remark from the Saints during the proceedings, which occupied some little time. In consequence of unavoidable delays, the vessel could not be cleared until next day (21st). On the morning of the 21st President Cannon, with a number of Elders, proceeded on board the vessel for the purpose of organizing the company" (Mill. Star 26:364). Appropriate instructions were given to the Saints aboard "The General McClellan." Three returning missionaries on board were called to serve as a presidency to assist the Saints in gathering to Zion. Elder Thomas E. Jeremy was appointed to preside over the company, with Elders Joseph Bull and George G. Bywater as counselors. Elder John C. Graham who had labored in the "Millenniel Star" office for many years was appointed clerk. The account in the Millenniel Star continues, "The ship was divided off into (twelve) wards, over each of which an Elder was placed to preside. On the evening of the 21st the vessel proceeded to sea, laden with her freight of precious souls, and accompanied by the best wishes and prayers of all true Saints. She had 802 souls on board, nearly all of whom have paid their fares through to Wyoming." The Elders appointed over the wards assisted the presidency with the spiritual needs of the Saints as well as "serving out provisions" for the physical needs of these Saints. May 21, 1864, John C. Graham, clerk, sent the following communication to President Cannon through the kindness of the pilot: "All the Saints on board seem quite satisfied with their new condition. They have not yet had time to experience the effects of traveling, having been only about three hours on our way, (we started from off the Landing-stage at 6:15 p.m.); still those disagreeable effects which are invariably experienced by poor landsmen (such for instance, as myself) I presume will, in due time, be felt by our company. At present, I can hear the notes of some beautiful hymn being sung with evident delight and happiness, by a large portion of the passengers, and I suppose their countenances bear the marks of joy and gratitude for the deliverance which is afforded them by the Almighty, judging by the feeling with which they sing the verses of the hymn. We pray that our passage may be a safe, prosperous and happy one. It has been what thousands of our brethren and sisters have realized by their faith and trust in Him, and it is what we may realize, too, if we place our dependence upon God, who is the deliverer of his Saints, and the great Captain of our salvation. I hope, that I may be true to my holy calling and ever be found trying to work out my personal salvation. I have set out for this purpose. Nothing but my religion would ever have educed me to leave my native land with those prospects which are before me. I go to Zion to serve God, and I pray that when I get there I may do so (see Manuscript History of the British Mission, pp. 3-4)." On May 22, Brother Graham made the following entry: "We are just off Holyhead - all well. The boat that towed us out is just leaving. Everyone feels well, so far as I know. Those who felt a little regret before starting, now are quite satisfied and contented. I expect there will be many soon experience some disagreeable feelings - the ship having her sails unfurled and tossing a bit. We have now a fair wind and good prospects." We can only surmise the individual experience of the Spens family on board "The General McClellen" as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean, leaving behind their homeland. We do, however, have a carefully written account prepared as a report to President Cannon. Written Sunday, June 19th the report provides general information about the passage from Liverpool to New York City acquainting President Cannon and friends left behind of the expected "safe arrival of the ship and its precious cargo": "Our distance from the desired port is but 450 miles, which, with some of the winds that we have had while on the voyage, might very soon be made; but, with the winds that we at present have, it is not likely that we will be able to reach New York much before the expiration of another week." The brethren went on to explain that there were several sick on board who have, "since leaving England, suffered very much from extreme weakness." About the voyage, the Presidency reported: "Since bidding you adieu we have had cause for no other feeling but that of gratitude to our Father in heaven for the manifold blessings which have been conferred upon us during the passage thus far. The power of the Holy Ghost, with its healing influences, has been often demonstrated in our midst. Suffice it to say, no company could wish for a better and indeed, we very much doubt if they could have a pleasanter passage across the mighty deep than this company has had. Health has almost generally prevailed; peace, concord and the Spirit of God have been abundantly manifested." President Cannon was told that the pleasant weather, according to the captain, "has been made for the Latter-day Saints." Not only was the fair weather a subject of surprise to Captain Trask, but also the health of the crowded Saints. It is noted in the report that both the captain and the surgeon admitted, "that for such a large company, they never were associated with a more healthy or a happier class of people." Statistics confirm the health of the Saints. During the voyage only one death was reported. Five-week-old Seth Holgate died on June 6th and was consigned to a watery grave as his father mourned, his mother having died before the voyage began. Two babies were born and named after the ship - Jenny McClellan Gee and George McClellan Hutchison - the babies were healthy and both mothers recovered. The brethren went on to give more details of the voyage, recounting that "a good easterly wind" had taken the boat along smoothly for eleven days. Then came frequent head winds and a few calms, "and in consequence, the ship has had a great deal of tacking to do in order to take what advantage she could of the wind." Not withstanding the over-all good weather, some rough weather is also described: "On the night of Thursday, the 9th inst., while in the vicinity of the Banks of Newfoundland, the wind rose to a high degree, and continued to rage with increasing fury during the whole of the night. It was during this night that the ship experienced the greatest shock it had ever before, since it has been a ship, received. It was caused by a heavy sea which rolled forward in her course and completely engulfed the bow of the ship, causing the after part of the vessel to rise to a fearful height. The man on the look-out on the forecastle deck, and the man at the wheel, were nearly carried away. Such a noise of boxes falling and tins jumping caused the air to reverberate in a not very melodious manner; the cracking of timbers, mingled with a chorus of juvenile voices, you would never desire to hear again. The night was foggy (the horn being blown every few minutes), and as icebergs had been seen and felt - it was very naturally concluded that the ship had struck one of those formidable bodies and sprung a leak, for the rushing of water could be distinctly heard. However, the fears of the people were soon quieted by the reassuring words of the first officer who cried below, 'All's right,' and the words of a hymn soon restored to the timid and fearful, confidence..." Christopher Alston (Carter, 1965) was eleven years old at the time of crossing. He later recorded the storm, never having been told that, although there were icebergs in the vacinity, an iceberg did not strike the ship: "One night, in dense fog, our ship struck a monstrous iceberg and was nearly wrecked, but was miraculously saved. It was thrown from side to side - people, utensils and luggage in one great pile. The rattle of pans, dishes and baggage, and the cries of women and Children, the shouts of men, the commands of officers, the banging and bumping of the ship against the iceberg made it seem as if two monsters were trying to beat each other to pieces and the great floating mountain of ice would overwhelm the sturdy ship and sink her in the deep sea with all on board. But it was not to be so, we were in the hands of the "Master of ocean and earth and skies." Weather permitting, general meetings were held on deck and the Elders gave discourses on "the blessings which God had vouchsafed unto the Saints." Individual ward meetings were held morning and evening, and were devoted to singing, testimony bearing and praying. On the 19th of June a conference was held on deck "at which most of the passengers convened. The Presidents of the Wards occupied the chief portion of the time in bearing testimony, and advancing some timely counsel suited to the circumstances under which the Saints are placed. At this meeting several resolutions of thanks to the officers of the ship were drawn up and tendered to them, expressive of the gratitude of the Saints for the watchful care which had been shown to make them comfortable." A major item of business on the 19th of June was preparation for landing and is noted in the report to President Cannon: "In anticipation of sundry expenses which the company may have to meet - such, for instance, as the passing of the baggage through the Customs, and supporting on the journey from New York to Wyoming, those who are destitute of funds, of whom we find an unusually large number - we have made collections in the various Wards. Our call was cheerfully responded to by those who possessed means, and many were found to be acting too generously, for they were to some extent depriving themselves of what they would necessarily require. Again, in accordance with your instructions, the Saints have been recommended to deposit their sterling money in our hands, for the purpose of converting it into American currency, and taking for them advantage of the market. Those who possessed gold and silver readily transferred it for that purpose into our hands. Every preparation necessary to be made for the landing of the company at New York and everything that we could do to facilitate the business consequent on their deembarkation, have been done in view of lightening the labors of our brethren there." With so many people crowded together, the leaders were very strict and rigid in reference to cleanliness. There were a very few whose unclean habits needed repeated instruction. "Altogether, however, we can boast of a clean and orderly body of people, and the fact that none have been afflicted with any other complaint than sea-sickness, is sufficient to justify our statement." On Tuesday, June 21st, Nathaniel celebrated his 26th birthday. About 3:00 p.m. on that same day there was a "terrific commotion" on board. Someone had sighted the pilot boat. "The pilot! The pilot! The cry was taken up between decks followed by a tumultuous rush up the hatchway, and folks lined the bulwarks immediately, to await the pilot's arrival. Dinners were abandoned for the time, and a general holiday all over the ship appeared to be in full enjoyment, the excitement being intense." The pilot arrived "admidst thunders of applause." The "General McClellen" was about 130 miles from New York, traveling at about 11 1/2 knots per hour. On Wednesday, June 22nd, at 4:00 p.m., Sandy Hook came into view after 32 days of sailing. The report continued, "Expect to anchor for the night as soon as we get through Quarantine." Expecting to be leaving the ship, the resolution of thanks prepared by the company for the Captain was presented to Captain Trask shortly after sighting Sandy Hook. The Captain made the following written reply: "Gentlemen (Messrs. Jeremy, Bull, Bywater and Graham), - You will please accept and convey to the passengers my thanks for the very handsome testimonial which you have presented me with. I am happy that my endeavors to make your passage pleasant and agreeable have been successful, and acknowledge the pride I feel in so flattering an approval of my course and conduct. The gratitude evinced, the regard conveyed, and the thorough feeling of kindness and respect manifested by them, are both appreciated and reciprocated, and will be long treasured. And I trust this favorable passage is a foreshadowing of the remainder of your journey - not only to Utah, but through life - and that you and they may be richly blessed in the enjoyments a good people are deserving of. Signed GOD. Trask." NEW YORK, AMERICA On that same June 22, in the evening the report to President Cannon continued with the following message: "9 o'clock p.m. - Just anchored in the bay. The people passed the medical officer without difficulty. Captain Trask handed Brother Graham a couple of sovereigns, one to be given to each of the parents of the two children born on the voyage, accompanied by his best wishes for the children's welfare. May the Lord bless him for his kindness to the people." The conclusion of the report was written on Thursday morning, June 23, 1864: "We are now waiting for our landing at Castle Gardens, so we will bring this letter to a close, and pray that God may bless you and all whom we have left behind, with the choicest of his blessings" (Mill. Star 26:476). Castle Garden was formerly known as Castle Clinton. Castle Clinton was a federal fort built in 1807 when tension between Great Britain and the United States was escalating. Situated on an island some 300 feet off the tip of Manhattan Island, its 28 guns and eight-foot-thick walls offered security through the War of 1812. In 1823 Castle Clinton was converted to a theater, renamed Castle Garden, and was the scene of many spectacular social events. Not many years later, Castle Garden was incorporated into Manhattan by landfill from the construction of subways. In 1855 Castle Garden became an immigrant landing depot and during the next 45 years about eight million people, including Nathaniel Spens, were processed at the old fort. Finally, in 1890, the federal government took over the state-operated reception depot after numerous reports of corrupt officials exploiting unsuspecting aliens. The continuing influx of immigrants swamped Castle Garden and, in 1892, the operation was transferred to Ellis Island. In 1946 Fort Castle Clinton was restored and designated as a National Monument (Allen, 1990). There were upwards of one thousand emigrants at Castle Garden in advance of the Saints aboard "The General McClellan," and it was necessary to spend one more night on board the ship. Elders Joseph A. Young, Brigham Young, Jr. and Paul A. Schettler boarded the ship Thursday evening and addressed the Saints. They expressed satisfaction at the prearrangement of the business connected with the landing of the people and their further journey toward Wyoming. Elders J. A. Young, B. Young, Jr., and Schettler had not received communication respecting the business of these Saints nor a list of the passengers. Notwithstanding the mail steamer with this information had been detained at sea, these three brethren were able to settle everything with surprisingly little difficulty as noted in the presidency's report: "There was but one obstacle that we foresaw would interfere with our immediate departure from New York, and that was the examination of the passengers' baggage, which we anticipated would be diligently overhauled by the officers. Doubtless through the heavy demands on the United States Government for the continued support of the expensive war now being waged upon this continent, a strict and rigid system of searching emigrants' luggage for contraband articles, is enforced; the officers charge for almost everything besides what individuals are clothed with. This obstacle, however, was removed, and we succeeded in having everything landed without the people being detained in New York longer than twelve hours. We left New York in the afternoon (Friday, June 24) for Albany, by the magnificent steamboat, St. John, and arrived early the following morning (Saturday, June 25). The organization of the company remained, at Brother Joseph A. Young's desire, as it originally stood." Travel from New York to Nebraska. According to young Christopher Alstron, the company traveled up the Hudson River toward Canada "to avoid the Armies of the Rebellion, broken bridges, uptorn railways, etc. incident to a war which was raging in the States between the North and the South, with blood and rapine in all the land " (Carter, 1965). After a few hours in Albany, the Saints continued their journey by "cars" (railway cars). On Sunday morning they reached Rochester where they were detained until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, according to the Manuscript History of the British Mission. There had been "an accident to the luggage-train locomotive which was in our rear." At Buffalo, "in consequence of our detention at Rochester," railroad officials distributed a quantity of biscuits and cheese to the passengers. Another distribution was made at Fort Huron. At Chicago Judge Kinney of Utah and Elders William S. Godbe and Francis A. H. Mitch gave President Thomas E. Jeremy fifty dollars to assist the immigrating Saints. According to the Manuscript History of the British Mission, "This money and the generous help of the railroad officials were much appreciated as a large number of the emigrants were entirely destitute of means and dependent upon President Jeremy and his assistants to supply their needs." Parley P. Pratt joined this company in Chicago and traveled with them to Wyoming near Omaha, Nebraska Territory. [Kerry's note: this appears incorrect since Parley died circa 1857 unless this should be Orson Pratt, Parley's brother.] Nathaniel must have heard firsthand some of the stories this missionary shares with present-day readers through his autobiography. Parley's joining the Saints surely was one of "the blessing of the Lord" noted to have been upon the travelers, "his providence has met us under every ill-favoured circumstance and supplied our wants." The presidency continue their report, "To no other power but the power of the Almighty can be ascribed our prosperity and success." On July 1, 1864 after six days on the train, the Saints arrived in St. Joseph, Missouri and "occupied a large shed-room attached to the warehouse of the Steam-packet Company." Having arrived on the frontier of civilization, the Saints took extreme safety precautions according to the following details from the Manuscript History: "Every able-bodied man was stationed as a guard, so that clear around the building there was a strong guard watching the safety and property of those who slept. Some of the Saints preferred sleeping in the open air, in consequence of the intense heat, which is such as many - especially from the old country - never experienced before. Around these was also stationed a strong guard." On July 2nd about half-past ten in the morning, the journey by steamer up the Missouri River began with the expectation of reaching Wyoming by the 3rd in the evening. As expected, on July 3rd, the company reached their destination of Wyoming, Nebraska Territory. No deaths had occurred since little Seth died while crossing the Atlantic. With only one or two exceptions, all the Saints who left England with this company, together with a few who had joined the company in New York and along the way, arrived in Wyoming safely. Crossing the Plains. Wyoming was a village situated on the west bank of the Missouri River, seven miles north of Nebraska City and 40 miles south of Omaha, Nebraska. The village of Wyoming was selected by the Church leaders as an outfitting station that year (Mill.Star 27:16). Two large warehouses had been constructed in addition to a store, the emigration office, a coral and a few dwellings. Elder Joseph Young was in charge of the outfitting station. Earlier this particular year, at Brigham Young's request, the Utah Church members again responded to the call to assist emigrating Saints. A total of 170 wagons, 1,717 oxen, 58 horses and 28 mules were sent in charge of six captains, 27 mounted guards and 144 experienced teamsters (Journal History of March 6, 1864). More was needed than transportation and good honest men who were expected to conduct themselves as if on a mission. Supplies requested for the trip East included molasses, grain, meat, and cotton. A large amount of freight was also sent to Utah from Wyoming, Nebraska. The Union Pacific Railroad did not begin to move west from Omaha until July 10, 1865 so all freight ordered by merchants, contractors and private individuals was freighted through the Church Emigration Office. Merchandise, ironware, stoves, glass and other commodities were loaded on wagons and moved west. President Joseph Young stated that "after all the wagons had been loaded, there were still one hundred tons of freight in the warehouses ready for shipment." Gold seekers and pioneers migrating west to California, Oregon and Washington increased the shortage of good wagons and strong animals for the Latter-Day Saints' use. Immediately the newly-arrived Saints began preparing for their overland journey of more than a thousand miles - across the great plains of Nebraska, over the mountains in Wyoming and Utah and finally into the Great Salt Lake Valley to their new home in Zion. From the Presidency's report we read: "The Saints have commenced camp life already. Some are sleeping in wagons, others under tents, and others, again, with nothing but the sky to cover them. This change in their mode of life, however, has its novelty and its pleasures. A few only express themselves dissatisfied with the change, and because of the inconveniences they have been subjected to, consider that the Work of God here and on the journey hither, is not the same glorious Work which they labored to promote in those lands whence they came." Most of the Saints were assigned either to Captain Rawlins or to Captain Warren's company. Nathaniel, Jane and their children, Isabella and Willie, were assigned to the Rawlins Company, and on July 15th, just twelve days after their arrival in Camp Wyoming, continued on their way west. Joseph S. Rawlins's train was partially loaded with freight and families were assigned to certain wagons. According to the recollections of Harry M. Payne whose family joined the company in Camp Wyoming, his family and relatives, totaling fifteen people, loaded "all their earthly possessions on top of a part of a load of freight." So many assigned to one wagon naturally required "all able-bodied individuals make the journey on foot" (Payne, 1974). Richard Daniels Brown, Jr. joined the train part way across the prairie and noted that he had "walked on the prairie with sore feet, bleeding and hungry" before finding his parents in this train (Brown, 1973). Christopher Alstron remembered walking the full 1,100 miles on foot. He recalled severe trials and hardships. One particular night "after the tents were set up and the camp was asleep, there came up a fearful wind, then rain fell in torrents, and every tent was blown down except the one we were in..." Christopher goes on to recount details that must have matched the chores and worries of other young boys in the company. The same worries must have been shared by Nathaniel and Jane whose children were too young to assist them: "Crossing the prairie there was no fuel other than buffalo chips with which to cook our little meals of bread and meat. Think of cooking your supper, after a long day's walk, over a fire of "chips" with the wind blowing over the great plains, and sometimes rain putting out the fire, and going to bed without any supper, getting up in the morning at daylight to find everthing soaking wet and nothing to burn to cook your breakfast with, hooking up the oxen and traveling until noon, trying to find some dry "chips" to make a fire to cook dinner! Such was our life on the plains before we reached the mountain country where we procured sticks to use with the "chips" (Carter, 1965). From the Millennial Star (26: 460, 476, 479, 539, 717-718) we learn more details of their journey: "Captain Joseph. S. Rawlins Church Train of ox-drawn wagons and consisting of a large company of emigrating Saints, left Wyoming, Nebraska Territory on July 15, 1864. Most of these Saints crossed the Atlantic in the ship, 'General McClellan.' " Captain Rawlins was at Laramie on the 20th of August (p.717). Another telegram indicated the train was at Deer Creek on the 26th of August and reported that "nine oxen died between Laramie and here." From a telegram sent to President Brigham Young from the Sweetwater Bridge under date of Sept. 1st, it was learned that "the train was in fine condition, traveling all right and all doing well." From one more telegram, sent from the Little Sandy Sept. 9th, it was learned that "the train was still in good condition, company well and cattle traveling well." A list of passengers in this company was published in the Deseret News Weekly, Vol 13, on August 17, 1864 on page 369 in anticipation of the company's arrival. The list was also published in Journal History September 20, 1864, on page one. Besides the Rawlins Company, five other church trains and three independent companies left Wyoming, Nebraska that same year. According to the Millennial Star (27:16), "Of the 2,697 emigrants, 118 provided their own teams. About 2,508 Saints (including Nathaniel Spens and his family) crossed the plains in Church Trains." The emigrants' nationalities were noted as 1343 English, 209 Scotch, 12 Irish, 132 Welsh, 427 Danes, 338 Swedes, 14 Norwegians, 31 Germans, 60 Dutch, 10 French, 79 Swiss, 1 Russian, 1 Italian and 20 Americans. Nathaniel is suspected to have announced himself as a Scot even though his little family were all English. The last train left the outfitting village of Wyoming, Nebraska in August and arrived in Salt Lake City November 2nd. President Joseph Young reported the last train had some worry of Indian trouble in Nebraska but proceeded safely. He noted that 1864 had been a prosperous season of work. Utah at last. In four months Nathaniel, Jane and their two children, traveling by ship, steamer, railway and ox-cart, had crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the United States, the great plains and the Continental Divide. All had gone well for Nathaniel and Jane. Then, on September 4, 1864, three days after leaving Sweetwater Bridge and just sixteen days before the J. S. Rawlins company arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley, little Willie Spens died. We do not have an account of Nathaniel and Jane's sorrow over the loss of their little son, but there is an account of the death of little Thomas Payne just two weeks prior to Willie's death. Thomas, a baby, nearly two years of age, "took sick about half way to Utah, and lingered along for two or three weeks and finally died on August 22, 1864, as we were camped at a place called "Bitter Cottonwood." He died a martyr to the cause for want of proper food. He cried for a slice of yeast bread cut from a loaf, which could not be provided. He could not be comforted. He was unable to eat the rough food that was provided the company." That sorrowful day the family stayed behind. "They dressed Thomas's body in a little red dress and sewed him up in a sheet, there being no material available with which to make a coffin. The body was placed in a grave, with the end gate of a wagon box laid over it to protect it as much as possible; another mound to mark the way to Zion" (Payne, 1974). Was William's a lingering sickness? Was he also sewed in a sheet? Did the little Spens family linger behind on September 4th? While Nathaniel dug the grave did Mrs. Payne, great with her next child (and Ann Price who also buried a little boy on the trail), linger behind with Jane to comfort her? And did those two women then take Isabella by the hand while Nathaniel comforted Jane? On September 20, 1864 the company entered the valley, and Nathaniel and Jane, like thousands of other Saints, had paid a price in answering the call to gather to Zion. Nathaniel would later learn that back in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on December 20, 1864 his sister, Sarah, lost her six-year-old daughter, Isabella Irvine Douse, to acute hydrocephalus. While Nathaniel's and Jane's grief was tempered by the gospel plan, Sarah's sorrow cut deep into her soul. American Fork, Utah. At the time of this writing it is speculative as to where Nathaniel Spens lived; however, it is thought that he settled with his wife and daughter in American Fork soon after his arrival in Salt Lake City. We can imagine the joyful reunion for Jane Ann and her sister Mary Ann Burnhope Wallace. Little Isabella met her cousin Annie. Aunt Mary Ann's sorrow over the recent death of Jane Ann's little Willie was genuine and brought fresh memories of her little Thomas, born 24 October 1862 and buried 22 May 1864 in American Fork. The Wallaces probably took Nathaniel and Jane Ann to visit their Thomas's little grave and shared the following poem which was penned by Thomas Michael Wallace 22 May 1864: "This evening at sundown died my son, Thomas. He was a lovely, mild, and affectionate boy. He has gone to the land of repose, No sorrow nor sin there annoys. But here we must mourn over the loss Of our lovely, affectionate boy. Farewell for a while, brightest gem. Thou wilt shine in thy newly won life. We will join thee in years yet to come When we've valiantly finished the strife." The following spring, 1865, Mary Ann and Jane Ann were both with child. On 10 March 1865, Mary Ann gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth. A few weeks later, on 28 April 1865, not even a year after Nathaniel and Jane arrived in Utah, Jane Ann Burnhope Spens died and was buried on the second of May, probably laid to rest beside Mary Ann's baby, Thomas. The new sorrow and loss Nathaniel and little Isabella felt were tempered by the hope of meeting beyond the veil, and were not reasons to berate God or his new religion. Death was not new to Nathaniel; he had lost his own mother at the age of thirteen and many of his brothers and sisters had died young. It seems that his mother, Isabella Irvine Spens, was a carrier for hemophilia as was his sister, Sarah. It is suspected that Mary Ann helped with little Isabella following Jane Ann's death. Mary Ann probably wrote her parents the sad news of Willie's and Jane's death. Some four years later, Isaac and Elizabeth Burnhope may have watched for a particular little mound near the Sweetwater Bridge that marked their grandson?s mortal existence. (The Burnhopes provided their own passage fare and sailed June 4, 1868 on the "John Bright," with two children, Thomas, 23, and Betsey, 20. Isaac was 57 years old at the time, occupation, slate layer, and his wife, Elizabeth was 59. "Crossing the Ocean.") Margaret Philpot. Needing a mother for his little daughter and a gentle woman to comfort his heart, Nathaniel very soon married Margaret Philpot (June 12, 1865). Margaret, known as Maggie, was born December 4, 1824 in Hemel, Hemstead, England to James Philpot and Charlotte Bean. Margaret Philpot sailed with her sister Elizabeth from Liverpool aboard the ship, "Manchester" on the 16th of April, 1862 in the company of her sister, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was traveling with her fiance's brother, John Durrant (FHL 298,437, p. 10). A spinster about fourteen years Nathaniel's senior, Maggie arrived in Greater Salt Lake in Captain Henry W. Miller's ox train October 17, 1862. Apparently Margaret Philpot's journey had its share of difficulty. The Deseret News reports the following: "On Friday, 17th; about noon, the fifth church train, Capt. H. W. Miller; arrived, in which were about six hundred and fifty immigrants, and sixty wagons. It seems there was considerable sickness in the company on the plains; and about thirty deaths, mostly Children. The teams generally returned in very good condition" (Desert News, Oct. 22, 1862, p. 132). An earlier edition of the Deseret News dated October 8, 1862 announced that the fifth church train "is supposed to be somewhere between Fort Bridger and Green River." The notice speculated that, due to the unavoidable lateness of the season, the companies still on the trail might encounter snow storms before arriving in the valley. A still earlier notice dated September 17, 1862 provides readers with a report that snow had fallen earlier that week in the mountains while rain had fallen in the valleys. That same paper carried a list of Saints in Capt. Miller's company, including Margaret Philpot, a spinster traveling with her sister who was married to E. J. Durrant. What faith this single woman must have had to travel to Zion, across the depths of the sea and across a divided and war-torn nation. One child, Elizabeth Philpot Spens, was born to Margaret and Nathaniel on December 12, 1866 in American Fork, Utah County, Utah. Margaret, affectionately known as Maggie, was not to nurture and grace this family long. After three short years, Maggie died on March 21, 1868 and was buried in American Fork in the John Durrant cemetery plot. Maggie's sister, Lizzie Philpot Durrant, was widowed without children 23 Jul 1867, prior to Maggie's death. Lizzie seemed the perfect solution to nurture Nathaniel's second daughter, at least for a time. She raised straw and braided straw for hats. Elizabeth reported to her children that, thanks to Aunt Lizzie, she enjoyed a new straw hat each year. Aunt Lizzie Durrant married Mr. Henry Collum, a polygamist, in 1878. Correspondance to England dated August 29, 1885 included the following: "I came here (to Utah) because I felt it was right to come, not to get rich but because it was just as necessary as it was for in older times for Noah and his family to save themselves by going into the ark. As we have not talk(ed) in our letters about my religion, I am going to ask you have you ever heard the Latter day Saints preach the same Gospel that Jesus and his disciples preached when he was on the earth? I used to think when I was a girl how I would like to live in those days but now I am thankful I heard the Gospel now as it is the same that it was. I expect you have heard all the stories about us as a people but we are trying to do what is right and wish to do good to everybody....Since I joined it I would not leave it for anything in the world as what I have embraced, if I live a Life according to it, will save me in a world to come and that is everything to me." Many years later the relationship between young Elizabeth Philpot Spens and her aunt, Elizabeth Philpot Durrant Collum, would again be poignantly sweet as the niece received her aunt into her home and cared for her in her twilight years. It was there that Elizabeth Cullom died January 19, 1921 in Salt Lake City and is buried in Lot 132 near her first husband, Edward John Durrant, and her sister, Margaret "Spense." Following Maggie's death in 1868, it appears that Nathaniel moved to Salt Lake City. His first wife's sister, Mary Ann Wallace and family had moved to Salt lake in 1866 and her parents arrived from England the same year Maggie died (1868). Perhaps little Lizzie was left with Aunt Elizabeth in American Fork and Isabella, age six, went to Salt Lake City to her grandparents and Aunt Mary's while her father worked. Nathaniel is found in the 1869 Salt Lake City Directory: "Spence,___ painter, 12th wd. 3 E. bet. 2 and 3 S." Mary Jane Campbell. A year after Maggie's death, Nathaniel sought a third wife. He most likely met Mary Campbell during a visit to American Fork to see his daughters, Elizabeth and Isabella - the Campbells had settled in American Fork. Mary Campbell was rebaptized by Brother Shelley on June 19, 1869, two days prior to her marriage to Nathaniel Spens. Nathaniel married Mary Campbell in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City on his 31st birthday, June 21, 1869. Mary was 19 years old. That same day Nathaniel had Jane Ann Burnhope sealed to him first. According to the Endowment House records, Joseph F. Smith performed the sealings for Nathaniel, Jane and Mary. Maggie was seemingly forgotten, her temple ordinances left undone. [Kerry's note: website from which this biography was taken also has extensive biography on Mary Cambell.] Not too long after Mary and Nathaniel married, Mary's parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell, moved to Salt Lake City and lived just east of Liberty Park in what was later called Old Rock Row. A year later, on the 25th of August, in the 1870 Census (page 184), Nathaniel and Mary are living in American Fork. Not only are Nathaniel's two girls back with him, but he and Mary have a baby, James. It appears that the family was away when the Census was taken. Perhaps a neighbor was questioned and provided the census taker with the surname of Spencer rather than Spens. Nathaniel and Mary's ages were most likely estimated as they are shown as being only two years apart in age. Finally, James is recorded as being born in February rather than March. It is noted in the census that the mother could neither read nor write. In addition to raising Nathaniel's two little daughters, Isabella and Elizabeth, whom Mary willingly took into her arms and heart, she bore Nathaniel twelve children. Their first son was born March 13, 1870, in American Fork and named James in the traditional Scottish pattern, after Nathaniel's father. When James was born, there were twenty other families living in the American Fork area, all farmers. Their immediate neighbors, according to the 1870 Census, were the Laycoxes and the Bloods. About seven months later, on October 17, 1870 Leonard E. Harrington, Mayor of American Fork City, sold Nathaniel Spens an acre and a quarter of land for the sum of $2.25. The parcel of land is described as Lot 4, Block 33, Plat A, situated in Section 14, Township 5, South Range 1 Cast do. This parcel of land is located by present address as 200 North and 100 West in American Fork. A second son born to Nathaniel and Mary was named Thomas in honor of Mary's father, again following the naming tradition. This son was also a namesake of Nathaniel's brother and grandfather. Sometime after Thomas's birth on February 14, 1872, the family moved to Salt Lake City where the next nine children were born. Nathaniel was living in Salt Lake City on the nineteenth of September 1872 when he sold the land he previously purchased in American Fork. Having purchased the land in American Fork from the mayor for $2.25, he sold it to Jefferson Eastmond for the sum of $95.00 in hand. Salt Lake City, Utah. Daniel H. Wells, the Mayor of Salt Lake City, in consideration of the sum of $2.05 paid by Nathaniel Spens of Salt Lake City deeded the East half of Lot two in Block 3 containing 100 square rods as plotted in Plot B on February 10, 1873. (This transaction was not recorded until December 27, 1889 just prior to the time Nathaniel sold the property. This information is recorded in Book 3 D, on pages 313-314.) The third child born to Nathaniel and Mary was named Mary Jane. She was born October 6, 1873 and was their first child to be born in Salt Lake City. Following tradition, she would have been named Elizabeth after Mary's mother; however, since Nathaniel already had a daughter named Elizabeth, this child was named after Mary, herself, and after her sister, Jane. Little Mary Jane's maternal grandmother, Mary Durham Campbell was honored, too. The name may have had additional meaning to Nathaniel, having a deceased sister named Mary. Nathaniel's step-mother was named Jane also but it would be speculative to suggest their common name was more than a coincidence. Nathaniel appears in the Salt Lake City General Directory for 1874, living on the property described above: Spens Nathaniel, painter, 1 wd. 9 S. bet. 7 and 8 E. Carter Photography and C. R. Savage's Pioneer Art Gallery are also listed in the 1874 Directory. The second daughter is most often named after the father's mother. However, Nathaniel already had a daughter named Isabell, having followed the naming pattern earlier. And, although Mary had a little girl named Lizzie, she may have felt sad about not naming a daughter Elizabeth in honor of her own dear mother. To solve the problem, they named their fourth child and second daughter Anna Elizabeth and called her Annie. Little Annie was born September 3, 1875. Having completed the demand of the formal Scottish naming tradition, Nathaniel and Mary continued to perpetuate the memory of kin as they chose name | Spens, Nathaniel (I12)
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| 2198 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1851 Eng: Haydock, Lancashire, p. 19 of 30, no. 61, living at Lock Cottage: George Birchall, mar., 34, excavater, b. Lancashire, Croft. Sarah Birchall, wife, mar., 24, b. Cheshire, Bainfold. Sarah Atkinson, niece, 10, b. Lancashire, Newton. 4 additional unrelated lodgers and 1 unrelated servant. 1860 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah, 1417/1393: George Burchell, 44, $200/600, England. Sarah Burchell, 32, England. 1870 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah: George Birchnell, 53, England. Sarah Birchnell, 44, England. Amanda Birchell, 16, California. 1880 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah, NA Film T9-1336, p. 400A: George Birchall, farmer, M, 64, Eng Eng Eng. Sarah Birchall, keeping house, wife, M, 54, Eng Eng Eng. 2. Utah State Historical Society Burials Database online: Birchell, ___, no birth nor death date but buried in Nephi Vine Bluff Cemetery Vb_A_4_4_17. May possibly be gravesite of this individual except the plot seems to not be too close to husband's at Vb_B_2_8_19. BIRTH: 1. FHL film 1033729 "Nephi Ward Record Survey" extensively compiled by Miss Mattie Hiatt in 1939 from church records, city records, and many other sources: p. 40: Birchell; Source is Old Church Records: a. "1816. George born 8 Mar. 1816 in Croft, Lanc., Eng., son of Jeffrey Birchell and Annah Gaulding, bp. 8 Mar 1851 by John Ashcroft, conf. same time by John Bradshaw. No. 933 pg. 39." b. "1826. Sarah Hobson born 1 Feb 1826 in Kendal, Westmoreland, Eng. dau. of Thomas Hobson and Sarah Riddin, bp. 8 Mar 1851 by John Ashcroft, conf. same time and man, wife of George Birchell. No. 934 pg. 39." 2. Per LDS temple work at Manti in 1892: 1 Jan 1826 at Goslane, Lancashire, England. Name given at the same time was Sarah Hodgin Birchall. 3. FHL film 183395, batch M183395, 1856-1866, Extracted LDS Temple Marriage Sealing, and ref. 4344, George Birchell, b. 8 Mar 1816 at Croft, Lancashire, England, and Sarah Hodgson, b. 1 Feb 1826 at Macclesfield, Wiltshire, England. 4. 1851 census gives her place of birth as Bainfold, Cheshire. 5. LDS Membership Record shows Sarah Birchall, birth of 1 Feb 1826 at Macclesfield, Cheshire, England to parents Thomas and Sarah [no surnames for parents]. 6. FHL film 392637 "LDS Patriarchal Blessings Index": Sarah Hodgson Birchal, b. 11 Feb 1826 at Yorkshire, England, parents Thomas and Sarah Hodgson. Blessing date 9 Jan 1855 at Nephi, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch William Cazier. Vol. 137, p. 99. MARRIAGE: 1. Married before emigration of 1853 per obituary of husband. He later marries Sarah Howe per 1900 Census which indicates they had been married two years; his obituary gives marriage date of 1897 to the second Sarah. DEATH: 1. Per husband's obituary, she died in 1877. This may be an error since she shows up in 1880 census; perhaps correct would be 1887? | Hodgson, Sarah (I607)
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| 2199 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1851 Eng: Haydock, Lancashire, p. 19 of 30, no. 61, living at Lock Cottage: George Birchall, mar., 34, excavater, b. Lancashire, Croft. Sarah Birchall, wife, mar., 24, b. Cheshire, Bainfold. Sarah Atkinson, niece, 10, b. Lancashire, Newton. 4 additional unrelated lodgers and 1 unrelated servant. 1860 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah, 1417/1393: George Burchell, 44, $200/600, England. Sarah Burchell, 32, England. 1870 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah: George Birchnell, 53, England. Sarah Birchnell, 44, England. Amanda Birchell, 16, California. 1880 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah, NA Film T9-1336, p. 400A: George Birchall, farmer, M, 64, Eng Eng Eng. Sarah Birchall, keeping house, wife, M, 54, Eng Eng,Eng. 1900 US: Nephi, Juab Utah, E.D. 104, sht. 14, 19 Jun 1900, Nephi City: George Birchell, b. March 1816, 84, Married 2 years, Eng Eng Eng, emigrated to US in 1853. Sarah, wife, b. Apr. 1848, age 52, married 2 years, no children, Eng Eng Eng, emigrated to US in 1886 and 14 years resident of US. [This Sarah is evidently a second wife.] 2. Parents are Jeffrey Birchell and Hannah Glover. Burial Index cited below gives Jeffry and Ann Birchall. 3. Reviewed Rootsweb.com Worldconnect 8 Dec 2002. 4. FHL film 1033729 "Nephi Ward Record Survey" extensively compiled by Miss Mattie Hiatt in 1939 from church records, city records, and many other sources: P. 40: Birchell; Source is Old Church Records: a. "1816. George born 8 Mar. 1816 in Croft, Lanc., Eng., son of Jeffrey Birchell and Annah Gaulding, bp. 8 Mar 1851 by John Ashcroft, conf. same time by John Bradshaw. No. 933 pg. 39." b. "1826. Sarah Hobson born 1 Feb 1826 in Kendal, Westmoreland, Eng. dau. of Thomas Hobson and Sarah Riddin, bp. 8 Mar 1851 by John Ashcroft, conf. same time and man, wife of George Birchell. No. 934 pg. 39." c. "1854. Armanda Jane born 4 June 1854 in San Bernardino, Calif., adopted dau. of George Birchell and Sarah Hobson (see Armanda Jane Winner, wife of Robert Beagley) bp. 12 Sept. 1862 by William Evans, conf. 13 Sept 1862 by John Borrowman, wife of above. No. 935 pg. 39." P. 40: Birchell; Source is Burial Records: a. "1815. George born 8 Mar 1815 in England, son of Jeffrey an Ann - Birchall, died 11 Apr. 1908. V.B.C. pg. 21." b. "1843. Sara Love House, born 9 Jan 1843 in Long, Middleson(sex?), England, dau. of George Salisbury and Eliza Jarrett died 7 Oct 1915. C.C. pg. 30 (see Gr.S. [gravestone] wife of Charles House)." c. "1852, Amanda Beagley born 4 June 1852 in San Bernardino, dau. of George Birchell died 9 May 1919. V.B.C. pg. 38." P. 40: Birchell; Source is Vine Bluff Cemetery: a. "1816. George born 8 Mar 1816 in Croft, Lancashire, Eng. died 11 Apr 1908. Gr.S." 5. Per letter of Enid Willardson to Wildra Welch, 350 Starcrest Drive, SLC, UT, 84116 [no date but after 1990]: "...I am sending you a family group sheet for George Birchall. So far as I know, they had no children. None are on the emigration or LDS records. However, after arriving in Utah, they took my grandmother [Amanda Jane Winner], then a girl of about 12 years, into their home. She lived with them until her marriage. Since they had no known descendants, I obtained permission to work on their lines..." Please note that Amanda's obituary says she was adopted at age 7. 6. Adoption of Amanda Winner by George Birchall may have been de facto rather than legal. One note on a family group sheet says: "Amanda was raised by Birchall but never legally adopted". BIRTH: 1. Date of 11 Apr 1815 given per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Obituary and 1900 census indicate year is 1816 and not 1815. FHL film 1033729 "Nephi Ward Record Survey" cited above also has the varying 1815 and 1816 dates. 2. FHL film 392637 "LDS Patriarchal Blessings Index": George Birchal, b. 8 Mar 1817 at Lancashire, England, parents Jeffrey and Hannah Birchal. Blessing date 9 Jan 1855 at Nephi, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch William Cazier. Vol. 137, p. 98. CHRISTENING: 1. From the online Ordinance Index extracted records FHL film printout 0472536, source film 0223727, 0990033, batch P014421, 1733 -1768, Geo. Birhcall, b. 8 Mar 1816, chr. 19 Apr 1816 at Winwick, Lancashire, England, parents Geoffry and Hannah Birchall. MARRIAGE: 1. Sarah Hodgson: Married before emigration of 1853 per obituary. 2. Sarah Howe: 1900 Census indicates they had been married two years. Obituary gives her last name and marriage date of 1897. FHL film 1033729 "Nephi Ward Record Survey" cited above notes: "Sara Love House, born 9 Jan 1843 in Long [London], Middleson [Middlesex], England, dau. of George Salisbury and Eliza Jarrett died 7 Oct 1915. C.C. pg. 30 (see Gr.S.[gravestone] wife of Charles House)." 3. Family Search's "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937": Mr. George Birchall, 82, and Sarah Grove House, 55, md. 29 Sep 1897 at San Pete county, Utah. 4. Family Search's "Utah, Marriages, 1887-1966": George Birchell, 82, and Sarah Grove House, 55, md. 29 Sep 1897 at Manti, San Pete, Utah. DEATH: 1. Date per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. 2. Per obituary. 3. Per FHL film 1033729 "Nephi Ward Record Survey" cited above. BURIAL: 1. Place per website for Utah State Historical Society Cemeteries Database; 8 Jan 2002. Notes lot "Vb_B_2_8_19" with source of "Sexton/Grant"; parents are Jeffry and Ann Birchall. 2. Burial card: George Birchall; name of parents: Jeffry & Ann Birchall; b. 8 Mar 1815 [stone says 1816] in Croft, Lancashire, England; cause of death: General Debility; death: 11 Apr, 1908; burial 14 Apr 1908 at Pine Bluff [cemetery], lot S1/2-8, Block 2, Plat B #19. OBITUARY: 1. "George Birchall died here April 11, of old age. Mr Birchall was born March 8, 1816 at Croff, Lancashire, England. Joined the Church in 1850; emigrated with his wife Sarah in 1853, and settled in Nephi one year later. His wife died in 1877 and he married Sarah Howe in 1897 who still survives him. Millennial Star please copy." Deseret Evening News, Tues., 21 Apr 1908, p. 3. | Birchall, George (I458)
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| 2200 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Censuses: 1851 Eng: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, p. 32 of 43, #171: George Dayley, 28, dealer. Margaret, 29, wife. Edward Dayley, 7, son. Thomas, 5, son. Margaret, 3, dau. Louisa, 11 mo., dau. Margaret Philpotts, 26, niece, unm. Elizabeth Philpotts, 13, niece, unm. 1861 Eng: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, p. 56 of 57, #195, all born in same county and parish: Margaret Philpot, unmarried, 36, plaiter of straw, b. Herts., Hemel Hempstead. Sarah Ann Smith, boarder, 4, b. Wilts., Gerotfield. Elizabeth Philpot, sister, unmar., 22, plaiter of straw, b. Herts., Hemel Hempstead. BIOGRAPHY: 1. Parents are James and Charlotte Philpot per Ord. Index. BIRTH: 1. Ordinance Index indicates Dec. 1828. Ancestral file indicates 4 Dec 1827. Other modern variants in Ord. Ind. are christ. 28 Jan 1825. | Philpot, Margaret (I1575)
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