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Armelia Caroline Mangum

Female 1834 - 1916  (82 years)


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  • Name Armelia Caroline Mangum 
    Born 21 Mar 1834  , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 15 Dec 1916  Garland, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 18 Dec 1916  Fielding, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1326  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William Mangum,   b. 25 Dec 1811, , Maury, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1888, Circleville, Piute, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Sarah or Sally Ada Adair,   b. 27 Dec 1815, , , Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1852, near Loup River Ford, Platte, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years) 
    Married Abt 1833  of, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F374  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Husband Jacob G. Bigler: FHL Book "Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 Dec 1845 - 7 Feb 1846": Jacob G. Bigler, high priest, b. 4 Apr 1813 at Harrison Co., Virginia, end. 25 Dec 1845.

      2. Censuses:
      1840 US: Northern District, Itawamba Co., Mississippi, related families from full survey of county census:
      P. 136a: Samuel Adair, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 30-40:1; females 0-5:1; 30-40:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 144a: John Mangum, males 15-20:1; 70-80:1; females 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 50-60:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 150a: Joseph Adair, males 30-40:1; females 20-30:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 156a: Thomas Adair, males 20-30: 1; females 0-5: 1; 15-20:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 157a: William Mangum, Jr., males 5-10:1; 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1. No slaves listed.

      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.]

      1870 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah, p. 321:
      Amelia Bigler, 35, keeping house, AL.
      Don M., 16, at home, UT.
      Amy A., 13, at home, UT.
      Eliza, 9, at home, UT.

      1880 US: Nephi, Juab, Utah, NA T9-1336, FHL 1255336, p. 385D:
      Caroline Bigler, marr., 47, AL NC TN, keeping house.
      Eliza Bigler, s, 19, UT VA AL, at home.

      3. Descendant Karl Whittington indicates that the Mangum book cited below and other websites have an error by citing her name as "Amy Carline." Her correct name is Armelia Caroline Mangum. He indicates that his grandmother, Netie Beryl Bigler Bowers, wrote by hand and sent to Delta Hale back in 1954 information in response to her request for information. His grandmother was legally blind and her penmanship was just as bad; her response included both the spelling Carline and Caroline - Delta chose Carline given the equal choice. He indicates "Caroline" is correct. He has copies of the original correspondence.

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. The book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, pp.32-33, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "Diary of Armelia C. Bigler a she wrote it: 'January 1, 1885. I (Armelia Caroline Mangum Bigler] was born March 21, 1834 at Pickens County, Alabama. Moved from there with my parents (Sarah and William Mangum) at the age of seven to the state of Mississippi, Itawamba County and in December 1845 was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by a Brother George Steward, confirmed by him and a Brother Gibbs. Started to Nauvoo about the 15th of January 1846 and arrived there about the 20th of March the same year. Stayed there one week and crossed the Mississippi River and traveled west. Sometimes camping one month at a place. Arrived at Mt. Pisgah (a settlement of Saints) the day the Father Huntington was buried, Sister Zina Young's father, and my baby brother was buried close to him in a few days. Stayed there four years and a half and moved to Council Bluffs. Stayed there one winter amd moved to a settlement on the Bongo River. Stayed there one winter; became acquainted with my husband, Jacob G. Bigler. Was sealed to him on February 12, 1852 by Ezra T. Benson. I was eighteen years old the next month. In June of the same year, crossed the Missouri River and started across the plains for Salt Lake City. On the 28th of June, my youngest sister died with cholera - age one year and eight months; there we left her lonely little grave. We traveled 15 days and buried my mother without a coffin. So many of the pioneers died, there was no coffin for her so they stripped the bark from a large tree. They dressed her in the best they had and with one strip of bark under her and one over, they joined both ends and dug a deep grave to protect her body from the wolves and buried her. She also died with cholera, was taken sick at night and was buried before nine o'clock the next morning. She left two children besides myself, one sister thirteen and a brother eleven years old. We arrived in Salt Lake City on September 23, 1852. Stayed there a few days and came on to Provo, and stopped there one week and my husband was called to settle Nephi and ordained to the office of Bishop there in October 1852. I was eighteen and seven months old. On January 16, 1854 my first child was born, Don M. Bigler my only son. I came near losing my life, but was restored through the power of God, and the second of April 1856 my first daughter was born, which only lived one month, taking the measles from me at two weeks old. Her name was Sarah M. Bigler. On the 17 of July 1857 my second daughter was born, Amy Armelia Bigler Grover. On April 6, 1861 my husband was called on a mission to England; and on the second of June, the same year, my third daughter was born, Caroline Eliza Bigler Grover. She was two and a half years old when her father retured. January twenty second my fourth daughter was born.'"

      2. Quote about her husband's family: Bathsheba Bigler, sister of Jacob and the eventual fourth President of the General Relief Society, wrote about fleeing Nauvoo: "We left a comfortable home, the accumulations of four years of labor and thrift and took away with us only a few much needed articles such as clothing, bedding and provisions. We left everything else behind for our enemies. My last act in that precious spot was to tidy the rooms, sweep up the floor, and set the broom in its accustomed place behind the door. Then with emotions in my heart which I could not now pen… I gently closed the door and faced an unknown future…with faith in God." -Bathsheba Bigler 1826-1910. Note she had lost her father due to the Missouri persecutions. Two years later, on January 24, 1848, Henry Bigler, her cousin and a former member of the Mormon Battalion stationed at Sutter's Mill, recorded in his diary: "this day some kind of mettle was found in the rail race that looks like goald. First discovered by James Martial the Boss of the Mill." This started the Gold Rush to California. Bathsheba's sister Melissa becomes the grandmother to Joseph Fielding Smith.

      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. Entry in the book "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah," p. 754:
      "Bigler, Jacob G. (son of Mark Bigler, born in Pennsylvania, and Susannah Ogden, born in Maryland). He was born April 4, 1813, Harrison county, W. Va. Came to Utah 1852, Lorenzo Johnson company. Married Amy Lorett Chase June 18, 1844, Nauvoo, Ill. (daughter of Abner Chase, born April 24, 1784, died March 21, 1829, and Amy Scott, born Oct. 5, 1789, died April 10, 1872, both of Virginia). She was born Nov. 7, 1822. Their children: Jacob, m. Elizabeth Harley; David, m. Eliza Betts; Abner, m. Elizabeth Tranter; Mary Ann, m. Ebenezer Tanner; Mark, m. Madaline Pyper; Amy Lorett, m. James Harvey Mangum; Charles Edwin, m. Mary T. Stephens; Susannah, m. John Robert Goldsbrough; James, m. Maud Whitbeck; Alice, m. Frederick Garrett. Married Armelia Caroline Mangum Feb. 12, 1852, Kanesville, Iowa (daughter of William Mangum, born Dec. 25, 1811, in St. Clair county, Ala., and Sarah Adair, born Dec. 27, 1813, in Pickens county, Ala, pioneers 1852, Lorenzo Johnson company). Their children: Armelia b. July 17, 1857, m. Napoleon Grover; Eliza b. June 1861, m. Jedediah Grover; Don Manzum b. Jan. 16, 1854, m. Mary Henrietta Henriod. Family home at Nephi, Utah. Bishop; patriarch; president Juab stake 1864-96. Probate judge Juab county; mayor of Nephi 1861; member Territorial Assembly six years, Indian war veteran. Farmer and stockraiser. Died Feb. 23, 1907."

      5. Ancestry.com. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997. Original data: Jenson, Andrew. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901:
      "Bigler, Jacob G., first president of the Juab Stake of Zion, was born April 4, 1813, near Shinnston, Harrison county, West Virginia, son of Mark Bigler and Susannah Ogden. He was baptized at Far West, Caldwell county, Mo., June 10, 1838, by Stephen Winchester, passed through the Missouri and Illinois persecutions, acted as Bishop in Iowa and came to the Valley in 1850. Soon afterwards he located in Nephi, Juab county, his present home, from whence he filled a mission to Great Britain in 1861 to 1863. When the settlements in Juab county were organized into a Stake of Zion in 1868, Jacob G. Bigler was chosen and set apart as president of the same, and he acted in that capacity till 1871. Elder Bigler is now nearly eighty-nine years old."

      BIRTH:
      1. Per autobiography.

      2. FHL film 1033729 "The Nephi Book," a complilation of Nephi, Utah, ward records, pp. 209:
      -"Old Church Record, 1834: Armelia Caroline Mangum (Bigler) born 21 Mar. 1834 in Pickins Co., Alabama, dau. of William Mangum and Sarah Adair, bp. Dec. 1845 by George Steward, conf. same time and aman, rebp. 16 Oct 1875 by Joel Grover, reconf. 16 Oct. 1875 by George Kendall, wife of Jacob G. Bigler, No. 33, pg. 2."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Per Ancestral File v4.19: Jacob George Bigler, 12 Feb 1852, Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Pottawattamie, Iowa. She was Jacob's third wife.

      DEATH:
      1. Per Ancestral File v4.19

      BURIAL:
      1. Per Ancestral File v4.19

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Nauvoo LDS Land and Records Office research file (copy in my possession as of 2 Jun 2007 and also partially viewable at www.earlylds.com). Includes family group sheet from Ancestral File and Susan Black's entry in her book "Early LDS Members."