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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Ancestral File gives birth 10 Dec 1842 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois to Jacob John Waggle and Mary Vance (Vancel). She dies 1 Apr 1929 and is buried 3 Apr 1929 both at Parowan, Iron, Utah. She married Valentine in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, Utah. She appears to have previously been married to William Lewis Penrod 28 Apr 1857 at the Endowment House. Hannah is somewhat related to the other wife Mary Ann; Mary Ann's father was Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr. who had two wives: Francis Rogers and Mary Vance. Mary Ann's mother is Francis and Hannah's mother is Mary Vance but her father is Jacob Waggle to whom Mary Vance was married before Thomas Adair. Jacob died at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa in 1845. Utah State Historical Society's online Burials Database shows: Hannah Carson, birth unknown, death 1 Apr 1929 due to cerebral hemorhage, bur. Parowan cemetery plot 04-15-02 with parents noted as Jacob Waggle and Mary Vancil.
2. Censuses:
1850 US: Madison Co., Iowa, 7 Oct 1850, family 881:
Thomas Adiar, 34, farmer, OH. (Misspelled Adair)
Mary, wife, 28, IL. (Mary Vancel his second wife.)
Cyntha, 12, AL. (Dau. of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle; birthplace most likely in error.)
Maryann, 12, AL. (Dau. of first marriage to Frances Rogers.)
Thomas, 2, IA. (Son of Thomas and Mary Vancel)
James, 8, Mississippi. (Son of first marriage to Frances Rogers.)
John, 7, IL. (Son of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle.)
Hannah, 6, IL. (Dau. of Mary Vancel and Jacob Waggle.)
Emma, 5, Mississippi. (Dau. of first marriage to Frances Rogers.)
Jonathan Davis, 22, laborer, Upper Canada.
Alexander Davis, 20, laborer, Upper Canada.
1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Cynthia, John and Hannah are all children of the first marriage of Mary Vancel to Jacob Waggle. Mary A., James, and Emma are children of Thomas' first marriage with Frances Rogers. Thomas and Aaron are children of Thomas and Mary Vancel. Census return:
Adair: Thomas 36, Mary 37, Mary A. 14, Cynthia 14, John 11, James 10, Hannah 9, Emma 6, Thomas 2, Aaron L. 0. [Note next door neighbors are the William/Sarah Mangum and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.]
The 1856 Utah Territorial Census was taken because Utah was trying to get statehood to avoid some of the problems that later came. As a result they wanted as many people as possible and frequently included names of everyone in a family without regard to whether they were living or dead. As a result, some of the people listed with the family may not actually have been in the household in 1856. The Adair and Mangums listed included the following heads of households in the Provo and Payson City area: George W. Adair, James Mangum, Joseph Adair (wife Rebecca), Samuel Adair, and Thomas Adair. Source for the following entry is FHL film # 505,913 (index in FHL book 979.2X22u); Ms d 2929 fd. 33, Payson City, p. 8: Payson City, p. 9:
Thomas Adair
Maria "
Mary Ann "
James "
Hannah " (Kerry's note: this would be Hannah Waggle.)
Emma "
Thomas "
Aaron Adair
Frances "
Moroni "
Samuel J. "
Alma "
Sarah "
Adam "
Frances "
John "
1870 US: Washington, Washington, Utah, enum. 6 Jul 1870, Roll 1613 Book 1, p. 411a, household 19, family 29 (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):
Valentine Carson, 38, farmer, $700 real estate, $300 personal property, AL.
Hannah, 24 (or 29?), keeping house, IL.
Samuel, 13, UT.
Jeremiah 7, UT.
Mary E., 4, UT.
Elizabeth, 2, UT.
William F., 6/12, UT.
1880 US: Parowan, Iron, Utah, FHL film 1255336, NA film T9-1336, p. 361A (appears four older children possibly are not from Hannah):
Voluntine Carson, 49, farmer, AL SC SC.
Hannah, wife, 35, keeping house, IL - - .
E. Mary, dau., 15, UT AL SC.
J. Elizabeth, dau., 12, UT AL SC.
F. William, son, 10, UT AL SC.
A. Alty, dau., 8, UT AL SC.
A. Rebecca, dau., 6, UT AL IL.
J. Eliza, dau., 4, UT AL IL.
E. Rachel, dau., 2, UT AL IL.
1900 US: Parowan, Iron, Utah, enum. 8 Jun 1900, p. 278B, household 101, family 102:
Hannah Carson, b. Dec 1841, 58, widow, 11 total children with 9 alive, housewife, USA USA USA.
Rebecca, dau., Apr 1874, 26, S, Utah, MS, USA.
John, son, Mar? 1880, 19, S, Utah, MS, USA.
1910 US: Parowan, Iron, Utah, enum. 18 Apr 1910, roll 1603 book 2, p. 173b, household 25, family 28, listed as part of family 27:
John H. Miller, 35, married 9 years, farmer, UT SCO US.
Rebecca A., wife, 32, married 9 years, UT AL IL.
Horace C., son, 8, Parowan, Parowan, UT.
Bernice, dau., 6, Parowan, Parowan, UT.
Betran, son, 6, Parowan, Parowan, UT.
Mable, dau., 4, Parowan, Parowan, UT.
Clair C., son, 2, Parowan, Parowan, UT.
Hannah Carson, 66, married 44 years, IL US US.
3. See husband's notes for quote of daughter Mary Ellen Carson Tait's biography. The surname of Wygle is used [perhaps erroneously] as well as Waggle.
4. From the booklet "Thomas Jefferson Adair (1814-1890)," FHL 921.73 Ad11r, 2004, by Rose Ann Ritchie: Mary Vance was born 27 Sep 1820 in St. Clair, Illinois to Adam Vance (1790) and Catherine Penrod (1794). Mary was the 3rd of 6 children born to her parents. Her brothers and sisters were Nancy (1814), Young John (1817), Aaron (1822), Moriah (1826), and Cynthia (1828). Mary's first husband, Jacob Waggle, was born 1814 of Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. He died 3 Jan 1845 at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa at the age of 31. Mary and Jacob had 5 children:
Cynthia Waggle was born 19 Aug 1837 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. She was 8 years old when her father died. She was 15 years old in 1852 when she married George Washington Bradley. They were later divorced. She was 24 years old when she married Reuben John Dove, in Salt Lake, Utah. She died at the age of 67 on 16 Jan 1904.
Alma Waggle was born 15 April 1839 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois.
John Waggle was born 18 Apr 1841 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois.
Hannah Waggle was born 10 Dec 1842 at Pike Co., Illinois. Hannah was 3 years old when her father died. She married William Lewis Penrod. I think he died and she the married Valentine Carson in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, Utah at the age of 20. She was 87 when she died at Parowan, Iron, Utah on 1 Mar 1929.
Sarah Waggle was born 17 Dec 1844 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois."
PHOTOS:
1. I have photos of Valentine Carson and his wife Hannah Waggle together and also a separate photo of Mary Ann Adair.
BIOGRAPHY:
1. See husband's notes for quote of daughter of Mary Ellen Carson Tait's biography with several mentions of Valentine's and Hannah's life in Washington, Kanarra, and Parowan.
2. The book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 510, photo in article: "Hannah Waggle Carson, b. 10 Dec 1842 at Hancock Co., IL; d. 1 Apr 1929 at Parowan, Iron, UT; parents are Jacob Waggle and Mary Vancil; pioneer of 1851/1852 in the Harrison Wagon Train; m. Valentine Carson in 1862 at Nephi, Juab, UT; Valentine died 25 Sep 1898 at Parowan, Iron, UT. Children:
Mariah, 1 Nov 1862 (stillborn)
Hannah Marie, 14 May 1863 (died in infancy)
Mary Ellen, 29 Jan 1865
Elizabeth Jane, 28 Dec 1868
William Franklin, 18 Dec 1870
Alta Armedia, 9 Jun 1872
Rebecca Ann, 26 Apr 1874
Eliza Jane, 16 Mar 1876
Rachel Emma, 11 Dec 1877
John Thomas, 15 Nov 1880
Senetha Chelia, 5 Mar 1882 (died at age 1)
Sintha Cathia, 9 Mar 1883 (died in infancy)
Hannah's father died when she was two years old. Her mother married Thomas Adair. In the year of 1852, Hannah was nine years old when she came with her family across the Plains. They were in Captain Harrison's Wagon Company and passed through many hardships on the journey westward. When they reached the Salt Lake Valley, they settled at Salt Creek which is now Nephi. Then her family was called to Washington County to settle the country and this was where she met Valentine Carson. They went back to Nephi to be married and she became his second wife. Hannah's husband made his second trip across the Plains to bring Saints to the Valley which took him seven months, returning to Washington County where they lived through many hardships together. Later, when the St. George Temple was being built, Valentine and Hannah moved to St. George. Valentine did a great deal to help in building the temple. Hannah helped by cooking for the men who worked in the temple. When the temple was completed, they did work for their dead. In the year 1877, they moved with their family to Kanarra. In 1879, the moved to Parowan where they lived for several years, then they moved onto a homestead in the west part of Parowan Valley. When the World War was on, the younger women were sewing for the Red Cross and the older ladies were knitting socks. Hannah knit 36 pair of socks for the soldiers. Besides raising eleven children of her own, she helped to raise her husband's son by a first wife and also a little girl of George Adair's which she nursed and cared for as her own."
3. From the book "History of Piute County" by Linda King Newell, pp. 208-213, has the following sad story about Emma Carson, daughter of Valentine Carson. Valentine was the son of Samuel Carson and Eliza Jane Adair (daughter of Thomas Adair and Rebecca Brown). Ann Hales in the story is Jemima Ann Adair, daughter of George Washington Adair and his first wife Ann Chestnut who was adopted by Valentine and his wife when Ann Chestnut Adair died in childbirth. Jemima Ann Adair had married Charles Henry Hales. Valentine Carson first married Mary Ann Adair who died in 1861 and who George's first cousin from his uncle Thomas. Valentine's second wife was then Hannah Waggle who is mentioned in the story:
"Tragedy at Blue Springs. In 1908 the Utah Dept. of Fish and Game hired John 'Jack' D. Morrill of Junction to operate the fish hatchery at Blue Springs in Garfield County. The hatchery would help restock the fished-out waters in Piute and Garfield Counties with rainbow and eastern brook trout... One contemporary described him as 'a very intelligent man and a very religious man (who) was kind to everyone... same with his wife, Emma.' Born in Kanarraville and raised in Parowan, Emma Carson met Jack Morrill in Junction, where she had gone as a teenager to work for her adopted sister, Ann Hales, who ran a hotel. She was 18 and he 22 when they married in 1893... In 1908 Jack and Emma Morrill moved their four children to the Blue Springs fish hatchery... Although the family was often isolated by deep snows throughout much of the winter, they did have a phone that hooked them to Parowan and also to the Sevy Ranch on the Panguitch side of the mountain... Emma's widowed mother, Hannah Waggle Carson, spent seven summers at Blue Springs with the family, helping her daughter with children and meals. In those beautiful summer months they entertained visitors with a crank freezer full of homemade ice cream and 'lots of fresh fish.' The two women fed 'people by the dozen.' Emma would remember her eight years there as some of her happiest... The winter of 1915-16 turned particularly nasty and the Morrill family was snowed in at Blue Springs for most of December and January. According to one account, 14' snowdrifts piled 'almost to the eves of their porch.' By 26 Jan. the weather lifted. Eager to have news from family and friends, Jack called his brother Jim in Panguitch and asked him to bring their mail up to the Sevy Ranch the next day and he would meet him
there. That night Emma wrote several letters for him to give to Jim to post, including one to her sister Rebecca, in which she expressed her uneasiness with her husband's venture. Emma watched Jack leave on horseback in a light snow at 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. It was eleven miles to the Sevy Ranch, so he agreed to call her from the William Prince ranch house - vacant during the winter - at the south end of Panguitch Lake where there was a telephone. The call came at around 6:00 a.m. - it had taken him two hours to go three miles. The horse was exhausted from fighting the deep snow, so he told Emma he would leave it in the barn there. He proceeded on snowshoes down the mountain, leaving his warm outer coats strapped to his saddle. At about noon Jack reached the Sevy Ranch tired and hungry. Jim and the Sevy family greeted him warmly. They had been worried when the storm began to intensify and he had not arrived. He called Emma to tell her he had arrived safely and he would be starting back soon. At Blue Springs the storm had turned to a raging blizzard with high winds. Emma begged him to stay there until it passed. He assured her he would be alright after he had eaten and rested and that the storm wouldn't last long. He said he would call her again when he got to the Prince ranch where his horse was. As he shouldered 25 pounds of Christmas mail and packages in two packs the Sevys tried to persuade him to wait it out. Worried about his own family, and certain he would be alright, he disappeared into the tempest. This storm proved so furious that it blew out a number of large windows in Panguitch. In the mountains, four feet of new snow fell on drifts already ten to twelve feet high. An anxious Emma fought the snow and wind to the barn where she did evening chores, milking their two cows, feeding the horses and bringing in more firewood. For two days and two nights they watched and waited as the storm raged, plunging temperatures 23 degrees below zero. Emma and twelve-year-old Belle took turns around the clock cranking the telephone to try to get a message over the storm-damaged lines to someone in Parowan or at Sevy's Ranch to tell them Jack had not returned. At one point Emma turned to Belle and said, 'If you will stay with the children I believe I can put on those snowshoes and go out and find Daddy.' The youngsters 'cried and begged her not to go,' so she didn't. Finally, at Parowan, on 27 January Clara Matheson Benson at the telephone switchboard noticed a faint signal and received the news from Emma Morrill. Clara's husband, Philip Benson, began organizing a search party. At a mass meeting that evening the opinion was expressed that the storm was too dangerous to send anyone out into it; however, Fred Bruhn, John Dalton, and John C. Gould volunteered to join Benson. The searchers left at five o'clock the next morning. With the telephone lines to Panguitch down, Clara Benson and her father decided to send a telegram there for help. It had to go from Parowan to Cedar City, then through a number of other stations to San Francisco and back through Salt Lake City to Panguitch. It cost $14.75 - a hefty sum in those days. The telegram read: 'Regardless of cost of distance and rush, John Morrill missing from Blue Springs Hatchery. Must have help. 4 Parowan men already gone. - Simon A. Matheson, Clara M. Benson.' When the message arrived in Panguitch, men there also organized a search party. Finally the blizzard abated. Emma ventured outside again. Snow had drifted over the house. She and Melvin cleared a path to the barn and with an ax chopped the ice from the door. She fed the animals and milked the cows. Returning to the house, she again talked on the phone with Clara. By late afternoon the men from Parowan reached the ridge above Panguitch Lake. They could see two men carrying something toward William Prince's cabin on the west side of the lake. Frank Worthen and Ruby Syrett had found John Morrill's frozen body. He had fallen face first into the snow, just 75 feet from the Prince ranch house. The Parowan men reached the cabin a short time later as did John Gould from Panguitch. They loaded the body onto a makeshift toboggan made from a 'cheese board.' Worthen and several men from both groups took the body to Sevy's Ranch. Benson, Syrett, and another Panguitch man went on to Blue Springs, reaching the Morrill family at about 11:00 p.m. The grieving Emma welcomed them with great relief. The men prepared their supper that night an insisted that Emma and the children eat as well. When they told her they wanted to take the family out to Panguitch, she asked them to leave them there, 'she couldn't stand to think of the suffering they would have to go through to take her out,' Clara Benson wrote. The men fixed breakfast the next morning while Emma packed a few things and got the children ready to go. They found the large metal vat that had been used to prepare fish food and used it as a sleigh. It was about five-by-eight feet, with eight-inch sides. The men piled hay in the bottom, helped the grief-stricken widow and the five children climb in, and placed heated rocks in the blankets tucked around them. At first they pulled the sleigh themselves until Panguitch men with horses met them. Quantities of food sent by the people of Panguitch awaited them at the Sevy Ranch. They stayed the night, and the next morning a bobsled took them on to Panguitch, where they spent the next night. The following day, someone with an automobile, one of the few in the country, took the family on to Junction. John L. Morrill's funeral was the largest anyone could remember. People came from all over the county and from Panguitch and Parowan as well. He was buried In Junction, where Emma and the children continued to live. Morrill had sold their house and land the year before, but his father persuaded the buyers to sell it back to Emma. By the time she had regained the property and taken care of debts and bills, there was little left. Emma's mother came from Parowan to help with household chores and the children so Emma could take a job. She became the janitor for the courthouse, the school, and the church. The job included starting the fires each morning and carrying out the ashes... Belle Morrill went to work for the telephone company as an operator when she turned 15. A year later, in 1918, the telephone company rented Emma Morrill's front room for the switchboard office. Belle became head operator, and Emma and Melvin assisted her when she needed help... On 21 Jan. 1920 Emma Morrill married a widower 20 years her senior, George Davies... Davies helped raise Emma's five children, and the marriage produced two more Children... In the 1930's the couple sold their home and bought the Junction hotel on Main Street [presumably the Hales' Junction Hotel of Charles Henry and Jemima Ann Adair Hales?]... Emma ran the hotel until George died in June 1951 - just four days before his ninetieth birthday. Emma's sons took the hotel sign down after George's funeral and told their seventy-year-old mother it was time for her to stop working so hard. Emma Carson Morrill Davies lived 20 more years. She died in a Richfield rest home on 19 Feb. 1967 at age 90 and is buried in the Junction cemetery beside John Morrill and their sons LaBaron and Joe Elwood."
4. This was recently found in Aug. 2003 by Sherril Clegg who was given the following typed story from a volunteer at the Kanab, Utah City Museum who is related to Valentine Carson. It is anonymous yet clearly knowledgeable as to two related events that were not known to most of us until only very recently. It appears to have been written by a grandchild of Eliza Jane Adair (Grandmother Price) who first married Samuel Carson in Alabama then later John Price after Samuel died. Eliza was the daughter of Thomas Adair and Rebecca Brown. She had a son from a first marriage, Valentine, who lost in 1861 his first wife, Mary Ann Adair, who was his first cousin by being a daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair, Jr., a brother to Eliza Jane Adair. Valentine remarried Hannah Waggle, a step-sister, to his first wife. Valentine and Hannah's first child was stillborn and this tells of the May 1863 birth of their evidently premature baby who died at birth. Valentine had another first cousin, George Washington Adair, who was the son of Samuel Jefferson Adair, brother to both Eliza and Thomas J. Adair, Jr. During childbirth of the second child of George and his first wife Ann Chestnut, Ann died but evidently his Aunt Eliza, the midwife was able to save the baby who was named Jemima Ann. Apparently Eliza was able to arrange for Valentine's family to raise Jemima Ann. It should be noted that even though the essence of the story is correct, the timing is off a bit since George loses his wife late March 1863 whereas Hannah loses her child in mid-May of the same year. Both lived near Washington, Utah. Apparently "Grandmother Price" had a guiding influence in both family's lives.[Kerry's note: Jemima became my ancestor thru her later marriage to Charles Henry Hales. If it had been differently, I wouldn't be here to keep sending your pesky emails.] The story:
"A Joy Realized. The scent of simmering greens floated out to Valentine Carson as he completed his evening's chores after a long hard day's labor on the new canal. As he neared the house, he was sure that something unusual was astir, as he could see his mother, Grandmother Price, bustling about. In those days of early pioneering in Dixie land, a good faithful soul like Grandmother Price was a godsend to expectant mothers. She was throughout all the Dixie County and as far out as Pioche, Nevada for her helpfulness to those in need of medical assistance. And, so now as Valentine greeted her, his worries began afresh for he knew his child to be should not arrive for at least two more months. 'Step quietly, my son,' said his mother as he came into the crudely built house. 'Hannah must rest as much as possible or she may have to meet the same disappointment as she did a year ago. I do hope she will not lose this baby as you know how she has planned for and yearns for one.' Their scant meal was eaten in silence with a prayer in their humble hearts for the little mother to be. No word was spoken, yet each knew the other's thoughts. Both knew that the angels of life and death were near. Hannah awakened suddenly calling first for her husband, then for her mother-in-law, Grandmother Price. All night they watched while the brave little woman went down into the valley of the shadows, coming back with no reward for her suffering. Death had scored another victory. Disappointed and grief stricken, she lay at times dozing to dream of the little form cuddled in her arms, awakening to find them empty, dozing again to see myriads of baby angels reaching out their tiny arms to greet yearning mothers, awakening to grasp the empty space. Oh! The longing of that mother's heart, the yearning during her waking hours for that tiny bundle nestling on her breast made hot and painful by its absence. Days dragged by and Grandmother Price received another summons. George Adair, cousin of Valentine Carson, rode over saying that his wife was very critically ill and needed the faithful mid-wife. Grandmother Price hurried away to keep watch while another little mother went down into the same valley to find another little child. But alas! This dear mother, while on her journey, battled with death who was the victor. Grandmother Price, though saddened by the death of her nephew's wife, had a song in her heart as she wrapped a tiny infant for a short journey to a new home. The ride To Washington was not far from the Adair's place, especially when she thought of the joy Hannah Carson would feel to nurse a hungry little child. The next morning a new strange light shown in Hannah's eyes as the dear old nurse made her comfortable for a new day. The longing for the joy of motherhood was partially realized at last."
BIRTH:
1. More research is needed to resolve birth information. See research note above concerning Ancestral File's report of birth 10 Dec 1842 at Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. The various censuses confirm Illinois as state of birth but calculates birth years from 1841 to 1845. 1900 census gives date as Dec 1841 with no location. 1910 calculates as 1844 but does give Illinois. DUP biography quoted above gives 10 Dec 1842 in Hancock Co., IL. Union Co. in southern Illinois is a long distance from Hancock Co. Currently I use the Dec 1841 date of the 1900 census combining a day of 10 from the tradtional birth date. Other dates Hannah reports in 1843 per her temple ordinance work cited below seem to indicate that Hannah may not have been entirely consistent in her own mind.
MARRIAGE:
1. She appears to have previously been married to William Lewis Penrod 28 Apr 1857 POFFI at the per Online Ordinance Index; however, the record states her birth as 10 Jan 1843 at Pike Co., IL, which does not match her correct birth date and place. It would have made her ate 14 if 1843 is correct. Perhaps there is a different Hannah Waggle in Utah at that time?
2. DUP biography quoted above gives 1862 in Nephi for Valentine and Hannah. Birth of first child was 1 Nov 1862, but the child was stillborn.
3. 1910 census notes 44 years married in present marriage. I don't know if she calculates as when Valentine dies in 1898 making date 1854 or from census making date 1866. Considering her sealing date of 11 Oct 1868 and that the 1910 census was taken April 1910, a date of 1867/68 seems likely in which case the sealing came slightly after the marriage.
DEATH:
1. Utah State Historical Society's online Burials Database shows: Hannah Carson, birth unknown, death 1 Apr 1929 due to cerebral hemorhage, bur. Parowan cemetery plot 04-15-02 with parents noted as Jacob Waggle and Mary Vancil. Appears by plot number to be next to her husband Valentine Carson.
BURIAL:
1. See death citation.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1841 - 1929 (87 years)