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Pioneer Name
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Agnes Ann FARMER
Walker
(Chad's 2nd great grandmother)
James Morris Farmer
(Chad's 3rd great grandfather)
Elizabeth MORRIS Farmer
(Chad's 4th great grandmother)
Richard Farmer
(Chad's 3rd great grand uncle) |
James Morris
Farmer brought his family across the Atlantic ocean. Among
the family members were Agnes Ann, his daughter, and
Elizabeth MORRIS Farmer, his mother. The voyage was on the
"Horizon" and Agnes Ann was the age of 10. They arrived at
Constitution Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts with her father,
brothers, and sisters on 30 Jun 1856. They sailed under the
direction of Edward Martin. From Boston the 96th Company
traveled by train through Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland,
Chicago, Rock Island, and Davenport to Iowa City, Iowa,
where the handcart trail began. Before arriving, Grandmother
Elizabeth MORRIS Farmer died at/near Chicago, Illinois. The
family finally arrived in Iowa City 8 Jul 1856. The family
left Captain Martin at this point due to their being able to
outfit themselves with a wagon (rather than by handcart).
The rest is history. This happens to be the same Edward
Martin of the Willie/Martin Handcart Tragedy. The Farmer
family continued their journey from Iowa City on 1 Aug 1856
under the leadership of Captain Dan Jones. Notwithstanding
the fact that the family was traveling by wagon, they
encountered their own struggles during the early winter of
1856 and had the necessity of being "rescued" in Wyoming.
They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley between 10 and 15 Dec
1856 while Agnes was only in her 12th year.
Agnes Ann FARMER had an uncle
who didn't complete the entire journey West. He died 11 Jan
1907 in Dunlop, Iowa. It is unknown whether he traveled with
Agnes and her family |
George Holyoak, Sr. & Sarah
GREEN
(Chad's 4th great grandparents)
George Holyoak, Jr.
(Chad's 3rd great grandfather) |
Sarah died on the plains near
the Big Blue River in Hamilton County, Nebraska, on 16 Jun
1854. Sarah's oldest daughter, Mary, had just died only a
month earlier in Missouri. Sadly another daughter, Ann, died
on the plains after her mother as the journey was nearing
its end. Sarah was wrapped in a quilt and buried in a
shallow grave. Sarah was survived by her husband, George
Sr., three sons, William, George Jr., and Henry, and two
daughters, Sarah and Hannah. George continued on with his
surviving children and settled in Parowan, Utah.
George Jr. married Eliza
MOORE on 29 May 1853 at St. Joseph Missouri (the year before
completing their trek).
The exact location of Sarah's
burial site is not known, although it is assumed the
Holyoaks utilized the
Nebraska
City Cut Off Trail. So while traveling along the pioneer
trails in 2002 we took an image entering Hamilton County
from the north (right along the Platte River on County Road
14) and traveled southbound getting two separate images of
the Big Blue River (Image
1, Image
2). Coincidentally the Big Blue River is nothing more
than a mud hole, or at least it was the August we passed
through the area. Regardless, the county is only 23 miles
wide and therefore we felt we were within a maximum of 12
miles of where Sarah was buried.
Sarah's name
is listed as a deceased pioneer at the Pioneer Memorial
in Nauvoo, Illinois. |
Robert Edwards &
Elizabeth HUNTINGTON
(Chad's 4th great grandparents)
Sarah Elizabeth EDWARDS
(Chad's 3rd great grandmother)
Robert Huntington
(Chad's 5th great grand uncle) |
Robert and
Elizabeth lost a 7-month old son, Jesse, on 28 Sep 1869
during the family's voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the
United States on the "Manhattan." They were among the first
pioneers to cross the plains by train all the way to the
Great Salt Lake Valley. They arrived north of Ogden and then
walked to Beaver, Utah and settled there. Sarah Elizabeth,
the eldest daughter, was only 13 years old at the time. By
30 Oct 1871, Sarah had married John Robert O'Donnell in
Beaver.
Elizabeth's uncle, Robert
Huntington, died 25 Feb 1888 in Council Bluffs, Iowa at the
age of 66. Apparently he never made it all the way to the
"West." |
David Kump and Barbara NAYLOR
(Chad's 3rd great grandparents)
Zachariah KUMP Sr.
(Chad's 2nd great grandfather)
Mary Amanda KUMP Story
(Chad's 2nd great grand aunt) |
David (b.1801) and Barbara
(b.1806) both grew up in York County, Pennsylvania during
the post-Revolutionary War era during the presidencies of
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the so-called Fathers of
the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They
were married in 1825. Several children were born to them in
York County, the last of which was Zachariah on 3 Jul 1830.
Then, another child, Mary "Amanda," was born 7 Dec 1832 in
Trumbull County, Ohio.
This movement from
Pennsylvania to Ohio brings up a family mystery. Was the
move to Ohio a religious movement to join the Mormons?
Unfortunately no baptism records have been identified (at
least by me) to place some finality on this question. The
Trumbull County border is approximately 20 miles from
Kirtland (the Mormon headquarters for that era) and only 10
miles from Hiram (the location of Mormon leaders Joseph
Smith and Sidney Rigdon's tar & feathering).
Interestingly enough, the
family moves on again, this time to Wisconsin. The move
occurs before the 1850 census since
they appear
in Koshkonong, Wisconsin at that time. Also, Amanda
marries 8 Aug 1849 at Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin to
George Anderson Story. Together, George and Amanda make it
back to Ohio (at
least by 1880) and George dies about 1831/1832. Amanda
eventually makes it into "Mormondom" since records shows she
baptized 29 Sep 1878 and was performing temple work in Salt
Lake City by 11 Feb 1891.
So the question is who
exactly became involved with Mormonism and when did it
occur? In Ohio in the 1830s? Or did this happen in later
years a couple generations later? Let me know your research
indicates.... |
Alexander
Neibaur
(Sietske's 3rd great grandfather) |
One of the
"famous" names associated with early Mormon history is that
of Alexander Neibaur, the German emigrant who taught the
Prophet Joseph Smith to read/write in Hebrew. We identified
land records in Nauvoo owned by Alexander and took a
digital
image of the property. |
Thomas Mendenhall & Mary Ann
SINEX
(Chad's 4th great grandparents)
Susannah MENDENHALL Cloward
(Chad's 3rd great grandmother)
William Mendenhall
(Chad's 4th great grand uncle) |
Originally born in Delaware,
Thomas and Mary Ann were one of the early Mormon Pioneers.
Evidence shows they migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois sometime
between 1839 and 1841 due to a son, Lewis Henry, being born
26 Dec 1838 in Wilmington, Delaware, and another son,
Edmund, being born 29 Sep 1841 in Nauvoo. The family
remained in Nauvoo during the struggling period of 1844
through 1846 (Joseph Smith's martyrdom and the Mormon Exodus
to the West). In fact, the family remained in Nauvoo at
least through February of 1847 since their last daughter,
Elizabeth, was born at that time.
The family's own "exodus"
occurred likely in late 1847 or early 1848. Records indicate
Mary Ann died 27 Apr 1848 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, at the
age of 35. It is unknown whether Susannah is buried in the
Mormon Pioneer Cemetery at Winter Quarters or not. The
oldest remaining child, Susannah, was only 13 and was left
to assist her father in caring for the surviving brothers
and 14-month old sister. After arriving in the Great Salt
Lake Valley, they eventually settled in Sanpete County.
Remnants of the Mendenhall
family legacy in Nauvoo still remain. There is a
brick home
that was originally the home of William Mendenhall and Sarah
LOVELL. Although the existing structure has been restored,
the original
foundations are intact. I took a digital picture of the
two of them in individual portraits that still hang in the
home (William
and Sarah).
The home is the residence of full-time Mormon missionaries
and will likely accept visitors if you're part of the
family.
Mary Ann's
name is
listed at the Pioneer Memorial in Nauvoo, Illinois.
For additional information on
the Mendenhall Utah Pioneers, visit the Mendenhall Pioneer
Association website at
www.mendenhalls.org. |
Anne ROBINSON
(Sietske's 2nd great grandmother)
George ROBINSON
(Sietske's great grandfather) |
It is believed
John and Anne began their trek to Utah in early 1883. Anne
died 20 Apr 1883 in Des Moines, Iowa. Their son, George, was
only 8 years old at the time. |
Jacob Cloward & Catherine Ann
PLUCK
(Chad's 4th great grandparents) |
I have not taken much time to
research the Cloward family as it relates to Mormon history,
however I did identify land records in Nauvoo owned by Jacob
and took a
digital image of the property. |
John Lowe & Ann
PARRETT
(Sietske's 4th great grandfather)
Isabella LOWE Stewart
(Sietske's 3rd great grandmother) |
John and Ann
brought their family across the plains in the late 1840's. A
daughter, Rebecca Pricilla, was born to them 5 Mar 1849 at
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Isabella was only 2 years old at the
time. It appears the family's move west temporarily halted
at this point since records indicate another daughter,
Parthenia Ann, was born at Council Bluffs on 13 Jul 1851.
The completed migration occurred sometime before 4 Oct 1853
due to the arrival of another daughter, Melinda Jane, on
that date in Salt Lake City, Utah. Isabella would have been
betwen the ages of 4 and 6 for this last part of the
family's trek. |
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