Mary Ann Boosey Frampton)-3rd Great-Grandmother

Mary Ann Boosey (Frampton)

3rd Great-Grandmother

Birth Date: 20 August 1825

Birth Place: Raleigh, Essex, England

Parents: Samuel Boosey and Ann Moore

Death Date: 7 Sept 1874

Death Place: Fillmore, Utah

 

James W. Frampton and Mary Ann Boosey Frampton

James W. Frampton-3rd Great-Grandfather

Unfortunately I do not have very much information on James W. Frampton or his wife, my 3rd Great-Grandmother, Mary Ann Boozey.  If anyone has any info on them more than I have found, please let me know.  I was able to find a picture of them in some pictures that my mom had that were my Grandpa Framptons.  That was exciting to find them.  I love putting a face to a name whenever possible.

James W. Frampton

3rd Great-Grandfather

 

James W. Frampton and wife Mary Ann Boozey Frampton 

 

Birth Date: 12 Jul 1826
Birth Place: Hockley, Essex, England
Parents: Charles Frampton and Rebecca Cocks
Death Date: 21 Feb 1894
Death Place: Fillmore, Utah

Spouse: Mary Ann Boozey
Marriage Date: 17 Jun 1848
Marriage Place: Hockley, Essex, England

 

James Frampton was born July 12, 1827 in the town of Raleigh, Essex, England, son of Charles and Rebecca Cox Frampton.

James married Mary Ann Boozey.  Mary Ann was born July 12, 1828 at Raleigh, Essex, England.  They were converted to the Mormon Church and were baptized in the early 1860's, but did not emigrate to Utah until 1869.  After crossing the ocean, they came from New York to Utah by train arriving in November of 1869.

The parents brought their daughter, Mary Ann, and two sons, Charles and James with them.  One daughter, Charlotte, was married, but her husband did not want to come to America.  Therefore, Charlotte stayed in England with him.  After the husband died,  Charlotte joined the family in Utah in 1880.  Her mother, Mary Ann Frampton, had died just one year after arriving in Fillmore, November 7, 1870, and the father, James married another English lady, a convert of the Mormon Church who was brought to Utah by James' son-in-law, Joseph D. Smith, who had just returned from a mission to England.  Her name was Emily Adelaide.

James Frampton died February 21, 1894 and is buried in the Fillmore Cemetery. 

Elizabeth Betsy Mountford-4th Great Grandmother

 

Elizabeth Betsy Mountford (Adams)

4th Great Grandmother

Birth Date: 15 Apr 1815
Birth Place: Baddeley Hedge, Staffordshire, England
Parents: William Mountford and Hannah Mollett
Death Date: 11 May 1874
Death Place: Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States

Spouse: Samuel Adams
Marriage Date: 4 Jun 1832
Marriage Place: Norton, Staffordshire, England

Geneology Line:  Max Frampton---Joseph Adams Frampton---Mary Ann Adams---Joseph Adams---Elizabeth Betsy Mountford (Adams)

 

 

 

For history- see post about her husband Samuel Adams

 

Samuel Adams and Elizabeth Betsy Mountford Adams



Saumel Adams 4th Great Grandfather

Samuel Adams

4th Great-Grandfather

Birth Date: 2 Aug 1805
Birth Place: Norton on the Moors, Staffordshire, England
Parents: John Adams and Sarah Brindley
Death Date: 18 Dec 1887
Death Place: Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States

 

Spouse: Elizabeth Betsy Mountford
Marriage Date: 4 Jun 1832
Marriage Place: Norton, Staffordshire, England

 

 

Samuel Adams and his wife Elizabeth Betsy Mountford emigrated from England to America from May-August 1860.  Samuel was a canal boatman in England. In 1860, with the coming of the railways and the demise of the canal trade, they decided to emigrate to America.

 

They traveled to Liverpool, where they joined the Mormon ship SS William Tapscott, which weighed anchor on the 11th of May, heading for New York.  They had seven of their children with them.  Samuel (24), Joseph (15), Hyrum (13), Emma (10), Eliza (7), Isabella (5) and Lorenzo (2).

On board the SS Tapscott were 730 Saints from Britain, Scandanavia and Switzerland.  Elder Asa Calkin presided over the company.  They voyage was stormy and unpleasant, and adding to the distress was the outbreak of small pox among the Scandinavian saints.  During the 35 day passage, there were 10 deaths, four births and nine miscarriages.   When the vessel arrived at the quarantine point in the New York harbour, physicians came aboard and vaccinated most of the passengers and crew.   The emigrants were not allowed ashore until the 20th of June.

 

Samuel Adams’ journal entries:

Monday, May 7, 1860:  I, Samuel Adams, and family left Baddeley Edge, (Staffordshire, England) for America.  We went to Burslem and stayed all night at Sister Sarah Lewis’.  Got our notes of standing of President Cook and directions for our boxes and bags.

 

Tuesday, May 8, 1860: We carried our luggage to the Burslem station and started for Liverppool.  We waited a while at Crewe and went to Liverpool with the Birmingham Saints.  Arrived at Liverpool about 11:00 a.m.  The carries took our luggage to the Bromley Moor Dock and about 3:00pm o’clock we went out to the William Tapscot which lay in the River, and for the first time stepped on the salt water.

 

Wednesday, May 9, 1860: Arose from our new bed and got our breakfast.  Then I went on shore in a ferry boat for some necessary things which I thought we should want during our voyage.  While I was away, Samuel sent two letters by Presiden Clark, one to his grandfather and the other to Sarah his sister which is in America.  I came on board about 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon with a steam tug which took some more passengers for America.

 

Thursday, May 10, 1860:  I wrote a letter to Baddeley Edge to tell them how we are getting alond, and we expect to start this afternoon.  Sent it to be posted by Elder Clark.

 

Friday, May 11, 1860: We bought some more articles for our voyage and started out about half past 2 o’clock in the afternoon.  We were taken out by a steam tug.  As we went along we saw the Welch mountains, and it was reported that we passed the place called Hollyhead at midnight.

 

Saturday, May 12, 1860: We were taken along by the steam tug very well.

 

Sunday, May 13, 1860: It was said that we got through the Irish Channel about 1 o’clock this morning and the steam tug left us.  It was very fine and the sea looked beautiful, and about an hour before sunset, I saw Ireland.  We left it on the right hand.

 

Monday, May 13, 1860: Was rather windy, but we went along well.

 

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, May 15, 16, 17, 1860:  We went along middling well.

 

Friday, May 18, 1860: It was rather rough.

 

Saturday, May 19, 1860: Calm and started slowly in the morning, but swifter in the afternoon, and big speed at  night.

 

Sunday, May 20, 1860: Very fine morning.  We have two meetings today on deck.  Some very good instructions given on obedience and cleanliness, which was carried out.  Middling well.  Distance from Liverpool at 12 o’clock noon today- 1550 miles

 

Monday, May 21, 1860:  Very rough and we went along swiftly.  At 12 o’clock today 1553 miles from Liverpool and 1562 miles from New York.

 

Tuesday, May 22, 1860: Morning very fine and sea very green.

 

Wednesday, May 23, 1860: Wet and rainy.

 

Friday, May 25, 1860: Fine, not much speed.

 

Saturday, May 26, 1860: We went speedily along.

 

Sunday, May 27, 1860:  Isabella was mending from the measles or some other breaking out like measles.  Lorenzo very bad of the same complaint and has been for two days.  Eliza broke out with the same.  We have all been affected by the sea voyage, more or less.

 

Monday, Tuesday, May 28, 29, 1860: Fine and a good wind.

 

Wednesday, May 30, 1860:  Very wet

 

Friday, June 1, 1860: We were 946 miles from New York

 

Saturday, June 2, 1860: Very fine morning and we started slow today.  Rather better toward night.

 

Sunday, June3, 1860: Small pox broke out among the Scandanavians.  We sailed badly several days. 

We landed in the Castle Gardens, New york, June 20, 1860, and stayed there all night.

 

Thursday, June 21, 1860: We went to Williamsborough and lay in a passage of a second floor all that night.

 

Friday, June 22, 1860:  We rented a house for one month and paid $4.25 advance rent.

August 3, 1860:  Isabella departed this life.  She was buried in Calvery Cemetery, Long Island, New York, America

Samuel Adams and his family traveled with the Joseph W. Young / Ansil P. Harmon/ Heber P. Kimball company which departed 11 July 1861 and arrived in Salt Lake City 20 Sept 1861.

From May to July of 1861, about four thousand Saints from the East, and two hundred “down and back” wagons from the West converged on Florence Nebraska, where a bustling outfitting camp had been set up. The Civil War in the East had a growing impact. On April 24 soldiers from Ft. Kearney, Nebraska, were seen heading east.

 

The 1,000-mile trail the emigrants followed paralleled the Platte River’s north shore across Nebraska and part of Wyoming, then followed the Sweetwater River halfway across Wyoming to South Pass before cutting southwest to Fort Bridger and over rugged 7,700-foot high mountains into Utah.

 

(this is the home of Samuel Adams and Elizabeth Betsy Mountford Adams while living in Baddley Edge, England)

 

 

(Sailing ship William Tapscott. The Adams family arrived on this ship in New York harbor from Liverpool, England in 1860. Ship's captain was James B. Bell.)

 

 

 

Samuel Adams and Bessie Mountford Adams Gravesite.  Stopped this weekend at the Meadow Cemetery in Millard County, Utah.  It is a small, but very beautiful, peaceful cemetery. 

 

 

Sarah King

Sarah King

4th Great Grandmother

 

Birth Date: 24 August 1798
Birth Place: Cambridge, Washington, New York
Parents: Jonathon Seymour King and Tapenne Tapinsel Coy
Death Date: 25 May 1870
Death Place: Salem, Utah

 

Sarah King Hillman

Sarah King Hillman became a widow at the age of 40. Four living children were listed in Mayhew's obituary: Silas, age 19, Ira King, age 12, Mandana, age 11, and Sariah, age 3. Sarah continued to live in Nauvoo after the death of her husband. The Nauvoo Temple was under construction and Sarah aided in every way that she could. At a funeral discourse given by Joseph Smith in August 1840, Sarah first heard of the doctrine of baptism for the dead. She was eager to perform the ordinance of baptism for her deceased kindred. In 1843, she performed baptisms for her mother and other ancestors in the Nauvoo Temple. Records of these baptisms have proved of great value in enabling her descendants to search out her ancestry.

 

Sometime in 1844 or 1845, Sarah received her patriarchal blessing from John Smith, the uncle of the prophet Joseph Smith. Some of the blessings promised to Sarah Hillman were as follows: "...Thou shalt have sufficient riches for thy needs... Thou shalt be blessed to see Zion established upon the whole land of the United States... and to see a numerous posterity who will mourn thy loss and say, 'Verily a mother in Israel has fallen asleep.'"

 

Sarah continued to live in Nauvoo with her younger children, enduring the increasing persecutions of the Church. On 10 Dec 1845, ordinance work in the Nauvoo Temple commenced. There was great urgency for the Saints to receive their endowments and be sealed to their families before they were forced to flee from Nauvoo. On 24 Jan 1846, Sarah King Hillman received her endowments. She was sealed to her husband, Mayhew Hillman, for eternity, and was married to Libbeus T. Coons for time. On this occasion Sarah must have felt well compensated for the sacrifices made and the work performed during the building of the temple.  Sarah's nineteen-year old son, Ira, crossed the ice on the Mississippi River in February of 1846. He traveled with Brigham Young's company as far as Richardson's Point (located in Van Buren County, Iowa Territory, fifty-five miles from Nauvoo.) He returned to Nauvoo after Brigham Young counseled him to go back and assist his mother and her family to emigrate. In the spring of 1846, he started west for the second time with his mother and siblings. Ira and Sarah stopped at Garden Grove and planted corn and a garden for the use of other pioneers. They did not stop to harvest, but left Garden Grove on July 4th. They traveled to Mount Pisgah, where they stayed for a short time, and arrived at Kanesville (Council Bluffs), about the 1st of August 1848. They they moved to a place called Traders Point, Iowa. This small Branch of the Church was located on the east bank of the Missouri River, south of Council Bluffs, in Pottawattamie County,near the borderline of Mills County.

The Pottawamie Indians had been removed by the federal government a few months before. There were no Caucasion settlements for many miles. President Young deemed it wise that the Saints should hold this land for some time in the interests of emigration. In 1848, Sarah's son, Silas, Libbeus T. Coons, and others searched for land to farm on the Missouri River bottoms. They traveled up Keg Creek and established a settlement. They called the settlement"Coonville". The name of Coonville was later changed to Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa. Sarah, Silas, Ira, Mandana, and Sariah lived there with their families from 1848 to 1851. They organized a small branch of the Church which they named "Union Branch". The Pottawamie census of 1850 listed Sarah Hillman as residing in the household of her daughter Mandana Hillman Dalley. Sarah was fifty-one years old at the time of the census. The Coons family was also listed at a different residence. Libbeus Coons was thirty-eight years old and his wife Mary was thirty-seven, with children ranging in age from two to twenty-two. Sarah and her family resided in Coonville until 1852 when the first presidency of the LDS Church issued a call for "all true believers to gather to Salt Lake." The Pottawattamie lands were vacated, and the organization of the church there was discontinued. Sarah Hillman procured her own team and wagon for the trip west. She and her son, Silas Hillman, and family were assigned to the Twenty First Company under the direction of Allen Weeks. The Hillmans in a small company of ten or twelve wagons left on 10 Jun, two months ahead of the main Weeks company. They arrived at the mouth of Emigration Canyon on 10 Sep 1852. The Hillmans may have departed early because Silas was being sought by anti-Mormon groups who were increasing in numbers and intensity. Silas had been active and vocal in defending the rights of the Mormons in Pottawattamie County. The numbers of "gentiles" had increased as the Mormon emigrants gradually departed to Salt Lake and sold their land to them.

 

The Hillman company crossed the Missouri River at Platteville. They headed up a steep hill on the Nebraska side. As they neared the top, they found that the road had been blocked with trees which were felled by Indians who had a village at the summit. The Indians demanded a toll of the pioneers before letting them pass. That night, Indians crept into camp and stole two horses. Sarah encountered Indians several more times during the treck. Usually they would come into camp begging for food.

 

One frightening incident occurred at the upper crossing of the Platte River, when a group of Cheyenne Warriors encountered the small pioneer band. Sarah and the other women prepared a large feast, which the Indians ate, and then departed. Food for Hillman Company was not a problem, as they found fish, buffalo, and antelope to be plentiful along the way.

 

Sarah drove her wagon most of the way without incident, except when she forded the Upper Platte. The water was very high and the box floated off her wagon. They were able to recover it, and saved everything except for a piece of steel which she was bringing to Ira, who had already arrived in Utah. The Hillmans arrived at the entrance to the Salt Lake Valley on 10 Sep 1852. They rested for two or three days at the mouth of Emigration Canyon, and then traveled to Big Cottonwood where they stayed with her son Ira, and his bride Mary Pryann Petty.

 

Sarah Hillman Coons was living in the 12th ward of Salt Lake City in 1860. It is likely that she purchased a lot with money that she had inherited when her father died in 1857. Her thirteen-year-old granddaughter Fidelia Hillman, (daughter of Silas), was living with her at this time. She supported herself by making gloves. She may have taught this skill to her daughter-in-law, Emily Ann Cox Hilllman, who made beautiful buckskin gloves embroidered with a deep cuff with silk flowers. Sarah's grandson, Ira King Hillman Jr., lived with her from time to time. Ira told everyone what a wonderful person she was.

 

Sarah King Hillman Coons spent the last part of her life in Salem, Utah County, Utah. Libbeus Coons was residing in Salem at this time, as was Sarah's daughter, Sarah Haws, but it is not known with which family she was living. Libbeus Coons, who was a physician, and Dr. Riggs attended her during her illness. She died in Salem on 25 May 1870, of breast cancer, at the age of seventy-one. She was buried in the Spanish Fork Cemetery.

 

Her obituary which was published in the Deseret News on 6 Jul(?) 1870, stated, "Sister Coons was with the church in all its driving and sufferings; and, up till the day of her death, was held in high respect by her brethren and sisters as a true and faithful Saint." A numerous posterity mourned her passing and said, "Verily a mother in Israel has fallen asleep."

Mayhew Hillman-4th Great Grandfather

Mayhew Hillman

My 4th Great Grandfather

 

Birth Date: 4 Mar 1793
Birth Place: Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
Parents: Samson Hillman and Damaris Look
Death Date: 22 November 1839
Death Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

Spouse: Sarah King

Marriage Date: 1816

Marriage Place: Cambridge, Washington, New York

 

 

 

Geneology Line: Mary Leona Dalley---William Sylvanus Dalley---James Hillman Dalley---Mandana Hillman---Mayhew Hillman

 

Mayhew Hillman, 1793
Biography of Mayhew Hillman, 1793 and his wife Sarah King, 1799 who were early converts to the LDS church. The sources for this family history document will be given at the end of the biography. This is all the information I have at present.

 

Sarah King was born at Cambridge, New York, on 24 Aug 1799 to Jonathan Seymour King and his wife, Tappenes Coy. Sarah's parents were members of the First United Presbyterian Congregation Church. Sarah was one of eleven children, being the second daughter and fifth child. She grew up in Cambridge, Washington, New York, under the pioneer conditions prevalent at the time, but no record has been found of her early life.

 

She met and married Mayhew Hillman about 1816 in Cambridge, Washington, New York. Cambridge is located about thirty miles northeast of present-day Albany, near the Vermont border. Sarah and Mayhew set up housekeeping in Cambridge, where he was engaged in manufacturing. Here, two children were born to them: Silas on February 27, 1820, and Hyrum, about 1822. Hyrum died at the age of eighteen months.

 

By 1823, Mayhew and Sarah had moved to Spafford, Onondaga County, New York. which was west about 160 miles in the same state, the country being new, and opened up a new farm. Deeds recorded in Onondaga County show that Mayhew Hillman purchased seventy-one acres of land for $850 and fifty acres for $325. Spafford was an agricultural town with well watered soil, near the Hill Cumorah. Here, on 30 Apr 1827, Ira King Hillman was born. Sarah gave birth to two more children in Spafford.  Mandana was born on 3 Dec 1829, and Sarah was born about 1831. Mayhew and Sarah were members of the Spafford Congregation of Free Will Baptists.

 

In 1831, Elder Chamberlain came to Spafford, bringing the Book of Mormon, and preaching about the Restored Church. Sarah believed the message, and was baptized on 19 Jul 1832, joining the Spafford Branch which had been organized in January of the same year. In the late fall of 1832, the Spafford Branch was visited by Elder Orson Pratt in the company of several other elders. Mayhew Hillman was baptized on 10 Nov 1832. Libbeus T. Coon, (whom Sarah married for time after Mayhew's death), was also among the fourteen people who were baptized at that time.

The next fall, the Hillman family prepared to move to Kirtland, Ohio, the headquarters of the new church that they had recently joined.  Silas(Mayhew? as Silas would only have been thirteen!) sold his land for $1520 in the late fall of 1833. The Hillmans left their home where they had lived for eight years and started for Ohio. The roads and weather were so bad at this time of year that they were forced to stop for the winter at the home of Benjamin Hillman in Napoli, Catteraugus County, New York. They had traveled about 160 miles west of Spafford.

 

In the early spring of 1834 they completed the final 190 mile portion of their journey to Kirtland so that they might be near the prophet and assist more definitely in the building of the new Church. When they arrived in Kirtland they found that the foundation of the temple had been laid. Mayhew purchased a house about 100 rods south of the temple. Here their youngest daughter, Sariah Hillman, was born on 23 Mar 1835. Mayhew donated countless hours in the construction of the temple, and Sarah worked at knitting, spinning, and making garments for the temple builders. They rejoiced when the temple was completed on 20 Mar 1836.

 

During September of 1837, Joseph Smith, accompanied by several brethren, traveled to Missouri to help the Saints there establish themselves. The city of Far West was chosen as a central gathering place at this time. The Hillman family took part in the migration to Missouri in the spring of 1838, a distance of approximately nine hundred miles. They settled in Adam-Ondi-Ahmn, Daviess County. At the time of Mayhew's and Sarah's arrival, persecution was raging against the Missouri Saints. Sarah endured mob violence. Homes were burned and cattle driven off. The brethren at Adam-ondi-Ahmen stood guard for two or three weeks, after which they negotiated a treaty allowing the Saints to move to Far West. The Saints fleeing Adam-ondi-Ahman were forced to leave all possessions that they could not carry in their hands. Far West was captured by the mobs and the Mormons were forced to leave Missouri under the exterminating order of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs.

 

In the spring of 1839, Mayhew took his family out of the state and into Illinois. They crossed the Mississippi River at Marion and traveled from there to Nauvoo. They had lost most of their worldly possessions and were forced to travel a distance of about one hundred fifty miles in extremely cold weather. Mayhew Hillman fell a victim to the hardships of the journey and to the unhealthful conditions prevailing in Nauvoo at the time. He died on 2 Nov 1839, of the "ague fever".

From the Comprehensive History of the LDS Church. Roberts, B.H.  Volume 2, Page 206:

"In a grove near Lyman Wight’s house in Daviess County, Missouri, John Smith chose as his third councilor in the newly organized High Council, Mayhew Hillman, on June 28, 1838.  Joseph Smith then proceeded to instruct the men chosen as to their duty.  Mayhew Hillman was one of the builders of the Kirtland Temple. "