James Russell Ivie

James Russell Ivie

 

My 4th Great-Grandfather

 

Birth Date: 30 Dec 1802
Birth Place: Franklin, Heard, Georgia, United States
Parents: John Anderson Ivie and Sarah Allred
Death Date: 10 Jun 1866
Death Place: Scipio, Millard, Utah, USA

 

Spouse: Eliza McKee Fausett
Marriage Date: June 1824
Marriage Place: Shelbyville, Bedford , Tennessee

 

 

James Russell Ivie, son of John Anderson Ivie and Sarah Allred, daughter of William & Elizabeth Thresher, of North Carolina was born in Franklin County, Georgia, December 8, 1902. He was the second of nine children born to this union.

 

James Russell married Eliza McKee Faucett. She was born July 5, 1808, at West Columbia, Nuary County, Tennessee, to Richard Faucett and Mary McKee. There were married about June 1824. The location of their marriage is not definitely known, though the belief is that it may have been in Tennessee, since that is where they were living at the time, and their first three children were born, it is evident that they were moving from state to state - - going further west. The family spent from 1830 to 1844 in the State of Missouri, living in Paris, West Paris, and Caldwell Counties. They moved, then, to Council Bluffs, Pottowatamie County, Missouri, where their 11th child was born in 1846. From there they moved to Salt Lake City, where another child was born, and then to Provo, where the next child was born. Thirteen children in all were born to this union.

It was in the early 1830's in Missouri, that the Mormon Missionaries came to the areas in Missouri where the Ivies lived. Parley P. Pratt was one of the elders who came so often to their homes. It was he who brought the Book of Mormon to them and taught them the gospel, which converted them. He also helped to baptize them as members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. Thereafter, their homes were always homes for the traveling missionaries.

 

James often relayed this story:
It happened some years after the Ivies had joined the Church. It was in November 1839, while the Elders were out preaching the Gospel that they were seized and put in prison without a hearing, or a trial. They were held prisoners from November 1839 to July 1940. Among them were Elder Parley P. Pratt, Elder Phelps, and others. The saints had planned a way of freeing the last three missionaries held prisoners. They had been changed from one prison to another during the seven months of confinement. At this time they were in Columbus, Missouri. The plan was worked out as Orson, brother of Parley P. Pratt, and others, had planned it, and happened on the eve of Independence Day. The three prisoners, when their evening meal was served, crowded through the door and managed to evade bullets fired at them, and, upon reaching the three horses, brought for them by their brethren, were helped to mount and advised to separate, each going in a different direction, then, to hide themselves, in a deep cave until dark. One of the three was captured and taken back to prison for a short time. Elder Phelps managed to make his escape and reach Illinois, several days later. Elder Pratt was less fortunate and, apparently, headed off in another direction. Finally he made for a vast forest of trees, making his was some distance from his horse to await darkness. He climbed into a huge tree, laid his legs outstretched on top of the branches, locked his arms around two other limbs and, in this way, could not be so easily observed, had anyone come his way. After darkness, when he could no longer hear voices, he came down from his hiding place in the tree and went in search of his horse, which had broken loose and left him to make his way on foot.

 

Quote: “ I was not sure if they were still friendly with the church, or if they had turned from it to avoid violence and being driven out.  I hesitated,  then decided to ask help from my Father in Heaven. I arose to my feet feeling much better. I asked in my prayers, that as I passed by the house, if they were still my friends, I would be recognized - - if not, that I might pass peaceably by. As I walked past their home that Sunday evening, about two hours before sundown, I got nearly by when the children playing in the front yard discovered me and cried out with surprise and much joy: “ There is Brother Pratt.” At this, a young man came running out to me who proved to be one of my acquaintances, still a member of the church, and who had been driven with others from the upper valley. Instead of going to Illinois, he had come back to his old neighborhood. I asked about Mr. Ivy and he said that he and his wife had gone to a neighbor’s home two or three miles away. He said “I am here on a visit.” He also advised that they had just received the news of my escape and were sending out warnings to be on the lookout. I told him of my plight. I was hungry and faint and my feet were covered with blisters. He told me of his brother’s wives and children who were also driven out of upper valley and were living in an obscure place in the woods, while the young man went in to see if it was all right. He came back with milk, cream, and bread. I ate of this and then went to the house. The wife said her husband would soon be home.  I told her I was in constant fear of being found. She instructed the children not to say one word if anyone came, but to act like I was a total stranger. It was well she did, for just then a man came inquiring for her husband. She told him he was away and to come back but he said it was a matter of business he wanted to see her husband about and would wait. After an hour the dog barked and they knew her husband was returning. The children rushed out to see their father, and to tell him not to recognize me, as there was a strange young man there to see him. As he came in he gave me a cold look and a “howdy stranger, “ and turned to the other fellow. He was quite friendly with him. The young fellow told the man of the house he had some business with him and would he step out for awhile. He had come to borrow his saddle. As soon as he had gone the man of the house came in and threw his arms around my neck and welcomed me to his house. We ate supper and I asked if he would exchange hats with me as it had been winter when we were arrested. He gave me a hat that fully disguised me. The good wife made a lunch This man and wife were James Russell Ivie and his wife, Eliza. I heard this story many times from Great Grandma and her son, Grandpa Ivie. Only, as I remember it, the side saddle and his horse got him well on his way, but the horse never found his way back.

 

 

I remember Grandmother telling: “I would go through the timber to a small spring for a pail of water. I was so frightened - - I could often hear the plaintiff cry of a panther or ‘panter’, as grandmother called it.

 

James Russell Ivie and grandma: Just where they met we don’t know. This is the tale she told, only it has lost its soft southern accent that was so pleasing in the way she would tell it: “I was milking my father’s cow one evening, the first time pop came a‘calling on me. He says, Eliza I’ve come a’ courting you. I looked up and there I saw a boy, plenty big enough to be wearing britches, and there he stood with a doe shirt on. I told him right out if I was to be his girl he better go home and ask his mother to make him some britches. The next time he came he wore britches.” (This was taken from Grandparents’ Martin and Martha Ivie’s family record.) His father John Anderson Ivie, owned a large tract of land, or plantation, and with 75 Negroes on it as slaves. When his son James Russell, and family left to join the saints to come west, his father gave him a little Negro boy. He was old enough to help Grandma with the smaller children. When they reached Omaha and near getting their outfits ready to start out, they were told not to burden themselves with extra mouths to feed, other than their families. So Grandpa, James Russell, gave the little boy his freedom and told him he could go to live with another family, or find his way back to his family. As they left, the little fellow cried and said, “Who will take of Missy, Betsy and Marie, I do love you Mama Ivie.” Both Grandmother and Grandfather loved the Negro boy and hated leaving him behind.

 

It was in the spring of 1848 in the month of May that the Ivies, James Russell, his wife and nine of their 11 children began plans for moving westward. Two of his sons were with the Mormon Battalion. Besides James Russell and family, two of his brothers, Thomas Isaac, or Kelton, and William Shelton, and families  got as far as Nerrion, Missouri, on their way to join the wagon train which would have soon headed for the west (Utah). So they dropped out of the company. There was something about one of William’s girls marrying as a plural wife to a man by the name of Long. Both parents strongly opposed the marriage.

 

It was on the first of June 1948, that the Ivies left Elkhorn in the company of the saints - - 1,229 souls and 397 wagons, headed for the Great Salt Lake Valley. They were in Brigham Young’s second company. The Allred family, also, came at this time. Grandfather’s outfit was well equipped with a good wagon and teams. His son, Richard’s wife, Elizabeth Dobson, was with them. The trip across the plains and mountains was made about the same as most of them in the company. Great Grandmother helped in cases of sickness and births in their company as well as others, where ever they were needed on their trip to Utah. The pioneers reached Great Salt Lake Valley about September 20, 1848. They must have spent the winter in Salt Lake City, for on February 25, 1849. Grandma gave birth to a son whom they called Hyrum Lewis Ivie. From Salt Lake City they went to what was then called Rhodes, or Roade Valley, and later called Provo Valley. Here another son was born, November 19, 1852. He was named Heber Charles Ivie. Their eighth child, a son, named Joseph Ivie died the year before in 1851. He was 11 years old at the time.

 

From Provo Valley some of the Ivie family went to Weber County to what is now Kamas. However, they weren’t satisfied with the outlook there, so they left and came to Mt. Pleasant. They had relatives there for a few years. During the time they were in Mt. Pleasant and the time they came to Round Valley (Scipio) in 1863, James Russell and some of his family and the Allred Family, made a trip to Rose Valley, Nevada, with the expectations of locating there. The Valley didn’t meet their expectations - - others having already located there. They came back to Scipio in the late spring of 1863. At that time the settlers were still in Graball or Robinville, where there was a branch of the church, the Ivies didn’t go there to make their home, but went a little further south, up the valley about two miles from Graball. This was where a little stream of water came from a small lake about seven or eight miles further south in the Valley. It separated into two streams. The west stream went by the settlers at Graball, the east stream just running to waste. It was on the east fork that James Russell and family stopped. It was known as Ivie Creek for years. Not long after this, President Young visited the people here, and advised them to locate closer together on a townsite in the Valley. It was called Round Valley, but later changed to Scipio.

 

The Ivies were the first to build homes on the new townsite. The first home built was a room put up of logs - - it was the old stable of the Joe Miller lot, built by William Franklin Ivie, a son of James Russell. His family lived there until he could get logs out to build a place for them to live in. This stable was used to keep a fine stallion in. He had it brought here with the livestock, horse and cattle. Grandfather James Russell built his home and they owned the old Joseph Stone lot - -it is on the northwest corner from the public square. In reading the record kept by the Branch Clerk, John Memmott, we find James Russell Ivie was interested both in his church and civil affairs. Both he and his son, William Franklin, were block teachers, and James Russell was President of the Field Committee, and Water Master. He was also very interested in education. He helped with the loan of his teams to move the log school house from Graball to the new home site.

 

In the spring and summer of 1866 the Indians had become very hostile, and on the warpath; making raids on the stock owned by the settlers. A large band of Indians under Chief Black Hawk made a raid on a Sunday Morning, June 10, 1866, when Grandfather James Russell’s favorite milk cow was to freshen. Grandfather rose early and walked down to the pasture lands a little north and west of the settlement, in what was called the pond field. As he neared the spot where the cow was, he heard an Indian War Hoop and the people in town also heard it. They rushed out to look for Grandfather and found his body already pierced by several arrows. He was stripped of his clothing, all but his boots, as they were unable to get them off. The Indians made off with the cattle and horses owned by the families.

 

James and Eliza shared their home with an Indian boy whose father was a half-breed, French and Indian, and whose mother was an Indian woman.  They were from New Mexico.  Their names were Perblo.  The Indian boy’s name was Shindy Perblo.  His mother had died and his father was on his way to Colorado.  His son was sick, so the father left him with the Ivies.  The father stayed through the winter and went on to Colorado in the spring.  Eliza cared for Shindy Perblo, the little Indian boy. She always thought of him as a son. 

 

Both Grandparents had received their patriarchal blessings. I can remember so well, seeing dear little Grandma going to the old black box, or chest, as she called it. She would reach in, bring out her blessing, hand it to mother, and ask her to read it. It seemed such a source of strength and comfort to her in her last days. The one thing I remember in it, was that their posterity should be as Jacob’s of old, and as numerous as the sands of the sea. Of their 13 children, 12 grew to maturity, marrying, and are parents of large families. A host of grandchildren, some over 125 in number. I am happy to be counted among their great-grandchildren.

 

Eliza was a good pioneer mother, who nursed and cared for many babies and helped them see the light of day.  She passed away on the 7th of August, 1896. She was 89 years old. She was the mother of 13 children, and the little Indian boy, Shindy.

 

Other interesting facts about James Russell Ivie:
-He is listed as a participant of Zion’s Camp.

- After their conversion, the family of James Russell Ivie subsequently moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and went through the persecutions incidental to that period. James Russell served as one of the body guards to the Prophet Joseph Smith.

 

** Some sources state that James Russell Ivie served with the Mormon Battalion in place of his son Richard Anderson Ivie:
        "We know that he left Nauvoo with the Saints and lived in Iowa, when the Church was asked by the United States Government to provide five hundred men to form a Battalion for service in the Mexican War. His son Richard Anderson Ivie was called to serve; but at a family council it was decided that it would be better if Richard stayed with his and his father’s families, since they were making arrangements to cross the plains to their new homes in the West, and he would be able to guide them through the trials, hardships and dangers they would face during the journey. Privately, I have always thought that James was an adventurer and saw more excitement in going with the troops than with the Saints. He was forty-five years old when be began the 2,000 mile march across the Country to San Diego, California and from there to Monterey, California where he saw the American Flag raised over the Territory they had taken in the Treaty with Mexico. He served in “A” Company of the Mormon Battalion, under Captain Jefferson Hunt. As his son Richard Anderson Ivie was the one called, he went under that name, but in the records the name is misspelled - Ivey instead of Ivie."

Pioneer Monument in Mount Pleasant, Utah

Base of the Monument states that 1859 Pioneer Colony led here by James R. Ivie

 

 

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Front Plate: ERECTED IN HONOR OF THE PIONEERS OF 1859 by the descedants of the Pioneers, whose names are inscribed upon this Monument. Unveiled July 6, 1909. Right Plate: Back Plate: Wm. Seely Neils Widergren Anderson Neils P. Madsen Andrew Madsen Rasmus Frandsen Mads Madsen M.C. Christensen Neils Madsen Nathan Staker Christian Madsen Jens C. Jensen John Meyrick John Tidwell Jens Jorgensen Henry Wilcox Jens Jensen Peter Mogensen Peter Johansen John Carter Neils Johansen Orange Seely Justus Seely George Coates James K. McClenahan George Farnsworth John Waldermar Jens Larsen Christian Hansen Peter Hansen Henry Ericksen Svend Larsen Andrew P. Oman Rudolphus R. Bennett C.P. Anderson Christian Brotherson Christian Jensen Daniel Page James Harvey Tidwell Martin Aldrich Left Plate: Jefferson Tidwell Wm. Morrison Paul Dehlin Hans Y. Simpson Mortin Rasmussen George Frandsen Hans C.H. Beck Peter J. Jensen Peter M. Peel Jacob Christensen Erick Gunderson Frederick P. Neilson Alma Zabriskie John L. Ivie Soren Jacob Hansen Christian Neilson Christensen John F. Fechser Isaac Allred Andrew P. Jensen Andrew Johansen Inscription of Base Plate: Front Plinth: 1859 Mt. Pleasant 1909 Base: Pioneer Colony led here by James R. Ivie as President. Right Plinth: Fort for protection from Indians completed July 1859. Base: Dimensions of Fort, 26 rods square, wall 12 feet high. Back Plinth: Colony named Mt. Pleasant, and organized a Ward, July 9, 1859. Base: Black Hawk War waged 1865-6-7. Left Plinth: Mt. Pleasant Incorporated a City February 10, 1868. Base: Grasshopper Invasion, 1867-1868. Mt. Pleasant, Utah

 

 

 

 

 

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. "