A long time ago!

["Dr."] Sarah WOODING SMITH by Amy Smith Hancock

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SARAH WOODING SMITH

Compiled by Amy Smith Hancock
February 5, 1961

Sarah Wooding Smith was born 13 Aug. 1797, and christened 3 Sep. 1797, at Emberton, Buckinghamshire, England. Her parents Lord James Woodin (Wooding) and Mary Dainton, both lived to see this daughter marry, join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and come to America.

Sarah had five brothers and one sister of record: John, William, James, Samuel, Mark and Nancy Wooding.

Sarah Wooding married Daniel William Smith, 10 July 1815, Emberton, Buckinghamshire, England. Daniel and Sarah had seven children of record and were the parents of our illustrious ancestor Samuel Smith. Sarah was baptized according to her christening record 3 Sept. 1797, as was the custom of the Christian Churches; but she was baptized by the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Oct. 1841, in England.

The Daniel Smiths and family members came to America at the same time their son Samuel Smith and his wife Mary Ann Line and small daughter departed from Liverpool, England, 15 Jan. 1843 - with Nauvoo as their objective residence.

Daniel Smith, Sarah's husband died before they left for Utah, probably in the State of Iowa. [Correction: Daniel William SMITH died 10 Sep 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinios] His death date is recorded as 10 Sept. 1845. I here note that Samuel and Mary lost twin girls and they were buried (1846) at Mt. Pisga [sic], or later called Talmage, Iowa.

It is recorded that she came to Utah in 1848. So Sarah Wooding Smith is another Utah Pioneer and should be numbered among its valiant, immortal women. It appears that Sarah established her home in Salt Lake Co. with members of her family, still living with her.

This, I remember my grandmother, Frances Ann Ingram Smith saying concerning Sarah Wooding Smith, "She will always be remembered by the people in the Salt Lake City Communities - in her 'time' for her CHARITY toward the poor, the homeless, and the weary and broken-hearted as they pioneered their way into this Rocky Mountain Retreat. It was at her home that the Ingram (Ingraham) orphans: Richard, Sarah Jane, and Frances Ann, found shelter, food and love." So this precious lady became a mother to her future daughter-in-laws; while they were yet young children.

Frances Ann further stated, "Mother Smith was noted for her ability and understanding of the proper methods to be used in sanitation and the prevetation of contagious diseases being transferred throughout the community. She had the much cherished ability to care for and understand the ill, the depressed and to sympathize with those called to mourn the loss of a love one."

She had an exceptional good-humored disposition, a remarkable memory, a wonderful education - could tell jokes to fit every occasion and they always finished with a good and proper standard.

This and the following were compiled in 1960-61.

I found Sarah Wooding Smith's name in the pamphlet 'Through The Years' (Fourth and Eighth Ward, Brigham City, Utah, 1953...p. 51 - listed as a pioneer, a native of London, England, date came to Utah - actually meant to Brigham City settlement - 1861. She was probably living with her grand-daughter or visiting there with Nancy Ann Turpin Higley.

Signed: Amy Smith H. Empey

Aunt Beatrice Smith Weeks Olney Larsen, laughing and joking once remarked that she had heard it said, "Grandmother Sarah Smith was the world's worst cook, being inclined to make everything so that it ended up in the form of a stew." It is believable, since they had very little food and her house being a home for the needy "where the floors such as they were, became the beds for many" so stew would be the item of food always on the stove and ready to eat.

Little else is known about this pioneer woman, this great Female Relief Society worker.

These simple lines would exemplify the principles that guided this stockily built personality, and 'SHE LIVES TODAY' here in the characters of thousands of her descendants. She is as alive today in the world beyond as she ever was in her greatest surge of activity, here upon this earth.

CHARITY

"I would be a friend to the friendless and

find joy in ministering to the needs of the poor

I would live with the people and help to solve their problems

that this earth life would be a happy experience.

I would visit the sick and afflicted and inspire in them

a desire for faith and to be healed.

I would avoid the publicity of high positions and

discourage the flattery of thoughtless friends."

Sarah Smith died at the age of 68 years, 26 Nov. 1865 and was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah.

- Feb. 5, 1961

OUR PIONEERS

The heart grows warm with sympathy,

The vision dims with tears,

When contemplation brings to view

Those noble pioneers.

How 'neath the tyrant's rod they bowed

One common cause to share;

On every lip a note of praise,

In every heart a prayer.

A thousand trackless miles they came,

Those dauntless pioneers,

While thirsty deserts drank their blood

Commingled with their tears.

For hatred and a nation's scorn

They gave back, unredressed,

A garden in the wilderness,

An EMPIRE IN THE WEST.

Compiler - Amy S. Hancock

[The following is] to be added to substantiate the history of Sarah as compiled by Amy Smith Hancock, (1961). By Virga May Holst Harding, gr. grand-daughter of Samuel's sister Louisa Jane Smith Turpin (Mrs. Jesse Turpin) and a gr. gr. grdtr. of Sarah W. Smith. Mrs. Harding is a historian of the Brigham City, Utah area. 26 Aug. 1962

Sarah Wooding Smith was the daughter of Lord James and Mary Dainton Wooding (Woodin or Woodding) of England. She was highly educated and her people were very wealthy. Sarah studied the profession of medicine and surgery. When she married Daniel Smith her folks felt that she was marrying below her station in life and their standards and wealth so they disinherited her.

Sarah W. Smith came to Utah (not with her son Samuel and family) but with her daughter and son-in-law Louisa Jane Smith and Jesse Turpin; 20 Sept. 1848 in the 2nd. Co. of Brigham Young. So she was one of the very first Doctors and Surgeons in Utah. Although the Utah History does not chronicle same.

Sarah's grand-daughter Nancy Ann Turpin (Higley) at the age of 12 yrs. helped her with a serious operation by handling the necessary instruments and bandages etc. to this brave nurse and doctor Sarah W. Smith, who took a large portion of the crushed skull form a man's head, which was laying against the brain, removed it and inserted a silver-plate. The man recovered and lived to an old age. Nancy assisted her a great many times in various cases. - - Virga Holst Harding.

From the Booklet 'Through the Years' Eighth Ward, Brigham City,m page 51, (1953) we find Sarah Wooding Smith's name as a pioneer and the date given as coming to Utah 1861 when in reality she came to Brigham City about that time. On page 50 of the same booklet is found Nancy Ann Turpin Higley and her husband Daniel Lee Higley. He is listed as coming in 1861. They are the grandparents of Virga Holst Harding.

Daniel and Sarah Smith and their Son Samuel Smith, had their Patriarchal Blessings the same day, place and from the same Patriarch. 5 Aug. 1845 - Nauvoo, Ill. and Pat. John Smith. #987-988-989; Vol. 9 pages 332 and 333. Daniel Smith owned and payed taxes on property in Nauvoo, Ill. a description is on the records. Daniel died one month and 5 days after his patriarchal blessing so he must have been buried in Nauvoo, Ill. His death date is listed as 10 Sept. 1845. Daniel was ordained a High Priest during his life-time and after joining the Church.

Sarah Wooding Smith trained her son Samuel to set bones to make and prepare medicine, to care for the dead and taught him the laws of sanitation.

I have taken a picture of Sarah Wooding Smith's grave marker and some of the markers in the same lot - her dtr., grand-children (Turpins) grt, gr. chl. the Budd's and one son of Samuel and Mary Ann Line Smith - the first buried on the lot in 1855. Sarah was the 2nd buried there. June Jensen Cavalli took me to S. L. Cemetery to take the picture 28 Aug. 1962.

[Gravestone Inscription:

SARAH WOODING
SMITH
BORN
August 13, 1797
DIED
Novem 16, 1867]

A little history of Samuel's sister and Sarah's only dtr. to live and get married; Louisa Jane Smith. Louisa Jane had three husbands. 1st. Jesse Turpin. 2nd. John Alfred Van. 3rd. John Crawford.

- Signed: Amy S. H. Empey

(Thank you Dave, for this history found posted at Roots Web.

SEE: Daniel and Sarah Wooding Smith, their Family and Ancestors. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rhutch/famhistory/d&ssmith/)

Sarah WOODING's spouse Daniel William SMITH & Their Children.

Daniel and Sarah's 11 children were all born in England. Only 2 sons and 1 daughter lived to marry. They had lost 2 sons and 1 daughter as children, they also lost 3 infant sons and 2 infant daughters. Three year old James and all 5 infants died in England. Sarah's husband Daniel, 8 year old John, and twelve year old Mary Ann all died the same year 1845 while living near Nauvoo, Illinois.

Ancestry chain: grandkids, kids, Myrle, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Isaac SMITH b.1857, Samuel SMITH Judge b.1818, Sarah WOODING b.1797 4th great-grandmother.

Sons of the American Revolution - Elihu CARPENTER

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Sons of the American Revolution

Elihu CARPENTER (1752-1827) veteran of the Revolutionary War, married 1738 Martha HUTCHINS. Son of Eleazer CARPENTER and Elisabeth WARFIELD.

Enlisted and served as Corporal at time of the Lexington Scare in Co. of Nathaniel Carpenter, No. 607. Served 8 days.

Enlisted and served as Corporal in Nathaniel Carpenter's Co., Col. Cary's Reg. at New York and White Plains. Dismissed Dec. 1, 1776, after 5 mon. service. Enlisted and served as Quarter master's Sergeant in Col. Hathaway's Reg. April 21, 1777. Served 24 days in Rhode Island.

Enlisted as Sergeant in Co. of Capt. Nathaniel Carpenter, "Reg. of Col. Whitney, in Rhode Island Alarm, May 3, 1777. Served 1 mo. 25 days. Marched from Rehobeth to Point Judith.

"Mass. Soldier's and Sailor's of the Revolutionary War" Vol. III.P. 116.

ANCESTRY CHAIN: 6th great-grandfather Elihu CARPENTER b.1752, Betsy CARPENTER-3684 b.1788, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, children of Myrle, grandchildren of Myrle.

Immigrant ancestors of Elihu CARPENTER are pictured with ships. The next two generations include many more immigrant ancestors

(click on chart to enlarge.)

See post on three William CARPENTER immigrant grandfathers.
See post on immigrant grandfather Edward FREEMAN.

Francis HAWKES and Eliza COLE family group sheet

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My Great Grand Parents family:

left side: father Francis HAWKES, Clarence Christopher (Cal) CRESSAL and Mary Ann FARNES, Eliza Annie HAWKES and Hyrum David DAVIDSON, Francis William HAWKES child, Sarah Ann HAWKES and Harry WORLEY, Herbert Henry HAWKES and Sarah Amy JONES.right side: mother Eliza COLE, Alvin James HAWKES and Margaret SMITH, Martha Maria HAWKES and William Henry BROUGH, Horatio Paul HAWKES and Annie McNiel SMITH, Nellie May HAWKES and not pictured Albert Milton CURTIS, Elizabeth HAWKES and Edmund Rodoph GIBBS.

Click on images to Enlarge and Read.
Ancestry Chain: grandchildren, son, Myrle, Amy Ella HAWKES, Herbert Henry HAWKES, Francis HAWKES and Eliza COLE.

House at 1154 E. Whitlock Ave

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I thought my boys would be interested in seeing the house 'fixed up'. After my sister Leona's funeral in 2002 we all went by to see it. I was quite saddened by how awful it looked and that no one seemed to be taking care of it! I believe Lincoln or Nate took some pictures then. It looks so good now..(someone decided to care) that I thought you might be interested.

Ella and Ensign Smith

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[This was posted on the blog of my grand niece. ]

Happy Memorial Day. Just as a reminder that this holiday is more than the beginning of summer (when the pools open) or a great day off to have a picnic, here is what we did--for the first time ever.

We recently moved to a neighborhood in Salt Lake City where my great grandfather and grandmother built a house, and were laid to rest in a cemetery very close to us. When we were discussing our new place with my parents and uncle it came up that we would be close. So, decided to go on a field trip for our family home evening to prepare the boys and introduce them to Ella and Ensign before we went to the cemetery.

We used this as our lesson:

And then drove the five minutes to get to the house:
64 years old, and there it was. Built by the hands and sweat of my Great Grandfather and Grandmother. I was surprised at how engaged Reuben was in the whole idea and trip. His Great Great Grandfather Built that house? and they lived there? who lives there now? how come they don't live there anymore? We also visited the chapel they attended just down the street pictured below the house.

Here is Ensign working on the foundation of the house, the back of the house with Ensign and Grandchildren (my mother included), and Ensign with my mother, aunts and grandmother (and the church in the background).

We went to the Cemetery yesterday. It is just up the road from us. It was really easy to spot Ella and Ensign, their son George Ensign Jr who died from cancer when we has 11, and their daughter Leona (who I remember because she had really cool fake eye lashes and wore fancy clothes.)

It was a little harder to find the military marker for Ensign (pictured above) and My other great aunt Amy and her Husband. But we found all of them with some help.

There was a special spirit there. Reuben and Simeon were both able to be respectful, yet interested. We had to call grandma to find out why George Ensign Jr died when he was 11, because Reuben needed to know.

We talked about the sealing power. How because Ensign and Ella were sealed in the temple they were still together, with their children, even though they were not on the earth anymore. We talked about our great chain of eternal family, children sealed to parents, and how we could be with them after we die. What a great blessing eternal families are.

While Ensign did serve in World War I, and we are grateful for that service, it was lovely to talk about the service he did to his family, his faithfulness, and our link to him. I am glad the holiday morphed into a day to consider those acts of service, because it sure doesn't feel like the beginning of summer here and there was no way we could have gone to a pool or sprinkler park without turning blue. And, next time we'll think of getting some flowers, because while we did sweep off the headstones, they were looking a little bare compared to the neighboring graves.

If you are related to them you will be interested in links below:

George Ensign Smith
Amy Ella Hawkes

Thomas PRENCE 4th, 8th & 12th Governor of Plymouth Colony

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Thomas Prence House Eastam, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built 1646. Demolished.

Thomas Prence Governor of Plymouth

Thomas Prence (1599 – March 29, 1673) was a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, a political leader in both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and governor of Plymouth (1634, 1638, and 1657 - 1673).

Early Life:
Thomas Prence was born in 1599 at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England a son of Thomas Prence and Elizabeth Tolderby. Thomas emigrated to America in 1621 on the ship Fortune, arriving in Plymouth on November 9, 1621, just a few days after the first Thanksgiving.

A chair belonging to Thomas which now resides in the Pilgrim Hall Museum.
75 Court Street (Route 3A), Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360

Marriage and Family:
Prence married three times. He married as his first wife on August 5, 1624 at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (the ninth marriage recorded in the colony), Patience Brewster, a passenger on the Anne which arrived in Plymouth in 1623. She was born circa 1600 probably in Scrooby a small village, where her father was born, in the northern part of the English county of Nottinghamshire and died before December 12, 1634 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, of a "pestilent fever." She was a daughter of Elder William Brewster, (c. 1567 - April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Thomas and Patience had four children: Thomas Jr., Rebecca, Mercy, and Hannah. Rebecca married first Edmund Freeman, Jr. the son of Edmund Freeman and had two children. Rebecca married second Capt. John PUTMAN they had ten children. She died in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Mercy married John Freeman, had eleven children, and settled in Eastham, Massachusetts. Hannah married Nathaniel Mayo, had six children, and died in Eastham.

Prence next married on April 1, 1635 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Mary Collier, bapt. in 1612 at St Olave's Church, in the parish of Southwark St Olave, an area of south-east London, now the London Borough of Southwark, England and died before December 1662 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Jane (____) Clark and William Collier, one of the investors, or Merchant Adventurers, and an initial shareholder in the Plymouth Plantation. She was the sister of Sarah Collier, the wife of Love Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower and the son of Elder William Brewster.

They were the parents of five children: Mary Prence, Jane Prence, Elizabeth Prence, Sarah Prence, Judith Prence. Jane Prence (November 1, 1637 - 1712) married Mark Snow the son of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins, a daughter of Stephen Hopkins (born about 1582 – 1644), a tanner and merchant who was one of the passengers on the Mayflower in 1620, settling in Plymouth Colony.

Lastly, Prence married Apphia Quicke in December, 1662. It is unknown if they had any children.

COMMENTS: For many years it was believed that Prence had married only three times and that his last wife was "Mary" Freeman, but this was straightened out in 1904 by Ella Florence Elliott, who divided the erroneous construct into its proper wholes, revealing divorcee Apphia Freeman and widow Mary Howes as Prence's last two of four wives.

Career
He was allowed to join with Bradford, Allerton and Standish as a member of the Trade Monopoly. Later, in 1644, he and several other prominent families left Plymouth for better land and founded the community of Eastham, Massachusetts. He became governor of Plymouth, for the first time, in 1634; he was elected again in 1638 and served from 1657 to 1673. After the death of Governor Bradford in 1653, he became the leader of the Plymouth Colony serving in that capacity until his death.

He was distinguished for his religious zeal, and opposed those that he believed to be heretics, particularly the Quakers. He became infamous for the banishment of those who would not conform to his specific church law, including Samuel Gorton, the first governor of Rhode Island. He restructured the local government to secure his position and led the persecution of numerous people for offenses such as smiling in church, harboring non-church members, and tending garden during the Sabbath. He also procured revenue for the colony's grammar schools so future generations would be better educated.

Governor Prence gave to Wamsutta and Pometacom, the sons of Massasoit, the names Alexander and Philip as a compliment to their warlike character.

Plots belonging to our Grandfathers found on this map are:
William Brewster, Thomas Prence,
Peter Browne, and [Uncle Dr. Samuel Fuller.]

"He was another able business man to arrive in Plymouth on the Fortune in 1621, and became Governor of Plymouth Colony for 20 years, serving at times from 1634 to 1673. He followed his father-in-law, William Brewster, to Duxbury in 1632, and finally removed to Nauset (Eastham) in 1644 with six other families, returning later to Plymouth where he died."
- Leon Clark Hills, The Mayflower Planters, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters & First Comers to Ye Olde Colony, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990, Baltimore, MD.

"Prence arrived at Plymouth Colony in 1621 on the Fortune, and from the beginning seemed to have taken a leading role in Plymouth affairs. Of the eight Plymouth Undertakers, who seemed to be the most important men in the colony in 1627, Prence was the only one who had not arrived on the Mayflower. He became governor in 1634, and was elected an Assistant in 1635, and from then on he was either an Assistant or governor every year for the rest of his life. He also served as treasurer, as president of the Council of War, and in various other capacities. With the death of of Bradford in 1657, Prence became without a doubt the most important and influential man in the colony. He was of a conservative nature, as is shown by his siding with Bradford and Winslow in the 1645 Vassall controversy, and by his actions against the Quakers. He was involved in several law suits which were decided in his favor, ... " - Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691.

"In July 1627, Thomas Prence became one of the eight parnters called undertakers, who guaranteed the purchase of Plymouth Colony from the merchant adventurers. He, with his father-in-law, William Brewster, and brother-in-law, Jonathan Brewster, signed 'Articles of Agreement' to have the 'whole trade consigned to us for some years' to pay the 'debts (of the colony) and set them free:' and to 'transport as many of our brethern of Leyden over' to Plymouth. Thomas Prence served Plymouth Colony as Governors Assistant in 1632, 1635-37, and 1639 through 1656. He was the treasurer of Plymouth Colony from 1637 to 1640 and he served as Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1645, 1650 and 1653-56. On 1 January 1633/34, when he was only 34 years old, Thomas Prence was elected as the fourth governor of Plymouth Colony. He served his second term in 1638, during which time he presided over the trial of four men wh had robbed and murdered an Indian near Providence. The evidence presented to the court resulted in them being found guilty and they were hung, one having escaped. 'On 3 June 1657, Thomas Prence was again elected Governor of the jurisdiction of New Plymouth and served until his death in 1673.'"^- Barbara Lambert Merrick, William Brewster Of The Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996. "Thomas Prence was the most distinguished of the settlers of Eastham, though not the best educated. At the time of his removal in 1645, he was holding the position of an assistant ofFortune, in November, 1621. At the time of his removal he was residing in Duxbury. His farm at Eastham contained many acres. It was situated northwest of Town cove, in that part now include within the present town of Eastham. His house stood on the est side of teh county road, near where Mr. E. Doane's howse now [1916] stands. It is said his farm comprised teh 'richest land' in the place. The famous old pear tree planted by him while a resident, and which was blown down in 1849, stood but a few rods westward from the site of his house. He was a large land-owner. He owned land in what became afterwards Harwich and Truro, besides tracts at Tonset and other localities iin ht Colony. He disposed of most of his landed estate before his death. His tracts at Sauquatucket, now Brewster, which came to him by grant, on the account of haveing been a 'Purchaser or Old-Comer,' he sold to his son-in-law, Major John Freeman, in 1672. His 'half share' at Paumet, both 'purchased and unpurchased,' lying between 'Bound Brook,' at Wellfleet, and 'Eastern Harbor or Lovell's Creek,' he sold to Mr. Thomas Paine in 1670. "Mr. Pratt, in his History of Estham, says the homestead of Gov. Prence was given by will to his son-in-law, Samuel Freeman, but the statement is not supported by documentary evidence. Records show that Gov. Prence did sell to his 'beloverd son-in-law, Mr. Samuel Freeman, Jan. 12, 1671, for thirty pounds' his 'hose lot situated and being in the town of Eastham' and 'containing eighteen acres of upland, be it more or less,' boutnde 'at the northeasterly end' by a creek, together with other upland and meadows in other parts of the town. Records also show that Gov. Prence provided a place of abode for his son-in-law, Samuel Freeman and Mercy his wife, soon after thier marrigae, and that in December, 1662, it was conveyed to them. They were then residing upon it. It was the place of the governor purchased of Mr. Josiah Cook, a 'gentleman' of Eastham. The position of this house lot the writer cannot give, but undoubtedly it was near Gov. Prence's place. "Gov. Prence continued in the office of an assistant by successive elections till 1657, when he was unanimously elected to the office of governor, as successor to Gov. Bradford, who died that year. As the law required the governor to reside at the seat of government, a dispensation was obtained from him, and he was allowed to remain at Eastham, as he desired. Mrs. Bradford was engaged to entertain him and his assistants while at Court; and attendant was appointed to attend him in his journey to and from Plymouth, and Mr. Allyn of Barnstable was engaged to accommodate him and his attendant in his house with private rooms when passing 'to and from' In 1665, Gov. Prence removed to Plymouth, and occupied the place provided by the government at a place called Plain Dealing, which the late Judge John Davis, a native of Plymouth, says was 'nearly two miles from the centre of the town on the road to Boston.' The late William Russell in his Guide to Plymouth, says the place called Plain Dealing 'extended it is believed to Kingston line'; and that Gov. Prence's house was near 'Mr. Hedges,' and in the vicinity of 'Starts Hill.' At this place, while occupying the gubernatorial chair, he died March 29, 1673, in his 73d year. He was 'honorably interred at Plymouth, April 8th.' Judge Davis says: 'The Plymouth church records, in expressing Mr. Prence's character and his amiable and pleasant conversation, depart from their usual course by an indication of his personal appearance, from which it may be supposed that it was peculiarly dignified and striking. He was excellently qualified for the office of governor. He had a countenance full of majesty, and therein, as well as otherwise, was a terror to evil doers. Gove. Bradford, and had twice been chosen govenor of the infant colony-first election in 1634, and second election in 1638. He was a native of Lechlade, a parish in Gloucestershire, England, it is understood, and born about the year 1600. He came to Plymouth in the ship

Besides holding the office of governor, Mr. Prence was a great number of years an assistant of Gov. Bradford. He was one of the commissioners of the United Colonies many years; colonial treasurer and one of the council of war. He was one of those who stood bound to the adventures for the payment of the sum they demanded for their interest in the stock, trade, etc., of the Colony, when the purchase was made in behalf of those who came in the three first ships, viz: Mayflower, Fortune and Ann.

"Gov. Prence's will bears date March 13th, 1673, and codicil march 28th, 1683. He appointed his wife, Mary, executrix, and desired that his brother, Thomas Clark, and Mr. Josiah Winslow be her advisers. To his wife mary, he gave the profits of his part of the mill at Sauquatuckett, now West Brewster, with the land adjacent to it, which he desired at her death to go to his grandson, Theophilus Mayo, who was living with him. This, he said, he gave him for his encouragement to proceed in learning. HE also gave him all his 'books fit for him in learning. He enjoined him to 'carry it well with his grandmother,' and, in case he did so, to have a 'bed.' How dutiful he was to his aged grandparent, we have no means of knowing. He doubtless removed with her to Yarmouth. From what can now be gathered he did not survive her. His death, it is supposed, took place about 1678. He was the youngest son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Prence) Mayo, and it would seem, at the death of his father, was taken by the governor into his family. The governor also gave him one-half of his land and meadow near Namassakett, in Middleboro, which if he died without descendants, would be equally divided between Gov. Prence's daughters. Of his books he gave, among others, 'to Maj John Freeman, of Eastham, Speed's, Church's and Wilson's Dictionary; Simpson's History of the Church, and Newman's Concordance.' He made other bequests, but we cannot mention them all.

"The inventory of the governor's estate shows he owned on the Cape, 'one fourth of the mill and land adjoining to it at Satuckett,' now West Brewster; twenty acres of land and three acres of meadow at Tonsett in Eastham, and eighteen acres on Porchy Island. Befre his death Gov. Prence disposed of most of his estate by deeds. Thomas Prence's descendants are numerous upon the Cape. Thomas Prence, the only son of the governor, died in England, leaving no sons, consequently he has no descendants of the patronymic living."^-Josiah Paine, "Early Settlers of Eastham," Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy, 33 and 34 (1916), 63 pages.

(http://www.caskey-family.com/genealogy/ThomasPrence.htm)

Death:
Prence died March 29, 1673, in Plymouth, Massachusetts and was buried on Burial Hill.

(Wikipedia)

Ancestry Chain: 12th gr. grandfather (Gov.) Thomas PRENCE b.1599, Rebecca PRINCE b.1625, Priscilla PUTNAM b.1657, Lydia BAILEY b.1695, John JEFFORDS b.1724, John JEFFORDS b.1746, Lucretia JEFFORDS b.1766, Amariah RAWSON b.1787, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, son, grandchildren.

GILLETT Family Bible

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Gillette family bible, carried from England by Jonathan Gillett in 1630 The version of Bible that Jonathan Gillett brought with him from England to America is known as the ‘Breeches Bible’ because the ‘fig-leaf garment’ worn by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden - which is called ‘apron’ in the King James Version - is called ‘breeches’ in this edition. Jonathan's Bible was printed in Amsterdam in 1599 and was one of numerous editions of that translation, which was first printed in Geneva in 1559. This edition was favored by the Puritans in England, and it had a profound effect on the King James translation in 1611. The ‘Breeches Bible’ remains in Windsor. It has been torn and damaged, with many of its pages missing. The Bible passed into the hands of the present Holcomb family. The Gillett-Holcomb Bible became known as the "Bear Bible," because it was placed in a window to keep the sash raised, when a bear, wanting to effect an entrance, clawed it, leaving the marks of his claws so deep upon the edges of its leaves, where it can still be plainly seen. The blank pages between the Old and New Testaments are still intact, and their pen and ink entries establish the copy as having belonged to the early Gillett family. The script of the entries is the very old style, which was in use in England around 1600, in the hand of Jonathan Gillett of the second generation.

Ancestry Chain 1: (10th gr.grandfather) Jonathan Sr. GILLETT (GYLETTE) Immigant b.1604, Mary GILLETT b.1638, Abigail BROWN b.1662, Jonathan FOWLER b.1685, Catherine FOWLER b.1723, Lydia NOBLE b.1768, Horace Datus ENSIGN-76 b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, sons, grandchildren.

Ancestry Chain 2: (10th gr.grandfather) Jonathan Sr. GILLETT (GYLETTE) Immigant b.1604, Samuel GILLETT, Hannah GILLETT b.1674, Mary TAYLOR b.1708, David BRONSON b.1733, Sylvanus BRONSON b.1769, Mary BRONSON b.1806, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, sons, grandchildren.

Ancestry Chain 3: (11th gr.grandfather) Jonathan Sr. GILLETT (GYLETTE) Immigant b.1604, Joseph GILLETT, Joseph GILLETT b.1664, Elizabeth GILLETT b.1688, Esther MARSH b.1714, Esther SAWYER "GUNN" b.1739, Esther REMINGTON b.1772, Mary BRONSON b.1806, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, sons, grandchildren.

Mehitable GUNN was married to two of our grandfathers David ENSIGN and Isaac SHELDON

2011-06-07T19:32:00.000-07:00

Mehitable GUNN

Birth^[1]

28 July 1644

Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Marriage	22 Oct 1663	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto David Ensign
Divorce	Oct 1682	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesfrom David Ensign

Marriage	1686	Northampton, Massachusetts, United Statesto Isaac Sheldon
Death	30 Jan 1720	Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Mehitable married twice, to David Ensign, and then to Isaac Sheldon. She had 5 children with David Ensign. She divorced him "for his ill conduct" and in 1686 married Isaac Sheldon of Northampton and had another child. Married to David Ensign on 22 OCT 1663 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.

Children David ENSIGN and Mehitable GUNN:

David ENSIGN b: 16 NOV 1664 in Hartford

James ENSIGN b: 08 JUL 1666 in Hartford

Thomas ENSIGN b: 07 DEC 1668 in Hartford

Sarah ENSIGN b: 22 JAN 1671 in Hartford

Mary ENSIGN b: 26 JAN 1674 in Hartford

The charges against David Ensign are recorded in “Connecticut Court Assistants,” page 34. Three charges were made. First he was charged with spreading false reports concerning the death of the King, the flight of the Duke of York, and the Duke of Monmouth being made Protector, and second it was charged that he “continually and unlawfully accompanied the wife of Thomas Long to the great dishonor of God, scandal of religion, and breach of the laws of the colony whereby he hath forfeited his bond made to Hartford County Sept. 18, 1679." The third charge was that he committed adultery with Thomas Long's wife, “or at least is suspiciously guilty thereof." Mehitable was married to Isaac SHELDON in 1686

Children Isaac SHELDON and Mehitable GUNN:; (Capt.) Jonathan SHELDON b: 29 MAY 1687 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
David SHELDON 1688-1759

Source: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mehitable_Gunn_%281%29

↑ Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925.

Mahitable Gunn daughter to Thomas Gunn born July 28th A.D. 1644 (Bk I Page Sixteen)

David ENSIGN (8th great grandfather)

Alt Birth	26 Nov 1644	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Birth	29 NOV 1644	New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Christening	19 AUG 1649	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	22 Oct 1663	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States to Mehitable Gunn
Divorce	Oct 1682	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States from Mehitable Gunn
Marriage	ABT 1686	to Sarah Wilcox
Death^[1]	13 DEC 1727	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

David was a farmer and miller and was also prominent in church and town affairs. He was chosen, 16 Feb 1665, chimney viewer; 23 Feb 1688, surveyor and grand juryman. He was one of the first settlers in West Hartford where he moved in 1686; his name headed the list of petitioners for the establishment of a new church. David was buried in the old cemetery of West Hartford where his gravestone bears the inscription: "Here lyeth the body of Mr. David Ensign who Died Decemr ye 14th 1727 in ye 83 year of his age." Mehitable divorced David in Oct 1682 for "ill conduct on his part." She married again in 1685, Isaac Sheldon of Northampton. David remarried Sarah Wilcox [daughter of and John WILCOX Jr. and Sarah WADSWORTH]. Nanncewatt brought complaint against David for "obtaining a quille of wampum" and he was ordered to pay the Indian 40s on 29 Dec 1674.

Children of David ENSIGN and Sarah WILCOX:

David ENSIGN Jr. b.10 OCT 1688. m.1st Hannah SMITH 16 MAY 1709. [six children] m.2nd Sarah MOODY 29 APR 1726. [six children] d.4 DEC 1759 Bloomfield, Hartford, Connecticut. David and Hannah were original members of the Second Church in Hartford, 18 Feb 1711/12. On 16 Dec 1712 he was chosen grand juryman; on 20 Dec 1715 he was selected collector of tax. He went from Windsor to Wintonbury, now Bloomfield, with all his goods in a bundle.

1682
David Ensigne is complained of in court.

First: for bringing and spreading false reports concerning the death of the King, the flight of the Duke of York, and the Duke of Monmouth being made protector. This prisoner returns and said he heard so at New York.

Second: for contempt of authority and that after so much means used, that he hath continually and unlawfully accompanied the wife of Thomas Long to the great dishonor of God, scandal of religion, and breach of the laws of the colony whereby he hath forefeited his bond made to Hartford County, Sept. 18, 1679.

Third: that he hath committed adultery with Thomas Long's wife, or at least is suspiciously guilty thereof.

The jury find the first article according to the prisoner's confession. They find the 2nd article and so consequently the breach of the bond, and they find the 3rd article as suspiciously guilty of the gross act of adultery. David Ensigne having been complained of in these three articles which have been committed to a jury, and he is found guilty.

The court, having considered the first article, that his misdemeanors therein in spreading such reports is notoriously dangerous and very offensive and there being no particular law that doth direct what punishment to inflict on such high misdemeanors, do inflict no punishment on him for the same, but leave to the consideration of the Court of Assistants in October next.

The court approves the verdict of the jury in the 2nd article and do accordingly judge him, the said Ensigne, to have forfeited his bond to the county of Hartford and do order execution to be granted accordingly.

And whereas the jury do find him, the said David Ensigne, suspiciously guilty of the gross act of adultery, and it being difficult to find out such notorious wickedness, not withstanding all care used, yet in this case wherein there hath been so great appearance of those gross ills, this court do order that the said David Ensigne give bond to the value of £400 in good estate, for his good behavior, and that he will totally forbear going into or keeping company with the said Long, which bond is to continue during the pleasure of the court of Assistants. In case he refuse to give bond, he is to be committed to prison, there to remain until the bond is given as aforesaid and do, for the miscarriage of above written, see good reason to defranchise him of his freedom in this corporation according to law.

David Ensigne personally appeared July 23, 1682 and did bind over to the Publick Treasury of the Colony of Connecticut, all his housing and lands within the township of Hartford, both on the East and West side of the Connecticut River as they stand bound to him in the publick records of the said town, or by his father's last will in the court records, to stand as security for his good behavior, and that he will totally forbear going into or keeping company with Sarah, the wife of Thomas Long, according to the judgement of the Court of Assistants, passed against him at their last session May 31 last passed, and for the confirmation hereof he hath sett to his hand and acknowledged the same before John Allyn, Assistant and Secretary. Page 34.

Divorce - May 28, 1683

Upon the petition of Mehitable Ensigne, that she might be freed from the conjugality to David Ensigne, the court hath considered the case, and finding testimony that the said David Ensigne hath sundry times withdrawn himself from his wife, the said Mehitabell, and bedded and boarded with the late wife of Thomas Long, and owned her to be his wife, and carried so to her, and hath not had, nor desired, communion with the said Mehitable for a long time, as she allegeth, but the last winter carried it in a laseivious manner towards the wife of Samuel Elmor, and is now gone from his wife to New York. And it may well be concluded he has gone after the said Long's wife again.

Upon those considerations this court do see good reason, and accordingly do grant, the said Mehittabell Ensigne a release from the matrimonial tye to the said David Ensigne.

And this court do order that an inventory of the personal estate of David Ensigne be taken, and that it be equally divided between the said David Ensigne and Mehitabell.

And this court orders that the house the said Mehitabell now lives in, she be not molested in her inhabiting there, without order of this court by any person whatever. Page 45. (published in 1988 or 1989 as page 24 in one issue of the Sheldon Family Association Newsletter. )

Ancestry Chain: David ENSIGN b.1644, David ENSIGN Jr. b.1688, Datus (Datis) ENSIGN b.1729, Isaac ENSIGN Rev.WarVet.b.1756, Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, sons, grandchildren. .

Source:

↑ Hartford vital records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records.

David Sr, died Dec 13, 1727. David, son James, m Mehetabell GUNN, dau Thomas, Oct 22, 1663.

Isaac SHELDON (9th great grandfather)

Birth^[1]^[2]	Abt 1629	Deposed at Northampton, Mass., 29 Apr. 1679, "aged 50 years or thereabouts."
Emigration^[2]	1639	… came from England with Rev/ Ephraim Hewitt of Windsor, 1639.
Residence^[1]	1652	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	By Abt 1654	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States to Mary Woodford
Residence^[1]	1656	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	1686	Northampton, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mehitable Gunn
Will^[1]	21 Jun 1708
Death^[2]	27 Jul 1708	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Died at aged about 79.
Probate^[1]	1 Sep 1708

"Isaac Sheldon of Windsor, Conn., and of Northampton, Mass., was born about 1629 (according to his deposition of 1679, quoted in part above), a date which agrees with the supposed date of the birth of Isaac Sheldon, son of Ralph and Barbara (Stone) Sheldon of Ashford, in the parish of Bakewell, co. Derby, England, and died as Northampton, Mass., 27 July 1708, aged 78 years. He married first, in 1653, Mary Woodford, who was born about 1636 and died at Northampton 17 Apr. 1684, daughter of Thomas WOODFORD and Mary (Blott) Woodford of Hartford, Conn., and Northampton, Mass.; and secondly, in 1686, Mrs. Mehitable (Gunn) Ensign, who was born as Windsor, Conn., 28 July 1644 and died at Northampton, Mass., 30 Jan. 1720/1, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gunn and formerly wife of David Ensign of Hartford, Conn.

…shortly before 13 Sept. 1652, when the order quoted above was passed at a meeting of the townsmen of Windsor, Isaac Sheldon bought of John Stiles a house and three-acre lot in Windsor. In 1656 he moved from Windsor to Northampton, Mass., which was thenceforth his home. [Isaac SHELDON and father in-law Thomas WOODFORD founders of Northampton.] In his will, dated 21 June 1706 and proved 1 Sept. 1708, he named his wife Mehitable, his sons Isaac, John, Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Ebenezer, and Jonathan Sheldon and his daughters Mary Bridgeman, Ruth Strong, Thankful Edwards, Mindwell Lyman, Hannah Chapin (Hampshire Probate Records, vol. 3, page 188)"^[1]

Children of Isaac SHELDON and Mary WOODFORD:; Mary SHELDON 1654 – 1728
Isaac SHELDON 1656 – 1712: John SHELDON 1658 – 1725
Thomas SHELDON 1663 – 1728: Thankful SHELDON (twin) 1663 – 1741; Ruth SHELDON (twin) b.27 Aug 1663. m.1st Joseph WRIGHT Sr. 16 Nov 1679 [8 children]. m.2nd Samuel STRONG 28 Oct 1698 [4 children]. d.aft 16 May 1728.
Midwell SHELDON 1666 – 1735: Joseph SHELDON 1668 – 1708
Hannah SHELDON 1670-1690: Eleazar SHELDON 1672 – 1673
Samuel SHELDON 1675 – 1745
Ebenezer SHELDON 1677 – 1755
Mercy SHELDON 1684 – 1684

Ancestry Chain: Isaac SHELDON 1652 Immigrant b.1630, Ruth SHELDON (twin) b.1663, Ruth WRIGHT b.1687, Samuel NOBLE b.1722, Lydia NOBLE b.1768, Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, sons, grandchildren.

Source:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Bartlett, J. Gardner. The Sheldons of Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, and Isaac Sheldon of New England (1926). New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Oct 1926), 80 [1926] : 378ff.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Trumbull, James Russell. History of Northampton : Northampton genealogies, 1640-1838. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958).

Park to Honored Grandfather Capt. Michael Pierce 316 years after his death

2011-06-07T19:30:00.000-07:00

Pierce Park and Riverwalk
Central Falls, Rhode Island

Pierce Park and Riverwalk is located on High Street in Central Falls along the Blackstone River. Constructed in 1991 it contains a ball field, trail systems with river overlooks, benches and playground facilities. It is also the site of the Pierce Fight. The Pierce Fight site has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. Located between High Street and the Blackstone River, this is the Rehoboth and Canonchet's Narragansett Indians on March 16, 1676. A marker near Macomber Stadium describes the confrontation, a critical episode in King Philip's War.
Services / Features / Restrictions: Smoke Free, Free Admission, Children's Activities, Attraction, Cultural, Of Interest to Children, National Register, Park, Spectator Sports, Alcohol Prohibited, Smoke Free, Blackstone Valley and Northern Rhode Island, Ball Field, Playground, Hiking Trail, Wildlife Viewing.
Handicap Service: Complete Wheel Chair Access.

Captain Michael Pierce was born in 1615. He married Persis Eames in 1643. Captain Michael Pierce died on 26 March 1676; The battle in which Captain Michael Pierce lost his life is detailed in Drakes Indian Chronicles (pp. 220-222) as follows:

"Sunday the 26th of March, 1676, was sadly remarkable to us for the tidings of a very deplorable disaster brought into Boston about five o'clock that afternoon, by a post from Dedham, viz., that Captain Pierce of Scituate in Plymouth Colony, having intelligence in his garrison at Seaconicke, that a party of the enemy lay near Mr. Blackstorne's, went forth with sixty-three English and twenty of the Cape Indians (who had all along continued faithful, and joyned with them), and upon their march discovered rambling in an obscure woody place, four or five Indians, who, in getting away from us halted as if they had been lame or wounded. But our men had pursued them but a little way into the woods before they found them to be only decoys to draw them into their ambuscade; for on a sudden, they discovered about five hundred Indians, who in very good order, furiously attacked them, being as readily received by ours; so that the fight began to be very fierce and dubious, and our men had made the enemy begin to retreat, but so slowly that it scarce deserved the name, when a fresh company of about four hundred Indians came in; so that the English and their few Indian friends were quite surrounded and beset on every side. Yet they made a brave resistance for about two hours; during which time they did great execution upon their enemy, who they kept at a distance and themselves in order. For Captain Pierce cast his sixty-three English and twenty Indians into a ring, and six fought back to back, and were double - double distance all in one ring, whilst the Indians were as thick as they could stand, thirty deep. Overpowered with whose numbers, the said Captain and fifty-five of his English and ten of their Indian friends were slain upon the place, which in such a cause and upon such disadvantages may certainly be titled "The Bed of Honor." However, they sold their worthy lives at a gallant rate, it being affirmed by those few that not without wonderful difficulty and many wounds made their escape, that the Indians lost as many fighting men in this engagement as were killed in the battle in the swamp near Narragansett, mentioned in our last letter, which were generally computed to be above three hundred."

Today, in Scituate, there is a Captain Michael Pierce Monument and a Captain Pierce Road.

Ancestry Chain: 10 Great grandfather Capt. Micheal J. PIERCE Immigrant b.1615 / Mary PIERCE b.165 / Mary HOLBROOK b.1686 / Rachel DANIELS b.1720 / Abner RAWSON Rev.WarVet b.1764 / Amariah RAWSON b.1787 / Adaline RAWSON b.1811 / Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859 / George Ensign SMITH b.1898 / Myrle / sons / grandchildren.

Memorial Day - U.S. Army Service WWI

2011-05-30T17:34:00.000-07:00

Geo Ensign SMITH in the gunner seat

Sergeant - Smith George E

Army serial # 1,640,541
Enlisted in: NG at Logan Utah 9 Apr 1917 (age 19)
Organizations: Btry C 145 FA to disch.
Grades: Corp 4 Aug 1917; Sgt 1 Oct 1918
Served overseas: France - 5 Aug 1918 to 4 Jan 1919

Fort Douglas Sep 1917 (sitting far left Geo Ensign SMITH)
"1 Henry Frogley 2 Hula (dog) 3 The Hon. (Geo Ensign SMITH) 4 A.T.Larsen"
arrows points to Geo Ensign SMITH

"Geo. Ensign SMITH and Henry Frogley some where some time"
"1 Dots Im (Geo. Ensign SMITH) 2 Saigt Picket 3 No. Croxton 4 Zollinger 5 Frank"
"1 Henry Frogley a dandy good clean chum 2 The Hon (Geo Ensign SMITH)
3 A L Larsen from Cove up by Lewiston (ID)"

Forwarded 26 Jan 1921 Victory Medal with clasp: France

Bronze "Victory Button" issued
Paid in full $24.40 21 Jan 1919

[note below photo of girlfriend A. Ella Hawkes they married 27 Aug 1919]
The United States of America Honors the Memory of George E. SMITH
signed Lyndon B. Johnson President of the United States
Ninety four years later (1917-2011) great great grandson visits George Ensign SMITH (1898-1967) memorial .

note: memorial births is off by one year.
See: grandson in GE SMITH WWI helmet.

Peggy Fell Overboard John Saved Her Life

2011-05-22T15:25:00.000-07:00

John WATSON and Margaret SMITH both IMMIGRANTS, 1632. “John Watson & Margaret Smith sailed together from England. Tradition is that she fell overboard and he saved her life. He removed from Windsor to Hartford about 1637, where they were married.” --Ted Steele

John and Margaret (Smith) Watson

John WATSON - b. England; d. 1650, West Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. Son of Robert WATSON and Elizabeth. His will was dated Mar. 26, 1650; inventory of estate at £126.01.06 taken Jun. 4, 1650. At Hartford, CT by 1644; juror 1644; highway surveyor 1646. Married in America.

Margaret SMITH - d. 1683, West Hartford, CT. Will dated Mar. 1683, and proved Sep. 6, 1683.

Oral will of Margaret Watson - Mar. 1683

The last Will & Testament of Margaret Watson, who deceased March last past, did declare her Mind & Will as followeth concerning her Estate, & how she would have it disposed of, as she did declare it to Sarah Watson & John Merrells sen: She bequeathd to her daughter Sarah Merrells her red cloth Petticoat. She gave her searge petticoat and her Penny stone Peticoat to her daughter Mary Seamore. She gave to her gr. child Sarah Merrells 1 Pillow beere & one sheet & a white apron. She gave to her gr. Child She gave to her gr. child Susannah Merrells 1 Sheet & 1 Pillow beere. She gave her gr. child Mary Seamor 1 Sheet & 1 blankett & her green apron. She gave to her gr. child Margaret Seamor 1 Sheet & 1 blankett & a Neck Handkercheire. She gave to her gr. Child John Watson 1 great pewter Platter & a Porringer. She did desire that her daughters, Sarah Merrells & Mary Seamor, should have 5 pounds paid to each of them, that was bequeathed to them by their Father's Will. Also she did desire that the now wife of her son John Watson may have the use of the House & Homsted if it should please God that my son John should die before her, for her lifetime.

Sarah X Watson

Taken May 1683 by John Coale, Stephen Hosmer.

Children of John and Margaret Watson

Sarah - b. 1641, Hartford, CT. Married John MERRILL.
John - b. 1646; d. 1725, West Hartford, CT. Administration on the estate granted Jul. 6, 1725 to the widow and sons Cyprian and Caleb. Estate inventoried at £1017, and distributed Jul. 2, 1730. Married first Anna; and second by Mar. 1683 Sarah. Children of John WATSON: John married Sarah STEELE; Thomas; Zachariah; Anna married Lamarock FLOWERS; Cyprian married first Elizabeth STEELE, and second Abigail; Sarah married Thomas SHEPARD; and Caleb married Hannah PORTER.
Mary - Married John SEYMOUR (d. 1713), son of Richard and Mercy. Settled at Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. Children of Mary and John SEYMOUR: John married Elizabeth WEBSTER; Thomas married first Ruth NORTON, and second Mary WATERS (daughter of Bevil WATERS and Elizabeth); Mary married John NORTH; Zachariah died young; Margaret married first Timothy ROOT, and second John REW; Richard married Mary WILSON; John (or Jonathan); Nathaniel; and Zachariah married Hannah OLMSTED.

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Parents: John Watson (d. 1650 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT) and Margaret
Children: Sarah (c.1646), John, Mary

JOHN2 WATSON, son of Robert, was born about 1616, in England. He went to Hartford from Windsor, Conn., about 1637, and married there Margaret (Smith). She was born in England, and tradition says that Peggy Smith, a fellow passenger on the ship coming to America, fell overboard. John Watson saved her and later married her. He was surveyor of highways in Hartford, 1647. In 1645, "The eare marke for Jo Wattson: a little slitt of the side of the near eare & both the tops cutt of both eares." He died in Hartford, in 1650, between March 26, the date of his will, and June 4, its probate. He left his property to his wife, naming portions to be given his son John, when of age, and five pounds each to his daughters Sara and Mary, at eighteen years old. His widow died March, 1683. The will of Margarett Wattson, made March 26, and probated May 31, 1683, mentions her daughters Sarrah Merrels and Mary Seamor; and granddaughters Mary and Margaret Seamor; and the new wife of her son John Watson. (The Bassett Preston Ancestry, pp. 311, 312.) (D. F. P. A. 1913, p. 76--No. 110 John Watson, 1646; married Ann, his first wife; married second, Margaret Smith, between March 25, 1660 and June 4, 1650. She died 1683. (Records of Hartford, Conn., 1644)--John Watson served as Jury, Surveyor, 1646. He died in Hatfield, leaving a widow, Margaret, who died 1683. Reference: "Genealogy of Conn.," Vol. I, p. 351.
Sources: Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service, Pp. 321-22, Author: Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford, Call Number: R929.1 R62t. Families of Early Hartford, CT, Page 391.

(Geneology.com - Justin Maitland)

1- Ancestry Chain: 10th Great Grandparents John WATSON 1632 Immigrant b.1616 and wife Margaret SMITH, Mary WATSON b.1644, John SEYMOUR b.1666, John SEYMOUR b.1694, Lucretia SEYMOUR b.1730, Isaac ENSIGN Rev.WarVet. b.1756, Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, sons, grandchildren.

John DRAKE Dies After Being Run Over, Elizabeth DRAKE lives to be 100

2011-05-21T06:22:00.000-07:00

John DRAKE Sr. (1585-1659),
1st m. 1616 Elizabeth SHAKESPEARE (-1623),
2nd m. Elizabeth ROGERS (1581-1681).

Children of John Drake and Elizabeth Rogers:
1-Job Drake d. 6 Aug 1689 [gr. grandparent of Oliver Wolcott a signer of the Declaration of Independence.]
2-John DRAKE Jr. b.1625 Wiscombe, Devon., England, m. Hannah MOORE 30 Mar 1648 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, d.7 Jul 1688 Windsor, Hartford, CT
3-Jacob Drake (abt 1623-1689)
4-Samuel Drake (abt 1624-1686)
5-Mary Drake (abt 1625-1683) m. John GAYLORD son of William GAYLORD and Mary WALTER
6-Elizabeth Drake (abt 1626-1716) m. William GAYLORD Jr. son of William GAYLORD and Mary WALTER
[William GAYLORD is first cousin of 10th and 11th great grandmother Alice GAYLORD TREAT.]

Notes for John Drake Sr.

Immigrated from England to New England with wife and children. He may have arrived on one of the ships that left Weymouth, England in Apr 1637, as several of those families ended up in Taunton.

Listed on a list of original proprietors of Taunton that dates to 1638 or 1639. He is found in 1641 in Windsor, receiving an average size grant of 16 acres.

Recorded in the 1640 Town Records at Windsor in the list of "First Settlers of Windsor, five years after their removal from Dorchester." (NEHGR 5:365) [The list includes people who arrived after 1635, such as those who came with Huit in 1639.]

On his death, town records of Windsor gave the following account: " August 17, 1659, John Drake, Senior dyed accidentaly, as he was driving a cart loaded with corn, to carry from his house to his son Jacob's the Cattle being two oxen and his mare, in the high way against John Griffin's something scar'd the Cattle, and they set a running, and he labouring to stop them by taking hold on the mare, was thrown down on his face, and cart wheels went over him: brake one of his legs and bruised his body, so that he was taken up dead, being carried into his daughter's house and life come again, but dyed in a short time and was buried on the 18th day of August 1659." ⁵³

There are pedigrees floating around linking him to the Drakes in Ashe, Devon (the family of the navigator Francis Drake). However, that family was of considerable prominence and wealth, which is not reflected in the social standing of this John. In addition, the wills of the family don't mention him, with the exception of that of Francis in 1634 (the source of the speculation in the first place). He is also not likely the John Drake who came with Winthrop's Fleet to Boston in 1630. That John is listed as one to be made a freeman in Oct 1630, but did not actually take the oath. Most of the other men of whom that was the case died or returned to England. Furthermore, there is no other record of John Drake until 1638. It would have been virtually impossible for a man with a family to avoid any mention for 8 years. (See articles in The American Genealogist for a more in depth explanation.)

Savage's: JOHN, Dorchester, or Boston, came in the fleet with Winthrop prob. as we find his req. 19 Oct. 1630 to be made freem. yet his adm. is not found, and he rem. from our col. perhaps as a purch. of Taunton 1639 [Baylies, I. 286], and not long after to Windsor, and there, by a cartwheel running over him, was k. 17 Aug. 1659, leav. s. Jacob and Job, bef. ment. and John, beside one, if not more, d. His wid. d. 7 Oct. 1681, but we may hesitate at the old ch. rec. story of her hundredth yr. yet agree to the main truth of her being call. "old wid. D."

WILL

Firs t, I bequeah my soule to God that gave it me, and my body to Earthly burial. As for my worldly goods, I thus dispose of them: First, I desire that there may be a Inventory tooke off my State and within twelve months after my decease: I give to my son John L20; and after my wyve's decease, out of the State I have, I give him tenn pounds more; and to son Job I give my six acres of meaddow that is bounded of the South side with Goodman Phillps, Within twelve moneths after my decease, then, after my wife's decease, I give that six acres forementioned to his sonne Job; and after my wife's decease, I give to all grand children, viz., three of sonne John, and four of my sonne Job, and one of my daughter Elizabeth Gaylord, three pounds apeece; and too my wife I give all my part off Howsing and Lands that Ihave in possession ffor to make use of as shee and her ffriends shall think will be fore her best advantage; and my land that I bought of Goodman Bissell that Lye of the East Side of the great river I give to my sonne Jacob provided that he pay to my sonne John tenne pounds after my wif's decease, ffor to make his porshon L30; the house and my land that I bought that was Mr Sen Nicholases (Mr. John Saint Nicholas) that lys of the west side of the great river I give to my sonne Jacob, and after my wife's decease he shall pay the rest of his brothers & sisters sixteen pounds ffor the Land that I have given to my sonne Jacob; my wife is to have the propriety of it for her use while shee live, and after her decease then my sonne Jacob shall have full possession of it with its appurtenances yt appertain thereunto, provided that he pay the formentioned Sums of money to his Brethren, viz., tenne pounds to my sonne John and sixteene pounds to the rest of his brothers and sisters; too my sonne Jacob I also give him my two tables and a bedsted that he maks use of yt belongs to that end of the House next the Highway in the lower romms; to my daughter Mary Gayler I give one fetherbed and two blankets and a bolster after my wife's decease; and to my daughter Elizabeth I give one coverlid after my decease; and to Timothy I give him forty shillings and two good sutes of clothes when his time is out; and the rest of Stock shall be equally divided amongst my five children after my wife's decease."

Notes for Elizabeth Rogers

Windsor records note "Old widow Drake in her 100th year of age dyed Oct 7th 81."

(Unknown Author)

Ancestry Chain: 10th great-grandfather John DRAKE Sr. (Immigrant) b.1585, John DRAKE Jr (Child Immigrant) b.1625, Mary DRAKE b.1666, Catherine MARSHALL b.1699, Catherine FOWLER b.1723, Lydia NOBLE b.1768, Horace Datus ENSIGN (Pioneen) b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN (Teen Pioneer) b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, sons, grandchildren.

Francis HAWKES

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Ancestry Chain: Utah Pioneer Mary Ann MILES b.1798, Utah Pioneer Francis HAWKES b.1830, Herbert Henry HAWKES b.1869, Amy Ella HAWKES b.1897, Myrle, sons, grandchildren.

The History of Francis HAWKES

Who Came to Utah in 1865
Written By His Daughter Nellie HAWKES CURTIS
For the Henry Ballard Camp, Cache Valley Chapter,
[of The Daughter of The Utah Pioneers]

[Francis HAWKES married 23 Nov 1862 Eliza COLE daughter of William George COLE and Sarah LARNDER.]

Click on each page 2-11 to enlarge and read, follow the labels for photos and other history.

Deseret News Obituary: Simeon Adams DUNN

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BIOGRAPHY: Title:Obituary:
Author: Deseret News Vol. 32 p. 144 Film 0026600

DUNN--At his residence, in Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, on
the Evening of Feb 24th 1883, of kidney complaint, Simeon Adams
Dunn, in his 80th year.

Deceased was born August 7th 1803, in Utica, State of New
York, and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints in April 1839, in the Huron River by Elder James Dunn,
and ordained to the office of Elder in June, 1840.

He arrived in Nauvoo with his family on the 5th of August
1841. In April 1844, he was ordained a Seventy, and in May the
same year, went on a mission to the State of New York.

In January 1845, he was ordained the Senior President of the
15th Quorum of Seventies under the hands of President Joseph Young.

In May, 1846, he left Nauvoo, with his family for the West,
and shared in the toils and sufferings of the Saints, remaining in
Winter Quarters, as then called, from the fall of 1846, until May,
1848, when, with his family, he started for Salt Lake City,
arriving there September 28th of the same year.

On the 7th of May 1850 he started on a mission to the South
Sea Islands, and returned home in April 1852; in May, 1853, he
settled in this place, where he remained until death. In the fall
of 1873, he went to the Eastern States to gather genealogies of his
ancestors, and returned in July of the following year, having been
very successful in his labors: in November 1877, to his great joy,
he left his home for St. George to there officiate in the Holy
Temple for his dead, and in January, 1878, he returned, having
accomplished the desire of his heart and feeling greatly blessed.

He was called by the Prophet Joseph to fill positions of trust
in Nauvoo, received his blessings in the Temple there, was full of
zeal and fervency in the work of God, and quite marked for his
straightforward manner; he was a practical, hard working and honest
man, prompt in meeting all his obligations, careful and considerate
in all of his ways, was a faithful Latter-day Saints and highly
respected. He leaves a numberous posterity to mourn his loss.

(Simeon Adams Dunn and His Family, Cameron Doran Wilde page 24-25 - http://dkwilde.com/Genealogy/Dunn/Simeon_Adams_Dunn.pdf)

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....That the said Simeon A. Dunn died testate in Brigham City Box Elder County on the 24th day of February A.D. 1883 leaving him surviving said Joseph M. Dunn, Mary Ensign, Betsy Haws, Susannah Hunsaker, Sophia Dunn, Simeon A. Dunn [Jr.], Emelin(e) Cantwell, Evelin(e) Hunsaker, Charles O. Dunn, and Ephraim Dunn, the children of said deceased and his only decendants....

(Simeon Adams Dunn and His Family, Cameron Doran Wilde page 59 - Box Elder County, Box Edler County Court, Probate Records, Films480322-480323. "p. 194-197 Territory of Utah County of Box elder In the Probate Court In the matter of the estate of Simeon A. Dunn deceased: Decree of estate.)

Note: Mary DUNN (ENSIGN) the daughter of Simeon Adams DUNN and Adaline RAWSON had no middle name. Some have mistakenly given her mother and sisters name as a middle name.

Ancesrtry Chain: 4th great grandfather Simeon Adams DUNN (LDS Pioneer) b.1803, Mary DUNN (LDS Child Pioneer) b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN (UT born LDS Pioneer) b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle, sons, grandchildren.

John Hawks and Elizabeth Brown

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John Hawks A Founder of Hadley MA Buired here 30 June 1662 Honored by his Descendants 30 June 1983.

(This story was adapted from the Hawkes Family Genealogy Page.)

[Immigrant] John Hawks came to Dorcester, Massachusetts in 1630 in Winthrop's Fleet, and then to Windsor, Connecticut in 1640 as one of the founders. Ecclesiastical orthodoxy led him, along with his wife Elizabeth Browne, to move to Hadley, Massachusetts in 1659 again as one of the founders. Adam Hawkes of Saugus was apparently a brother, and the two came to New England together. John Hawks/Hawkes was born in England and died 30 Jun 1662 in Hardley, Massachusetts.

John's wife, Elizabeth Browne, was a niece of Nathaniel Ward, an original settler of Hartford, Connecticut. Nathaniel Ward was a son of Edward Ward of Little Wrathing, Suffolk County, England. On 9 Jan 1620, Edward made his will, proved at Ipswich 7 May 1620. He provided for his wife Judith and his children Nathaniel, Edward, Lydia, Mary, Rebecca, and Susan.

Susan Browne, widow of Robert Browne of Ipswich, made her will 22 Mar 1626, proved 24 Apr 1627. She remembered her mother Judith and both of her sisters, Rebecca Ward and Mary Cutting, as well as "Elizabeth Browne, daughter of my bother-in-law William Browne." As Lydia Ward was the forth sister, it was she who married William Browne and their daughter Elizabeth was niece of Nathaniel Ward (of Hartford). Elizabeth Browne married John Hawkes in about 1642.

John and Elizabeth's children were all born in Windsor. At a meeting held at Nathaniel Ward's house in Hartford, 18 Apr 1659, John was among those present who signed the agreement to remove from Connecticut to Massachusetts. They moved to Hadley, Massachusetts around 1660. John died suddenly and was buried 30 Jun 1662 in the Hadley Cemetery. [John died without a will leaving his wife with 9 children ages 3 to 19.]

Elizabeth married second Robert Hinsdale as his second wife about 1668. They moved to Pocumtuck (Deerfield), Massachusetts. The marriage was an unhappy one and they soon parted, and she returned to her home in Hardley, Massachusetts. At a court held 30 Mar 1674 they were "presented for living assunder contrary to law," also charged with lacivious and wanton carrage." On examination Elizabeth refused to answer, and it appears that she was cleared of any wrongdoing. Robert Hinsdale said he "did it as being her head and having the rule of her in the pointe and that he did it for her correction of her disorder to him." Although he was a respected man in the community, the court held he had "broken the perfect rule of devine law and the law of the Colony in the intent if not the letter in the first living assunder," and ordered him "whipped ten stripes on the naked body;" and imposed a fine for which his sons became responsible and which the court refused to remit after his tragic death. In Sep 1675, during King Phillip's War, Deerfield was attacked several times by the Indians. It was decided to evacuate Deerfield. On 18 Sep 1675, Captain Thomas Lathrop's company of soldiers were bringing loaded carts toward Northampton when they were ambushed at a spot known as Bloody Brook, about 5 or 6 miles due south of Deerfield. The men were take totally by surprise and 64 men were killed. Robert was killed, along with three of his sons in ambush at Bloody Brook, Massachusetts. Reoccupation of Deerfield did not occur until 1682.

Elizabeth married third Thomas Dibble of Windsor, Connecticut on 25 Jun 1683; she died in Windsor on 20 Sep 1689.

NOTE: John came to America as an indentured servant. He and his brother, Adam, spent four years in the indentured work agreement in Dorcester, near Boston. He was one of the first settlers of Hadley, MA.

He was one of the founders of both Windsor, CT and Hadley MA.

Ancestry Chain: [10th gr. grandfather] Sgt. John HAWKS Immigrant b.1618, Elizabeth Hawks/ HAWKES, Joseph GILLETT b.1664, Elizabeth GILLETT b.1688, Esther MARSH b.1714, Esther SAWYER "GUNN"-3695 b.1739, Esther REMINGTON b.1772, Mary BRONSON b.1806, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle SMITH, sons, grandchildren

The Home of Sarah and Lt. William CLARK Burned the Night of July 14, 1681

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Original Lt. William Clarke gravestone from 1690,
still preserved in Northampton, MA graveyard.
Was replaced by a larger monument by relatives in 1884. [see below]

Lt. William CLARKE (1609-1690) m Sarah STRONG (1611-1675)

Lt.William Clark was born in 1606 or 1609 in Dorsetshire? England and died on 19 July 1690 in Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA. He is buried in Bridge St. Cemetery in the same aforementioned location. William married Sarah STRONG around 1636 in Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA and she was born in England around 1611 and died on 6 September 1675 in Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA. She also is buried at Bridge St. Cemetery, Northampton, MA. William's second wife was Sarah Slye Cooper and they were married on 15 November 1676 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Sarah was born in England around 1620 and died on 8 May 1688. She was the daughter of George SLYE. (http://www.familytreesite.org/clarke.htm)

There are at least three versions on the arrival of William Clarke in the New World:

Version 1 - He departed Plymouth, England on March 30, 1630 aboard the ship 'Mary and John' arriving in Nautucket (now called Hull) on May 30, 1630. He would have been 21 at that time. This is the version that appears in most family records.

Version 2 - William Clarke emigrated in 1630 aboard the ship 'William and Mary' in the company of Rev. Mister Warham of Plymouth, Dorsetshire, England. He settled first in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma. prior to 1635, where he officiated as Townsman or Selectman from 1646 to 1653, removing to Northampton in 1659.

Version 3 - William Clarke left England on the ship 'Mary and John', which sailed from London on March 24, 1633, arriving in New England in June of that year.

This last version seems the most likely, even though it does not agree with 'old family tradition'. The port of embarkation also differs.

"He was the first citizen of Northampton to be elected deputy to the General Court, and 14 times between 1663 and 1682 was elected to that office, although not consecutively. He was Associate Justice of county court for 26 years; In 1662, he was authorized by the General Court to solemnize marriages, being the first person in that town to hold that responsible position. Frequently appointed by the Court to deal with Indians. He was chosen Lieutenant of the first military company ever organized here, when that was the office of highest rank to which the company, on account of its small number of men was entitled, and was in active service during King Philip's War and was at the same time a member of the military committee of the county. He supplied the commissary department to some extent during King Philip's Indian War and the Legislature ordered the Treasurer to pay him in 1676 'thirty-eight pounds, eighteen shillings for "Porke and bisket" delivered to the country's use'. He helped to build the first grist mill and the first saw mill in the town. He was greatly interested in promoting the new settlement of Squakheag (Northfield) and is named as having served as town clerk at the second settlement of that place, although there is no evidence that he ever lived there. Several times he was chosen commissioner, with others, to determine disputed boundaries between Northampton and neighboring towns. His home lot, one of the largest, covered the north half of the Smith College property. Tradition states that here he built a block house upon this lot which was used for refuge during the Indian troubles. His dwelling house was burned in 1681, having been set on fire by a Negro, as he averred in search of food. * In 1671, he was licensed to sell "wine, cider or liquor for a year". He had large grants of land in the meadows and elsewhere and purchased many acres in different parts of the town. All his lands, embracing nearly two hundred acres, with the exception of 7 3/4 acres, he disposed of before his death to his sons, reserving to himself an annuity of 24 pounds.

"The house of Lieut. William Clarke, situated very nearly on the ground now occupied by the main Smith College building, was burned on the night of July 14, 1681. It was built of logs, and Clarke and his wife were living in it at the time. A Negro, named Jack, set the house on fire. He confessed the deed and pretended that it was done accidentally, while he was searching for food, swinging a burning brand to light his way. Jack did not belong in town; he was a servant to Samuel Wolcott of Wethersfield; was a vicious character, a forerunner of the great army of tramps now everywhere wearying the patience of the public, and had already been before the courts for other misdemeanors. His object undoubtedly, was robbery, and it is not probable that he went about the house searching for food even, with a lighted pine torch in his hands. Very likely after stealing whatever he could lay his hands upon, he set the house on fire to conceal the robbery, or from spite against William Clarke, who was at this time 72 years of age.

Capture and Punishment of the Incendiary. Jack was arrested in Brookfield or Springfield, and was brought before the court in Boston, where he plead not guilty. When his confession was read to him, however, he acknowledged it, and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The court believed his confession as to setting the house on fire, but did not credit his statement that it was done carelessly. He was sentenced to be "hanged by the neck till he be dead and then taken down and burnt to ashes in the fire with Maria, the Negro". Maria was under sentence of death for burning the houses of Thomas Swan, and of her master, Joshua Lamb, in Roxbury. She was burned alive. Both of these Negroes were slaves. Why the body of Jack was burned is not known.

note 1: Many slaves were burned alive in New York and New Jersey, and in the southern colonies, but few in Massachusetts. note 2: Tradition has handed down the following items concerning the burning of Clarke's house: The Negro fastened the door on the outside so that no one could escape, and set the fire on the outside. William Clarke injured his hands considerably (pounded them, it is said) in his endeavor to escape, and his wife was somewhat burned. John Clarke, grandson of William, a little more than a year old, was brought out of the house and laid beside the fence. There was powder in one of the chambers, and when it exploded the ridge pole was blown across the road, and one end forced into the ground. The Negro had taken offense at something William Clarke had done in his official capacity, and set the fire in a spirit of revenge. He was discovered either at Brookfield, Springfield, or near New Haven, and identified by means of a jack-knife in his possession that belonged to the Clarke's." History of Northampton Massachusetts From Its Settlement in 1654 (James Russell Trumbull - Printed in Northampton in 1898)

Lt. William Clarke and Sarah Strong had the following children:

(1) Sarah Clark was born on 21 April 1638 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 21 June 1638 in the same locatiion..

(2) Jonathan Clark was born on 1 August 1639 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 1 Oct 1639 in the same location.

(3) Nathaniel Clark was born on 27 January 1642 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 30 March 1669 in Northampton, Hampshire County, MA. On 8 May 1663 he married Mary Meekins in Hadley, Hampshire County, MA.

(4) Experience Clark was born on 30 March 1643 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died in 1662 at Northampton, Hampshire County, MA.

(5) Increase Clark was born on 1 March 1646 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 24 April 1662 at Northampton, Hampshire County, MA.

(6) Rebecca Clark was born 1 March 1648/9 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 8 February 1733 at Northampton, MA. She married Israel Rust on 9 December 1669.

(7) John Clark (Deacon) was born on 1 May 1651 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 3 September 1704 at Windsor, Hartford County, CT. His first wife was Rebecca Cooper and she died during childbirth. His second wife was Mary Strong and they were married on 20 March 1679.

(8) Samuel Clark was born on 16 October 1653 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 5 August 1729 at Northampton, MA. He married Elizabeth Edwards on 1 March 1682 at Northampton, MA.

(9) Captain William Clark was born on 3 July 1656 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 9 May 1725 at Lebanon, New London County, CT. His first wife was Hannah Strong and they were married on 15 July 1680. William's second wife was Mary Smith and they were married on 31 January 1694/5.

(10) Sarah Clark was born on 19 March 1659 at Dorchester, Suffolk County, MA and died on 15 April 1728 at Northampton, MA. She married Capt. John Parsons on 23 December 1675 in Northampton, MA.

Lt. William CLARK Immigrant is the 9th great-grandfather of Myrle.

Ancestry Chain: Lt. William CLARK Immigrant b.1609, Nathaniel CLARK b.1641, Mary PARSONS b.1688, Jerusha GRAVES b.1717, Jerusha COOLEY b.1738, Sylvanus BRONSON b.1769, Mary BRONSON b.1806, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Myrle.

POST 1 - Colonial Immigrant Ancestors

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My pedigree to Colonial Immigrant Ancestors, more posts will follow.

Click on to enlarge and focus pedigree charts below.

Five Generations 1- son to 2-Myrle to 3-George Ensign SMITH to 4-Harriet Camilla ENSIGN to 5-Martin Luther ENSIGN (see Martin Luther ENSIGN as Generation 1 on the pedigree below).

5-Martin Luther ENSIGN (Mormon Pioneer) to 6-Horace Datus ENSIGN (died at Winter Quarters) to 7-Isaac ENSIGN (Revalutionary War Veteran) to 8-Datus ENSIGN to 9-David Jr. ENSIGN.

See the ship symbol on the next two charts for Colonial Immigrant Ancestors.

9-David Jr. ENSIGN husband of 9-Sarah MOODY is the first person on the following chart. Known Colonial Immigrant Ancestors are found in generations 11, 12, and 13.

11-James ENSIGN migration by 1634, 11 Sarah ELSON migration by 1634, 11 John Jr. WILCOX migration by 1639 with father, 11 Sarah WADSWORTH migration 1632 aboard the "Lyon" with parents and siblings.

12-Abraham ELSON, 13-Rebecca STEELE ELSON MUDGE GREENSMITH (she was hung as a witch with husband Nathaniel GREENSMITH), 12-John WILCOCKS migration by 1639 with son, 12-Mary BIDDLE, 12-William WADSWORTH migration 1632 aboard the "Lyon" with wife and children, 12-Sarah TALCOTT 1632 aboard the "Lyon" with husband and children.

13-George STEELE migration 1633, 13-Margery SORRELL migration 1633.
9-Sarah MOODY wife of 9-David Jr. ENSIGN is the first person on the following chart. Known Colonial Immigrant Ancestors are found in generations 12, and 13.

12-John MOODY migration by 1633 with wife, 12-Sarah COX migration by 1633 with husband, 12-John DEMING migration to Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1629-1633 with an older sister, Elizabeth (Deming) Foote, her husband Nathaniel Foote, several of their children and a brother Thomas Deming [Nathaniel FOOTE and Elizabeth DEMING are also our grandparents], 12-Honor TREAT migrated with husband and family, 12-John EVARTS migration by 1637, 12-Elizabeth, 12-Thomas FRENCH migration 1630 Winthrop fleet, 12-Mary BUTTON.

13-Richard TREAT migration 1637 with family, 13-Alice GAYLORD migration 1637 with family, 13-Matthias BUTTON migration 1633, 13-Lettice TEAGLE migration 1633.
Click on to enlarge and focus pedigree charts above.

The Four Smith Sisters

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Amy, Leona, Camilla, Myrle

Family Christmas party 1956
Myrle, Ensign, Amy
Leona, Ella, Camilla

The day of my dad's funeral 1967
Leona, Myrle, Ella, Camilla, Amy

The day of my mother's funeral 1971

Amy, Leona, Camilla, Myrle

AFTER 16 YEARS, THE HOUSE

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"And when their subfloor had been laid in place (Mrs. Smith hammered it down while her husband sawed) they danced there in the moonlight and fell in love again."

Farm Home and Garden, The Salt lake Tribune, Sunday, June 19, 1949 Section H Page One

And its owners, Mr. and Mrs. Ensign Smith, grandparents,
who wanted a place so much they put it up themselves. See page 8.
-page 8-

click on image to enlarge
This article was mentioned in the post Grandma's Kitchen.

Utah Statehood 1896

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Martin Luther ENSIGN (1831-1911) - hand written paper on Utah Statehood 1896 - original found in the LDS church archives in Church Office Building Salt Lake City - hand writing very hard to read - this is what we think it says - blanks indicate illegible written words. Original Spelling. Help fill in the blanks.

Historical Notes on M. L. ENSIGN:
Martin Luther ENSIGN(1831-1911) had driven a wagon across the plains in the summer of 1847. He was 16 years old. His family had left Massachusetts a year earlier after joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When they got to Nauvoo the main body of the church had moved on. The Ensign family joined the Saints in Iowa where Martin’s father Horace Datus ENSIGN (1797-1846) died. His mother Mary BRONSON ENSIGN (1806-1888) was left with 7 children between the age of 6 and 20 years. They continues on to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. That first year they lived in the old Salt Lake Fort they ate thistle roots and the roof leaked.

Ancestral Chain: Martin Luther ENSIGN, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN, George Ensign SMITH, Myrle SMITH, Dalton sons.

Click on the letters to enlarge and read.

(Call number MS d 5373 Description Autobiography Martin Luther Ensign. Historical Department-Church Archives 50 East North Temple Street, East Wing Salt lake City, Utah 84150 phone (801) 240-2272.)

Transcript:

My Dear ____________ Thank God Utah is a state after 50 year struggle We have conquered, of course you know all about the ____________ the president signing the document for the Admission of Utah in to the family of States although we have seen some ________ days in Utah we have never seen such a day as this. On Saturday Morning Brother G Q [George Q.] __________&_________ called upon me & when they left me we had no sign that the _________ had signed the document to give us a state ,_________ ________ ______ _________ _________ _____ to the city before the whole City ________________________________every bell was ringing_____________steam whistle let loose_____________yelled it would have ________you to have _______to that continued(?) Bedlam for 2 hours of course we knew what was up but soon _________& H J Grant [Heber J. Grant] called upon me & congratulated me upon the admission of Utah into State Hood. Well the City, Houses, _______ Temples &c were _______with flags & bunting you will see the whole program of the day in the papers I will send you some this morning I dressed for the occasion went to the office & at 10:30 with G Q C J F S [George Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith] & the 12 were at the ______________in carriages for the parade and such a parade and procession I never Saw. We paraded ___________of main streets in 2 lines of carriages the _________& Wells led I followed with brother ________& Secretary of State on my left were the judges. GQC [George Q. Cannon] was in the carriage next to me I don’t know the Length &___________________to____Main Street both sides of us ________with Humanity &______________with people When we came to the Temple there was people enought to fill five (?) temples GQ [George Q. Cannon] & myself_________the upper______surrounded with the governor & judges and officers of the state_______________________....(*The largest flag ever made _____the whole canopy overhead of the Tabernacle 150 feet by 75, wide with one _________light the Star of Utah ________wich made it ______. The day was bright and beautiful ________________

Salt Lake City, Utah Statehood Parade 1896

Flag that hung in the Tabernacle
was 158 feet by 75 feet.

Logan Utah 1891

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Logan, Caches, Utah in 1891. Picture by Charles Roscoe Savage.

The Logan temple can be seen in the upper left corner of the picture.

Our Family living in Logan in 1891:
age 34 - Isaac SMITH (1857 Brigham City, UT - 1914 Logan, UT) married-sealed EHOUS Salt Lake City 1877.
age 32 -Harriett Camilla ENSIGN (1859 Brigham City, UT - 1930 Logan, UT)
Living SMITH children: Isaac Samuel SMITH b.1878 / William Richard SMITH b.1884 / Mary Camilla SMITH b.1886 / Wesley Ensign SMITH b.1888 / Sarah Ann SMITH b.1891.

age 22 - Herbert Henry HAWKES (1869 Logan, Cache, UT - 1948 Logan, Cache, UT)
not yet married
age 16 - Sarah Amy JONES (1875 Logan, Cache, UT - 1952 Salt Lake, SL, UT)

age 61 - Francis HAWKES (1830 Bethnal Green, London, Middlesex, England - 16 Aug 1899 Logan, Cache, UT) married Salt Lake City - 1862 sealed EHOUS 1870.
age 51 - Eliza COLE (1840 Poplar Branch, London, Middlesex, England - 1925 London, Cache, UT)
Living HAWKES children all but Clarence born in Logan: Clarence Christopher CRESSAL b.1861 England, and wife Mary Ann FARNES and 4 children, Eliza Annie HAWKES b.1863 and husband Hyrum David DAVIDSON with children, Sarah Ann HAWKES b. 1867 and husband Harry WORLEY married-sealed LOGAN 1901 see children of Henry WORLEY below, Herbert Henry HAWKES see above, Alvin James HAWKES b.1872, Martha Maria HAWKES b. 1874, Horatio Paul HAWKES b.1876, Nellie May HAWKES b.1878, Elizabeth HAWKES b.1881.

age 41 - Cyrus Joseph JONES (1850 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 1919 London, Cache, UT) married-sealed EHOUS Salt Lake City 1874.
age 40 - Sarah WORLEY (1851 Tipton, Warwick, England- 1925 London, Cache, UT)
Living JONES children all born in Logan: Sarah Amy JONES see above, Eva JONES b.1877, Kate JONES b. 1876, Cyrus Worley JONES b. 1881, Clara JONES b. 1883, Franck Worley JONES b.1887, Ethel JONES b.1890.

age 69 - Thomas JONES (1822 Hartlebury, Worcester, England - 1897 Logan, Cache, UT)
*First wife deceased Mary WILLIAMS (1825 Webbs Green, Halesowen, Worcester, England - 1877 Logan, Cache, UT) their living children all born in England, residence of Logan in 1891: Cyrus Joseph JONES b.1850 and wife Sarah WORLEY see above and below, Mary Emma JONES b.1882 husband John Stephen LIVERMORE and children, Albert Williams JONES b. 1857 and wife Louisa AFFLECK and children, Leonard James JONES and wife Annie Valborg EVERSON and children. Herbert Ernest JONES b.1865.
*Second wife Jane Ann OUTSON WILSON (b.1846 England - d.1916 Logan) their living children all born in Logan, residence of Logan in 1891: [information incomplete]

age 64- Henry WORLEY (1827 Great Barr, Staffordshire, England - 1914 Logan, Cache, UT) married 1846 England - sealed LOGAN 1898.
age 69 - Catherine WILLMORE (1822 St. Martins, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England - 1904 Logan, Cache, Ut) their living children all born in England, residence of Logan in 1891: George WORLEY b.1848 and wife Mary Eliza PEARSON and children, Sarah WORLEY b.1851 and husband Cyrus Joseph JONES see above and below, Catherine WORLEY b.1853-d.1891 her husband Joseph Enos COWLEY and 7 children, youngest born and died 1891, Jane Catherine WORLEY b.1856, Harry WORLEY b.1859 and wife Sarah Ann HAWKES married-sealed LOGAN 1901 see children of Francis HAWKES above, Thomas WORLEY b. 1861 and wife Mary Ann SMITH and children, (Bishop) William John WORLEY b.1864 and wife Alice Potts PEARSON and children.

One brother of Catherine WILLMORE WORLEY living in Logan 1891 - George Edward WILLMORE and wife Elizabeth JAMES and their ten children.

One niece of Catherine WILLMORE WORLEY living in Logan 1891 - step daugher of Catherine's brother Thomas WILLMORE was Eliza Catherine WEBB who married Alfred James WILLMORE nephew of Catherine son of her brother George WILLMORE.

See Chart: Camilla SMITH Pedigree.

See Posts: Logan City Cemetery SMITH-ENSIGN / Logan City Cemetery HAWKES-COLE / Logan City Cemetery JONES-WORLEY. For the parents of Isaac SMITH and Harriet Camilla ENSIGN see Brigham City Cemetery - SMITH - ENSIGN - DUNN.

Queen Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) is my grandmother.

2010-07-21T10:44:00.000-07:00

“Mother of kings, reformer of the church, canonized catholic saint”

St. Margaret is my grandmother twenty two times. My 22 ancestry chains are followed by a history of St. Margaret. Spaces are used to help you see where the relationships change and go through a different parents or siblings.

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29 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
Queen Of Castile Eleanor 'Plantagenet' Princess of England b.1164
Queen Berengaria Alfonsez 'La Granda' Castile, Queen of Leon b.1180

Princess Berengula / Berengaria of Leon b.1198
Jean de Brienne b.1217
Blanche de Brienne b.1245
Margaret de FIENNES b.1265
Roger Ist Earl De Mortimer DE MORTIMER b.1287
Catherine (Katherine) de MORTIMER b.1309
Countess Philippa of Stafford BEAUCHAMP b.1334

Edmund STAFFORD b.1377
Anne DE STAFFORD b.1400
Anne HOLLAND b.1428

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722

Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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29 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
Queen Of Castile Eleanor 'Plantagenet' Princess of England b.1164
Queen Berengaria Alfonsez 'La Granda' Castile, Queen of Leon b.1180
Princess Berengula / Berengaria of Leon b.1198
Jean de Brienne b.1217
Blanche de Brienne b.1245
Margaret de FIENNES b.1265
Roger Ist Earl De Mortimer DE MORTIMER b.1287
Catherine (Katherine) de MORTIMER b.1309
Countess Philippa of Stafford BEAUCHAMP b.1334

Lord John NEVILLE-13571 b.1387
John NEVILLE-13569 b.1410

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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(3)
28 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
Queen Of Castile Eleanor 'Plantagenet' Princess of England b.1164
Queen Berengaria Alfonsez 'La Granda' Castile, Queen of Leon b.1180

King Fernando III Alfonses Castile & Leon b.1201
Eleanor 'Leonor' Princess of Castile & Leon b.1244
Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan PLANTAGENET of England b.1282

Margaret de BOHUN Countess of Devon b.1311
Edward de COURTENAY b.1329
de Hugh COURTENAY Sir b.1365
Margaret COURTENAY b.1369
Sir William DE GRENVILLE Lord of Kilkhampton, & Bediford, Cornwall b.1397
Sir. Thomas GRENVILLE b.1425
Sir Thomas GRENVILLE Knight b.1449
Sir Roger GRENVILLE b.1477
Amy GRENVILLE b.1513
Robert DRAKE b.1530
William DRAKE b.1564
John DRAKE Immigrant b.1600
John DRAKE Immigrant b.1625
Mary DRAKE b.1666
Catherine MARSHALL b.1699
Catherine FOWLER b.1723

Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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(4)
28 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
Queen Of Castile Eleanor 'Plantagenet' Princess of England b.1164
Queen Berengaria Alfonsez 'La Granda' Castile, Queen of Leon b.1180
King Fernando III Alfonses Castile & Leon b.1201
Eleanor 'Leonor' Princess of Castile & Leon b.1244
Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan PLANTAGENET of England b.1282

Sir William, 1st Earl Of Northampton de BOHUN Knight of the Garter b.1312
Sir Humphrey, 7th Earl of Hereford de BOHUN b.1342
Eleanor (Alianore) de BOHUN b.1366
Anne PLANTAGENET Countess of Stafford and Eu b.1383
Anne de STAFFORD b.1400
Anne HOLLAND b.1428

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH

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27 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
Queen Of Castile Eleanor 'Plantagenet' Princess of England b.1164
Queen Berengaria Alfonsez 'La Granda' Castile, Queen of Leon b.1180
King Fernando III Alfonses Castile & Leon b.1201
Eleanor 'Leonor' Princess of Castile & Leon b.1244

King Edward II PLANTAGENET Of England b.1284
King Edward III of England b.1312
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester b.1354

Anne PLANTAGENET Countess of Stafford and Eu b.1383
Anne de STAFFORD b.1400

Anne HOLLAND b.1428
Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH

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27 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
Queen Of Castile Eleanor 'Plantagenet' Princess of England b.1164
Queen Berengaria Alfonsez 'La Granda' Castile, Queen of Leon b.1180
King Fernando III Alfonses Castile & Leon b.1201
Eleanor 'Leonor' Princess of Castile & Leon b.1244

King Edward II PLANTAGENET Of England b.1284
King Edward III of England b.1312
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster b.1340
Elizabeth PLANTAGENET Princess of England b.1362
John HOLLAND 2nd Duke Of Exeter b.1395

Anne HOLLAND b.1428
Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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28 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133

Queen Of Castile Eleanor 'Plantagenet' Princess of England b.1164
Queen Berengaria Alfonsez 'La Granda' Castile, Queen of Leon b.1180
King Fernando III Alfonses Castile & Leon b.1201
Eleanor 'Leonor' Princess of Castile & Leon b.1244

Joan of Acre PLANTAGENET b.1272
Margaret de CLARE b.1293
Baroness Margaret DE AUDLEY b.1318
Hugh de STAFFORD b.1334

Edmund STAFFORD b.1377

Anne de STAFFORD b.1400
Anne HOLLAND b.1428
Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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28 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133

Queen Of Castile Eleanor 'Plantagenet' Princess of England b.1164
Queen Berengaria Alfonsez 'La Granda' Castile, Queen of Leon b.1180
King Fernando III Alfonses Castile & Leon b.1201
Eleanor 'Leonor' Princess of Castile & Leon b.1244

Joan of Acre PLANTAGENET b.1272
Margaret de CLARE b.1293
Baroness Margaret DE AUDLEY b.1318
Hugh de STAFFORD b.1334

Countess Margaret DE STAFFORD of Westmoreland b.1364

Lord John NEVILLE-13571 b.1387
John NEVILLE-13569 b.1410
Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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30 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133

John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166

Joan PLANTAGENET "Lady of Wales"1 b.1188
Princess Gwladys-Dhu verch Llewellyn-Fawr b.0
Sir Roger de Mortimer Lord of Wigmore b.1231
Isabella de Mortimer b.0
Sir Richard FITZ ALAN b.1266
Edmund 9th Earl of Arundel FITZ ALAN b.1285
Richard, 10th Earl of Arundel FITZ ALAN b.1313

Joan FITZ ALAN b.1347
Eleanor (Alianore) DE BOHUN b.1366

Anne PLANTAGENET Countess of Stafford and Eu b.1383
Anne de STAFFORD b.1400
Anne HOLLAND b.1428

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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28 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England-3652 b.1166
Joan PLANTAGENET "Lady of Wales"-14701 b.1188
Princess Gwladys-Dhu verch Llewellyn-Fawr b.0
Sir Roger de Mortimer Lord of Wigmore b.1231
Isabella de Mortimer b.0
Sir Richard FITZ ALAN b.1266
Edmund 9th Earl of Arundel FITZ ALAN b.1285
Richard, 10th Earl of Arundel FITZ ALAN b.1313

Alice FITZ ALAN Countess of Kent b.1352
Elizabeth HOLAND b.1394
John NEVILLE b.1410

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER-13488 b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH

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27 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166

Henry III King of England b.1206
Edmund Crouchback PLANTAGENET 1st Earl of Lancaster. b.1245
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster PLANTAGENET b.1281
Eleanor of Lancaster Lady Beaumont, Countess Of Arundel b.1318

Joan FITZ ALAN b.1347
Eleanor (Alianore) DE BOHUN b.1366
Anne PLANTAGENET Countess of Stafford and Eu b.1383
Anne de STAFFORD b.1400
Anne HOLLAND b.1428
Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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25 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166
Henry III King of England b.1206

Edmund Crouchback PLANTAGENET 1st Earl of Lancaster. b.1245
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster PLANTAGENET b.1281
Eleanor of Lancaster Lady Beaumont, Countess Of Arundel b.1318

Alice FITZ ALAN Countess of Kent b.1352
Elizabeth HOLAND b.1394
John NEVILLE b.1410

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER-13488 b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722

Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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27 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166
Henry III King of England b.1206

Edward I 'Longshanks' King of England b.1239
Princess Elizabeth Of Rhuddlan PLANTAGENET of England b.1282
Margaret DE BOHUN Countess of Devon b.1311
Edward DE COURTENAY b.1329
Hugh de COURTENAY Sir b.1365
Margaret COURTENAY b.1369
Sir William de GRENVILLE Lord of Kilkhampton, & Bediford, Cornwall b.1397
Sir. Thomas GRENVILLE b.1425
Sir Thomas GRENVILLE Knight b.1449
Sir Roger GRENVILLE b.1477
Amy GRENVILLE b.1513
Robert DRAKE b.1530
William DRAKE b.1564
John DRAKE Immigrant b.1600
John DRAKE Immigrant b.1625
Mary DRAKE b.1666
Catherine MARSHALL b.1699
Catherine FOWLER b.1723

Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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27 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166
Henry III King of England b.1206
Edward I 'Longshanks' King of England-3640 b.1239
Princess Elizabeth Of Rhuddlan PLANTAGENET of England-3633 b.1282

Sir William, 1st Earl Of Northampton DE BOHUN Knight of the Garter b.1312
Sir Humphrey, 7th Earl of Hereford DE BOHUN b.1342
Eleanor (Alianore) DE BOHUN b.1366
Anne PLANTAGENET Countess of Stafford and Eu b.1383
Anne DE STAFFORD b.1400
Anne HOLLAND b.1428

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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25 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166
Henry III King of England b.1206
Edward I 'Longshanks' King of England b.1239

Edmund PLANTAGENET of Woodstock, Earl of Kent I b.1301
Joan of Kent PLANTAGENET Princess of Wales b.1328
John de HOLLAND Duke of Exeter b.1355
John HOLLAND 2nd Duke Of Exeter b.1395
Anne HOLLAND b.1428

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER-13488 b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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25 GGM-Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166
Henry III King of England b.1206
Edward I 'Longshanks' King of England b.1239
Edmund PLANTAGENET of Woodstock, Earl of Kent I b.1301

Joan of Kent PLANTAGENET Princess of Wales b.1328
Thomas DE HOLLAND K.G. 2nd Earl of Kent b.1354
Elizabeth HOLAND b.1394
John NEVILLE b.1410
Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER-13488 b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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26 GGM-Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166
Henry III King of England b.1206Edward I 'Longshanks' King of England-3640 b.1239

King Edward II PLANTAGENET Of England b.1284
King Edward III of England b.1312
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester b.1354
Anne PLANTAGENET Countess of Stafford and Eu b.1383
Anne DE STAFFORD b.1400
Anne HOLLAND b.1428

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER-13488 b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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26 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166
Henry III King of England b.1206
Edward I 'Longshanks' King of England b.1239
King Edward II PLANTAGENET Of England b.1284

King Edward III of England b.1312
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster b.1340
Elizabeth PLANTAGENET Princess of England b.1362
John HOLLAND 2nd Duke Of Exeter b.1395
Anne HOLLAND b.1428

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER-13488 b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH

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27 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England b.1166
Henry III King of England b.1206
Edward I 'Longshanks' King of England b.1239

Joan of Acre PLANTAGENET b.1272
Margaret DE CLARE b.1293
Baroness Margaret DE AUDLEY b.1318
Hugh de STAFFORD b.1334
Edmund STAFFORD b.1377
Anne DE STAFFORD b.1400

Anne HOLLAND b.1428
Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER-13488 b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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27 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland-3673 b.1045
Princess Matilda "Atheling" also called Edith of Scotland-3660 b.1079
Empress Matilda Queen of Germany and England-3658 b.1102
Henry II 'Plantagenet' King of England-3654 b.1133
John 'Lackland' King of England-3652 b.1166
Henry III King of England-3642 b.1206
Edward I 'Longshanks' King of England-3640 b.1239
Joan of Acre PLANTAGENET-13588 b.1272
Margaret DE CLARE-15439 b.1293
Baroness Margaret DE AUDLEY-13648 b.1318
Hugh DE STAFFORD-13622 b.1334
Countess Margaret DE STAFFORD of Westmoreland-13576 b.1364
Lord John NEVILLE-13571 b.1387
John NEVILLE-13569 b.1410

Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER-13488 b.1535
Thomas GARDNER 4 b.1565
Rachel GARDNER- b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722
Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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28 GGM- 28 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Saint David I King of Scotland b.1080
Prince of Scotland Henry de HUNTINGDON Earl of Huntington & Northumberland b.1114
Countess Margaret of Huntington, Countess of Hereford b.1152
Henry de BOHUN Earl of Hereford b.1176
Humphrey V de BOHUN Earl of Hereford b.1208
Humphrey VI de BOHUN b.1224
Humphrey (VII) de BOHUN Constable of England b.1249
Sir Humphrey (VIII) de BOHUN 4th Earl of Hereford & Essex b.1276

Margaret de BOHUN Countess of Devon b.1311
Edward de COURTENAY b.1329
de Hugh COURTENAY Sir b.1365
Margaret COURTENAY b.1369
Sir William DE GRENVILLE Lord of Kilkhampton, & Bediford, Cornwal b.1397
Sir. Thomas GRENVILLE b.1425
Sir Thomas GRENVILLE Knight b.1449
Sir Roger GRENVILLE b.1477
Amy GRENVILLE b.1513
Robert DRAKE b.1530
William DRAKE b.1564
John DRAKE Immigrant b.1600
John DRAKE Immigrant b.1625
Mary DRAKE b.1666
Catherine MARSHALL b.1699
Catherine FOWLER b.1723

Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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28 GGM- Saint Margaret "Atheling" Princess of England Queen of Scotland b.1045
Saint David I King of Scotland b.1080
Prince of Scotland Henry de HUNTINGDON Earl of Huntington & Northumberland b.1114
Countess Margaret of Huntington, Countess of Hereford b.1152
Henry de BOHUN Earl of Hereford b.1176
Humphrey V de BOHUN Earl of Hereford b.1208
Humphrey VI de BOHUN b.1224
Humphrey (VII) de BOHUN Constable of England b.1249
Sir Humphrey (VIII) de BOHUN 4th Earl of Hereford & Essex b.1276

Sir William, 1st Earl Of Northampton DE BOHUN Knight of the Garter b.1312
Sir Humphrey, 7th Earl of Hereford DE BOHUN b.1342
Eleanor (Alianore) de BOHUN b.1366
Anne PLANTAGENET Countess of Stafford and Eu b.1383
Anne DE STAFFORD b.1400
Anne HOLLAND b.1428
Ralph NEVILLE b.1456
Ralph NEVILLE b.1472
Ralph NEVILLE b.1497
Margaret NEVILLE b.1520
George GARDNER b.1535
Thomas GARDNER b.1565
Rachel GARDNER b.1608
Thomas NOBLE Emigrant b.1632
Sgt. Luke NOBLE b.1675
Samuel NOBLE b.1722

Lydia NOBLE b.1768
Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797
Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831
Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859
George Ensign SMITH b.1898
Myrle SMITH
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"[St.] Margaret of Scotland—beautiful, strong-willed and devout—was descended from England's early Saxon kings, progenitor of a long line of Scottish kings and an influential queen in her own right."

Margaret was born around 1045 in Hungary, the daughter of the exiled English Prince Edward "the Outlaw" Atheling of the English royal house of Wessex, and a German Princess named Agatha. Margaret was raised in the court of St. Stephen, King of Hungary. In 1057 when she was about 12, Margaret and her family returned to England, where the king was St. Edward the Confessor.

After the Norman conquest in 1066 and after her father's death in 1068, Agatha with her son and two daughters resolved to return to Hungary and embarked with that intent. Their ship was driven up the Firth of Forth to Dunfermline, where Malcolm III, king of Scotland, received them hospitably and granted them refuge. He very soon offered the whole family a permanent home with him and asked that the Princess Margaret should become his wife. Margaret, who was very devout and much impressed with the futility of earthly greatness, had very nearly determined to be a nun, but when Malcolm's request was made to Edgar, "the Childe said 'Yea,'" and Margaret was persuaded to marry the king as his second wife.

Malcolm III was born ca 1031 and founded the house of Canmore, which ruled Scotland for more than 200 years, and consolidated the power of the Scottish monarchy. He was the son of Duncan I, who was killed (1040) by Macbeth. Malcolm lived in exile until he defeated and killed (1057) Macbeth near Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire. He succeeded to the throne in 1058, and married Margaret ca. 1068-1070.

Her holiness and wisdom had an impact on Malcolm, causing him to be a better ruler. Malcolm regarded his wife with holy reverence, and with most devoted love followed her advice, and guided by her he became not only more religious and conscientious but more civilized and kinglike. The king's devotion to her and her influence over him were almost unbounded. He never refused or grudged her anything, nor showed the least displeasure when she took money out of his treasury for her charities. Although he could not read, he loved her books for her sake, handling them with affectionate reverence and kissing them. Sometimes he would take away one of her favorite volumes and send for a goldsmith to ornament it with gold and gems. When this was done, he would restore it to the queen as a proof of his devotion.

In addition to her influence with her husband and her sons, who later succeeded their father in ruling Scotland, Margaret took a direct role in helping the people of Scotland. She devoted time and money to works of charity, assisting the poor, the aged, orphans, and the sick. She also prevented a schism between the Roman Church and the Celtic Church, which had been cut off from Rome. In addition, she introduced European culture to Scotland, and did so more successfully than the forceful introduction in England under the Normans.

She was as saintly and self-denying on the throne as she could have been in the cloister. She at once perceived it to be her duty to benefit and elevate the people among whom it was her destiny to live, and this she undertook with the greatest of diligence and the most earnest piety. There existed so much barbarism in the customs of the people, so many abuses in the Church, so much on all hands to reform, that she called together the native clergy and the priests who had come with her, her husband acting as interpreter, and she spoke so well and so earnestly that all were charmed with her gracious demeanor and wise counsel and adopted her suggestions.

Margaret is credited with the introduction of English (Roman) usages into the Scottish church. Among other improvements, Margaret introduced the observance of Sunday by abstaining from servile work, "that if anything has been done amiss during the six days it may be expiated by our prayers on the day of the Resurrection." She influenced her people to observe the forty days' fast of Lent, and to receive the Holy Sacrament on Easter day, from which they had abstained for fear of increasing their own damnation because they were sinners. On this point she said that if the Savior had intended that no sinner should receive the Holy Sacrament, He would not have given a command which, in that case, no one could obey. "We," said she, "who many days beforehand have confessed and done penance and fasted and been washed from our sins with tears and alms and absorption, approach the table of the Lord in faith on the day of His Resurrection, not to our damnation but to the remission of our sins and in salutary preparation for eternal blessedness."

Margaret re-founded the monastery on the Island of Iona (originally founded by Saint Columba, an Irish missionary who found the monastery in 563 in an attempt to convert the Picts). One of her first acts as queen was to build a church at Dunfermline, where she had been married. She dedicated it to the Holy Trinity. She gave it all the ornaments that a church requires, amongst them golden cups, a handsome crucifix of gold and silver enriched with gems, and vestments for the priests. Her room was never without some of these beautiful things in preparation to be offered to the Church. It was like a workshop for heavenly artisans; capes for the singers, sacerdotal vestments, stoles, altar clothes were to be seen there; some made and some in progress. The embroideries were executed by noble young ladies who were in attendance on her.

No man was admitted to the room, unless she allowed him to come with her. She suffered no levity, no petulance, no frivolity, no flirtation. She was so dignified in her pleasantry, so cheerful in her strictness that every one both loved and feared her. No one dared to utter a rude or profane word in her presence.

She did much for the secular as well as for the religious improvement of her country. She caused traders from all lands to bring their goods, and thus introduced many useful and beautiful articles, until then unknown in Scotland. She induced the natives to buy and wear garments and stuffs of various colors. She is said to have introduced the tartans that afterwards became distinctive of Scottish costume. She instituted the custom that wherever the king rode or walked he should be accompanied by an escort, but the members of this band were strictly forbidden to take anything by force from any one, or oppress any poor person. She beautified the king's house with furniture and hangings, and introduced cups and dishes of gold and silver for the royal table. All this she did, not that she was fond of worldly show, but that the Court should be more decent and less barbarous than heretofore.

Numbers of captives were taken in the wars in raids between England and Scotland, and many English prisoners were living as slaves in Malcolm's lands. They were of somewhat better education and superior culture to the Scots and gradually advanced the civilization of their captors. Many of these were set free by the queen.

When she met poor persons, she gave them liberal alms, and if she had nothing of her own to left to give, she asked her attendants for something that she might not let Christ's poor go away empty-handed. the ladies, gentlemen, and servants who accompanied her took a pride and pleasure in offering her all they had, feeling sure that a double blessing would reward their alms when given through the saintly queen.

She provided ships at a place on the Firth of Forth, still called "The Queen's Ferry," that all persons coming from distant parts on pilgrimage to St. Andrews might be brought across the water free of charge. She also gave houses and servants on either shore for their accommodation, that they might find everything necessary for their repose and refreshment and might pay their devotions in peace and safety. Besides this, she built homes of rest and shelter for poor strangers in various places. From childhood she had diligently studied the Holy Writ and having a keen intelligence and an excellent memory, she knew and understood the Scriptures wonderfully well. She delighted to consult learned and holy men concerning the sacred writings, and as she had a great gift for expressing herself clearly, they often found themselves far wiser after a conversation with her. Her love for the holy books made her spend much time in reading and studying such of them as she had. She longed to possess more portions of the Word of God, and she sometimes begged Turgot and other learned clergymen to procure them for her. Margaret brought up her eight children very strictly and piously, instructing them in the Holy Scriptures and the duties of their station and associating them in her works of charity. She made a great point of their treating their elders with becoming respect. The fruit of her good training appeared in their lives for long years after her time.

There were many holy anchorites living in cells or caves in different parts of Scotland. These the queen occasionally visited, conversing with them and commending herself to their prayers. It was not uncommon in the ancient Celtic Church for devout secular persons to withdraw for a time from association with the rest of the world; they devoted themselves entirely to prayer and meditation for a long or short season, and then returned to the ordinary duties of life. A cave is still shown, not far from Dunfermline where tradition says this holy queen used to resort for solitude and prayer.

Her abstinence was so great and her care for her own needs or gratification so small that her feast days were like the fast days of others. She fasted so strictly that she suffered acutely all her life from pain in her stomach, but she did not lose her strength. She observed two Lenten seasons in each year - the forty days before Easter and the forty days before Christmas. During these periods of self-denial, her biographer says that after sleeping for a short time at the beginning of the night, she went into the church and said alone three sets of Matins, then the Offices of the Dead, then the whole Psalter, which lasted until the priests had said Matins and Lauds. She then returned to her room and there, assisted by the king, she washed the feet of six poor persons who were brought there by the chamberlain. After this, she "permitted her body to take a littel slepe or nodde". When it was morning she began her works of mercy again; while the psalms were being read to her, nine little destitute orphans were brought, and she took each on her lap and fed it with her own spoon. While she was feeding the babies, three hundred poor persons were brought into the hall and seated all round it. As soon as Margaret and the king came in, the doors were shut, only the chaplains and a few attendants being present while the king and queen waited upon Christ in the person of His poor, serving them with food and drink. After this meal, the queen used to go into the church and there, with tears and signs and many prayers, she offered herself a sacrifice to God. In addition to the "Hours", on the great festivals, she used to repeat the Psalter two or three times, and before the public Mass she had five or six private Masses sung in her presence. It was then time for her own dinner, but before she touched it she waited on the twenty-four poor people who were her daily care at all seasons; wherever she happened to be, they had to be lodged near the royal residence.

She had a Gospel Book which she particularly prized and often read. It had beautiful illuminated pictures, all the capital letters shining with gold. One of her people, when passing through a stream let it fall into the water, but was not aware of his loss and went on. By-and-by the book was missing and was looked for everywhere, and eventually found at the bottom of the stream; the pieces of silk that were between the leaves to prevent the letters rubbing against each other were washed away; the leaves were shaken to and fro by the movement of the water, but not a letter was obliterated. She gave thanks for its restoration and prized it more than ever. This book, with the water stain on the last leaf, is now in the Bodleian Library.

For more than six months before her death, Margaret could not ride on horseback and was often confined to bed. Malcolm invaded England many times after 1068. supporting the claim of his brother-in-law Edgar Atheling to the English throne. In 1072, however, he was forced to pay homage to William I, and in 1091, to William II. Shortly before Margaret's death, the king, against her advice, made a raid into Northumberland where he and her eldest son, Edward were slain by Norman forces at Alnwick. Malcolm died at Alnwick Castle on November 13, 1093. The queen, who had a presentiment of it, and said to those that were with her, "Perhaps this day a greater evil has happened to Scotland than any that has befallen it for a long time."

Three days after this, she felt a little better and went into her oratory to hear Mass and receive the Holy Communion. She then returned to bed, and growing rapidly worse, begged Turgot and the others who were present to keep commending her soul to Christ with psalms. She asked them to bring her the black rood, which she had brought from Hungary and always regarded with great veneration. It was of gold set with large diamonds and said to contain a piece of the actual cross of Christ. She devoutly kissed and contemplated it, and when she was cold with the chill of death, she still held it in both hands and kept praying and saying the fifty-first psalm.

Her son Edgar, who had gone with the king to Northumberland, came into her room to tell her of the death of his father and brother. Seeing his mother was dying, he was afraid to tell her the sad news; but she said, "I know, I know, I conjure you to tell me the truth," and having heard it, she praised God and died, just three days after her husband, on November 16, 1093 at Edinburgh Castle. The Annals of Ulster for 1093 say, "Maelcolaim Mac Donnacha sovereign of Alban and Echbarda his son, slain by the Franks. His queen, viz. Margarita, died through grief before the end of (three) days."

While her body still lay in Edinburgh Castle, Malcolm's brother, Donald Bane, assisted by the King of Norway, attacked the castle, but he only watched the gate, thinking the other parts of the fortification inaccessible. Margaret's family and her faithful attendants escaped by a postern called the West Yhet, taking with them the revered corpse. A thick mist hid them from the enemy. They crossed the sea and arrived without hindrance at Dunfermline, where they buried her according to her own wish. Malcolm was succeeded briefly by his brother Donald Bane. Margaret's brother, Edgar the Atheling took Margaret's children to England, and for fear of the Normans, gave them privately to friends and relations to be brought up. He afterwards helped to restore them to their country. Margaret's sons continued her work, which contributed greatly to a golden age in Scotland for two hundred years after her death. First to the throne was son, Duncan II. Three other sons also succeeded to the throne: Edgar (r. 1097-1107), Alexander I (r. 1107-24), and David I (r. 1124-53). Margaret and Malcolm's daughter, Edith, also known as Matilda, became the wife of England's King Henry I, the fourth son of William the Conqueror.
Margaret was worshipped without authority until 1250 or 1251 when she was canonized by Innocent IV who ordered her sacred body to be translated from its first tomb. On July 19, 1297, all the arrangements being made the men who were appointed to raise the body, found it impossible to do so; stronger men were ordered to lift it and tried in vain; still more men were brought, but all their strength was unavailing. Evidently the saint objected to what was being done. The clergy and all present prayed earnestly that the mysterious opposition might cease and the sacred rite be completed. After some time an inspiration was granted to a devout member of the congregation; namely, that the saint did not wish to be separated from her husband. As soon as they began to take up his coffin, that of his dutiful wife became quite light and easy to move, and both were laid on one bier and translated with ease to the honorable place prepared for them under the high altar.

In 1693 Innocent XII transferred Margaret's festival from the day of her death to June 10, though November 16 is still the day celebrated in Scotland. The bodies are said to have been acquired by Philip II, king of Spain, who placed them in the church of St. Lawrence in his new palace of the Escorial in two urns. The head of St. Margaret, after being in the possession of her descendant, Queen Mary Stuart, was secreted for many years be a Benedictine monk in Fife; thence it passed to Antwerp, and about 1627 it was translated to the Scotch college at Douai and there exposed to public veneration. It was still to be seen there in 1785; it was well preserved and had very fine fair hair. Neither the heads, the bodies nor the black rood can now be found, but the grave of Margaret may still be seen outside the present church of Dunfermline. Her oratory in Edinburgh castle is a small church with sturdy short pillars and a simple but beautiful ornamental pattern at the edge of its low rounded arches. It was falling to ruin when, in 1853, Queen Victoria had it repaired and furnished with colored glass windows.

Sources: 1- A Dictionary of Saintly Women in Two Volumes, Vol. II, Agnes B. C. Dunbar, George Bell & Sons, London, England, 1905

2- Life of St. Margaret Queen of Scotland, R. M. Turgot, trans. by Forbes Leith

3- The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England, edited by Antonia Fraser, University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA by arrangement with Weidenfeld & Nicholson Ltd., London, England, 1975

from: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/margaret.html

see also:
1. MedievalQueens.com.

2. http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STMARG.htm
ST. MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND by David McRoberts

My Grandparents HAWKES-JONES

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Herbert Henry HAWKES (1869-1948) and Sarah Amy JONES (1875-1952)

Married 1896 Logan UT

[My sister Camilla told her daughter that our] grandmother Amy HAWKES (1875-1952) had told her when Amy was a teen she and a friend would "run out of church and hide in the ditch so that no old men would see them and want to marry them." Amy wanted to marry a young man with no other wives.

First of nine babies Amy Ella HAWKES SMITH MONSON (1887-1971)

Nine children born to this family 4 girls and 5 boys. The 6th child Joseph Jones HAWKES (1907-1910) was drown in the irrigation ditch when he was 2 years old. Mother Amy (1875-1952) was pregnant with her ninth child Blayne Jones HAWKES (1920-2008) at the same time her oldest daughter Ella (1887-1971) was pregnant with her first child Amy SMITH (1920-1974).

Herb built their home at 352 W. 3rd S., Logan, Utah. Once in the late 1960's [Lark rode to Logan with my mother Ella and her mother Camilla, grandma Ella] was driving all over the road as she messed with the radio nobs. [Lark] ask her what she was doing and she said "trying to adjust the air conditioning." When we got to Logan she told [Lark] how she once drove her sick husband Ensign to Logan when they drove by his Smith family home he cried because someone had cut down all the trees. Then she drove into the drive of her parents home in Logan she knocked on the door and told the lady "my father built this house." The lady invited us in and showed us the house. Grandma said the large rug on the living room floor had belonged to her mother. [Lark was told by my cousin] that Amy had Herb build the kitchen sink built low so that the children could do the dishes. Camilla told [Lark] that her grandfather Herb would chin himself on one of the branches of the tree in front of the house when he was playing with his grandchildren.

50 years 29 Jul 1946

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Herb and Amy HAWKES

Chauffeur's License
H. H. Hawkes
Height 5 '10'' Weight 160 Age 65
Color Hair brown color eyes blue
Date Issued Jan 30 1934

3 generations
1 Leona, 2 Ella, 3 Amy, 2 Lorin

Amy Ella HAWKES (1887-1971) married 1919 1.George Ensign SMITH 5 children, 1970 2. Charles Horald MONSON

Kate HAWKES OBRAY (1899-1998) married 1920 Ernest Shelton OBRAY 7 children
Herber Jones HAWKES (1902-1974) married Ollie La Venia FRANK 4 children
Eva HAWKES (1903-1998) married Glendon Eugene STEINER 9 no children
Frank Jones HAWKES (1899-1998) married 1935 1.Grace Star no children, 1959 2.Minnie Ann NIELSEN COX no children
Joseph Jones HAWKES (1907-1910)
Ethel HAWKES (1911-1996) married 1934 Veronon Carl POULTER 3 children
Lorin Jones HAWKES (1913-1990) married 1942 Neva Roundy CARDON 4 children
Blayne Jones HAWKES (1920-2008) married 1943 Celia Drue BALLS 4 children

[Lark] remembers as a girl copying a family group sheet at [her] grandmother Ella's kitchen table. This was an assignment for [her] "Treasures of Truth" Mutual Improvement project. [She] was fascinated that all [my] grandma's [sons] had the same middle name. What a wonderful way to preserve a mother's maiden name.

1836 Love Letter:

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To Sarah LARNDER (1813-1884)
from William George COLE (1814-1890).
They married 12 Feb 1837 in London England.

Parents of nine.

Ancestory chain: 3-Myrle SMITH, 4-Amy Ella HAWKES, 5-Herbert Henry HAWKES, 5-Eliza COLE, to 7-William George COLE and 7-Sarah LARNDER.

Sept. 7th 1836
My Dear Sarah

It is with every feeling of love and regard to you that I now take up my p0en to address you I received your kind Letter and was glad to hear that you was quite well I have been waiting with the greatest anxiety to hear from you and Have lost no time in answering you you may judge from your own feelings that I shall be glad to see you although you are absent in person yet you are well aware you are present in mind. The time is fast hastening when I hope to

be blest with the greatest gift that earth can bestow or that man can receive which is the only sincere desire of my heart to spend the remainder of my days with one who I love as my life my Rather & Mother desire their kind love to you give my kind love to all inquiring friends and accept the same for yourself

From Your ever true
& Sincere Lover
Wm Geo. Cole

P.S. I shall do my
self the pleasure of
coming on Sunday
according to your appointment
excuse all imperfections

William mentions his parents, they are William COLE (1782-1843) and Elizabeth MAY (1781-1858) married 1813.

See other histories on
William George COLE and Sarah LARDER

Mitzi and Stella

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Lincoln and Scout Project

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Ensign

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Here it is written out. Between my ‘ENSIGNS in America” book and Lark’s computer, genealogy skills and a delightful phone conversation with Lark, this is the result. Luvmom

From: LARK REASOR Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:13 PM
To: familySMITHHawkes Myrle Lee Dalton; family SMITHHawkes Lincoln Dalton
Subject: Horace Samuel ENSIGN - Missionary Japan

Horace Datus Ensign (our grandfather) and Samuel Ensign were brothers. Their father’s name was Isaac Ensign. They both arrived in Nauvoo after Joseph Smith was martyred in June of l844. They joined the church about l842 or 43 in Hartford Conneticut. They moved to Nauvoo from Hartford Connecticut where the Ensigns’ were some of the founders of that City. They moved with the exodus from Nauvoo and Horace Datus died of the ‘Black Canker’ in Winter Quarters. Samuel, his brother, brought Horace Datus’s wife, Mary Bronson and the children on to Salt Lake City with him and his family arriving in about September of l847. Samuel Ensign had a son named Horace Sobreski Ensign and a grandson named after him, Horace Samuel Ensign. See below. [ Samuel died while working on the SLC temple in an accidental fall from the Temple wall]

Horace Samuel ENSIGN Birth: Nov. 10, 1871 Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USA Death: Aug. 29, 1944 Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USA
Son of Horace Sobreski Ensign and Martha Triplett Married Mary Linda Whitney, 21 Jun 1894, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Married Ara Elizabeth Hunsaker, 24 Jan 1918, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah President of the Japan Mission.
For many years he was a member of the Tabernacle Choir and made several trips with that organization as a soloist. Later he made his home in Wichita, Kansas, where he still resided in 1936. Japanese saints: Mormons in the land of the rising sun By John Patrick Hoffmann Introduction pg.1
On September 1, 1901, four men stood on a small hill overlooking Yokahama and dedicated the nation of Japan for missionary work. Elder Heber J. Grant, who was to later become the seventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), prayed to God that Satan would release his hold on the minds of the Japanese people and that they might be prepared to recongnize the truth that he and his companions offered. Elder Grant and these companions, Louis A. Kelsche, Horace S. Ensign, and nineteen-year-old Alma O. Taylor, were sent by the leaders of the LDS Church to open another Asian nation to the spirited proselytizing efforts of what has emerged in the insuing years as one of the fastest fgrowing religious bodies in the world... Early 1901 pg.24
Over the next several months, [Heber J.] grant, who had never before served a fulltime mission for the Church, selected two experienced men to accompany him to Japan: twenty-nine-year-old Horace S. Ensign, who had recently returned from a mission to colorado and had previousley served as Gran't secretary; and Louis A. Kelsch, who had served several mission for the LDS Church, most recently in Chicago. A third companion was eighteen-year-old Alma O. Taylor, who lived near Gran't home and worked in his family's undertaking business. None of the "Japanese Quartet," as they were known, spoke any Japanese, although Alma Taylor immediately acquired a Japanese language book and began to study Buddhist Philosophy. Japan Mission, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 4 by Andrew Jenson
Presidents: Heber J. Grant, 1901-1903; Horace Samuel Ensign, 1903-1908; Alma O. Taylor, 1908-1910; Elbert D. Thomas, 1910-1912; Heber Grant Ivins, 1912-1915; Joseph Henry Stimpson, 1915-1921; Lloyd Ivie, 1921-1923; Hilton A. Robertson, 1923-1924. The mission was closed in June, 1924.... Ensign » 1984 » September - name Horace S. Ensign found in article

Horace Samuel ENSIGN and George Ensign SMITH are 2nd cousins 1 time removed. Their common ancestors are Isaac ENSIGN Rev.WarVet. and Lydia NOBLE. Horace Samuel ENSIGN and Lincoln Smith DALTON are 2nd cousins 3 times removed. Their common ancestors are Isaac ENSIGN Rev.WarVet. and Lydia NOBLE.Rev.WarVet=Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Ancestors

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Ancestors of Myrle SMITH who served in the American Revolutionary War are…
(1st Generation - grandchildren of Myrle SMITH.)

Grandfather 8th generation: Isaac ENSIGN - Revolutionary War: ENSIGN, Isaac of Westfield. On a list of others who served as soldiers during some part of the war.
Source: [40] A History of Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1902; pages 408-410.

UNCLES 8th generation: both brothers of our Grandma Lydia Noble. And sons of our 9th generation grandparents, Samuel NOBLE and CATHERINE FOWLER.
Samuel NOBLE - during the American revolution, he served in 1776, for five months, under Capt. Gray.
Jared NOBLE - Jared was killed during the Revolutionary War, in a battle at Stone Arabia, NY. He was only age 17.

Grandfather 9th generation: Elijah REMINGTON - Private Revolutionary War / Pvt. Elijah Remington, Connecticut (Esther Gunn.)
Source: Columbine Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.

Marker, Soop Cemetery Bellville, MI

Grandfather 9th generation: Abner RAWSON - Verteran of the Revolutionary War - listed as a drummer boy in the Massachusetts Militia at the age of 16.

Grandfather 9th generation: Elihu CARPENTER - Military: Note: He enlisted and served as corporal in the Lexington scare, in Nathaniel Carpenter's (No. 607) Company; served eight days; he enlisted again as Corporal in Nathaniel Carpenter's Company, Col. Cary's Regiment, at New York and White Plains, five months; dismissed Dec 1, 1776; he enlisted again and served as Quartermaster-sergeant in Col. Hathaway's Regiment; April 21, 1777, and served 24 days in Rhode Island; he enlisted again as Sergeant in Capt. Nathaniel Carpenter's Company, in Col. Whitney's Regiment in the Rhode Island Alarm; May 13, 1777, served one month and twenty-five days and marched from Rehoboth to Point Judith.

SMITH Family Photo 1934

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A rare photo of the whole Ensign and Ella SMITH family

Father: George Ensign SMITH (1898-1967)
Mother: Amy Ella HAWKES (1897-1971)
Children oldest to youngest: Amy, Leona, Camilla, Ensign Jr., Myrle.

My new best friend

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Mitzi born 7-23-09 My new best friend

My Pedigree

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Click on the Pedigree charts to enlarge:

There has been some family interest in my grandfather Henry WORLEY #30 on the chart above. You can read and see more about him on the family history blog of my niece Lark.

WORLEY, Henry

http://larkturnthehearts.blogspot.com/search/label/WORLEY%20Henry

Click on the name Labels on the left side at the bottom of Lark's blog to read about other ancestors on my pedigree chart.

Henry WORLEY and the Glass Button Factory

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baby Amy Ella HAWKES 1898
Henry WORLEY was 70 years old when his great grand daughter Ella HAWKES (1897-1971) was born he lived another 17 years sharing his glass buttons with her.
teen Amy Ella HAWKES about 1915

Glass buttons made by Henry WORLEY

My Great Grandfather Henry Worley owned a glass button factory in England. He made all kinds of beautiful glass buttons. I remember when we went to visit him he used to give us a big box filled with all shapes and colors of buttons to play with. We would spend hours looking at them, and admiring them, picking out and matching them for a dress. If we wanted them bad enough he would always let us have them for our dresses. For a long times I was his only great grandchild and he let me have what I wanted." (Amy Ella HAWKES SMITH)

From their history:
....As a boy he [Henry WORLEY (1827-1914)] apprenticed himself to different trades but none seemed to satisfy him until he learned button making from his brother-in-law Peter Poll. This was a very attractive business and later he owned and operated a button factory. They had a good business, a good home and were very happy. The factory was a two story building in the rear of their home with a stairway on the outside. William or Billie liked to slide down the stairs. When quite young he fell down the stairs and broke his nose which caused an eye condition that required attention. His mother used to take him to London for treatments by a specialist.

Catherine [WILLMORE WORLEY (1822-1904] always cooked a good hot meal for the men that worked in the factory and they all learned to love her dearly, they begged her not to leave them to go to Utah.

Glass buttons made by Henry WORLEY

...twenty one years after Henry and Catherine were baptized they prepared to leave their native land. They offered their household goods for sale. When most of the things were sold, they turned the button factory over to Henry's brother William and Henry left for Liverpool where he went to say goodbye to his sister Ann. He was to meet his wife and children later. When all the things were sold a cabman came and took Catherine and the rest of the children which were Harry, Jane, Thomas and William or Billie (as he was called). She was put on board the ship with her family and no father was there. Can you imagine her feelings when the ship left the dock without him. On arriving at Queenstown to their happy surprise there was their father. He had missed the boat, so he took a train and met the boat as it stopped for passengers.

Pedigree link: Myrle Smith Dalton-McIntosh 1933- /4 Amy Ella HAWKES 1897-1971 / 5 Sarah Amy JONES 1875-1952 / 6 Sarah WORLEY1851-1925 / 7 Henry WORLEY 1827-1914 and Catherine WILLMORE 1822-1904

Corner of 3rd West and Center St., Logan, UT

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Corner of 3rd West and Center St., Logan, UT
Henry and Catherine WORLEY home

"The whistle signalled that we had arrived at Logan.
Looking very earnestly for someone of our people, I espied a fellow with a broad brimmed hat, a pair of big boots with the trouser legs inside the tops of his boots, running down First South St. as hard as he could for the depot I recognized him to be my brother Alfred [Willmore]. Well, he was a strange looking fellow dressed that way in contrast to his Birmingham dress, but I was glad to meet him and have the greeting of welcome. Aunt [Catherine] Worley was there and Uncle [Henry Worley] with their team of mules and wagon to haul us home to the Worley's home, corner of 3rd West and Center St. During my greeting with brother Alfred, Father [George Edward Willmore] and his sister, Aunt Worley were hugging each other with such joy at meeting in Zion that they nearly got jammed..........Those that were the youngest rode up to Worleys. Alfred and I, with cousin Harry and Tom Worley, . . .walked up to see as we traveled and chatted together. .......After arriving at Worleys, Uncle Henry, Aunt Catherine [Willmore Worley], cousins Sarah Worley Jones and Catherine Worley Cowley had prepared a fine dinner for us, among which was some new kind of pie that looked like custard......Cousin Kate asked me how I liked it ......they told me it was a
squash pie,.....I thought what a funny country to make pies like that out of such things." (from Benjamin Willmore’s,“Fifty Years Among the Mormons”)

Henry WORLEY and Catherine WILLMORE WORLEY - two of Catherine's brothers and many nephews and nieces immigrated from Birmingham to Utah.

l948 Smith girls (Myrle 15years old)

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My family used this picture of me to enter me in the Miss 15 year old Lux Soap Beauty Contest of the West. I won in my region (south SLC, Ut) To win the title, people then had to buy Lux soap, sent the paper wrapper to Lux Soap and vote for their favorite. A girl from Laramie, Wyoming won. I guess the whole town bought a truck load of Lux soap. All was not lost, however as it launched my TV model career that lasted until I left for BYU at the ripe old age of 17. I did advertisements and modeled for KDYL/KSL TV back when TV first came out and the picture was about as big as a postage stamp. I had some funny experiences there. It surely seemd like it lasted more than 2 years.

BYU l951-52

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A couple of shots from my Freshman year. The only year of higher education I had as a single student.

BYC @ Logan Utah - Dance Group about 1917

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Amy Ella HAWKES (SMITH)
BYC class of 1917
front row left young women seated

second from right

second from left

Sister Camilla's wedding

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I finally got the picture out of the background, but now I need to reinsert it with the title by it. I need help. We had a lovely time last week-end. Jeff and Terry came up for Erin's first trip to the temple. It was wonderful to have all my boys and their lovely wives with us as well as Adam. I feel so blessed. Adam and Amy are getting excited about the upcoming wedding. I'm happy about it all as well. We love Amy, she will be a 'fun' addition to our family.

Stella Jane Madsen was blessed 3/29/2009

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Stella Jane Madsen was blessed today. She had quite the group of priesthood holders surrounding her. A beautiful blessing was given to her by her father. What a tremendous support system she has. A lovely luncheon was given by the Madsen's in their beautiful home in 'The Cliffs' following the church meeting. She is so beautiful and is so blessed to have Scott and Rachel for parents. What a sweet little girl.

Melon

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I just read all Melon's blog and the 'the many faces of mom' I don't know how to post a comment on your blog, so I'm posting it on mine. You do a super job. I love to read it and of course, I love you. Luvmom

Sadness!

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Thursday the decision was made. It was time. Lily was my dear little earthly friend for almost 14 years. I love her, and I miss her! I'm thankful I believe all the animals will also be resurrected.

Christmas '08 and New Year '09

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OK grandkids, I put a picture on my profile, but I don't know how to make it bigger. Any help out there?

Christmas was great. Mac went to Colorado for the week, and I went to the family Christmas Eve dinner at Linc and Cindy's, good food, wonderful company and The Dalton's new kitchen served the group with very much ease and hospitality.

Christmas Day morning I went to the Nate/Shauna Dalton's to see all the 'opening of presents'. I wished we had done it one at a time when Jeff, Linc, and Nate were young, it would have lasted a lot longer. We just had a hard time beating the three of them out of bed. Sometimes they would be up at 2:00 have opened all their presents and gone back to bed. Then when we got up at 6:00 or so, it looked like we had been invaded from Mars. Of course, Linc always knew what he was getting before then as he was able to figure out all the hiding places at a very early age. I finally figured out I should have them wrapped before I got them home. I don't know how people get kids to stay in bed until 7:00 a.m. Now I'm old enough I don't have to figure it out anymore.

Linc/Cindy, Peter/Michelle, Anna, Laura all came by last week and it was nice to see them all. The newlyweds look wonderfully happy, and of course, handsome and beautiful as can be.

Denise Wood Carroll and husband, David and two grandkids came by (they are allergic to dogs) so we went on over to Hank and Mary Ann Isaksens house to nibble food and visit. We had a good visit. Hank has so many interesting archeological and geological things and places and all to share (wonderful collection of arrowheads he has found around this area too)

Then David and Mary Steiner who live in Leedsville, LA, (my cousin on Amy Ella Hawkes Smith)my mom's side and their son, Cary Steiner who lives in Washington, Utah [he just lost his wife to cancer, has a 17 and 15 year old and a 2 year old] also Paula Obrey Bell, cousin on mom's side and husband Con and Carole Obrey Jones, cousin on mom's side and husband Owen all came over for dinner on Monday the 29th of December. We had a very nice visit, and renewed acquaintance after approximately 40 years. Cary would be your second cousin and David, Paula, & Carole cousins once removed. Nate knows how to figure all this out! See what you all have to look forward to?

I also need to correct an earlier post. I said that Hannah and Clint came by after Thanksgiving for a visit, but it was Hayley and Clint. I was glad for the visit, even if I got the names switched.

Beautiful January and it is going to be a wonderful year. Love

No new pictures of me I guess

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I tried to find a picture of me to put on the blog and I guess a year old is about as close as I can get. Thanksgiving was great! We went to Lincoln and Cindy's for dinner. The table was set beautifully and the food was scrumptous. The company was good too! Anna was home from SUU and Laura was given the day off from the local high school. Cindy's mom, brother& family were there too. Rachel and Scott stopped by for the lst course of their two course Thanksgiving meal. Stella was definitely in the picture too. Erin was there. Adam was supposed to be there but managed to get engaged the week before and needed to meet the new in-laws in SLC for approval. I'm sure he got it, I can't wait to hear all about it when he and Amy return on Sunday.

We had a double treat! Nate/Shauna & Luke/Ashlie and Cole/ Clint and Hannah came by for a visit on Friday. Cole is absolutely adorable, his hair is unbelievable. Curly and red! He is just a quiet little 'check things out' fellow.

Mac traded his 2000 Toyota Tundra in on a Toyota Pruis (48 mph around town) car. I couldn't believe he would trade his truck for a car..!just shows to go ya! He can get the golf clubs in and that seems like all he was concerned about.

The day is absolutely gorgeous. This is why we live in St. George.

Temple July, 2008

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Happy Peter got married and gave them free reign of the house!

At Peter's wedding in SLC.

Birthday Party

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I had a wonderful Surprise Birthday Party! I was really, really surprised. It was so fun to see all the kids/wives a lot of the grandkids and 2 greats from Az. I've had two birthday parties in my whole life. Both of them surprises. This one was the great!!! The other when I was 16 was a real BOMB. I had said so often, don't ever give me a surprise party because of my 16th one! I guess none of the sons listened to me. That was good, because this one, my 75th was super.

Greeny!

2008-07-13T20:46:00.000-07:00

Well, I am an official blogster. Anna signed me up and now it is up to me to figure out how to put pictures and interesting stuff on it. So, Hello World here I come!