Charles PARKER and Elizabeth Ann DAVIS family

See history of Elizabeth Ann DAVIS PARKER
[Charles PARKER history to be added]

Photo History the Charles PARKER family

Charles PARKER Sr. (1853-1935) and
Elizabeth Ann DAVIS PARKER (1859-1927)

parents of nine children all born in Kanarraville, Iron, Utah

Charles PARKER Jr., Esther PARKER, Zina Ett PARKER, Laura Elizabeth PARKER 1889

back- Zina, Esther, Charles Jr.,
front- Laura, father Charkes PARKER Sr. with Sophia, John Davis,
mother Elizabeth Ann, baby Ahlena,
1897
[Cecil and Fay not yet born]

front- "Lena", Esther,
middle-Charles PARKER Sr., "Fay",
Elizabeth Ann DAVIS PARKER,
back- Zina, "Dee", "Sophi", Cecil, Charles, Laura.

Zina Ett P. POLLOCK, Charles PARKER Jr.,
[not pictured-Esther P. ROBB],
Laura Elizabeth P. WOOD, John Davis PARKER,
Sophia P. STAPLEY, Samantha Ahlena P. WILLIAMS,
[not pictured-Ray Cecil PARKER],
Bruce Fayette PARKER.

Charles PARKER b. 30 Dec 1853 Centerville, Utah - son of John Davis PARKER b. 22 Nov 1799 Saratoga, New York and Almena Sophia ROUNDY b. 7 Mar 1829 spafford, New York
Elizabeth Ann DAVIS b. 8 Jan 1859 Old Fort Harmony, UT daughter of James George DAVIS/DAVIES b. 6 Nov 1832 Carmarthen, WALES and Polly WILLLIAMS b. 28 May 1838 Springfield, Illionis.

Early American Edward RAWSON

First Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Edward RAWSON. Edward RAWSON and wife Rachel PERNE were Early American Immigrants about 1636.

PERNE FAMILY Generation One

1.  Richard Perne; b. circa 1583 at Gillingham, Dorsetshire,
England; m. Rachel Greene, daughter of Richard Greene and
Mary Hooker, 5 Sep 1615.

Richard Perne and Rachel Greene resided at Gillingham, co.
Dorset, England.

Rachel Greene was born circa 1587 at Gillingham, Dorsetshire,
England. She left a will; proved 13 Nov 1656. She was buried
on 26 May 1656.

Known children of Richard Perne and Rachel Greene were:
2.          i. Rachel Perne, m. Edward Rawson.

Generation Two Immigrated to America abt 1636

2.  Rachel Perne (Richard1); m. Edward Rawson, son of David
Rawson and Margaret Wilson, circa 1636 at England; d. 11 Oct
1677 at Boston, MA. Rachel Perne and Edward Rawson immigrated
to American circa 1636 to Newbury, MA.

Edward Rawson was born in Apr 1615 at Gillingham, co. Dorset,
England. He was Secretary of the Colony at Massachusetts. He
resided in 1650 at Boston, MA. He died on 27 Aug 1693 at
Boston, MA, at age 78.

RAWSON FAMILY Generation One

1.  Edward Rawson; m. Bridget Warde; d. circa 1604.
He was a merchant. He resided at Colebrooke, Parish of
Langley, co. Bucks, England. He left a will on 16 Feb 1603;
proved 4 May 1604.

Known children of Edward Rawson include:
       i. Henry Rawson.

Edward Rawson married Bridget Warde was the daughter of
Thomas Warde. Bridget first married Thomas Woodward abt 1582.

Known children of Edward Rawson and Bridget Warde were:
2.          i. David Rawson, b. circa 1587 at Colebrooke,
          Buckinghamshire, England; m. Margaret Wilson.

Generation Two

2.  David Rawson (Edward1); b. circa 1587 at Colebrooke,
Buckinghamshire, England; m. Margaret Wilson, daughter of 
Rev. Dr. William Wilson and Isabel Woodhall, circa 1612;
1st husband; d. at London, England.
David Rawson resided at London, England. He was a merchant
tailor. He left a will on 15 Jun 1616; proved 25 Feb 1618.

Margaret Wilson was born in 1593 at London, England. She
married William Taylor; 2nd husband, 2nd wife. She died circa 1627.
Known children of David Rawson and Margaret Wilson were as
follows:
       i. William Rawson; b. before 1615.
3.       ii. Edward Rawson, b. 16 Apr 1615 at Gillingham,
          co.Dorset, England; m. Rachel Perne.
     iii. Dorothy Rawson; b. before 27 Nov 1617.

Generation Three Immigrated to America abt 1636

3.  Edward Rawson (David2, Edward1); b. 16 Apr 1615 at
Gillingham,co. Dorset, England; m. Rachel Perne, daughter
of Richard Perne and Rachel Greene, circa 1636 at England;
d. 27 Aug 1693 at Boston, MA,at age 78.

Edward Rawson and Rachel Perne immigrated circa 1636 to
Newbury, MA.He was Secretary of the Colony at
Massachusetts. He resided in 1650at Boston, MA.

Edward Rawson (politician) (b. April 16, 1615 - d. August 27, 1693) served as the first Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Edward Rawson was born in Dorset, England in 1615. Around 1636 he married his young wife, Rachel Perne, and soon left England for the Americas. He settled in Newbury in 1637. On April 19, 1638, at the age of 23, he was chosen to be Public Notary and Register for that town, and was annually reelected until 1647. Many other public trusts and responsible duties were laid upon him by the people of Newbury. As early as the year 1638, he was one of the deputies to represent the town at the General Court, and was reelected for nearly all the successive years to May 22, 1650, at which time he was chosen Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which office he continued to hold for thirty-six years, until 1686.

By the time of her death in the year 1677, Rachel Perne had borne twelve children to Edward Rawson. Of the twelve, at least nine have been known to survive until adulthood. Rachel Perne's family was related to the Hooker and Hawley families of New England.

Edward Rawson died in 1693 at the age of 78. [See: Wikipedia]

Rachel Perne died on 11 Oct 1677 at Boston, MA.

Known children of Edward Rawson and Rachel Perne were as
follows:
       i. ___ Rawson; b. at England.
4.       ii. William Rawson, b. 21 May 1651 at Boston, MA;
          m.Anne Glover.
     iii. Edward Rawson.
      iv. Rachel Rawson; m. William Aubrey 18 Jan 1653.
       v. David Rawson; b. 6 May 1644.
          He immigrated to England.
      vi. Mary Perne Rawson; b. 14 May 1646; m. Rev.
          Samuel Torrey 15 May 1657; d. 10 Sep 1692 at
          age 46.
     vii. Susan Rawson; d. 1654 at Roxbury, MA.
    viii. Rebecca Rawson; b. 19 Oct 1654; d. young.
      ix. Rebecca Rawson; b. 23 May 1656;
          m. Thomas Rumsey 1 Jul 1679; d. 1692 at
          Port Royal.
       x. Elizabeth Rawson; b. 12 Nov 1657; m. Thomas
          Broughton.
      xi. John Rawson immigrated to England.
     xii. Rev. Grindal Rawson, b. 23 Jan 1659/60 at
          Boston, MA; m. Susanna Wilson. 
          [Google Rev. Grindal Rawson for history.]
[Susanna Wilson is daughter of Rev. John WILSON and Sarah HOOKER.]

Read a tragic history of Edward's daughter Rebecca "Rebecca Rawson: Portrait of a Daughter of the Puritan Elite in the Massachusetts Bay Colony"

at http://home.att.net/~history240/history7anejh99article.html

[Here is the short story from Wikipedia] Rebecca Rawson (May 23, 1656 Massachusetts - June 7-June 9, 1692 near Port Royal, Jamaica) was the heroine of the 1849 book Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (by John g. whittier.)

The ninth child of Edward Rawson, Rebecca was considered "one of the most beautiful, polite and accomplished young ladies in Boston".

She married Thomas Rumsey on July 1, 1679 who posed as Sir Thomas Hale Jr. (the son of Lord Chief Justice Hale of England). After deceiving Rebecca into marriage, the two left for England. He abandoned her, took all of her possessions, left her penniless, and, as she soon found out, pregnant.

After raising her child in England for thirteen years, she moved back to Boston at her father's request. The trip would require her to sail to Jamaica then board another ship to Boston. A powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed the ship and claimed the lives of the crew and passengers just off the Jamaican coast; Rawson died, aged 36, just offPort Royal, Jamaica.

Generation Four

4.  William Rawson (Edward3, David2, Edward1); b. 21 May
1651 at Boston,MA; m. Anne Glover,daughter of 
Nathaniel Glover and Mary Smith, 31 Jul 1673;
d. 20 Sep 1726 at Braintree, MA,at age 75.
He was a merchant-importer.

Anne Glover was born circa 1656 at Dorchester, MA.
She died circa 1730 at Braintree, MA.

Known children of William Rawson and Anne Glover
were as follows:
       i. Ann Rawson; b. 11 Apr 1674 at Boston, MA;
          d. infancy.
      ii. Wilson Rawson; b. 1675 at Boston, MA;
          d. infancy.
     iii. Margaret Rawson; b. 1 Aug 1676 at Boston, MA;
          d. infancy.
      iv. Edward Rawson; b. 6 Sep 1677 at Boston, MA;
          d. infancy.
       v. Edward Rawson; b. 29 Aug 1678 at Boston, MA;
          d. infancy.      
      vi. Rachel Rawson; b. 16 Oct 1679 at Boston, MA;
          d. infancy.     
     vii. Dorothy Rawson; b. 8 Aug 1681; d. 20 Sep 1689
          at age 8.
    viii. Capt. William Rawson, b. 8 Dec 1682 at
          Braintree, MA; m. Sarah Crosby.
      ix. David Rawson; b. 13 Dec 1683 at Braintree, MA;
          m. Mary Gulliver, daughter of Capt. Jonathan
          Gulliver and Theodora Thatcher, 18 Nov 1710;
          d. at Braintree, MA; bur. 20 Apr 1752 at
          Old Hancock Cemetery.
       x. Dorothy Rawson; b. 19 Jun 1686 at Braintree, MA;
          d. young.
      xi. Ebenezer Rawson; b. 1 Dec 1687 at Braintree, MA;
          d. 28 Aug 1691 at age 3.
     xii. Thankful Rawson; b. 6 Aug 1688 at Braintree, MA;
          d. 21 Aug 1688 as an infant.
5.      xiii. Nathaniel Rawson; b. 3 Dec 1689 at Braintree,
           MA; m. 5 Nov 1712 Hannah Thompson.
     xiv. Ebenezer Rawson; b. 25 Jul 1691 at Braintree,
          MA; d. young.
      xv. Edward Rawson; b. 27 Jan 1692 at Braintree, MA;
          m. Preserved Bailey; d. 1721.
     xvi. Ann Rawson; b. 28 Aug 1693 at Braintree, MA;
          d. infancy.
    xvii. Patience Rawson; b. 8 Nov 1694 at Braintree, MA;
          d. 14 Nov 1694 as an infant.
   xviii. Peletiah Rawson; b. 2 Jul 1696 at Braintree, MA;
          m. Hannah Hall; d. 1769.
     xix. Grindal Rawson; b. 24 Aug 1697 at Braintree, MA;
          d. infancy.
      xx. Mary Rawson; b. 16 Dec 1698 at Braintree, MA;
          d. infancy.
[Ann Glover RAWSON gave birth the 20 children.
15 of them died as infants or children. 
only 5 lived to marry.]

Ancestry Chain: Generation Five 5. Nathaniel RAWSON m. 1712 Hannah Thompson

Generation Six Nathaniel RAWSON m.1740 Rachel DANIELS Generation Seven ABNER RAWSON m.1784 Lucretia JEFFORDS Abner Rawson Revelutionary War Verteran Generation Eight Amariah RAWSON m.1809 Bestsy CARPENTER Generation Nine Adaline RAWSON m. 1828 Simeon Adams DUNN both converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Adaline died in Nauvoo, IL. Simeon was a Mormon Pioneer to UT Generation Ten Mary DUNN m. 1852 Martin Luther ENSIGN both Mormon teenaged Pioneers to UT Generation Eleven Harriet Camilla ENSIGN m. 1877 Isaac SMITH both born in UT before the coming of the R.R. Generation Twelve George Ensign SMITH m. 1919 Amy Ella HAWKES Generation Thirteen Camilla SMITH m. 1946 Kirt DeMar WOOD

Hurricane Utah Relief Society ca. 1915

I believe number 21 is my grandmother Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD. I have in my collection of Laura's photos a copy of this picture unnumbered and unlabled.
Number 42 Ivie WOOD BALLARD is my grandfather John "Andrew" WOOD's little sister.

On the 16th of May 1915 Andrew and Laura's third child Iris was born.

Fall Holiday

1953
my mother made these costumes

I imagine when my dad was a boy there might have been tricks involved on Halloween. My fifth grade teacher Mr. Crane told us of turning out houses over on the door when someone was inside. And when I was a girl there were stories of kids drawing on car windows with soap. The idea of trick or treat I was told meant if you don't give me a treat you will get a trick. My Dad did not want us threatening tricks so he had his children sing at our neighbors front doors "Halloween is coming the geese are getting fat. Please put a penny in the old mans hat, if you haven't got a penny an apple will do. If you haven't got an apple then God bless you." this usually got us a second piece of candy and an occasional penny.

I had an English neighbor of my own religion who told her children that Halloween was evil. She would not let them use orange crayons or orange construction paper and would never let them dress up for the class room party. I told her I didn't think second graders wearing bunny ears and tu tu's eating cup cakes could possible be evil.

I didn't like Halloween as a child. Running across a snow blanketed lawn in Keds always made my feet too cold. And the coat that made it impossible to see my costume is a generational complaint. When you are taller than the kids your age there is always a mean man who will say "aren't you too old for this."

As a mother there was always a mess to pick up. We never bought costumes for the kids. They were very creative and come up with a great costume from what we already had. We do keep a costume box with stuff we have collected that might work and pieces of costume we have been given. One of my kids will tell you about elementary school when the girls would change into costume in one room and the boys in another. She must have been the last to change and before she was ready the school costume parade came through the room while she was undressed.

I didn't like trick or treaters to come when the kids were out with their Dad. For years I was nursing a baby when the bell rang and later I had to go down a flight of stairs to get to the front door. I am in favor of church, school and community parties for children.

I will only wear a little bit of a costume usually glasses with a mustache nose. We once dressed in black tie and tails. With poster board vests and fabric stuffed feline tails hanging from our belts. It was a college ward party at a barn and the Bishop dressed like a dirty old man. He was such a good actor he was scary.

When I lived on the Wasatch Front if Halloween fell on a Sunday it was a well known fact that the trick or treating would take place the night before. In the North Woods there is no such respect for the Sabbath day.

As a child we could only go as far as we could walk. When we lived in the Inland Empire my husband found the retired people one block over gave our children full sized candy bars. Today the elementary grape vine spreds the word about the right neiborhoods to go to. And since you can't send your kids out alone anymore, mom and dad can drive to the right neiborhood.

I always enjoy the memories.

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Betsey QUIMBY ROUNDY - Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

Click on image to focus and enlarge for reading.
I find many of my grandmothers in:

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

Volume I
M to R

International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers
page 2662

Moses QUIMBY was the father of - Mormon Pioneer Betsey QUIMBY ROUNDY and her husband Shadrach ROUNDY (See D&C 124:141) they were the parents of - Samantha ROUNDY PARKER (little grandma) and Almeda Sophia ROUNDY PARKER (Big Grandma) who were the wives of John Davis PARKER - Sophia and John were the parents of Charles PARKER - father of Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD - mother of Kirt DeMar WOOD my father.

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude - Francis Abigail GIBSON GREEN

Here is lots of otherwise unknown history of our grandfather George Washington Gibson found in the history of a daughter from his first family. Our connection to his is through his second family.

I find two of my grandaunts in:

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

Volume II F to L

International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers

page 1135

George Washington GIBSON was the father of Francis Abigail GIBSON GREEN who was the half sister of both Sarah Jane GIBSON WOOD and George Andrew GIBSON and the full sister of Manomas Levina GIBSON

Children of Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY

This is an example of how much direct line family history you can find when you research the sibling of your grandparents. Sarah Angeline Williams is the older sister of Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS and the daughter of Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY both grandmothers of Kirt DeMar WOOD and my childern.

I have tried to bold our direct line ancestor in the following article. Thank you to the grandchild of Sarah Angeline Williams who posted this history.

see: http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4106514857629285784

SARAH ANGELINE WILLIAMS was married to Robert Wilson Glenn on December 5, 1853. She was born on 12 November 1837, a daughter of John Williams (abt.1808-1844?) and Marcy Jane Lucas (abt.1812-1896). Sarah Angeline Williams was not quite 16, and R. Wilson Glenn was 40 years old when they married.
Sarah was the second of six children born to John and Marcy Jane Lucas Williams between 1835 and 1844 near Lake Fork and Mt. Pulaski, Logan County, in central Illinois. This was about 120 miles east of Nauvoo. Her brothers and sisters (who, with their mother, all joined the LDS Church and crossed the plains to Utah in 1849), were:

     AMANDA WILLIAMS (b. 1835 in Logan Co., Illinois,
married RILEY GARNER CLARK; they lived in Provo, Manti,
Kanarraville, and Panguitch, Utah);
**SARAH ANGELINE WILLIAMS (married ROBERT WILSON GLENN)
(see below);
POLLY WILLIAMS (b. 1838 in Springfield, Ill.,
       married JAMES GEORGE DAVIS 1856 in St. George, Utah;
       they lived in Old Fort Harmony, Kanarraville, 
         and Cedar City, Utah);
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS (b. 1840 in Logan Co., Illinois,
married (1) GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHURTZ or SHIRTS 1855
  in Fort Harmony, Utah;
        (2) DON CARLOS SCHURTZ or SHIRTS;
  they lived in Harmony, Virgin, Manti, Kanarraville,
Panguitch, and Escalante);
WILLIAM GEORGE WILLIAMS (b. 1842 in Springfield, Illinois,
married ORILLA McFATE; lived in Virgin, St. George, and
  Kanarraville, Utah);
MARY ANN WILLIAMS (b. 1844 in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois,
married JOHN ALMA LEE -- a son of John D. Lee; lived in
Old Harmony, Virgin, New Harmony, Kanarraville, and
Panguitch, Utah)

Mary Ann Williams' husband, John Alma Lee, was a son of John D. Lee, who later became infamous for his part in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Interestingly, in the biography of John Doyle Lee by Juanita Brooks, the author writes that Mary Ann Williams was sealed to John D. Lee as a plural wife, when she was about 14 years old. Later this sealing was dissolved and she married John D. Lee's oldest son John Alma Lee. The reason for this strange arrangement was that around 1858, a "reformation" was called for by Church leaders: a period of fasting and repentance, and many people were re-baptized as a sign of their recommitment to live the commandments. In addition, every single person was advised to marry as soon as possible, and in many of the outlying settlements, the saints in their zeal seem to have carried this counsel too far. Many unsuitable marriages were made, and many girls as young as 13 or 14 were sealed to much older men as plural wives, especially to prominent men who were Church leaders. However, especially after further counsel was given from Church headquarters to remedy these problems, these marriages were not consummated until the girls got a little older and were able to decide whether they really desired the man (whom they were sealed to) for their eternal husband. And in case they died young, before the marriage was consummated, then they had the security of being married already, ensuring that they would have a husband in eterity who could take them to the celestial kingdom. But until a girl became old enough to give her consent, it was looked upon as sort of a betrothal instead of a marriage, and the man had to court her. In the case of MARY ANN WILLIAMS, as she grew a little older, she decided that she did not love John D. Lee as a husband, even though he spent quite a bit of time and energy trying to court her and win her favor. Instead, Mary Ann had fallen in love with his oldest son, John Alma Lee, who was much nearer to her own age. As soon as she made her choice known, John D. Lee consented to have his sealing to Mary Ann Williams dissolved and let her marry his son Alma.

John Williams, the first husband of Marcy Jane Lucas, and the father of her first six children, was born abt. 1808. He lived in Louisville, Tennessee, and died in Logan County, Illinois in 1844. Not much is known about him -- since his name is so common, it is hard to trace.

Marcy Jane Lucas was born in Clinton County, Ohio on 25 Dec 1812; the daughter of Thomas Lucas (1788-1831) and Sarah Hoblit (1794-1859) both from western Pennsylvania. It seems that the Lucas and Hoblit families, who were Dutch and German (or Swiss-German, in the case of the Hoblit/Hablutzel family) always lived on the edge of the frontier. Thomas' parents Abraham Lucas (1761-1841) and Marcy Kelsey (1764-1835), together with about two hundred others, had petitioned for the creation of a new state in western Pennsylvania between 1776 and 1780, to be called "Westsylvania." Dr. John F. Vallentine, a professor at the University of Nebraska and later at BYU, and a Lucas/Kelsey family researcher, wrote:

"The story of Abraham Lucas begins in Morris County, New Jersey, in 1761. But Abraham's origins go back to France, from whence his French Huguenot ancestors came (Lucas, Rollaire, Menton and Baudouin families); to Holland from whence his Dutch Reformed ancestors came (Adriaen Hendrikse Aten, b. 1630 in Holland and emigrated to New Amsterdam); and to England from whence still other ancestors came (Skillman, Pettit, Scofield). From New Jersey his story parallels the frontier westward, first to Washington Co., Penn., then to Bracken Co., Kentucky, next to Greene Co., Ohio, and finally to Logan County, Illinois."

The Lucas and Kelsey families had both moved from Morris County, New Jersey to western Pennsylvania, probably in the 1770's, and Abraham and Marcy were married there in about 1785. Marcy Kelsey's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all named Thomas Kelsey; before that was Mark Kelsey (1628-1723) and Rebecca Hoskins. Mark Kelsey's parents were William Kelsey (1600-1680) and Bethia Hopkins (1605-1680).

Her father Stephen Hopkins (1581-1644) came on the Mayflower to Plymouth colony. Recent research has also proven that he was the same Stephen Hopkins who had earlier helped settle Jamestown, Virginia. He had only stayed in Jamestown for a year or two, then returned to England, and later brought his family on the Mayflower to Plymouth, Massachusetts, to help found that colony also. He was a "stranger" (not of the Puritan faith), but was a man of wealth and of experience in the New World, so he was a great help to the Pilgrims in establishing their colony.

Thomas Lucas was the second of Abraham and Marcy Kelsey Lucas' twelve children; he was born in 1787 in Washington Co., Pennsylvania, before his family moved to Kentucky in about 1789. He later settled in Ohio. He was named for his grandfather Thomas Lucas (1730-abt.1820), who came from New Jersey to western Pennsylvania, later moving together with a large group of extended family members, to Kentucky and later on to Greene/Clinton Co., Ohio. Thomas' parents were Frans Lucas and Jannete Aten (chr. 18 Apr 1704 in Brooklyn, New York), daughter of Thomas Aten and Elise Skillman of New York.

Thomas Lucas' wife Sarah Hoblit's parents, Johannes Michael Hoblit or Haplitz (1730-1796 - original spelling of the surname was probably Hablutzel) and Anna Katherine Weigle or Van Veigel (1750-1820) had married in western Pennsylvania around 1770, and then emigrated to Kentucky around 1771 (several years before Daniel Boone opened up the wilderness road), and they lived there until 1782, then returned to Pennsylvania for a time. They traveled by raft on the Ohio river. This river, which flows out of western Pennsylvania in a southwesterly direction, forming the southern boundary of the state of Ohio with West Virginia and Kentucky, is a natural emigration corridor which was much used in early times, although it was still very dangerous, and many emigrants were killed by Indians.

Michael Hoblit was said to be a potter, born about 1730 in Germany, who had come to America probably in the early 1750's. It seems that his ancestors, the Hablutzels, had lived in the area around Zurich, Switzerland, but had moved to Germany some time before Johannes Michael came to America and shortened his last name to Hoblit. Both Abraham Lucas and Michael Hoblit served in the Revolutionary War, primarily as Indian scouts or rangers along the western frontier of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. After the revolutionary period, the Hoblit family moved back to Kentucky again about 1789, this time in company with several Lucas families and others, and settled in Mason County, Kentucky, near the south bank of the Ohio River. Later Michael Hoblit moved further west again, to Woodford County, Kentucky, where he died in 1796.

Michael's wife Anna Katherine or Katrina Weigel also had an interesting family history. Her parents were Sebastian Weigel (1732-1807) and Catherine Leib (1736- ?). Katrina named her oldest son Sebastian after her father, but he shortened it to "Boston" Hoblit. Sebastian Weigel's parents were John Martin Weigel (1703-1759) and Dorothy Triddell (1710- ?), who had emigrated from Saalbach, Brandenburg, Germany to Pennsylvania in 1730, just after their marriage. They were members of the Lutheran faith. John Martin Weigel's father was named Valentine Weigel, who lived in the 1600's. Another Valentine Weigel, who lived about 100 years earlier (probably an ancestor, but link not yet proven) was among the early Protestant reformers in Germany. The author of the book "THE WEIGEL FAMILY" writes:

"The name Weigel-Weigl-Weigele goes back to the 12th century, when people adopted family names ... At one time the Weigels were one family. It is likely the spelling of the name was not changed until the family separated, and branches of it settled in different parts of the country (of Germany). There are the Bavarian Weigls, Saxon Weigels, and further north, along the Baltic Sea, the name appeared as Weigele. The Bavarian and Saxon Weigels preoccupied themselves mostly with matters of religion and in printing and publishing books ... The Bavarian Weigls remained Catholics, but some of the Saxon Weigels became followers of Luther. A certain Saxon by the name of Valentin Weigel, frequently referred to as "Der Grosse (Great) Herder," became a follower of Luther and was an Evangelical pastor for a while. Becoming dissatisfied with Luther's preaching, he started a sect of mystics, which he called the "Weigelaner." Born at Naundorf near Grossenhain in 1533 (father: Michael Weigel), he studied at Leipzig and Wittenburg and from 1567 to his death was a preacher at Zschopan, near Chemnitz. He emphasized the necessity of internal unction (an anointing of Spirit; see 1 John 2:20) and illumination. He taught ... that knowledge does not come from without, but from the Spirit operating upon our spirit within. In cosmology, Valentin Weigel stands near Paracelsus ... (After his death), his writings were published from 1604 to 1618 in various places, and Weigelanism became widely spread. His opponents represented him (falsely) as a dangerous revolutionary who aimed at the overthrow of all political and social order."

After her husband John Williams died in 1844 in Illinois, Marcy Jane Lucas married Henry Barney (1815- ?) for her second husband, and had three more children:

     ALMA BARNEY (b. 1848 in Springfield, Illinois,
md. ALICE ANN GARDNER in 1871 in Kanarraville;
they lived in Kanarraville, Panguitch, and Parowan, Utah)
JACOB HENRY BARNEY (b. 1850 in Provo, Utah; died young)
MARCY JANE BARNEY (b. 1854 in Manti, Utah,
md. WILLIAM HENRY DEUEL, Jr.;
they lived in Panguitch and Escalante, Utah)

Apparently Marcy Jane Lucas' second husband Henry Barney, son of Charles Barney and Mercy Yeoman from New York, was already a member of the Church at the time of their marriage. Marcy Jane had joined the Church on 23 Sep 1839, but it is not known if her first husband John Williams joined the Church before his death in 1844. Another source suggests that he did not die at that time, but instead there was a divorce, perhaps because of Marcy Jane joining the LDS church and moving to Nauvoo. At any rate, Henry and Marcy Jane Lucas Williams Barney came to Utah in 1849, settled in Provo for a time, then moved to Manti around 1851. They later moved south to Iron County and then Garfield County (Escalante was settled in 1876).

During the time the Barney/Williams family lived in Manti, Sarah Angeline Williams met R. Wilson Glenn and married him in 1853, so she didn't move south with her mother and the rest of her brothers and sisters, who all settled in Utah's Dixie. Sarah's [and Polly's] mother Marcy Jane Lucas Williams Barney died in Escalante, Utah 20 November 1896 and is buried there. The inscription on her gravestone reads,

"MARCY, wife of HENRY BARNEY,
Dec 25, 1802 - Mar 20, 1886.
Gone but not forgotten."
[dates on gravestone are incorrect- Marcy was born 25 Dec 1814 died 20 Mar 1896]

These dates are almost certainly in error, since Marcy's first child was born in 1835, and her last child in 1854. Also, an etching of the Salt Lake Temple is on her gravestone, and it wasn't dedicated until 1893. The correct year of her death was probably 1896 instead of 1886, and the correct birth year was probably 1812 or 1814. These years appear on family records and in the ancestral file.

The book "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains", a DUP publication about the history and people of Wasatch County, in the section about Wallsburg states that

"Sarah Williams Glenn was the first Primary president of the Wallsburg Ward. She was very active and served the children well because she loved them. She took part in the social activities of the ward for she was a natural leader in sports.

"She acquired the first copy of a three-act play, the first that was ever put on in Wallsburg. This wasn't an easy job to do; parts had to be hand-copied for each one in the cast. Polly Bigelow Allred said that she and Isabell Kerby went to Sarah's home many nights and copied the parts while Sarah read them from the one book. They worked till one o'clock in the morning to get the parts ready before they could even cast the play. With Sarah's patient guidance, this first play was a real success, so many more followed under her direction. Bishop Nuttall and everyone else helped her all they could.

"Sarah had a large woodbox which she always kept full and overflowing, with a good supply of firewood, neatly piled against her wall. This she gathered by picking up chunks of wood whenever coming from town or visiting her neighbors, never coming home empty-handed. She also raised fine pigs which the butchers liked to buy from her, for they always got a better price when selling hers. She raised chickens and sold eggs and young chickens for market. She made delicious chicken soup. She was a very wonderful cook.

"Sarah Williams Glenn was also a school teacher, and for many years in the latter part of her life was school janitor, a very fine one. Just before her death she had cleaned the schoolhouse and washed all the windows which was a real undertaking (the large 3-story Wallsburg school building, built in 1904, is still standing).

"Blood poisoning, caused by a scratch from a chicken, caused her death."

Sarah Angeline Williams Glenn continued to reside at Wallsburg until her death on July 11, 1914 at 76 years of age, after being a widow for 41 years. Both Robert Wilson Glenn Sr. and Sarah Williams Glenn are buried in the cemetery at Wallsburg, Wasatch County, Utah.

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude - Mary Everett GORDON ENSIGN

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Isaac ENSIGN Sr. was the father in-law of - Mormon Pioneer Mary Everett GORDON ENSIGN was the wife of Samuel ENSIGN who was the brother of my grandfather Horace Datus ENSIGN. (Horace and there brother Isaac along with Isaac's wife Mary BRYANT ENSIGN all died at Winter Quarters.) Horace's wife Mary BRONSON ENSIGN and most of their children traveled on to Utah in the same wagon train as Mary and Samuel ENSIGN.

Although Mary's husband Samuel ENSIGN was a younger brother, he became the patriarch of the Ensign family in Utah. Samuel was a skilled carpenter and a respected pioneer. He died when he fell from a wall being constructed on Salt Lake Temple.

Mary DUNN - Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

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Mormon Pioneer Simeon Adams DUNN was the father of - Mormon teen Pioneers Mary Dunn ENSIGN became the wife of teen Pioneer Martin Luther ENSIGN they were the parents of - Harriet Camilla ENSIGN the mother of George "Ensign" SMITH - he was the father of Camilla SMITH.

Mary BRONSON ENSIGN - Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

Mary BRONSON ENSIGN
mother of Martin Luther ENSIGN

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Correction is needed to marriage place in article: Mary and Horace were married in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut on 28 Sep 1825. And correction is need for the death place of Mary's spouse Horace Datus ENSIGN died at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa and is buried at Cutter's Park #15, Winter Quarters.

Sylvanus BRONSON was the father of - Mormon Pioneers Mary BRONSON ENSIGN and her husband Horace Datus ENSIGN were the parents of - teen Pioneer Martin Luther ENSIGN who married teen pioneer Mary DUNN they were the parents of - Harriet Camilla ENSIGN the mother of George "Ensign" SMITH - he was the father of Camilla SMITH.

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude - Mary BRYANT ENSIGN

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Isaac ENSIGN Sr. was Mary's father in-law.

Mary's husband Isaac ENSIGN Jr. was the half brother of our grandfather Horace Datus ENSIGN. Isaac Jr. was the son of Isaac ENSIGN Sr. and his first wife Sarah Pitts. Horace and Samuel were the sons of Isaac ENSIGN Sr. and Lydia NOBLE his second wife.

Several ENSIGN family members died at Winter Quarter. Horace died at Winter Quarters. Isaac Jr. and Isaac's wife Mary BRYANT ENSIGN and their grand daughter, Catherine Emiline STOCKING who was the daughter of Catherine Emiline ENSIGN.

Samuel his wife Mary Evertt GORDAN ENSIGN and family moved on to Utah. Mary BRONSON ENSIGN the wife of Horace and there children made their way to Utah. The Stocking family also moved on to Utah. Catherine Emiline ENSIGN STOCKING's daughter Sarah Delight STOCKING who was a grand daughter of Isaac and Mary BRYANT ENSIGN, married Wilford Woodruff in 1857. (The cousin relationship of my children to the fifth wife of Wilford Woodruff is 2nd cousin 4 times removed.)




























Back of Wilford Woodruff grave stone listing the names of his wives.

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude - Catherine WORLEY COWLEY

Joseph Enos COWLEY and Catherine WORLEY

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Henry WORLEY was the father of - Catherine who was the little sister of my grandmother Sarah WORLEY they were 14 and 16 when they traveled together from England and walk to Utah from Fort Laramie.

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude - Amanda WILLIAMS CLARK

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Amanda was the daughter of Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY and the older sister of Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS. Her history adds to the information we have on Marcy and Polly.

Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY - Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

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Thomas LUCAS was the father of - Mormon Pioneer Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS and fist husband John WILLIAMS parents of PollyWILLIAMS DAVIS - who was mother of Elizabeth Ann DAVIS PARKER - who was the mother of Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD - mother of Kirt DeMar WOOD my father.

I will add the history of Amanda the oldest of Marcy's children her history will add to Marcy and Polly's histories.

Rachel MORRIS DAVIES - Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

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George MORRIS was the father of - Mormon Pioneer Rachel MORRIS DAVIES wife of William Reese DAVIES - parents of James George DAVIS - father of Elizabeth Ann DAVIS PAKRER- who was the mother of Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD - mother of Kirt DeMar WOOD my father. Rachel was the mother in-law of Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS.

There are no known photos of Rachel or William Reese DAVIES.

Rachel's son James George DAVIES / DAVIS married Polly Williams, Rachel and Polly are found on the same page in this book.

History of the Church. Vol. 5 page 281, 282
Sunday 19th (February 1843)

“Elder William Henshaw having been directed by Elder Lorenzo Snow to go to south Wales, he commenced preaching in the English language privately to several families in Pen y Darren, near Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire. A number of the people believed his testimony, and this day he baptized William Rees Davis, his wife, and two of his sons, and commenced preaching publicly in Brother Davis’s house, about one-third of the people only understanding the English language.” Page 312 - Saturday 25th - (March 1843)

“Elder William Henshaw, who has encountered preaching in South Wales, organized the Pen-y-darran branch, and ordained William Rees Davis, priest, who commenced preaching in the Welsh language, which caused opposition to increase and a considerable number to receive the gospel. While he established that Branch of the Church, Brother Henshaw supported himself by working in the coal mines…

Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS - Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

James George DAVIS, Alice May, Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS and Albert.

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page 766

John WILLIAMS and Marcy Jane LUCAS WILLIAMS BARNEY were the parents of - Child Mormon Pioneer Polly WILLIAMS DAVIS (changed from DAVIES) wife of James George DAVIS - Parents of Elizabeth Ann DAVIS PARKER - mother of Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD - she was the mother of Kirt DeMar WOOD my father.