From "Autobiography of [Grandma Wanda]"

left: 1913 Edna Lula SEATON (1894-1961) and Reuben Russell ROBERSON (1893-1959)

[page1] The Autobiography of [Grandma Wanda]
First Edition

I was born ... to Reuben Russell Roberson and Edna Lula Seaton. I was the fourth child in a family of nine children. Dad grew watermelons this year and he tells me that he fed me watermelon juice at age of three days. We lived in a four room house at Pleasant Hill, a farm community about five miles from English, Indiana. Dad had planted an apple orchard which never did bear fruit. We never did know why but it must have been a great disappointment for him. He had cleared the land of persimmon and sassafras trees but now the wild blackberry bushes had taken over.

My family was probably classed as poor folks. We never had much money but I can’t remember ever going hungry. Dad worked for the State Highway Department as a good democrat and then we had our garden, milk, fruit and wild berries and nuts. Hickory nuts, hazel nuts and black walnuts all were plentiful.

left: Fielding ROBERSON (1834-1924) father of Reuben Russell ROBERSON (1893-1959)

Grandfather Fielding Roberson lived with us and I can remember standing on the rockers of his chair as he rocked, I must have had a deep love for him which was returned. He went to visit his son, Alva, and while there fell and broke his hip which led to complications. He died soon from acute nephritis when I was only three years old. One of my Uncles came by in a wagon and took me to see Grandpa before he died. I can still remember the wet kiss he gave me. I think these are my earliest recollections.


left: Rhoda Helen BAYSINGER SEATON (1856-1924) mother of Edna Lula SEATON (1894-1961)


Grandma [Rhoda Helen Baysinger] Seaton also lived with us before she died. My only remembrance of her is when I fell on the stove and burned my hand. She wrapped it for me.

Uncle Irvin Roberson and aunt Lottie lived in Grandpaw’s old house which stood where Hubert Roberson now lives [1973]. Their children Hazel and Ray were our closest friends. Hazel and I were always running away to the woods to play in the little streams. Mom has often come after us and switched us all the way home. On one of these outings I left my new black paten shoes and when they were found, after a big rain, they were ruined. Hazel and I were sawing with dad’s cross cut saw while Norman (my brother) held the stick. The saw slipped and all but severed his forefinger. Hazel ran home and I got tanned good. Seems she was always getting me into trouble, still I loved her dearly. Norman and howard were born here. I can remember howard’s birth. While he was still a baby we packed up in a small truck--had a sale-- and started our journeying.

The above was written Jan 16, 1973.

Grandma Rhoda

Rhoda Helen BAYSINGER (1856-1924) and James Thomas SEATON (1851-1925)

Grandma Wanda wrote a letter to her cousins asking about family memories this is another response:

Remembrances of
Acena SEATON REYMAN (1904-aft 1987)
Written 1987

I remember going with grandmother Rhoda [Helen BAYSINGING SEATON (1856-1924)] to gather eggs at the hen house. There was a large chicken snake in the hen house and she picked it up and snapped it’s head off.

One day grandmother Rhoda and I started to go to the orchard to get apples so mother could make a pie for supper. One the way we had to cross Greathouse Creek on stepping stones. Half way over she looked down and saw a fish on top of the water. She dipped her basket down and came up with a full basket, so we had fish instead of pie for supper. The mill had let some kind of oil get into the creek and the fish came up to breath.

In the spring and fall grandmother Rhoda would go into the fields and woods to gather plants. She used to make tea which she gave us if we were sick. Grandfather James [Thomas SEATON (1851-1925)] sold Indian Herb Pills, going about the county in a house and buggy. If Grandfather’s pills didn’t help us, grandmother would brew up a tea to give us. We didn’t need to see the doctor while grandmother lived. Howard and I would go with her but instead of learning from her what plants to gather and what they were used for , we ran about and played. I’ve always been sorry we did not pay more attention to her. She dried her plants in the summer kitchen. Some plants I do remember are -mullen, yellow root, dog fennel and smart weed.

The summer kitchen where grandmother Rhoda kept her plants was in the hills, either in English or Gantsburg. There was an old wood stove in the kitchen, there was a wood box behind the stove, grandfather always kept it full. I don’t remember him doing any kind of work except selling the Herb Pills. Grandmother made the best blackberry jelly and her biscuits were as big as a saucer. It only took one biscuit with butter and jelly to fill you up.

left: Edna Eula SEATON ROBERSON (1894-1961)

I spent a lot of time at grandmothers. Leora [May SEATON (1888-1962)], Eva [Lavadeth SEATON (1891-1978)], and Edna [Lula SEATON (1894-1961)] would come get me and I stayed with them several days. I was the first Seaton granddaughter. I was 5 when we moved to Mt. Carmel, Illinois. It was right after Bill [William Fielding ROBERSON (1888-1978)] and Eva’s wedding. I was the flower girl in the wedding.


left: Mary Ann DENBO ROBERSON (1857-1916)

One day grandmother Rhoda and I went to visit Mrs. Roberson [Mary Ann DENBO ROBERSON (1857-1916)] the mother of Bill, James and Rubin [Reuben Russell ROBERSON (1893-1959)], etc. While sitting in the kitchen a black snake crawled up the step from the cellar. I jumped on grandmothers lap and wouldn’t get down. Mrs. Roberson said the snake lived in the cellar. The cellar door was in the floor of the kitchen, they had a railing around it so they wouldn’t fall in. She said the snake also had the run of the kitchen and they didn’t have any trouble with mice.

I remember hearing about John Scott, the husband of Aunt Prudy [Prudence SEATON SCOTT (1848-1918)], shooting their cow. He came into the kitchen, got his gun and wnt out and shot the cow. He was mad because the cow would not give down her milk when he tried to milk her.

I remember going with Uncle Bill [William Fielding ROBERSON (1888-1978)] and Aunt Eva to English [Indiana] to visit with Aunt Anne. I was about 12 or 13 years old. Uncle Bill had just got his first car. A Model To Ford. We left right after breakfast and reached Aunt Anne’s in time for supper. It seems we took off on lanes instead of roads. Once we ended on top of a hill with nowhere to go. When we finally reached English, we had to ford a creek below the homestead. Aunt Eva told Bill he would get. Stuck but he said he would make it. About half way across, sure enough we were stuck. Bill had to wade across and go get a team of horsed to pull us out. I remember Aunt Anne had a rabbit and the best baked beans I’ve ever tasted.

While there we went to a revival at Tunnel Hill Church. Uncle Jim [James Washington ROBERSON (1875-1964)] hooked up the wagon, put hay in the bed with covers and we sat on the hay. Everyone took lanterns and they were used at the church for light.

Note from
Ernest [Lovedale] Henry (1917-)
Written 1987

My mother told me once that my Grandfather Albert Seaton [brother of James Thomas SEATON] went to Arkansas and farmed. He didn’t like it there or maybe he was homesick so he traded the farm for a team of horses and a wagon and come home, which I assumed was Grantsburg, Crawford Co. Indiana.

Since Mary Elizabeth (Riggle) Seaton [mother of Albert and James Thomas] was not in the 1870 census it may have been she went to Arkansas also.

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Snakes note: Garland Lee REASOR told his son they used to keep black snakes in the corn crib on the farm in English. The snakes were there to eat the mice.

Ancestry chain: JR, MRR, Grandma Wanda, Reuben Russell ROBERSON, Mary Ann DENBO - (Mrs Roberson)
Ancestry chain: CR, MRR, Grandma Wanda, Edna Lula SEATON, james Thomas SEATON & Rhoda Helen BAYSINGER- (grandfather James & grandma Rhoda)

ROBERSON sons

Five of Fielding ROBERSON and Mary Ann DENBO's sons
12 Irvin, 10 Rube, 7 Charlie, 5 Mann, 2 Jim ROBERSON
(# indicates the order of children in family)

Grandma Wanda wrote a letter to her cousins asking about family memories. Much of this she got in reply to her written request. These memories were written by Jack Roger Roberson. These Roberson family stories can be found at http://www.yatesville.net/histctr/11.htm

left: Fielding and Mary Ann DENBO ROBERSON

Fielding Roberson was my great grandfather whom I don't believe I ever met. He had eight boys and two girls. (I think). The boys were, my grandfather James W., Alva, William, Ruben, Mann, Irvin, Charles, and George. One of the girls was Bertha. The other name is unknown to me. [Correction: Fielding and Mary Ann had 9 sons and 3 daughter]

Fielding was in the Indiana Cavalry during the civil war. He had three horses shot from under him during the battles. He must have been in the thick of it. He was captured, I believe, at Vicksburg. He smuggled a spoon from one of the meals and he and two other prisoners dug under the prison wall. The floor was dirt.

During the days they filled the hole back up and one of them would sit on it so they never got caught. It took several days to dig out. The dark night they finally made it they crawled out in pitch darkness. They had no directions and did not know which direction to go. The other two men crawled back in the prison and filled the hole. Grandpa decided he would go for it.

[left: ROBERSON children listed]

He traveled by night and slept in barns and straw stacks by day. One morning he awoke in the same barn he'd slept in three nights before. He was tired and hungry and decided to give himself up. He went to the house and told them who he was. It so happened that they were Northern Sympathizers. They fed him a big meal and told him how to get back to his outfit, which he managed to do.

Fielding had so many boys that he would not do much. He delegated authority to Alva his oldest boy. Alvy could even spank them if he thought they needed it. One day grandpa was behind the barn crying, Alva had whipped him. When asked what was wrong He said "I hope none of us ever have to die but if they do I hope it is big Ab" (Alva's nickname).

One day Alva was hauling Manure from the barn. They said a "city girl" walked by and yelled Oh Alf what are you doing? "Being already mad" he yelled "hauling horse [****]". You did not say things like that to ladies in those days. The girl hurried on her way.

Grandpa Jim once said he wished his name was [****] because Jim was too easy to say and they were giving him more than his share of the chores. They would not call him so much if his name was that.

George [Hazelwood] Roberson (son of Fielding)

George is not known much by my relatives. Evidently he had the power of persuasion. He convinced my father that he was ready for marriage when he was around 3rd grade age. I think he even had a bride picked out. George went to Texas when he was a young man. I don't think any of the family ever saw him again. We heard that he died of TB at a young age.

In the early 1940's my father Clayton paid a visit to a gypsy fortune teller at Beech Grove Indiana. Without a prompt from dad the fortune teller told him about George and told Dad he died mysteriously in Texas. Not believing in fortune telling, my dad came away from there scared.

Grover [Cleveland] Roberson

He homesteaded in Montana; went out there as a school teacher. Found out the boys had failed so many times that they were almost as old as him. Right away one of them challenged him to a fight, said he had whipped every teacher they had up until Grover. Grover took the challenge. They fought a long time and Grover finally won. The boy had broken some of Grover's ribs. Grover played ball with the other children so as not to let anyone know the boy had hurt him.

I think he gave up teaching after one year. Then he would work up in Canada at the lumber mills in the winter to buy seed wheat and farm in the summer. He married his wife Frankie an employee of Yellowstone Park. There farming had grown. They raised wheat and mustard seed. The land was so dry they had to summerfile it.

Plow and disc for one season to store moisture in the ground so they could plant the next year! I met them one time in the late 1940's. They were driving a 1936 Ford which had its 3rd engine in it. The car looked nice. They had two D model John Deere Tractors. Grover drove one; Frankie drove one. Much later they found Grover floating in his pond. We don't know for sure but we believe a natural death. Grover told us that his land was a glacier deposit. He had dug a well and the ground was top soil at 40 feet deep. He said he could still raise 60 bushel of wheat to the acre. When he first started it was 80 bushel. He said some of his neighbors were just then starting to use fertilizer. He had not. He had plowed up 40 acres the year before that he had always used as pasture for one cow. He still had 40 acres that had never been plowed for his cow to graze in.

Great Grandpa Seaton [Thomas R. Seaton]

Evidently the men used to hang out at the Old Grantsburg store. My father Clayton Roberson, told me about Great Grandpa Seaton wanting to go back to Grantsburg. This had to be in the late 1920's or early 1930's. Dad took him over there and he got out of the car and went up on the porch and sat on the bread box. Ail groceries used to have a bread box out front. Bread deliveries came early before the stores were open and the bread man would lock the bread in there. Grandpa sat there about 20 or 30 minutes and said, "Clayton I'm ready to go. It's not like it used to be". No one he knew had come by while he sat there.

Seaton Roberson Relationship

My grandfather and two of his brothers, (William and Reuben), married 3 Seaton sisters. You would be surprised how many double cousins there are in the 2 families.

[2 James Washington SEATON (son of Fielding Roberson and Mary Ann Denbo) married Mary Ann SEATON (daughter of James Thomas Seaton and Rhoda Helen Baysinger). Pictured above as 2 Jim.

10 Reuben Russell ROBERSON (son of Fielding Roberson and Mary Ann Denbo) married Edna Lula SEATON (daughter of James Thomas Seaton and Rhoda Helen Baysinger). Pictured above as 10 Rube.

8 William Fielding ROBERSON (son of Fielding Roberson and Mary Ann Denbo) married Eva Lavadeth SEATON (daughter of James Thomas Seaton and Rhoda Helen Baysinger)]

Oliver [Woodfield] Denbo [son of Woodfield Grant Denbo and Lucinda Mathers]

Oliver Denbo was a brother to Tom Denbo [Thomas Levi DENBO], Nanny Morre's father. Oliver also made sorghum, and shipped it all over the United States. Once, during the great depression he was peddling sorghum door to door in Illinois. He took a gallon to the door of a house and when the lady opened the door he began his sales pitch. He opened the bucket and Lo and Behold there were 2 yellow jackets floating on top. Being quick witted, Oliver said "well I'm going home and fire that woman. I told her to put one in every bucket and here she has put two in this one". The lady said "you big liar, I'll take that bucket and one more".

Nancy Denbo Moore-Better known as "Nanny"

Nanny was a very respected and religious lady. She worked in the field's right along with her husband, Wilbur. She was always in an ankle length dress and a bonnet. People always wanted Nanny to pray for them when they were sick or injured. She always had a bunch of funny stories to tell. Such as, when she was young her Pa made sorghum too. They fed the skimming's to their hogs. One year the skimming's fermented. The hogs all got drunk on them. They would lay on their backs or sides and move their feet as if walking and squeal "Oink Oink".

One year on the last day of sorghum making, she brought me a real large onion and it was to help me cry. She made sorghum 50 years before she began making them for us. She made for us 10 to 15 years. She was always in a good mood, but, could be very firm. When her Nephew would come home intoxicated, they would come and get Nanny as no one else could handle him. She would soon have him peacefully in bed. He did not want her to see him that way.

One night late, hunters came to their door and wanted to borrow shotgun shells. Wilbur informed them that the only thing they had was a muzzle loader and the only one who knew how to shoot it was Nanny. They woke her up and took her to the creek where they carried her and her old gun across the river and they proceeded to where the coon was treed. Nanny tamped the powder and shot in the gun and shot the coon. They helped her back to the house.

Once I helped them grub out 3 large walnut trees which they sold for some cash flow, she lived on this farm her entire life. Her first husband died and she later married Wilbur Moore. What a wonderful Lady.

Jack (Shack) Roberson

Jack Roberson was called Shack because he would not work and was notorious as a no good. He must have lived about the turn of the century. The white Caps who were much like the Klu Klux Klan left a bundle of switches at his door. This was to warn him that they would be back and work him over if he did not get his act together. Old Shack boarded up his windows and made port holes in his cabin and when the White Caps carne back he shot it out with them. They were unable to get him and he kept up his lazy life.

When I was born they were showing me off to Carie Roberson. She was Alvey's wife. When they told her my name was Jack she said mighty pretty baby but sure don't like his name. I'm sure she must have known the original Jack.

Charles [Edward] Roberson (Son of Fielding Roberson) [Pictured above as 7 Charlie.]

Charles was known as "Charlie". He left Crawford County and settled in Buechel, KY. He had one son that I know of, Lee Roberson, a renowned Southern Baptist Preacher. He had a very large church in Chattanooga. He was an editor of the Church denominational paper. I met him at his mother's or his father's funeral. He has retired but still preaching in his 90s. As far as I know he is still living. Charlie built homes around and influenced his brother Ruben to do the same. He built the first section of the Highview Baptist Church.

Ruben [Russell] Roberson (Son of Fielding) [Pictured above as 10 Rube.]

Ruben followed the tradition of his father and had lots of kids, he had 8 [he had 9] children. Besides my grandfather James, I knew Ruben better than any of his siblings. He once went to Montana to farm. I think he worked mostly for his brother Grover. The whole family went and they moved in a model T Ford truck. The engine gave out on the trip. They bought parts and pulled into a vacant field and overhauled it and then continued the trip.

During the World War II people were frozen on their jobs. If you quit they threatened to draft you in the army. Rube was working at the Charlestown, Indiana munitions Plant helping on construction. He wanted out of there very much. Finally they came around and said they would have a layoff the coming payday. Rube said put me in that layoff. When payday came they said they had changed it. It would be next payday. Rube reminded them he wanted to be in it.

The next payday, the same thing happened and again and again until one day he told them "This time I am going". When they came by and told him not that week he threw his hammer into the asbestos siding he was installing and it went all the way thru the wall and thru the building and thru the wall on the other side. They fired him, and he said I told you I was going.

I loved my uncle Rube so much I have nothing but fond memories of him. He ate his breakfast bacon very rare. He had a heart attack in his 50's. He said he threw up whole pieces of bacon that morning with not a tooth mark on them. He dieted and lived several years after that.

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Ancestry chain: JR, MRR, Grandma Wanda, Reuben Russell ROBERSON, Fielding ROBERSON.

6th great grandparents - Michael Johannes HABLUZEL and Anna Katherina Van Veigle

Ancestral Chain: TR, Lark, Kirt DeMar WOOD, Laura Elizabeth PARKER, Elizabeth Ann DAVIS, Polly WILLIAMS, Marcy Jane LUCAS (WILLIAMS BARNEY), Sarah HOBLIT possible pedigree pictured above,

Michael Johannes HABLUZEL and Anna Katherina Van VEIGLE.

Collection of Information for Parents of Sarah HOBLIT

Immigrant / Revolutionary War Soldier Michael Johannes HABLUZEL
Michael HOBLIT
Johann Michael Hablüzel
Johannes M. HOBLET (Hablitz)
HAPLITZ or original spelling may have been HABLUTZEL
HOBLET

Johannes Michael Hoblit (Hoblitzell or Hoblützel) ^{1, 2, 3, 4}

Christening: 28 Aug 1731 Todtnau, Loerrach, Baden
Birth 24 Jan 1730 in Alsace, Lorraine, Germany
other birth information ^{1, 5} in 1745/1755 in Alsace Lorrain, Germany.
Died ^{1, 3} 3 May 1791/1795/1796 in Woodford, Kentucky, United States

Father: Lorent Hablüzel
Mother: Anna Brender

History: [Immigrant] Hablutzel was Johannes Michael's name on the ships manifest when he came to America. He sailed from Rotterdam on the Ship Chance to the Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1764. Johannes Michael Hablutzel was not educated or a man of means but he came to America as a free man, his passage was paid, his head tax was paid.

Moved to Washington, Pennsylvania 1783-1787.

Occupation: He was a Potter by trade.

Revolutionary War - Military service: Johannes Michael HOBLIT served in the Revolutionary War, PA, Westmoreland County Militia Fall, 1776 and Rangers on the Frontier, Westmoreland County, 1778-1783. The fifth series of the Pennsylvania archives gives him as a "Soldier of the Revolution in the Continental Line."

More About Johannes Michael Hablutzel:
Census: 1764, Colonial America 1607-1789 Pennsylvania Census Index.
Estate Inventory: May 03, 1796, Woodford County Will Book B 1796-1807.
Immigration: 1764, Sailed from Rotterdam on the Ship Chance.

Marriage: Catherine Weigle 1770, Pennslyvania. / Johannes married ^{1, 3, 6} Anna Katrina Van Veigle (Weigle) "Caty" in 1780 in , Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Anna Katrina Van Viegle
Catherine Weigle
Anna Katherina Van Veigle
Anna K. Van Veigle (Weigel)
Anna Catherine Weigel
Anna Catherina Weigle
Anna Katrina "Caty" Van Veigle (Weigle)

b. 15 Jun 1757, , York,PA. / 15 Jun 1759 Huntington, Westmoreland, PA
d. died ¹⁰ in 1820 in Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio
She was buried ¹¹ in , Clinton County, Ohio

Married: ^{10, 12, 13} Johannes Michael Hoblit (Hoblitzell or Hoblützel) in 1780 in , Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Other marriages: William Cochran (1743-1804) married 13 Oct 1800 Franklin, Kentucky.

Parents^{: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}
Father: Wilhelm Sebastian Van Veigle (Wiegel) was born about 1733 in Of Huntington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He died ² on 17 Jan 1807. Wilhelm married ³ Catherine Leib in Est 1758 in Of Huntington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Mother: Catherine Leib ¹ was born about 1737 in Of Huntington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Catherine married ² Wilhelm Sebastian Van Veigle (Wiegel) in Est 1758 in Of Huntington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Other Possible Parents:
Father: immigrant Sebastian Van Veigel, b. 1732 Germany, d.1807 York Co., Pennsylvania son of Johanne Martin Weigle/Veigle and Anna Dorothy Triddell both immirants.

Father: Johann Sebastian Weigle was born before Nov 1730 in Saalbach, Brandenburg, Germany 43 and died on 17 Jan 1807 in Manchester Twp, York Co., PA. son of Johann Martin Weigle and Anna Dorothea Friedel\Triddel,

Mother: Gusanna Catherine Leib, b. 05 Mar 1739, Lancaster, York, PA.

Mother: Susanna Catherine Leib, b.5 Mar 1739 Lancaster, York, PA. d.BET 1784 and 1834

History: Anna Katrina at one time weighed over 300 lbs.

After death of Michael Johannes HOBLIT, Anna Katherina moved to Mason Co., Kentucky; Illinois; back to Kentucky; Resided also in Green Co., Ohio and Logan Co., Illinois.

CHILDREN:

Johannes Michael Hoblit (Habluzel) and Anna Katrina Van Viegle married 1779 in York Co., PA or Westmoreland PA.
They had ten children:

1. Elizabeth Hoblit - b. 1771/2 in Fayette Co., KY/d. 26 AUG 1839 in
Clinton Co., OH. She is buried in the Gaddis cemetery, NE of
Wilmington, OH. She married Timothy Bennett in Westmoreland
Co., PA in 1789. They had 14 children.

2. Boston (Sebastian) Hoblit - b.13 FEB 1774 in Fayette Co., KY; d.
03MAR1859 in Bellbrook, Green Co., OH. He is buried in the
Primitive Baptist Cem., Bellbrook, OH. He served in War of 1812.
Boston's 1st wife was Sarah Elizabeth Middleton - were married
1793/94 in OH; second wife was Lydia Sayre - m. 1833 in OH.
They had ten children.

3. Mary/Polly Magdalena Hoblit - b.25 OCT 1778 in Westmoreland Co.,
PA. She was christened 19FEB1779 in Zion Lutheran Church in
Geensburgh, PA. She married Randall/Randolph Walker in
Lexington, KY 14 JUL 1796. They had 10 chldren.

4. Katherine Hoblit - b. 1780 in Westmoreland Co., PA. She married
William Abbott in 1797 in Woodrord Co., KY. They had 11
children.

5. John Hoblit - b.26 MAR 1781 in Westmoreland Co., PA/d. 05 SEP 1844
in Atlanta, Logan Co., IL. He is buried in Roach Cem., Logan Co., IL.
He married Mellicent Seward in 1802 in OH. He also was christened
in Zion Lutheran Ch. 28 DEC 1781. Mellicent was a 1st cousin to
Abe Lincoln's Seward. He came to IL in 1826 on prospecting tour.
John and Mellicent had 11 children.

6. Margaret Hoblit - b.1782 in Westmoreland Co., PA and died ? in
Clinton Co., OH. She married a Robert Shields, 23 MAY 1809, in
Highland Co., OH. They had 9 children.

7. William Deacon Hoblit - b.19 MAY 1783 in Westmoreland Co., PA/
d.13 DEC 1870 in Clinton Co., OH. He is buried in the Baptist Cem.,
in Port William, OH. Wm. was another child christened in Zion Luth.
Church in Greensburgh, PA. He married Margaret Shields in
Highland Co., OH, 30 MAR 1809 - they had 12 children.

8. Christoph Samuel Hoblit - b.08 APR 1785 in Westmoreland Co., PA/
died young. Was christened in Zion Luth. Church.

9. Sarah HOBLIT - b.04 JUN 1786 in Westmoreland Co., PA/d.13 JUL 1859
in Logan Co., IL. [First married Thomas LUCAS 29 Jun 1809 Richland Twp, Highland, Ohio. Thomas LUCAS b.abt 1788 Morris Co., NJ, d.bef 15 Oct 1831 Sangamon Co., (now Logan), Illinois. He was son of Abraham LUCAS and Marcy KELSEY. Sarah and Thomas had nine children.

Lucas child: 2. Marcy Jane LUCAS (also found as Mercy and Massey). Marcy Jane LUCAS (WILLIAMS BARNEY) and John WILLIAMS were the parents of Polly WILLIAMS (DAVIS).

Other Sarah HOBLIT marriages: second - James TURLEY 9 Sep 1834 third - Samuel TURLEY 1839.]

10. David Hoblit - b.08 DEC 1787 in Westmoreland Co., PA/d.28 FEB 1869
in Worth Co., MO. Was christened in Zion Luth Ch. in PA. Served
in War of 1812. 1st marriage was to Martha Wilson 01 MAR 1811
in Highland Co., OH/2nd marriage was to Celia Kelly 12 MAR 1840
in MO. He moved to MO in 1839 - had 11 children w/1st wife and
1 with the second wife.

(some information from Book on William Kellsey Gen. Library)
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Sources for Johannes Michael Hoblit (Hoblitzell or Hoblützel) ^and Anna Katrina van Veigle (Weigle):

¹Family Records of Grace Hoblit Jacobs, of San Angelo, Texas. !This source gave the name as Marie Catherine /Weigle/ (Van Veigle).

²Family Records of Laura Jennings, of Sharon, Pennsylvania. !This source gave the name as Marie Catherine /Weigle/ (Van Veigle).

³W. C. Hoblit of Bureau County, Illinois, Hoblit Genealogy (Written in 1878/1879). "Altadena California, July 12, 1941. The foregoing is a true copy of the History of the Hoblit Tribe. Written by W.C. Hoblit in 1878. Michael Hoblit was my Great Grand Father. I am the son of David Hoblit the second. Elmer Hoblit." The author, William C. Hoblit, was a grandson of Johannes Michael Hoblit. Other relatives in the Hoblit line indicate the author, William C. Hoblit, had the middle initial of "G", not "C". Some dates and names in this source differ from those provided by other relatives of this line, as well as the spellings of some names. Differences are noted in either the notes section for individual records, the notes section for marriages, or in the comments section of the source. The author indicates in a preamble to this account that "it is correct as near as he could get it after so many years had past". !This source gave the name as Marie Catherine /Weigle/ (Van Veigle).

⁴Family Records of Janice Ciletti. 69260 Tacoma Ct., Cathedral City, California, 92234. Ph: 1-760-321-8449. E-mail: janabears@aol.com. !This source gave the complete name of Marie (Anna) Catherine Van Veigle.

⁵The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (Copyright (c)), Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA. !This source gave the name as Marie Catherine /Weigle/ (Van Veigle).

⁶Information Compiled by Karen Bray Keeley, World Wide Web (Sarah Angeline Williams) (http://www.concentric.net/~Ssbray/glennsrh.htm#top), http://www.concentric.net/~Ssbray/glennsrh.htm#top. !This source gave the name as Marie Catherine /Weigle/ (Van Veigle).

⁷Records and Research of Phyllis Hoblet Ayres. 13290 St., Rt. 118, P.O. 431, Van Wert, Ohio, 45891. Phyllis' sources included family records, military archives, family pictures, and cemetery records. !This source gave the name as Anna Katrina Van Veigle.

⁸Janet Ann Hoblit Donahue, The Family of Johannes Michael Hablutzel & Catherine Weigle (Printed by Pawmark 2005). A copy of this book (63 of 70) is in the possession of Ronald W. Frye, 3263 Munras Place, San Ramon, CA 94577.

⁹The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File. !This source claims the birth year was in 1759.

¹⁰The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File.

¹¹The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R), Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA, www.familysearch.org. "Anna Catherine OR WEIGLE VAN VEIGLE; Female; Birth: 1750 , York, Pennsylvania; Death: 1820; Burial: , Clinton, Ohio; Spouse: William COCHRAN; Marriage: 13 OCT 1800 , , Kentucky; No source information is available." Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church.
Search performed using PAF Insight on 23 Mar 2005.

¹²Family Records of Janice Ciletti.

¹³W. C. Hoblit of Bureau County, Illinois, Hoblit Genealogy. !This source states that Catherine's last name was, "Cuffran" at the time of marriage to Michael Hoblit.

Collected other sources includeing message boards and website family histories.

Photos and Pedigree found at acestory.com

Boston HOBLIT son of Johannes Michael HABLUZEL and Anna Katherina Van VEIGLE

John HOBLET son of Johannes Michael HABLUZEL and Anna Katherina Van VEIGLE

Francis HAWKES and Eliza COLE Descendants

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top left and right

- children -
- grandchildren -
- great grandchildren -
of

father Francis HAWKES son of William HAWKES and Mary Ann MILES.

mother Eliza COLE daughter of William George COLE and Sarah Larnder.

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bottom left section see: Herbert Henry HAWKES and Sarah Amy JONES family of nine. (blue ink note: b. 26 dec 1897 is the birth date of Amy Ella HAWES SMITH)

Ancestor Photos found

John Davis PARKER husband of Almeda Sophia ROUNDY

Lucrretia NEEDHAM mother of Shadrach ROUNDY

Simeon Adams DUNN Journal History

"HIS CHURCH RECORD"

(copied from his "Personal Journal" by his Grand-daughter, Mrs. Eva Dunn Snow in 1962, since which time the Journal has been used by others of his descendants, and at the present time, cannot be located)

[BAPTIZED]
"I [Simeon Adams DUNN] was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on the 3rd Monday (the 15th) of April, 1839 by my Brother, Elder James Dunn, in the town of Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan, in the Hurph River. I was the first man ever baptized in that River, by authority from Heaven, and he, the first Elder that I ever saw. My wife Adeline [RAWSON] was baptized a week after I was, she being the second person baptized in the River.

[ORDAINED]
I was ordained to the office of Priest by Elder Stephen Post on the 22nd of July, 1839. I officiated in that calling.

[ORDAINED - WALK to NAUVOO]
In June 1840 I was ordained an Elder by Elders Post and Franklin, in Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan. In June, 1840 I started for Nauvoo, on foot and alone, 500 miles distant. On June 20, 1840, I arrived in Nauvoo, and for the first time in this life mine eyes beheld an acknowledged Prophet of God. On June 22, 1840, I visited the first Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he, Joseph Smith Senior, blessed me with a Father's blessing, and explained to me the history of Abraham, from the Scripture.

On July 10, 1840 I started and returned to my home in Michigan, bearing my testimony of the ever lasting gospel, going and coming, with much rejoicing.

[MOVE FAMILY NAUVOO]
On June 20, 1841, I set off with my family, to gather with the Saints in Nauvoo. We arrived in Nauvoo August 5, 1841, settled and lived in that City until the saints left for the mountains. [Adaline RAWSON DUNN died 22 Oct 1841, leaving three children Adaline, Mary, and Betsey. Simeon married Margaret Snyder 19 Jun 1842.]

[ 2-MISSION]
In April, 1844 I was ordained one of the Seventies, under the hands of Levi Hancock. In May 1844 I was sent on a mission to the State of New York, to advocate the Prophet's claim to the Presidency of the United States of America.

[ORDAINED]
On January 26, 1845, I was ordained and set apart to be the Senior President of the 15th Quorum of Seventies, under the direction of President Joseph Young, Senior President of all the Seventies.

[POLICEMAN]
In December 1843, I was chosen by the Prophet Joseph, as one of the forty-three policemen, to guard the City and the Temple of the Lord.

[1-MISSION]
In September, 1841, I was sent to West Canada, on a mission to preach the gospel.

[ENDOWED]
December 27, 1845, I and my wife Margaret [Snyder], received our endowments in the Temple of the Lord, City of Nauvoo, Illinois.

[SEALED]
On January 22, 1846, I was called and had sealed to me, Adeline Rawson and Margaret Sneider - Adaline having died on the 22nd day of October, 1841.

On February 6, 1846, I was called with my wife Margaret, and received our second anointings, and sealed on us all the blessings thereof, under the hands of Zebedee Coltran.

[Margaret Snyder dies before May 1846, leaving one child Susanna. Simeon is left with 4 motherless daughters ages 15, 12, 8 and 3. Simeon married Jane Caldwell Waite Kelsey May 1846, she gives birth to Joseph M. Dunn Feb 1847 in Iowa. Jane returns to former husband Eli Kelsey taking Joseph.]

[PIONEER / WINTER QUARTERS / POLICE / SALT LAKE CITY / 3-MISSION]
On February 9, 1846 the Twelve Apostles left Nauvoo and crossed the Mississippi River for the wilderness. On May 18th I left Nauvoo to follow in their wake, and shared in all the toils and sufferings of the Saints, until November 20th. After laying out a City called Winter Quarters, on the west bank of the Missouri River, I was appointed one of a company of police to guard the City, [Simeon married Harriet Silver Atwood Jun 1847 in Winter Quarters.] I remained in Omaha until May 16, 1848, when I, with my family, set off for Salt Lake Valley, where we arrived September 28,1848. I remained there until I was called to go to the South Sea Isles, On May 7, 1850 I set off on a mission to the South Pacific Sea Isles.

On April 21, 1852, I arrived home, having been gone two years. In May, 1852, I settled in Box Eider County, and then Weber County. [Weber first then Box Elder]

[Harriet and twin babies died Dec 1857- early 1858.]

[JOHNSTON’S ARMY - UTAH WAR]
In April 1858, I fled south with the rest of the Saints, from Johnston's Army, to elude their grasp. [Family traveled together: Simeon Adams DUNN 54 widowed father, Henry DUNN (twin ) infant 4 months - died on the way, Charles Oscar DUNN toddler 2, Emeline DUNN (twin) 4, Eveline DUNN (twin) 4, Simeon A. DUNN Jr. 7, Sarah Sophia DUNN 8, Susanna DUNN 15, Mary DUNN ENSIGN 24 (husband Martin in England on mission / he returned and found his family before the return to Brigham City.), Mary Adaline Ensign 5, Georgianna Ensign 3, Emma Lovinia baby 1.] On July 25th I broke for home again, Brigham City, by the wise leadership of President Lorenzo Snow, under God.
We have been wonderfully blessed, both temporally and spiritually.

[4-MISSION]
On October 19, 1871, I left Brigham City for the States, on a mission to look up the genealogy of my dead friends, which proved to be a very successful mission. I returned home the 19th of July, 1874, having traveled 10,0000 miles on rail and on the U.S.Seal.

[5-MISSION]
On November 1, 1877, I was privileged with a mission to St. George, Utah, to officiate for my dead in the Holy Temple of our God.

On January 27, 1878, I returned home, having Accomplished the desire of my heart for this time, in this direction.

February 11, 1878 - this year I am seventy-five years old. I have had born to me nineteen Children, thirty-nine grandchildren, ten great- grandchildren, and they are all within the vales of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I can say in my heart, "God Bless You".

SIMEON ADAMS DUNN,
Elder, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

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This was transcribed from a separate document but seems to be the similar information.

5 page)
Here under the wise leadership of President Lorenzo Snow one of the twelve apostles, we have been greatly blessed both temporally and spiritually.

19 October 1879 I left Brigham City on a mission to the States to hunt up genealogy of my relatives which proved a very successful
mission. I returned … July ’74 having traveled 10,000 miles by rale and bote all in the N America.

1 Nov 1877 – I was privileged with a mission to St. George Utha to officiate for my dead friends in the Holy Temple of our God;

27 Jan 1878 – I returned home having accomplished the desire of my heart for the present, in this direction for the time being I am
now 75 years old.

August 7 1878 – I have had born to me 19 children, 40 grandchildren 16 great grand children, and they are all within the pales of the
Church; I can say in my heart god bless zion; my testimony to this world is, and to all humanity, that inasmuch as they will subscribe
to the ordinances of

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this Latter day Church they will never be made ashamed, and they will be raised up at the last day; but those that heed not, I have no promises for them; but those that fight against this work I know that wo awaits them;

Elder S. A. Dunn

[The following is written in a shaky hand and added later. (E. D. Snow)]

Before you is redeemed will suffer hardship and persecution. Mortals must return to the dust. Within the veil, anchored companionship. Dominion, kingdom power & principalities; I go away and prepare a place. It is an order everyone of you together. Don’t know how long we may survive but feel to bless and do good. Mod how by Welch then more…

[I feel the above was written by Simeon just prior to his death. (E. D. Snow)]

Simeon Adams DUNN Jr. - son of Simeon Adams DUNN and Harriet Atwood SILVER

[Branch President] Simeon Adams Dunn[ Jr.], was born 13 Jan 1851 in Salt Lake City. He married Eunice Emily Harmon 6 Nov 1876, in Washington, Utah. Their eight children are Simeon Harmon, Levi Tessie, Elmer and Emily all born in Washington, UT. Eunice born in Sanford, Etholen Silver, Charles Albert and Jared Willard were born in Eastdale, CO.

pictured are
Simeon Adams Dunn Jr.
and his wife Eunice Emily Harmon

Uncle Sim
by Eva Dunn Snow

To those pioneers of years gone by,
A baby boy was given
To bring them peace and cheer and love
A gift for earth, from heaven.

To manhood grown, this precious one,
His mission well defined,
By precept and example too,
He worked and served mankind.

From friends he journeyed far,
He chose the pioneer life.
Faced many hardships, won success,
Shared with a loyal wife.

And now his earthwork is complete,
The Master says, "Well done",
He goes to reap what he as sown,
In that Celestial Home.

This poem was written about Simeon Adams [Dunn Jr.] who passed away 13 February, 1935 in Alamosa, Alamosa, Colorado. He was born 13 Jan 1861 at Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Simeon Adams [DUNN] and Harriett Atwood Silver.

His school began when he was five years old in Farmington, Utah. Later his father and family moved to Brigham City where he lived until he was twenty three. In 1874 he was called to work on the S. George Temple. He left Brigham City with four yoke of oxen on December 17, 1874 and arrived in St. George on January 14, 1875.

He married Eunice Emily Harmon in Washington, Utah on 12 July 1877. In 1889 they left Utah for the San Luis Valley of Colorado. In 1891, be became the Branch President of the Eastdale Costilla branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

He and his wife, Eunice were the parents of Simeon Harmon, Levi, Elmer, Emily, Eunice, Etholen, Albert, and Jared. In 1941, his family consisted of eight children thirty three grandchildren and eighteen great-grand children.

Poem and biographical information taken from a typewritten manuscript sent to Kent Vance by his mother, Gatha Wilson April 11, 2009.
Thanks to Sim and Annie Dunn blog.

DUNN Father & Brothers: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah - DUNN.

Joseph Moroni DUNN - son of Simeon Adams DUNN and Jane CALDWELL WAITE KELSEY

JOSEPH MORONI DUNN
by his daughter, Addie Dunn Vowles

In Nauvoo, about the year 1845, Simeon Adams Dunn, a lone man with four small daughters and Jane Caldwell Waite, a lone woman with three children also of tender years combined forces by marriage, he to provide a way to travel for both families and she to mother the children. This was at the time of the driving of the Saints from Nauvoo. On February 12, 1847, a son was born to them at Council Bluffs, Iowa (Winter Quarters) and this son was my father, of whom I write.

A mid-wife by the name of Patty Sessions was called to the home of Jane Dunn (as she was called at the time) to help with the birth of her baby, but when she arrived the baby was already born. He was given the name of Joseph Moroni. His parents parted, however, before coming to Utah. The mother was called by her former married name and therefore Father was called Joseph Waite until he grew to young manhood and even after his marriage. Meantime, his father had wanted to take him on more than one occasion, but he remained with his mother until he was married. Prior to this event he had taken his proper name of Dunn. He married Susannah E. white on December 27, 1866 at Tooele. They later went to the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. They became the parents of nine children – the oldest and youngest being sons and seven daughters.

His father had married again and had more children but father had never seen or associated with them. It was, therefore, a great surprise to him and mother that when Grandfather Dunn was called to go on a six months mission that he should come to Bountiful, where they then lived, and ask father to go to Brigham City, his home and to take over as the oldest son. Mother says, "It seemed strange how these unknown brothers and sisters welcomed him and the way he seemed to fit right into their lives thereafter."

They had three children when they went to Brigham City and in the three years they lived there, one more child was born; but they had the misfortune to lose in death a six-year-old daughter. They went to Tooele from there to make their home but in 1882 they went back to Brigham City to care for Grandfather Dunn in his last sickness. They returned to Tooele after a five months stay.

Father’s occupations during his life were varied. The principle one was farming. He went to Montana at one time to cut cordwood. This wood was used in the smelters and in the engines on the railroad. At another time he went with what was called John Sharp’s trains. With these teams they took grain to Montana and brought back ore. When the mining camp of Stockton opened up, he freighted from the mines to Salt Lake City until the railroad came into this valley and they took the ore to what was called Half-Way, the terminus of the railroad at the Mill Pond in the north end of Tooele Valley.

Several years later he raised garden products and peddles them at the mining camps of Bingham, Stockton and Mercue. He therefore always owned a good team of horses.

When the first Sunday School was organized in Tooele, he was there, making him one of the first members, and he always had an interest in Sunday School work. When he was past fifty-five years of age, the parents class was made a part of the Sunday Schools of the Church and he was chosen as the first teacher of this class in the Tooele Sunday School. His associate teachers were Robert J. Huntington, Christian Park and myself. In the preparation of our lessons and to do this, we four met on a week evening. I learned much of my father’s characteristics. He used wise forethought and prayed for inspiration, which he abundantly received. He seemed particularly gifted as a class leader.

He advanced in the Priesthood, as all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should. He was ordained an Elder when a very young man. Several years later he was called to preside with six other Seventies over the 43rd quorum of Seventies of the Tooele Stake. He was set apart for this office by President C. J. Fjeldsted on February 16, 1895. He held the office of high Priest at the time of his death, which occurred August 3, 1912.

In civic affairs he acted as a policeman at one time, served as City Councilman for a term and was water master for a number of years. Being of an ambitious nature he always found something to do.

The tributes to his memory by the members of his family portrayed kindness, generosity, and faith in his religion and love of music, home and children.

Parents:
Simeon Adams Dunn (1803 - 1883)
Jane Caldwell Waite Kelsey (1808 - 1891)

Spouse:
Susanna Elizabeth White Dunn (1848 - 1944) married 27 Dec 1866, Tooele, Tooele, Utah.

Children:
1-Joseph Owen Dunn (1867 - 1947)*
2-Elizabeth Dunn (1869 - 1876)*
3-Martha Jane Dunn Bramet Droubay (1872 - 1934)*
4-Ann Eliza Dunn Anderson (1875 - 1973)*
5-Mary Adeline Dunn Vowles (1877 - 1949)*
6-Evaline Dunn (1879 - 1880)*
7-Effie Susanna Dunn
8-Edith May Dunn Richards (1884 - 1974)*
9-Llewellyn Crandall Dunn (1888 - 1969)*

The Eight Wives of Simeon Adams DUNN

There is a virility of child information much is incomplete, incorrect, and disputed on new.familysearch, ancestor.com as well as other family sites. Corrections to the family of your grandmother is welcomed. Children colored blue lived to adult life.

The eight wives of Simeon Adams DUNN and their children.
(Simeon had one wife at a time.)

1. Adaline RAWSON daughter of Amariah RAWSON and Betsey CARPENTER. Adaline was born 27 Nov 1811 in Ontarion county, New York. Simeon and Adaline married 11 July 1827 of Rawsonville, Wayne, Michigan. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 22 Apr 1839. Simeon had walked from Michigan to Nauvoo to meet the Prophet Joseph Smith he returned and joined the church 15 Apr 1839, together he and Adaline move their young family to Nauvoo.

Children of Adaline and Simeon were:
1-Adaline DUNN Haws (b.19 Jun 1830 ,Wayne, Michigan - d.11 Jan 1852) At age 15 Adaline was Sealed to 20 year old Alpheus Peter HAWS 3 Jan 1846 Nauvoo Temple. [Alpheus P. HAWS 4th Sergt. of the Mormon Battalion.] They had two sons both died in early childhood.
2-Francis DUNN child (b.5 Dec 1832,Wayne, Michigan - d.22 Feb 1835.)
3-Mary DUNN ENSIGN (b.2 Nov 1833 Bellville, Wayne, Michigan - d.7 Nov 1920) married Martin Luther ENSIGN 8 Jan 1852 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah sealed 17 Jan 1853 Endowment House. They had nine children. Martin was the son of Horace Datus ENSIGN and Mary BRONSON.
4-Maria DUNN infant (b.3 Mar 1836,Wayne, Michigan - d.1 Apr 1836.)
5-Mosiah DUNN (twin) infant (b.19 Feb 1837 - d.7 Jun 1837.)
6- Amariah DUNN (twin) infant (b.19 Feb 1837 - d.19 Feb 1837.)
7 -Betsy DUNN Haws Brown (b.22 Mar 1838,Wayne, Michigan - d.17 Apr 1937 Oakland, California) Sealed Nauvoo temple at age 8 to Alpheus P. Haws Jul 1846. After the death of her sister Adaline wife of Alpheus P. Haws, Betsy then married Alpheus in 1853 they had 9 children all died young. Betsey Dunn divorced Alpheus in 1877. Married second James Alfred Brown 13 May 1893.

Simeon was left a widower with three young daughters when Adaline died 22 Oct 1941 in Nauvoo, Illinois. They was sealed 22 Jan 1846 in the Nauvoo temple after her death the same day Simeon was sealed to his second wife in life.

[Child 1-Adaline DUNN named for her mother and 3-Mary DUNN did not have middle names. They are often both listed as "Mary Adaline DUNN" a child by that name does not exist in this family. Mary DUNN did name her oldest daughter Mary Adaline ENSIGN, Mary also had a granddaughter named Mary Adaline ROBERTS.]

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2. Margaret Snyder b.12 Mar 1812 she was the daughter of Jacob Snyder and Hannah Anderson. She married widower Simeon Adams DUNN 19 Jun 1842 in Nauvoo. They were sealed to each other 22 Jan 1846 in the Nauvoo temple. Margaret died before May 1946 in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Children of Margaret and Simeon:
1-Susanna DUNN b.6 May 1842 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, married Allen Collins Hunsacker 24 April 1859 Brigham City, Box Elder, UT, died 19/26 May 1921 Elwood, Box Elder, Utah. They had five children.
2-Simeon DUNN infant b.9 Feb 1846 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois - d. abt 6 May 1846 Nauvoo.

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3. Jane Caldwell Waite (b.Mar. 27, 1808 Steubenville, Jefferson Ohio - d.Sep. 27, 1891 Bountiful, Davis, UT.) Daughter of Joseph Caldwell and Mary Bennett. Married first John Waite, about 1831. He died about 1851 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. [ It is not known if he was ever been in Nauvoo. ]

Children with John Waite: Jane Waite, Mary Waite, Lucena Waite, Anderson Waite, Mary Jane Waite, John Anson Waite, Martha Waite, Margaret Waite, Rebecca Waite.

Jane married second Eli Brazee Kelsey, 7 Feb 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. (b.Oct. 27, 1819
Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio - d.Mar. 27, 1885 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT.) Other wives of Eli Brazee Kelsey were Letitia Sheets, Mary Forsythe, Mary Ann McIntyre, Emma Boys, Jane Sarah Morris. [Eli left on a mission from Nauvoo Jane believed him to be died when she married the third time.]

Third Jane married Simeon Adams Dunn, May 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois - not sealed in life, and no record of marriage.

Children of Jane and Simeon DUNN:
1.Joseph Moroni DUNN b.12 Feb 1847 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska or Council Bluffs, Iowa - d.3 Aug 1912 Tooele, Tooele, Utah. Not knowing his father Joseph was raised by his mother and Eli B. Kelsey. He married Susanna Elizabeth White 27 Dec 1866 sealed in the endowment house. They had nine children.

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4. Harriet Atwood Silver (b.22 Jul 1818 Bloomfield, Essex Vermont - d.2 Jan 1858 Brigham City, Box Elder, UT.) She married Simeon Adams DUNN 3 Jun 1847 Winter Quarters, , Iowa they were sealed 7 Dec 1857 St. George Temple.

Harriet crossed the plains with and cared for Simeon's motherless daughters. The first of her seven children was born after reaching Salt Lake City. Harriet cared for the family during Simeon's mission to the Society Islands 1848-50. During this mission Harriet's first child Sarah Sophia DUNN was born in Salt Lake City (1849) a second child was born in Salt Lake City 13 Jan 1851, Simeon's oldest child Adaline DUNN HAWS died (1852.) The next five children were born in Brigham City, Utah.

Children:
1-Sarah Sophia DUNN m. John Johnson DUNN. She was b.8 Jul 1849 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT - d.19 Mar 1923 Perry, Box Elder, Utah.
2-Simeon Adams DUNN Jr. m. Eunice Emily HARMON. He was b.8 Jul 1849 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT - d.13 Feb 1935 Alamosa, Alamose, Colorado.
3-Emeline Silver DUNN (twin) m.Francis R. Cantwell. She was b.12 Sep 1853 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah d. 9 Oct 1914 or 21 Feb 1936 Ely, White Pine, Nevada.
4-Eveline Silver DUNN (twin) M. Allen Collins HUNSACKER. She was b.12 Sep 1853 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah d.8 Oct 1914 Logan, Cache, Utah.
5-Charles Oscar DUNN first married 18 Oct 1876 Brigham City, Box Elder, UT Letitia SMITH daughter of Samuel SMITH and Janett Maria SMITH. Second married 24 Oct 1883 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT. Third married 27 Sep 1933 Logan, Cache, UT Ellen Augusta Mitchell Mortenson. Oscar was b.13 Oct 1855 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah d.8 Oct 1914 Nibley, Cache, Utah.
6-Harriet Silver DUNN (twin) infant b.31 Dec 1857 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah d.31 Dec 1857 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah.
7-Henry Silver DUNN (twin) infant b.31 Dec 1857 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah d.12 Apr 1858 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah.

"Simeon Adams Dunn and Harriett Atwood Silver were married at Winter Quarters, January 3, 1847, by President Brigham Young. They arrived in Utah September 28, 1848, and established their home in Brigham City. On December 31, 1857, to their family were added twin babies, Harriett and Henry Silver. The tiny girl died shortly after birth, and two days later, on January 2, 1858, the mother, Harriett, closed her eyes in death, having given her life for her family and the religion she had espoused. Twice before, this good husband and father had been called upon to lay away a devoted wife and .companion. This time his heart was almost broken as he placed the form of his lovely young wife in the crude, home-made casket and laid her lifeless baby daughter in her arms." "Three months later, in April 1858, the call came for all Saints to leave their homes in northern Utah, and journey southward. Simeon Adams Dunn loaded a few provisions and household effects into his covered wagon, assisted his motherless children to their place in the wagon box, and cracking his long whip over the backs of his oxen, commenced his journey. He had also provided a wagon for his eldest daughter [Mary DUNN ENSIGN] and her three little girls, and they traveled together. The husband and father of this little family, Martin Luther Ensign, at that time was serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." "As they proceeded on their way, baby Henry became very ill... they saw the life depart from their lovely three-months-old baby son and brother. The [Simeon] made his little family as safe and comfortable as possible in this temporary camp, and with a sad and heavy heart slowly wended his way back to the lonely grave in the Brigham City Cemetery. Very near to it he dug a very small, new grave, and in it tenderly laid the remains of his baby boy." (from the Journal of Charles Oscar DUNN)

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5. Abigail Brandon (b.21 Apr 1802 Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee - d.unknown) married first Lyman Stoddard 11 July 1842. They had no children. She married second Simeon Adams DUNN for time only 31 July 1858. She and Simeon were divorced 4 Apr 1864. Abigail is listed in the household of Simeon Adams Dunn in the 1860 Census.

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6. Keziah Fowler daughter of George H. Fowler and Rebecca Stilwell (b.19 Jun 1815 - d.3 Feb 1899 Centerville, Davis, UT) married first: George Washington Brandon (Brother of Abigail Brandon Stoddard) 6 Oct 1831. They several children. Keziah married Second Simeon Adams Dunn for time only 14 Jan 1860 in the Endowment House. "I wonder how much time she and Simeon actually lived together. In the 1860 Census she is listed in Brigham City with three of her children. I have not found her in the 1870 Census. In the 1880 Census she is living in Ophir, Tooele County. She died in Centerville." (Paula Paradis)

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7. Elizabeth Wickham (b.Feb. 14, 1836 East Wickham, Greater London, England - d.Oct. 21, 1881 North Ogden,Weber, UT) Married first Alfred Cottenden 17 aug 1863. Married second Simeon Adams DUNN "sealed 15 Apr 1865. Probably divorced. Although the temple record does not show a cancellation of sealing, the temple department indicates we should assume the sealing was cancelled." (Paula Paradis)

Elizabeth and Simeon had two children:
1-Ephraim Wickham DUNN b.27 Mar 1866 Brigham City, Box Elder, UT - d. 17 Mar 1927 Brigham City, Box Elder, UT. Ephraim married Marian Whitney 12 Jun 1889, they had 4 children. (Ephraim was raised in Brigham City by his father.)
2-Lorenzo Wickham DUNN. (baby) b.Mar. 11, 1868 Brigham City, Box Elder, UT - d.Aug. 3, 1869 Brigham City, Box Elder, UT.

Elizabeth Wickham third married and was sealed to Richard Jones 8 Feb 1870. They had 7 children.

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8. Mary McRee daughter of Charles William McRee and Mary Corkins (b.17 Oct 1819 Copiah, Mississippi - d.1 Nov 1907 at 3:40 pm of pneumonia at 501 13th Street, Ogden, Weber, Utah at the age of 88.) She married first: December 19, 1827 George David Black who died in 1845 of Malaria in Nauvoo. She married second James Brown July 16, 1846 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. James Brown was the Captain of Company C. of the Mormon Batallion, Mary crossed the plains with the Mormon Batallion. They had 5 children. Third she married Simeon Adams Dunn for time only 22 Feb 1868 in the endowment house. "She is listed with Simeon and his family in the 1870 census. She is not listed with Simeon in the 1880 Census, so she probably returned to living with one of her children." (Paula Paradis)

Much of this information on the later wives is from Paula Paradis' research.