Ensign Family Kettle

Contributed By Donise Price · 20 January 2014 · 

Tale of the Ensigns’ Kettle

This black kettle would have many a story to tell if it could, because it swung beneath the wagon of the Ensigns’ as they made their way across the plains from Nauvoo to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. It belonged to Horace Datus and Mary Bronson Ensign. They acquired it as they made preparations to join the Saints of 1844. The kettle was used extensively in the making of soups, stews, buffalo roasts, baking biscuits and sour dough bread. No doubt this kettle played a big part on their journey as they circled their wagons for the night and prepared their food over the camp fires. This kettle, among other relics, was kept in the family by their son, Luman Ashley Ensign. It’s next home was in Luman’s daughter’s, Mary Emma Ensign. She married Joseph Mahonri Cahoon. The kettle then found a home in Miriam Cahoon’s home, their daughter. From there it was given to their son and daughter, Gordon and Ilene Pyper, children of Marian Cahoon Pyper. Later Ilene gave complete rights to her brother, Gordon. After a time it became excess and he sold it to a friend, Robert Sheldon for $20.00. Robert Sheldon was the ward custodian in Parley’s 3rd Ward, Parley’s Stake. I was living in that same ward, and knowing I was an Ensign, and knowing it was an heirloom, wanted to know if I would like to buy it. Mother and especially Dad, were very excited about acquiring it. They suggested I pay $20.00 or more if it became necessary. The deal of $20.00 was made, and now this Ensign pioneer cast iron kettle is back in the Ensign family where it belongs. I received it 134 years after it entered the Valley. Patricia Ensign Richards.

Success and Tragedy - Ancestory of Mary BRONSON

Relationship - GUNN:
11th great-grandfather Dr. Jasper GUNN Immigrant (1606-1671) wife Mary/Christian -son- Nathaniel GUNN (1637-1663) died at age 24 wife 10th great-grandmother Sarah DAY GUNN KELLOGG (abt 1640-1677) -son- Samuel GUNN (1662-1755) wife Elizabeth WYATT (1665-1735) -daughter- Elizabeth GUNN (1689-1744) husband Simon COOLEY (1687-1747) -son- Lieut. Abner COOLEY (1712-1788) wife Jerusha GRAVES (1717-1801) -daughter- Jerusha COOLEY (1738-1803) husband David BRONSON (1733-1803) -son- Sylvanus BRONSON (1769-1830) wife Esther REMINGTON (1772-1835) -daughter- Mary BRONSON (1806-1888) husband Horace Datus ENSIGN (1797-1846) -son- Martin Luther ENSIGN (1831- 1911) wife Mary DUNN (1833-1920) -daughter- Harriett Camilla ENSIGN (1859-1930) husband Isaac SMITH (1857-1914) -son- George Ensign SMITH (1898-1967) wife Amy Ella HAWKES (1897-1971) -daughter- Camilla SMITH (1926-1999) - Lark - JR.

Success
First Doctor Jasper GUNN Immigrant (1606-1671)

Parent:
(Following the Ark of the Covenant: The Treasure of God, By Kerry Ross Boren, Lisa Lee Boren)
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Henry GUNN, …a direct descendant of Sir James GUNN (the Westford Knight). Removed from the Highlands of Scotland to Great Burstead in England shortly after the year 1600. A family record states that Henry Gunn’s wife, Sarah, was delivered of a son “ in the Highlands of Scotland” only days before their arrival at Great Burstead. That son, Jasper Gunn, was christened at Great Burstead on 9 August 1606 [LDS Gen. Soc. AFN: 8TH 3-F6.]

Jasper Gunn had little opportunity to know his father. Henry Gunn, who was a renowned sailor, with considerable knowledge of the coastline of America, either from the benefit of personal experience or from maps and charts of his ancestors, or both, had come to England to join the Hudson Expedition. As such, he would have necessarily worked closely with John Dee, who already had copies of the maps of the Sinclair-Zeno Expedition, and backed…
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Following the death of Henry Gunn in 1610-11, Jasper Gunn became a ward of none other than William Sinclair of Rosslyn, a very significant fact indeed,...
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Emigration:(Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, By Susan Emma Woodruff Abbott, pp.316-317)
Jasper arrived in Boston, Mass. 8 October 1635 in the ship “Defense” that sailed from London 14 July 1535 when he was 29 years old. On the same passenger list was Ann Gunn ae 25, relationship, if any not known…. He settled in Roxbury, Mass. And on 25 May 1636 was made a “freeman” of that place at a General Court held in Boston. [He was allotted land in Roxbury in 1639 and was a member of the church there. The same year he was given land in Milford, Conn. As a free planter.]

Family:(Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, By Susan Emma Woodruff Abbott, pp.316-317)
Jasper Gunn was born ca 1606 and died 12 January 1670/1 (MVR). He married [Mary] Christian (____) who died probably Octorber of 1690 in Milford.

Children: Samuel, Jobamah, Daniel, Nathaniel, Mehitable.

Founder:
Looking to start his own small colony, Jasper with several other families from Roxbury and Dorchester purchased even more land from the local Indians. Then on November 24, 1640 this area was named the town of Milford. Being considered one of the founders of Milford, Jasper Gunn was also considered to be Milford first physician. (http://www.ctparanormalhistorylegends.com/id12.html)

Religion:
(Families of Early Milford, Connecticut By Susan Emma Woodruff Abbott, pp.316-317)
Jasper and Mary were admitted to the church in Milford 25 april 1641 “having been admitted and dismissed from the church in Hartford”. The town of Milford gave him land on several occasions, 1639, 1646, 1649, 1659, 1660 and possibly at other times.

Physician:
Jasper GUNN first Doctor of Milford, CT. At Hartford Jasper GUNN recorded as being one of only two Doctors in the Colony.

(Thirty-one ‘phisitions’ were on hand for Connecticut’s Medical Beginnings, By Lawrence D. Nizza, reprinted with permission from The Hartford Courant (The Courant Magazine, June 2, 1957))
THE EARLIER physicians were men of several professions. Some were both tailor-surgeon, schoolmaster-doctor. These duties were not far removed from each other. In 1649, Jasper Gunn became a licensed physician. In addition to treating sick and broken bodies, he also repaired broken pots and pans. His accounts included bills for repairing kettles and skillets as well as for attending the sick.

(THE EARLY NEW ENGLAND DOCTOR: AN ADAPTATION TO A PROVINCIAL ENVIRONMENT* MALCOLM SYDNEY BEINFIELD, YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE)
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In the account book of Dr. Jasper Gunn of Milford, there were several copies of the actual bills rendered. It is interesting to note that Dr. Gunn made little distinction on his bills between medical services and the sale or repair of metalware, also that he charged more for the actual medicine administered than for his time and trouble. His account book reads:'

February 11, 1656
Due to me from Isake Ganis
Due before for his children ............. 7-6
for things for his young child.......... 5-0
for seven doses of pills .................... 7-0
for 4 journeys ................................... 2-0

March 4, 1656
Due to me from William Ayres s d
for 36 oz. of Sirups for John…..... 12-0
for 5 visits ........................................05-0
for 1 oz. oyntment.......................... 01-0
for two new ecillets ...........…........ 07-0

1 Bills are inscribed on the front leaves of an almanac formerly belonging to Jasper Gunn and now located in the library of Trinity College, Hartford. Published in G. Russell: Early Medicine and Medical Men in Connecticut, p. 13.

Other Occupations:
Milford:(Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, By Susan Emma Woodruff Abbott, pp.316-317)
Gunn was Milford’s first physician, a mender of brass and copper vessels…, schoolmaster, sealer of weights and measures, a deacon of the church and generally a man of importance in the community.

Hartford:
(Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, By Susan Emma Woodruff Abbott, pp.316-317)
In 1647, he removed to Hartford, Hartford Co, CT, where he continued his medical and other practices, also operating a mill, being exempted from "watching and warding" while so employed. He remained there until about 1659, and kept an account book during the 1650s, in which he also wrote medical notes, mostly in shorthand. The original can be found in the Watkinson Library at Trinity College in Hartford. In May 1661 he appeared in court in New Haven as attorney for Mrs. Joanna Prudden of Milford in a case involving the ownership of a horse. The horse was awarded to the plantiff John Davinport. The General Court licensed him 21 May 1657 to practice "physisicke."

(History of the colony of New Haven: before and after the union with …)
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General Court Nov. 24th, 1640
…At this meeting “it was also voted, so that justice be done between man and man, (because false weighs and false measures are an abomination in the sight of the Lord,) that all measures for commerce, for buying and selling, should be made equal to the standard used at New Haven, which was brought from the Bay, and to be sealed by Jasper Gunn: and that whosever should buy or sell by a measure not legally sealed, should forfeit for every such default. 5s.”
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The subject of education received early attention from the first settlers of the town. Good schools were considered of the highest importance to the community of anything next the church. The first school was kept by Jasper Gunn, the physician.
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Others of the first settlers were liberally educated. Of these were William Fowler,…Jasper Gunn,…Robert Treat. [Treat was our uncle, he became a Colonial Governor of CT.]

TragedySarah DAY GUNN KELLOGG (abt 1640-1677) Killed by Indians
During the Last Attack on Hatfield, MA on 19 Sep 1677

Sarah DAY GUNN KELLOGG (abt 1640-1677) was the daughter of Robert DAY Immigrant (abt 1604-1648) founder of Hartford, CT and his second wife Editha Stebbins (1613-1688). Sarah married Nathaniel GUNN 7 Nov 1658, Nathaniel was the oldest child of Dr. Jasper GUNN and Christian.

"There is a record of the births of their [Nathaniel GUNN and Sarah DAY] first two sons , but they are not heard of again. Nathaniel Gunn was about 23 years old when he died, and his young wife was left with a son, Samuel [GUNN], born shortly before or shortly after his [father's] death. At the time, [Sarah's] mother [Editha] lived in Springfield, MA with her third husband [Rev. Elizier HOLYOKE], and Sarah Day Gunn joined her there.... On 24 NOV 1664, Sarah married Samuel Kellogg. They lived in Hatfield, MA."

(From "A History of Hatfield Massachusetts" by Daniel White Wells)
"Through Middle Lane poured a band of armed and painted warriors who fell upon houses lying outside the stockade. The torch was applied to the buildings of Samuel Kellogg at the corner of the lane, and his wife Sarah and her infant son [Joseph] were killed, and another child, Samuel [Kellogg], a boy of three years was seized and bound."

"It appears Samuel Kellogg, the kidnapped 3 year old half-brother to Samuel Gunn, was rescued in May 1678 by Benjamin Waite, et al."

(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dfgraves/Trees/Graves/TGraves.htm)
At about 11 o'clock on the morning of 19 Sep 1677, while most of the men were at work in the meadows cutting corn, Hatfield was attacked by indians. They came through Middle Lane and fell upon houses lying outside the stockade. They torched the buildings of Samuel Kellogg at the corner of the lane and his wife, Sarah, and her infant son were killed and another child, Samuel, 3 yrs., was seized and bound. Surprised by the suddenness of the attack, Obadiah Dickinson and one child were captured unresisting at the house below. His wife was wounded and left for dead and the house set on fire. John Allis's barn was burned and his six-year-old daughter, Abigail, captured. With no attempt to enter the open gate of the stockade the invaders rushed across the street to the houses on the east side, whose occupants were seeking places of safety. The indians sped northward and killed the wife of Selectman Samuel Belden, who lived on the Silas Porter place. John Coleman's house was burned and his wife, Hannah, and infant child, Bethiah, were slain, one child wounded and two were captured, of whom little Sarah was only 4. John Wells' daughter, Elizabeth, age 2, was killed, his wife, Sarah, and one child wounded. Hannah Jennings, wife of Stephen Jennings, was made prisoner with her two children by her former husband, Samuel Gillett, who was killed at an earlier fight. Philip Russell's wife, Elizabeth and their 3-year-old son, Stephen, were killed. Across the street, on the J.D. Brown place, stood the home of Samuel Foote, who had moved from his first allotment. His wife, Mary, with a young son, Nathaniel, and a 3-year-old daughter, Mary, were seized and dragged along. On the next lot above men were at work building a house for John Graves, Jr., who was soon to marry Sarah White. Hastening northward to finish their work of destruction, with an attack on the family of their hated foe, Benjamin Waite, they shot from the frame of the structure being erected the brothers, John and Isaac Graves, and 2 young carpenters from Springfield, John Atchisson and John Cooper. Waite's house was at the very end of the village street. The indians burned his house and barn and took away his whole family,--wife, Martha, and three children, Mary, Martha, and Sarah, aged 6, 4 and 2. Abigail, 8-year-old daughter of Wiliam Bartholomew, a former resident of Deerfield, was also captured.

[Also our 10th great grandfather Lt./Sgt. Isaac GRAVES a carpenter along with his brother John Graves the second husband of our 10th great grandmother Mary BRONSON WYATT were both killed in this Indian attack on the Hatfield settlement while building a house for John's son John, outside the walls of the stockade built to protect the town of Hatfield.]

(Redemptions of the Hatfield Captives - 1677-78)
On September 16, 1677, attacking Amerindians left Hatfield in chaos! Seventeen hostages were taken, 7 houses and barns burned, 12 villagers killed, and 4 wounded….

One man, Benjamin Waite, a scout who knew how to survive in the woods, knew what he was going to do. After all, his wife and 3 young daughters were among the hostages. The first move was to get to Albany as quickly as possible to find out if the Mohawks were involved. By October 4, Waite was back in Springfield reporting that the New York tribe was not involved. He immediately left for Boston before Benoni Stebbins, who had escaped from the Amerindians, arrived in Hadley with his news about the captives. Finally, after bureaucratic delays in Boston, Waite managed to obtain an appointment as agent to secure the release of the captives and funds were set aside to meet the ransom demands. A parley with the Amerindians in mid-October failed. The only recourse left for the English was to track the hostages to Canada, through territory never traversed by the English colonists.
By October 24, over a month after the raid, Waite and Stephen Jennings (whose wife and her two children were also captives) began the monumental task of finding the hostages. After petty bureaucratic delays in Albany, Waite and Jennings were finally given permission to go after the captives on December 10. Now the rescuers were faced not only with traveling through unknown territory but with deep winter snows. A local warrior guided them to Lake George, helped them fashion a canoe, and drew them a rough map of Lake George and Lake Champlain -- and then departed.
December 16, 1677 - Lake Champlain was reached, the first time English colonists had set foot there. Strong winds and ice slowed their progress, their provision ran out and they were forced to live off the land. But nothing could stop these two men for long. On or about January 6, the trackers reached the frontier of Canada, nearly 4 months after the raid on Hatfield. In a nearby town Hannah Jennings and a few other captives were found. The other hostages were close by with their captors. Immediately Waite and Jennings started for Quebec to bargain with Governor Frontenac for the release of the hostages. With the governor's help, the payment of two hundred pounds secured the release of the English. Of the 21 captives, 17 were returned; 2 children had been killed during the long trek north, probably because they fell ill. Sergeant Plympton of Deerfied was burned at the stake in Canada. Two children were born in Canada. Martha Waite had a daughter on January 22 who was named Canada. Nearly two months later, Hannah Jennings had a daughter who was named Captivity.
The English remained in Canada until the winter weather was over. At long last, on May 2, 1678, the entire party began the long, slow trip back home.
Relationship-GRAVES:
Thomas GRAVES Immigrant (1585-1662) wife Sarah WHITING (1581/1606-1666) -son- Lt./Sgt. Isaac GRAVES 1629 child immigrant (1620-1677) wife Mary CHURCH (1636-1695) -son- John GRAVES (1664-1746) wife Sarah BANKS (1668-1709/64) -son- Isaac GRAVES (1688-1781) wife Mary PARSONS (1688-1769) -daughter- Jerusha GRAVES (1717-1801) husband Lieut. Abner COOLEY (1712-1788) -daughter- Jerusha COOLEY (1738-1803) husband David BRONSON (1733-1803) -son- Sylvanus BRONSON (1769-1830) wife Esther REMINGTON (1772-1835) -daughter- Mary BRONSON (1806-1888) husband Horace Datus ENSIGN (1797-1846) -son- Martin Luther ENSIGN (1831- 1911) wife Mary DUNN (1833-1920) -daughter- Harriett Camilla ENSIGN (1859-1930) husband Isaac SMITH (1857-1914) -son- George Ensign SMITH (1898-1967) wife Amy Ella HAWKES (1897-1971) -daughter- Camilla SMITH (1926-1999) - Lark - JR.

Relationship 1 of 2 BRONSON:
12 GGF and 11 GGF Roger BRONSON (1576-1637) [Related twice through two children - John and Richard] wife Mary UNDERWOOD (1585-1622) -son- 11 GGF John BRONSON Immigrant (1602-1680) [In 1635, John accompanied his brother Richard and sister Mary aboard the ship Defense, landing in Boston, Massachusetts, on 8 October 1635.] wife Frances HILLS (-1680) -daughter- Mary BRONSON (1624-aft 1681) husband 1.John WYATT, (2.John GRAVES, 3.Lt. William ALLICE, 4.Samuel GAYLORD) -daughter- Elizabeth WYATT (1665-1737) husband Samuel GUNN (1662-1755) -daughter- Elizabeth GUNN (1689-1744) husband Simon COOLEY (1687-1747) -son- Lieut. Abner COOLEY (1712-1788) wife Jerusha GRAVES (1717-1801) -daughter- Jerusha COOLEY (1738-1803) husband David BRONSON (1733-1803) -son- Sylvanus BRONSON (1769-1830) wife Esther REMINGTON (1772-1835) -daughter- Mary BRONSON (1806-1888) husband Horace Datus ENSIGN (1797-1846) -son- Martin Luther ENSIGN (1831- 1911) wife Mary DUNN (1833-1920) -daughter- Harriett Camilla ENSIGN (1859-1930) husband Isaac SMITH (1857-1914) -son- George Ensign SMITH (1898-1967) wife Amy Ella HAWKES (1897-1971) -daughter- Camilla SMITH (1926-1999) - Lark - JR.

Relationship 2 of 2 BRONSON - this line is not involved in this story:
12 GGF and 11 GGF Roger BRONSON (1576-1637) [Related twice through two children - John and Richard] wife Mary UNDERWOOD (1585-1622) -son- 10 GGF Richard BRONSON Immigrant (1615-1687) [In 1635, Richard accompanied his brother John and sister Mary aboard the ship Defense, landing in Boston, Massachusetts, on 8 October 1635.] wife Abigail WILBOUR -son- John BRONSON (1645-) wife Hannah SCOTT (1651-1725) -son- Isaac BRONSON (1672-) divorced wife Thankful DIBBLE (1585-1622) -son- Joseph BRONSON (1708-) wife Mary TALYLOR (1708-) -son- David BRONSON (1733-1803) wife Jerusha COOLEY (1738-1803) -son- Sylvanus BRONSON (1769-1830) wife Esther REMINGTON (1772-1835) -daughter- Mary BRONSON (1806-1888) husband Horace Datus ENSIGN (1797-1846) -son- Martin Luther ENSIGN (1831- 1911) wife Mary DUNN (1833-1920) -daughter- Harriett Camilla ENSIGN (1859-1930) husband Isaac SMITH (1857-1914) -son- George Ensign SMITH (1898-1967) wife Amy Ella HAWKES (1897-1971) -daughter- Camilla SMITH (1926-1999) - Lark - JR.

Part I: Grave Markers found for Ancestors of Mary BRONSON ENSIGN

7-Mary BRONSON ENSIGN
(1806 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut-1888 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah)
Salt Lake City Cemetery

Numbers refer to number of genrations back from JR
+++Thomas was son of 13-Capt. Daniel HOVEY (1618 Eng.-1692 MA) and 13-Abigail (Rebekah) ANDREWS (1623 Eng.-1665 MA) married 1641 Ipswich, Essex, MA
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12-father Lt. Thomas HOVEY (1648 Eng.-17839 MA) married 12-Sarah COOK (1662-1739) November 1677 in Hadley, Hampshire County, MA.
+ 11-daughter Abigail Rebecca HOVEY (1679/82 CT-1709) wife of 11-Samuel LANE (1680 CT-1709) married 10 Jun 1709
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12-mother Sarah COOK (1662-1739) daughter of 13-Capt. Aaron COOKE [III] (1640 CT-1716 MA) and 13-Sarah WESTWOOD (1614 MA-1730 MA)
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13-Capt. Aaron COOKE [III] (1640 CT-1716 MA) son of 14-Captain Aaron COOKE [II] (1613/14-1690 MA) and 14-Mary FORD (1612 Eng.-1645/50 MA/CT) they married 1637 Dorchester, Norfolk, MA
13-Sarah WESTWOOD (1614 MA-1730 MA) was the daughter of 14-William WESTWOOD (1606-1669 CT) and 14-Bridgett

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14-Captain Aaron COOKE [II] (1613/14-1690 MA) son of 15-Aaron COOKE [I] ( -1615 Eng.) and 15-Elizabeth CHARDE (1589 Eng.-1643) married 2 Sep 1610 Thorncomb, Dorset, ENG
14-Mary FORD (1612 Eng.-1645/50 MA/CT) daughter of 15- Thomas FORD (1589 Eng.-1678 MA) and 15- Joanna WAY (-Eng.)
(NOTE:15- Thomas FORD (1589 Eng.-1678 MA) and 15-Elizabeth CHARDE (1589 Eng.-1643) married 19 Jun 1616 Bridport, dorset, Eng. after the deaths of first spouses and came to America together with 14-Captain Aaron COOKE [II] and 4 daughter of FORD-SMITH marriage.)

13-Capt. Daniel HOVEY (1618 Eng.-1692 MA)married 1641 Ipswich, Essex, MA
13-Abigail (Rebekah) ANDREWS (1623 Eng.-1665 MA)
12-father Lt. Thomas HOVEY (1648 Eng.-17839 MA)married 11-Sarah COOK (1662-1739) November 1677 in Hadley, Hampshire County, MA.
Old Hadley Cemetery

13-Capt. Aaron COOKE [III] (1640 CT-1716 MA) and 13-Sarah WESTWOOD (1614 MA-1730 MA)
son of 14-Captain Aaron COOKE [II] (1613/14-1690 MA) and 14-Mary FORD (1612 Eng.-1645/50 MA/CT)
Old Hadley Cemetery

13-Sarah WESTWOOD (1614 MA-1730 MA) wife of 13-Capt. Aaron COOKE [III] (1640 CT-1716 MA)
daughter of 14-William WESTWOOD (1606-1669 CT) and 14-Bridgett
Old Hadley Cemetery

14-Captain Aaron COOKE [II] (1613/14-1690 MA)Served in King Philip's War, he commanded the garrison at Westfield in 1675.
Married 1637 Dorchester, Norfolk, MA.
14-Mary FORD (1612 Eng.-1645/50 MA/CT)
Bridge Street Cemetery
other spouses of 14-Captain Aaron COOKE [II] (1613/14-1690 MA)2. Joan DENSLOW m. by 1650, 3. Elizabeth NASH, 4. Rebecca FOOTE SMITH
(NOTE: 4. Rebecca FOOTE SMITH COOKE is daughter of Nathaniel FOOTE the Settler he is twice our 11 Great Grandfather.)

15- Thomas FORD (1589 Eng.-1678 MA) named on plaque as father of Abigail FORD STRONGAbigail's mother was and 15-Elizabeth CHARDE (1589 Eng.-1643)
Abigail FORD STRONG was half sister of Aaron COOKE [II] (1613/14-1690 MA)
Bridge Street Cemetery

1847 Pioneer Dies in Salt Lake City.

Mary BRONSON ENSIGN
Deseret News 1888-04-25

ENSIGN - In the Thirteenth Ward, this city, at 2:45 p.m. April 23, 1888 of old age Mrs. Mary Br[o]nson Ensign: born June 11, 1806, in Suffield, Conn.

The deceased came to Utah in 1847, were she has since resided. She has been invalid for more than eight years, and ____ was welcome to her. Four sons and a numerous posterity of grand-children and great-grand children mourn her departure.

Hartford, Conn., papers please copy.

Mary's maiden name BRONSON is misspelled on the grave stone as BRUNSON

Mary BRONSON ENSIGN - Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

Mary BRONSON ENSIGN
mother of Martin Luther ENSIGN

I find many of my grandmothers in:

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

Volume I
A to E

International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers
page 906-907
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.

Mormon Trail - Horace Datus ENSIGN and Mary BRONSON - Massachusetts Saints

Mormon Pioneer ancestor of Camilla SMITH WOOD From JR Seventh Generation Horace Datus ENSIGN (1797-1846) and Mary BRONSON (1806-1888) m.1825. Traveling with their children including Martin Luther ENSIGN. Horace Datus died before the journeys end. Mary BRONSON ENSIGN wife of Horace Datis ENSIGN mother of Martin Luther ENSIGN

Horace Datus ENSIGN / b. 18 MA - m. 18 - MA. - d. 18 IOWA - buried (died at Winter Quarters 1846) Places Lived: Massachusetts / Nauvoo (3 weeks) / Winter Quarters, Iowa See: Martin Luther ENSIGN Autobiography for trip from Massachusetts to Winter Quarters. Mary BRONSON ENSIGN age 41/ b. 18 MA - d. 18 UT - buried Places Lived: MA / Nauvoo / Salt Lake City, UT BAPTIZED: both Mary and Horace bap. in MA 1844. BY LAND: 1847 Daniel Spencer/Ira Eldredge Company Pioneer Information: With four children and brother in-law’s family. One son had gone earlier with the “PIONEERS” July 1847. son Ensign, John Calvin (17) / niece Ensign, Julia Sirls (13) / son Ensign, Luman Ashley (19) / daughter Ensign, Lydia Esther (6) * Ensign, Martin Luther (16) / Ensign, Mary Bronson (41) / sister-in law Ensign, Mary Everett Gordon (36) / son Ensign, Rufus Bronson (12), Brother in-law Ensign, Samuel (42) Captain of ten / nephew Ensign, Samuel Lozene (11) 1847 Daniel Spencer/Ira Eldredge Company Departure: 17 June 1847 Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 19-22 September 1847 Pioneer Information: Mary was the widow of Horace. She traveled with her children Luman, Joh, Rufus, Lydia and Martin. Pioneer Information: [Martin Luther Ensign] drove three yoke of oxen for John Eldredge. Pioneer Information: [John Calvin Ensign] claimed, "I drove the first ox team into the valley...." Pioneer Information: [Samuel Ensign] Captain of Ten. He traveled with his wife Mary and children Julia and Samuel. [Included in the third ten led by Samuel Ensign were: John Calvin Ensign, Julia Searles Ensign, Lydia Esther Ensign, Lyman D. Ensign, Martin Luther Ensign, Mary Bronson Ensign, Mary Everett Gordon Ensign, Rufus Bronson Ensign, Samuel Ensign, Samuel Lozene Ensign,] Company Information: 174 or 177 individuals and 76 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post on the Elkhorn River about 27 miles west of Winter Quarters, Nebraska.

Elkhorn River, Nebraska: Charles C. Rich sent a note back to John Scott at Winter Quarters ordering him to send the cannon "as the whole camp is waiting." He also wrote to Alpheus Cutler, the presiding member of the High Council, requesting that he help Brother Scott in sending the cannon, boat, and Nauvoo temple bell.

Ira Eldredge's fifty, part of the Daniel Spencer Company officially started their pioneer trek, leaving the Elkhorn River. The Eldredge fifty consisted of 76 wagons and 177 people. The captains of tens were Isaac Haight, Hector Haight, Samuel Ensign, Erastus Bingham, and George Boyes.

[Included in the third ten led by Samuel Ensign were: Anna Abbott, Rufus Abbott, Polly Woodsum Bond, Ann Brimhall, Adelia Ann Brown, Mary Jane Brown, Niamah Brown, Phebe Narcissia Brown, William Brown, Eliza Clement, Albert Crandall, Mary Crandall, Melissa Crandall, Alva Cummings, Benjamin Franklin Cummings, Mary Cummings, John Calvin Ensign, Julia Searles Ensign, Lydia Esther Ensign, Lyman D. Ensign, Martin Luther Ensign, Mary Bronson Ensign, Mary Everett Gordon Ensign, Rufus Bronson Ensign, Samuel Ensign, Samuel Lozene Ensign, Edwin Frost, Emeline Frost, Mary Elizabeth Frost, Belinda Hickenlooper, John Thomas Hickenlooper, Sarah Hawkins Hickenlooper, William Haney Hickenlooper, Eliza Holmes, Ellen Holmes, George Holmes, Hyrum Holmes, Oliver Holmes, Samuel O. Holmes, Rosetta King, Amanda Nowlin, Bryan Ward Nowlin, Edwin Randolf, Ann Snedaker, Marris J. Snedaker, Almira Sophia Taft, and Harriet Taft.] (see: Heritage Gateways http://heritage.uen.org/resources/Wc8a49e4f0b2c.htm) See: Martin Luther 6th generation for Trail Excerpt: Mary‘s son Ensign, Horace Datus (20)“PIONEER” Brigham Young Pioneer Company (1847) Departure: 14 April 1847 Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 21-24 July 1847

Samuel ENSIGN brother of Horace Datus ENSIGN

Uncle Samuel ENSIGN brother of Horace. After Horace's death at Winter Quarters Mary and some of her children traveled with Samuel and his family. Samuel and his family had lived in Nauvoo. Samuel was killed when he fell from the wall of the Salt Lake Temple under construction. Camilla SMITH - George Ensign SMITH pedigree