Sarah Ann Baskins

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• FamilySearch ID: MRDS-7GH
• Initiatory (LDS): 11 Sep 2002, SANTI

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• Initiatory (LDS): COMPLETED
• FamilySearch ID: K823-BFG

Armstrong married Azuba Aldrich about 1823 in New York, United States. Azuba (daughter of Zenos Aldrich and Mary Tiffany) was born about 1801 in Deposit, Broome, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZZB-5F7
• Initiatory (LDS): 14 May 1997, PORTL

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• FamilySearch ID: MLGG-MYT
• Initiatory (LDS): 14 May 1997, PORTL

Zenos married Mary Tiffany about 1798 in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Mary (daughter of Samuel Tiffany and Abigail Curtis) was born on 17 Jun 1777 in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; died on 12 Sep 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States; was buried on 15 Sep 1845 in Old Nauvoo Burial Grounds, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L2YR-43L
• Initiatory (LDS): 2 Jun 1909, SLAKE

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SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data, (c) 1995 Info b ases, Inc. Also LDS Ancestral File.

SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and H i s Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 62.

Mary died in her 69th year in Nauvoo of billicus fever.


History of Mary Tiffany by Nelson Wheeler Whipple (Son)

History of Mary Tiffany

"My mother, Mary Tiffany, was born in Berk Hemsted, State of Conn. In t h e year 1777, June 13. She went with her father to Cortland in the sam e st ate and lived there until about the year 1800.
I am not certain whether she came into New York or Pennsylvania when s h e left her native state. I do not know exactly the time she was marre d t o Aldrich, her first husband, nor when she was married to my father , bu t her first marriage must have been about the year 1798 and her seco nd ab out the year 1804, as near as I can learn.

After she was married to my father she labored faithfully to help suppo r t her family. She was a woman of great patience and strong mind and go o d character. She never allowed her children to keep bad company or us e ba d language or contend with each other or anything that could be call ed ba d behavior in anywise.

She raised a family of eight children and lived to see them all men an d w omen grown and able to take care of themselves. She used to say tha t is s he could live to see this she would be willing to die. But after s he join ed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, she said tha t if sh e could live to see Nauvoo and hear instructions from the authori ties o f the Church that she would be willing to leave this world. This s he als o lived to see.

She was baptized in Litchfield, Media County, on the 23rd day of June, 1 8 42, by Elder John Hughes. She came to Nauvoo with me in 1842 or rathe r t o Knox County, Illinois where we stayed till the next year and move d to N auvoo in 1844, on the 9th of May. Here she enjoyed herself well i n havin g instructions from the servants of God from time to time. She wa s smar t and active as women generally at 40, until she was taken with th is las t illness.

She was a woman of rather less than middle size, fair complexion, hair a n d eyes dark. She had double teeth all round, many which were sound at h e r death. She was remarkably strong constitutioned and never kept her b e d 3 days at a time after she was 16 years of age, at which time she h a d a slight attack of consumption, of which she was cured by a skillfu l ph ysician.

A few days before she was taken sick she walked to Almira’s, a distanc e o f 1½ miles, apparently as smart as when she was young. She was take n wit h a violent fever and was deranged considerably for several days, b ut rat ional before she died. I called on Dr. Burnheisel to attend her bu t he sa id it was extremely doubtful whether she would recover. After 3 d ays sh e did not appear to be in any pain, but slept most of the time unt il th e 9th day of her illness. On the night of her death, myself and m y firs t wife Jane, and my sister Gerua were with her. My sister was als o sick a t the time and was not able to help take care of her and my wif e and I to ok turns in attending to her in the night.

She appeared to feel much better and wished me to comb her hair. I di d s o and she talked cheerfully and told me to lie down and rest. My wif e wa s lying down on a bed by the fire. We had prepared this bed to lie o n whe n she did not need our assistance. I accordingly went and lay dow n and a s I did so my wife raised up and said she thought my mother did n ot breat h natural, upon which I got up again and went to her bed and tho ught sh e was asleep but behold she did not breath again. She appeared t o go to s leep before I lay down and she lay precisely as she did and loo ked perfec tly natural, Sept. 17, 1845.
Thus ended the days of Mary Tiffany. She lived a life of toil and hardsh i p but she ended her days in peace.

My mother’s first husband was named Aldrich, by whom she had two childre n , a son and a daughter. Her son’s name was Sylvanus and her daughter Az ub a, the history of whoom will be given on another page. These and anoth er , her 3rd child Cynthia and her 4th child Samuel, were in the State o f Ne w York at the time of her death. She had not heard from any of the m for m any years. ( I have never heard from any of them up to this dat e 1878)

We were obliged to keep her for three days before s he was buried becau s e there were eleven buried the day my mother was and 4 left unburied th a t had been dead for several days.
I tried to get someone to make her coffin but could not and had to mak e o ne myself and being quite out of health at best, I was not able to g o t o her grave. She was taken and burined by WM. Huntington who was sext on a t that time in Nauvoo.The doctor I employed to attend on my mother i n he r last illness was John Burnheisel. He is still living in Salt Lak e Cit y at this day, Jan. 17, 1877. He is old but still hale and hearty.

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• FamilySearch ID: LKKM-7B7
• Initiatory (LDS): 15 Jan 1915, MANTI

Samuel married Abigail Curtis in 1760 in Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States. Abigail (daughter of Nathaniel Curtis and Mary Curtis) was born on 17 Mar 1742 in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; died in May 1820 in Cortland, Cortland, New York, United States; was buried in Cortland, Cortland, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LKKM-7BQ
• Initiatory (LDS): 2 Dec 1915, MANTI