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SOURCE: Jones, Emma C. Brewster (The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907) | Turner, Joseph (I29880)
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SOURCE: Jones, Emma C. Brewster (The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907) | Turner, John (I30088)
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SOURCE: Jones, Emma C. Brewster (The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907) | Turner, Mary (I30089)
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SOURCE: Jones, Emma C. Brewster (The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907) | Turner, Isaac (I30090)
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SOURCE: Jones, Emma C. Brewster (The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907) | Turner, Amos (I30091)
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SOURCE: Jones, Emma C. Brewster (The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907) | Jacob, Elizabeth (I31846)
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SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data, (c) 1995 In f o b ases, Inc. Also LDS Ancestral File. All give birth in Brattleboro , Wi nd ha m, Vermont.
SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon, 12 Feb 1999. Joa n n e f ound Deborah Hildreth born in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts . D eb orah 's parents "both left estates and are in the probate records. " (M or e late r)a.
Deborah was confined to her bed for eight years before her death with sl o w consumption. | Hildreth, Deborah (I693)
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SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data, (c) 1995 Info b ases, Inc.
SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and H i s Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 62.
SOURCE: Email from B. Huckins to Weldon Whipple, 14 Feb 2008. "Daniel Wh i pple was a Methodist and after his death Mary became a Mormon and wen t t o Nauvoo with Nelson Whipple in 1844."
Occupation: Lumbering, Farmer
Daniel died of inflammation of the bowels or the brain.
My father Daniel Whipple was born in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermo n t on the 27th of August in 1779. He resided there until he was six yea r s old, when his father moved to Pennsylvania. There they lived until h i s mother died. How long that was I do not know but when or shortly aft e r her death he went from his father's house to different places unti l h e was married in or about the year 1804 at which time he was about 2 5 yea rs old. At what placed they lived at I do not know, but shortly h e move d to Deposit, a small village in Broom County, New York. Here fol lowed l umbering most of the time for about five years, when he moved t o Sandfor d in the same county about 4 miles from Deposit on Aoquage cree k in the f orest in a valley between two mountains where the soil was ext remely poo r subject to frost in the summer and deep snow in the winter . Here he bu ilt a house and cleared off a farm of twenty or thirty acre s of the heavi est of lumber which cost him much labor for which he recei ved small pay a s the soil was not productive.
While living at this place my mother did much towards the support of t h e family by dewing, carding and spinningwool, spinning flax etc., for h e r neighbors and by this means clothed her children and mostly fed the m .
In this place they lived thirteen years. Here four of the children we r e born including myself. I being the youngest. My father was not at ho m e but little, being off attending a saw mill or running timber to Phila de lphia down the River Delaware. My father laboring hard and having mad e b ut poorly taught to seek a better location in some other place. So h e an d my eldest brother, Samuel went to look out a place in Thompkins co unt y in the same state where some of mother's kin lived. Having foun d a s I supposed a better place they returned and made preparation to mov e . He sold his place and most of his house furniture and hired my cous i n Erastus Stewart to haul us to the new location he staying behind to a rr ange his busness around 1828.
We after three days travel arrived at my uncle Nathan Stewart's who marr i edkl my mother's sister. Here we stayed for several days and then wen t tw o miles to my uncle Jared Patchin's and lived with them several mont hs.
My father came here in fourweeks after us and he and Samuel went to movi n gablock house which my father had baught and began to put it up on th e fa rm head taken and during this time we lived at my Uncle Jared's.
After having completed the house we moved into it. This was upon a hig h h ill or mountain where we had an extensive view of the surrounding cou ntr y in almost every direction. I was then nine years of age and had t o per form a great deal of the outdoor labor, such as ploughing, harrowin g, cut ting wood, making fence etc.,.
The winter of 1828 and 29 was very severe and in living on a high hil l w here the wind had a fine sweep we found all we could do to keep ourse lve s and our cattle alive. Having passed this winter, my father commenc ed f arming, a business that he was not much used to but he did very wel l at i t for some years.
But the price of grain being very low and money scarce he did not succ e ed in paying for the land he had taken which was to be four dollars pe r a cre. The interest had run up to about eight dollars per acre. Circu msta nces being as they were he found it impossible to pay for the land a nd th erefore concluded to sell his improvements and try somce other plac e.
He sold to Joseph Baker and Jefferson Collins for the small sum of for t y dollars. The improvements had cost him not less than three hundred d ol lars. He then rented part of a farm belonging to Jacob Tester. Hebui l d a house on it but the land being very poor he soon gave it up for a b a d bargain. During the same time he was on these two placed he did some th ing at lumbering and shinglesl so that he made a lliving with the litt l e that he raised.
Soon he left the above mentioned place and went to a worse oone. He to o k a farm on a high hemlook hill where nothing would grow but buckwhea t an d turnips and they were not a sure crop. Here he built a house in t he wo ods and endeavored to raise some wheat but did not succeed .
My Uncle GeorgeTiffney and his family and two of my sisters had gone t o O hio a year before we went to the last mentioned farm. We had receive d le tters from them which spoke much in praise of that country. This in duce d my father to go to Ohio.
In the latter part of the summer of 1833 my father made preparations t o r emove to the state of OHio. He therefore soldl off everything he had ...c attle, and wagon, household goods etc.,. in the month of November 18 33 . He hired a young man by the name of Madison Knettles to take his fa mil y to the head of Cyuga Lake, a distance of twelve miles and from her e wet ook a steam boat fro Montaguma.
This lake is a small lake in the central part of New York. It is fort y m iles long and eight or nine miles wide. A small steam boat named DeW it t Clinton was the only boad that run upon it except for canal boats.
We arrived there late in the evening and stowed our goods in a warehou s e till morning. We then took the boat for the bridge. This bridge wa s b uilt across the foot of the lake two miles long. Here we shipped abo ar d a canal boat and went to Montasuma, seven miles and here we had to s hi p again on board another for Buffalo where we arrived in six days.
Buffalo is at the foot of Lake Erie in the state of New York. From he r e we shipped again on board the old Pennsylvania steam boat for Clevela n d Ohio.
The first night we were on this boat we sittnessed the long to be rememb e red signs in the heavens above. Between two and three o'clock in the m or ning I heard the watch come down into the cabin where I lay and tel l th e passengers of the sight to be seen in the sky. I immediately go t up an d went to the upper deck of the boat to behold a wonderful sigh t .
And a wonderful sight it was for the stars were flying in every directi o n through the heavens. I stood and looked at them till I was nearly ch il led through for it was very cold. I returned to my bed wondering wha t su ch a thing could mean. My father did not go up to see it .
In the morning the wind blew almost a hurricane and was very cold. Th e l ake rolled tremendously, and the captain was afraid to start out an d her e we lay for three days but the wind did not cease but rather incre ased . But the passengers were so anxious to go that the captain said h e woul d go to hell trying for he could stand it if they could. He put f orth af ter four days but found rough weather
and we all wished ourselves back in Buffalo again. We went on twelve mi l es to Point Evernew on the Canadian side where we anchored and lay thr e e days. A severe snow storm came on with heavy wind which drove sever a l boats back to Buffalo. On the fourth day we started from there and w en t as far as Erie. In Pennsylvania where the boat belonged. Here Capt ai n had the boat drawn up a said he would not go any further that winte r . We had to make the best shift we could for Cleveland. We stayed he r e three days when the Fairport steam boat came up with heavy freight a n d passengers for Cleveland. Most of the passengers shipped on board th e S helden Thompson which doubled her cargo. This boat was out of repai r an d dangerous at best. We had to pass from one boat to the other in t he ni ght in a steam scow, it raining and freezing which made it extremel y dang erous.
After having got aboard we went toward Cleveland and had no chance to l a y down or even sit down as the passengers were so thick in the cabin , s o we spent the night in standing up amused with the jokes and fun o f som e among the crowd. The next day we tacked it Fairportin Ohio and st ayed t ill the following day for repairs. As the boat started out for Cl evelan d we met a heavy snowstorm which came on with such fury as to caus e the c aptain to turn back to Fairport. We again stayed here for anoth er night .
The next day we started a second time for Cleveland which we made ou t t o gain, the day being fair. We had then been two weeks on Lake Eri e an d landed almost without money and food or clothing as we had lost so me cl othing on the boat.
My father hired a cart boy to take us out of the city that we might
have some chance to get to Eaton in Loraine County, the place of out des t ination. Having gone a few miles we came across an old farmer going ho m e from Cleveland. We got him to take us out to his house and here we s ta yed over night and left all our goods in a barn and persued our journ e y on foot in the mud, a distance of twenty miles. My sister was sick a n d hardly able to walk. We got as far as Ridgeville that night and stop pe d at a house of a Mr. Ribby over night and they treated us with grea t kin dness.
On the following day we arrived at George Tiffany's in the town of Eato n , Loraine county, Ohio the place of our destination. We found our rela ti ves settled in the woods half leg deep in water in a small log shant y wit h a few acres cleared around them .
On arriving at my brother-in-law's to our surprise we found Sylvanus Ald r ich and his family living in the same house. This was my half brother , m y mother's oldest child. He had come from the state of New York. W e ha d seen him for many years. The meeting with our friends somewhat ch eere d us, not withstanding our hard fare and past troubles. Here we liv ed th rough the winter in a house fourteen by sixteen feet, all together , fifte en in number. We were mostly dependent on them for our provision s as cou ld not earn anything, my father being sick all winter.
In the spring my father assisted George in building another house an d w e lived in the old one. My father worked in a saw mill of Mr. Abby a n d I chopped for five dollars an acre through the summer .
In the fall we moved to Carlisle and took a saw belonging to Phieneas Jo h nson in the village of L Porte. Here we lived until the spring 1838 wh e n we moved to Elyrin the county seat of Loraine county .
Here my father took a small piece of land of Herman Ely on which we liv e d and worked for a year and did job work of different kinds fo a livin g . In the spring of 1839 we moved across the river and took another sma l l piece of land on which was a good orchard. We repaired the house an d f ences of this land and had much hard labor
We raised considerable corn, vegetables etc., which with what we earne d o ther ways made ourselves quite comfortable.
On the 18th of September 1829 my father and I was gathering corn wit h a y oke of yearling steers, the only team we had at the time. The weat her be ing wet and unhealthy we were both taken sick at the same time .
My father was taken with inflammation of the bowels and I was taken wi t h the bilious fever. On finding ourselves in a bad stat we went for D r . Howard, a skillful physician who attended us faithfully but in spit e o f all endeavors my father died on the ninth day of his illness and th us e nded the days of Daniel Whipple at the age of 61 and one month.
He was a man of remarkably strong constitution. He had very little sick n ess in his life or met with any accidents to harm him except the he on c e fell from a building and hurt his back which made him grown crooke d a s he grew older. He was a man of good morals but did not belong to a ny c hurch at the time of his death, although he had been a Methodist fo r a fe w years of his life but had left them on account of the inconsiste ncy o f some of the doctrines and notions .
Had he lived to the hear the Gospel he would have embraced it no doubt f o r he condemned all churches because they had not the gifts and ordinanc e s according to the order that Christ and the Apostles taught.
He also tole me that the time would be that a church would be establish e d according to the order in the last days for the scriptures said plain l y that it should be.
He also tole me that if I lived to be fifty years old in all probabili t y I would see it. In less than one year after his death the gospel wa s p reached in the same house that he died in, by Elder John Hughes, bu t my f ather did not live quite long enough to hear it.
History of Daniel Whipple written by son, Nelson Wheeler Whipple
A few sketches of the history of my fore-fathers according to the best i n formation I have been able to gather from my father and others.
My great-great grandfather was among the first settlers of the State o f V ermont in the Town of Brattleboro, Windham County. He had one brothe r als o who came over from England, so says the History that Edsom Whippl e obta ined while getting up the genealogy while on a mission east. He as sertain ed that there were three brothers, and from them sprang the Whipp le tha t I have ever found in the United States, which are a considerabl e number . I believe that all by that name have sprung from them as I hav e ever fo und any old countrymen that ever heard the name before they cam e to Ameri ca.
The above mentioned man, I suppose, died in the town of Brattleboro, a t w hat age I know n ot. His name I believe was Timothy, though as to th i s I am not certain–(Samuel was his name–Anor Whipple)
My great grandfather’s name was Daniel as I was informed by my father . H e also lived and died in the same place as I suppose. I have but litt le k nowledge of him at the most, but have often heard my father tell o f seein g him when my father was quite a child.
My grandfather, I have some more knowledge of. He was born in Brattlebor o , Windham County, Vermont, in the year of 1749. I know but little of h i s life until he came to the State of Pennsylvania about the year 1785 . H e settled in the wilderness on the Susquehanna River, 13 miles from a ny w hite inhabitants. Here he lived until the country became more settle d an d died suddenly of the pleurisy in the 51st year of his age and in t he ye ar 1798.
His family consisted of four sons and three daughters of whom my fathe r w as the eldest. They were Daniel, Samuel, Richard, and Roswell, Cynthi a, P olly and Lucy.
Roswell was a chair maker by trade and lived in Pennsylvania, I think, b u t I have little knowledge of him after I was 5 years old, when he cam e t o my father’s house and brought a set of common kitchen chairs, whic h wer e kept in our family 34 or 35 years.
Roswell went to the State of Ohio, Zainsville, Muskeegum County, on th e M uskeegum River and built mills there and probably died there but I ha ve n ot heard from him in many years.
Samuel was a tailor by trade and went to Canada and my father never hea r d from him after about the year 1800.
Cynthia and Polly, I cannot remember hearing my father say much about, a f ter he left home but whether either of them married I do not know but L uc y married a man by the name of Bingham and went to Ohio with Roswell a n d was killed in a saw mill.
My grandmother’s maiden name was Hildreth (Deborah). She was confine d t o her bed eight years, before her death, with slow consumption. She d ie d some years, before my grandfather did but I do not know in what year . H er father lived to the age of 104 years and died in Vermont, but wha t pla ce I do not know. I do not have knowledge of any more family.
My father Daniel Whipple was born in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermo n t in the year 1779, Aug. 27. He resided here until he was 6 years old w he n his father moved to Pennsylvania.
Here they lived until his mother died. How long that was I do not know b u t when or shortly after she died, he went from his father’s house and l iv ed about in different places until he married, which was about the yea r 1 804, at which he was 25 years of age.
At what place they lived when they were married, I do not know, but shor t ly after he moved to Deposit, a small village in Broom Co. N.Y. Here h e f ollowed lumbering most of the time for about 5 years when he moved t o San ford in the same county about 4 miles from Deposit on Acquago Cree k in th e forest, in a valley between two mountains where the soil was ex tremly p oor and subject to frost in the summer and deep snow in the wint er.
Here he built a house and cleared off a farm, of 20 or 30 acres, of th e h eaviest timber which cost him much labor for which he received smal l pa y as the soil was not productive.
While living at this place, my mother did much towards the support of t h e family by sewing, carding and spinning wool, spinning flax for her ne ig hbors and by this means clothed her children and mostly fed them.
In this place they lived 13 years. Here four of the children were born , i ncluding myself, I being the youngest. My father was not at home bu t litt le, being off attending a saw mill or running lumber to Philadelph ia, dow n the River Delaware.
My father laboring hard and having made but poorly thought to seek a bet t er location in some other place in Tompkins Co., in the same state whe r e some of my mother’s kin lived. Having found, as they supposed, a bett e r place they returned and made preparations to move. He sold his plac e an d most of his house furniture and hired my cousin Erastus Stuart t o hau l us to the new location, he staying behind to arrange his business .
We, after three day’s travel, arrived at my uncle Nathan Stuart’s who ma r ried my mother’s sister. Here we stayed for several days and then wen t tw o miles to my Uncle Jarrid Patchin’s and lived with them several mon ths.
My father came here 4 weeks after us and he and Samuel went to movin g a b lock-house which my father had bought and putting it up on the far m he ha d taken, during which time we lived at my Uncle Jarrid’s.
After having completed the house we moved over to it. This was upon a hi g h hill or mountain where we had an extensive view of the surrounding co un try in almost every direction.
I was 9 years of age and had to perform a great deal of outdoor labor, s u ch as ploughing, harrowing, cutting wood, making fence, etc. But I wil l c ontinue the history of my father down to his death and then that of m y mo ther and of the older children, my brothers and sisters and my uncle s an d aunts and of their families before I commence upon my own.
The winter of 1828-29 was very severe and we living on a high hill whe r e the wind had a fine sweep, we found all we could do to keep ourselve s a nd the cattle alive.
Having passed this winter my father commenced farming, a business he w a s not much used to but made out very well at it for some years.
The price of grain being very low and money scarce he did not succee d i n paying for the land he had taken which was to be four dollar per ac re b ut the interest had run up to about 8 dollars per acre.
Circumstances being as they were he found it impossible to pay for the l a nd, and therefore concluded to sell his improvements and try some othe r p lace.
He therefore sold to Josep Baker and Jefferson Collins for the small s u m of forty dollars. The improvements had cost him not less than 300 dol la rs. He then went to the farm of Joseph Teeter, a part of which he rent ed . He built a house on the part he had taken but this land being very p oo r he soon gave it up for a bad bargain. During the time he was on thos e t wo places he did something at lumbering and shingles which inclined m y fa ther to go to Ohio.
In the latter part of the summer of 1833, my father made preparation s t o remove to the State of Ohio. He therefore sold off evrything he had , hi s cattle and wagon, household goods etc. etc., in the month of Nov . 1833 . He hired a young man by the name of Madison Knettles to take hi s famil y to the head of Cyuga Lake, a distance of 12 miles, there to tak e the St eam boat for Monesuma.
This lake is a small lake in the center of part of the State of New Yor k . It is 40 miles long and 8 or 9 miles wide. A small steamboat named De Wi tt Clinton was the only boat that ran upon it except small boats.
We arrived at the lake late in the evening and stood ourselves in the wa r ehouse till morning, and then took the boat for the bridge. This bridg e w as built across the foot of the lake two miles long.
Here we shipped aboard a canal boat and went to Montesuma, seven miles . H ere we had to ship again on board another boat for Buffalo, where w e arri ved in six days.
Buffalo is at the foot of Lake Erie, in the state of New York. Here we s h ipped again on board of the old Pennsylvania steamboat for Cleveland, O hi o.
The first night we were on the boat we witnessed the long to be remember e d signs in the heavens above.
Between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning I heard the watch come down int o t he cabin where I lay, and tell the passengers of the sight to be see n i n the sky. I immediately got up and went to the upper deck of the boa t t o behold to wonderful sight.
And a wonderful sight it was for the stars were flying in every directi o n through the heavens. I stood and looked at them till I was nearly chi ll ed through, for it was very cold. I returned to my bed wondering wha t suc h a thing could mean. My father did not go up to see it .
In the morning the wind blew almost a huricane and very cold. The Lake r o lled in tremendously and the Captain was afraid to start out and her e w e lay for three days, but the wind did not cease but rather increased .
The passengers were so anxious to go that the Captain said he would g o o r go to hell trying, for he could stand it if they could. So on the f ourt h morning he put out but found rough weather and we all wished ourse lve s back in Buffalo again.
We went on 12 miles to Point Evernew on the Canadian side where we ancho r ed and lay three days. A severe snow storm came on with heavy wind whi c h drove several boats back to Buffalo.
On the 4th day we started from there and went as far as Erie in Pennsylv a nia where the boat belonged. Here the Captain had the boat drawn up an d s aid he would not go any further that winter so we had to make the bes t sh ift we could for Cleveland.
Here we stayed 3 days when the Fairpoint steamboat came up with heavy fr e ight and passengers for Cleveland. Here the most of the passenger of t h e Pennsylvania shipped on board, the Sheldon Thompson, which doubled h e r cargo. This boat was out of repair and dangerous at best. We had to p as s from one boat to the other. As it was raining and freezing it was ex tre mely dangerous. After having got aboard this boat we went on toward C leve land and we had no chance to lie down or even to sit down as the pas senge rs were so thick in the cabins, so we spent the night standing up , amuse d with jokes and fun of some of the large crowd.
The next day we arrived at Fairport, in Ohio and stayed till the next d a y for repairs. The boat started on towards Cleveland and we met a heav y s now storm which came on with such fury as to cause the Captain to tur n ba ck to Fairport again. Here we stayed another night.
The next day we started a second time for Cleveland which we made ou t t o gain as the day was fair. We had then been two weeks on Lake Erie a nd l anded almost without money, food or clothing, as we had lost some cl othin g on the boat.
My father hired a cart-boy to take us out of the city that we might ha v e some chance to get to Eaton in Lorain County, the place of our destin at ion.
Having gone a few miles we came across an old farmer going home from Cle v eland. We got him to take us out to his house. Here we stayed over nig h t and left all our goods in a barn and persued our journey on foot in t h e mud, a distance of 20 miles. My sister was sick and hardly able to wa lk . We got as far as Ridgeville that night and stopped at the house o f a Mr . Kibby who treated us with great kindness.
On the following day we arrived at George Tiffany’s in the town of Eato n , Lorain Co., Ohio, the place of our destination.
We found our relatives settled in the woods half leg deep in water i n a s mall log shanty with a few acres cleared around them.
On arriving at my brother’s house to our surprise we found Sylvanus Aldr i ch and his family living in the same house. This was my half brother , m y mother’s oldest child. He had come from the state of New York. We h ad n ot seem him in many years.
On meeting with our friends we somewhat cheered, notwithstanding our ha r d fare and past troubles.
Here we lived through the winter in a house 14 by 16 ft., all together , 1 5 in number. We were mostly dependent on them for our provisions as w e co uld not earn anything, as my father was sick all winter.
In the Spring my father assisted George in building another house an d w e lived in the old one and my father worked in the sawmill of Mr. Abb y an d I chopped for 5 dollars an acre through the summer.
In the fall we moved to Carlisle and took a sawmill belonging to Phine a s Johnson in the village of La Forte. Here we lived until the spring o f 1 838, when we moved to Elyris, the county seat of Lorain County.
Here my father took as small piece of land of Herman Ely on which we liv e d and worked for a year doing job work of different kinds for a living.
In the spring of 1839 we moved across the river and took another small p i ece of land on which was a good orchard.
We repaired the house and fences on this land and did much hard labor a n d raised considerable corn, vegetables, etc., which with what we earne d o ther ways made ourselves quite comfortable.
On the 18th of Sept., 1839, as my father and I were gathering corn wi t h a yoke of yearling steers, the only team we had at the time. The weat he r was wet and unhealthy and we both were taken sick at the same time . M y father was taken with inflamation of the bowels and I was taken wit h th e bilious fever.
On finding ourselves in a bad state we sent for Dr. Howard, a skillful p h ysician who attended us faithfully but in spite of all endeavors my fat he r died on the 9th day of his illness.
Thus ended the days of Daniel Whipple, at the age of 60 years and one mo n th. He was a man of remarkable strong constitution. He had very littl e si ckness in his life except that once he fell from a building and hur t hi s back which made him grow crooked as he grew older.
He was a man of good morals but did not belong to any church at the ti m e of his death, although he had been a Methodist for a few years of hi s l ife, but had left them on account of inconsistancy of some of their d octr ines and notions.
Had he lived to hear the Gospel he would have embraced it no doubt, fo r h e condemned all churched because they had not the gifts and ordinance s ac cording to the order that Christ and Apostles taught .
He also told me that if I lived to be fifty years old in all probabilit y , I would see it. In less than one year after his death the gospel wa s pr eached in the same house that he died in, by Elder John Hughes. My f athe r did not live quite long enough to hear it.
Copy of the History of Nelson Wheeler Whipple 1818-1887
by Anor Whipple (His son)
Dec. 1, 1859. This Book was made in the Old Council House by Bro. Kell e y in Salt Lake City at the date above mentioned. The cost of the sam e wa s nine dollars which I paid in lumber at $6.00 per 100 feet.
--Nelson W. Whipple
Foreward
This is the history of Nelson Wheeler Whipple containing sketches of t h e history of his progenitors and relatives as far as he had any correc t k nowledge of them. It also contains many items and incidents in the h isto ry of the Church of [Jesus Christ of] Latter-day Saints since the or ganiz ation, their troubles in Nauvoo and removal from that place to th e wilder ness in 1846, and their travels to the west until they reached t he Valle y of the Great Salt Lake.
This book also contains the time in which all the different settlement s w ere made in the north and in the south and east and west [of Utah], a nd m any other events of note which will be interesting to the rising gen erati on in the future although I have taken considerable pains in writin g it , yet it is not by any means what I intended it to be when I commenc ed it . It is badly written with all different kinds of ink, poor pens , etc. , but it can, most of it, be read, and I consider it much better t han thi s page is written. Feb. 5, 1878
Daniel Whipple [Nelson Wheeler Whipple=s Father]
Recorded in this book Dec. 4, 1859 by Nelson Wheeler Whipple, his son . D aniel Whipple was born Aug. 27, 1779, in Brattleboro, Windham County , Ver mont. Mary Tiffany, his wife, [was] born, June 15, 1777. Cynthia , thei r oldest daughter, [was] born Jan. 15, 1805, in Deposit, Broome Co unty, S tate of New York. Samuel, their eldest son, [was] born Dec. 21 , 1806, i n Deposit, Broome County, New York. Almira, [was] born June 13 , 1810, i n Sanford, Broome County, New York. Phoebe, [was] born Aug. 12 , 1815, Sa nford, Broome County, N.Y. Gerua, [was] born Sep. 8, 1815, i n Sanford, B roome Co., N.Y. Nelson Whipple, [was] born July 11, 1818, i n Sanford, Br oome Co., N.Y.
Daniel Whipple died Sept. 27, 1839, age 60 years, one mo., in Elyria, Lo r ain Co., Ohio, of inflammation of the brain.
Mary Tiffany died Sep. 17, 1845, in Nauvoo, Ill. in her 69th year, of bi l ious fever. Phoebe Whipple Gibson died of fever in 1847 in Zarahemla , I owa. [The site of a settlement which had a stake but was later aban doned . Located near Montrose, Lee County, Iowa, across the Mississipp i Rive r from Nauvoo, Illinois.]
Gerua Whipple died 1848 in Kanesville [Later called Council Bluffs, Iow a , of dropsy and canker. Nelson W. Whipple died July 5, 1887, in Salt L ak e City, Utah.
Births and deaths of some of the principal men of the Church
Joseph Smith, born Monday, Dec. 23, 1805
Brigham Young, born Saturday, June 1, 1801
Heber C. Kimball, born Thursday, June 13, 1801
Orson Hyde, born Monday, June 7, 1805
W.W. Phelps, born Feb. 17, 1792
W. Woodruff, born March 11, 1807
Franklin D. Richards, born Monday, April 1, 1821
Parley P. Pratt, born Friday, Apr. 12, 1807
Introduction
The life and history of Nelson Wheeler Whipple containing an account o f m y forefathers as far back as I have ever been able to obtain any know ledg e from my father and others. This record contains many items of use ful i nformation concerning the events that have taken place on earth i n my lif etime, which probably is not recorded in any other book.
This book I earnestly desire and request to be carefully preserved and k e pt and handed down to my posterity, that they may have a knowledge of t h e events that transpired in the early rise of the Church in the last da y s of my trials, labors and travels while endeavoring to assist in the b ui lding up and establishment of the same.
The writing in this book is very deficient in many respects as will be s e en. Many words are misspelled in consequence of my lack of education a n d the lack of knowledge how to arrange a history, never having had th e op portunity of learning in my younger days by attending school, but wh at ed ucation I have, was picked up of my own accord from time to time a s I ha d the opportunity, without assistance. Nevertheless this book mig ht be a rranged and printed and form a volume that would be read with int erest b y many, aside from my family.
The Whipple Name
The Whipple family originated with Henri De V. Hipple, a gentleman of No r mandy of the vale de Suere, or Suede. For his gallantry he was grante d t he manorial estates of Wraxall. Richard Wraxall, that is, Richard D e V . Hipple was knighted on the battlefield of Agincourt 1415 and give n th e motto Fidele et Brave (faithful and brave). In 1485‑1509 De V. Hi ppl e was anglicized to Whipple. Whipple B Wright Record Library, Albany , N. Y. [Copied by Anor Whipple.]
Chapter 1 - Family Roots
A few sketches of the history of my forefathers according to the best in f ormation I have been able to gather from my father and others.
My great‑great grandfather was among the first settlers of the State o f V ermont, in the town of Brattleboro, Windham County. He had one broth er a lso who came over from England, so says the history that Edson Whipp le ob tained while getting up the genealogy while on a mission east. H e ascert ained that there were three brothers, and from them spring tha t Whipple t hat I have ever found in the United States, which are a consi derable numb er. I believe that all by that name have sprung from them a s I have neve r found any old countrymen that ever heard the name befor e they came to A merica.
The above-mentioned man, I suppose, died in the town of Brattleboro, a t t he age I know not. His name I believe was Timothy, though as to thi s I a m not certain B [Samuel was his name B A.W.][This Samuel=s Grandfat her, J ohn Whipple immigrated to America from England. His Whipple genea logy ca n be traced back two more generations beyond him to a Matthew Whi pple wh o was from Essex Shire, England. Matthew Whipple was born in 153 8.]
My great grandfather's name was Daniel, as I was informed by my fathe r . He also lived and died in the same place as I suppose. [There were t hr ee Daniels. The first was born in Providence, Rhode Island. The firs t D aniel=s father and grandfather were also born in Rhode Island.] I ha ve b ut little knowledge of him at the most, but have often heard my fath er te ll of seeing him when my father was quite a child.
My grandfather, I have some more knowledge of. He was born in Brattlebo r o, Windham County, Vermont in the year 1749. I know but little of hi s li fe until he came to the State of Pennsylvania about the year 1785 . He se ttled in the wilderness on the Susquehanna River, 15 miles fro m any whit e inhabitants. Here he lived until the country became more se ttled and d ied suddenly of the Pleurisy in the 51st year of his age, an d in the yea r 1798.
His family consisted of four sons and three daughters, of whom my fath e r was the eldest. They were: Daniel, Samuel, Richard, and Roswell, Cy nt hia, Polly and Lucy. Roswell was a chair maker by trade and lived i n Pen nsylvania, I think, but I had but little knowledge of him after I w as fiv e years old, when he came to my father's house and brought a set o f commo n kitchen chairs, which were kept in our family for 34 or 35 year s.
Roswell went to the State of Ohio, Zanesville, Muskingum County, on th e M uskingum River and built mills there, and probably died there, bu t I hav e not heard from him for many years.
Samuel was a tailor by trade and went to Canada, and my father never hea r d from him after about the year 1800.
Cynthia and Polly, I cannot remember hearing my father say much, afte r h e left home, but whether either of them married I do not know, but Lu cy m arried a man by the name of Bingham and went to Ohio and was kille d i n a saw mill.
My grandmother's maiden name was Deborah Hildreth. She was confined t o h er bed eight years, before her death, with slow consumption. She die d so me years before my grandfather did, but I do not know in what year . He r father lived to the age of 104 years and died in Vermont, but wha t plac e I do not know. I do not have knowledge of any more of that fami ly.
My father, Daniel Whipple, was born in Brattleboro, Windham County, Verm o nt in the year 1779, Aug. 27. He resided here until he was six years o ld , when his father moved to Pennsylvania.
Here they lived until his mother died. How long that was, I do not kno w , but when, or shortly after she died, he went from his father's hous e an d lived about in different places until he married, which was abou t the y ear 1804, at which time he was 25 years of age.
Daniel Whipple Marries and Moves to New York State
At what place they lived when they were married, I do not know, but shor t ly after, he moved to Deposit, a small village in Broome Co. N.Y. Her e h e followed lumbering most of the time for about five years when he mo ve d to Sanford in the same County, about 4 miles from Deposit on Oquag a Cre ek in the forest, in a valley between the mountains where the soi l was ex tremely poor and subject to frost in summer, and deep snow in wi nter.
Here he built a house and cleared off a farm, of 20 or 30 acres, of th e h eaviest timber which cost him much labor, for which he received smal l pay , as the sale was not productive.
While living at this place, my mother did much towards the support of t h e family by sewing, carding and spinning wool, and spinning flax for h e r neighbors, and by this means clothed her children and mostly fed them .
In this same place they lived 13 years. Here four of the children wer e b orn, including myself, I being the youngest. My father was not at ho me b ut little, being off attending a saw mill or running lumber to Phil adelp hia, down the River Delaware.
My father laboring hard and having made but poorly, thought to seek a be t ter location in some other place. So he and my eldest brother, Samuel , w ent to look out a place in Tompkins Co. in the same State [New York] , whe re some of my mother's kin lived. Having found, as they supposed , a bett er place, they returned and made preparations to move. He sol d his plac e and most of his house furniture and hired my cousin Erastu s Stewart t o haul us to the new location, he staying behind to arrange h is business.
We, after three days= travel, arrived at my uncle Nathan Stewart's who m a rried my mother's sister [Phoebe]. Here we stayed for several days th e n went two miles to my Uncle Jared Patchen's and lived with them sever a l months.
My father came here four weeks after us, and he and Samuel went to movi n g a blockhouse which my father had bought, and putting it up on the fa r m he had taken, during which time we lived at my uncle Jared's.
After having completed the house, we moved over into it. This was up o n a high hill or mountain, where we had an extensive view of the surrou nd ing country in almost every direction.
I was nine years of age and had to perform a great deal of the outdoor l a bor, such as ploughing, harrowing, cutting wood, making fence etc. B u t I will continue the history of my father down to his death and then t ha t of my mother and of the older children, my brothers and sisters an d m y uncles and aunts and of their families, before I commence upon my o wn.
The winter of 1828‑29 was very severe, and we, living on a high hill whe r e the wind had a fine sweep, we found all we could do to keep ourselve s a nd the cattle alive.
Having passed this winter, my father commenced farming, a business he w a s not much used to but made out very well at it for some years. The pr ic e of grain being very low and money scarce, he did not succeed in payi n g for the land he had taken, which was to be four dollars per acre, bu t t he interest had run up to about eight dollars per acre.
Circumstances being as they were, he found it impossible to pay for th e l and, and therefore concluded to sell his improvements and try some ot he r place.
He therefore sold to Joseph Baker and Jefferson Collins for the small s u m of forty dollars. The improvements had cost him not less than 300 do ll ars. He then went to the farm of Joseph Teeter, a part of which he re nte d. He built a house on the part he had taken, but this land being ve ry p oor, he soon gave it up for a bad bargain. During the time he was o n tho se two places, he did something at lumbering and shingles, so tha t he mad e a living with the little that he raised.
My uncle George Tiffany and his family and two of my sisters had gon e t o Ohio a year before he went on to the last mentioned farm. We had r ecei ved letters from them which spoke much in praise of that country whi ch in clined my father to go to Ohio.
The Whipples move to Ohio
In the latter part of the summer of 1833, my father made preparation s t o remove to the State of Ohio. He therefore sold off everything he h ad , his cattle and wagon, household goods etc., in the month of Nov. 183 3 . He hired a young man by the name of Madison Knettles to take his fam il y to the head of Cayuga Lake, a distance of 12 miles, there to take th e s team boat for Montezuma [On the north end of Lake Cayuga].
This lake is a small lake in the center of part of the State of New Yor k . It is 40 miles long and eight or 9 miles wide. A small steamboat na me d DeWitt Clinton was the only boat that ran upon it except small boats .
We arrived at the lake late in the evening and stood ourselves in the wa r ehouse >til morning, and then took the boat for the bridge. This brid g e was built across the foot of the lake two miles long.
Here we shipped aboard a canal boat and went to Montezuma [New York], se v en miles. Here we had to ship again on board another boat for Buffalo , w here we arrived in six days [This trip was made on the Erie Canal whi ch r an from Albany, New York on the east, to Buffalo, New York on the we st an d emptied into Lake Erie].
Buffalo is at the foot of Lake Erie, in the State of New York. Here w e s hipped again on board of the old Pennsylvania steamboat [On Lake Erie ] fo r Cleveland, Ohio.
The first night we were on the boat we witnessed the long to be remember e d signs in the heavens above. Between two and three o'clock in the mor ni ng, I heard the watch come down into the cabin where I lay, and tell t h e passengers of the sight to be seen in the sky. I immediately got u p an d went to the upper deck of the boat to behold the wonderful sight . An d a wonderful sight it was, for the stars were flying in every dire ctio n through the heavens, I stood and looked at them till I was nearl y chill ed through, for it was very cold. I returned to my bed wonderin g what su ch a thing could mean. My father did not go up to see it.
In the morning the wind blew almost a hurricane and very cold. The la k e rolled in tremendously, and the Captain was afraid to start out, an d he re we lay for three days, but the wind did not cease but rather incr eased .
The passengers were so anxious to go that the Captain said he would g o o r go to Hell trying, for he could stand it if they could. So on th e four th morning he put out but found rough weather, and we all wished o urselve s back at Buffalo again.
We went on 12 miles to Point Evernew on the Canadian side, where we anch o red and lay three days. A severe snow storm came on with heavy wind, w hi ch drove several boats back to Buffalo.
On the fourth day we started from there and went as far as Erie in Penns y lvania where the boat belonged. Here the Captain had the boat drawn u p , and said he would not go any further that winter, so we had to make t h e best shift we could for Cleveland.
Here we stayed for three days, when the Fairport steamboat came up wit h h eavy freight and passengers for Cleveland. Here the most of the pass enge rs of the Pennsylvania shipped on board the Sheldon Thompson which d ouble d her cargo. This boat was out of repair and dangerous at best. W e ha d to pass from one boat to the other. As it was raining and freezin g i t was extremely dangerous. After having got aboard this boat we wen t o n towards Cleveland, and we had no chance to lie down or even sit dow n a s the passengers were so thick in the cabin. So we spent the night s tand ing up, amused with jokes and fun of some of the large crowd.
The next day we arrived at Fairport, in Ohio, and stayed >til the next d a y for repairs. The boat started on towards Cleveland, and we met a hea v y snow storm which came on with such fury as to cause the Captain to tu r n back to Fairport again. Here we stayed another night.
The next day we started a second time for Cleveland, which we made ou t t o gain as the day was fair.
We had then been two weeks on Lake Erie and [had] landed almost withou t m oney, food or clothing, as we had lost some clothing on the boat.
My father hired a cart‑boy to take us out of the city, that we might ha v e some chance to get to Eaton in Lorain County [About 20 miles southwe s t of Cleveland], the place of our destination.
Having gone a few miles, we came across an old farmer going home from Cl e veland. We got him to take us out to his house. Here we stayed overni gh t and left all our goods in a barn and pursued our journey on foot i n th e mud, a distance of 20 miles. My sister was sick and hardly able t o wal k. We got as far as Ridgeville [between Cleveland and Elyria] tha t nigh t and stopped at the house of a Mr. Kibby, who treated us with gre at kind ness.
On the following day we arrived at the George Tiffany house in the tow n o f Eaton, Lorain Co. Ohio, the place of our destination.
We found our relatives settled in the woods half leg deep in water , i n a small log shanty with a few acres cleared around them.
On arriving at my brother's house, to our surprise we found Sylvanus Ald r idge and his family living in the same house. This was my half‑brothe r , my mother's oldest child [Her first marriage was to Zenos Adridge] . H e had come from the State of New York. We had not seen him for man y year s.
On meeting with our friends we somewhat cheered, notwithstanding our ha r d fare and past troubles.
Here we lived through the winter in a house 14 by 16 ft., all together , 1 5 in number. We were mostly dependent on them for our provisions, a s w e could not earn anything, as my father was sick all winter.
In the spring my father assisted George in building another house, an d w e lived in the old one, and my father worked in the sawmill of Mr. Ab by , and I chopped for five dollars an acre through the summer.
In the fall we moved to Carlisle and took a sawmill belonging to Phine a s Johnson in the village of Laporte. Here we lived until spring of 183 8 , when we moved to Elyria, the County seat of Lorain County.
Here my father took a small piece of land of Herman Ely, on which we liv e d and worked for a year doing job work of different kinds for a living.
In the spring of 1839 we moved across the river and took another piec e o f land on which was a good orchard.
We repaired the house and fences on this land and did much hard labor a n d raised considerable corn, vegetables etc. which with what we earned o th er ways made ourselves quite comfortable.
On the 18th of Sept. 1839, as my father and I were gathering corn wi t h a yoke of yearling steers, the only team we had at the time. The wea th er was wet and unhealthy, and we both were taken sick at the same tim e . My father was taken with inflammation of the bowels, and I was take n w ith bilious fever.
On finding ourselves in a bad state, we sent for Dr. Howard, a skillfu l p hysician, who attended us faithfully, but in spite of all endeavors m y fa ther died on the 9th day of his illness.
Thus [were] ended the days of Daniel Whipple, at the age of 80 years a n d one month. He was a man of remarkable strong constitution. He had v er y little sickness in his life, except that he once fell from a buildin g a nd hurt his back, which made him grow crooked as he grew older.
He was a man of good moral but did not belong to any church at the tim e o f his death, although he had been a Methodist for a few years of hi s life , but had left them on account of the inconsistency of some of the ir doct rines and notions.
Had he lived to hear the Gospel, he would have embraced it, no doubt, f o r he condemned all churches because they had not the gifts and ordinanc e s according to the order that Christ and the Apostles taught. He als o to ld me that if I lived to be fifty years old, in all probability I wo uld s ee it. In less than one year after his death, the Gospel was preac hed i n the same house that he died in, by Elder John Hughes. My fathe r did no t live quite long enough to hear it.
History of Mary Tiffany
My mother, Mary Tiffany, was born in Barkhamsted, [Litchfield County], S t ate of Connecticut in the year 1777, June 13. She went with her fathe r t o Cortland [Hartland?] in the same State, and lived there until abou t th e 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 marri e d to [Zenos] Aldridge, her first husband, nor when she was married t o m y father, but her first marriage must have been about the year 1798 , an d her second about 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 b ad language or contend with each other or anything that could be call ed b ad behavior in any wise.
She raised a family of eight children and lived to see them all men an d w omen grown and able to care for themselves. She used to say that i f sh e could live to see this, she would be willing to die. But after sh e joi ned the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she said tha t if sh e could live to see Nauvoo and hear the instructions from the aut horitie s of the Church, that she would be willing to leave this world . This sh e also lived to see. She was baptized in Litchfield, Medina C ounty, Ohio , on the 23rd day of June 1842 by Elder John Hughes.
She came to Nauvoo with me in 1843, or rather to Knox County, Illinois [ 5 0 miles northeast of Nauvoo] where we stayed >til the next year and mov e d to Nauvoo in 1844, on the 9th of May. Here she enjoyed herself wel l i n having instructions from the servants of God from time to time. Sh e wa s smart and active as women generally are at 40, until she was take n wit h her last 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 of which were soun d a t her death. She was remarkably strong-constitutioned and never kep t he r bed three days at a time after she was 16 years of age, at which t ime s he had a slight attack of consumption, of which she was cured b y a skillf ul physician.
A few days before she was taken sick, she walked to Almira's, a distan c e of one and a half miles, apparently as smart as when she was young . Sh e was taken with a violent fever and was deranged considerably fo r severa l days, but was rational before she died.
I called on Dr. Bernhisel to attend her, but he said it was extremely do u btful whether she would recover. After three days she did not appea r t o be in any pain, but slept most of the time until the 5th day of he r ill ness. On the night of her death, myself and my first wife Jane, an d my s ister Gerua were with her. My sister was also sick at the time an d was n ot able to help take care of her, and my wife and I took turns i n attendi ng to her in the night. She appeared to feel much better and w ished me t o comb her hair. I did so, and she talked cheerfully and tol d me to li e down and rest. My wife was lying down on a bed by the fire . We had pr epared this bed to lie on when she did not need our assistan ce.
I accordingly went and lay down, and as I did so my wife raised up and s a id she thought my mother did not breathe natural, upon which I got up a ga in and went to her bed and thought she was asleep, but behold she di d no t breathe again. She appeared to go to sleep before I lay down, an d sh e lay precisely as she did and looked perfectly natural, Sept. 17, 1 845.
Thus, [were] ended the days of Mary Tiffany. She lived a life of toil a n d hardship, but she ended her days in peace.
My mother's first husband was named Aldridge, by whom she had two childr e n, a son and a daughter. Her son's name was Sylvanus, and her daughte r w as Azuba, the history of whom will be given on another page. These a nd a nother, her 3rd child Cynthia and her 4th child Samuel, were in th e Stat e of New York at the time of her death. She had not heard from th em fo r many years. (I have never heard from any of them up to this
date, 1878)
We were obliged to keep her for three days before she was buried becau s e there were eleven buried the day my mother was, and four left unburi e d that 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 buried by Wm. Huntington, who was th e sex ton at that time in Nauvoo.
The doctor I employed to attend on my mother in her last illness was Jo h n Bernhisel. (He is still living in Salt Lake City at this date, Jan . 17 , 1877. He is old but still hale and hearty.)
History of Nelson Wheeler Whipple
I was born in the town of Sanford, Broome County, New York in the year 1 8 18 on the 11th day of July. This place was situated in the central pa r t of the State. The country was a cold mountainous region, as all kno w t hat are acquainted with its geography. When I was quite young, my fa the r removed to Pennsylvania in the Susquehanna County, town of Harmon y wher e he took a mill and lived about three years. This mill belonge d to Mart in Lane Esq. At the end of the three years he returned to the o ld place.
When I was about five years old, I went to school to a Mrs. Jeffords , a t which time I learned the alphabet, and that was about all, for I wa s s o bashful I could not make much headway at learning.
The next summer I went a short time to Mrs. Ambrosia Jeffords. At thi s t ime I learned to spell in words of three letters. The school house w a s a Penny settlement one mile from my father's.
I will mention a narrow escape that I had while in Pennsylvania by falli n g through the sawmill floor, a distance of some 12 feet and alighted up o n a place upon my back where, if I had have moved, I should have rolle d d irectly into the crank‑pit, where I should have been instantly killed . B ut as though aware of my situation, I lay still until my father stop ped t he mill and came down and rescued me. Thus, my life was saved at t hat ti me.
The first accident of any kind that ever happened to me was when I was a b out three years of age. This was a bruise on the calf of my leg, whic h w as done against the red-hot bail of a teakettle as it was set off th e fir e. I could not have been three years old at the time. It was a ba d bur n and was more than six months getting well.
I can also remember things distinctly that happened before that, whe n I w as not over two years old. I commenced to labor very young and ha d a des ire to help my father all I could, as I saw the need he had of m y assista nce. I was the youngest, and my brother Samuel was out at wor k for himse lf most of the time.
When at the age of seven years, I went to work in a saw mill with my fat h er and learned the board rule and learned [to] measure and mark lumbe r fo r the Philadelphia market. This was my business in the mill.
Here I continued to work through the summer of 1827. The next summer , m y father moved to Tompkins Co. [New York], in the same state when I w as n ine years old. My mother and the family moved weeks before my fathe r cam e. I do not remember precisely how long it was, but during this ti me I d idn't do much but play with my new friends.
After my father came, I again went to work day by day, as regular as h e d id on the farm or lumbering or anything that came to hand. I was lar ge f or my age and growing fast. I labored beyond my strength and injure d m y constitution, so that I never was strong as I should have been.
While living here I turned my attention, as much as possible, to study a n d trying to learn to read, as I was a poor prospect of getting an educa ti on, unless I could get it myself. I took up various branches of educa tio n, geography and arithmetic and trying to learn to write as I had opp ortu nity.
Here I remained till 1833, during which time I went to school three wee k s in the winter of 1851 to a teacher by the name of Haws. This tim e I sp ent mostly in learning to write.
In the summer of 1833 my father concluded to move to the State of Ohio , a nd therefore made arrangements to leave and started for that State i n Sep tember. We went to Ithaca by (1833) land and there took a boat o n Cayug a Lake to Montezuma on the canal from Albany to Buffalo. At Mont ezuma w e took [a canal boat to Buffalo and Lake Erie and on] [the] Lak e Erie [we nt] on a boat named Pennsylvania.
As soon as we had got on the boat, the weather turned cold and stormy, a n d we remained there for three days. Here we witnessed the falling of t h e stars, Oct. 1833, the time the Church was driven from Jackson Co. i n Mi ssouri.
After three days we started for Cleveland Ohio. The storm [was] still r a ging at a high rate, the wind blowing down the lake. When the boat le f t the pier, it seemed impossible to stem the storm, but could not get b ac k into port, so we came on 12 miles to Port of Evernew on the Canadia n si de, and cast anchor.
Here we lay three more days in a dangerous situation before the storm ce a sed, then the weather became fine, and we went on the Erie in Pennsylva ni a, where the boat belonged. Here the weather was very cold, and the C apt ain would not go any farther. So we were shipped onto another boat , an d after five more days again started for Cleveland but stopped at Fa irpor t to repair the boat. Here we stopped till next day, then starte d agai n for Cleveland. When within about 15 miles of the place we wer e met b y a heavy snow storm, and we were obliged to turn back to Fairpor t again . Stayed here till next day and made out to reach Cleveland abou t the 15 th of Oct. 1835.
After some difficulty, we got a man to take us out 5 miles toward our pl a ce of destination. Here we stayed over night, and the next day we wen t o n foot through the mud towards Eaton, until we arrived at the hous e o f a man named Kibby where we stopped that night.
In the morning we proceeded on to our place of destination in the tow n o f Eaton, Lorain County, Ohio. Here we found my half brother Sylvanu s an d his family in a log cabin 16 feet square, with GeorgeTiffany and h is fa mily which made ten, and when we arrived made fourteen in the sam e room . Finding Sylvanus Aldridge there was unexpected, as we had not se en no r heard from him for several years B 1833.
Here we lived all together through that winter, during which time we bui l t a house for George to live in, and Sylvanus built him a house, and i n t he spring they left the little house to us.
We lived through that summer, 1834, worked at whatever we could find t o d o until fall, when we moved to Laporte in Carlisle, about 3 miles fro m th e former place, where we resided until the next fall, when we agai n move d to Elyria, the county seat of Lorain B 1835.
Here we remained until the death of my father in September 1839.
I was taken sick on the 17th day of September 1839 and was near deat h a t the time my father died, but recovered slowly until late in the fal l wh en by overeating I was again taken with dyspepsia, which kept me dow n nea r a year, and which affected me more or less till the present day.
After I had recovered in part from this, I found myself alone, as it wer e , in the world, and considerably in debt from the expenses of doctors , bu t always finding employment, I soon extricated myself from this B 18 40.
After having set all matters to rights, I went to Chatham, [about 30 mil e s west of Akron, Ohio] where my sisters lived and built a house for m y mo ther to live near my brother‑in‑law, Benjamin Gibson. Thinking myse lf t o go to sea, but through the persuasion of my mother, I gave up th e proje ct B 1841.
I remained in Elyria, bought a lot and built a small house and moved m y m other back to live with me. Here we lived through the winter and nex t su mmer. During the time my mother and three sisters were living in Ch atha m and Litchfield [near Chatham].
Nelson Wheeler Whipple Joins the Church
The Mormons came preaching in that country, and they all joined the Chur c h of [Jesus Christ of] Latter‑day Saints.
On investigating the doctrines taught by these people, called Mormon s , I turned my attention to the same and soon became satisfied of the tr ut h of these principles and began to make arrangements to go to Nauvoo i n t he fall. The first sermon I heard was preached in my own house by El de r John Hughes in 1841.
Susan Jane Bailey, my first wife, was baptized about the same time tha t m y mother and sisters were in Litchfield, Medina Co., Ohio. We, havin g be en intimately acquainted for a long time, and her parents nor any o f he r relatives belonging to the Church, and knowing her desire to go t o Nauv oo, [I[ proposed to marry her and take her with us to the west. T his sh e agreed to. We were married on the 6th day of Aug. 1845 in Elyri a, Lora in Co., Ohio, by Elder John Hughes, in the house of her stepfathe r on wes t Evernew St.
Having made all necessary preparations for going to Nauvoo, through th e s ummer I left Elyria on the 7th day of Sept., 1843, in company with th e fo llowing persons ‑‑John Hughes, Betsy, his wife, Smith his son, Willi am, h is son, Brittan his daughter, Charlie, his son, Willard his son; Ge orge T iffany and his wife, Almira, and children B Cynthia, Zenos, Ira, L oyal, T homas Knoakes and wife Emma and children B Robert [?], Hubbard, W illiam K noakes and wife Rebecca; B Benjamin Gibson and wife, Phoebe, an d childre n B Clymenia, Hannah and Amy; George Gee and wife; Bro. William s and wife ; Mary Whipple and daughter Gerua and I (Nelson Wheeler W. an d Susan Jan e Bailey, my wife. This constituted the company with which w e came fro m Elyria, Lorain Co., Ohio to Henderson, Knox Co., State of Il linois . B 1845
On leaving Ohio, I and my wife left numerous friends and relatives who s e emed to regret our departure, but who could not persuade us to stay fr o m gatherings with the Church, so great was our determination to follo w ou t the plan of salvation.
We proceeded on towards Nauvoo in the above-mentioned company, by wa y o f the places mentioned below . . .
Route Travelled
From Elyria [Ohio] to Birmingham14 miles
Birmington [Birmingham] to Florence 8
Florence to Norwalk 8
Norwalk to Monroeville 5
Monroeville to Belview 7
Belview to Green Creek 9
Green Creek [Springs?] to Sandusky 7
Sandusky to Perrysburg 31
This was through what was called the Black Swamp in Ohio. The road wa s m acadamized with broken up fine stone pounded in.
Perrysburg to Maumee City 1 mile
Maumee City to Sylvania 12
Sylvania to Adsen 15 1/2
Adsen to Mosco 20
Mosco to Jonesville10
Jonesville to Coldwater 18
Coldwater to Brunson 12
Brunson to Sturgis Perrane [Michigan] 15
Sturgis to White Pigeon 12
White Pigeon to Motville 6
Motville to Bristol [Indiana] 6
Bristol to Elkhart 8
Elkhart to Mishawaka 11
Mishawaka to South Bend 4
South Bend to Laporte 28
Laporte to Door Village 4
Door Village to Valiperazo [Valparaiso] 18
Valperizo [Valparaiso] to Jolyett [Joliet, Illinois] 56
Jolyett [Joliet] to Ottawa 43
Ottawa to Peru 16
Peru to Princeton 20
Princeton to Providence 10
Providence to Ocoly 12
Ocoly to Lafayett 13
Lafayett to Walnut Grove 17
Walnut Grove to Henderson 12
Henderson to Monmouth 20
Monmouth to Nauvoo 55
Total 563
At Henderson, Knox [Now Mercer] Co., Illinois we made a halt, both myse l f and Bro. Tiffany sick with ague and out of money. Bro. Gibson had st op ped at Ottawa about 100 miles back and also Mr. Knoaks.
Placed in this situation we hardly knew what course to take, but we fou n d the people very kind, and we soon prepared houses to live in and some th ing to eat. I was directed to a doctor Cooper in the same town, who m I w as told could cure us of the ague, so I went to him and asked him i f he w ould give us some medicine for that complaint.
He said he would cure us both if we would chop him one cord of wood wh e n we got well. This I thought was reasonable enough and took it accord in gly to his directions, and it broke the ague forthwith and we got wel l so on.
On beginning to recover my health, I began to study what I should purs u e for a living while I should stay in that place. Having some knowled g e of turning, etc, I thought to make chairs and spinning wheels which p ro ved to be a good business in that place.
I therefore put up a lathe, the best I could and proceeded to prepare f o r such work. When I got ready, Br. Tiffany came in to work with me, a n d we did very well at it. Provisions of all kinds were low. Wheat 3 7 ce nts, flour one 1/2 cent per pound, fresh pork the same and good sal t por k two cents per pound, eggs three cents per doz. sugar six cen | Whipple, Daniel (I685)
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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. | Tiffany, Mary (I686)
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SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data, (c) 1995 Info b ases, Inc. Also LDS Ancestral File.
SOURCE: Clara Hammond McGuigan, The Antecedents and Descendants of N o a h W hipple of the Rogerene Community at Quakertown, Connecticut (Itha ca , N.Y.: J.M. Kingsbury, 1971), p. 40. Gives a Daniel, b. 7 Sep 1749 i n So mers, Connecticut. Does not give name of wife.
SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and H i s Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 55.
Grandson's Recollections
My grandfather, I have some more knowledge of. He was born in Brattlebor o , Windham County, Vermont, in the year of 1749. I know but little of h i s life until he came to the State of Pennsylvania about the year 1785 . H e settled in the wilderness on the Susquehanna River, 13 miles from a ny w hite inhabitants. Here he lived until the country became more settle d an d died suddenly of the pleurisy in the 51st year of his age and in t he ye ar 1798.His family consisted of four sons and three daughters of wh om m y father was the eldest. They were Daniel, Samuel, Richard, and Rosw ell , Cynthia, Polly and Lucy.
written by Norman Whipple 1877
History of Daniel Whipple written by son, Nelson Wheeler Whipple
A few sketches of the history of my fore-fathers according to the best i n formation I have been able to gather from my father and others.
My great-great grandfather was among the first settlers of the State o f V ermont in the Town of Brattleboro, Windham County. He had one brothe r als o who came over from England, so says the History that Edsom Whippl e obta ined while getting up the genealogy while on a mission east. He as sertain ed that there were three brothers, and from them sprang the Whipp le tha t I have ever found in the United States, which are a considerabl e number . I believe that all by that name have sprung from them as I hav e ever fo und any old countrymen that ever heard the name before they cam e to Ameri ca.
The above mentioned man, I suppose, died in the town of Brattleboro, a t w hat age I know n ot. His name I believe was Timothy, though as to th i s I am not certain–(Samuel was his name–Anor Whipple)
My great grandfather’s name was Daniel as I was informed by my father . H e also lived and died in the same place as I suppose. I have but litt le k nowledge of him at the most, but have often heard my father tell o f seein g him when my father was quite a child.
My grandfather, I have some more knowledge of. He was born in Brattlebor o , Windham County, Vermont, in the year of 1749. I know but little of h i s life until he came to the State of Pennsylvania about the year 1785 . H e settled in the wilderness on the Susquehanna River, 13 miles from a ny w hite inhabitants. Here he lived until the country became more settle d an d died suddenly of the pleurisy in the 51st year of his age and in t he ye ar 1798.
His family consisted of four sons and three daughters of whom my fathe r w as the eldest. They were Daniel, Samuel, Richard, and Roswell, Cynthi a, P olly and Lucy.
Roswell was a chair maker by trade and lived in Pennsylvania, I think, b u t I have little knowledge of him after I was 5 years old, when he cam e t o my father’s house and brought a set of common kitchen chairs, whic h wer e kept in our family 34 or 35 years.
Roswell went to the State of Ohio, Zainsville, Muskeegum County, on th e M uskeegum River and built mills there and probably died there but I ha ve n ot heard from him in many years.
Samuel was a tailor by trade and went to Canada and my father never hea r d from him after about the year 1800.
Cynthia and Polly, I cannot remember hearing my father say much about, a f ter he left home but whether either of them married I do not know but L uc y married a man by the name of Bingham and went to Ohio with Roswell a n d was killed in a saw mill.
My grandmother’s maiden name was Hildreth (Deborah). She was confine d t o her bed eight years, before her death, with slow consumption. She d ie d some years, before my grandfather did but I do not know in what year . H er father lived to the age of 104 years and died in Vermont, but wha t pla ce I do not know. I do not have knowledge of any more family.
My father Daniel Whipple was born in Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermo n t in the year 1779, Aug. 27. He resided here until he was 6 years old w he n his father moved to Pennsylvania.
Here they lived until his mother died. How long that was I do not know b u t when or shortly after she died, he went from his father’s house and l iv ed about in different places until he married, which was about the yea r 1 804, at which he was 25 years of age.
At what place they lived when they were married, I do not know, but shor t ly after he moved to Deposit, a small village in Broom Co. N.Y. Here h e f ollowed lumbering most of the time for about 5 years when he moved t o San ford in the same county about 4 miles from Deposit on Acquago Cree k in th e forest, in a valley between two mountains where the soil was ex tremly p oor and subject to frost in the summer and deep snow in the wint er.
Here he built a house and cleared off a farm, of 20 or 30 acres, of th e h eaviest timber which cost him much labor for which he received smal l pa y as the soil was not productive.
While living at this place, my mother did much towards the support of t h e family by sewing, carding and spinning wool, spinning flax for her ne ig hbors and by this means clothed her children and mostly fed them.
In this place they lived 13 years. Here four of the children were born , i ncluding myself, I being the youngest. My father was not at home bu t litt le, being off attending a saw mill or running lumber to Philadelph ia, dow n the River Delaware.
My father laboring hard and having made but poorly thought to seek a bet t er location in some other place in Tompkins Co., in the same state whe r e some of my mother’s kin lived. Having found, as they supposed, a bett e r place they returned and made preparations to move. He sold his plac e an d most of his house furniture and hired my cousin Erastus Stuart t o hau l us to the new location, he staying behind to arrange his business .
We, after three day’s travel, arrived at my uncle Nathan Stuart’s who ma r ried my mother’s sister. Here we stayed for several days and then wen t tw o miles to my Uncle Jarrid Patchin’s and lived with them several mon ths.
My father came here 4 weeks after us and he and Samuel went to movin g a b lock-house which my father had bought and putting it up on the far m he ha d taken, during which time we lived at my Uncle Jarrid’s.
After having completed the house we moved over to it. This was upon a hi g h hill or mountain where we had an extensive view of the surrounding co un try in almost every direction.
I was 9 years of age and had to perform a great deal of outdoor labor, s u ch as ploughing, harrowing, cutting wood, making fence, etc. But I wil l c ontinue the history of my father down to his death and then that of m y mo ther and of the older children, my brothers and sisters and my uncle s an d aunts and of their families before I commence upon my own.
The winter of 1828-29 was very severe and we living on a high hill whe r e the wind had a fine sweep, we found all we could do to keep ourselve s a nd the cattle alive.
Having passed this winter my father commenced farming, a business he w a s not much used to but made out very well at it for some years.
The price of grain being very low and money scarce he did not succee d i n paying for the land he had taken which was to be four dollar per ac re b ut the interest had run up to about 8 dollars per acre.
Circumstances being as they were he found it impossible to pay for the l a nd, and therefore concluded to sell his improvements and try some othe r p lace.
He therefore sold to Josep Baker and Jefferson Collins for the small s u m of forty dollars. The improvements had cost him not less than 300 dol la rs. He then went to the farm of Joseph Teeter, a part of which he rent ed . He built a house on the part he had taken but this land being very p oo r he soon gave it up for a bad bargain. During the time he was on thos e t wo places he did something at lumbering and shingles which inclined m y fa ther to go to Ohio.
In the latter part of the summer of 1833, my father made preparation s t o remove to the State of Ohio. He therefore sold off evrything he had , hi s cattle and wagon, household goods etc. etc., in the month of Nov . 1833 . He hired a young man by the name of Madison Knettles to take hi s famil y to the head of Cyuga Lake, a distance of 12 miles, there to tak e the St eam boat for Monesuma.
This lake is a small lake in the center of part of the State of New Yor k . It is 40 miles long and 8 or 9 miles wide. A small steamboat named De Wi tt Clinton was the only boat that ran upon it except small boats.
We arrived at the lake late in the evening and stood ourselves in the wa r ehouse till morning, and then took the boat for the bridge. This bridg e w as built across the foot of the lake two miles long.
Here we shipped aboard a canal boat and went to Montesuma, seven miles . H ere we had to ship again on board another boat for Buffalo, where w e arri ved in six days.
Buffalo is at the foot of Lake Erie, in the state of New York. Here we s h ipped again on board of the old Pennsylvania steamboat for Cleveland, O hi o.
The first night we were on the boat we witnessed the long to be remember e d signs in the heavens above.
Between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning I heard the watch come down int o t he cabin where I lay, and tell the passengers of the sight to be see n i n the sky. I immediately got up and went to the upper deck of the boa t t o behold to wonderful sight.
And a wonderful sight it was for the stars were flying in every directi o n through the heavens. I stood and looked at them till I was nearly chi ll ed through, for it was very cold. I returned to my bed wondering wha t suc h a thing could mean. My father did not go up to see it .
In the morning the wind blew almost a huricane and very cold. The Lake r o lled in tremendously and the Captain was afraid to start out and her e w e lay for three days, but the wind did not cease but rather increased .
The passengers were so anxious to go that the Captain said he would g o o r go to hell trying, for he could stand it if they could. So on the f ourt h morning he put out but found rough weather and we all wished ourse lve s back in Buffalo again.
We went on 12 miles to Point Evernew on the Canadian side where we ancho r ed and lay three days. A severe snow storm came on with heavy wind whi c h drove several boats back to Buffalo.
On the 4th day we started from there and went as far as Erie in Pennsylv a nia where the boat belonged. Here the Captain had the boat drawn up an d s aid he would not go any further that winter so we had to make the bes t sh ift we could for Cleveland.
Here we stayed 3 days when the Fairpoint steamboat came up with heavy fr e ight and passengers for Cleveland. Here the most of the passenger of t h e Pennsylvania shipped on board, the Sheldon Thompson, which doubled h e r cargo. This boat was out of repair and dangerous at best. We had to p as s from one boat to the other. As it was raining and freezing it was ex tre mely dangerous. After having got aboard this boat we went on toward C leve land and we had no chance to lie down or even to sit down as the pas senge rs were so thick in the cabins, so we spent the night standing up , amuse d with jokes and fun of some of the large crowd.
The next day we arrived at Fairport, in Ohio and stayed till the next d a y for repairs. The boat started on towards Cleveland and we met a heav y s now storm which came on with such fury as to cause the Captain to tur n ba ck to Fairport again. Here we stayed another night.
The next day we started a second time for Cleveland which we made ou t t o gain as the day was fair. We had then been two weeks on Lake Erie a nd l anded almost without money, food or clothing, as we had lost some cl othin g on the boat.
My father hired a cart-boy to take us out of the city that we might ha v e some chance to get to Eaton in Lorain County, the place of our destin at ion.
Having gone a few miles we came across an old farmer going home from Cle v eland. We got him to take us out to his house. Here we stayed over nig h t and left all our goods in a barn and persued our journey on foot in t h e mud, a distance of 20 miles. My sister was sick and hardly able to wa lk . We got as far as Ridgeville that night and stopped at the house o f a Mr . Kibby who treated us with great kindness.
On the following day we arrived at George Tiffany’s in the town of Eato n , Lorain Co., Ohio, the place of our destination.
We found our relatives settled in the woods half leg deep in water i n a s mall log shanty with a few acres cleared around them.
On arriving at my brother’s house to our surprise we found Sylvanus Aldr i ch and his family living in the same house. This was my half brother , m y mother’s oldest child. He had come from the state of New York. We h ad n ot seem him in many years.
On meeting with our friends we somewhat cheered, notwithstanding our ha r d fare and past troubles.
Here we lived through the winter in a house 14 by 16 ft., all together , 1 5 in number. We were mostly dependent on them for our provisions as w e co uld not earn anything, as my father was sick all winter.
In the Spring my father assisted George in building another house an d w e lived in the old one and my father worked in the sawmill of Mr. Abb y an d I chopped for 5 dollars an acre through the summer.
In the fall we moved to Carlisle and took a sawmill belonging to Phine a s Johnson in the village of La Forte. Here we lived until the spring o f 1 838, when we moved to Elyris, the county seat of Lorain County.
Here my father took as small piece of land of Herman Ely on which we liv e d and worked for a year doing job work of different kinds for a living.
In the spring of 1839 we moved across the river and took another small p i ece of land on which was a good orchard.
We repaired the house and fences on this land and did much hard labor a n d raised considerable corn, vegetables, etc., which with what we earne d o ther ways made ourselves quite comfortable.
On the 18th of Sept., 1839, as my father and I were gathering corn wi t h a yoke of yearling steers, the only team we had at the time. The weat he r was wet and unhealthy and we both were taken sick at the same time . M y father was taken with inflamation of the bowels and I was taken wit h th e bilious fever.
On finding ourselves in a bad state we sent for Dr. Howard, a skillful p h ysician who attended us faithfully but in spite of all endeavors my fat he r died on the 9th day of his illness.
Thus ended the days of Daniel Whipple, at the age of 60 years and one mo n th. He was a man of remarkable strong constitution. He had very littl e si ckness in his life except that once he fell from a building and hur t hi s back which made him grow crooked as he grew older.
He was a man of good morals but did not belong to any church at the ti m e of his death, although he had been a Methodist for a few years of hi s l ife, but had left them on account of inconsistancy of some of their d octr ines and notions.
Had he lived to hear the Gospel he would have embraced it no doubt, fo r h e condemned all churched because they had not the gifts and ordinance s ac cording to the order that Christ and Apostles taught .
He also told me that if I lived to be fifty years old in all probabilit y , I would see it. In less than one year after his death the gospel wa s pr eached in the same house that he died in, by Elder John Hughes. My f athe r did not live quite long enough to hear it. | Whipple, Daniel (I692)
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History of Amlira Whipple Tiffany
prepared by her Granddaughter Almira Tiffany Bethers
used by permission of DUP
My grandmother Almira Whipple Tiffany, wife of George Tiffany was the d a ughter of Daniel Whipple and Mary Tiffany (Aldrich) Whipple. She was b or n June 13, 1810 in Sanford, Broom County, New York. The third chil d i n a family of six children, four girls and two boys and she also ha d a ha lf sister and brother making eight children in the family.
Her mother Mary was first married to Sylvester Aldrich and two childr e n were born to them. This marriage was not a happy marriage and ende d i n divorce.
My grandmother Almira Whipple Tiffany was married to my grandfather Geo r ge Tiffany in 1829. They lived a few years in New York State, two chil dr en were born to them there, Cynthia Jane and Zenos Tiffany.
Then the spirit of pioneering came upon them and they left New York a n d went first to Eaton, Ohio. My grandfather took his two sisters wit h th em as their mother was dead. Here in Ohio is where they heard the g ospe l and about the Prophet Joseph Smith and they knew it was the truth . The y were both baptized in about 1832. My grandfather was ordained a n Elde r and received a recommendation to preach the Gospel. This was gi ven b y the direction of the General Conference organized in Grafton, Lor aine C ounty, Ohio, May 14, 1832.
My grandparents had corresponded with my grandmother's parents Daniel a n d Mary Whipple in New York praising the country in Ohio and what it ha d t o offer and they decided to go to Ohio. In the latter part of the su mme r of 1833, they (my grandmother's parents) made preparations to go t o Ohi o. Daniel sold everything they had including the cattle, wagon an d house hold goods. In the month of November 1833, this family left Ne w York t o go to Ohio where their relatives lived. After a hard journe y they arri ved there and found my grandparents (George & Almira) and fam ily settle d in the woods, half a leg deep in water in a small shanty wit h a few acr es cleared around them. Also my grandmother's half brother S ylvanus Aldr ich and his family all living in the same house. He and hi s family had c ome from New York, his mother Mary hadn't seen her son fo r many years an d this was really a family reunion and they all were so h appy after thei r hard fare and past troubles. Here they all lived throu gh the winter to gether in a house or cabin 16 ft. square. Sixteen of t hem in all, had t o eat, drink and sleep in that small house but they ha d nothing and nowhe re else to go for shelter. At first, they were entir ely dependent on Geo rge Tiffany for food as Daniel was sick all winter a nd Nelson Whipple wa s only 14 years old and stood a poor show to ear n a cents worth of anythi ng. They remained here through the winter upo n the hospitality of thei r Brother George and his good wife Almira who f reely divided with them t o the last. In the spring, they were able to s ustain themselves. Durin g this time in their huddled condition there wa s not a hard word betwee n them.
In the spring, Daniel helped George build another house, then he and h i s family lived in the old one and he worked in the mill for a Mr. Abb y an d Nelson chopped timber for five dollars an acre through the summer . Thi s is where Daniel Whipple died and was buried.
George and Almira Tiffany had two children born in New York, one in Lit t lefield, Modena County, Illinois, one in Eaton, Ohio, one in Nauvoo, Il li nois, another in Garden Grove, my father in Springville Branch, Pottaw att amie County, Iowa and his brother Nelson at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. O ne c hild died in Henderson, Illinois, and two died in Nauvoo, Illinois . Fiv e children came as pioneers of 1852 with their parents to Utah.
Elder Hughes was the first missionary that came to Ohio preaching the G o spel and the Tiffany and Whipple families shortly after hearing him joi ne d the church and were baptized.
After my great grandmother Mary heard the gospel and was baptized she s a id -- If she could live to see Nauvoo and hear the authorities of the C hu rch, she would be willing to leave this world. Her desire was grant e d a few years later.
There were thirty-two persons who left Ohio for Nauvoo, Illinois, 563 m i les distant. All of them had been converted by John Hughes a local Eld er . When they reached Henderson they were penniless and had to work her e . It was here my Uncle Zenos died. The cause of his death was never k no wn, he sickened and died suddenly. He was a child of uncommon talent s fo r his age. He had an aspiring mind, sought after learning and wisdo m tha t would do him good and those he associated with. His strange expe rienc e shows what a hold the new religion had on even boys. He told hi s fathe r he was going to die but he was not to mourn for him because h e would b e better off than the living and that his father and friends wo uld soon s ee him again. He asked to be given his last drink of water a nd that h e might be raised up that he might see the fire for the last ti me. Thi s having been done for him he bade the family goodbye and then f ell bac k and died in 1843.
Sometime in the summer of 1844, grandfather George Tiffany and his tw o b rothers started to go to Nauvoo to see the city and the Prophet Josep h Sm ith. They went as far as Macedonia, then settled by the saints, an d in c onsequence of so much rain they couldn't go on the rest of the wa y and re turned home.
About a year before the Whipple family went to Nauvoo, Illinois, grand p a and grandma Tiffany and family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. They bui l t a large log house on Bain Street, two blocks north of the Temple. Ab ou t a year after this Grandpa Tiffany went back to see the Whipple famil y w hile there he was taken very sick and continued so for so long and t o al l appearance came near his death. After he had in part recovered , Uncl e Nelson hired a Brother Landres to take him home to Nauvoo.
On the 3rd of May 1845, Uncle Nelson Whipple, his wife, mother and sist e r Gerua left for Nauvoo, Illinois to make their home. They went to gra nd pa Tiffany's and stayed for three weeks. While traveling to Nauvoo th e y had a pleasant journey of 75 miles unmolested although they passed th ro ugh towns where the people had the most bitter enmity against the Morm ons . They arrived at the Tiffany's May 6, 1845, all well and in good sp irit s. The next day after their arrival they went to see the temple, th e wal ls were half up. This building was of whitish rock, a course kin d of mar ble, taken from the banks of the river about one half mile fro m the templ e. On seeing the building, its size and curious workmanshi p and the nume rous workmen engaged upon it they were quite surprised. T hey viewed th e work as far as it was done, walked about the city all da y and returne d to the Tiffany home well pleased with what they had seen . While stayin g here Uncle Nelson Whipple furnished flour and fish an d they all lived h igh on bread and catfish. Soon after they moved there ,they were sick wit h fever and so were the Tiffany's.
My grandparents, George and Almira Tiffany had their endowments in th e N auvoo temple. They had to leave their home as did others. They wen t t o Garden Grove for awhile, then went to the Missouri River here Uncl e Nel son found them very uncomfortably situated for the winter. Livin g in a s od house and burning green black walnut wood and eating buckwhea t bread g round in wooden millstones by their door. He told them he thou ght they w ould do much better to go over on the East side of the river t o Springvil le Branch and stay with him through the winter and then get s ome land an d build a house and prepare to go to the valley as soon as po ssible. Thi s he they did and it is where my father was born, George Mas on Tiffany, J anuary 31, 1850.
Uncle Nelson Whipple was 1st Counselor to the President of the Springvi l le Branch-- Father Williams the President. When he left for the valle y G randpa Tiffany was called to take his place and when Father William s left , he, George Tiffany was made President of the Springville Branc h in Pott awattamie County, Iowa.
When his brother-in-law Nelson Whipple left for the valley grandpa Geor g e Tiffany went a long way with them and when he turned to go back thei r f eelings were so that they couldn't bid each other goodbye.
In 1852, the Tiffany's started their journey across the Plains. I have n 't yet found the Company they came in. When they arrived in Fort Laram ie , Wyoming their youngest child, a boy, was born August 6, 1852. The y nam ed him Nelson Wheeler Tiffany for the brother they had be so closel y asso ciated with and loved so dearly.
They came on and about Sept. 1852 came to Salt Lake going on to Ogde n . Here they lived for five years, then they came to Provo. The tim e o f the move was when Johnston's army was sent to this Territory.
After camping by the Provo river during the summer, they moved into t h e Fort during the winter. They suffered great privations as did all t h e early pioneers. My grandmother had all the care of the children as h e r husband and eldest son Ira were in the Echo Canyon War.
She made cloth for the family use, from flax they had raised themselve s , doing the spinning, weaving and dyeing of the clothe and making the c lo thes.
She was very faithful and true to the Church bearing her testimony to t h e truthfulness of the Gospel many times. She was also blessed with th e g ift of tongues.
My eldest sister, Mary Ellen Tiffany Steele, remembers being in Relie f S ociety meeting in the basement of the Old Tabernacle when she was a c hil d in Provo and of hearing Grandma Almira Tiffany get up to bear her t esti mony and she talked in tongues, it sounded to my sister like the Ind ian l anguage. Her daughter Aunt Almira Tiffany Holden began to cry thin king h er mother had lost her mind. Zina Card was at this meeting and af ter gra ndma sat down she got up and gave the interpretation of tongues a s it ha d been given to her. Then everything was all right.
My grandmother and grandfather Tiffany and my father did some work fo r t he dead. My father going through the endowment House more than a yea r be fore he married my mother.
Grandmother Tiffany was loved by all who knew her and she was a splend i d wife and mother always helping her husband in the responsible positio n s of trust he held at many different times in the Church. Always taki n g the best of care of her children and teaching them the Gospel and th e r ight way of living.
She lived to be 79 years of age and passed away in Provo, Feb. 14, 18 8 9 and is buried in the Provo City Cemetery. She was the mother of eig h t children, five of them came as pioneers to Utah in 1852 and three di e d before the journey west. | Whipple, Almira (I691)
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SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data. | Whipple, Cynthia Delight (I64)
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SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data. | Whipple, Carum (I1040)
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SOURCE: Letter from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 13 Dec 1997.
SOURCE: International Genealogical Index, version 3.06.
SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consistin g o f Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and El izab eth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 28. | Hopkins, Captain John (I31076)
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SOURCE: Michel L. Call, "Royal Ancestors of Some L.D.S. Families" (Afto n , Wyoming? 1972), p. 110.
SOURCE: Edson Whipple Family Organization microfilm.
SOURCE: Clair A. Hemenway Newton, Captain John Whipple, 1617-1685, and H i s Descendants (Naperville, Ill., 1946), p. 47.
SOURCE: Photo of John's gravestone at Ellor Cemetery, Cemetery Road of f S unset Lake Road, Dummerston, Windham, Vermont., received from Lore n D ahl i ng 22 Aug 2004.
SOURCE: Email from Hugh Hudson to Weldon Whipple, 12 May 2012. Cites Gro t on Vital Records p. 228 (scanned page attached to email). Part of the B ar bour Collection. | Whipple, John (I31298)
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SOURCE: Michel L. Call, "Royal Ancestors of Some L.D.S. Families" (Afto n , Wyoming? 1972), p. 110.
SOURCE: Records of the Edson Whipple Family Organization.
SOURCE: Family group sheet of John Yeager (husband) and Ann Hyatt (wi f e ) prepared by Lydia W. Hansen, Box 314, Lakeside, Arizona. Cites th e foll owing:
Rec of Edson Whipple in poss of Charles Whipple, Show Low, Arizona.
Patriarchal blessing of Mary Ann and Harriet Yeager.
Temple rec
Life Story of Edson Whipple
Edson Whipple was a descendant of John Whipple, who came from England ab o ut 1620 and settled in Providence, Rhode Island. John was a son of Mat th ew of Booking, England. Edson was the sone of John and Basmuth Hutchi ns , grandson of Timothy and great-grandson of Samuel, who lived and die d i n Connecticut. John, the father of Edson, migrated from Connecticu t an d settled in Vermont in the year of 1780, where on the fifth of Febr uary , 1805, in the town of Dummerston, Windham County, Edson was born; h e bei ng the youngest son of a family of twelve children...five boys an d seve n girls.
He lived on a farm with the family until his father’s death, which occur r ed in November, 1830, after which he took charge of the farm and manag e d the affairs of those of the family yet at home.
On February 6, 1832, he married Lovinia Goss.
In 1834, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he ran a grocery sto r e for a year or two. In the summer of 1837 he moved with his family t o P hiladelphia, where he lived for 9 years. It was while living in Phil adel phia that he first heard the gospel as revealed to Joseph Smith. O n 16 J une 1840, he was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church o f Jesus C hrist of Latter-day Saints, by Elder Benjamin Winchester. 17 Oc tober 184 0 he was ordained a priest by Elders Hyde and Bernes. He was o rdaine d a High Priest 6 April by Pres. Hyrum Smith and was chosen to ac t as fi rst counselor the Elder Benjamin Winchester to preside over the P hiladelp hia branch of the church.
On the 22 September 1842, he in company with twelve or fifteen others le f t Philadelphia by boat through the Erie Canal, for Nauvoo. The first S ab bath out they were detained on account of low water. They obtaine d a nea r-by school house and held two meetings, after which Elder Whippl e had th e privilege of baptizing six persons, among them the captain o f the boat , Jacob Wtezler, and two of his brothers.
The trip from Philadelphia to Nauvoo consumed 32 days by boat and rail a n d cost $12. 25. In speaking of prices of provisions and other thing s i n Nauvoo about 1842, he says lumber cost $10.00 per thousand; bric k $4.8 5; wheat 30 cents a bushel; corn 12½ cents; pork 1½ cents, bee f 2 cents l b.; butter 8 cents, eggs 6 cents a dozen; sugar 16 lbs. O r a dollar; mola sses 25 a gallon. He said these were the hardest time s he had in his lif e to get things’ no money in circulation. His wife w as sick and wanted s ome butter, he had no money to get it but started fo r the store after som e, and in crossing the rad, found a quarter .
In writing of the prophet in a letter to a friend, he says; “
He is a man whose character stands unimpeachable and is respected and co n sider a good citizen by all classes who have become acquainted with hi m . I know him to be kindhearted and charitable, given to hospitality, a n d he would divide the last meal with the poor.”
Nauvoo, at this time, was a city of twelve or fifteen thousand inhabitan t s and a very peaceful city, not a grog shop in it. On May 1, 1844 he , i n company with David Yearsly, left Nauvoo for a mission to Pennsylvan ia , to canvas the state and to present to the people to prophet’s view s o n government. While on this trip the prophet and patriarch were murd ered . Returning home, he was present at the meeting of the saints and w itnes sed the mantle of Joseph rest on Brigham Young as he was preachin g to th e people.
He assisted in building the Nauvoo Temple and was present at the layin g o f the capstone, and when it was completed, he received his endowment s the rein. He also helped to build the Nauvoo House, working on it duri ng th e Months of August and September, 1845. He assisted in defending t he cit y of Nauvoo against the mob which threatened to destroy it and th e temple . He was on guard some three or four miles down the river whe n General H arden and some thirty men on their way to Nauvoo to take Brig ham Young (t he time they took William Miller, supposing him to be Brigha m Young). A fter they passed, Whipple started for the city to give th e alarm and wen t by way of Golden Point, and around to the Temple, wher e he arrived thr ee-quarters of an hour before the General and his party . Conference wa s in session then. He sent in for General Rich, who mad e the arrangement s for their reception. At this time Elder Whipple belo nged to the new po lice under Captain Jesse Hunt.
At the time of the organization for the building of wagons, he was appoi n ted captain over ten in General Rich’s company. On the 15th of May 184 6 , in company with Hugh Mckinley and their families and teams, they cros se d the Missouri River on their way to Garden Grove. Travel was slow a n ac count of swampy ground.
They stayed in Garden Grove about two weeks, when he left for Council Bl u ffs, where he arrived about the middle of July 1846. It was about thi s t ime that the son, “Come, Come Ye Saints’ was composed. While on thi s jou rney he met Brigham Young going from Council Bluffs to Phisgy. H e told t hem that the government had made a demand on them for 500 men t o go to th e Mexican War.
After arriving at the Bluffs they were counseled to fix for the winte r . Together with twelve or fifteen families the located themselves on P on y Creek, about twelve miles from Winter Quarters, but they found thi s a v ery sickly place and out of the few persons, they buried fourteen . Her e Elder Whipple buried his whole family, consisting of his mother , wife a nd child, and came nigh unto death himself. There were only tw o well per sons in the camp at the time. After his family was buried, h e lay helple ss for a day and night and no one came to him; then the lat e Franklin Ste wart came to him and told him his family was not well, bu t if he were ove r to their camp they would help him. So he go John Mile s to move him ove r to Stewart’s where he stayed until well.
In the spring of 1847 he was called with 142 other people to form a pion e er company to lead the way to the Rocky Mountains. He traveled in th e fi rst ten of the second division under Captain Appleton Harman. (Howa rd Eg an, captain of ten of the second division under Captain Appleton Ha rman . Howard Egan, captain of ten and Heber C. Kimball of fifty.) Fro m th e diary of Edson Whipple; “In the spring of 1847 I was called in com pan y with 142 others to form a company of pioneers to lead the way int o th e wilderness. I left Winter Quarters 9 April and traveled among th e firs t ten of the second division under Capt. Harmon in the same c ompan y wit6h Pres. Heber C. Kimball. I was one of the guards and stoo d duty h alf the night every third night. About half our company arrive d in Sal t Lake City 22 July 1847, followed by Brigham Young and the rema inder o f the company on July 24. I had remained to take charge of the p ropert y and Brother Kimball’s family and effects, having buried all my f amily o n the road...”
After farming in Salt Lake City and making a return visit in the easte r n states and coming across the plains with another band of pioneers, Br ot her Whipple resumed his writing; “8 December 1847 This day, after comp let ing the sowing of wheat, all that I intend to sow until Elias Peirso n ret urns from California, I have weighted all the bread stuff we have o n hand , which consisted of 1078 lbs. Of wheat, 150# buckwheat, 360# of c orn, 65 1# of beans, Coffee for Ellen (Kimball’’s wife) 7#; rice for Ell en , 1 4 ½ #; sugar for Ellen 20#.
“December 10, the family came together in Brother Smith’s house and I la i d before them the quantity of provisions on hand and requested them t o ta ke into consideration what disposition we should make of it. It wa s agre ed on by all that each should draw every week 3# wheat, 2 ½ # bea ns, 1 # buckwheat, and 9 3/4# beef, and by so doing it would last until t he 1s t of July next.”
He was a member of the first High council in Salt Lake City, also the fi r st watermaster. On the 13 October 1848 he started back to the state s o n business for himself and discharged soldiers of the Mormon Battalio n . On this trip he took with him a small vial of California gold dust , pr obably the first gold dust ever exhibited in the East from the new C alifo rnia diggings. Wherever exhibited in the East, people came by th e thousa nds to see it. While Edson was in the east, Wilford Woodruff wa s sent o n a mission to the States with an epistle form the twelve apostl es and El der Whipple was called to assist him.
After filling this mission, he returned to Salt Lake City. 6 November 1 8 50 he married Mary Ann and Harriet Yeager whom he had brought across t h e plains with him from Philadelphia, where he had made their acquaintan ce . Quote again the diary of Edson Whipple: “After returning to Utah i n 18 50 I was called to help settle Iron County. We left 4 December wit h 10 1 wagons in our company. C.A. Smith was appointed judge of the coun try c ourt and I was his first associate. We submitted plans for towns a nd Par owan, Utah was built according to my plan. George Brimhall and my self bu ilt the first thresher and used water power from the creek to thr ash th e first crop of grain.
“In May 1851, Pres. Brigham Young made a visit and he and Pres. Hebe r C . Kimball said, “The mission is established and you can return to Pr ov o whenever you choose.”
His first wife was taken by death before he came to Utah. He married fo u r other wives and had families by all. He had a total of 33 Children . T he following is a tribute paid by Albert Jones, who lived in Provo a t th e time of Whipple’s residence there; “He was one of the pioneers liv e bur ners of our country, opening a large kiln across the lake at Pelica n Poin t, and the first to open up the commerce of Utah Lake by shippin g his lim e in a flat-bottomed sailboat.
“The love and devotion of his large plural family in the early days is e m phasized when one of his children contracted the dread disease, small-p ox . A consultation has held between his first wife, Mary Ann, and Edson , i n regard to the case. The child was not one of MaryAnn’s or of her S iste rs, but a well_grow boy of his third wife, Amelia, name Heber. Th e discu ssion concluded with Mary Ann’s argument, as if in foreboding o f her deat h, that if anything happened, she could be spared better tha t Edson; ther efore she would go in and nurse the boy, and she did. Th e boy died and s o did she. The case produced quite and excitement at th e time. The stre et was fenced off by order of the City Council; fires w ere built near th e premises, and the two victims of the dread disease we re burned in the d arkness of the night. The coffins were wrapped in clo ths dipped in tar : no funeral service, no sympathetic accompaniment of f riends, but the de ad hour of the night, Edson consigned to the flames th e remains of his lo ved ones.”
In 1871 He was sent on a mission to the Eastern States.
When the laws of the land no longer permitted plural marriage, or the li v ing together of plural families, Edson Whipple moved with two of his wi ve s, Harriet and Amelia and their children, to Arizona. Stopping at Hol bro ok the first of the year 1881, he worked there on the A. & P. Railroa d, n ow the Santa Fe. In May of the same year, they moved to Showlow, wh ere t hey located and bought a couple of claims, one from William Wolf o n the S howlow Creek, which had a small two-room house on it; and the oth er two m iles west which had about 20 acres of cleared land and some cro p plante d on it. Here he built a pumping plant run by water power, an d pumped th e water 150 feet up the cliff for domistic purposes. At thi s place he bu ilt a block house 22 by 32 feet, with port holes in it fo r protection aga inst the Apache Indians who were not friendly at that ti me. This buildin g was also used for public meetings and dances, and i t was known later a s the Whipple Hall.
He lived at Showlow until the fall of 1885, when he took his wife Ameli a , and the unmarried children and started for Old Mexico. But only wen t a s far as the Gila Valley, spending the winter there and going on in t h e spring, and locating in Colonia Juarez. The next fall he returned a n d got his other wife, Harriet, and her unmarried children. He also to o k his cattle on this trip.
In Mexico he built two houses and resided there until his death, 11 Ma y 1 894. He was buried in Colonia Juarez.
(Prepared by L. Florene Lunt Fair.) | Whipple, Edson (I31308)
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SOURCE: Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46
SOURCE: Hearthrobs of the West. Carter, Kate Volume: 8 Page: 56 Volum e : 3 Page: 294 Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies. Bitton, Davi s
SOURCE: Pioneers of 1847. Easton, Susan W.
SOURCE: Rosters of Pioneers 1847
SOURCE: Book of Patriarchal Blessings Index (Pat Bless) Volume: 4 Pag e : 2 36
SOURCE: Mormon Manuscripts to 1846. Andrus, Hyrum. 1977
SOURCE: Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake...Counties, ID. 1904
SOURCE: Nauvoo: Early Mormon...Series, 1839-1846. Platt, Lyman. 1980
!Treasures of Pioneer History. Carter, Kate Volume: 3 Page: 485
!Improvement Era Volume: 59 Page: 234
SOURCE: The Revelations of Joseph Smith. Cook, Lyndon. 1981 Page: 300
SOURCE: LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 1 Pa g e:99-100 Volume: 4 Page: 339 Volume: 4 Page: 694
SOURCE: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913 Page: 750
!Illinois, Nauvoo City Tax Lists 1841-44
Pioneer
Brigham Young Pioneer Company (1847) Approximate age at departure: 36
The original pioneer company consisted of 142 men, 3 women, and 2 Childr e n, and 72 wagons when they left the outfitting post of Winter Quarters , N ebraska. They covered the 1031 miles of the trail in 111 days and arr ive d in the Salt Lake Valley 21-24 July 1847.
Ezra T. Benson Company (1849) Age at departure: 38
The company began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Io w a. They combined with the George A. Smith company as they traveled clo s e together crossing the plains.
Orson Pratt/Ezra T. Benson/Ira Eldredge Company (1854) Age at departur e : 4 3
Initially this company was the Orson Pratt/Horace S. Eldredge company. L a ter it became the Ezra T. Benson and Ira Eldredge Company. They left t h e Missouri River late in July.
Company Unknown (1857) Age at departure: 46
Orson Pratt/Ezra T. Benson Company (1858) Age at departure: 47
A small group of returning missionaries and others from Californi a t o o k a steamer from San Francisco to Los Angeles, then traveled to S an B ernardino, from which place they quickly traveled overland to Utah.
Ezra T. Benson was the first son of John and Chloe Taft Benson of Worces t er County, Massachusetts. His father was a farmer and a very industrio u s man - a quality which his son inherited - and Ezra T. lived at hom e h e l ping him on the farm until he was sixteen years old. Then, he we n t t o live with his sister, Abby Ann Benson and her husband, Calvin Raw so n, who we re keeping a hotel in the center of town of Uxbridge, Mass . H e remained working for them for three years. His grandfather, Easmo n Taft , was also a farmer, and while engaged in the field, he fell and d ied sud denly on the 29th of April 1829 at Uxbridge. At the age of ninete en his g randmother, Hannah Taft, requested him to take charge of the far m.
Apostle, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, settler of Cac h e V a lley. Member of first Mormon pioneer company arriving in Salt La k e Valle y, July 24, 1847. He is also the great grandfather of Ezra Taf t B enson, thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d ay S aints.
(son of John Benson and Chloe Taft of Mendon, Worcester county, Massachu s etts). Born February 22, 1811, at Mendon, Massachusetts. Came to Utah J ul y 24, 1847, captain second ten, Brigham Young first division, and on A ugu st 2 with Porter Rockwell, returned to meet the incoming immigrant t r ai n s with mail, and a special letter from President Young. Having per forme d their mission they returned and on the Big Sandy met the memorabl e expe dition east-bound for Winter Quarters, headed by President Young , an d re t urned east with the caravan. The following year, May 7, 1848 , with par t of his numerous family he joined the exodus for Utah that le ft Winter Q uarters practically uninhabited.
Married: Pamelia Andrus January 1, 1832 (daughter of Jonathan Harvey A n drus and Lucina Parsons, married July 16, 1807). She was born October 2 1 , 1809, and came to Utah in 1848.
Their children:
Chloe Jane;
Adin Parsons;
Jonathan;
Harvey;
Charles Taft;
Emma Parsons born February 28, 1842, married Bolivar Roberts;
Isabella born March 9, 1846, married William Goodwin;
Charlotte Taft born July 4, 1851, married W. S. Narcross.
Married: Adeline Brooks Andrus April 27, 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois. (daug h ter of Jonathan Harvey Andrus and Lucina Parsons), who was born Marc h 1 8 , 1813, Windsor, Connecticut. Came to Utah October 2, 1847.
Their children:
George Taft born May 1, 1846, married Louisa Ballif December 20, 1 8 67;
Florence Adeline born September 17, 1851, died December 24, 1 852;
Frank born October 13, 1853, married Amanda Eliason.
Married: Eliza Perry March 4, 1847, Council Bluffs, Iowa (daughter o f J ohn Perry and Grace Ann W. Williams, pioneers July, 1849). She was bo rn M arch 30, 1829, and came to Utah 1848 with husband.
Their children:
Alice Eliza born August 11, 1848, married James Goodwin December 2 0 , 1867;
John Perry born September 24, 1849, married Evalina Hales 1870;
Malina A. born September 27, 1851, married Frederick Goodwin 1874;
Orion W. born October 4, 1853, married Harriet Williams October 1 6 , 1876;
Carrie S. born May 22, 1860, married William J. J. Price 1890;
Abbie Delia born October 16, 1862, married Hyrum Thatcher 1884;
Grace A. born January 31, 1867, married John E. Price 1893.
Married: Mary Knight (daughter of James Knight and Maria Wallace, pion e ers 1852, Edward Hunter company). She was born January 29, 1829, Worces te r, England.
Their children:
Louise, married Charles Bruce;
Heber, died;
Moroni born November 8, 1861;
Lorenzo T. born August 3, 1863, married Margaret A. Morgan March 29 , 1 884;
Joseph born July 13, 1865, married Sigrid L. Larson September 24, 189 0 ;
Ida born April 16, 1867, married Edward Lewis December 30, 1889;
Don Carlos born September 29, 1869, married Lillian Hurst April 26, 1 8 99.
Married: Elizabeth Golliaher June 8, 1852, Salt Lake City (daught e r o f William C. Golliaher and Elizabeth Orton), who was born Decembe r 30 , 1831.
Their children:
Fred Golliaher born January 17, 1854, married Clara J. Rice;
Brigham Young born December 17, 3858, married Margret Ann Adams;
Luella born November 1860, married Harvey W. Curtis;
William C. born November 1862, married Ida M. Mason;
Hyrum Smith born May 3, 1864, married Nana Rice;
Edith born April 22, 1867, married William B. Parkinson;
Lizzie born July 9, 1869, married Evan R. Owen.
Married: Mary Larsen September 3, 1866 (daughter of Magnus and Mary La r sen), who was born December 19, 1843.
Their children:
Walter born June 17, 1867;
Henry T. born March 19, 1869, married Selma Lundberg October 4, 19 0 6.
Families resided in Salt Lake City and Logan, Utah.
Ordained member high council of the twelve apostles July 16, 1846; presi d ent Boston conference 1844-45; missionary in eastern states; missionar y t o England 1856, and presided over the British mission. In 1864 he, wi th A postle Lorenzo Snow, Elders Joseph F. Smith, William W. Cluff and Al ma L . Smith were sent on a special mission to the Sandwich Islands to se t i n order the affairs of the church, which they successfully accomplish ed , returning in 1865. Took active part in organization of provisional g ove rnment of Deseret; member house branch of legislature several sessio n s , 1 859-69. Contractor on Central Pacific. Preeminently connected wit h th e settlement of Cache valley. Died September 3, 1869, Ogden, Utah. | Benson, Ezra Taft (I2988)
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SOURCE: Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46
SOURCE: Mormon Manuscripts to 1846. Andrus, Hyrum. 1977
SOURCE: Family Group Sheet-Father
SOURCE: Family Group Sheet-Self
SOURCE: Iowa, Pottawattamie County, Federal Census; Year: 1840
SOURCE: Nauvoo Social History Project. Smith, James
SOURCE: Guide to Mormon Diaries & Autobiographies. Bitton, Davis
SOURCE: Journal of Nelson Wheeler Whipple
SOURCE: Utah Federal Census; Year: 1851, 1860, 1870
SOURCE: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913 Page: 12 4 1
SOURCE: Salt Lake City 6th Ward Records
SOURCE: Checklists to Published Diaries and Autobiographies
Occupation: Blacksmith, Carpenter, Lumberman
SOURCE: LDS Collectors Library: Early LDS Membership Data.
Cemetery: Salt Lake City Cemetery, M_1_3_1E
Pioneer
Brigham Young Company (1848)
Age at departure: 29
1220 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from th e o utfitting post at Winter Quarters, Nebraska
David Evans Company (1850) Age at departure: 31
54 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitt i ng post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). | Whipple, Nelson Wheeler (I63)
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SOURCE: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 10.
SOURCE: Email from Earle K. Peckham (earlep at juno dot com) to Weldon W h ipple on 8 Jan 1998 gives birth date of 24 Nov 1718. (Previously record e d as 22 Nov 1718.)
SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, vol . 3 , Gloucester, pt. 1, p. 67. Gives birth date 24 Nov 1718.
SOURCE: Email from Raymond F. Whipple (whip69 at comcast dot net) to t h e Whipple Website, 5 Nov 2003. Gives Job's father as John Whipple, b . 3 0 Aug 1692 in Providence, Rhode Island. | Whipple, John (I18672)
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SOURCE: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 10.
SOURCE: Email from Joe Lovell (jlovell at frontiernet dot net) to weld o n Whipple, 4 Jul 2005. Adds approximate birth date and place. | Hannah (I26697)
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SOURCE: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 10.
SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, vol . 3 , Gloucester, pt. 1, p. 67.
Birth: Although F.E. Whipple gives Gloucester, Mass., as the birth plac e , Jonah appears in the Gloucester volume of Arnold's Vital Record of Rh od e Island. Surely it was Gloucester, R.I., instead.
SOURCE: Email from Michael Whipple (whip33 at msn dot com) to Weldon Whi p ple, 30 Jun 2005. Cites http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~frgen / f ranklin/chateaugay/earlville.htm (Earlville Cemetery Chateaugay, Fran kli n County, New York): "In Memory of Jonah WHIPPLE Died Jan. 8, 1843 A E 8 0 " | Whipple, Jonah (I30126)
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SOURCE: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 10. Gives bi r th date of 26 Dec 1692. Email from Earle K. Peckham (earlep at juno d o t c om) to Weldon Whipple on 8 Jan 1998 gives birth date of 23 Aug 1692 .
SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, vol . 2 , Providence, pt. 1, p. 256. Gives birth date 23 Aug 1692. Marriage i s li sted on p. 197. | Harding, Lydia (I18669)
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SOURCE: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 11. Gives na m e Mary Ashton.
NAME: Variant name: Mary Small. John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Di c t i onary of Rhode Island_ (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprinted. Baltimore: G en e al ogical Publishing Co., 1978, p. 221
SOURCE: Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-19 1 0 (Boston: NEHGS, 1992), p. 437. Spells name Marie Ashton.
SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 6 Apr 1999 . G ives name Mary Small.
Emigration: Arived on the Planter durring 1635. Age listed as 35 year s o f age. Listed as from Hertfordshire, England. | Ashton, Mary (I30065)
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SOURCE: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 11.2,
SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Wh o S ettled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 13 . Fro m a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historica l Socie ty Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL. Corrected copy spell s surnam e Hoare.
SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol . 2 , Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1 892) , p. 197. | Hoare, Lydia (I18684)
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SOURCE: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. Esshom, Frank. 1913 Page: 750
SOURCE: Family Group Sheet-Father
SOURCE: Family Group Sheet-Self
SOURCE: Temple Index Bureau
SOURCE: Whitney Ward Records--Preston, ID
SOURCE: Journal of Elise Benson Alder
George was a Sunday school superintendent, high counselor, and counsel o r in the bishopric.
George was the bishop of Whitney for 20 years.
SOURCE: Death Certificates, State of Utah
Occupation: Farmer
Pioneer
Charles C. Rich Company (1847) Age at departure: 1
126 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from t h e o u tfitting post on the Elkhorn River about 27 miles west of Winte r Qu arte rs, Nebraska | Benson, George Taft (I286)
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SOURCE: Post by Dale Gerboth to the Whipple Genealogy Forum (www.genforu m .com/whipple), 11 Jan 1998.
Polly never married | Whipple, Polly (I697)
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SOURCE: Post by Dale Gerboth to the Whipple Genealogy Forum (www.genforu m .com/whipple), 11 Jan 1998. | Whipple, Richard (I695)
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SOURCE: Post by Dale Gerboth to the Whipple Genealogy Forum (www.genforu m .com/whipple), 11 Jan 1998. | Whipple, Lucy (I698)
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SOURCE: Post to the Whipple Mailing List (whipple-L at rootsweb dot co m ) by Ray G. Thompson (hoss@centuryinter.net), Jena, LA 71342, on 21 Ma r 1 997. He cites the "Currier Family Records," Vol. IV, by Philip J. Cur rier .
SOURCE: Fred E. Whipple, Whipple Genealogy (1926?). Transcribed by Ron W h ipple and emailed to the Whipple Website 16 Dec 1998.
SOURCE: Email from Elizabeth Whipple (LWhipple at aol dot com) to Fra n k W hipple (FWhipple at sjh-nh dot org), forwarded to Weldon Whippl e 7 J u l 2000. Spells name Hepsibeth. (Earlier sources spelled it Hepsab eth.)
SOURCE: Email from Michael Whipple (whip33 at msn dot com), 12 Dec 200 6 . Cites register of Ayer's Cliff Cemetery, Ayer's Cliff, Stanstead Coun ty , Quebec (http://www.interment.net/data/canada/qc/stanstead/ayers/aye r s_ m z.htm): "Whipple, Hepsibeth, b. 1770, d. 1837, mother of John J. W hippl e " (Note: Previous sources give birth 24 Mar 1767, death 1843).
SOURCE: "Ancestors of Hepsibah Melvin," email from Leslie Chapman (Ope r a _ 70 at yahoo dot com) to the Whipple Website, 7 Jan 2007. Spells na m e Hepsibah, adding exact day and month of death. | Melvin, Hepsebeth "Polly" (I30127)
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SOURCE: Research in Scotland St. Ninians, Stirling; Stirlingshire par r e c FScot 6 pt 186 (14505) | Duncan, James (I6353)
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SOURCE: Ruth Story Devereux Eddy, The Eddy Family In America (Boston: Ed d y Family Association, 1930), p. 52.
SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 11 Nov 2003. Cites Proba t e Records of Norwich, Connecticut, Vols. 1-3. Gives death before 8 Ma y 17 67. | Whipple, Zephaniah (I18019)
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SOURCE: Sons and Daughters of Jesse, by Charles M. Whipple (Oklahoma Cit y : Southwestern Press, 1976), p. 15.
SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief Genealogy of the Whipple Families Wh o S ettled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 14 . Fro m a corrected copy of the book found in the Rhode Island Historica l Socie ty Library, call no. CS71.W574 1873 RIHSL.
SOURCE: David Jillson, "Descendants of Capt. John Whipple, of Providenc e , R.I.," New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 32 (1878): 4 05 .
SOURCE: Vital Records of Attleborough, Bristol Co., MA to the end of t h e year 1849 [compact disc]: Attleborough Births (Wheat Ridge, Colo.: Se ar ch & Research Pub. Corp., c 1998), p. 285. Gives birth of grandson Wil lia m.
SOURCE: Mail from Charles M. Whipple to Weldon Whipple, 4 Feb 2003. Indi c ates that date of marriage to wife Mary is unknown.
SOURCE: Email from Charles M. Whipple to Weldon Whipple, 11 Feb 2003. Ci t es "The Early Records of the Town of Providence," 21 volumes (Providenc e : Snow & Farnum, 1894), vol. 5. From page 338: "18 Jan 1678 - William W hi pple made Proclamation of a stray horse he had taken up, color bay, br and ed on the foreshoulder with an X, the two hind feet with a White in t he f orehead, with a small white on the nose, Dock, somewhat short of sta ture , something small"; from page 162: "11 Nov 1703 - William Whipple an d Ric hard Arnold witnessed a deed of sale made between Thomas Arnold an d Shadr ach Manton."
SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., A History of William Whipple of Dorches t er, Massachusetts and Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1652-1712: His Antecede nt s and Descendants. (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, c2006), p. 4. Gives deat h i n Lime Rock, Rhode Island; p. 55-62 indicates that his headstone wa s remo ved to Moshassuck Cemetery, Providence. | Whipple, William (I732)
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SOURCE: Susan Shannon (susanorl at sundial dot net), in email to the Whi p ple Web Site on 24 Oct 1997.
SOURCE: "Descendants of Elnathan Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Wh i pple Website, 24 Feb 2003. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-18 5 0 (birth, death). | Rice, Major Henry (I26710)
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SOURCE: The following primary sources of information were supplied by Ch a rles Whipple (charles at whipple dot net) to the Whipple Website, 1 Au g 2 008:
Church membership at Dorchester: Sarah Whipple, on 29 October 1641, ad d ressed as "Goodwife Whipple," one of the lowest social class distinctio ns , was admitted to the Dorchester church. [Records of the First Churc h a t Dorchester in Newand, 1636-1734 (Boston: George H. Ellis, 1891) 6. ] Joh n would have had to be a member by then, as freemen were required t o be m embers of the church. It is believed that the record of John's adm i ttanc e to membership was taken to Connecticut in 1635/36. "There is li ttl e ho pe of finding these ancient records either in Windsor or in Dorc hester. " [Records of First Church, iv & xi]. As quoted in: Charles Whipp le, A Hi story of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 6.
Sarah Whipple's maiden name: Previous antiquarian researches claim th a t Sarah's maiden name, among others, could have been: Hutchinson, Darli ng , or They. Regrettably, none of these writers provided requisite proo f fo r their assertions. Sarah's birthplace and date of birth are likewis e unk nown.
The deaths of John and Sarah Whipple: John and Sarah's gravestones we r e carved around the year 1750, subsequent to the removal of their remai n s to the North Burial Grounds. Sarah died in 1666, being dead then fo r ap proximately 85 yearsore her gravestone was carved. Moreover, John wo uld h ave been dead for approximately 65 years in 1750. A lack of accurat e an d complete cemetery information was the result. Those who had acces s to t he truth were long since deceased themselves. Well-meaning descend ants, l ikely their grandsons, Deputy Governor Joseph Junior and his brot her, Joh n, were insufficiently prepared to carry out Captain John's 168 2 directiv e to their father to see to it that "I be decently buried." I t must be po inted out that John and Sarah's gravestones are recognized t o be the earl iest dated in the cemetery. [John E. Sterling, North Buria l Ground, Old S ection, 1700-1848, Special Publication #5 (Providence: Rh ode Islan d Gene alogical Society, 2000) xii.
Death: Age at death: 42.
SOURCE: Dwane V. Norris, Whipple Family Tree, Revised 23 Jul 1996 (Jacks o n, Mich.: D.V. Norris, c1993), p. 81.
SOURCE: Judith Whipple, "Genealogy Chart of Captain John Whipple 1617-16 8 5 to Grace Louise (Whipple) Pitcher 1892 and Alfred Whipple 1903, and J oh n Whipple 1904 and Lorey Whipple 1910-1970" (Portland, Tex., c1977). C op y in the NEHGS library, call number CS71.W574 1977.
!NAME: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 12, gives Sar a h's surname as Hutchinson. The name Sarah Hutchinson occurs much less f re quently than "Sarah They? or Darling?" as Captain John's wife. One Sar a h Hutchinson does appear in the Whipple genealogy (RIN 3573 in this dat ab ase)--married to Joseph(4), Joseph(3), Matthew(2), Matthew(1) of the I psw ich/Bocking Whipple line.
Birth: Date from John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhod e I sland_ (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprinted. Baltimore: Genealogical Publis hin g Co., 1978. Judith Whipple gives birth place of Massachusetts (no da te g iven).
Burial: Sarah's grave marker in the Whipple section of the North Buria l G rounds, Providence, R.I., reads: "IN MEMORY / of / Mrs. Sarah WHIPPL E / w ife of / Capt. John Whipple / She was born in Dorchester, in New En gland ; and died in / Providence, Anno Dona, 1666 / aged about 42 years . " -- D . V. Norris, p. 81.
RESIDENCES: Dorchester, Mass., and Providence, R.I. (Austin,_Dictionar y _ , p. 221.)
SOURCE: Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (Chicago: J. H . Beers, 1908), 3:1676-1677. Gives surname They.
SOURCE: Mail from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 8 Dec 200 6 . Estimates marriage in 1638 or earlier (previously entered as 1639/40 ) b ased on the Early Records of the Town of Providence, XVII:53-4: "On 2 4 No v 1684, John junior made a declaration that he was 45 years old at t he ti me, making his date of birth 1639." Thus his parents likely marrie d in 16 38 or earlier. | Sarah (I725)
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SOURCE: The name Adeliza, is found in Historia et cartularium monast e r i i Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ, i, 81, 125, 188-9; ii, 129. See: Keats- Ro ha n, Domesday People, Vol. I, 451, | de Baalun, Adeliza (I50385)
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SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [email hidden] to Wel d on Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997).
SOURCE "Mowry Family Ancestry," faxed by W. Robert Freiberger (email hid d en) to Weldon Whipple, 26 Jul 1999.
SOURCE: Email from Rebecca Smith (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 9 M a r 2006. Rebecca writes:
I have The Descendants of John Mowry and, unfortunately, it shed s n o light on Zerviah Angell's parents. It gives her birthdate as 12 Jun e 17 18, agreeing with one of your sources. It also gives the date of he r marr iage to Ananias Mowry as 2 March 1745, as you have it, but I thin k this w rong. You may notice that four of her and Ananias' children wer e born bef ore that date. I don't think she was a second wife, however; t he Smithfie ld vital records (Vol. 3 p.426) list all those children as "s on[s] of Ana nias Mowry and of Zerviah his wife." At the Rhode Island His torical Socie ty Library, I found a manuscript list of marriages performe d by William A rnold, JP. This manuscript is filed as MSS 267, Arnold-Hol den Papers, Ser ies I, F8. It reads, in part: "Ananias Mowry and Surfir e Angel was marrie d March 2, 1737/8." This date, which agrees in day an d month but not year , seems more reasonable, since it comes before the b irths of all of the c hildren. [Bold added by Weldon Whipple.]
I have consulted several secondary sources regarding the childre n o f John Angell and Sarah Clemence, but find no memtion of Zerviah. I f yo u learn anything furthur, I should be happy to hear of it. | Mowry, Ananias (I18715)
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SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997).
!SOURCE "Mowry Family Ancestry," faxed by W. Robert Freiberger (bob 9 0 3 a t home dot com) to Weldon Whipple, 26 Jul 1999.
SOURCE: "Descendants of Amie Mowry," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipp l e, 10 Jan 2005. Cites Arnold's Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850 ( ma rriage, death [4 May 1749, Smithfield, Providence, RI; previously ente re d as 4 May 1729]). Spells name Amie Mowry (previously entered as Ame y Mow ry). | Mowry, Amie (I18714)
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SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997).
!SOURCE "Mowry Family Ancestry," faxed by W. Robert Freiberger (bob 9 0 3 a t home dot com) to Weldon Whipple, 26 Jul 1999. | Mowry, John (I30663)
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SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997).
SOURCE: "John Smith, the Miller, of Providence Rhode Island: Some of H i s Descendants," by Charles William Farnham, in _Genealogies of Rhode Is la nd Families from Rhode Island Periodicals_ (Baltimore: Genealogical Pu b . Co., 1983), 2:57.
SOURCE: "Descendants of Joseph Mowry, Jr.," email from N. Combs to weld o n Whipple, 8 Jul 2004. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850 (b i r t h, marriage, death). | Mowry, Margery (I30664)
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SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997).
SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodica l s (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1983), 2:41 | Olney, Joseph (I16918)
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SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997).
SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from Rhode Island Periodica l s (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:50.
SOURCE: FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File. Adds estimated birth date a n d birth place. | Mowry, Abigail (I18713)
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SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997). | Mowry, Mary (I18712)
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SOURCE: The Sprague Database (Mail from Dick Weber [REWeber at sprague-d a tabase dot org] to Weldon Whipple, received 23 Oct 1997). | Mowry, Meribah (I30665)
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SOURCE: Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850 by Arnold R 974.5 A 75 6 V ol. I, pgs. 197-8, & pg. 169.
SOURCE: "Descendants of Elnathan Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Wh i pple Website, 24 Feb 2003. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-18 5 0 (birth). | Rice, Phebe (I30168)
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SOURCE: Vital Records of Rhode Island, by Arnold Vol. 1; page 100;
SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, _Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island_ ( A lbany, N.Y., 1887; reprinted. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1 97 8) p. 221
SOURCE: Email from Marcia A. Rice (rice at harborside dot com) to Weld o n Whipple, 28 Jun 1997.
SOURCE: David Jillson, "Descendants of Capt. John Whipple, of Providenc e , R.I.," New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, 32 (1878): 4 04 .
SOURCE: Additional information in email from Susan Shannon (susanorl a t s undial dot net) to Weldon Whipple, received 26 Oct 1997.
SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol . 1 , Warwick, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892 ), p . 100, 130.
SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol . 2 , Providence, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1 892) , p. 158 (marriage).
SOURCE: "Descendants of Elnathan Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Wh i pple Website, 24 Feb 2003. Cites Warwick, RI Historical Cemeteries (bi r t h, death; gives birth abt 1670 in Rhode Island, death 3 Jul 1755 in W arwi ck, Kent, Rhode Island); Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (ma rriag e, death; gives death 9 Jan 1755 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island); W arwick , RI Gravestones (burial).
Will proved in 1755, Feb 10. Executor: son, Randall. To grandson Thoma s , son of John, deceased, 35 acres adjoining land where he lives, he pay in g grandson John, son of William 100 pounds, at decease of my wife, an d al so paying 100 pounds to my son Nathan, and Thomas to also pay his br othe r Henry 100 pounds. In case of death of grandson John, the 100 pound s t o be paid his brother James. To son Thomas, all my lands in forks o f Pawt uxet River, two other lots of land and 25 pounds. To son, Nathan , a meado w share and two small lots near the fulling mill. To five daugh ters, Eliz abeth Spencer, Barbara Langford, Mary Gorton, Lydia Sweet an d Elnathan Hi ll, each 80 pounds. To wife, all indoor movables, negro cal led Moll, one- quarter income of estate and benefit of dwelling house fo r life. To thre e sons Thomas, Nathan and Randall, all wearing apparel. T o son Randall, n egro boy Rufus, he paying grandson James 100 pounds at a ge. To son Nathan , 100 pounds at decease of wife and liberty to plant tw o acres in commo n field for life. Executor of will to provide wife wit h firewood. To so n Randall, all homestead both sides the way, and all ot her lands, stock a nd movables. To three sons, equally the bonds and mone y. | Rice, John Jr (I18865)
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SOURCE: Will of grandfather, Job Whipple, dated 12 Apr 1750, prove d 1 9 M a y 1750 (See R.I. Genealogical Register, Vol. 3, No. 4 Abstract s Smi thfi el d Wills, Apr 1981, p. 328-9). Refers to Job as "Abraham Ang el und er 2 1 th e reputed son of Abraham Angel dec[eased] and & son of m y daugh ter A l[i]c e Whipple dec[eased]."
Occupation: Partner in building a dam and saw mill, Nipmogue, R.I. (1759 ) ; blacksmith, miller, lumber dealer, Easton, Washington Co., N.Y. (17 7 8 ) --C. Edwards.
!RESIDENCES: Smithfield (birth, 1733), Gloucester (marriage, 1753) an d N i p mogue Brook (1759), R.I.; Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (tax list, 1 763) ; Wh ite Creek, Washington Co., N.Y. (1769); Easton, Washington Co. , N.Y . (177 8); Saratoga, N.Y. (1790 census); Greenfield, Saratoga Co. , N.Y. ( 1796, d eath). -- C. Edwards.
SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol . 3 , Gloucester, Part 1 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1 8 92 ), p. 40.
Alice Whipple was the fifth daughter and seventh Child of Capt. Jo b a n d S ilence (Pray) Whipple. Genealogists have spent days and hours u ncov er in g the genealogical and unhappy story that Alice Whipple endure d dur in g he r short life. We have to go to the Vital Records of Glouces ter, P rovi denc e County RI. in Chepachet to uncover the facts. The reco rds rev eal t hat a t the age of eighteen, as reported by Alice, she go t involve d wit h Abraha m Angell, a young man and cousin of hers, unde r the age o f twent y-one. Th e result was an illegitimate male Child bor n to her, a s an unwe d mother. The birth date of the son is not given i n the vital s tatistic s of Smith field-Gloucester, but we found it was r ecorded in th e Archive s of the R.I. State House, being July 17th, 1733 . The date is c orrect ac cording to la ter research.
The deed having been done, Alice's father, Capt. Job Whipple, quickl y t o o k action by filing a Law Suit against Abraham Angell as the fathe r o f t h e newborn Child. The Warrant called for his Arrest and Judgemen t a s th e P arent of Alice's newborn Child. The court papers are date d 8 Sep t. 17 33, 20 Nov. 1733, and Dec. 1733. The documents filed are fo und in V ita l Rec. Vol. 4 1734 in the State House of RI. When they got A ngell int o c ourt t he charge of Paternity was denied by Abraham Angel l and he con vinc ed th e Judge that he was not a resident of Smithfiel d and thus th e charg e wa s invalid. In the confusion, the case was thro wn out of Cour t and th e Pat ernity case was lost.
Alice having lost the Paternity case, she now named her son "Job Whipp l e . Capt. Job and Silence, however, reared the boy after he was 2 o r 3 ye a r s old, when his mother died in 1736. Capt. Job in his will i n 1750 ne v ert heless refers to the son of Alice by the name, "Abraham A ngell", us in g th is name as an irate grandfather expressing his righteo us indignat io n of t he whole affair.
So this explains how, "Job Whipple", a blood relative, became our Whipp l e ancestor. | Whipple, Job (I31680)
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SOURCE: William Lee Whipple (billw at wlw dot com) database, 4 Dec 1997.
SOURCE: Dwane V. Norris, Whipple Family Tree (Jackson, Mich., 1996) , p . 1 29.
SOURCE: Email from Michael Whipple (whip33 at msn dot com) to Weldon W h i p ple, 12 Dec 2006. Confirms birth date (7 Feb 1740/1)
SOURCE: International Genealogical Index (Internet). Adds birth place. | Whipple, Hope (I18863)
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SOURCE: William Lee Whipple (billw at wlw dot com) database, 4 Dec 1997. | Rogers, Elizabeth (I18854)
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SOURCE: _The National Cyclopedia of American Biography_, vol. 34 (Ne w N o r k: J.T. White, 1948), p. 212-13.
Occupation: Author. At age 49 "began writing and gave up all other int e r e sts,... producing the equivalent of fifty books, including newspap e r a n d magazine syndicate articles, and at sixty began writing for th e m oti o n picture industry." --National Cyclopedia.
The Whipple Flag
Wayne Whipple, the Patriot Series and the Peace Flag
Although mostly known for his literary work, his design of the Whipp l e F l ag is quite interesting. In 1912 he Submitted an entry to a natio nw id e co ntest. The contest was to find the flag that most represente d Ame ric an hi story. Whipple Submitted a flag which he named the Whippl e Peac e Fl ag. I t was in tribute to the global peace movement which pre ceded W orl d War I. Of the more than 500 flags Submitted, Whipple's won.
The design of Whipple's flag reveals a centrally located six point e d 1 3 s tar group representing the 13 original colonies surrounded b y a l arg e cir cle made up of the remaining 35 stars. The stripes are si mila r to o ther A merican flags.
Although it was a contest winner, it never caught on. It is just a b l i p o n the memory screen today. It can however still be seen on one o f W hi pple 's book covers. In the three volume Patriotic Series publishe d b y He nry A ltemus Company. () Th e firs t book "The Story of the American Flag" was published i n 191 0. Th e firs t edition of this book has a picture of the American f lag o n it. T he late r editions of this title have a picture of the Whip ple Pe ace Flag. | Whipple, Wayne (I71044)
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Preston 1st Ward Records FHL 007,540
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Mae's sealing to Byron Gardner Miller was approved by "E.L.C. [Elray L . C hristiansen, Temple President of the Logan Temple] 10/6/43, and perfo rme d that day with Joseph G. Nelson and Almeda Giles Nelson as proxies.
Mae Nelson - Teacher Extraordinaire
"I remember Mae! She was my teacher for two years in Preston, Idaho, pro b ably three. She also taught the religion classes after school. Mae wa s a n excellent teacher, an artist and musician. I recall the colored cha lk p ictures she painted at the top of the blackboards. One was of a smal l gir l picking buttercups. Once I wrote a theme 'A Teacher Who Influence d My L ife', and I wrote about Mae Nelson. Her mother was another dear fr iend an d my principal at the old Central School. She was a talented, won derful w oman, very human and understanding. I still have a recommendatio n she wro te for me." by Roma ? (Cache Valley Newsletter, Sept. 1973, p . 7) | Nelson, Zersia Mae (I84)
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