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| Name |
Emma Melissa King |
| Birth |
18 Sep 1840 |
Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
25 Mar 1856 |
EHOUS |
| FamilySearch ID |
K2Q6-KBL |
| Death |
10 Jan 1905 |
Basin, Cassia, Idaho, United States |
| Burial |
13 Jan 1905 |
Basin Cemetery, Cassia, Idaho, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I16387 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
John Morris King, b. 22 Sep 1809, Sunderland, Bennington, Vermont, United States d. 13 Nov 1855, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 46 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Ann Jewell, b. 5 Mar 1814, Dutchess, New York, United States d. 11 Nov 1873, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 59 years) |
| Marriage |
11 Feb 1833 |
Grove, Allegany, New York, United States |
| Family ID |
F8213 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Isaiah Huntsman, b. 14 Sep 1826, Perry, Lake, Ohio, United States d. 3 Jun 1878, Annabella, Sevier, Utah, United States (Age 51 years) |
| Marriage |
21 Mar 1856 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Sarah Huntsman, b. 11 Feb 1856, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States d. 21 Feb 1869 (Age 13 years) |
| | 2. Mary Elizabeth Huntsman, b. 4 Nov 1860, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States d. 9 Feb 1913, Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States (Age 52 years) |
| | 3. James Edson Huntsman, b. 16 Mar 1863, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States d. 19 Aug 1926, Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States (Age 63 years) |
| | 4. Amanda Huntsman, b. 2 Jul 1864, Spring City, Sanpete, Utah, United States d. 20 Sep 1944, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 80 years) |
| | 5. Jane Huntsman, b. 18 Oct 1867, Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States d. 20 Oct 1906, Fairview, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States (Age 39 years) |
| | 6. John Huntsman, b. 16 Apr 1870, Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States d. 23 Oct 1919, Marysville, Fremont, Idaho, United States (Age 49 years) |
| | 7. Emma Ada Huntsman, b. 28 Aug 1875, Millard, Utah, United States d. 10 May 1949, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 73 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1940 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
20 May 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 18 Sep 1840 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States |
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 | Marriage - 21 Mar 1856 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 25 Mar 1856 - EHOUS |
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 | Death - 10 Jan 1905 - Basin, Cassia, Idaho, United States |
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 | Burial - 13 Jan 1905 - Basin Cemetery, Cassia, Idaho, United States |
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| Notes |
- Pioneer: Age at Departure 11 Years
Traveled for 98 Days, Traveled with the John Tidwell Company Departe d o n 4 June 1852
Emma Melissa King, excerpt from Everything is Relative, 1971, by Stell a H untsman Day, p. 21
Isaiah entered the Order of Plural Marriage in 1856, taking as his seco n d wife, Emma Melissa King, daughter of John Morris and Sarah Ann Jewel l K ing. To this union were born seven children.
Rebecca and Emma were step-sisters and worked very well together. A gre a t love and devotion developed. Emma had a special talent for homemaki n g and Rebecca was an excellent seamstress, weaver, and knitter. Becau s e of their great love for one another, they were able to work out a har mo nious home life between the two families. Through the lifetime of th e ch ildren of these two wives, close contact was kept and great love fo r on e another developed.
Isaiah and a Mormon Battalion friend, Robert Cowden Egbert, made an agre e ment with each other that if one of the other should die, the other wou l d care for the orphaned family. Following the death of Robert C. Egber t , Isaiah in 1868 married the widow, Seviah Cunningham Egbert, and too k he r six children to raise. To this union was born one child, Louisa , who w as reportedly listed as "died in infancy." Just why the family w as led t o believe that this child was dead is not known .
Seviah was supposedly a sickly person, and she demanded a great deal o f t he other wives' time and strength. With the additional seven childre n t o feed, clothe, and shelter, the burden fell hard upon the shoulder s of t he first two wives. Oftentimes, Seviah claimed to be ill, and th e other w ives took over her household duties and the care of her childre n, only t o find out that she had feigned the illness. Seviah had been a n only wif e and much pampered. The pretended illnesses and demanding wa ys caused m uch contention in the homes as the other wives already had th eir hands fu ll with their own growing youngsters .
Isaiah took the problem to the leaders of the Church on several occasion s , and finally a bill of divorcement was granted. Seviah returned to Sa l t Lake City, taking Louisa with her, and later remarried. Harmony was a ga in restored in the two families, and they moved to Annabella, Sevier C oun ty, Utah, where Isaiah continued his blacksmith trade and farmed a sm al l acreage on the outskirts of Annabella.
In Isaiah's 27 years in Utah, he built fourteen homes for his familie s . He did much to build up the communities he called home. He fough t i n the Indian Wars of Utah, conquered the wilderness, and left an hono rabl e heritage. He remained true to the faith of the Mormon Doctrine an d too k an active part in church activities .
On June 3, 1878, at the age of 52, following a brief illness, Isaiah Hun t sman passed away at his home in Annabella, Utah. Due to a former reque s t and his heart's desire, his body was taken to Fillmore, where he wa s la id to rest in the "land beautiful" among his friends and loved one s .
To this man, Isaiah Huntsman, we his descendants pay tribute, "for no gr e ater love hath any man" than he who carves a home of peace and lov e i n a wilderness and a firm faith in God.
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