Lucy Adell Brown

1856 - 1904  (48 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has 6 ancestors and 12 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Lucy Adell Brown
  Birth	15 Aug 1856	Cambria, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States
  Gender	Female
  Initiatory (LDS)	10 Oct 1870	EHOUS
  FamilySearch ID	KWJ8-TMG
  Death	27 Dec 1904	Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States
  Burial	31 Dec 1904	Kanosh Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I174657	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Franklin Brown,   b. 22 Feb 1823, Rush, Monroe, New York, United States d. 7 Dec 1868, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Lucinda Leavitt,   b. 5 Jul 1825, Compton, Estrie, Québec, Canada d. 23 Dec 1904, Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	12 Oct 1848	Cambria, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States
  Family ID	F43039	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abraham Alonzo Kimball,   b. 6 Apr 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States d. 24 Sep 1889, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	3 Jan 1876	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Children	1. Pearl Adell Kimball,   b. 6 Dec 1876, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States d. 29 Oct 1955, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 78 years)   2. Flora Kimball,   b. 31 Oct 1880, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States d. 6 Oct 1959, Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States (Age 78 years) + 3. Benjamin Franklin Kimball,   b. 6 May 1882, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States d. 20 Aug 1960, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 78 years)   4. Charles Albert Kimball,   b. 1 Jan 1884, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States d. 5 Oct 1972, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 88 years)   5. Laura Kimball,   b. 10 Feb 1885, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States d. 4 Feb 1972, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 86 years)   6. Brigham Young Kimball,   b. 28 Nov 1887, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States d. 4 Feb 1947, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 59 years)
  Family ID	F29715	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 May 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 15 Aug 1856 - Cambria, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 10 Oct 1870 - EHOUS Marriage - 3 Jan 1876 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death - 27 Dec 1904 - Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States Burial - 31 Dec 1904 - Kanosh Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  BIOGRAPHY OF LUCY ADELL BROWN KIMBALL 1856-1904 Compiled by her daughters Pearl Kimball Black And Laura Kimball Cummings Sally Kanosh Camp Ruby W. Iverson, Historian Lucy Adell Brown Kimball was born August 15, 1856 in Cambridge, Michiga n . Her parents were Benjamin Franklin Brown and Lucinda Leavitt. She a ls o had a brother, Charley. Adell’s childhood up to nine years old wa s spe nt at Cambria. It was William Folsom, a missionary who converted t his fa mily to the Latter-day Saint faith, perhaps in England. The famil y neve r belonged to any other church previous to this time. Her parent s and Ph ilander Brown, an uncle, with his family, were desirous of joini ng the ma in body of the church in Utah. In 1864, these families, bein g comfortabl y situated for those times, organized their independent comp any and start ed out with their wagons and horses for Utah. Adell, now a bout nine year s old, had a horse of her own and rode it nearly all the w ay across the p lains. Her maternal grandmother, Lucy Rowell, was with t he company. Sh e died on this journey, at Norrisburg, Iowa. They too k a wagon box to ma ke her coffin and buried her beside the Platt River . They made fires ove r the grave and cooked their food so the Indians c ould not tell that it w as a grave, as they would dig it up and destroy t he body. This company was detained on their journey as they overtook a handcar t c ompany and gave them assistance all the way. When this company, or f amil y, reached Utah they made their home at Ogden. Benjamin Franklin, A dell’ s father, took up the land where the Union Pacific Depot is locate d at th e present time. He was the first shoemaker in Ogden. The famil y soon ma de a comfortable home for themselves. It was an adobe house wi th two o r three rooms. Her father and uncle were violinists, and ofte n the famil y enjoyed themselves dancing and singing to their music. Th e family live d a number of years in Ogden and during that time two mor e children wer e born, Benjamin Franklin Junior and Arilla. I remember m y mother tellin g me of being at the depot when the first train came int o Ogden. Now whe n the engine came puffing and roaring in, the people ra n for their lives , thinking it was coming over them. Her father Benjami n Franklin Brown d ied of Pneumonia in December 1868; so, the family didn ’t have the compani onship of a father very long. At that time, Uncle John Leavitt’s wife Linda died and left three child r en. This family lived in Farmington, so Mother Brown decided to mov e t o Farmington with four children and mother this family as well as he r own . This brother and sister with their families lived in a rock hous e wit h several rooms, which was located just one block east of the Uta h Centra l Depot. This uncle worked with the railroad company and so wa s able t o take care of the two families. The children were near the sam e age an d were companions for each other and they grew to be just like b rothers a nd sisters and spent many happy days together. One, Ida Leavit t (Hatch ) and mother (Adell) were especially chummy and spent their tim e with sew ing and various kinds of needlework and helping with the young er children . Adell remembered as a young girl going to the Shady Nooks, which is n o w Lagoon, with the young people on their picnics. She often talked o f th e beautiful lake and surroundings. There she spent the happiest day s a s a young girl. Her mother continued to keep house for her brother i n Fa rmington and care for the children besides doing her part in carryin g o n the church work until he married. About this time, in 1870, Lyman Leavitt, her mother’s brother, and Phil a nder Brown, her uncle, were called to the Muddy Mission in southern Ut a h and Nevada. Her mother’s health not being very good, President Brigh a m Young called her on this mission also, thinking the warm climate, wi t h its moderate winters would improve her health. She still had at thi s t ime her four children. Adell was about 14 years old when her mothe r wen t on this mission. They encountered many hardships. It was so ho t tha t the children, on their way to school, would have to put their sun bonnet s down on the hot sand to cool their feet, then run a little farth er an d put their bonnets down again. They had sheds by their dugouts an d slep t on top of them to keep away from the snakes. About all they ha d to ea t was bread and molasses and they stayed there until they almos t starved . It was almost too much for the widow and her children. Thes e familie s stayed pretty close together and helped each other. It was w hile her m other was on this mission that Adell met Abraham Alonzo Kimbal l, son of H eber Chase Kimball and Clarissa Cutler, he being also called , with his wi fe, Mary Eliza Hatton and from this mission. They wended t heir way bac k settling in Millard County. Adell's mother and children s ettled in Fil lmore and Abrahan moved his family to Kanosh. Abraham A. Kimball took Adell Brown as his second wife about the firs t w eek in January of 1876. She was then about twenty years old. At th e tim e of her marriage, she taught a Sunday School class; the girls wer e heart broken when she left. One of her class members, a Mrs. John King , says , “She was handsome, well built and straight as a die, and reall y put ove r her work.” They made the trip to Salt Lake City to the Endow ment Hous e by team and wagon. While there, they stayed at the home of h er brother , Charley Brown. They were living in the half-block south o f the Salt La ke Theater. The house belonged to Joseph A. Young. Charle y’s with, Paul ine, was confined to her bed with her first baby boy. Ade ll made her hom e with her mother in Fillmore for the first six years o f her married life . There her first child, Pearl, was born December 6 , 1876. The year after they were married, Abraham, her husband, was calle d o n a mission to England where he only remained for just a year. The r easo n for him being released before he had filled his mission was that i t wa s reported he was in poor health. This was a mistake as he was enjo yin g the best of health and was prepared to stay until his mission was c ompl eted. One of his brothers in Salt Lake had promised to take care o f hi s families while he was away. Adell and her baby daughter were doin g nic ely living with her mother and part of the time with her brother, C harle y in Salt Lake – the baby, a favorite in the family, being two year s old. Adell’s husband had returned from his mission by the last of November 1 8 78. On December 9 of that year, he left for Salt Lake to bring his wi f e and baby home. These trips had to be made by team. It must have be e n a long cold trip. They stopped one night on the way back with Mrs. G ro ver at Nephi her brother Charley’s mother-in-law. They arrived in Kan os h December 29. Her husband had been made Bishop of the Kanosh Ward De cem ber 5, 1878 and held that position for eleven years until his death. Adell returned to Fillmore and continued living with her mother durin g w hich time her husband was preparing a home for her in Kanosh. He bou gh t a lot and house of Mort Warner - just one adobe room and built anoth e r adobe lean on the back. This was very comfortable at that time. A b ed room and living room combined and a kitchen. She was welcome in her m oth er’s home and was a favorite in the family where she had always recei ve d the best training in the way of life. Her husband had this to say o f M other Brown, “She was a widow woman but always did her part by thos e wh o stopped with her and was a mother to all who came her way. Beside s thi s, the greatest virtue of all, she was a true Latter-day Saint an d a frie nd to God and His cause and did not fail to teach her children t he same. ” If they go astray, she will not be found in the fault. Since coming from Salt Lake to Fillmore two years ha e passed. Anoth e r baby girl has been added to the family – Flora, born October 31, 188 0 . Three months later, February 6, 1881, her husband moved her to her n e w home in Kanosh, a very small town of perhaps 75 families. Her home w a s on the main street and is still in the family. Her youngest daughte r , Laura Kimball Cummings, has owned it and lived there since the deat h o f her mother, Adell. The lot where the home stood had a good orchar d o n it – a variety of fruit. Most of the fruit was dried in those days . H er husband, Abraham, made a scaffold of nice new boards on which sh e woul d spread the fruit to dry, with as many more boards to cover the f ruit, i n case it rained. Now Adell had to adjust herself to her new home. Her husband was a far m er, besides having other jobs such as road building, superintendin g o f a threshing machine, which took him away from home sometimes for mo nths . He was a kind and considerate husband. Adell was very resourcefu l an d did many things to help with the living expenses. She was a dress make r and very clever with the needle, doing many kinds of fancy work . She m ade her own quilts, as did all pioneer women. As a result of th is art o f sewing, she was fortunate enough to have the first sewing mach ine in th e town. This proved a great blessing to both of Abraham’s fami lies in ma king clothes, even pants for the boys. Uncle Henry Hatton, th e hired man , came to her to get his horse blankets sewed. She couldn’ t hurt his fee lings by showing her disapproval so she sewed the blankets . The two families lived just through the fence from each other. There w e re eight children in the first family – Clara, Lois, Alonzo, Vilate, Ev el yn, Heber, Parley and Elvira. Six in Adell’s family – Pearl, Flora, B enj amin Franklin, Charles Albert, Laura, and Brigham Young. They all go t al ong nicely. May 6, 1882, her first son Benjamin was born. The next year, May 4, 18 8 3, she moved to the farm one mile west of town. The house was built o f n ew lumber and was just off the old highway. The land is still owne d by h er son Frank. The reason for moving to the farm was for the purpo se of l ooking after the farm hands and making it more convenient for the m throug h the summer. While on the farm she was very lonely. It has be en said b y her neighbors that she would go about her work with her sunbo nnet pulle d down over her face while she would be crying. She lived the re two summ ers. Each wife took a turn living on the farm. At his time , two convert s of her husband came from England. Their name was Hopkins on. They live d on the farm for a number of years and Adell moved to tow n. In those days pork was the staple meat used. Adell’s husband was a lov e r of pork. Every year he killed not less than six pigs. Adell’s porti o n for her family she helped to cure. She made sausage, headcheese an d pi ckled pigs feet. The hams, shoulders and side meat were nicely cure d an d kept in the cellar that opened from the door east of the kitchen . Th e lard was rendered and strained into large cans. All surplus scra ps an d bits were saved for soap making. Soap making became an art wit h Adell . She always cleaned her grease with lye to make it pure and whi le and t hen proceeded to make her soap. That was the only kind of soa p we ever h ad. It was real soap. A little village of Pahvant Indians lived east of out town. Kanosh der i ved its name from the chief of this tribe. The Lamanite women did th e wa shing for the while people. Old Jane and Ducky Jane did the washin g in A dell’s home for years. The furnishings in the home were very plain. The floors were bare exce p t the living room and she made her own rag carpets for here and used st ra w for the padding. Neither was there a bathtub so the big washtub wa s th e only resource. The children all remember on Saturday they were ba the d in the tub. On Sunday they were dressed in their clean aprons an d of f to Sunday school. As soon as they returned home, best dresses wer e cha nged to play dresses and they all played at home. The father sai d it wa s not the right thing for children to be chasing around the stree ts on Su nday afternoon. It was agreed there were enough children in the two families to mak e a c rowd so they played together. All felt all right about it. Ther e were n o complaints. The children were trained to work as soon as the y were lar ge enough to take on small chores. Adell needed the help of h er childre n as well as hired help because she had a family of small chil dren. Alon zo, the eldest son of the first wife, lived with Adell to hel p with the c hores and he always said he loved her almost as much as hi s own mother. About this time, two adobe bedrooms were added to the little house. Th i s was very much needed and appreciated. Now she could have a living ro o m where before this room had been a bedroom. She made her carpets an d co vered the big room. January 7, 1884, another son was born, Charles Albert. This was her la s t summer on the farm. Now she boarded and lodged the mail driver who c ar ried the mail from Scipio to Kanosh one day and back the next day. Sh e a lso boarded the hired man, John Woolsey, who worked for them for year s . Her husband had always made a fairly good living and the children we r e well cared for and well dressed with the help of her mother. It wa s ab out 1885 when father’s health began to fail him. He was able to sup erint end the farm work and keep his obligations around the home. He wa s parti cular about the outside buildings and surroundings being kept int act. H e worked with his children and they were taught to work. His obl igation s as a Bishop took him away from home through the county. Someti mes he c ould do this and would do it if he was at all able. The years w ent one . Two more children were added to the family – Laura, a daughte r was bor n February 10, 1885 and a son, Brigham Young November 28, 1887 . The fath er died September 22, 1888 at the age of 42 years. Adell was then a widow with her little family, the oldest a girl 12 yea r s of age. She had a husband only 13 years. She had her home, a littl e f arm and a few cows. The drought was so terrible that year very littl e ha d been grown on the farm. It was rented to George Day who continue d to f arm it for a number of years. He seemed to farm the land especial ly fo r the hay, as he was a dairyman. The mother continued on as she ha d bee n living, always kept her cows and three or four pigs. She milke d her ow n cows and fatted her pigs and every year for a number of year s sold th e calves to Anthony Paxton for $4.00 each to buy wheat for thei r bread . Uncle Henry Hatton helped some with the cutting of wood, plowi ng the l ots, etc. Her mother and her sister Arilla living at this tim e in Wood s Cross were a great help to Adell in raising the children. Sh e also boa rded and roomed the schoolteachers at various times. She real ized what w as before her – the mother of six children, the oldest now th irteen years . Being a dressmaker she could sew for her own children an d she also di d sewing for others. She made party dresses for the youn g girls with fan cy frills, ruffles and folds. Some were tight fittin g – basques they wer e called or bodices, with a dozen bone steels sewe d up all the seams on i nside, done by hand with a cat or blanket stitch . She never danced but l oved to go to the dances and look on at the dan cers and see the dresses . She was very quiet and reserved, stayed at ho me and took care of her f amily. She could make a cake for we children t o take to a party with on e egg, a scant cup of sugar and lard and it wa s really good. She was lonely after she was left a widow. Her children would be awa y f rom home and she would be home worrying and she would go out lookin g fo r them on the street. Her work was hard for the washing now had t o be do ne on a washboard with a fire outside to heat the water. The clo thes wer e scrubbed and then boiled in the tub. Ella Paxton worked for A dell an d loved her very much for her patience. She tells of how they ha d to car ry the drinking water from across the street from the neighbor’ s well. T his was on the lot now occupied by the Taft Paxton home, but a t that tim e was the Prows’ home. Ella tells how Adell had a red cow an d how she en joyed milking the cows. When Frank was about 16, he went to herd sheep to help keep the famil y a nd he made enough money to help build two lumber rooms on the north o f th e house as the adobe rooms were falling down. Pearl, the oldest gir l, ta ught school to help care for the family. Charles was old enough t o hel p with building the two new rooms and with other expenses. After she was left alone, her leisure hours were usually spent with h e r sister-in-law, Ellen Leavitt, the mother of Ella Paxton. She would t ak e her little brood and spend an afternoon. Each night the children we r e washed before they were put to bed. Their feet were always cracked a n d sore from going barefoot, as shoes were not plentiful. She would wa s h them in oatmeal water to heal the soreness. She struggled along wit h h er little family until they were all grown. She had the post offic e fo r four or five years, which helped. A little lumber-room on the sou th si de of the house took care of it. The room still stands but has bee n move d to the back for a washhouse. The slot where the letters were pu t in i s still in the building. When the mail came in at night the lot w ould b e full of children. Adell’s children all grew up and found work s o the y could take care of themselves. Mother Adell would go to her neig hbor A lice Rappleye with a cup of coffee to grind in her coffee mill, th e bab y Brigham would tag along. She could always fix a meal for her fam ily wi thout going to the store as they had to eat what they had or raise d – chi ckens, eggs and butter, along with the fruit and garden. Adell took seriously ill in the fall of 1904. She went to Loa to sta y w ith her mother and to be under the care of a faith doctor, Dr. Blackb urn . She went from there to the Manti Temple and was there a month, the n he r daughter Pearl and husband brought her home in a buggy. Her young est d aughter, Laura, who was 19, was with her in Manti and went to the t empl e with her each week. She passed away December 27, 1904, while he r famil y were all living. LUCY ADELL BROWN KIMBALL By Pearl Kimball Black and Laura Kimball Cummings: daughters. Lucy Adell Brown Kimball, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Lucinda Lea v itt Brown, was born in Cambria, Michigan August 15, 1866. When Adell w a s nine years old, the family was converted t the Mormon Religion. Adel l’ s parents, together with an Uncle Philander Brown and family, were anx iou s to join the main body of the Church in Utah. Adell, having a hors e o f her very own, rode it nearly all the way across the plains. The ma tern al grandmother of Adell, Lucy Rowell, died at Norrisburg, Iowa, an d the m en took a wagon box and made a casket in which to bury her. The company overtook a handcart Company and were delayed on their journ e y, as they stopped to help this struggling company. When they arrive d i n Utah they settled in Ogden, where Benjamin Franklin, Adell’s father , to ok up land, where the Union Pacific Depot was later located. He wa s th e first shoemaker in Ogden. He and his brother both played the viol in, t hus the family enjoyed many musical evenings together. While Adell’s parents lived in Ogden, two more children were born, Benj a min Franklin Jr. and Arilla. Soon after the birth of these children, B en jamin Franklin Brown, Adell’s father, died of Pneumonia, in 1868. Abo u t the same time the wife of John Leavitt, brother of Adell’s mother di e d leaving three children. Adell's mother Lucinda took her four childr e n with her and moved to Farmington to live with her brother and be a mo th er to his children. The two families got along beautifully. In 1870, Brigham Young called Lyman Leavitt, a brother of Adell's mothe r , and Philander Brown, a brother of Adell's father, on missions to hel p c olonize Southern Utah and Nevada. Thinking it would help Adell's mot her , who suffered from colds and inclement weather, Brigham Young also c alle d Adell’s mother to take her family and go on this mission. They su ffere d many privations, and mostly lived on bread and molasses. It wa s whil e on this mission that Adell met Abraham Alonzo Kimball and his wi fe Mar y Eliza Hatton Kimball with baby Clara. After four years on thi s missio n they were released and on their way back settled in Millard Co unty. Ad ell’s family in Fillmore, Abraham A. Kimball, his wife and bab y settled i n Kanosh. When Adell was nearly nineteen years old, she married Abraham Kimbal l a s his second wife, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City . Adell made her home with her mother in Fillmore for the first six yea r s of her married life. There on December 6, 1876, her first child Pea r l was born. One year after her marriage, her husband, Abraham Kimbal l wa s called on a mission to England. Abraham returned from his mission and on Dec. 5, 1878 he was made Bish o p of the Kanosh Ward, and held that position until his death, eleven ye ar s later. Adell made her home with her mother until Abraham built a ho m e for her in Kanosh. Flora, Adell's second child was born October 21 , 18 80, in Fillmore. Three months later February 6, 1881, Abraham move d Adel l and her two children to their home in Kanosh. Her husband wa s a farmer , who also had other jobs such as road building, which took hi m away fro m home, sometimes for months. Adell was an excellent seamstress and did fancy needlework as well; som e times Adell did extra sewing to help support the family. The two famil ie s lived just through the fence from each other, his first wife Mary El iz a Hatton Kimball had eight children: Clara, Lois, Alonzo, Vilate, Eve lyn , Heber, Parley, and Elvira; the second wife, Adell, had six children : P earl, Flora, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Albert, Laura and Bingham Yo ung . The children played together and seldom went roaming the streets a nd a s there was plenty of fun at home. They were all taught to work an d do c hores. Certainly there was plenty to do as the Kimball’s raised t heir ow n living, as did every one: beef, pork, lamb, chickens, turkeys , vegetab les of many varieties, fruit of every kind and plenty of berrie s. Abraham’s health began to fail although he was a fairly young man; he h a d to hire a man to work on his farm. He gradually got weaker and on Se pt ember 22, 1888, Abraham Kimball passed away at the age of 46. Adell was then a widow, after being married 13 years; she was left wi t h six children, the oldest 12 years old. She had a farm, a small hom e , a few cows and other animals. She knew life would not be easy witho u t Abraham to run the farm and keep everything in good condition. She m il ked her own cows, fattened the pigs for sale, sold the calves to get c lot hes for the children, did extra fancy dress making to earn more mone y wit h which to buy shoes and clothes for her six children. As the chil dren g ot older they took jobs and helped keep the family. Pearl, the ol dest gi rl, taught school and helped with the expenses. Frank herded she ep and e arned enough to build two extra lumber-rooms, so that now they h ad a livi ng room, and how Adell did appreciate it. She later had the po st offic e in her home and that brought extra much-needed funds. She wa s a precio us, loving mother and her children just adored her. Alonzo, t he oldest s on of the first wife, Mary Eliza Hatton Kimball, lived with A dell part o f the time to help with the chores, and he always said he lov ed Adell alm ost as much as he loved his own mother. Adell took seriously ill in the fall of 1904. She went to several doct o rs, and finally went to Manti to the temple. Taking her youngest daught er , Laura, with her, and Laura, accompanied her to temple each time sh e wen t. She was there a month, then her daughter Pearl and her husban d took h er back to her home in Kanosh. She passed away December 27, 190 4, surrou nded by her six children. She is buried in the Kanosh Cemetery . She to o died at an early age, her husband died at age 42, and she die d at the a ge of 48. Biography obtained from the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Fillmore, Ut a h, Territorial Statehouse Museum.