Harriet Miranda Pond

1835 - 1846  (11 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Harriet Miranda Pond
  Birth	6 Sep 1835	Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 Dec 1846	Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
  Initiatory (LDS)	2 Jan 1885	LOGAN
  FamilySearch ID	2S22-5T4
  Burial	Winter Quarters Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
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  Person ID	I175169	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Stillman Pond,   b. 26 Oct 1803, Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States d. 30 Sep 1878, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Maria Louisa Davis,   b. 2 May 1812, Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States d. 17 May 1847, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	4 Feb 1834	Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
  Family ID	F43211	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 6 Sep 1835 - Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States Death - 4 Dec 1846 - Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 2 Jan 1885 - LOGAN Burial - - Winter Quarters Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Harriet Miranda Pond Born 6 September 1835 in Hubbardston, Worcester County, Massachusett s Died 4 December 1846 in Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska Parents are Stillman Pond and Maria Louise Davis. On July 4, 1834 the y w ere married. In September 1835 Harriet Miranda Pond joined the family. In 1841 the missionaries taught the Ponds about the gospel and they we r e baptized in December 1841. In 1843 they sold their home and moved t o N auvoo, Illinois to be with the other Saints. They purchased some lan d an d was just a mile east of the Nauvoo Temple which was just being bui lt . When all of the other Saints were leaving Nauvoo in February 1846 becau s e of the persecution, they didn't leave until September. Members of t h e Pond family were all sick with Malaria. Stillman was sick himself, b u t they finally arrived in Winter Quarters. The only place they had t o ha ve their home was in a tent until the first of 1847 when they live d i n a log cabin. While in Winter Quarters, death came to the Pond family. 11 year old Ha r riet Miranda Pond passed away 4 December 1846. She is buried in the Mor mo n Pioneer Cemetery in grave #25. According to the Winter Quarters Sex to n Report, she passed away from the “chills and fever” . Ponds experienced more death. This is taken from a family pioneer journ a l: "On Wednesday, the 2nd of December 1846, Laura Jane Pond, age 14 years , d aughter of Stillman and Almyra Pond, died of chills and fever. Frida y, t he 4th of December 1846, Harriet M. Pond, Age 11 years, daughter o f Still man and Maria Pond died with chills. Monday, the 7th of December , 1846 , Abigail A. Pond, age 18 years, daughter of Stillman and Almyra P ond, di ed with chills. Friday, the 15 of January, 1847, Lyman Pond, ag e 6 years , son of Stillman and Maria Pond, died with chills and fever.” Because of the children passed away and her having the disease, and th e c old and hunger which was in Winter Quarters, Maria Louise Davis Pon d als o passed away in May 1847. Stillman was now alone with his two rema inin g daughters from his first wife. Stillman had lost nine of his elev en ch ildren, plus his two wives, between 1833-1847 . In June 1847 Stillman joined the Abraham O. Smoot Company to travel to t h e Salt Lake Valley. "Having lost these nine children and his wife in crossing the plains, St i llman Pond did not lose his faith. He did not quit. He went forward. H e p aid a price, as have many others before and since, to become acquaint ed w ith God" (This account of the experiences of Stillman Pond was relat ed b y James E. Faust, "The Refiner's Fire," Ensign, May 1979, p. 54) . Written by Penny Hannum DUP Red Mountain Chapter, Maricopa East Company