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| Name |
Lowell Ansen Pond |
| Birth |
18 Jul 1837 |
New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Sep 1846 |
Iowa, United States |
| Burial |
Sep 1846 |
Iowa, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
20 Mar 1941 |
| FamilySearch ID |
KFDY-YZV |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I175170 |
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| 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 |
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| Notes |
- Lowell Ansen Pond
Born 14 July 1828 in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusett s
Died September 1846 in Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Parents are Stillman Pond and Maria Louise Davis. On July 4, 1834 the y w ere married.
In July 1837 little Lowell Ansen 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. 9 year old Low e ll Ansen Pond passed away September 1846. He is buried in the Mormon Pi on eer Cemetery. According to the Winter Quarters Sexton Report, he pass e d 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
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