Maud Gray

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1451
• Alternate death: Aft 1454

Maud married Robert Ogle about 21 May 1399. Robert (son of Robert Ogle and Joan Heton) was born about 1379; died on 12 Aug 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Anne Ogle, but this appears to stem from an error in 1563/64 visitation of Yorkshire. She is recorded as Elizabeth in the contemporary entry recording the marriage dispensation in the bishop's register. [Some corrections and additions to The Complete Peerage: Volume 6: Heron.]

The date for their marriage is actually the dispensation date; they were third cousins, both being descended from Thomas de Gray (1277-1344) and his wife Agnes.

Elizabeth married William Heron on 13 Jan 1412. William (son of William Heron and Isabel Scot) was born about Oct 1400 in of Ford, Glendale, Northumberland, England; died on 1 Sep 1425. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Heron and John Heron were third cousins, both being great-great grandchildren of William Heron (d. 1379) and Isabel Gray (d. >1362).

Elizabeth married John Heron after 11 Jul 1438. John (son of William Heron and Isabel) was born about 1418 in of Ford, Glendale, Northumberland, England; died on 29 Mar 1461 in Towton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Tailboys before 1467. Robert (son of William Tailboys and Elizabeth Bonville) was born about 1441-1451 in of Kyme, Lincolnshire, England; died on 31 Jan 1494; was buried in Kyme Priory, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Tyrwhit. Robert (son of William Tyrwhit and Anne Constable) was born about 1482 in of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 4 Jul 1548 in Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Wrawby, Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

De jure Lord Kyme, styled Earl of Angus. Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1526. He was knighted at the Battle of Blackheath in 1497. He was judged a lunatic 2 Mar 1517, and his person and lands were taken into custody.

George married Elizabeth Gascoigne before Apr 1493. Elizabeth (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy) died in 1559; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Thimbleby. Richard (son of John Thimbleby and Margaret Boys) was born about 1507 in of Irnham, Lincolnshire, England; died on 25 Sep 1590 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Esquire of the Body; Chamberlain at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1540-41; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1557-58; Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire 1545; Knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire 1554 and 1559.

Family/Spouse: Bridget Wiltshire. Bridget (daughter of John Wiltshire and Margaret) died after Jan 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Oxenbridge between Apr 1538 and 4 Aug 1539. Elizabeth (daughter of Goddard Oxenbridge and Anne Fiennes) died before 28 Apr 1578 in St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Edward Dymoke between 1523 and 1 Apr 1529. Edward (son of Robert Dymoke and Anne Sparrow) was born about 1508 in of Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1529.

Gilbert married Elizabeth Blount about 1519. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Welby on 20 Jul 1560 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Thomas Welby and Katherine Bray) was born in of Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1570 in Bath, Somerset, England; was buried on 15 Feb 1571 in St. Peter's, Bath, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Darcy. Henry (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born in of Brimham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1607

Notes:

"Even though Frances Dymoke survived her husband Thomas Windebanck, and died testate around 1612, they must have been divorced or separated 'in some manner' as we have instances of Mary, widow of Edward Hunte, called, or calling herself, the 'wife' of Thomas Windebank, clerk of the Signet, at least between the years 1591-1600. The will of Thomas Windebank, around 1607/8, does not name a wife, and only mentions the known children by Frances." [John C. Brandon, citation details below]

Frances married Thomas Windebank on 19 Aug 1566 in Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Richard Windebank and Margaret ferch Griffith) was born about 1550 in of St. Martin in the Fields, London, England; died on 24 Oct 1607; was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Frances Bulkeley on 4 Jun 1595 in Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. Frances (daughter of Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D. and Olive Irby) was born about 1568; died before 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; was buried on 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Jun 1624

Notes:

Her funeral monument in St. Barnabas Church, Faccombe, reads:

HERE LYES THE BODY OF ANNE READE, Y^E DEARE WIFE OF HENRY READE ESQ^R: ONE OF Y^E DAUGHTERS OF S^R THO: WINDEBANKE K^T: CLARKE OF THE SIGNET TO THE LATE QUEENE ELIZAB: & TO K: IAMES THAT NOW IS, SHE WAS BEGOTTEN ON Y^E BODY OF FRANCIS DYMMOCKE HIS WIFE, ONE OF Y^E DAUGHTERS OF S^R EDW: DYMMOCKE OF SKEERLSBY IN Y^E COVNTY OF LINCOLNE K^T: CHAMPION TO Y^E SAID QUEENE ELIZA: & HER SVCCESSO^RS BY THE TENVRE OF HIS LANDES

SHE DEBTED THIS WORLD TO REST WITH HER SAVIOR CHRIST Y^E 7^TH DAY OF IVNE 1624 IN Y^E 53 YEARE OF HER AGE & LEFT BEHIND HER ISSVES OF HER BODY LIVING, 2 SONNES FRANCIS & ROBT. & 3 DAV: MARGARET MILDRED & ANN

Note that John Bennett Bodie's transcription of this inscription gives her death date as 7 Jun 1624, whereas John Meredith Reade's transcription says 17 June of the same year. From images posted online, it would appear thatg Bodie is correct.

Anne married Henry Reade on 3 Sep 1592 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Henry (son of Andrew Reade and Alice Cooke) was born in 1566; died on 12 Apr 1647; was buried in Faccombe, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Secretary of State under Charles I.

"Francis Windebank matriculated on 18 May 1599 from St John's College, Oxford, where William Laud, who by 1608 had become his 'dear friend', may have been his tutor. He graduated BA on 26 January 1602 and entered the Middle Temple on 4 February 1603. In February 1605 he was granted a clerkship of the signet in reversion after Levinus Monck and Francis Gall before leaving on an extended tour through France, Germany, and Italy. On his return to England in February 1608 he took up work in the signet office, now able to write letters in both French and Italian, adding by 1616 a reading knowledge of Spanish. In July 1608 he married Edith Jackson, of obscure origins and, as he later hinted, limited means." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Multiple accounts of his escape to France in 1640 (see below) mention that he was accompanied by his secretary and nephew Robert Reade. This was the Robert Reade who was a brother of Col. George Reade of Virginia, both of them sons of Francis Windebank's sister Mildred by her husband Robert Reade. (See John Meredith Read, "The English Ancestry of Washington," The Atheneum number 3465, 24 Mar 1894.)

From Wikipedia (accessed 8 Nov 2021):

After a few years of continental travel (1605–1608), he settled at Haines Hill at Hurst in Berkshire and was employed for many years in minor public offices, eventually becoming clerk of the council.

In June 1632, he was appointed by King Charles I as Secretary of State in succession to Lord Dorchester, his senior colleague being Sir John Coke, and he was knighted. His appointment was mainly due to his Spanish and Roman Catholic sympathies. The first Earl of Portland, Francis, Lord Cottington, and Windebank formed an inner group in the council, and with their aid the king carried on various secret negotiations, especially with Spain.

In December 1634 Windebank was appointed to discuss with the papal agent Gregorio Panzani the possibility of a union between the Anglican and Roman Churches, and expressed the opinion that the Puritan opposition might be crippled by sending their leaders to the war in the Netherlands.

Windebank's efforts as treasury commissioner in 1635 to shield some of those guilty of corruption led to a breach with Archbishop Laud. In the same year Windebank was one of the promoters of the Courteen association, and the next year he was for a time disgraced for issuing an order for the conveyance of Spanish money to pay the Spanish troops in the Netherlands.

In July 1638 he urged the king to make war with the Scots, and in 1640, when trouble was breaking out in England, he sent an appeal from Queen Henrietta Maria to the pope for money and men. He was elected in March 1640 to the Short Parliament, as member for Oxford University, and he entered the Long Parliament in October as member for Corfe Castle. In December the House learnt that he had signed letters of grace to recusant priests and Jesuits, and summoned him to answer the charge, but the king allowed him to escape to France. From Calais, he wrote to Christopher Hatton, defending his integrity, and affirming his belief that the Church of England was the purest and nearest the primitive Church. He remained in Paris until his death, shortly after he had been received into the Roman communion.

Windebank married and had a large family. William Laud referred in 1630 to his "many sons". He had five at least, and four survived him:

Thomas (born c. 1612), was M.P. for Wootton Bassett and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was made a baronet in 1645. He was Clerk of the Signet from 1641 until 1645 and again (after the Interregnum) from 1660 to 1674.

Francis (died 1645) supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. He was court-martialled and shot for failing to defend Bletchingdon House, near Oxford.

Christopher (born 1615) was an Englishman who lived in Madrid and worked as guide and interpreter for English ambassadors.

John (1618–1704), a physician who was admitted an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Of Windebank's daughters:

Margaret married Thomas Turner (1591–1672), and was mother of Thomas Turner (1645–1714), president of Corpus Christi, Oxford, and of Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, one of the seven Bishops who, refusing to accept James II's Declaration of Indulgence, were imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Frances married Sir Edward Hales on 12 July 1669.

One other died unmarried at Paris about 1650.

Two others became nuns of the Calvary at the Église Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, Paris.

Francis married Edith Jackson in Jul 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 6 Aug 1630 and 31 Dec 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Aug 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 15 Aug 1630

Mildred married Robert Reade on 31 Jul 1600 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Robert (son of Andrew Reade and Alice Cooke) was born about 1568 in of Faccombe, Hampshire, England; died before 20 Mar 1627; was buried on 20 Mar 1627 in Linkenholt, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Probably he was the Thomas Welby who was Mayor of Boston, co. Lincoln, in 1643." [The Bulkeley Genealogy]

Thomas married Elizabeth Parke after 15 Feb 1620. Elizabeth was born in of Fleet, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of Teresa's four proven "gateway ancestors", one of DK's three, and UKL's one.

Emigrated to from Lincolnshire to Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband Henry Farwell, about 1636. [Royal Ancestry]

Her descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Mitt Romney, Damon Knight, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

Henry Farwell (1605-1670 )= Olive Welby (1604-1692)
Mary Farwell (1643- 1714) = John Bates (1642-1722)
Mary Bates = Josiah Cleveland
Joseph Cleveland = Deborah Butterfield
Bridget Cleveland = Nathaniel Cogswell
William Cogswell = Mary Brewster
William Henry Cogswell = Lucretia Anne Payne
Annie Payne Cogswell = William Lyon Pynchon
William Henry Chichele Pynchon (b. 1867 = Carrie Susan Moyses
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon IV (1909-1995) = Katherine Frances Bennett (1909-1966)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon V (1937- )

Olive Welby (1604-1692) = Henry Farwell (1605-1670)
Olive Farwell (b. 1645) = Benjamin Spalding (b. 1643)
Edward Spalding (1672-1739) = Mary Adams (d. 1754)
Ephraim Spalding (b. 1700) = Abigail Bullard (b. 1708)
Oliver Spalding (1739-1796) = Mary Witter (1740-1781)
Erastus Spalding (1775-1830) = Jennet Mack (d. 1836)
Martha Ann Spalding (1818-1882) = Leman Benton Garlinghouse (1814-1872)
Caroline Garlinghouse (1856-1894) = Alfred Augustus Houghton (1851-1892)
Katharine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) = Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879-1962)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1909-2003)

Olive married Deacon Henry Farwell on 16 Apr 1629 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Deacon (son of William Farwell and Joan) was born about 1605 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 1 Aug 1670 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1606, Linkenholt, Hampshire, England

Notes:

"A noted Royalist. [...] He was admitted scholar of New College, December 10th, 1624; Fellow, January 15th, 1626; LL.D., 1638; Advocate of Arches Court; Principal of Magdalen Hall, 1643; resigned his Fellowship, September 21st, 1645, and Edward Farmer, of the parish of St. Helen's, Abingdon, was admitted in his place. He had a king's letter in his favour, dated March 31st, 1624; and in 1642 trailed a pike for King Charles in the university, and served his Majesty in the army, but on the decline of the king's cause changed his religion and became a secular priest; esteemed a good scholar and civilian." [John Meredith Read, citation details below]

According to John Bennett Bodie (citation details below), the Linkenholt parish register says he was baptized 18 Oct 1604, earlier than the 1606 birth year given by other sources.

Notes:

He was secretary to his uncle, Sir Francis Windebank, Secretary of State under Charles I, and accompanied him on his escape to Paris in 1640. We do not know the dates of his birth or death, but he is mentioned in the nuncupative will of his brother Dr. Thomas Reade dated 7 Mar 1668.

In a letter from Paris to his cousin Thomas Windebank, 19 Mar 1641, he mentions a trunk that had been left behind in his chamber at Whitehall, and regrets its loss, "for there were many good things in it which I had gathered together, and such as had no relation to the State."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Oct 1608
• Alternate death: 1671, Virginia

Notes:

"George Reade, born 25 Oct. 1608, son of Robert and Mildred (Windebank) Reade, who had come to Virginia in Sir John Harvey's party upon his return as governor of Virginia, 1637. On 27 Aug. 1640 George Reade was appointed by the King 'to the place of Secretary [of the Colony] in the absence of Richard Kemp who has lately arrived in England.' Reade was clerk of the Council, 1648, burgess for James City, 1649, and for York, 1656, and was appointed to the Council in 1658, holding that office until his death." [Adventurers of Purse and Person, citation details below]

He is a "gateway ancestor" for PNH's sister-in-law, a descendant of Edward III and over five thousand other medieval people. A daughter of Edward III's son John of Gaunt, Joan Beaufort, was married twice; through her second marriage, to Ralph de Neville, George Reade is an 8X-great grandson of Edward III. Through her second marriage, to Robert Ferrers, Reade is a 9X-great grandson of the same king, and also a 9X-great grandson through another of Edward's sons, Lionel of Antwerp.

He and his wife Elizabeth Martiau were great-great grandparents of George Washington:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington

It has been suggested that George Washington was named George after this particular great-great-grandfather. It does appear that George Reade represents the most recent, and possibly the only, previous instance of a George in Washington's ancestry.

George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau were also ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mary Warner = Col. John Smith
Mildred Smith = Robert Porteous
Robert Porteous = Judith Cockayne
Mildred Porteous = Robert Hodgson
Rev. Robert Hodgson = Mary Tucker
Henrietta Mildred Hodgson = Oswald Smith
Frances Dora Smith = Claude Bowes-Lyon
Claude George Bowes-Lyon = Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon = King George VI
Queen Elizabeth II

And of Meriwether Lewis:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Elizabeth Warner = Col. John Lewis
Col. Robert Lewis = Jane Meriwether
William Lewis = Lucy Meriwether
Meriwether Lewis

And of General George S. Patton:

Thomas Reade = Lucy Gwynne
Mildred Reade = Philip Rootes
Elizabeth Rootes = Rev. John Thompson
Philip Rootes Thompson = Anna Davenport
Eleanor Thompson = William Thorton
Susanna Thompson Thorton = Andrew Glassell
Susan Thornton Glassell = George Smith Patton
George Smith Patton = Ruth Wilson
General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

George married Elizabeth Martiau about 1641 in Yorktown, York, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. Nicholas Martiau and (Unknown first wife of Nicholas Martieu)) was born in 1625; died between 10 Feb 1686 and 24 Jan 1687 in Virginia; was buried in Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, York, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Joseph Wildbore about 1651. Joseph died on 27 Aug 1691 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Fiske. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah Wheeler on 4 Nov 1658 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 22 Jun 1640; died on 23 May 1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From The Farwell Family:

"He is buried in South Nashua, N. H. At the time of his death the town of Nashua, N. H., was a part of the old township of Dunstable, Mass. When the boundary dispute between Mass. and New Hampshire was settled this change in name was brought about. [...] Joseph Farwell is styled in the Old Dunstable records 'Ensign Farwell.' He was, immediately after his settlement in the town, employed in various offices in the town business. He was selectman in 1701, 2, 5, 7, 10, and also at earlier dates, highway surveyor in 1706, and on important committees in 1702, 7, 12, 16 and 17. In 1710 Ensign Farwell, Thomas Lund and Joseph Blanchard, selectmen, petitioned the Assembly for aid in supporting the ministry, and in 1711 it is recorded that they received £10 from the Assembly towards payment of salary of Mr. Paris. He was 'Ensign' of the Chelmsford Military Co., 1687-1695."

From Diana Gale Matthiesen's site, Joseph Farwell's will. [Dated 13 Nov 1711, probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site". It would seem to prove that Hannah Learned was alive on 13 Nov 1711, rather than dying in 1695 as I previously recorded.]

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farwell of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published

to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell

In presence of us

Ames Chever
Samuel Moody
John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

Ensign married Hannah Learned on 25 Dec 1666 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Deacon Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns) was born on 24 Aug 1649 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 1722. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Bates on 22 Dec 1665 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of Edward Bates and Lydia) was born on 9 Jan 1642 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 23 Jan 1642 in First Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 11 Apr 1722 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Benjamin Spalding on 30 Oct 1668 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Benjamin was born on 7 Apr 1643 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died before 1708 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 4 Jan 1694

Mildred married Augustine Warner before 1671. Augustine (son of Col. Augustine Warner and Mary Towneley) was born on 3 Jun 1642 in York County, Virginia; died on 19 Jun 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Capt. Thomas Chisman. Thomas (son of Edmund Chisman and Mary) was born about 1652; died between 25 Jan 1710 and 18 Jul 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Samuel Woods on 30 Dec 1685 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Samuel Woods and Alice Rushton) was born on 3 Jan 1661 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 19 Mar 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

20 Aug 1740 is the death date on his tombstone, but Chelmsford town records say 21 Aug 1740.

Joseph Farwell's will:

Dated 13 Nov 1711. Probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Copied from Diana Gale Mathiessen's site, where it is sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site".

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farweilgen of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published
to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell
In presence of us
Ames Chever
Samuel Moody
John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

Joseph married Hannah Colburn on 23 Jan 1696 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Colburn and Hannah Rolfe) was born in 1673; died after 10 Mar 1741 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 24 Jul 1715

Sarah married Benjamin Butterfield on 16 Feb 1697 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Nathan Butterfield and Deborah Underwood) was born in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Jul 1715 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 26 Mar 1701
• Buried: 26 Mar 1701, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England

Mildred married Lawrence Washington about 1690. Lawrence (son of Col. John Washington and Anne Pope) was born in Sep 1659 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; died between 11 Mar 1698 and 30 Apr 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Patience Bigelow on 29 Nov 1720 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Patience (daughter of James Bigelow and Elizabeth Child) was born on 30 Sep 1695; died on 23 Jan 1771 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Simon Stone Genealogy says merely that she outlived her husband, who died 27 Feb 1783, while John Dennis Farwell's The Farwell Family (1929) gives no death date for her at all. But the headstone in the Groton Old Burying Ground for "Mary Stone relict of Dea. James Stone", seen on Find A Grave, clearly says "March" and "1804". I can't make out the day of the month from the photograph.

Mary married Deacon James Stone on 28 Dec 1726 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Deacon (son of John Stone and Sarah Nutting) was born on 23 Jan 1701 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Feb 1783 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in 1783 in Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edmund Hovey. Edmund (son of James Hovey and Deborah Barlow) was born on 10 Jul 1699; died on 21 Jan 1788 in Norwich, Windsor, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anna Hildreth after 10 Dec 1721 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Anna (daughter of Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moore) was born on 3 Sep 1705 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in Feb 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1694, Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia

Notes:

He was a partner in the Accakeek Fire Furnace.

Augustine married Jane Butler on 20 Apr 1715. Jane was born on 24 Dec 1699; died on 24 Nov 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Augustine married Mary Ball on 6 Mar 1731. Mary (daughter of Col. Joseph Ball and Mary) was born about 1707 in Lancaster County, Virginia; died on 25 Aug 1789 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 18 Aug 1735

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Chapman. Elizabeth (daughter of John Chapman and Elizabeth) was born on 28 Dec 1709; died between 2 Aug 1780 and 17 Jun 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Oliver Wheeler on 25 Nov 1747 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Oliver (son of Jonathan Wheeler and Hannah Russell) was born in 1722 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 31 Jul 1804 in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Forest Cemetery, North Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Tanner and farmer. His French and Indian War service of 1755 was "in the expedition of that year against Crown Point". He was town treasurer of Harvard in 1784, 1785, and 1786. [Simon Stone Genealogy]

Note that Harvard, Massachusetts, founded in 1658 and incorporated in 1732, is a town of roughly 6,000 people about twenty-five miles west-northwest of Boston. Harvard University is in Cambridge, directly adjoining Boston.

James married Deborah Nutting on 13 Sep 1748 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Jonathan Nutting and Mary Green) was born in 1724; died on 2 Nov 1774 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[P]rob. died in French and Indian War. Was a private in Capt. Jas. Reed's Co., & Col. Timothy Ruggles' Reg." [The Farwell Family]

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• Alternate birth: of Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Notes:

He died of an accidental shooting in a blacksmith shop.

John married Phebe Russell on 3 Jan 1753 in Litchfield, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Phebe (daughter of Capt. Peter Russell and Deborah Crosby) was born in 1736 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; was christened on 16 May 1636 in South Church, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; died about Nov 1836 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Martha Dandridge on 6 Jan 1759 in New Kent County, Virginia. Martha was born on 2 Jun 1731; died on 22 May 1802 in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia; was buried in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 20 Jun 1803

John married Mary Buckner in 1763. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1749

Notes:

He was a soldier in the Revolution on the Massachusetts line, discharged 10 Oct 1780 after serving two months and 26 days.

Oliver married Hepzibah Munroe on 3 Mar 1773 in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hepzibah (daughter of Nathan Munroe and Mercy Benjamin) was born on 3 Aug 1751 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 4 Nov 1829 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillsborough Centre Cemetery, Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jesiah.

Josiah married Sarah Darby on 13 Sep 1797 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of John Daby and Sarah Hopgood) was born on 7 Feb 1772 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Notes:

He is said in D. Hamilton Hurd's history of Hillsborough County to have "seen service in both wars," presumably the Revolution and the War of 1812.

John married Naomi Stevens about 1773. Naomi (daughter of Thomas Stevens and Prudence Merrill) was born on 24 Oct 1751 in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 9 Jan 1816 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 17 Feb 1836, Dearborn County, Indiana

John married Ann Palmer in 1789. Ann was born on 5 Jan 1770 in Martinsburg, Berkeley, Virginia (now West Virginia); died on 7 Aug 1857 in Dearborn County, Indiana; was buried in Wilmington Cemetery, Wilmington, Dearborn, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Timothy Dane on 2 Apr 1806 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Timothy died in Aug 1856 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1804, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1805, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1806, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate death: 1850, Pottawattamie, Iowa

Notes:

Also called Sarah "Sally" Stone.

The database "Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848" states that her parents were Josiah Stone and Sarah Darby/Durby/Daby.

Lucius Augustus Bingham and Sarah Stone were great-great grandparents of TNH's third cousin twice removed, Harold Bingham Lee (1899-1973), eleventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, after whom the main library at BYU is named.

Sarah married Lucius Augustus Bingham in 1826 in Fowler, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, New York. Lucius (son of Jeremiah Bingham and Mary Ives) was born on 1 Sep 1804 in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont; died on 11 Mar 1857 in Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Robert Dunlap on 22 Sep 1803 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Robert (son of Major John Dunlap and Martha Gilmore) was born on 21 Nov 1779 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; died on 16 Nov 1865 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Bedford Center Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to The Buffington Family of Dearborn County, Indiana (citation details below), Edmund is one of nine children named in John B. Chisman's will (made 2 Dec 1834 and proved 14 Oct 1836), the others being Elias (whose will was made in 1877 and proved in 1883), John, George, William, James, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, and Charlotte.

He may be the Edmund Chisman recorded as a private in the 6th regiment of artillery (the record describes it as "READ, JR.'S") in the Virginia militia during the War of 1812. He would have been the right age, and it seems clear that the Chisman family's movement westward commenced later than 1812-14.

Edmund married Martha Brown on 29 Aug 1816 in Berkeley, James, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1883, Amador County, California

Notes:

In Hillsborough, New Hampshire in the 1850 census. He was a blacksmith.

John married Elizabeth Covel on 5 Jul 1836 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born about 1807 in Massachusetts; died before 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 27 Sep 1827, Fowler, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, New York
• Alternate death: 29 May 1883, St. David, Cochise, Arizona

Notes:

A memoir of his daughter Mary Elizabeth Bingham, by her daughter Barbara Ann Phelps, calls him "Calvin Perry Bingham."

From The Bingham Family in the United States, citation details below:

Calvin and his family were with the earliest Mormon groups to move across America. The oldest child of Lucius Augustus, Calvin was born in NY, lived in Upper Canada as a child, and by 1840 when he was thirteen, lived with the Mormon group in Henderson, Knox Co IL. About 1848, probably in IA after the Mormons moved to Pottawattamie Co, Calvin married Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn. He, his wife and her entire family, mother and siblings lived in one household in 1850.

Between 1853 and 1867, Calvin and his family lived in several different UT settlements. They then lived for about ten years in Montpelier, Bear Lake Co ID before returning to Box Elder Co UT by 1880. After Calvin died in AZ in 1883, wife Elizabeth moved to Vernal, Uintah Co UT where she lived with grown children William and Alice in 1900.

Posted to ancestry.com by user NORDSEEKER, with the remark: "This account was written by their great grandson, Wes Martin. I don't know where he got all the information, but I found it typed on the back of a family group sheet in his genealogy book."

"Calvin Bingham was the son of Lucius and Sarah Stone Bingham. He was born Sept. 7, 1827 in Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York. He was the oldest of eight children: four brothers--Benjamin, Augustus, Perry, and Prosper-- and three sisters: Emeline, Lucy, and MaryJane.

"His mother died about 1849. His father remarried but never came west to Utah. Calvin was baptized into the Mormon church at the age of seventeen in Bannock County, Illinois in 1844.

"Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn was the daughter of Ashael and Sarah Lester Thorn, born in Monrovia, Cayuga county, New York on March 25, 1832. She was the second child in a family of ten: three boys--William L., Richard, and Isaac, and seven girls--Maryann, Sarah, Nancy, Lydia, Abigale, Barbara Ann, and Elizabeth Lucretia. Her mother died about 1852 and her father re-married Elizabeth Lusk, a widow. They came west with his family.

"Calvin and Elizabeth were married December 18, 1848 in Pottawatamie, Iowa. Sarah and Calvin were born to them here. In 1853 they and several other members of the Thorn family moved west to Utah settleing in the West Weber area (now known as Uintah). Their third child, Mary Elizabeth, was born here. While living in Uintah, Calvin was called to serve in Col. Johnson's army. They were among the saints that made the move south--leaving their homes to be burned if necessary. On returning they settled in Farmington, Utah, where Lucy Melissa, their fourth child, was born. Later they moved to Three Mile Creek which is now known as Perry, Utah. In about 1857, the Ashael Thorn family moved here too and they built their homes near each other. Barbara Ann, their fifth child was born here. Three years later in 1860 they moved to Hyrum, Utah.

"Being among the first settlers in Hyrum, they took an active part in civic and church activities. Calvin became the first Bishop of Hyrum and was loved and remembered by people for a great many years. Two more children were born to them here, Anna Marie and Ashael.

"In 1865 they were called to settle the Bear Lake, Idaho area. They settled in Montpelier where due to very harsh winters, they lost their crops. Very discouraged, they returned to Hyrum, Utah. Their son, William Augustus, was born here in Montpelier.

"About 1868 they returned to Montpelier. Elizabeth taught the first school in town--teaching out of their small log home. Another daughter, Lydia Emeline, was born to them here. Later, they built a large home on the banks of the creek that ran through town. Their last two children were born here--Orissa Vilate and Alice. Orissa Vilate died at nine months old. Also at this residence, their daughter, Lucy Melissa Bigham Williams, died after giving birth to a baby girl. She was only eighteen years old. This two week old baby girl was raised by her grandparents, Calvin and Elizabeth.

"In 1878, the Binghams, their married son and daughters, and a large group of other people left Montpelier intending to go to Arizona and settle an area there. But upon reaching Salem, Utah, they decided to stop there for a year or so. The Perry Bingham family and the Robert H. Williams family were among those that settled in Salem for that short time. In 1880, with several other families including the Alonzo Bingham family, Calvin and Elizabeth headed for Arizona again. They stopped in St. Johns, Arizona where their daughter, Anna Marie and husband William were living. They stayed there until 1891 when they moved to St. David, Arizona. Arriving on Christmas Day, they joined others of the original group who had settled that area and started up a freighting business. This business engaged in the freight business between Benson, Tombstone and Bisbee. Although Calvin was a blacksmith by trade, he found freighting more profitable. So he bought a team of large horses to go with the team he already had, and followed this occupation for a little more than a year.

"Calvin Bingham left his home with a wagon loaded with freight for Bisbee, about 56 miles from St. David. On the following day, May 27,1883, while going down a steep grade, his freight wagon upset pinning him under the wagon and causing his death.

"His body was brought home by three men from his ward. Funeral services were held in the ward at St. David May 29, 1883. Speakers were Patriarch P.C. Merrill, President David P. Kimball, J.H. Martineau, Bishop Henry Horn, and S.B. Merrill, who all spoke highly of the integrity, faithfullness and honesty of Calvin. After the death of her husband, Elizabeth Lucretia Bingham, with her family consisting of the younger children Ashael, William, Emeline, Lucy Jane, a grand-daughter, and Alice moved to Mesa, Arizona where her three oldest children, Clarinda, Mary Elizabeth Phelps, and Calvin Perry Bingham lived. She had only been there a short time when another sorrow came into her life. Ashael, then 23 years old, had an appendicitis attack and died just four months after his father's death.

"The family spent three years in Mesa and then returned to their former home in Montpelier, Idaho. Then in 1888 they moved to Vernal, Utah where Lucretia spent the remainder of her life. She was a faithful LDS woman and worked in the Relief Society organization. While in Montpelier she had been called to work among the sick and dying. She helped make burial clothes and to dress and lay out the dead. She underwent many hardships of the early pioneers. She learned to be thrifty and to economize so she could feed and clothe her family. It is said that when she bought a piece of calico, she would tear a quilt block from it for the quilt she was making. She made very nice quilts that were the envy of her friends and neighbors. Thread was expensive, so she would ravel out cloth to sew her blocks together with. She taught her 11 children to be thrifty and industrious too. She passed away at her home in Vernal Nov. 28, 1903 as a result of a heart attack."

Calvin married Elizabeth Lucretia Thorne on 18 Dec 1848 in Big Pigeon, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Elizabeth (daughter of Ashal Enoch Thorne and Sarah Lester) was born on 25 Mar 1832 in Moravia, Cayuga, New York; died on 28 Nov 1903 in Vernal, Uintah, Utah; was buried in Vernal Memorial Park, Vernal, Uintah, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1822, New Hampshire
• Alternate death: 11 Apr 1876, Clinton County, Iowa

Notes:

Her headstone spells her first name "Noemi," and gives her date of death as 10 Apr 1876, not 11 Apr as would be implied by the newspaper story below.

"Mrs. N. J. Gage, the widow of Moses Gage, the former Station Agent of the Northwestern Railway at Clinton, committed suicide by shooting herself through the head with a revolver, at 10 o'clock Tuesday night. Temporary insanity is the supposed cause. She leaves two daughters, one married. She was a very estimable lady, and there is considerable excitement." [Davenport (Iowa) Quad-City Times, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Moses Gage. Moses (son of Moses Gage and Sibyl Barron) was born on 1 Mar 1819 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was christened on 13 Jun 1819 in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; died on 28 Mar 1871 in Iowa; was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, DeWitt, Clinton, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is identified as a son of Edmond Chisman on his Find a Grave page and also that of his father. Edmond's father was also named John Buckner Chisman.

John married Sarah Jane Whitley on 17 May 1845 in Indiana. Sarah (daughter of George Leaman Whitley and Sarah Jane Riggs) was born on 22 May 1824 in Indiana; died on 20 Dec 1896; was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Solon, Johnson, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married James Rogers Johnson on 22 Jan 1861 in Amador County, California. James was born about 1827 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Hyrum Smith Phelps on 25 Sep 1866 in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho. Hyrum (son of Morris Charles Phelps and Sarah Thompson) was born on 26 Feb 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois; died on 23 Apr 1926 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Nov 1933, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona

Notes:

Died of diabetes.

"Mary Elizabeth Bingham Phelps," by her daughter Barbara Ann Phelps Allen:

Mother was born on Christmas day, 1853, the daughter of Calvin Perry and Lucretia Thorne Bingham. Her early life was as useful and busy as were her later years. She worked out some, and also helped her grandfather Ashael Thorne make butter and cheese plus other work to be done on a farm.

When she was a young lady, she earned money to buy herself a nice yellow calico dress with black dots in it and thought it most beautiful. She, like Father, loved to dance and said often after they had danced until after midnight, a crowd would get into a sleigh and ride until daylight.

She had quite a number of boy friends, one in particular she liked real well, It was while she was keeping company with him that she married Father (Hyrum Smith Phelps) as a plural wife. She said she didn't know why she did it, but supposed it was meant to be that way.

At the time she married they lived in Montpelier, Idaho, but the winters were too severe so they moved to Mesa, Arizona after three daughters had been born, Laurett, Lucy and Barbara. Laurett died of diphtheria before they left Idaho.

The journey to Arizona was a long hard one, especially for mother, as she was in her last months of pregnancy. The company laid over three days at Lee's Ferry because of her condition, and on the third day, Dec. 2, 1878 her oldest son, Gove Edward, was born. They arrived in Mesa Jan. 17, 1879. Mesa was practically a desert when they arrived and they lived in tents the first three months until Father and his sons could make adobes to build a house.

The first one was a long three-room house. Mother lived in one end and Aunt Clarinda the other. The center room was used for awhile to store corn and grain, and later Grandma Bingham lived there awhile. While she lived there, he son Ashael died.

In 1881 Father built a home on the corner of First Avenue and Hibbert Street for Aunt Clarinda. This house was a T-shape with a porch on two sides, had a shingle roof and dirt floors. It still stands today [1953] but has been improved. Mother had the long house then to herself. It was here that Hattie, Orson and Yuma were born. The Federal officers had been after Father and Mother for plural marriage, and Father was arrested. He was sent to Yuma, Arizona Penitentiary for three months. Mother was taken to the home of Ed Jones in Lehi. She stayed there until just before Yuma was born, then went to her mother.

Father bought or traded and got eighty acres one mile east of town and built another home for Aunt Clarinda who had a family of boys and moved mother to the home on First Avenue and Hibbert because she had mostly girls. Here Grace, who lived only a few weeks, Amy, Esther, Clara and Gertrude were born.

After Aunt Clarinda moved to the ranch, Mother was allotted a few cows for her support. It was Gove's job to drive the cows to and from the pasture, and he often rode a cow called Puso. I remember we had a lot of grief because the cows would often get out of the corral and get into Brother Hibbert's place at night, and he would come and awake mother and say ugly things to her. We milked some of the cows that were brought from Montpelier. When Esther was a few months old, Father went on a mission to the Southern States.

Mother lived in this home until 1895 when Father sold it and built her a nice brick house on the eighty acres. Wilford, Mother's fourteenth child, was born here. He was the pride and joy of the family. Father used to call him the little prophet. He is four months younger than my oldest son, Ashael. Mother practically raised him with Wilford. They were like brothers.

While living in this home Mother's greatest sorrow came when Lucy died. At the time she was confined to her bed with a sore leg, and couldn't go see Lucy during her sickness. Lucy had developed blood poison after the birth of her fourth child and namesake, Lucy. Brother Calvin was surely good to mother during Lucy's sickness; he would come three times a day to keep her informed of Lucy's condition. Sometimes he would call at midnight. Lucy died Jan. 6, 1905. Mother took little Lucy and raised her as her own.

Because of Father's age and the boys married and gone, he found he couldn't do the work on the ranch, so he sold to a Mr. Fraser and moved onto twenty acres on Home Lane. He built mother the nicest home she had had and built two houses in town on Sirrine, one for Aunt Clarinda and one to rent. As age kept creeping, he found he had to stop work altogether, so he sold the twenty acres and moved Mother in the house he built to rent. Here they spent their last days. Father died April 23, 1926, after having been gored in the belly by a bull. Mother died 17 November, 1933 from the effects of diabetes.

Mother was a wonderful mother to her family, a typical Bingham, the most unselfish and generous person to be found. She always went without for her family. I've seen her many times skim the cream off the milk and give it to father and she would use the skim milk. She didn't go out very often, having 14 children, two babies most of the time. One May Day she sent us on ahead to a picnic. Amy was the baby. Lucy and I took her and the other children on; Mother came later. When we took Amy to her, the baby didn't recognize Mother and began to scream. It was the first time she had seen Mother in her dress-up clothes. Amy cried with hunger, so Mother had to go home and change her dress so Amy would nurse.

Mother had inflammatory rheumatism while Amy was a baby. At that time there was an epidemic of some kind of fever, and Aunt Clarinda's oldest son, Hyrum, had it. Father had to be with him until he died. Lucy and I, with Grandma Sarah Phelps had to take care of Mother and the baby. She suffered something awful. Her legs were swollen twice their size, and she couldn't bear to be moved. After Hyrum died and Father came to help take care of Mother, he and Grandma decided to get her up on an open bottom chair and steam her. They got her on the chair, but it was cruel what she suffered during the ordeal, and the sad part was that no good came from it. She finally got well.

Mother was quite spiritual. A number of times things happened and it was made known to her before hand. One time she was troubled and went into the bedroom to pray. As she came out, she said just above the door she heard the sweetest music she had ever heard, and as the music died away, a peaceful feeling came over her and she was comforted.

Very few people suffered as much as Mother. One time she and sister Annie went into the field to glean wheat, and they came in contact with poison weeds and their legs broke out with sores. Mother's was the worst. Both her legs were solid sores from her knees to the soles of her feet. It took weeks for them to heal. Every summer for several years at the same time, her legs would break out with the same kind of sores, but each year they would he more mild. This was a few weeks before Grace was born; after that her legs caused her a lot of misery. There were quite a few other things that caused a lot of suffering that I'll not take time to mention, besides giving birth to 14 children without the aid of a doctor or having something done to ease the pain.

Mother was a good Latter-day Saint. She always donated liberally, paid her tithing and fast offerings. When she began paying, she saved all her statements from the dairy so she would know how much she owed, and at the end of the year, she owed a few cents more than ten dollars. I don't know how she managed to live. She had a few hens, but they didn't lay any eggs until the price went down to ten cents a dozen. Lucy was the main stay of the family. Hattie and I worked some. When either of us earned any money, it was turned over to Mother. Not a cent did we use for ourselves without her telling us to. She would shine our heavy shoes with stove soot. We were quite large before we could afford dress shoes. We weren't the only poor people, however; most everyone was alike

We had a happy home, Mother made it so. Our home was a house of prayer. We had family prayer night and morning, and I think that had everything to do with the spirit of our home. I know I speak for all of the family when I say I am thankful for wonderful parents and what they did for us.

Mary married Hyrum Smith Phelps on 8 Sep 1873 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Hyrum (son of Morris Charles Phelps and Sarah Thompson) was born on 26 Feb 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois; died on 23 Apr 1926 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 28 Jun 1862, Hyrum, Cache, Utah

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1895

Frances married Norton Jason Damon on 14 Dec 1875 in Clinton County, Iowa. Norton (son of Edmund H. Damon and Sarah Hicks) was born in May 1846 in New York; died in 1912; was buried in City View Cemetery, Salem, Marion, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her Find a Grave page, which identifies her as the wife of Monroe Wightman -- who, according to George Wightman of Quidnessett, R.I. (citation details below), married a Sarah Chisman -- says she was born 27 Aug 1848 (which date is visible on her gravestone) in Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana. And the 1850 US census of shows Sarah S. Chisman, age 2, born in Indiana, in the Manchester, Dearborn, Indiana household of John Chisman, 32, born in Virginia, and Sarah J Chisman, 26, born in Indiana. (ancestry.com mistranscribes the family's surname as "Chrisman," but the handwriting on the census register clearly reads "Chisman.")

Additionally, Iowa County Marriages, 1838-1934 on familysearch.org shows the 1 Sep 1913 marriage of Sarah Wightman, daughter of John Chisman and Sarah Jane Whitley, to John Young, at Anamosa in Jones County. John Young's age is given as 61 and his parents as William Young and Elizabeth Merritt. Sarah Wightman's age is given as 60, which would appear to trim five years off her actual age, but that seems par for the course. It is absolutely clear that this Sarah Wightman is the widow of Monroe Alphonso Wightman (d. 1910) marrying a second time, and that she was a daughter of John Chisman and Sarah Jane Whitley.

Sarah married Monroe Alphonso Wightman on 16 Feb 1870 in Marion, Linn, Iowa. Monroe (son of William Wightman and Martha Woodard) was born on 19 Apr 1848 in Manchester, Bennington, Vermont; died on 15 Mar 1910 in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa, Jones, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charles Emmett Kracaw. Charles was born on 8 Mar 1857 in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas, Ohio; died on 22 Jun 1918 in Davis, Yolo, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Barbara Phelps (later Allen) arrived in Mesa in 1879 and a 16-month-old infant. At age 12, she received an accordion for Christmas. She then earned money by playing with her father, Hyrum Phelps, for dances in Lehi, especially at Christmas. In later life, she organized the Granny Band, which performed at events around town." [Images of America: Latter-Day Saints in Mesa by D. L. Turner and Catherine H. Ellis. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.]

A memoir by Barbara Ann Phelps Allen:

My parents were Hyrum Smith Phelps and Mary Elizabeth Bingham Phelps. I was born August 26, 1877 at Montpelier, Bear Lake County, Idaho. I was just sixteen months old when the family reached Mesa. The first house Father built was on the east side of Hibbert Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues.

Among my first recollections of this place was the first Sunday School I attended, It was held in the school house, a one-room adobe. Hannah Peterson (Miller) was the teacher. We recited the alphabet from cards. We were seated on a low bench in front of the room. I attended my first Primary with my sister Lucy. We were very devoted to each other. One never went without the other. Each week we listened anxiously while the secretary read the program for the following week, but we were never on it.

When I was nine years old, the school put on a program and every child in the room was given a part but me, I felt disgraced, and I never even told my mother. I always remembered the feeling I had and in the sixteen years I presided over the Primary I always favored the backward child and never slighted anyone to my knowledge.

Father built a long room on the back of the house to accommodate the growing family. Grandma Bingham lived with us awhile before moving into a house on Broadway just east of Mesa Drive. We children were staying with her after Father was taken to Yuma to the penitentiary. The officers came there one night looking for Mother; they had a warrant, and Grandma wouldn't take it, so they threw it on the floor. I thought she wasn't very polite.

When I was twelve years old, Mother gave me an accordion for Christmas. I soon learned to play it. A few years later, she and Lucy gave me a larger one which I kept until after I was married.

One time Father went to Tempe and bought a bolt of cloth called Zephyr gingham; it was a beautiful plaid. As I remember, five of us girls had dresses alike. Lucy and I always dressed alike. Most people thought we were twins. The first M.I.A. I attended had only one class for everyone. Pres. Charles I. Robson told the story of Joseph Smith's first prayer. That was the first time I had heard it, and I have never forgotten how it impressed me.

Soon after this Lucy and I were asked to sing at one of the meetings. We sang, "Write Me a Letter from Home.' After that I think we were asked to sing at every public entertainment held in Mesa until after I was married. Lucy and Grandma Phelps bought us an organ which I learned to play by ear. Father and I played for the dances at Lehi a few times. I earned $2.50 over the Christmas holidays playing out there. I left my organ there during that time so I wouldn't have to carry it back and forth. Lucy and I joined the choir when I was sixteen, and I sang with them for twenty years. I memorized 200 hymns besides the anthems we sang.

I well remember the first dress I made; it was a real pretty blue and I wore a blue ribbon around my waist. Mother's sister, Anner LeSueur sent me the ribbon because they told her I looked so much like her. In the summer of about 1891 there was a conference held at Pinetop, and Mother and Aunt Clarinda in company with quite a large group of saints, attended. Brother William took them. It took six weeks to make the round trip. Amy was about four years old. While they were gone, I made Amy a dress. I made it a plain tight waist with a full skirt that came nearly to her ankles, and it was so tight I could hardly fasten it. She had it on when mother came and when mother saw her she began to cry, and she said Amy looked like we had starved her. One night at a dance, John S. Allen, known as Seymour, came into our lives. He rushed across the floor, came up to me and said, "Come on , Caddie, let's dance." Then he saw his mistake, and after an apology, asked me to dance. From then on he never failed to dance with Lucy and me. Later on he began making regular visits to our home, but we did not know which of us he was most interested in. We had a lot of good times together. One night he asked if he could take me home. Up to this time he had never taken us any place. He had a lady friend and we were just side issues, but after this night we knew which was his favorite.

John S. and I kept company for about nine months and were married on Oct. 2, 1895. We had a quiet wedding at our home on the corner of Hibbert and East First Avenue. Only close relatives were invited. The ceremony was performed by Bishop James Malen Home. We stood at the head of the table, and the guests were seated around it, ready to partake as soon as the ceremony ended. Mother and Lucy had cooked a very fine dinner. When we went through the kitchen to be married, Mother and Lucy were standing by the stove. Mother was crying and Lucy looked sad, but I couldn't see anything to feel sad about. One week after we were married, we started in company with Eli and Medora Openshaw for the St. George Temple. It took six weeks to make the round trip.

When we returned home we started housekeeping in a two-rooms of the house built for Warner and Fannie Allen. It was here our first child, Charles Ashael, was born July 31, 1896. At this time the monthly fast meeting was held on the first Thursday of the month, and he was blessed by Grandpa [Charles H.] Allen.

We moved into a 2-room lumber house with a lean-to on the back that Father had built on 20 acres Grandpa Allen had given Seymour at the corner of Broadway and Stapley. On Feb. 15, 1898, Blanche was born. When she was four months old, J. S. was called on a mission to the Southern States. He left in June and I milked eight to ten cows while he was gone. Esther stayed with me and cared for the babies all the time. Mother was very good to me. I used to wonder how I could get along without her. I did all the sewing for the six girls, Lucy, Hattie, Amy, Esther, Clara, and Gertrude. At this time Lucy was working in Johnson's store and did a lot to help the family.

I was blessed while J. S. was gone. We all enjoyed good health. When it was time for him to be released, I went to Utah in company with my parents, Father Allen and his wife, Annie. Uncle Perry Bingham met us at Price, Utah and took us to Vernal where I stayed until I heard from John S., then I went on to meet him in Cove, Utah. After we returned home, Seymour and Warner went into partners and bought eighty acres on Baseline. Hyrum Loren was born Oct. 7, 1901 and Barbara Oct. 5, 1903.

John R. was born Oct. 29, 1905 and was just a few months old when Seymour sold the 20 acres and bought 60 acres two miles east of Mesa on the Apache Trail from Mr. Lamb. This was where Gove Liahona was born July 26, 1907. Then John Seymour was called on another mission, this time to the Eastern States. President Ben Rich was his mission president both times. I was left this time with more work and more responsibilities. Ashael was a big help to me. One of my sisters stayed with me most of the time and helped.

J. S. came off his mission June 1909, and Mary was born Sept. 1,1910. On March 27, 1912, Eldred Phelps was born, but lived only six weeks. This was the first real sorrow to come to us. July 8, 1914 Russell Hoopes was born. In the Summer of 1915, we moved to a 320 acre ranch four miles south of Gilbert.

Seymour had gone into partners with his older brother Warner and acquired a 320-acre farm four miles south of Gilbert. This was entirely alfalfa at the time but was later planted to cotton.

December 2, 1915 Ashael left for a mission to the Southern States and June 5, 1916 Ben Rich Allen was born, and November 5, 1917, Joseph Seymour was born. Two babies were born while Ashael was away.

When Joe was about eight months old, I took a little motherless baby, Robert Southers, four months old, to raise. I kept him nine months, then his aunt, Mrs. Ellingbow, wanted him so badly that J. S. told me I shouldn't be selfish and keep him, so I let her have him.

After several years the depression came on and we decided J. S.'s brother, Benjamin, should live with us for a couple of years. J. S. sent him on a mission. Chancy, Seymour's older brother, lived with us a lot. October 11, 1920, Della, our twelfth and last child was born three days after Loren had left for a mission. He labored in Louisiana.

We struggled along for several years. The depression came on and we decided to rent. The boys wanted to finish school. As J. S. couldn't run the ranch alone, he decided to rent it out. We bought us a home in Mesa at 48 West Second Street and lived there for a year or more.

J. S. and his brother Jim took a job building a fence along the railroad. It was at this time that the next great sorrow came when Della died of mastoid infection Nov. 21, 1925.

We sent Gove on a mission to the Eastern States and in February 1935 we sent Russell to the Samoan Island to fill his mission. Before he returned home, we sent Ben in March 1938 to Argentina. All our family have very fine companions. We are very proud to have them to associate with. In all our family gatherings, they are with us one hundred percent. We are very proud of our family and their families, and always pray for their success in righteousness.

October 29, 1945, we held our Golden Wedding Anniversary, the first time all the family had been together for a long time. For the reception, Ashael came from the Spanish American Mission, Ida from Los Angeles, Russell from Kirtland, New Mexico, and Mary from Vallejo, California. We had a dinner at the ranch home. All ten of the family and twenty-seven of the grandchildren were present. We all had a lovely time. After this gathering Ida was called to labor with Ashael in the mission, taking George with them.

My mother was very strict about us attending our duties and being punctual. Because of this, the Sunday School Superintendent called me to be a substitute teacher when I was quite young. When I was seventeen I attended Conference and they reorganized the Stake Y.L.M.I.A. and I was surprised when they sustained me as secretary. I served in that capacity for twelve years underfive presidents, Ann Eliza Leavitt, Jannett Johnson, Lulu Macdonald, Fannie Dana and Mary Hibbert. Soon after I was released, I was chosen stake secretary for the Relief Society. I held that position for about six years. I was released to be president of the Mesa First Ward Relief Society. I served about a year and we moved to Gilbert. There was no Gilbert Ward then, and we were in the Chandler Ward. After this I served about sixteen years as president of the Primary for Chandler, Gilbert, and Mesa Wards. I was superintendent of Religion Class in Gilbert the same time I was President of the Primary. At this time John R. was attending high school in Gilbert and he assisted me with religion class.

We rented our ranch and bought us a home in Mesa, but stayed only a year or so. At this time I was president of the Primary in Gilbert and Bishop Haymore asked me to preside there until Barbara came home from vacation, and before she came I was made president of the Mesa First Ward Primary. I presided over both of them for about six weeks. I have been president of the Gilbert Relief Society two different times, second counselor to Grace Nielson and then president in the Mesa First Ward Relief Society, second counselor to Adelaide Peterson in the Stake Primary, and I held several other positions. Now at the age of seventy-four, I am a Relief Society district teacher and a Guide teacher of four boys in the Primary of the Mesa Ninth Ward. I am very thankful for the many opportunities I have had to serve.

March 1942 was the Centennial celebration of the Relief Society, and the General Board requested that pioneer stories be brought before the public as much as possible. I was president of the Gilbert Relief Society at that time. I read several good stories and decided to put them into a pageant. I had fine cooperation, and it turned out to be a success. We played it in six different wards. I also wrote two other pageants which were very successful, an Easter pageant and one on the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood. In doing this work I received some of the greatest joy of my life. Another thing that I enjoyed a lot was putting on entertainments with the Primary children. I found a lot of work doing these things, but when it was all over, there was unspeakable joy that came to us seeing the happiness that came to the children.

The Lord has been good to me for which I am grateful. We have been relieved of pain through prayer and being administered to many times. My first relief came when I was first married. I had an ulcerated tooth which was so severe I didn't think I could stand it any longer. John S. administered to me and relief came instantly. Another time when I was alone on the ranch with the little children, I became very sick. My head pained so badly at times I wasn't conscious. John was nine years old. He went off by himself and prayed for me. All at once a quivering feeling went through my body and with it went the pain. I couldn't account for it until he told me he had prayed for me. John had been instantly relieved twice when his father administered to him when he had gathered ears.

One time when we had been helping the Chandler Ward top maize to pay off on their piano, we came home after dark and found Loren crying with pain. As he drove the cows around the haystack, they loosened the derrick fork and it swung around before he knew it, striking him on the leg and puncturing the bone. The pain was so severe he couldn't stand to have us walk across the floor. He immediately called for his father to administer to him, which he did, and the pain left as he took his hands off, and it never returned. For these and many more blessings too numerous to mention, I am grateful.

Barbara married John Seymour Allen on 2 Oct 1895 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. John (son of Charles Hopkins Allen and Elizabeth Adelaide Hoopes) was born on 27 Nov 1870 in Richmond, Cache, Utah; died on 22 Jan 1966 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Orson married Rebecca Hannah Allen on 13 Sep 1905 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Rebecca (daughter of Charles Hopkins Allen and Elizabeth Adelaide Hoopes) was born on 6 Jul 1883 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 7 Apr 1971 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 13 Dec 1897, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1888, Iowa

Notes:

Leola Ladorie Damon and Frederick Stuart Knight were 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of Richard Ingersoll (1587-1644) and Agnes Langlye (d. 1670).

Leola married Frederick Stuart Knight on 1 Sep 1917 in Lincoln, Lincoln, Oregon. Frederick (son of Frank F. Knight and Martha J. Stuart) was born on 1 May 1884 in Ramona, Lake, South Dakota; died on 29 Jul 1945 in Hood River, Hood River, Oregon; was buried in Forest View Cemetery, Forest Grove, Washington, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Franklin married Iva Faye Covington on 24 Dec 1912 in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa. Iva (daughter of Steven Hole Covington and Minerva Josephine "Minnie" Yates) was born on 12 Oct 1894 in Belvidere, Thayer, Nebraska; died on 19 Sep 1985 in Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 4 Jul 1979, Berkeley, Alameda, California

Theodora married Alfred Louis Kroeber in Mar 1926. Alfred was born on 11 Jun 1876 in Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey; died on 5 Oct 1960 in Paris, France; was buried in Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Contra Costa, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Known as Ashael "Ace" Allen, he was a Los Angeles motorcycle policeman in the 1930s through 1950s. He also worked for various movie studios.

Charles married Ida Lillywhite on 4 Feb 1919 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Ida was born on 13 Oct 1896 in Woodruff, Navajo, Arizona; died on 5 May 1984 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Joseph Collins Leavitt on 3 Jun 1923 in Maricopa County, Arizona. Joseph was born on 20 Jun 1892 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 27 Aug 1973 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A president of the 89th Quorum of Seventy from 1933-35; a president of the 90th Quorum from 1943-45; and senior president of the 349th Quorum 1945-52.

On October 23, 1955, he was made President of the Mesa Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in which office he served until his death.

Hyrum married Rita Mae Kempton on 1 Jun 1929 in Florence, Pinal, Arizona. Rita (daughter of Ira Nathaniel Kempton and Maud Packer) was born on 8 Sep 1902 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; died on 9 Mar 1993 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notwithstanding the error on the birth certificate of her son Wilford Myron Crandall, she was not "Barbara Brown Allen", but simply "Barbara Allen."

Barbara Allen Crandall, in her own words, written 1995:

I was born in the two-room house on the 20 acre farm at the southwest corner of Stapley and Broadway in Mesa, the fourth child of Barbara and John Seymour. I was three when we moved to the Lamb Ranch.

My first five years of school were in Mesa, then in 1915 we moved to the ranch south of Gilbert and I started school there. Dad had a large dairy, 40 to 60 cows, so when I was in the eighth grade, I was milking ten cows every night and morning and riding my little mare to school with neither saddle nor bridle.

My eighth and ninth grade years I went to Chandler. I started at Tempe Normal in 1921 and in 1923 graduated and began teaching in Ocotillo. I married Paul Crandall in 1924. Paul rented an 80-acre farm from George Lewis for two years, but the farm depression was severe and he went broke both years. Paul held down various jobs during the depression--drove an ice truck, Mesa city street sprinkler, fuel and feed sales, bought a service station, delivered Union Oil, supervised county highways and then went back to farming, his true love, with his brother Lee.

I held church positions from 12 years of age when I was secretary of the Primary. I taught various classes then was called to the Primary Stake Board before I was married, where I served for 20 years, ending as Stake President. I had one daughter and five sons during those years.

In 1943 I went back to teaching to help out for a year or so during World War II. I retired 27 years later. During this time I was MIA president six years, Junior Gleaner teacher six years, and Genealogy director for five years. I then directed travel tours for nine years. Paul served in the bishopric of Mesa First Ward for 13 years. In 1952 our fourth son, Charles, died of Hodgkins' Disease, and in 1971 Don was killed in an auto accident in California.

We had served as ordained Temple workers for five years then we were called to the Tulsa, Oklahoma Mission in December 1979. Paul developed high blood pressure, so we were released after one year. He developed prostate cancer five years later and died August 26, 1987.

We have 19 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. I am 92 years old, and have been a Relief Society visiting teacher since I retired from school teaching. My four living children come to my home for lunch every Tuesday, a great delight to all of us.

Obituary, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb 2003:

Barbara Allen Crandall, 99 year old Mesa native, died on Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at her Mesa home.

Born October 5, 1903, she was preceded in death by her husband, Paul L. Crandall, two sons, Don Ashael and Charles Lee.

Barbara rode a horse bareback to Mesa and Gilbert elementary schools and graduated from high school and got her teaching certificate in 1923 from Tempe Normal School, now ASU in Tempe. While there she was on the varsity softball and volleyball teams.

Her first teaching job was in Ocotillo, and on June 6, 1924, she married Paul L. Crandall. They made their home and reared six children in Mesa. In 1937 she was contacted by Joe Jarvis, newly named Mesa recreation director, who asked her to organize a recreation program to keep the kids busy during the summer. This was the beginning of the Mesa Parks and Recreation program. She recruited a small group of volunteers workers and they taught games, dancing and songs, played sports and went swimming on Wednesdays. Each season wound up with staging of a production involving all of the children in costume. In all, Barbara directed the program for seven years.

Barbara worked for a while in Maricopa County politics, was an attache in the State Legislature, a precinct committeeman and was vice chairman of the Maricopa County Democratic organization for a year.

With World War II manpower shortages, Barbara went back to school, teaching fifth grade in Lehi. Besides classroom subjects, she went onto the playground and taught the boys football, baseball and basketball. The girls were instructed in volleyball, dodgeball, Jump rope and softball. Her teaching philosophy was that every child participated and had a costume in any activity. She wound up her 27 year teaching career at Lowell school in Mesa.

Barbara held many ward and stake leadership and teaching positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was active in the Primary for 20 years and later in the Mutual Improvement Association (MIA), the youth organization of the Church. She was presented a Golden Gleaner recognition award for service. In 1979-80 she filled a mission with her husband for the Church in the Tulsa Oklahoma Mission. They were also ordinance workers for several years in the Arizona Temple in Mesa. She was a charter member of Phi Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma, teachers' sorority.

In 1978 she was named Mesa Merit Mother and was runner-up for Arizona Mother of the Year. She was a charter member and first secretary of the Mesa Historical Society. After her retirement from teaching, Barbara organized the Arizona Ramblers Travel Club and conducted bus tours, primarily for senior citizens, throughout the United States and Canada.

She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Nielsen, three sons, Paul L. Jr., Wilford M. (Wil). and Dr. John A., all of Mesa, one sister, Mary Hardison, Vallejo, Ca, one brother, Russell H. Allen of Mesa. She has 19 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren.

Viewing will be held at Meldrum Mortuary, 52 N. Macdonald, on Monday, 6-8:00 P.M., (also one hour prior to services at the Church). Funeral services will be held Tuesday February 18, at 10:00 A.M. at Centennial Ward, 422 E. University.

Interment will be at Mesa Cemetery 1212 N Center.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Mesa Historical Society.

Barbara married Paul Leslie Crandall on 6 Jun 1924 in Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona. Paul (son of Myron Marcellus Crandall and Clara Mabel Packer) was born on 28 Nov 1901 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; died on 26 Aug 1987 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Delia Ann Freestone on 25 Nov 1929 in Santa Ana, Orange, California. Delia (daughter of George Leonard Freestone and Charlotte Beryl "Lottie" Packer) was born on 10 Dec 1906 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; died on 25 Nov 1998 in Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gove married Mary Magdalene Pace on 19 May 1933 in Maricopa County, Arizona. Mary was born on 9 Sep 1913 in Woodriff, Navajo, Arizona; died on 28 Feb 2010 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Waldo Collins Hardison on 10 Feb 1936 in Pinal County, Arizona. Waldo was born on 31 Dec 1898 in Santa Paula, Ventura, California; died on 28 Mar 1979 in Vallejo, Solano, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Russell married Eva Webb on 4 Jun 1938 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Eva was born on 6 Sep 1915 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona; died on 2 Jun 2004 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 5 Jun 1916, Gilbert, Maricopa, Arizona

Ben married Lois Palmer on 29 Jul 1940 in Maricopa County, Arizona. Lois was born on 26 Feb 1918 in Taylor, Navajo, Arizona; died on 13 Feb 2011 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Henrietta Gietz on 27 Apr 1939 in Florence, Pinal, Arizona. Henrietta (daughter of Charles M. Gietz) was born on 28 Nov 1920 in Safford, Graham, Arizona; died on 1 Oct 2014 in Fountain Hills, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 19 Sep 1922, Baker City, Baker, Oregon
• Alternate birth: 22 Sep 1922, Baker City, Baker, Oregon
• Alternate death: 14 Apr 2002

Notes:

His 30 June 1942 draft registration card gives his occupation as "freelance artist," and fellow Futurian Chester Cohen as the "person who will always know your address."

Family/Spouse: Kate Wilhelm. Kate was born on 8 Jun 1928 in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio; died on 8 Mar 2018 in Eugene, Lane, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 29 May 1918, Anamosa, Jones, Iowa

Notes:

He and his wife Alise Emma Evans divorced in 1949 and remarried in 1950, either on 22 April in Yamhill, Oregon (Oregon Marriages, 1906-1920, on ancestry.com) or 29 April (Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968, on familysearch.org).

John married Alise Emma Evans on 30 Jun 1938 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, and was divorced on 17 Aug 1949 in Multnomah County, Oregon. Alise (daughter of Everett Owen Evans and Anna Josephine Lambert) was born on 26 Mar 1918 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; died in Feb 1995 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ursula married Charles Le Guin in 1953. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From her obituary at Meldrum Mortuary:

Barbara J. Crandall Nielsen Dowell, age 94, of Mesa, Arizona, died on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at her home, surrounded by family and friends.

Barbara was the daughter of Paul L. Crandall and Barbara Allen Crandall. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Victor L. Nielsen, Jr., and her second husband, Emery B. Dowell. She is survived by two brothers, Paul L. Crandall, Jr., and Dr. John A. Crandall; five children, Ericka Nielsen Barber, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Victor L. Nielsen III, Matthew C. Nielsen, and Paul M. Nielsen; eight grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren. She loved her family.

She was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona, and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Arizona State University. There she also met her husband, Vic Nielsen, who had signed up to write sports stories for the university's newspaper, the State Press, which Barb was editing that year. Continuing in their shared love of journalism, she and Vic worked at several newspapers after graduating, including The Superior (Arizona) Sun and the Chamberlain (South Dakota) Record. In Chamberlain they began their family with the first three of their five children; Ericka, Teresa, and Victor III. Having to put three children into snowsuits every day brought them back to Arizona, where Matthew and Paul were born.

After dedicating 12 years to raising her children, she discovered a great talent and new love for teaching. She taught high school English and journalism throughout her entire career, most of which took place at Mesa High School. She loved teaching and loved her students, and was very popular with them as well. Several went on to careers in journalism and other aspects of writing.

Barb had a long family history of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and served in numerous callings as a teacher. Her extended Mesa family took much of her free time and attention, but she managed to travel with friends through Europe after she retired, and enjoyed playing bridge with old friends and colleagues for many years. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Barbara married Victor Louis Nielsen, Jr. on 31 Oct 1949 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. Victor (son of Victor Louis Nielsen, Sr. and Hazel Ethel Coston) was born on 25 Apr 1927 in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska; died on 15 May 1985 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married Emery Bevington "Soap" Dowell on 9 Jun 2007 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. Emery (son of John Emery Dowell, Jr. and LuCrece J. Bevington) was born on 2 Jan 1924 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri; died on 21 Nov 2017 in Emeryville, Alameda, California; was buried in Fair Oaks Cemetery, Sacramento, Sacramento, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Eleanor Gay Pew in Nov 1951. Eleanor (daughter of Ellis Harvey Pew and Eliza Roxie Bond) was born on 4 Nov 1929 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 10 Jan 1999; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wilford married Ruth Ann Woods on 18 Jun 1955 in Maricopa County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Joyce Ann Marie Dixon on 5 Aug 1961 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, and was divorced on 28 Apr 1971 in Washington County, Oregon. Joyce (daughter of Joseph Kozlowski and Helena Maria Mattfolk) was born on 19 Jan 1941 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; died on 14 Apr 1997 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]