Generally about this time of year, Roy and I head down to Cedar City to see their Fall plays--the ones they don't show in the summer, We also happened to have tickets to our local theater (Centerpoint), to the "Adam's Family" Wednesday night. It was a musical. We took some friends that have treated us to the Hale Center Theater a couple of times. I was a little worried that the play would be awful (since we had guests). It was a pleasant and fun surprise. It was also very Halloween appropriate. The actors were fabulous, the music (did I mention it was a musical?) was excellent, and the plot was fun.
Thursday morning, I exercised and cleaned the house and Roy went to work. About 1:00 we headed for Cedar City. We made it in time to have dinner and check into our B & B. The play was "Odd Couple," the actors, Brian Vaugn and David Ivers. We were excited to see this play because these are two very well known actors in Cedar City. The fun part was that throughout the run of the play, they have been switching roles. On the week days they are scheduled as to who they will play, but on the weekends, they flip a coin. We really enjoyed watching. Friday, we enjoyed a delicious B & B breakfast (baked pear, egg and potato casserole, and some sweet bread), a nice walk with a bit of shopping (and the most delicious cup of hot chocolate I've ever enjoyed--at the "French Stop" a little outdoor kiosk restaurant), and then the play "Murder for Two" This one was played in a small theater, so there were a lot of people who wanted to see it that couldn't get tickets. The two actors (and there were only two), were both concert pianists. One of the actors played a "detective," I put that in quotes because he was really just a detective wannabe. The other actor played about 10 different characters--with different body language for each one so they would be instantly recognizable. Wow! I have never seen anything like it, and it was amazing.
After the play we headed for home. It was one of those wonderful vacations that you hate to see end, especially because it was so short. I guess a lot of our little getaways are short. We drove 4 hours on Thursday and 4 on Friday. We do that a lot when we go to Dutch John, too. At least we go.
Saturday was busy for both me and Roy. He did paperwork and other chores, while I spent the whole day at a water aerobics training workshop. The morning consisted of 2 hours lecture and 2 hours in the pool, exercising, hard! And the afternoon was one hour lecture and one hour in the pool, exercising, HARD. Needless to say, I am exhausted this morning. And I couldn't even count my steps while I was in the pool. I ended up with nearly 7,000 steps--not counting my workouts. When I got home, I had just enough energy to pick the raspberries. I heard it was to be cold on Sunday and didn't want to take a chance on not getting the last of the berries. I got about 1 quart. The picture doesn't look like it's that much, but it is.
Sunday evening we had the family over to celebrate AJ's Dan's and Doyeon's birthday.--Everyone came minus Crista and Elise and their families. Roy showed them the new baby chicks that arrived this week (I guess I forgot to mention that Roy now has chickens. I think he planned on being in our new home and yard by now). We had a delicious dinner and enjoyed the company.
Other news from the week:
Ori is Potty Trained and received quite a reward for her compliance:
We are headed to Texas on Wednesday to see these guys:
And continuing the genealogy lesson:
Phineas Cook
Born: 12 Nov 1786 Litchfield, Ct
Died: 20 May 1848 Kalamazoo, Mi
Phineas
Wolcott Cook’s grandfather, Daniel Cook, gave his sons each half of his farm.
“Phineas, or father, had the new place, each valued at about $3,000. They went
into business together. Amasa was not possessed of the best of economy. He got
into debt and of course Father was holden with him.” “Father was an honest
hard-working man. He labored hard to get out of debt and maintained a large
family. There were 7 of us in all.”
Phineas
Wolcott wrote: “One Monday after I had been to visit Ann Eliza, father scolded
me for wanting to get married so young, yet notwithstanding before he knew
mother was coming he advised me to do so that we could have someone to keep
house for us. I told him I had thought of that before him which much pleased
him and when he heard mother was coming. He found fault of me for going off on
Sunday and not getting home till Monday morning yet I did my visiting in the
day time and went to meeting with her in the evening and stayed all night and
went home in the morning.”
PWC wrote further: “My father, mother and wife went to hear
the Mormon elders preach at a little school house. I refused to go with
them. They came home so filled with
enthusiasm that I decided to attend the next meeting.” Phineas did not continue attending these
meetings, however.
"Father did
not say as much as mother did against my reading but he did not say anything to
encourage me in it, sometimes when he would hear mother say a great deal about
it and oppose me so strongly he would drink too much whisky and would come down
on me the hardest kind."
In his
later years Phineas did have some contact with the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and expressed a belief that it was the true church. However,
his wife, Irene,..convinced or coerced Phineas into retaining his old religion.
Two of his children did join the Church.
Irene Churchill
Born: 14 Feb 1786 Litchfield, Ct
Died: 31 Jan 1870 Kalamazoo Mi
Phineas
Wolcott Cook wrote: “Father and mother (Irene) and Ann Eliza went, and I went
and I carried Hariet and the baby as far as the door and then turned and went
home and kept house until they returned at the usual hour. They came home much
taken up with the sermon, and indeed it did seem as they could not satisfy
themselves with any language they had. Father always said he was a Morman, but
never knew what the devil to call it, “so was I” sais
mother." But Irene did not continue in that way of thinking. She was attuned to
the sentiment of their neighbors and family members.
"Father and
mother began to think that I should become a convert to their faith as they
could not hear anything from me but Mormonism; day to day, they could see me
reading every odd moment, and mother said the next thing would be (if they did
not put a stop to it) that I should be off with the Mormons and that would be
the last of me. Finally I became tired of their abuse, for I went into the
woods and prayed that father might become changed in his course or be taken out
of the way, for I thought for me to always live in that way was more than I
could endure for I have covenanted to serve the lord and it would be impossible
to do it under such circumstances."
Henry Howland
Born: 22 Oct 1789 Stillwater, NY
Died: 2 May 1871 Linden, Ca
Phineas W. Cook wrote in his
journal: “In the spring of 38 I hired to a man by the name of Henry
Howland for $15.00 pr month he afterwards became my father in law. Just before
the time was up I asked for his daughter Ann Eliza. After obtaining his consent
for her, we agreed to be married in the course of two years.”
Phineas and
Ann Eliza made a trip to Stockton,
California to visit Ann Eliza's
parents in 1862 to receive Eliza's legacy from Great Grandfather Howland; it
was $2,000 in gold. They had a nice visit and were offered money and 1,000
acres of land plus free transportation for their children who were in Goshen if they would forsake the church and stay in California, but nothing
could cause them to give up the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When they could not be
induced to accept the wonderful offer, Father Howland procured the best mule
team that could be purchased and a new wagon. He then loaded the wagon with
everything in "a dry good way" that a family could use and gave it to
them.
Phebe Baker
Born: 5 Apr 1791 Stillwater NY
Died: 17 Nov 1868 Stockton Ca
All we know
of the religious life of Phebe Baker is that her daughter, Ann Eliza, was
married in front of the Congregational Church minister in the town they lived
in at the time and that on Phebe’s tomb stone is inscribed: “There is sweet
rest in heaven.” Given that Ann Eliza knew that her family had moved from Michigan to Stockton,
California and visited them there, we can assume that her parents kept in
touch with her. Perhaps they stopped to visit her in Utah on their way. Phebe did not appear to
understand Ann Eliza’s decision to join the church and encouraged her to stay
with the family, but she was still kind when Ann Eliza would not stay with them
in California.
John Laker, III
Born: 18 Sep 1808, West Grinstead, Sussex,
Eng
Died: 28 Aug 1861, Richmond, Ind
No picture of John remains. A
record of Jane Tate’s hometown indicates that she married a Shipley boy. It
appears that John’s family resided in Shipley for generations. John was never
baptized, but his brother Henry Lashbrooke was. He is noted to be a foreman at
GS Railing on his son’s marriage record. His son was noted as being a
silversmith. The family business was timber. His son was married in the
Paddinton Parrish of the Church of England.
It appears
that there was good feeling and acceptance of Henry and Lashbrooke’s decision
to join the church since Lashbrooke lived with his family in Indiana
for a time after leaving England
and there is no indication of opposition to Lashbrooke’s religion in the family
records.
Henry Laker Lashbrooke
His Brother
Jane Tate
Born: 25 Jul 1806 W Grinstead, Eng
Baptized:
23 June 1852
Married: Likely
by 1834
Died: 5 Feb 1881, Richmond, Ind
There is a
discrepancy as to whether Jane joined the church of Jesus Christ
of Latter day saints. Melvin Cook wrote in his autobiography that she joined
with her son on June 23, 1852 having first heard of the church and it’s message
from and was baptized by her husband’s brother, Henry Laker Lashbrooke.
However, Annie Bryceson wrote that her husband was the only one in his family
to join the church. This may be explained by Annie not knowing Jane during the
first year of
her membership. If Jane stopped participating before Annie
met Lashbrooke, she may have assumed that Jane was not baptized. Melvin
recorded that Jane’s daughter Jane was also baptized with her. If this is true,
the family did not talk about it when
Annie Bryceson joined the family and Jane and her daughter did not participate
in church activities. It is not known why Henry’s middle and last names were
inverted. There is not a record of their baptisms.
John, Jane
and their other four children migrated to Indiana
at least by 1857 when Jane married Thomas Hunter from Sheffield, England.
Jane married Thomas in Richmond,
Indiana. The Hunter children were
not baptized in the church.
William Bryceson
Born: 22 Jan 1796 London, England
Married: 1st: Sarah Tickle 19 Sep
1817;
2nd:
Mary Tickle 18 Jan 1820 London
Died: 26 Oct 1878 Woolwich, Kent
The
devoutly pious Christian father to whom his daughter, Annie, was so much
attached told her that she should bring his gray hair to the grave in sorrow
because she was joining a strange church and leaving her family to go to America.
This remark never ceased to pain her, and many
bitter tears were shed at the thought of the pain she had
caused him.
When she
visited him twenty-five years later, as he folded her fondly in his arms he
repentantly told her how sorry he was for his former prejudice and that he knew
now that she was truly a child of God. Just one month after her departure from England,
her beloved father died, and her aged mother followed a few years later.
William was a deacon in his church in addition to his responsibility as secretary
of the Rugged School.
Great Grandmother Annie Laker had the
work done in the temple for her parents, and she said that when the sealing
took place the room was filled with the spirit of the Lord and that she felt
sure her parents were there to accept of her work. All she had gone through was
thus fully rewarded.
Research:
His maternal grandparents are unknown.
Mary Tickle
Born: 1803 London, England
Marr: 1st to Sarah Tickle; 2nd
Mary, Jan 18, 1820 London, Eng.
Burial: 19 Jan 1883 Woolwich, Kent
Annie
Bryceson’s parents and family were all well educated and devout, all members of
one Christian church or another. Two of her brothers were Wesleyan Methodist
ministers.
Annie also
notes that she suffered persecution by her family after separating herself from them and leaving to
join the saints in America.
Her mother
was the second wife of William Bryceson. Sarah, believed to be her sister, was
his first wife; but when Sarah died at a young age, William married Mary.
Research: The
Tickle parents are unknown.
George
Osmond, Sr.
Born: 6 March 1808, Bicester,
England
Married:
Unclear if he married
Died: 6 Dec 1860, Bicester, Oxfordshire
Although
there is no record of them living together, it appears that George and Ann
Canham had twin boys. A son, John, died about age 6. The other son is George,
Jr.
George Sr.
apparently established a law practice at Bicester, as certain documents from
that area bear his signature and reference is made to him in that
capacity. It is said that he had a 'good
bit' of money and we do find Nancy living in her own home and caring for her
family, yet no reference is made to him at this time.
The
Northampton Mercury newspaper of Saturday, August 26, 1837, lists a George
Osmond, Esq., involved in the selling of Freehold and Leasehold Estates that
were to be sold by auction in Bicester, Oxfordshire. This supports the conclusion that the George
Osmond who was born in Bicester in 1808, was the same George Osmond who was the
father of George Osmond Jr., who was christened in 1837 at St. Matthew, Bethnal
Green, London. In
the 1841 Census, George Osmond is listed as being about 35 years old, an
"Attorney" and residing with his mother "Ann" (about 61
years old) in Bicester, Oxfordshire,
England. In the
1851 Census, George Osmond is listed as being about 44 years old unmarried and
working as a "Solicitor", while residing in the household of Wellington and Ann Ellis, Hastings,
Sussex, England.
Ann Canham
Born: 12 Oct 1805 Woolwich, Kent,
Eng
Marr: Hanson Flight/2 children after twins; 3
before?
Died: Nov 1876 Brighton, Sussex, England
The family
history book "George Osmond and Family Pioneers" (1980's, p.3) states
that "George [Osmond's] mother Nancy [Canham], was fairly well educated
and desired George should have a good education...." and that when George
Osmond (1837-1913) joined the LDS
Church in 1850, his "relatives
and friends all turned against him. His
mother pleaded with him to give up this.
The family
history book "George Osmond and Family Pioneers" (1980's, p.3) states
that "George [Osmond's] mother Nancy [Canham], was fairly well educated
and desired George should have a good education...." and that when George
Osmond (1837-1913) joined the LDS Church in 1850, his "relatives and
friends all turned against him. His
mother pleaded with him to give up this new strange religion, but to no
avail. His relatives felt bitter toward
him and accused him of disgracing the family name. ...To his surprise he [George Osmond] was
never able to convert any of his relatives to the truth of the Gospel. ...It was said that George broke his mother's
heart when he joined up with the 'Deluded Mormons.' He grieved to cause her sorrow, but he could
not give up what he believed to be the truth.
...George gave up family and friends, financial security, and even his
mother, who was living alone at the time he left to come to America [in 1854]. ...George parted from his relatives, his
mother, his brothers and sister, in bitterness.
They said, 'We don't want to see or hear from you until you have left
the Mormons.'
Records
show that his mother soon repented and would have been happy to hear from her
son in America"
(pages 4-5). Also, in his LDS mission diary entry dated November 13, 1884,
George Osmond wrote: "The trip to Brighton
will remain in my memory as long as life lasts.
I saw the house where my mother died.
My brother and sister told me many anecdotes of her which proved that
'Her son in America'
as she ever loved to call me, was always uppermost in her mind and
affections. God bless her and grant that
I may yet be able to prove to her how much I love her."
Joseph Huckvale
Born:
About 1811 England
Died: 2
Nov 1858 Chipping Norton
Georgia’s
father was a quiet, refined man; he read his Bible every evening; said grace at
the table and with his family attended church on Sunday. From early childhood
her parents taught her to keep the Sabbath holy.
It was
planned to send Georgia
to a private school. In the meantime her father taught her reading and
spelling. When Georgia
was but nine years of age, the sheep were stricken with a strange disease. Sheep doctors found no cure and losses were
heavy; she remembered how worried her parents were.
Joseph’s
future son-in-law, George Osmond, was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints and went to America for one year to prepare the
way for his sweetheart to join him. When
he was ready for her, Georgia
had a sad parting with her father; he could not understand why she should join
the strange religion but she was free to do as she wished and he gave her his
blessing.
Joseph’s
wife joined the church and migrated to Utah
after his death.
Research:
Buckner: Book 1, Jim White, indicates there is but one Huckvale family
in Oxford. In
1521, William Buckner married Dorothy Huckvale, daughter of Robert?, born 1505.
Note Mary Claridge 1720 is reflected as the sister of her husband in Family
Search. This is not true—they have different last names.
Mary Worville
Born: 7
Apr 1812 Over Norton, Oxfordshire
Baptism: 12 Oct 1852, England
Emigration: 23 Apr 1861
Died: 1903 Bloomington, Idaho
Even before her conversion, according to granddaughter,
Nellie, Mary taught her children to say prayers, attend church meetings and to
obey the Sabbath by preparing their meal on Saturday. Mary suffered the
heartache of the death of her 13 year old son. Three years later she joined the
church. It is not recorded how she was contacted by the missionaries.
Her
husband never joined the church and died 8 years after Mary’s baptism. Although
he did not understand this new religion, he did not interfere with the decision
of his family to join. Within 20 months, their children, Georgina,
and her twin brother, Jonathan had been baptized into the church.
After her
husband died, Mary immigrated to Bloomington, Id
to be with Georgia.
Jonathan followed. Even though he joined the saints in the rugged West and all
of his children were born in Bloomington,
Idaho, none of them were
baptized.
It is
likely that Georgia
was introduced to her husband George at church since George was only 15 years
of age when Mary joined the church. George was determined to go to Zion even though Georgia’s father was opposed to her
leaving her family. He allowed Georgia
to go meet him in America
when she was 19.
Research:
In her 5th generation, maternal, John Harris’ birthdate (b. 1692)
and his parent are misidentified in family search. His mother is not born in
1831. His father is not Hugh Harry Harris who moved to Pennsylvania.
Thomas Hart
Born: 1782-3 Hemingford Abbots, Eng
Died: 30 Jan 1866 Hemingford Abbots
His
obituary: Mr. Thomas Hart, for nearly 50 years parish clerk; deeply regretted
and much respected.
Thomas'
testimony is captured in his letter to his daughter-in-law, Emily when he
wrote: "Whether we live or die, we shall be safe, for God will hide us in
the cleft of the rock, his faithful ones, and truth shall be my shield and
buckler. He is also the house of my salvation. O what a happy thing it is when
one can say Jesus died for my sake. O what joy to anticipate the time when this
earth will be celestialized, when we shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, no
more to be tormented by the scoffer and the infidel, when we shall see that
spoken in Revelations, a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her
feet, and 12 stars on her head: a beautiful emblem of the church of God. O, my
dear, no tongue can tell nor heart can conceive the things that God has laid up
for them that love him.”
In an 1854
letter to James’ wife, Emily, Thomas wrote: I have been working with James on
an arrangement that would end with Elizabeth and I "going to the Valley .
. . I long for the time when we shall have your presence more fully. I wish I
was on the ocean now. I would rather be drowned in the might of the sea than
spend my last days in this country. I am quite tired of it & that will be
joyful to meet to part no more, to be with them I so dearly love”but Elizabeths health
deteriorated.
Elizabeth Marriott
Christened: 2 Oct 1791 Hemingford Abbots
Married: 27 Mar 1806 Buckden Huntingtonshire
Died: 26 Dec 1862 Hemingford, Abbots
Son, James,
composed: “on the green banks of a beautiful stream/The sweet life of childhood
was passed as a dream. My Parents and friends were all loving and kind.” In his
advanced age, James Hart paid homage to his father by calling him "an upright, honorable, God-fearing
man" who loved his wife and family. James would write, his parents were
"held in high esteem."
Her
grandson, Samuel Hart, wrote of her on April 27, 1920 from his home in Picton
Lakes Australia: “I saw the list of the baptisms in the book at Hemingford
Abbots (kept in the Rectory). The Harts were in one column, six sons, two
daughters, one died in infancy. I remember Grandmother (Elizabeth) telling me
about the little one she lost. She said; ‘you must love the Savior’. I remember
how she wept and stroked my head as she talked. I could not have been more than
five or six years of age then.” They were good God fearing people every one of
them.
In addition
to James, the Harts' son John and daughter Elizabeth (with their spouses) also joined
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
John Pierre Schieb
Born:12 Oct 1802 Sobernheim-Koblenz Ger
Baptized: 14 Oct 1841 London, England
Sealed: 31 Oct 1868 Endowment House
Died: 16 Feb 1886, Salt
Lake City, Utah
“One spring
evening in 1841, as John Pierre was walking home he was attracted by a
commotion at a street corner. He went closer to find the cause, and saw two men
trying to talk to a crowd that had gathered. The young men were quiet and
subdued in their manner, but among the listeners were some hecklers who were
endeavoring to break up the meeting. The following evening the same thing
happened, and this time John Pierre stayed until the close of the meeting and talked
with young men. They told him they were from Western
America and were missionaries for the new church, not indeed a new
one according to doctrine, but a restored church, founded by Jesus Christ when
he was on the earth. “John Pierre became interested in the new religion and the
story told by the missionaries of Joseph Smith and the visit of an angel and of
the restoration of the gospel. He investigated, studied and in a few months
applied for baptism.
“One
evening in December, 1851, as the family was at dinner, Elder Lorenzo Snow, who
was the guest in the home, laid his fork aside and looking at John Pierre said
with much solemnity, ‘Brother Scheib, I am constrained to say it is the will of
the Lord that you go to Zion.’ The effect was electrifying and a deep hush
rested over the assembled group. It lasted but an instant, however, for John
Pierre spoke with a firm steady voice, ‘Brother Snow, I will make preparations
to leave as soon as possible.’
‘The
difficulty did not enter into the decision. A servant of the Lord had spoken,
and for John Pierre that was ‘the word of the Lord,’ and he must obey, not from
compulsion but because he desired to do so.’ Later
guarded SLC from Johnstons Army.
Catharina Weinmann
Born: 17 July 1809 London,
Eng.
Married: 17 May 1835 London
Baptized: 2 Oct 1842 by Lorenzo Snow
Died: 16 February
1866 Salt Lake
Catharina did not oppose her husband in his choice to join
the restored church. A year went by after his baptism, still without any
outward indication of how Catharina felt toward the new religion. One evening
as John Pierre was sitting beside Elder Snow at the front of the congregation,
he told Brother Snow that his wife’s mother, Elizabeth had been
urging Catharina to join the Church, saying that it was always better for a
family to be united in their religious beliefs. As they were talking the door
opened and Catharina walked in to the meeting. At the close she came to Brother
Snow and asked for baptism. She was baptized by Elder Snow.
She said
that she had been studying and praying for a year to know the truth and she had
satisfied that she was doing right by becoming a member. She supported her
husband in his desire to follow the call of the Lord to gather to Zion. She had a firm
conviction of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On January 5, 1852 the Scheib family
immigrated with help of the perpetual immigration fund to New Orleans, Louisiana
aboard the S.S Kennebec. They boarded the Maid of the West to St. Louis, Illinois.
They joined the St. Louis Company by boat to Council Bluffs
and by Wagon Train to the Salt
Lake Valley.
Through the trials at the deaths of 8 of her 10 children before adulthood and
leaving her mother and native land, she remained true to the Church. Her
testimony grew firmer with the passing years.
