Family History Questions – Part 5

This is the final installment…

JRF’s maternal grandparents were John Jay Stocking and Catherine Emaline Ensign.  Catherine’s ordinances were all done in October 1891 in the Manti Temple.  It looks like she died after five kids and 10 years of marriage, but three more kids are listed after her death.  It looks like John Jay married Catherine’s younger sister Harriet eight months after Catherine’s death in 1841, so those last kids may be theirs.  He was baptized about a year after Catherine’s death, and was sealed to Catherine in the Endowment House in 1869.

James Homer Stocking was born in Massachusetts, six months after John Jay was baptized (FEB 1842) and 18 months after Catherine’s death.  James Homer died in Nauvoo shortly after his third birthday (1845), so they moved to Nauvoo at some point between 1842 and 1845.  John Jay received his initiatory and endowment in the Nauvoo temple FEB 1846, right before the Saints traveled west.  He would have been about 40 years old at the time.

So John Jay Stocking, DEFINITELY lived in Nauvoo.  When did he move there?  Where did he live?  Can we find that spot when we’re there?  Angeline Amaret Stocking, JRF’s mother, was six years old when her mother died in Massachusetts, and would have been 11 when they left Nauvoo.

Interesting stuff!  Who wants to find what?  Ready…….GO!

6 thoughts on “Family History Questions – Part 5”

  1. Also not part of the questions….but more insight into Stocking Family History, told from Angeline’s sister’s point of view…
    After her mother’s death, her father then married her mother’s sister, Harriett Ensign. Her step-mother aunt raised her. The family converted to the `Mormon’ faith in 1843 and moved to Nauvoo in 1844. Their family was in the 1st” party leaving Nauvoo in February 1846, but they struggled In Iowa, several members of the extended family died, including Delight’s Grandparents. At some point on the trail, Delight and several members of their party became very sick As an act of faith she asked her father to baptize her. Her father thought the ordinance would only hasten her death, but she insisted She was baptized the first time and had to be helped out; baptized again and she walked out on her own power, baptized a third time and she was almost instantly healed On seeing this, the other sick were also baptized in this manner and the disease was checked A large Indian also tried to steal Delight. He was in the camp and made a grab for her, but she quickly scrambled under a wagon and spread the alarm.
    Upon arriving in the valley in 1850, the family lived in West Jordan briefly and then became one of the original settlers of Fort Herriman.

    here is the source site:
    http://larkturnthehearts.blogspot.com/2010/10/church-history-in-family-delight-wife.html

  4. We saw that too and the kids flipped! We figured U. Steve’s allowed an oversight or two. ;) Or maybe he just wanted to see who actually read the link. . . .

  6. In my defense, I thought everyone knew the Woodruff connection already! I remember learning it when I was little, so I just figured everyone else did too…

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