*** Initial Disclaimer*** I’m getting a lot of this info from Church websites (e.g. new.familysearch.org, FamilySearch Family Tree, etc.) which doesn’t necessarily make it accurate. If anyone has access to records that dispute this info PLEASE let me know!<\/p>\n
OK, so with all this reunion talk, it got me thinking about our family history, and when each particular root first joined the church.\u00a0 This is Part 2 of<\/p>\n
Dad’s side is a little more tricky. \u00a0Grandma Freeman’s side we know, with all four of her grandparents being baptized in Denmark and emigrating to Utah and California.<\/p>\n
Grandpa Freeman’s parents were Jeremiah Reuben Freeman and Emma Jane Bodell. \u00a0All four of EJB’s grandparents were born in England, with most emigrating to\/toward Utah, with her maternal grandstepmother (Elisabeth Morris) being buried on the plains in July 1856, and her paternal grandfather (Henry Bodell) being buried on the plains in 1863. \u00a0Anyone have any info on their respective pioneer companies, or how to find that out? \u00a0<\/strong>It would be interesting to find any details about those two deaths.<\/p>\n EJB was the daughter of Joseph Bodell and Emma Jane Farmer, both of whom were born in England.\u00a0 Emma Jane Farmer was the second of seven kids born to James Morris Farmer and Sarah Trussler.\u00a0 Her mother seems to have died either in labor or due to complications of childbirth, as her death date is 26 AUG 1851 and “Baby Farmer” was born and died AUG 1851.\u00a0 Emma Jane was 8 yrs old when her mom and baby sibling died.\u00a0 Two years later (1853), her father married Elisabeth Morris.\u00a0 James has a confirmation date of 1 JUL 1848 (when he was 32), and Elisabeth’s baptism\/confirmation are dated 6 OCT 1837, so it’s possible they met at church.<\/p>\n !!!WEIRD ALERT!!!\u00a0 It’s possible they met LONG before that.\u00a0 I’m guessing that there’s been a data entry\/merge error somewhere along the line, because it seems this Elisabeth Morris is actually his widowed mother!\u00a0 Was that allowed?\u00a0 At first you’d think, maybe she’s just helping out with the kids and is just listed as living there.\u00a0 BUT there is another kid listed between their marriage date and Elisabeth’s death date.\u00a0 Anyone want to figure out what’s up with that one?\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n That kid was Willard Biddle Farmer, born 26 OCT 1855 in Nottingham, and died 26 JUL 1856 “on the plains.”\u00a0 He was nine months old.\u00a0 Elisabeth Morris also died “on the plains” JUL 1856.\u00a0 It couldn’t have been easy to have a baby, get on a ship, then start crossing the plains.\u00a0 Emma Jane would have been 12 during the sea voyage, and was baptized 10 MAY 1856, turning 13 on 26 JUN.\u00a0 Would her baptism have had to been in the <\/b>U.S.<\/b>, or would there have been time to leave <\/b>England<\/b> in May and still get to <\/b>Nebraska<\/b> (or wherever) by July?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>So at 13 years old, she’s already seen two mother figures and two baby siblings die, has crossed the Atlantic, and crossed the plains.\u00a0 No doubt being the second oldest she’s got a lot to do to help with the younger kids as well.<\/p>\n To be continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" *** Initial Disclaimer*** I’m getting a lot of this info from Church websites (e.g. new.familysearch.org, FamilySearch Family Tree, etc.) which doesn’t necessarily make it accurate. If anyone has access to records that dispute this info PLEASE let me know! OK, so with all this reunion talk, it got me thinking about our family history, and … Continue reading Family History Questions – Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suneagleclan.com\/secondmesa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}