Elizabeth (Betsy) Kroll

• Daughter of Jacob Kroll and Maria (Mary) Catharine Waltman
• Birth: July 04, 1811 in Clarence, Erie, New York, United States.
• George Washington Bradley & Betsey Bradley (Kroll) and Family Listed in 1850 United States Federal Census, Utah Territory Sanpete County.
• George Washington Bradley & Elizabeth (Betsy) Kroll Listed in Moroni, Sanpete County 1880 Federal Census
• Death: March 17, 1893 (81) in Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
• Obituary: Deseret News April 1, 1893. DEATHS: BRADLEY - At Moroni, March 17, 1893, Betsy, wife of George Washington Bradley; she was born in the town of Clarence, county of Erie, state of New York, on the 4th day of July, 1811; she was the mother of fourteen children, six boys and eight girls; grand children, 110; great grandchildren, 179; great-great-grandchildren, five.
• Place of Burial: Moroni City Cemetery Moroni Sanpete County Utah, USA GPS (lat/lon): 39.54107, -111.59371
• Betsey "Elizabeth" Kroll Bradley Find A Grave Memorial

Married

• Married (1) Thomas Jefferson Bradley, on 1828 Clarence, Erie, New York
• Married: (2) George Washington Bradley, the brother of Thomas Jefferson Bradley, they married after his death on 2 March 1834 Clarence, Erie, New York, United States.

Children with Thomas Jefferson Bradley

• Amanda Bradley, 1829–1903
• Jerome Bonaparte Bradley, 1830–1851
• Cynthia Abiah Bradley Morley, 1833–1926

Children With George Washington Bradley

• Betsy Louisa Bradley Lowry, 1835–1881
• George Henry Bradley, 1840–1915
• Melinda Euphemia Bradley Woolf, 1842–1865
• Jacob Joseph Bradley, 1843–1845
• Hyrum Moroni Bradley, 1847–1926
• Amos Alma Bradley, 1849–1922
• Zephaniah Richmond Bradley, 1851–1933
• James Washington Bradley, 1853–1926
• Sylvia Bradley, 1855–1866
• Lucy Martha Bradley Bruno, 1858–1946

Pioneer History of Betsy Elizabeth Kroll

Complete History of Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley Kroll

History

Betsy Elizabeth Kroll Bradley, Contributed By: Diana E. Boyle · 30 March 2015 ·Betsy Elizabeth Kroll Bradley, Pioneer of 1848.

A history was done by: Callie O. Morley a great, great granddaughter. The following abridgment of that history was made by: Diana E. Boyle, Diana E. Boyle, John A. Ellison, Ruth A. Hayes, Betsy A. Bradley, Hyrum M. Bradley, Betsey E. Kroll (& George Washington Bradley)

Jacob and Mary Waltman Kroll gave birth to Betsy Elizabeth Kroll on the 4th of July, 1811. She was the youngest girl of a family of ten children. Her parents were of high Dutch descent. The first records we have of this family are of Michael Kroll of Southern Germany near the Swiss border. They immigrated to America.

Betsy Elizabeth grew up in Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania When she was 17 years old she married Thomas Jefferson Bradley in 1828. Thomas Jefferson Bradley was born March 16, 1804. The Bradley line came from England. Thomas Jefferson and Betsy had four children, Amanda (January 15, 1829), Jerome Bonapart, December 3, 1830; Elizabeth in July, 1832 (she died two days after being born). Thomas Jefferson never saw his last little girl, Cynthia Abiah who was born the 14th of September, 1833, for he died April 13, 1833, five months before she was born. On 2 March 1834 Betsy married her husband’s, younger, brother, George Washington Bradley. He was born 15 January 1813. George W. and Thomas Jefferson Bradley were the sons of James Pierce and Abiah Richmond Bradley. James and Abiah had seven sons all who were born at Salem, Washington Co., New York (near the Vermont line). George W. occupation was a Cooper. Betsy and George W first child together was Betsy Louise who was born on November 9, 1835. They then had Lydia; Mary, March 14, 1837; George Henry, February 23, 1840; and Melinda Euphemia, February 29, 1842. While they lived in Clarkston, Monroe Co., New York Elder Zebedee Coltren of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints came to their door, preaching the Gospel. He came many times and the Bradley family studied it’s principles for a year before they were baptized by Elder John P. Green on 2 July 1843. The Bradley’s traveled west and lived with the saints until they were driven to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Ill. Here they rented and ran one of the farms owned by the Prophet Joseph Smith. Jacob Joseph was born to them on November 14, 1843. When the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were martyred, the Bradley’s wept when they saw Dr. Richards return with their murdered leaders. They wept again at the mansion house where they saw the prophet lying in his casket and saw the wife and son of Hyrum Smith kneeling by his casket, silently weeping. Things got so unbearable that the Bradley’s, along with other families, packed what they could into wagons and began moving across the river into Iowa. Their camp was in a low marshy land, called “misery bottom”. People were living in tents and wagon boxes with out enough fuel, shelter nor clothing to keep them warm. On August 22, 1846 Levina was born but died the following month. One morning Betsy looked at her oldest daughter, Amanda, who was now 17 and was horrified to see the sores of the deadly black canker forming all over her body. People were dying of it every day and they could hardly make the plain lumber coffins fast enough to supply the demand. Men were so weak from diarrhea and lack of food it was hard for them to dig the freezing ground to bury their dead. Amanda became delirious with chills and fever and the sores of black canker became as large as fifty cent pieces. One day an old lady came to their wagon. She said, “Sister Betsy, I think I have something that will cure your daughter” she went to her own wagon and brought back a bottle of reddish-brown medicine. She said, “give the girl a spoonful of this three time a day. I will tell you how to make it so when it is gone you can get the ingredients and make some more.” She blessed the family and left. Betsy gave her daughter the medicine and in a few days the sores went away and Amanda got well. When spring broke the Bradley’s were able to travel to Winter Quarters in Nebraska. Here they built a more permanent shelter, planted wheat, mended their wagons and prepared for the long journey. On July 3, 1847 Hyrum Moroni was born. The Bradley family was assigned to be in the last Brigham Young Company, 3rd division with Captain Lorenzo Snow in charge of their group of 100. Every member of the Bradley family took turns walking in their bare feet while Amanda their oldest daughter drove the oxen of one of their wagons across the plains. Both she and her mother suffered intensely and fought for their breath as the wagons lunged forward and huge rolling clouds of dust settled in their asthma choked lungs. They arrived in Salt Lake City; the 15th or 22nd of Sept. 1848. Apostle Lorenzo Snow came and asked George and a Daniel Funk to go to the Green River and ferry the gold rush immigrants across the river for some extra cash. They built one boat and took plenty of supplies. When they got there they built another boat. They take turns guarding their property day and night because they could not trust the gold rushers. One bunch came along and at gun point forced Bradley and Funk to turn over all of their belongings to them. The thieves began fighting with each other, some were drowned and others killed. Bradley and Funk got all their property back. In 1848 when the crickets ate up almost all of the grain the Bradley’s with their large family suffered, as did all the people. They dug up sego lilies and thistle roots to eat. Even with this misfortune they were happy and gave thanks to God for their many blessings. On August 10, 1849 Amos Alma was born. October conference Brigham Young called 30 families including the Bradley’s to go settle in Sanpete Valley. They left Salt Lake City on October 28th arriving in Manti November 22, 1849. They made camp in dugout shelters where they received protection from the north wind and the sun’s heat on the South side of temple hill. They lived there until they could build homes. The winter of 1849-50 death lurked for the people of the Manti settlement. Over 700 Indians were camped east of Manti. They seemed friendly as long as they were fed. George W. fed them. Out of all the live stock he had gone to Manti with there were only two yoke of oxen, a horse and a cow left by spring. The Indians still wanted more and held scalp dances beating their drums all night. Chief Walker who had been friendly with the settlers when they first came to Sanpete Valley felt that he had been slighted by Brigham Young. As a result of this he decided that the Indians should massacre all of the settler men, steal or burn their possessions, then take their women and children as hostages. George W. spoke the Indian language fluently so he and James S. Allred were called to go on a peace making mission to the Indians. Their past treatment of the Indians is what saved their lifes. April 7, 1851 Zepheniah Richard was born. The dugouts where the settlers were living had a terrible surprise when spring broke, hissing rattle snakes came crawling out of their holes right where the people were living. The settlers killed over 500 snakes in one night. One day while Betsy and her son Hyrum were gathering chips for the fire the child suddenly became excited as he pointed his finger toward the brow of what was known as temple hill. He said he saw a strange shining personage that was dressed all in white and mounted on a white horse, who was the Lord. Thirty–eight years later when the Manti Temple was completed it was related that at the dedication the same personage as the child had described, appeared in the east wing of the temple at the same spot as he had pointed out. The principle of plural marriage was being expounded by the church, so George W. married Cynthia Wagell (she was born August 19, 1837) on the 14 March 1852. From this marriage James was born December 28, 1854 and a couple of years later Lucy was born. Betsy’s responsibilities as hostess to the church visitors were very heavy and it was a lot of extra work. Since Betsy had so much foot trouble, George W. tried to get Cynthia to share the responsibilities, but she would not do this. At conference time she would dress in her prettiest dress and go to church. She would then bring her children and sit with the company to be waited on with the other guest. This and other things led to disagreements until George took a very serious step and divorced her. February 32, 1855 Betsy and George’s youngest child, Sylvia was born. The Bradley’s were asked to move about 23 miles southeast of Nephi. On March 15, 1859 they made their new home on the banks of the Sanpitch River in Sanpete Valley, which became Moroni. George W. served as Bishop there for 18 years. The Bradley’s always gave jobs to the Indians and paid them well for their work. Betsy had an Indian girl help her wash clothes. One day the girl was rubbing the clothes, to get them clean, on a smooth flat stone, at the edge of the Sanpitch River. An Indian boy came up and demanded she steal vegetables for him from the Bradley garden. She said she wouldn’t to it. He grabbed her and the clothes, throwing them into the river. Betsy was bringing more clothes to be washed. When she saw this she yelled and started after him. Betsy always carried a pistol in her skirt pocket when she was dealing with the Indians or going any where alone. She was so mad at the Indian for throwing the girl and their clothes in the water she felt like she would have killed him if she was able to catch him. The Indian boy ran so fast that when George W. stopped him and asked what was wrong, all the boy could say was, “Mean white squaw kill with pooch (little) gun.” Many Indians visited the Bradley home, but among those most feared was “Green Blanket”. He would push his way inside the house stealing anything that took his fancy. Betsy would chase him away from the place with a stove poker. Betsy was short of stature, neat, good looking with blue eyes and brown hair. As she grew older she became rather plump. She was quick, clean, orderly and outspoken. At times she had a sharp tongue. She was very truthful and would tell you to your face just what she thought of you. She was accustomed to giving orders and having them obeyed. She laughed often, was a good mixer and very friendly. In 1874 by orders from church Authorities George W. organized the United Order in Moroni. It worked fine for awhile, but some members became selfish and jealous; after 8 or 10 years it was decided that people where not ready for the great order of Enoch, the project was disbanded and people where given back their property. George W. died the 8th of March 1891, when he was 77 years old, at Moroni, Sanpete Co., Utah. Betsy lived on two more years dying at the age of 82 on the 17 March, 1893.

Links

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Sources

Loisa Bradley age 15 in United States Census, 1850 with Parents George Washington Bradley & Elizabeth (Betsy) Ann Kroll - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000019371698948?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081508777991

Pioneer History of Elizabeth Betsey Kroll - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010450871563?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081516072861

Brigham Young Visits Manti - (Betsey Elizabeth Kroll Bradley) - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010450871563?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081515578667

Betsy Elizabeth Kroll & George W Bradley Home - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010451049465?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000080905244854&position=0

George Washington Bradley and Betsey Kroll Bradley's grave markers in Moroni, Utah - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010451049465?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000080904909835&position=7

Betsy Elizabeth Kroll History- https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/618658?returnLabel=George...

The Funeral of Betsey Bradley- https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010450871563?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081516161015

PIONEER HISTORY OF BETSY ELIZABETH KROLL BRADLEY- https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010450871563?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081515845123&position=0

George Washington Bradley and Elizabeth Kroll - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010451049465?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081509238171

Betsey Bradley in household of George W Bradley, "United States Census, 1880- https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010450871563?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081516510890

Betsy C Bradley in household of George W Bradley, "United States Census, 1870- https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010450871563?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081515642789

Betsey Bradley in United States Census, 1850 - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000019371698948?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000081508777991

Time Line of Bradley Family - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000010451049465?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000080904621912&position=7

Betsy Kroll in entry for Amanda Henrie, "Utah, Obituaries from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005 - https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=4913976