Frederick James Graham

Fredrick James Graham Life History of Frederick James Graham by: Thomas L. Lewis

Welling or “Wellyngs” (old English “well” or “spring) as it was originally known is located on the old Roman road from London to Dover. Its development was spurred on by the establishment of a “coaching inn” used by the stagecoach lines of the time that traveled to various locations throughout England. The inns were for the convenience of their passengers and a place to feed, water and rest the horses overnight during the journey.

The area surrounding Welling was largely agricultural and became a site for market gardening after the arrival of the railroad system in Kent in the mid nineteenth century. This area supplied much of the produce sold in London markets.[i]

It was in this village that Fredrick James Graham was born on the 15th of January 1827. He was christened in the parish church of East Wickham, which is dedicated to the Archangel St. Michael on the 11th of March 1827. Fredrick was the first of four children born to John Graham, a laborer and Elizabeth Oddboy.

Nothing is known of Fredrick’s early life, however we can assume that he would have lived the typical life of the son of a laborer at that time.

During the first part of the 19th century all work in England was labor intensive and approximately 75% of the population were common or agricultural laborers.

There were no child labor laws in England at that time. A son could expect to start helping his father as early as the age of seven. Children were usually employed in weeding the garden, removing stones from the tilled land, scaring crows and braiding straw. As they got older their tasks would become more difficult until they were working along side their father in the fields.

There was no steady employment. Most men were “day” laborers and worked only when the farmer needed them. A father could expect to earn about eight shillings per day; a son could expect much less. They would work 10 to 12 hours per day and up to 15 hours per day during the harvest season. Their only day off would have been Sunday. It would take the whole family, parents and children working as many hours as possible just to subsist.

If the family was lucky they would have access to the “Common” (an area of land belonging to the community), on which they might graze a cow, raise a pig or plant a garden. Small wild game would also be taken (often by poaching) to supplement the larder. After the harvest they would be allowed to glean the fields; grain to make bread and straw for their beds.

The family would have lived in a small cottage rented from one of the local land owners. They would have lived very frugally saving old scraps of leather to repair shoes with and old clothes to weave rugs from. Sanitary conditions would have been poor. They would have drawn water from a communal well that was most likely contaminated from the lack of proper sewage disposal. This along with poor hygiene caused epidemics of cholera and typhus and other diseases to periodically run rampant through the villages. Many children did not live to see their fifth year.

Fredrick would have had no formal education, but may have learned to read and write at “Sunday School” taught by the rector of the local parish church after regular church services. Though there was little formal education, children did receive instruction while working alongside their parents. They would learn which wild foods were edible and which were poisonous, animal husbandry, farming techniques and about the weather and the seasons.[ii]

On the 11th day of July 1847 in the parish church of Charlton-next-Woolwich, Fredrick married Elizabeth Swan the daughter of Alexander Swan a retired gunner from His Majesty’s Royal Regiment of Artillery[iii] and Elizabeth Sinclair.

At the time of their marriage Fredrick was 20 years of age and Elizabeth was one month short of being 24 years of age.

During the nineteenth century it was not at all unusual for a young men to marry an older women. With the high mortality rate among young boys, service in the military and a higher immigration rate among men, there were far more marriage age women in Britain than there were men. In fact the 1861 British census recorded over a half million more women than men out of a total population of about 20 million.

Also, working class women in Britain were expected to maintain a job until they were married and had children. Elizabeth probably had a job with income and a few worldly possessions, something that would have helped the young family to get started. What’s more, British law stipulated that all property and wealth that a woman had at the time of her marriage, became the property of the husband upon marriage. Thus more of an incentive for a young man to marry an older established woman.[iv]

After their marriage they set up house in the small town of Plumstead near the Woolwich Arsenal. The 1851 Census show the family living at #25 Burrage Place. At the time of the census Elizabeth was age 27 years, daughter’s Jane and Ellen were 3 years and 9 months respectively. Fredrick was not at home at the time of the census, but his occupation is listed as “agricultural laborer”. Elizabeth’s mother Elizabeth Sinclair Swan was living with them. She is listed as a widow aged 60 years and having been born in Bexhill, Sussex.[v]

A total of four children were born to Fredrick and Elizabeth, Jane Sinclair, born 20 April 1848; Mary Ellen, born 20 June 1850; Mary Elizabeth, born 20 December 1854 and Fredrick James born 3 June 1856. Tragically both the baby Fredrick James and his mother Elizabeth died on the 13th of August 1856.

Fredrick was left as a single parent with three young daughters the oldest of which was just eight years of age and the youngest eighteen months. One can only imagine the difficulty he would have faced working from dawn until dusk trying to earn a living and struggling to take care of his young family. I’m sure he felt his situation was desperate.

On the 19th of August 1848 Fredrick was baptized and confirmed a member of the Woolwich Branch of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Elder R. Bates.[vi] It was here that he would have become acquainted with Mary Ann Jackson who was also a member of the Woolwich Branch having been baptized and confirmed in 1851.

On the 25th of December 1856, just four months after the death of his wife Elizabeth, Fredrick married Mary Ann Jackson daughter of John Jackson and Hannah Richardson in the same parish church of Charlton-next-Woolwich as his first marriage.

Mary Ann Jackson

At age 29 Fredrick had again married an older woman, his new bride being 31 years of age. This would have been fortunate turn of events for Mary Ann, as single women over the age of 30 were considered “old maids” and the prospects of marriage were much diminished.[vii]

At this point in our narration the story goes blank until 1862 when Fredrick’s daughters Jane Sinclair now age 14 years and Mary Elizabeth age 7 years began their journey to Utah with the financial assistance of the Perpetual Emigration Fund (see “Jane Sinclair Graham Life History” for more details).[viii]

Early in 1863 George Q. Cannon, President of the British Mission began to prepare the Saints that were to emigrate that year. An editorial from the Millenial Star entitled, “To Intending Emigrants – Seasonable Advice” dated January 10th advised the following:

“A trip from England to Great Salt Lake Valley is not viewed with that apprehension and fear which would have been excited in view of a journey of such magnitude some years ago. It has now become a well-traveled road. The minds of the Saints have become familiarized with the difficulties incidental to the journey; and by many it is looked upon more as a pleasure trip, than a long voyage across the ocean and a toilsome march for a large portion of the remainder through a country that is comparatively wilderness.”

In response to letters addressed to Saints in Britain from Saints who had emigrated the year previous, that encouraged them to take all of their possessions that they possibly could, President Cannon said, “They may be quite sincere and well-meaning in all they say but we wish, at this juncture, to earnestly protest against the adoptions of such counsel by the Saints emigrating from this country… Every reflecting man and woman will readily perceive, that if a latitude of this kind were to be given to the Saints who are emigrating, the great object which the Saints in the Mountains have in sending down their teams would be partially defeated (more baggage, less people).”[ix]

Further on March 21st in an open letter in the Millennial Star:

“We have deferred calling upon the Elders and Saints for the names and deposits of those intending to emigrate, until we should hear definite intelligence from President Young respecting the arrangements, this season, for the sending down of teams to Florence to carry up the poor. We are happy to be able to say that we are now in a position to give every encouragement to the poor who are able to raise the sum necessary to take them to Florence, to use every exertion in their power to complete their preparations for their departure in the spring… the first ship will sail about the 25th of April…

When individuals decide on emigrating, it will be necessary for them to furnish the President of the Conference with the name, age, occupation, and country where born, of each person in the family; also £1 per head for all over one year old, as deposit to secure sea passage to America. In the case of females, let it be understood that their social condition is necessary to be given – wife, widow, or spinster, as the case may be”.[x]

And just before departure, more advice:

“Many of the Saints come from country places, villages and small country towns, and are unacquainted with the low cunning and duplicity by which sharpers in large towns endeavor to entrap the unwary and ignorant; and even those who have lived much in large towns find them sometimes exercised in Liverpool in a manner with which they are unacquainted. When the Liverpool sharpers about the docks notice an emigrant, and they are not long in singling him out from other people, they immediately try to dupe him in some way or other. The emigrant often finds that he needs little articles of various kinds, and these ‘obliging’ individuals will ‘kindly’ volunteer their services, offer themselves unasked and persistently try to stick by the emigrant until they have succeeded in inducing him to accompany them to a place of their recommendation where he will be ‘better and cheaper served than anywhere else;’ but where he is sure to find himself cheated… The wisest course for the Saints to pursue is to give no heed to any such persons, no matter where they meet them; and to seek the advice of the Elders with whom they are acquainted…”[xi]

In the early spring of 1863 Fredrick and family would have been preparing for emigration to Zion by selling all of those possessions that they could not take with them and saying their goodbye’s to old friends and family.

Note: What follows is not a first hand account. It is a re-construction of the family’s journey with information and direct quotes taken from the journals, histories and news- paper accounts from other immigrants that were on the same ship and possibly in the same wagon train as Fredrick and family, and with just a little bit of conjecture on my part (see footnotes).

On or about Wednesday June 3rd, 1863 Fredrick and family would have traveled (probably by train) to Shadwell Basin London Dock to board the packet ship Amazon.[xii]

An interesting side note is that the famous author Charles Dickens came on board the Amazon just before her departure and as Mary E. Fretwell David wrote, “His eyes was on everybody, and as he was walking about he was writing all the time”.[xiii] Dickens later wrote an essay entitled “The Uncommercial Traveler; No Thoroughfare”, which gave a very favorable account of the Saints and their preparations to immigrate to America. This article can be found on the “Mormon Immigration Index” cdrom and I am sure it can also be found on the Internet.

Evidently the Amazon was the first Mormon immigrant ship to leave from the London Docks instead of from Liverpool, and as noted in the Millenial Star, “The interest manifested by strangers and the officials whose duty called them to be contiguous to the ship, evinced how much excitement the novelty of a ship-load of Saints, leaving from London produce.

There was considerable excitement manifested by the people on shore as this vessel left the dock and moved down the river, the people on the wharves cheering, and, on the banks of the river and on the vessels anchored in the stream waving their handkerchiefs and hats and giving vent to other demonstrations in response to the singing of the people and the music of the band [on board ship].”[xiv]

June 3rd – Government Immigration Officers passed the company and, “eulogized their order, harmony and general appearance”.[xv]

June 4th – Elijah Larken tells us that, “Two steam tugs having arrived 1:15 p.m., we left the docks amidst hearty cheering from all aboard & hundreds on shore, not one person disqualified by the doctor or government [p.454] inspector. We had a splendid address from President George Q. Cannon, relative to cleanliness & other important items to be observed for our own benefit on the voyage. President Cannon & suite left us by the last tug off Gravesend. The band that we had on board played beautifully & we cheered them as long as in sight, for their uniform kindness to us”.[xvi] Before departing President Cannon appointed officers for the company with Elder William Bramall as President and Elders Edward Slone and Richard Palmer as counselors.

Passing down the Thames and into the English Channel, the ship fought heavy head winds for the next few days and made little headway. By the morning of the 7th Captain H. K. Hovey had brought the vessel just off the Isle of White near Portsmouth and was forced to drop anchor to take refuge form the storm. The ship remained at anchor here until the evening of the 9th when about 07:00 p.m. a favorable wind allowed them to set sail and begin their journey in earnest.

Shortly after the ship’s departure Elder Bramall organized the ship’s company into fifteen wards and appointed leaders as follows: John Wells, president of 1st Ward; 2nd Ward, James Poulton; 3rd ditto, Joseph Wilson; 4th ditto, L. A. Cox; 5th ditto, J. [Joseph] Kimber; 6th ditto, S. Liddiard [Samuel E. Leddiard]; 7th ditto, S. [Samuel L.] Evans; 8th ditto, D. [David D.] Williams; 9th ditto, A. [G.] Sutherland; 10th ditto, W. [William] Fowler; 11th ditto, A. W. Van der Woude [POSSIBLY: Vanderwood]; 12th ditto, J. [Joseph] W. Morgan; 13th ditto, J. Berrett [James Barrett]; 15th [p.399] E.T. Edwards; E. Larkin, sergeant of the guard; George Braithwaite, lamplighter and trimmer.[xvii]

The ship’s company quickly fell into a routine; water dealt out at 05:30 a.m., the berths were cleaned, the deck scraped and then prayers at 07:00 a.m. Evening prayers were at 08:00 p.m., women were sent below at 09:00 p.m. and a guard that consisted of 5 men and a sergeant was posted at all of the hatchways to prevent sailors from going below unaccompanied or women from returning to the deck after dark. At this time all of the young women’s berths were checked to make sure no sailors had crept in.

As can be expected of “land lubbers” most of the company was sea sick at the beginning of the journey, however once they all developed their “sea legs” the seasickness subsided.

The voyage was uneventful. There were the usual days when the ship was becalmed and days that a gale would drive the ship at the brisk pace of 12 knots. The Brethren would make “a regular and general survey of the condition of the people, by visiting every ward and learning the condition of every person, when, after the sick were all attended to, the afflicted comforted and the hungry advised how to meet their pressing wants, dinner time had arrived”.[xviii]

During the voyage many of the company occupied their time by plying their trades with tailors and seamstresses busy sewing, watchmakers repairing watches and weavers plaiting straw. The young played games and many of the older studied their scriptures. There was a Welch band on board from Cardiff and many of the evenings it, “discoursed lively music and dancing was indulged in”.[xix]

One event of note that occurred during the voyage was the 4th of July celebration. Accounts indicate that the sea was calm and that the band was, “up and playing some lively airs at 5 a.m.”.[xx] Captain Hovey ordered the “Stars and Stripes” run up the main mast, and at that point, “the band played the Star Spangled Banner, Hail Columbia, &c. Dancing & singing on deck during the day. I [Elijah Larkin] commenced guard at 5 a.m. & kept a guard during the day all passed of first rate the sailors behaved themselves well some few of the sisters were a little too free with them”.[xxi]

In the seventh week of their journey on the morning of July 17th the cry was, “land ho, land being in sight on our starboard [p.272] bow. The fog having lifted for a time we could see the land very plainly & numerous large vessels”.[xxii]

In a letter to President George Q. Cannon, President William Bramall gave the following account of their voyage, “We had very little sickness, considering the number of souls we had on board, and those who did suffer have, we may say, all recovered, and now enjoy good health. But one death occurred between our leaving London and reaching New York,--that of a child belonging to Brother Tavey, of London, aged five months, who died of inertia, after having been severely ill before starting for the passage, and was buried on the 16th ultimate, in latitude 52 degrees north, longitude 16 degrees west. We thus reached with the same number of souls that we started with, and all occupying the same social condition, none having been married since we set sail, and but few, apparently, desiring to change their present condition for some time longer”.[xxiii]

The saints spent the next three days packing their belongings and preparing to depart the ship. At 06:00 p.m. on the evening of the 20th of July the order was given and by 07:30 p.m. the barges were loaded and were steaming across the river to Castle Gardens. A guard of about thirty young men under the supervision of William Pinnock was selected to attend to and guard all of the baggage for the duration of their journey to Florence.

As the barges steamed away from the Amazon the saints, “gave three hearty cheers for the good old ship & three more for the captain & officers & crew, which was heartily responded to by three times three for us”.[xxiv]

The night was spent at Castle Gardens. They were awakened at 04:00 a.m. on the morning of July 21st and by 05:50 a.m. they and their baggage were stowed on a barge and the Saints were steaming up the Hudson River. By 09:45 a.m. they and their baggage had been loaded in cattle cars of the “Hudson River Railroad”; their journey to Florence by rail had begun. The floors of the cattle cars had been covered with a layer of fresh straw.

The route they traveled was through Poughkeepsie to Albany then west to Niagara Falls. From there they continued west through that part of Canada to Detroit and then on to Chicago. After departing Chicago they traveled southwest to Quincy, Illinois and got their first and last view of the mighty Mississippi. They were then ferried across the river to Hannibal, Missouri.

They again traveled by train to St. Joseph and arrived there midnight the 27th of July. After departing the train they walked a half-mile to the Missouri River where approximately 600 of the Saints boarded the steamboat “Denver”. The remainder of the saints followed the next day via the steamboat “Emilla”. They steamed up the Missouri with stops at Nebraska City, Omaha and then Florence where they disembarked on the 31st of July. Their journey from New York to Florence had taken ten days.

In a letter to President Cannon, Elder E. L. Sloan wrote the following upon reaching Florence: “The emigration is all safe here, with the exception of those who died and a few who concluded to remain at different points by the way. The latter, I am happy to say are but few. General good health and spirits prevail among the people.” “The brethren are all busy loading up the wagons, and everybody is full of life.” “We start from the campground tomorrow in the “Dixie” train [Captain D. D. McArthur].”[xxv]

At this point there are more complications in our story. For most years there are very good records with the names and wagon trains in which the Saints traveled to Salt Lake City, however for the year 1863 there are very poor records. To date I have found no information that tells us which wagon train Fredrick and family traveled in.

From the “lds.org” web site at the “Church History” link we do know the following: The Daniel D. McArthur Company left Florence on the 6th of August with about 500 Saints some of which traveled on the Amazon. The Horton D. Haight Company left on the 8th or 9th with 200 Saints; the John W. Woolley Company left on the 9th with 200 Saints; the Thomas E. Ricks Company left on the 10th with 400 Saints, some form the ship Cynosure that arrived in New York about the same time as the Amazon; the Rosel Hyde Company left on the 11th of August with 300 Saints and the Samuel D. White Company that left on the 15th of August with 300 Saints some of which were from the ship Cynosure.[xxvi]

On the 14th of December 1863 Elder E. L. Sloan wrote to President George Q. Cannon concerning the overland trip to Salt Lake City from Florence. I feel that this is a good general account of the trip, no matter which wagon train Fredrick and family were with. The following are excerpts from that letter:

“The trains all reached here in safety after one of the most pleasant seasons for crossing the plains that the experience of emigration have any record of. Contrary to the expectations of many though the emigration left England so much later than usual, the Saints were not exposed to excessive heat on the sea, nor in the cars, nor any excessive cold while traveling among the mountains. The mortality during the journey across the plains was not heavy, though a number have suffered from mountain fever and canker since they reached here.”

“The trains arrived in nearly the same order in which they left the frontiers; and 24 hours after the arrival of each train it would have been difficult to find a family on the public square, so quick was the absorption of the immigration. It being about Conference when some four or five of the companies arrived the friends of a great many of the immigrants were here with a twofold purpose, that of attending conference and meeting their friends. As a general thing, all who desired to remain in the city found employment in a day or two, and I heard of none being idle a week after they reached.”

“While upon this subject I will refer to a matter connected with emigration, and the results arising from it, which has called for reprehension on your part and on the part of others animated by a like spirit, in the past. I allude to the letters written from this territory by many persons to their friends in Britain, urging them to disregard the counsels of the Elders and bring along with them everything they could. Notwithstanding your efforts to have the Saints pursue a wise course in this matter during the past season, it was astonishing to see the amount of trumpery that was produced on the campground at Florence when the baggage was being weighed for the trip across the plains.”

“The evils resulting from this have been so often and plainly pointed out that is would be useless for me to enter into detail, even if I could do so; but this I will say, from my experience, if the immigration had been as weighty according to the number of teams, as in previous years, it would have been a very difficult matter to have made the trip and hauled the baggage and the other freight along this season, if not altogether impossible. The excessive drought had dried up creeks and streams where in former years there was plenty of water; feed was in many places scarce and poor; and the cattle suffered very much at times in consequence. That you may be able to judge of the effect of the drought, I may here say, that for hundreds of miles up the Platte, fish were caught in abundance by hand or with forks tied to walking sticks, a line and hook being utterly useless. Hence if there had not been so many teams to the number of immigrants the cattle must have succumbed and the baggage been left by the way, while those who had foolishly been the cause of it would have suffered likewise”.[xxvii]

One of those that died on route from Florence to Salt Lake City was Fredrick’s young daughter Alice. Records indicate that she died and was buried near Devil’s Gate, Nebraska.

It appears that Fredrick and family moved directly to Brigham City. Records show that daughter Mary Ellen age 13 years married Richard Wickham age 20 years on the 10th of December 1863 in Brigham City. Richard was also a passenger on the ship “Amazon” and probably traveled in the same wagon train as Fredrick and family. The two must have met and fell in love during their journey.

The family is also recorded in the records of members for the Brigham City Ward. Their entry is found just after the “poor account records” for 1864.[xxviii] The family remained in Brigham City for three years.

On the 4th of August, 1866 Fredrick’s daughter Jane Sinclair Graham married James Thurston of Hyde Park, Cache County, Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.

“In 1867 Fredrick James Graham came here and ran the saw mill on the Honeyville Pond for years. He built his home at the northwest edge of the pond. The saw, it is said, was so slow that Brother Graham would read the Book of Mormon and study the gospel while the saw was going through a log. This came in handy for Brother Graham. He was one of the first Ward Teachers serving all of this area south to Brigham Ctiy.”[xxix] Also, Mary A. Graham served as councilor in the Relief Society and Relief Society Block Teacher.

In about 1871 Fredrick’s daughter Mary Elizabeth Graham married Sergeant Charles Fred Barry of the 5th Cavalry, U.S. Army. She later married Joseph Sebastion Walters, a musician in the 14th Infantry, U.S. Army.

On the 1st of February 1878 Fredrick’s daughter Emily Jackson Graham married Joseph Hunsaker of Honeyville in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The 1880 U.S. Census lists Fredrick living in Calls Fort (now Honeyville). Living with him at that time were wife, Mary Anna; daughter, Mary Ann; daughter, Adden Meta (Audry Merretta); and grandson, Charles Lindel Barry. Fredrick’s occupation is listed as laborer.

On the 26th of January, 1882 Fredrick’s daughter Mary Ann Graham married James Bowcut of Honeyville in Salt Lake City, Utah

On the 17th of December, 1884 Fridrick’s daughter Audry Meretta Jackson Graham married John Reese Jones in Logan, Cache County, Utah.

In January of 1901 his beloved wife of 45 years Mary Ann, passed away and Fredrick was again left a widower.

In October of 1901 Fredrick married again, at the youthful age of 74 years. This time he married a younger woman (probably hard to find an older woman at this stage of his life), Susannah Hunsaker, 35 years of age and not quite forty years his junior.

Fredrick and Susannah had two children; Viola a daughter born on the 5th of January, 1903 and Promise his first son born on the 22nd of February, 1905.

On the 22nd of June 1911 at the age of 84 years, Fredrick passed away. His obituary reads as follows:

“Fredrick James Graham Dead

On Wednesday of last week, the spirit of Fredrick J. Graham, one of the aged residents of Honeyville, passed from this life, and a long and useful existence was brought to a close. Mr. Graham was in his eighty-fourth year and the cause of his demise was general debility. Up until a few months ago, he was enjoying fairly good health, but Father Time out-stripped him in the race and his worn out body gave up to the inevitable.

Father Graham was born in Wooledge [Welling], England, Jan 15th 1827, and emigrated to Utah in ’63. He has been a member of the dominant church sixty years. He leaves a wife and two small children and three married children. Funeral services were held in the Honeyville meeting house last Saturday afternoon.”[xxx]

Fredrick is buried at the Honeyville City Cemetery in Section 2, Block 26, Lot C, #2.[xxxi]

I find it odd that there is no mention of Fredrick’s other children in the obituary (those born to Fredrick and Elizabeth Swan). There is evidence that there was contact between Fredrick and his daughter Jane as described in the life history of Ellen Elizabeth Thurston. It indicates that “Uncle Joseph (Hunsaker, husband of Emily Jackson Graham) and Aunt Audry (Merretta Jackson Graham Jones) brought them food” and it is also written that “At times Jane would go to Honeyville to visit…”[xxxii]

Fredrick’s daughter Viola married Sidney William Elswood, in the Salt Lake Temple, date unknown. They were later divorced. She later married to Arthur Cooper, date and place unknown.

Promison attended Utah State University. He moved to San Francisco, California in the late 1930’s to work for the Market Street Railway. It was there that on the 23rd of July, 1939 he married Gladys Marie Hudnall. Records obtained from the family history library indicate that Promise died on the 13th of February, 1940 just seven months after his marriage to Gladys. However, in recent correspondence with Robert G. Elswood (son of Viola Graham), he has indicated that Promison died in 1946 or 1947. He also indicates that Gladys had two sons from a previous marriage, but that Promison fathered no children.

[i] http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/bexley/welling.htm

[ii] http://ftp.netwave.net.au/~ramacs/lab1htm

[iii] Royal Artillery Service Documents, W.O. 97 1760-1854, FHL British Film #917089

[iv] http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm

[v] 1851 Census Plumstead, Kent; FHL British Film #174827, census item number 171

[vi] Record of LDS members, Welling Branch (Kent) England, 1841 – 1860, FHL British Film # 87038

[vii] http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm

[viii] Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book), FHL US/Can Film # 25686

[ix] Millennial Star 1863 page 25 “To Intending Emigrants…” FHL US/Can film #1402731

[x] Millenial Star 1863 page 183 –186, “To the Saints and Intending Emigrants…” FHL US/Can film #1402731

[xi] Millennial Star 1863 page 242-243, “Preparing for Emigration – Caution…” FHL US/Can film #1402731

[xii] Berrett, John Watts, Diary (MS 6579), fd. 2, vol 4. pp. 28-40. (HDA)

[xiii] Davis, Mary E. Fretwell. Autobiography (formerly in Msd 2050), pp.1-2. (HDA)

[xiv] Millenial Star 1863 page 395, “The Last Ships of the Season” FHL US/Can film #1402731

[xv] Millenial Star 25:25 (June 20, 1863), p.395 FHL US/Can film #1402731

[xvi] Larkin, Elijah, Diaries, pp. 454-76, 506-07. Typescript (Ms 1884) (HDA)

[xvii] Bramall, W. [Letter] Latter-day-Saints’ Millennial Star 25:25, (June 20, 1863, pp. 399-400. FHL US/Can film #1402731

[xviii] Bramall, W. [Letter], Latter-Day-Saints’ Millennial Star 25:35 (August 22, 1863) pp. 541-43 FHL US/Can film #1402731

[xix] Dowden, Naomi Debenham, [Autobiography], Our Pioneer Heritage, Comp. By Kate B. Carter, vol. 7 (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1964) pp. 48-49. (HDL)

[xx] Slone, Edward L. Diary, [pp. 242-267, 269-73]. (HDA)

[xxi] Larkin, Elijah, Diaries, pp. 454-76, 506-07. Typescript (Ms 1884) (HDA)

[xxii] Slone, Edward L. Diary, [pp. 242-267, 269,73]. (HAD)

[xxiii] Bramall, W. [Letter], Latter-Day-Saints’ Millennial Star 25:35 (August 22, 1863) pp. 541-43 FHL US/Can film #1402731

[xxiv] Larkin, Elijah, Diaries, pp. 454-76, 506-07. Typescript (Ms 1884) (HDA)

[xxv] Millennial Star 1863 page 653-654, E. L. Sloan letter August 5, 1863, FHL US/Can Film #140273

[xxvi] Henderson, William Biographical Sketch (Ms 12755), p. 1 (Typescript) (HDA)

[xxvii] Sloan, E. L. [Letter], Latter-Day-Saints’ Millennial Star 26:122

[xxviii] Records of Members, 1854-1873, Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day-Saints. Brigham City Ward (Utah) (Main Author), FHL US/Can film #25810

[xxix] Memories of Honeyville, compiled by Norma Grant Gilmore and Ray Boothe,

[xxx] Box Elder County, Utah obituary file: obituaries from Brigham City…, FHL US/Can film # 1486711

[xxxi] Honeyville City Cemetery burial records

[xxxii] Life History Ellen Elizabeth Thurston Hancey, http://www.xmission.com/~tll/eethrus.htm ____________________

From FindAGrave.com:

Birth: Jan. 15, 1827, Sundridge, Kent, England

Death: May 22, 1911, Honeyville, Box Elder County, Utah, USA

Burial: Honeyville Cemetery, Honeyville, Box Elder County, Utah, USA, Plot: HC-2-26-C-2

Son of John Graham & Elizabeth Oddboy

Married - Elizabeth Swan, 11 Jul 1847, Welling, Kent, England. She died 13 Aug 1856, Plumstead, Greater London, England.

Children - Jane Sinclair Graham, Mary Ellen Graham, John Nephi Graham, Mary Elizabeth Graham, Alice Graham, Frederick James Graham

Married - Mary Ann Jackson, 25 Dec 1856, Chelsfield, Kent, England

Children - Emily Jackson Graham, Mary Ann Graham, Audry Merretta Jackson Graham

Married - Susannah Hunsaker, 24 Oct 1901, Logan, Cache, Utah

Children - Viola Elswood Graham, Promison Graham

Spouses:

Mary Ann Jackson Graham 1825 - 1901

Susannah Hunsaker Graham 1867 - 1929

Children:

Mary Ellen Graham Wickham 1848 - 1910

Mary Ann Graham Bowcutt 1865 - 1944

Viola Graham Cooper 1903 - 1983

Promison Graham 1905 - 1946

Created by: SMSmith

Record added: Oct 21, 2007

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