Jane Jones Bird

Daughter of Joseph Frilick and Mary Sims

Married Samuel L. Gully, 9 Oct 1833, North Carolina

Married Benjamin Freeman Bird, 27 Feb 1852, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Samuel Gully and his wife Jane arrived in Nauvoo in 1840 from North Caroline with a young son and daughter and an infant who had been born during their trip to Illinois.

Samuel Gully was the owner of a Nauvoo store that also served as a meeting house, located on the corner of Parley and Hyde streets.

Lieut. Samuel L. Gully of Company E was a great friend to the men of the Battalion. He had taken a stand against the non-Mormon officers who were ill-treating the men. When two of the men, John D. Lee and Howard Egan started for Council Bluffs with the checks of the Battalion, it was thought an opportune time for Lieut. Gully to resign and return to his family. Accompanying these men and Roswell Stevens, he left to join his family. The next year he started for Salt Lake City, but died on the plains.

Samuel was buried alongside the trail, leaving three grieving widows and three children: Ovanda's infant son, and Jane's two daughters. It appears that Jane and her daughters, Martha and Harriet, returned to Winter Quarters.

Seventy two year old Benjamin Freeman Bird married the fifty year old widow Jane Gully in 1849, taking her and thirteen-year-old Martha and nine-year-old Harriet into his home. Together they prepared to cross the plains the following summer.

Jane Gully Bird's fifteen year old daughter Martha had died just before the previous Christmas (1851). Benjamin and Jane, with Jane's eleven-year-old daughter Harriet, then moved to Springville.

Jane Gully was listed as one of the few female craftsmen, working on the Nauvoo temple until its completion. Entries for Jane Gully showed she worked in February, March, April and May of 1846. Her work must have been critical, as most of the members of the Church had left Nauvoo by then.

Jane Frilick Gully Bird is shown living with Maribah Woods on the 1880 Census in Clover Valley, "Bird, Jane, 85, boarder, widow cancer of face, [birth] South Carolina."

A brief mention of Jane is included in a biography of Maribah and her husband Lyman, titled, The Woods Family of Clover Valley, Nevada 1869 - 1979, by Orilla Woods Haven, (copy found in BYU Special Collections BX 8670.1 .W864h 1979, )

"On other occasions the Woods home became a home for the unfortunate and homeless. A member of the initial migration into Clover Valley was Jane (Grandma) Gully, who had been sealed to Maribah Ann's grandfather, Benjamin F. Bird. She had been taken into the family by Lyman and Maribah. An old lady at the time, she was given a home and provided with all her needs until her death at an advanced age."

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Birth: Jun. 22, 1801 New Bern Craven County North Carolina, USA Death: Mar. 19, 1881 Lincoln County Nevada, USA

Daughter of Joseph Frilick and Mary Sims

Married Samuel L. Gully, 9 Oct 1833, North Carolina

Married Benjamin Freeman Bird, 27 Feb 1852, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Samuel Gully and his wife Jane arrived in Nauvoo in 1840 from North Caroline with a young son and daughter and an infant who had been born during their trip to Illinois.

Samuel Gully was the owner of a Nauvoo store that also served as a meeting house, located on the corner of Parley and Hyde streets.

Lieut. Samuel L. Gully of Company E was a great friend to the men of the Battalion. He had taken a stand against the non-Mormon officers who were ill-treating the men. When two of the men, John D. Lee and Howard Egan started for Council Bluffs with the checks of the Battalion, it was thought an opportune time for Lieut. Gully to resign and return to his family. Accompanying these men and Roswell Stevens, he left to join his family. The next year he started for Salt Lake City, but died on the plains.

Samuel was buried alongside the trail, leaving three grieving widows and three children: Ovanda's infant son, and Jane's two daughters. It appears that Jane and her daughters, Martha and Harriet, returned to Winter Quarters.

Seventy two year old Benjamin Freeman Bird married the fifty year old widow Jane Gully in 1849, taking her and thirteen-year-old Martha and nine-year-old Harriet into his home. Together they prepared to cross the plains the following summer.

Jane Gully Bird's fifteen year old daughter Martha had died just before the previous Christmas (1851). Benjamin and Jane, with Jane's eleven-year-old daughter Harriet, then moved to Springville.

Jane Gully was listed as one of the few female craftsmen, working on the Nauvoo temple until its completion. Entries for Jane Gully showed she worked in February, March, April and May of 1846. Her work must have been critical, as most of the members of the Church had left Nauvoo by then.

Jane Frilick Gully Bird is shown living with Maribah Woods on the 1880 Census in Clover Valley, "Bird, Jane, 85, boarder, widow cancer of face, [birth] South Carolina."

A brief mention of Jane is included in a biography of Maribah and her husband Lyman, titled, The Woods Family of Clover Valley, Nevada 1869 - 1979, by Orilla Woods Haven, (copy found in BYU Special Collections BX 8670.1 .W864h 1979, )

"On other occasions the Woods home became a home for the unfortunate and homeless. A member of the initial migration into Clover Valley was Jane (Grandma) Gully, who had been sealed to Maribah Ann's grandfather, Benjamin F. Bird. She had been taken into the family by Lyman and Maribah. An old lady at the time, she was given a home and provided with all her needs until her death at an advanced age."

Family links:

Spouses:

 Benjamin Freeman Bird (1778 - 1862)

 Samuel L. Gully (1809 - 1848)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

Created by: SMSmith Record added: May 04, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 36730841