Samuel Lewis

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Tarlton Lewis's Conversion Story Tarlton Lewis May 18, 1805 - November 22, 1890

Tarlton was baptized by his brother, Benjamin. Their parents never joined the Church. The following describes their home in regards to religion and Heaven on Earth--Kentucky Grandpa Tarlton Lewis grew up in the most beautiful place on earth according to him. It was Simpson, Kentucky. Five brothers joined the Church and made great sacrifices to join the body of Saints, som

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The Life of Samuel Lewis This story was told by Samuel Lewis' grandchildren and compiled by Laura McBride Smith, his granddaughter. Samuel Lewis, the oldest son of Tarlton Lewis and Malinda Gimlin Lewis, was born on October 27, 1829 in Simpson County, Kentucky. Nothing is known of his life as a child. It is sad to think that we, his grandchildren, lived around him for so long and despite all the chances we had, were so thoughtless that we didn't ask him more about his childhood. Tarlton Lewis moved his family from Kentucky to Macoupin County when his first girl, Mary, was a baby, and in 1836 he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by his brother, Benjamin Lewis. He became one of the great builders of the city of Nauvoo, where the family located. Before they located there, they settled at a place called Haun's Mill, where they went through the terrible massacre that Samuel's father and uncle describe in their histories. He remembered well the bullets flying around his head like peas. That's all, only he wonders why he escaped. He might have run to the woods with Joannah and her children and stayed in the forest until morning, coming back to witness the death and burial of her husband. Grandfather came out whole and well and went with his parents to Commerce, Illinois, later Nauvoo, where his father worked on the great temple from start to finish. Although Samuel was only 11 years old, he commenced cutting stone for the Nauvoo Temple. Tarlton Lewis and his family had a good home in Nauvoo, but after all the mobbings, terrible killings, and whippings they endured, they prepared to leave. They were asked not to retaliate when whipped as that would have given their enemies a reason to do more, but to take their punishment with their trust in the Lord. After the temple was dedicated, they, with many more members of the Church, received their baptisms, endowments, and sealings. I make this clear as it has been said there might have been no more sealings done in that temple, but Tarlton and Malinda had all their work done in that temple according to the record we find on them. For the rest of this amazing story compiled by Cheryl Jane Munn Quinn in her book "Family History of Melvin Harold Munn, Jr. and Fern Bertha Whitmer" on page 77, and more stories about the Lewis family and others, go to: www.familysearch.org/search/books/cheryl jane munn www.munnwhitmerfamilyhistory.org/histories Excerpt from Treasures of Pioneer History, Volume 4, p. 489. . . Samuel Lewis was born in Simpson County, Kentucky, October 27, 1829, a son of Tarlton and Melinda Gimlen Lewis. He was baptized in Caldwell County, Missouri in 1837 and moved from place to place The Life of Samuel Lewis This story was told by his grandchildren and compiled by Laura McBride Smith his granddaughter.

Samuel Lewis, the oldest son of Tarlton Lewis and Malinda Gimlin Lewis, was born in Simpson county, Ken

1) Lewis Family Records in possession o

1) Lewis Family Records in possession of Laura Smith, Pima, Arizona.,(My mother), 2) Archives Salt Lake City, St. George, and Arizona record. 3) Panguich Ward Records, pp 16, 142, 144, 148, 150, 151. 4) St George Temple Records 5) Arizona Temple Records 6) Microfische SLGL 7) Kentucky Microfische CF7 - Batch 7104127, Ser. 80 8) Indiana Microfische, CFI, Batch 7104127, Ser 80 9) Microfische, CFI - Batch A170121, Ser. 1352. Was a member of the MORMOM BATTALION.
Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848, Volume 2, Page 1781 Samuel was a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C. He worked on the Nauvoo Temple until the walls were completed, on the St. George Temple about 18 months, on the Salt Lake Temple 14 months, and

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL LEWIS, AS TOLD BY SEV

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL LEWIS, AS TOLD BY SEVERAL OF HIS GRAND CHILDREN
Assembled by Laura McBride Smith

Samuel Lewis, the oldest son of Tarlton Lewis and Malinda Gimlin Lewis was born in Simpson Co. Ky. Oct. 27, 1829. Nothing is known of his life as a child. It is so bad to think as long as we, his grandchildren, have lived aruond him and all the chances we have had, we were so thoughtless as to not ask him more about his childhood. What did he do? Did he go to school? Did he work on a farm?How old was he when he let his whiskers grow so long? What color was his hair when young? Did he ever go with another girl but grandma? Was he good to help his mother in the home? Did he learn to use the spinning wheel and work in the wool? And a dozen other questions. But most of the answers are buried in the grave with their earthly remains and the rest is in another sphere that doesn't give us much information. We will try to assemble all we can get and hope it will be of interest to his future posterity.

Tarlton Lewis moved with his family from Ky. to Macopin or Mecopin County after their girl, Mary was the baby, and in 1836 he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ by his brother Benjamin Lewis. He became one of the great builders of the city of Nauvoo, where the family located. Before they located there, they settled at a place called Haun's Mill where they went through the terrible massacre which is written in the lives of Samuel's father and uncle's histories. He remembered well of the bullets flying around his head like peas. That's all, only he wonders why he escaped. He might have ran to the woods with Joannah and her children and stayed in the forest until morning, coming back to witness the death and burial of her husband. Anyway, Grandfather came out whole and well and went with his parents to Commerce, ILL., later Nauvoo, where his father worked on the great temple from start to finish Although Samuel was only 11 years old, he commenced cutting stone for the Nauvoo Temple. Tarlton Lewis had a good home in Nauvoo but after all the mobbings and terrible killings and whippings they endured, they prepared to leave. They were not to retalliate when whipped as they would give they enemies a reason to do more, but to take their punishment with trust in the Lord and after the Temple had been dedicatted, they, with many more Mormons, received their baptisms, endowments and sealings. I make this clear as it had been said there might have been no sealings done in that Temple, but Tarlton and Malinda had all their work done in that Temlpe, according to the record we find on them.

Samuel left the beautiful city with his parents and camped with them on the prairies of Council Bluffs, and Mount Puisgi, After they had settled in Council Bluffs (so one account records) they endured hardships in the cold. The next morning after they had crossed the river, Tarlton and his son, Samuel, crossed back and went through the Temple, climbing the stairs and looking over the city and taking a last look at the dear home and Temple. It is said, several men went there the next day, were caught and beaten by the mobs. The terrible beatings, burnings, whippings and attacks on women can't be realized by us after all these years, only those who experienced it can appreciate the freedom they found in the west a long time later.

It was while the Lewis family was camped in Winter Quarters that Samuel volunteered to enlist in the Mormon Battalian, under the command of Corp. St. George Cook, for the United States Government. Samuel was too young for such a career and he signed up as 18 years and he wouldn't 18 years old until 1847. He signed up July 16, 1846, so he lacked more than three months of being 17 when he enlisted. It is said his father was so worried about it that his hair turned grey almost overnight. They were asking for men from 18-45. It was such a blow to these Saints to sacrafice so much after being driven from all they had in the world in such hard circumstances. Why should they go fight for their country when their country had denounced them. This was supposed to be a free country and thousands of

Member of Mormon Battalion, Company C.

Member of Mormon Battalion, Company C.
Excerpt from Our Pioneer Heritage, Volume 3, page 443 During some of these exciting times Samuel Lewis tied his horse to a fence near the house. In a short time an Indian came along and leaping upon the back of the horse rode away. Several boys so Excerpt from Pioneer Town, Pima Centennial History: Page 51, 52 . . . Samuel told of the exciting experience they had ( Mormon Battalion) when a herd of wild bulls attacked the camp. They damaged one of the wagons and gored some of the mules, but none of the men w

Samuel Lewis and his family were making

Samuel Lewis and his family were making their way across Iowa, after being driven from their homes in the middle of the winter, the Army approached Brigham Young to provide four or five companies of men to serve in the war with Mexico. The Mormon Battalion was organized on the 26th of June 1846 and Samuel Lewis, who was only seventeen, signed up. This was a terrible blow to his father-Tarlton Lewis, Sr. and they say it was then that his hair turned white almost overnight.
Mormon Battalion--Samuel Lewis Grandpa Samuel Lewis enlisted in the Mormon Battalion at seventeen years of age. He was the second youngest who joined . They say that when Tarlton learned his oldest son had enlisted, his hair turned Excerpt form Conquerors of the West Volume 2, Pages 1450 & 1451. . . Samuel was the oldest son of Tarlton and Malinda. They were apparently members of the Church when he was young, as they moved to Missouri with the saints when he was about nine years old. His father Taken from book titled 100 years in Thatcher, 1883-1983, page 15 . . . One of our Thatcher pioneers, Isaac Chauncy Haight, was evidently one of the first buried in the number one Thatcher burial ground. He died September 8, 1886. This original burial ground was lo Indian War Whoop This is a story told by William Hendricks Lewis, Grandpa Tarlton Lewis' nephew. No, it isn't about Tarlton but it is a great story about what happened to his nephew after they left Nauvoo. It is in my

While living in Nauvoo, the Huntsman fam

While living in Nauvoo, the Huntsman family became very well-acquainted with the Tarlton Lewis family. Perhaps they knew each other even before this time. Tarlton Lewis and James William Huntsman purchased their city lots in Nauvoo on the same day and in the same block (64). The Lewises were on Lot 3 and the Huntsmans on Lot 2, 1here they resided during the life of Nauvoo. Mr. Lewis and his wfie, the former Malinda Gimlen, had a son, Samuel, who married Sarah Jane Huntsman on January 1, 1853. We dare guess that they became attracted to each other during their time spent as neighbors in Nauvoo. Samuel Lewis was born on October 27, 1829, in Simpson County, Kentucky. He was baptized in 1837 in Caldwell County, Missouri. He enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, Company C, at Council Bluffs, and discharged at Los Angeles. This Lewis family were in the first company of pioneers to establish settlement in parowan, Utah, in 1850. It was at this place that Samuel and Sarah began life together after their marriage. It is not known (by this writer Lamond Huntsman) just how long this couple remained there, but they were later called to help establish Minersville near the mouth of the Beaver River. At Minersville, the balance of the family came to them in the natural sequence of events. Sometime in the 1870s, Sam and Sarah took their family to a new home at the head of the Sevier River at Panguitch, Utah. While living in Utah, Samuel Lewis worked as a professional stonecutter and did work for three temples: St. George, Manti, and Salt Lake. From Panguitch, they were called in 1880 to join a company to cross the Colorado River and go south into what is now Arizona. Previously a company had been led by one Lot Smith in 1877 across the Gila River to establish a Mormon settlement given the name of Smithville. Some of their children came there also. Ketura Hannah Lewis and her man, Alfred Baker, joined them in 1888. Also there was Mary Ellen Lewis with her husband, Don Carlos Judd. Samuel Edward Lewis, whose wife was Daphne Jane Hamblin, a daughter of Frederick Hamblin and a niece of the more famous Indian man, Jacob Hamblin, went some distance east and pioneered Rama, now New Mexico. This family settled in Thatcher, Arizona. Delbert Lewis, also a son, was a cowboy and a bachelor. He was with Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" in Cuba. He was of St. David or Pima, Arizona. Son Oliver Lewis returned to northern Utah. Samuel Lewis died in Phoenix, Arizona on August 11, 1911 and Sarah Jane Huntsman Lewis died on April 20, 1917 in Arizona. Final observations: Pioneering this untouched desert of sand, lava and thorns was conducive to the development of a special race or specie of man with courage, stamina, resourcefulness, and definite dependability.

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Thatcher Cemetery https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27119147/samuel-lewis

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Standardizing place name.

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Standardizing dates and places of previously entered residence events.

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died in territorial asylum for the insane

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96PJ-VYZ Web: Western States Marriage Index, 1809-2011 http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=structuredcrawledsite... Record of Marriage

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