George William Kingston and his Elizabeths

I'm just starting to look at George William Kingston and try to find his parents. George was born in Ireland, so that is a hurdle to start with. But, according to my family's history, he was married to an Elizabeth Lantry, born in 1818 in New Hampshire. We don't have her parents, so I thought I'd start with her. I found two census records and one family record. The first census, in 1857 in Preston, Fillmore, Minnesota, records George married to an Elizabeth who was two years older than him (which would put her birthdate around 1807) and who was born in Minnesota. The second census, dated 1885, records an Elizabeth Kingston living alone (since George died in 1865) who was born in 1818 from New Hampshire. And the family record has George married to an Elizabeth Thompson. Two different Elizabeths?

Zimri Harford Baxter

Zimri was born February 14, 1807 in Vasselboro, Kennebec, Maine. He was the son of William Baxter and Rebecca Priest. William enlisted in the United States army in 1814 in the War of 1812 against England. In 1815 William contracted typhoid fever and died. Two years after William died, his wife, Rebecca, with five children moved back to Maine. They had moved to Gnore, Synga, New York, just before William joined the army. Zimri, the oldest, went in 1817 to live with his Uncle John Robertson until he was of age, and then he married Eunice Seavey (born March 1, 1811 in Cornish, York, Maine) on May 2, 1832 in Milton, York, Maine. The first three children were born in Milton: Benson Edgley, June 3, 1833; William Franklin, September 6, 1834; and Henry Priest, February 19, 1836.

In August of 1836 Zimri and Eunice moved to Lucas, Richland, Ohio, where Zimri worked as a carpenter and joiner. Henry died on December 12, 1836, and William died on December 19, 1836. Zimri and Eunice had another child, John, on July 10, 1837, who died the same day. All four children were dead by July 20, 1837.

Zimri and Eunice moved to Maumee, Lucas, Ohio in the spring of 1838, and they had another child, Laura St. Clair on May 11, 1837. In the spring of 1840 they moved to Dayton, Illinois. Emily Abigail was born on February 20 1841 and Alma was born on December 3, 1842. In 1843 they moved to Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, and in August 1843 Alma died. Zimri Seavey was born on August 27, 1844. Sometime in 1845 Laura St. Clair died, on April 6, 1845 Zimri Seavey died, and on April 10, 1845 Emily Abigail died. In 1846 they moved back to Dayton, Illinois, where Eunice Seavey was born on April 7, 1846. In the spring of 1847 they moved back to Nauvoo, Illinois and Joseph was born to them. Joseph died the same year. They had to move so much because of the persecution of the Saints.

Zimri was presented as an Elder on May 19, 1844, and was ordained on May 21, 1844 by Wilford Wudruff, George A. Smith, and Ezra Thayer. Zimri was selected as a carpenter to build the Nauvoo temple. He worked on the temple until it was finished. Zimri and Eunice received their endowments and sealed in the Nauvoo temple. Zimri also married two other women while there, but they became dissatisfied and left Zimri. Zimri and his family were in nearly all the troubles and trials of Nauvoo. They had to leave their homes, land, and belongings and got across the river before the people were driven out by the mob. They moved to Council Bluffs and crossed the plains with Ezra T. Bensons' 5th company. During the journey to Utah at Independence Rock, on the Sweet Water, Eunice gave birth to twins - Charles Albert and Clarissa Adelaide. Charles died the same day. They stopped one day and then continued the journey. They owned two yoke of oxen and one yoke of cows.

They arrived in Salt Lake in good condition, located in Big Cottonwood Canyon, built a little home and set out some apple trees, some of which still stand and bear fruit. While there, Zimri built a grist mill and woolen mill for Brigham Young. In 1851 Brigham Young called Zimri to move to Salt Creek (later named Nephi), where he built small log homes and a grist mill. Zimri and Eunice had a child, Rozilla, in 1854, who died the same year. About that time Zimri married Ann Jackson. Ann had a boy, Joseph William, and then Ann left Zimri. Eunice had a boy named Zimri Harford Baxter on September 1, 1857. Eunice and Zimri had 14 children, only three of which lived to maturity - Eunice Seavey, Clarissa Adelaide, and Zimri Harford.

In 1871 Zimri married Alice Ashworth, and three children were born to them: Eliza Jane, August 3, 1872; Philander, November 19, 1873; and Alice Rebecca, October 5, 1875. Alice died March 28, 1877. In 1874 Zimri joined the United Order, which broke up in the second year. Zimri also was the overseer and architect of the building of the Juab Stake Tabernacle and did much of the carpenter work on it. While working on the tabernacle in 1877 Zimri fell from the rafters, injuring his head, from which he never completely recovered. Zimri died on December 8, 1887, and Eunice died on March 10, 1900. They were both buried in Aurora.

Martha Matilda McGill Nelson

Martha was born on November 19, 1824, in Middleton, Inversask, Scotland, to Edward and Catherine Banks Nelson as the 7th of 9 children. She married William Morgan on April 23, 1841 in Hallbath, Scotland. They lived in Hallbath where their first two children were born: Catherine Banks Morgan (Mary 27, 1842) and Daniel Morgan (July 16, 1844). Their next child, Agnes Beveridge Morgan (August 20, 1846), was born in Chapple, Hawkshire, Scotland. Jane Nelson Morgan (January 15, 1849) was born in Ockley Duferline, Fife, Scotland.

In 1846 the Morgans heard of the Mormons, and William was baptized January 1, 1847. Martha had a harder time accepting all of the teachings and wasn't baptized until June 7, 1847. Mormons weren't popular in Scotland, so their friends were chosen from among the new religion. At the time members were encouraged to gather to Utah by using the Perpetual Emigration Fund. William and Martha and their children (Catherine, Daniel, Agnes and Jane) sailed across the ocean and landed in New Orleans in 1852. They took the boat up the Mississippi River to Kanesville, Iowa, and crossed the plains. Their fifth child, Mary Ann Elisabeth Morgan was born in Nephi, Juab, Utah, on September 30, 1853, and died in September 1854.

William and Martha and their family were sent to settle Parowan and Cedar City, where their next two children were born. William T Morgan was born on March 2, 1856 and died on September 30, 1856, and Edward Nelson Morgan was born October 1, 1857. John Athos Morgan was born on January 22, 1860 in Beaver. The next child, Martha E. Morgan, was born on August 24, 1862 in Chicken Creek.

William died on November 23, 1876 at the age of 59 and was buried in the Levan City Cemetery. Martha died December 26, 1906, and was also buried in the Levan Cemetery.

Daniel Morgan and Clarissa Adelaide Baxter

Daniel Morgan was born July 16, 1844 in Hallbath, Fifeshire, Scotland. His father's name was William Morgan, born on June 23, 1817, also in Fifeshire, Scotland, and his mother's name was Matilda McGill Nelson, born on November 19, 1924 in Middelton, Inverask, Scotland. Daniel left Scotland to come to America in 1852. /he and his family came from Missouri across the plains and landed in Salt Lake Valley about July 1, 1852. His folks were always in quite poor circumstances and for this reason he never had the privilege of going to school more than three months.They lived in Nephi soon after arriving, which is where his sister Mary A.E. was born. She died in Nephi a year later. The family moved to Cedar City, where William T was born and died six months later. Edward Nelson was born the next year in Cedar City. John A was born at Beaver, and then they moved to Chicken Creek, Juab County, where Martha E, James Nelson and Ira Roy were born.

In 1862 (he was 18 years old) Daniel was called to go to Missouri after immigrants - he was in the Thomas Ricks Company. Daniel told how those in his company were captured by the Indians and were held by them when some spies from another company crept up close and shot their guns, frightening the Indians away. Daniel went across the plains twice after immigrants. The second trip was made in 1863. On one of these trips he was disguised as Captain Bridger.

Daniel married Clarissa A Baxter on November 1867. Clarissa Adelaide Baxter was born on August 22, 1849. Clarissa and her twin brother, Charles, were born at Independence Rock, Nebraska, on the Sweetwater River while the family was coming to Utah. The twins were number 10 and 11 in a family of 14 children born to Zimri Harford and Eunice Abigail Seavey Baxter. Charles Albert died right after birth.  Clarissa, a sister Eunice Seavey, and their baby brother Zimri Harford were the only three of the 14 children to live to maturity.

The Baxters had experienced much hardship and persecution from the mobs in Illinois. They were driven with the rest of the Saints across the Mississippi River into Iowa where preparations were made to cross the plains to the Rocky Mountains. Records say that the Baxter family arrived in the valley in December of 1849. The Baxters settled in Big Cottonwood where Zimri built a flour mill on the Cottonwood stream and farmed there. When Clarissa was not quite two years old, they moved to Nephi. When Clarissa was 18, she married Daniel Morgan on November 9, 1867 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. The journey north to the big city was in a covered wagon and was quite a pleasant adventure and a nice honeymoon trip.

Daniel and Clarissa's first child, Daniel S, was born in 1870 at Levan, Juab County. They lived at Levan until about 1878, and had three more children born there - William H, Eunice A (who only lived a few months), and Martha M. Daniel fell down the well he had dug and crippled his left leg. The doctor cut into the bone and around it and in some way his leg was made about two inches shorter than the right leg. The operation was done without any pain medication. He was crippled for the rest of his life.

Daniel and Clarissa moved to Aurora, Sevier County, Utah and had five children here - Zimoriah H, John A (died early in life), Edward Nelson, Joseph A, and James O. The family moved to Castleton, Carbon County, where Ira Roy was born. Clarissa was never well after Roy was born, and she died in 1890 at the age of 41 and was buried in the Price Cemetery. Clarissa was gifted in needlework, crocheting, and quilt making. She was diligent in Church activities, especially in Relief Society. Martha, being the only girl left at home, was responsible for the seven children for 10 years. Daniel died in Wellington on October 6, 1902.

Daniel was always very faithful and obedient to his parents and those in authority. They had to go without shoes all year round. He was a self-educated man, and he was a well-educated man both in civil affairs and in the gospel. He was always very industrious and an active church worker.

Martha Harriet Dean Patterson

Martha Harriet Dean was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England on September 15, 1857, the daughter of John Dean and Martha Holdsworth. When Martha was five years old she went to work in the factories where she learned to knit. When Martha was seven years old, she emigrated to America. Most of the family was married, namely William, James, Ellen, Eliza, and Joseph. Those still at home were Heber, Jedediah, and Martha. They lived in upstate New York for 15 months to get money for their trip to Utah. They sailed from Riften Glen, New York, to New Haven, Conneticut, then took the train to St. Joseph, Missouri, took another boat to Florence, Nebraska, and then came to Utah by ox team under Joseph Rawlins. They arrived on September 28, 1865. They lived in Kaysville until 1869, then lived in Sugar House until June of 1870, when they moved to Beaver.

They settled in Beaver because there were so many English people from the same area of England that they came from. When Martha was 14 she went to work at the Beaver Woolen Mills where she worked for five years with her brothers William, Joseph, Heber, and Jedediah.

Martha married Edward Nelson Patterson on February 7, 1878 in the St. George temple. They had 12 children, 7 boys and 5 girls: John Edward, Thomas Morgan, Lettie Mabel, Martha Jane, Heber (who died at 4 months old), Edgar Roy, Alice Maud (who died at 4 years old), Wilford Elmer (who died when he was five), Dean (who died when he was six), Edna Darle, and William Chester. The morning before she had Martha Jane, Martha cooked breakfast for 40 thrashers. Martha Jane was born at 8 a.m.

When Martha was about 36 she fell across the front doorstep and broke her arm. Edward set it and bandaged it in wet sage brush and tea cloths with splints on it. In three weeks it was well. When she was 39 years old a cow hooked her and broke her nose, which remained crooked. When she was 70 years old she was operated on for gall stones. Her incision drained for five years and then healed up. In 1936 she was healthier than she had been for years.  

Martha walked across the plains, rode behind and ox team and a mule team, rode horses, rode in autos, and flew in an airplane. She used to sing in public and was a pretty good singer. Her favorite popular song was "The Gypsy's Warning."

John Dean and Martha Holdsworth

John Dean was born on 28th of February in Burnley, Lancashire, England. He went to work in the mills at an early age to help support his mother, a sister, and a brother. John married Martha Holdsworth is 1832. Martha was born June 11, 1814 in Pendle, England, as the daughter of James and Sarah Lund Holdsworth. She was the fourth child in a family of eight children. John and Martha had ten children, six sons and four daughters: William, Mary Ann, Eliza, Ellen, James, Joseph ,Hyrum, Heber, Jedediah, and Martha Harriett.

Their home in England was a two-story house built of stone. The living room was on the ground floor that included a fireplace and a reservoir. The floor was of flagstone, and after it was scrubbed, fine white sand was put on to keep it clean longer. The bedrooms were on the second floor. Martha took care of the home and the family while John worked in the mills. The children also worked in the mills as soon as they were old enough (which was very early at the time).

John and Martha joined the church in 1840, and when the other mill workers learned of their baptism, they made life so unpleasant for John that he moved his family to Harlington, a town 11 miles from Burnley. They lived there for several years, then moved back to Burnley.

Once John and Mary were baptized, they began to save money to emigrate to America. By 1855, they had saved enough to pay the fare for two on the boat to New York. They decided to send their oldest son, William, and their second daughter, Ellen, with their aunt, Harriet Hyde, her family, and other saints who were emigrating. William was then 19 years old and Ellen was 15 years old. William and Ellen worked in the mills in upper New York State. In 1861, Ellen returned to England because of ill health.

In 1859, their son James enlisted in the English Army. He served for two years and the family had to pay quite a sum to obtain his release, which delayed their emigration.

John and their third son, Joseph, emigrated in 1864. They joined William, who had married, in working in the mills in New York. In 1865, Martha, Eliza, Heber, Jedediah, and Martha Harriet joined them. They remained in New York until July 1866, earning money for their trip, then came to Utah. They traveled by rail to St. Joseph, Missouri, and then on to Florence, Nebraska, by boat on the Missouri River. They crossed the plains with ox teams in Joseph L. Rawlins Company, arriving in Salt Lake City on October 1, 1866. They spent the winter in Kaysville, where they worked on farms, in brickyards, and herded sheep. In the spring the men and eldest daughter, Eliza, found work in the Brigham Young Mills in Salt Lake City at the Sugarhouse Ward. John and Martha were endowed in the Endowment House in 1868.

In 1870, the Beaver Woolen Mills were erected and the Dean family were asked to locate there - which they did, with the exception of Joseph, who moved to Ogden. John worked in the mills in Beaver for two years. He died of pneumonia in July 1872 at the age of 61. He was very industrious, religious, and kind to his family. He was also honest and congenial with his friends and neighbors. Shortly after the last of her children were married, Martha scalded her foot and was an invalid for the rest of her life. She was a very devout Latter-day Saint, a good mother and homemaker. She died 30 December 1890 at the age of 76, and was buried in the Mountain View cemetery at Beaver, Utah.

Andrew Patterson and Margaret Fife/Jane Nelson Morgan

Andrew Patterson was born on October 25, 1815, to Robert and Mary Drysdale Patterson, at Newton, Scotland. Margaret Fife was born on October 3, 1814 to John and Margaret Hunter Fife, at Devon Clackmannon, Scotland. They married on November 18, 1837, when Andrew was 22 and Margaret 23. They had four children: Margaret, born on December 1, 1838; Robert, born on November 25, 1840; and twin daughters Agnes Ann and Mary Roy, born on April 10, 1844. Sometime between 1838 and 1848 Andrew and Margaret came in contact with the Mormon missionaries, were baptized (on October 25, 1847), and emigrated to America with their children in February or March of 1848. They traveled to New Orleans on either the Carnatic or the Sailor Prince. They then took a smaller boat up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to St. Louis, Missouri. They arrived in St. Louis in April or May of 1848. Some of Andrew's brothers also came to America about the same time. One brother, Alexander, settled in the Ogden area. In the summer of 1848 a cholera epidemic swept through St. Louis, killing many, including Margaret. She died on August 5, 1848, and was buried in a common grave. At the time Margaret was almost 10, Robert was 8, and Agnes Ann and Mary Roy were 4 years old.

For two years Andrew worked at the mines to earn money for their journey. While there he met Jane Nelson Morgan, a widow of 36, and they were married in 1851. Jane Nelson was married to Thomas Morgan but we assume that they had not been married long before Thomas died. Jane was baptized on June 1, 1847. Jane and Thomas were sealed in the temple, as were Andrew and Margaret. Andrew and Jane traveled to Council Bluffs, Iowa.  Andrew and Jane had a son born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in May of 1852, named Edward Nelson. He only weighted 2 1/2 pounds. The family stopped in Council Bluffs for ten days and then traveled on. Edward was too small to be dressed, so Jane wrapped him in a blanket and carried him on a pillow in her apron across the plains. Andrew wasn't dressed until they arrived in Salt Lake Valley. Robert said that Edward cried clear across the plains. The family arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the late summer or fall of 1852, then settled in the Ogden area and started to build an adobe house. In 1854 Andrew and his family moved to Cedar City, where Andrew worked in the mines. They built their first log cabin, but times were hard and provisions few. Their crops were a failure, water was scarce, and the land was rocky and not very productive. In 1855 Andrew was born and in 1856 another child was born, but in 1856 both babies died of starvation. They moved to Beaver Valley and lived in a dugout, then built a log cabin and had a son named Thomas Morgan on July 1, 1857. They began to prosper, and three years later they built a five-room brick home. In 1859 John Nelson was born, and on August 7, 1864, just six months before Jane was 50 years old Martha Jane was born.

Andrew freighted with mule teams, and built the first canal south of Beaver to water the land in the south west fields. He also helped build Cove Fort. Jane was the first woman doctor to hold an M.D. in the state of Utah. She delivered 500 babies in the Beaver Valley and doctored the residents. When Edward was 8 he broke his leg in two places and Jane set the leg and it healed well.

Margaret married John X Smith on July 24, 1855, when she was 17. Margaret and John X moved from Cedar City to Beaver in 1857 or 1858. John X had joined the church as a young man in England and came to America soon after. He was the only member of his family to join the church. He came to New Orleans and then up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to St. Louis. He came to Salt Lake City and later to Cedar City, where he married Margaret. After moving to Beaver they built a home and raised 14 children and spent the rest of their lives in Beaver.
1. John Andrew Smith married Charlotte Swindlehurst
2. Joseph Anthony smith married Amelia Swindlehurst
3. Margaret Smith married John Ashworth
4. Robert Hyrum Smith (twin) married Caroline Carlow
5. Sarah Smith (twin) married Ebenezar Gillies
6. Mary Anne Smith married James Wesley Farrer
7. Richard Haley Smith died as a child
8. Susan Jane Smith married John Molen Murdock
9. Thomas Eken Smith died as a child.
10. Emma Elizabeth Smith married Willford Robinson
11. William Edward Smith married Elsie Ann Eyre
12. Kathern Patterson Smith married Thomas Bennett
13. Jeanette Smith married John Stoney
14. Clara Ellen Smith married Fergus Wilden

Robert married Sophia Bohn when he was 25 and she was 15. Sophia's father had joined the church in Denmark, came to Salt Lake City, then to Cedar City to work in the iron mines, then to Beaver. Robert and Sophia had 11 children.
1. Andrew Patterson married Mary Jane Morgan (died in childbirth) and Annie Newby
2. Margaret Patterson married Horace Skinner
3. Joseph Adolph Patterson married Lea Ann Ross and Jane Jund
4. Robert Patterson died as a child
5. Thomas Oscar Patterson married Margaret Davis
6. Adam Sharp Patterson married LaVern Williams
7. Albert Patterson married Jessie Myrtle White
8. Lewis Patterson married Sarah Ann Baldwin
9. Wiliam Patterson (Billie) never married (crippled from childhood and couldn't walk or talk. Robert and Sophia took care of him until he died at 34.)
10. James Patterson married Ruby White
11. Horace Patterson married Daisy Merlin Evans

Agnes Ann married Philo Taylor Farnsworth when she was 14 as his third wife. She raised her own children and helped care for Philo's second wife's children, since their mother died when they were quite small. Agnes Ann made butter and sold butter and milk to the grocery store for needed groceries. When her children were small, she would bathe them on Saturday nights and put them to bed, then wash and iron their only clothes so they would be fresh for Sunday. Philo died in 1887, so she raised her children on her own. She died on May 1, 1909. She had 10 children.
1. Andrew Stephen Farnsworth died as a child
2. Robert John Farnsworth married Irene Lucilla Gay
3. Lewis Edwin Farnsworth married Amelia Abigain White
4. Mary Ann Farnsworth died as a child
5. Albert Steven Farnsworth married Mary Alice Anderson
6. Edward Farnsworth married Elizabeth Ferguson Munson
7. Charles Farnsworth married Mayne Jessie Zobel
8. Margaret Ann Farnsworth died as a child
9. Martha Jane Farnsworth married Robert Dyer Green
10. Samuel Dennis Farnsworth married Elizabeth Watson

Mary Roy married Samuel Moffat when she was 17, on January 7, 1861 in Logan, Utah. Samuel was from Dalkeith Edinburgh Scotland, and was not a member of the church. Mary Roy and Samuel separated in their later years. Mary Roy died in Tetonia, Teton, Idaho, and Samuel died in LeGrand Union, Oregon. They had 8 children.
1. Samuel Patterson Moffat married Sarah Elnora Jane Barney
2. Elizabeth Moffat married George Albert Bradhsaw
3. Mary Ann Moffat married Joseph Gale
4. Margaret Japp Moffat married Angus Gillies
5. Joseph Moffat married Rhoda Wareing
6. Andrew Moffat married Eliza Celia Swanner
7. John Peter Moffat married Florence Caroline Ramsay
8. Isabella Moffat married Daniel Parley Latham

Edward Patterson married Martha Harriet Dean on February 6, 1878.
1. John Edward Patterson married Rosella Olsen
2. Thomas Morgan Patterson married Adlade Barton
3. Lettie Matle patterson married Charles Bowden
4. Martha Jane Patterson married Edward Morgan
5. Heber Patterson died as a child
6. Edgar Patterson married Sara Jane Morris
7. Alice Maud Patterson died as a child
8. Wilford Elmer Patterson died as a child
9. Dean Patterson died as a child
10. Edna Darle Patterson married Albert T. Smith
11. Viola A Patterson married Gilbert Smith
12. William Chester Patterson never married

Catherine Banks Patterson married Thomas Jefferson Sly on Mary 8, 1880, when Catherine was 25 years old. They had five children.
1. Dale Sly married Hilma Johanna Rosenberg
2. Katy Jean McGill Sly married John H Twitchell
3. Ray James Sly married Ethel mandena Dally
4. Dee Thomas Sly married Eurice Rosina Puffer
5. Susanna Banks Sly married Thomas Waters

Thomas married Adolphine Bohn, a sister to Sophia Bohn. They had five children:
1. Catherine Banks Patterson married John Calvert Bowman
2. Martha Jane Patterson married Joseph L. Hanson
3. Archie Patterson never married
4. Leonia Patterson married Arthur Smith
5. Geneva Patterson married John Elliott Idol

Martha Jane Patterson married Edward Morgan on December 15, 1881. They had six children, four of whom died as young children.
1. Myrtle Evelyn Morgan married Charles Waters
2. Jane Patterson Morgan married John Hofheins