Samuel RUSSELL, MAJ.
Birth:
25 Sep 1812
Erie, Erie, New York
Death:
11 Nov 1863
San Ramon, Contra Costa, California
Marriage:
20 Jan 1846
Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
Ancestral File - v4.19
Pedigree Resource File
Ancestry World Tree
New.FamilySearch.org, Jun 2010
Pedigree Resource File
Ancestry World Tree
New.FamilySearch.org, Jun 2010
Notes:
Was driven from Nauvoo, Ill, with Abigail Thorn Russell and first wife Esther and their three children. Samuel was a member of the municipal high council appointed to superintend the affairs of the church on the west side of the Mississippi River. In the spring they set out across the plains arriving in Salt Lake Valley 25 Sep 1847 in the A.O. Smoot hundred and the Major Samuel Russell fifty. Soon after their arrival Samuel's first wife Esther's faith began to fail as did Samuel's. Esther's one desire was to get to California before her baby was born. This wish he granted. Their fourth child Nettie was born the first night they camped in California. Abigail chose not to go with them as she could not deny her faith, although she always said Samuel was a good, kind man. Samuel returned to Salt Lake after the death of his first wife hoping for a reunion with Abigail, but found her married and raising a fine family. He then returned to California where he lived until his death. (History of Frances Russell Pond Huff by daughter Malta Lorene Huff Smith) Birth date also reputed to be 1813, but Nauvoo Temple Index card #3231 Book A Page 465 gives it as 1812 with birthplace Erie, Erie, New York rather than Newstead, Erie, New York as alleged. Further, AFN:1FPW-HD (Ancestral File) gives birth place as Springfield, Ostsego, New York. Was excommunicated 1848-9.
Mary Abigail THORN
Birth:
2 Apr 1821
Sempronius, Cayuga, New York
Death:
2 Mar 1904
Lewiston, Cache, Utah
Burial:
7 Mar 1904
Richmond, Cache, Utah
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Sources:
Universal Genealogy, ALIAS: 6182-73, GENDB
Notes:
Was sealed later to Stillman Pond 8 Feb 1849 along with daughter Frances Maria who was adopted by and sealed to Pond same date. Some records state birthplace to be Lair Promise, Cayuga, New York. AFN:19PK-66 shows birthplace to be Sempronius, (Lair Promise) Cayuga, New York and baptism date to be 30 Sep 1838/29. Sempronius is the original name of what is now called Moravia. Came to Utah Sept 1847 in John Taylor Company.
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
18 Oct 1846
Winter Quarters, Florence, Douglas, Nebraska
Death:
11 Jun 1937
Nampa, Canyon, Idaho
Notes:
Frances was BIC; parents later separated. Mother remarried Stillman Pond.
Frances sealed to mother and Stillman Pond 8 Feb 1849, after being adopted by
him.
Frances was one of the original Utah Pioneers of 1847. She was born in a
covered wagon at Winter Quarters on the Missouri River. Her mother was a
descendant of the Armstrong brothers who came to America with the original
Dutch colony and settled in New York. She was also a descendant of Oliver
Cromwell. She was a babe of less than two years of age when she arrived in the
Salt Lake valley with the pioneers led by Brigham Young. As a child she aided
her parents in protecting their possessions during trouble with Indians and
often told her friends of how she had loaded rifles for the men during the
fighting. She spent her early life in the Cache valley. In 1899 she and her
husband moved to Teton City in the upper Snake River Valley where they engaged
in farming. AFN:49W5-07 shows endowment date to be 14 Jan 1865.
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Samuel Russell, Maj. - Mary Abigail Thorn
Samuel Russell, Maj.
was born at Erie, Erie, New York 25 Sep 1812.
His parents were Jonathon Russell and Leah Layton.
He married Mary Abigail Thorn 20 Jan 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois . Mary Abigail Thorn was born at Sempronius, Cayuga, New York 2 Apr 1821 .
They were the parents of 1
child:
Frances Maria Russell
born 18 Oct 1846.
Samuel Russell, Maj. died 11 Nov 1863 at San Ramon, Contra Costa, California .
Mary Abigail Thorn died 2 Mar 1904 at Lewiston, Cache, Utah .