William KING

                   Reseach by Eleanor Law Johnson
DEATH:
Index of Obituaries in Massachusetts Centinel and Columbian Centinel  1784 TO 1840 P. 2646  Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah  ... US/CAN 974.4 V42i  V.3  Compiled by the American Antiquarian Society, Boston, G. K. Hall Co., 1961.

IGI 1988 EDITION.

ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY FOR COPY OF OBITUARY  8-28-92..
In the index it said, "Wm. King, formerly of Boston, died in Pomfret, Vt.  Aged 29  (CC NOV 14, 1832)."

ARCHIVE RECORD

WILL:
The Hartford District Probate Count, PO Box 275, Woodstock, Vermont 05091.......
All the estate and probate matters regarding will of William King, Jr.....copy in possession of Eleanor Law Johnson (Mrs. Charles Johnson)  c/o530 S. 4th St.,Las Vegas, NV 89101.
Listed mother, Lucy King, sisters, brothers in law and clues that by 1832, Lucy appeared to be a widow as the father is not mentioned in the will or other papers.  Lucy resided in Boston and later in Cambridge..  (Father,
William King, died in Boston 3 Jan 1824.....have death certificate.)

Note from "Joyce Clifford"  .......another researcher:  May 2002 email
   I had thought that the William listed was Lucy's husband, but it  turns out to be her son instead.  William King's
(Jr.) Will states that he is very  sick on  Sept 8, 1832 and expects to die soon.  He does not own any real  property
   (land) but proceeds to direct the disposition of his personal  items.  He  leaves a gold ring to Betsey Smith (maybe he was planning on  marrying her)  and he leaves his clothes to his three brother-in-laws John  Plaisted, Joseph L. Holbrook and Oliver Farnsworth.  The rest of his property he has  sold and  uses the money to create a trust for his mother, Lucy King, giving  her 12  dollars a year.  Any emainder after she dies will be divided  equally among> her then living children. He names his uncle Nathan Snow as his  executor.   In addition to his estate, there is the record of the inventory of  his property which totals about 650.00 dollars, and itemized list of  debts and  expenses to be paid from his estate, which left the remainder of  his estate  at around 450.00 dollars.
                  

                   Research by Eleanor L. Johnson, 530 S. 4th St.,Las Vegas, NV 89101
IGI Vermont

Vital Records of York, Maine p..496 Cemetery

MARRIAGE:  Boston Newspaper
Index of Marriage in Mass. Centinel & Columbian 1784 TO 1840
American Antiquarian Society,  G.K. Hall Co.,Boston   1961
US/CAN  974.4  V22i v 3 "Emily King,  m  John Plaisted, of York, Me, in Boston  Sun (cc Nov 4, 1826)

Old letter (original) written to Edna King in Ohio from Lucy King (her mother)  and two of Edna's sisters, Rebeca Ann Wardwell and Emily Plaisted, on July 26, 1846  from York, Maine.

974.195  D 3b FHL  History of York Maine p.461-462 Biographical sketch of John Francis Plaisted, also a picture of him (son of Emily & John Plaisted)..

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Have not found her yet.....she may have remarried and is under a different name....
                  

                   Researched by Eleanor L. Johnson
BIRTH:
CENSUS

1850 Census,Milford Twp.,Defiance County,Ohio.Lucy B: Vermont,age:31.  Obvious error in age.  She was about 42-43.  Her son in census is 22 yrs.old.

1850 Census Milford Twp, Defiance County, Ohio...Dwelling #1093
Joseph age 42, Farming, born:Mass.
Lucy 31, born:Vermont
Alfred 22, Farming, born: Mass.

Pomfret Vermont Town Records...FHL/SLC.

IGI 1988 Edition.

Archive record for William King & Lucy Snow..4th Floor,Joseph Smith Memorial Building,Salt Lake City,Utah.

LETTERS:  In my possession Eleanor L. Johnson,c/o 530 S.4th St,Las Vegas,Nevada 89101.
Filed in King notebook.
Old Letter (original) written to Edna Farnsworth (my 2nd Great,Grandmother) from her mother,Lucy Snow King (my 3rd G.G).and two sisters, Rebeca Ann Wardwell and Emily Plaisted from York,Maine 26 July 1848.  Emily had just given birth to a son on the 6th of July and they were there to help her.

Old letter written to Mrs. Lucy Holbrook, Newbury Port, Mass. 5 Oct 1841 from her sister, Melissa M. Crowell (2nd husb.Wallace) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Old letter written to Edna King from Lucy Holbrook, Newbury Port, Mass.
Dec 10  1842..
A religious woman, she is thrilled to know that Edna and Mr. Farnsworth Farnsworth have joined the Methodist.  She loves Christian life and wants  Lord to come.  A minister is preaching the world will end by 1843 and thousands believe him.  She is very concerned about those in the family that do not have religion and names them.  She says, "I felt to rejoice when you wrote about Albert but how much more when I heard of you and Farnsworth. What can not the Lord do, nothing is imposible with him. If you have found the Lord, hold on and hold out, never go back, pray much.  May the Lord bless you both and all. For my own part, I felt that religion is everything to me. The world is nothing to me.  How short the time is when I shall be called called to give up my account.:  She mentions those she is concerned over, "Eliza and Paine, Melissa and her husband, Louisa and kind are all Universalist and mother is nothing.  O Edna, if you can pray, pray for these that the Lord would open their eyes that they might see where they are before it is too late."
Note:  It is interesting to note that Melissa & Howes Crowell join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and leave Boston, go to Nauvoo and her children and husband die.  She stays with the Saints,remarried to George B. Wallace and eventually comes as a pioneer into Utah. Louisa dies crossing the plains to Utah.  I do not doubt that they were faithful Christians.

Clues in letters:  They indicate that they have made a journey. Sounds like they were in Ohio.  Research in on going by  Eleanor Law Johnson.
1850 Census confirms that they came to Defiance County.
                  

                   Researched by Eleanor L. Johnson, 530 S. 4th Street, Las Vegas, NV 89101

AFN:  CFSO-4F

All records in possession of Eleanor L. Johnson (Mrs. Charles William Johnson) C/O 530 So.4th St., Las Vegas, Nevada  89101 unless otherwise stated.

BIRTH:
FHL/SLC,Utah.
Census: 1850,1860,1870,1880 Milford Twp,Defiance,Ohio
Pomfret, Vermont Town Records p. 524 
Edna King born in Boston, Massachusetts but recorded in Pomfret

1880 Census Milford Twp,Defiance Co, Ohio p 5 In household of daughter and her husband, Clement & Ellen Hulbert:
Oliver Farnsworth 84, Mass.
Edna 70, Mass.
Boarding in daughter's home:
Ellen Hulbert with husband, Clement Hulbert.

HISTORY:
Family register.(from Omer Hootman/ Hootman file).
Farnsworth History by Nathan Farnsworth (unpublished)
Family Records
IGI & Ancestral File....Las Vegas Family History Library...1992
Book: Farnsworth Memorial...Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Letters:
Several letters written to Edna from her mother and sisters (In King notebook).

MARRIAGE:
   
Family History Library/Salt Lake City,UT/Book  US/CAN 974.4 V22i V.3  Marriage record in  Index of Marriages In Massachusetts Centinel & Columbian Centinel 1784-1840.
Compiled by the American Antiquarian Society.1961 p.2139. Boston  G.K. Hall Co. 1961
"KING, Edna A., married  Oliver FARNSWORTH, in Boston. (CCJAN.24, 1827)."  CC  is newpaper copy date
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Listed: Farnsworth, Oliver m. Mary Jackson in Boston, Sunday (cc.Feb.9.1820) (This may not be our Oliver).
Also listed:Farnsworth, Oliver m. Edna A. King, in Boston (cc.Jan.24,1827).(This is our Oliver & 2nd wife)

Note:  It may be a  possibility that Mary Jackson is a wife of Oliver but it is also possible that it is a different Oliver.  Other sources state that his first wife was Nancy Rice.  Also find that a son, Milo Farnsworth's death record stated that he was born in Homer,N.Y. 1822, maiden name of mother, Rice..  This adds to the possibility  that our  Oliver wasn't in Boston till a latter period  in the 1820's.
                  

                   Researched by Eleanor L. Johnson
BIRTH:
FHL/Film # 803508    1860 Census, Cambridge 4th Ward, Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass 

FHL/Film  #443544  
1850 Census, Cambridge, Middlesex. Mass  p. 52     

MARRIAGE:
Vital Records Cambridge, Mass:  Eliza P.....widow of Charles M. ... 4 Jan 1813

LETTER:  Old letter to Edna King Farnsworth in Ohio from sister, Eliza P. Paine, mentions Eliza Ann and an addition to family, son, Charles Augustus..

Old letter written to Edna King Farnsworth, Center Twp.,Williams County, Ohio...from her siser in Boston, Eliza P. Paine.....dated Feb 29, 1842....Original in my possession.
Letter in my possession.

CEMETERY:  Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.  Plot #471 Maple St in cemetery.  Husband, children and a son-in-law and her mother, Lucy, all buried in same large plot.

MISC. INFORMATION:
Archive record for William King and Lucy Snow
Family Records passed down to me. Old letters)
Vermont IGI
                  

                   Researched by Eleanor L. Johnson
Note to myself:  5-3-03
I could try to see if there is a marriage record for them in Boston about 1839-1840......

LETTER:
Residence in July 1846.......#4 Haymarket Place, Boston, Mass....no mention in letter of husband or children.  Possibly a widow...
5-3-2003..........She is mentioned in her brothers estate papers (William King, Jr. died in Pomfret,Vermont) in a dispersion of payment to her from will as being widow of William Wardwell.......She should be listed in 1850 Census ....somewhere....Believe she was a seamstress.

MISC. INFORMATION:
Vermont IGI
Archive Record

familysearch.org
IGI stated she is born 23 June 1817 Pomfret  Boston,Suffolk,Massachusetts

1840 Census
Possibly could be Rebecca with some children  There's a total of three women or children listed...But, then if she was just married in past two years or so it may not be her

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    State: Rhode Island
Year:
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    County: Newport
Roll:
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    Township: Tiverton
Page:
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    Image: 466
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Journal History of Church, 21 June 1847, p.38
Abraham O. Smoot-George B. Wallace Company (1847)
Wallace, Melissa M.  (24)
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Research compiled by Eleanor L. Johnson (My second great grandmother, Edna King, was Melissa's sister).

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While George Wallace was presiding elder of the Boston Branch of the Church, Howes Crowell and his wife, Melissa Mandana King Crowell, requested a recommend transferring their membership from Boston Branch to Nauvoo. Later, when George went to Nauvoo, he again met Melissa who was heartbroken with grief at the death of her husband and their two children. Their friendship ripened into love and they were married June 4, 1845, in Nauvoo. When the Saints were leaving this ill-fated city, the Wallaces fitted themselves out for the long journey west and left for Winter Quarters where they spent the winter of 184647. Their first child, Mary Melissa, was born January 8, 1847, and a few months later they started their trek to Utah.

George Benjamin Wallace was appointed captain over fifty in Abraham O. Smoot's company of one hundred, which was organized June 17, 1847, on the west bank of the Horn River. They arrived in Salt Lake Valley September 26, 1847, and camped in the Old Fort. Their baby girl, Mary Melissa, died September 27, 1847, the day after their arrival. She was buried on a hillside in the northeastern part of the Valley. George Crowell Wallace was born June 12, 1848, died August 14, 1848, and is also buried there. The little girl, Mary Melissa, was the first person buried in that area.

George and Melissa built a log cabin inside the Old Fort. In this cabin four persons were set apart and ordained apostles, in a meeting held by the First Presidency of the Church. They were Charles C. Rich, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards. On February 22, 1849, in this home, when the Valley was divided into two wards, bishops of Salt Lake Valley wards were ordained under the direction of President Young, with President Heber C. Kimball, the Twelve Apostles and others. The next day another meeting was held in this log cabin home and Reynolds Cahoon and George Wallace were set apart as counselors to John W. Young in the High Priests Quorum; and Daniel Spencer was set apart as president of Salt Lake Stake.

The corner of First North and Second West Street was chosen by George Wallace as his property. It was then thought that this would be the future business street. The Union Hotel was built on the opposite corner and John Squires built a barber shop on the Wallace corner. The hotel was eventually used for a first class school known as the Union Academy, and still later the building was used as a temporary headquarters for the University of Deseret, Deseret Hospital and finally as a warehouse for the Salt Lake Knitting Works. George built a one-room adobe house near the corner. The bricks were made from a mixture of red clay and fine gravel; the roof was covered with boards and the cracks filled with rags. After it was completed, he moved the little log room, their first home in the Old Fort, to their new homesite.

On September 20, 1849, another child was born to George and Melissa whom they named Louisa King. She was one month old when George was called as one of the first missionaries to be sent from Utah, leaving for Great Britain, October 18, 1849. He gave a neighbor a yoke of oxen and several acres of land to look after Melissa and her little girl and to furnish fuel and other meagre necessities. She was given a dress by Vilate, wife of Heber C. Kimball, who advised her to reverse the material to the other side and Melissa made a fine dress for herself. Melissa learned to do work she had never done before, such as milking cows, growing a garden, raising livestock, taking in boarders, sharing her little dwelling with another family in exchange for fuel. She had a great faith and an undaunted spirit. Before George left for his mission she was concerned about a timepiece as the only one they owned was a silver watch he had brought from Boston. She asked him what she would do if he took the watch. President Young said, "Brother Wallace, if you will leave that watch with your wife, I will promise you that you will come home with a gold one." This promise was fulfilled for he did come home with a gold watch and chain, a gift from the Saints while on his mission. Before he left Salt Lake City, a little elderly lady at the depot pressed his hand in 'God speed' and left enough money in it to pay his fare and a few cents over. The Lord blessed him so he was able to send a little money home to Melissa and was able to bring back a parasol for her, the only thing she requested from him in the way of a gift.

Mr. Wallace, highly respected and loved by the Saints, remained in Great Britain nearly three years as first counselor to President Franklin D. Richards. He had issued a small circular among the Saints and friends with whom he labored to help pay his expenses home, and as a result had a purse of $800 in cash, also many other presents given to him by the Saints. He boarded the steamer Canada for the trip home, leaving Liverpool March 20, 1852, arriving in Boston approximately May 31, 1852. He went directly to Epsom, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, in an endeavor to see his estranged wife, Mary C. McMurphy. She was not at home and he was unable to locate her, so he reluctantly left Epsom for his home in the Salt Lake Valley.

In obedience to the law of plural marriage, George Benjamin Wallace under date of October 15, 1852, married the three Davis sisters, Lydia, Hannah and Martha, whom he had converted to the Church when in England. The parents, Edward and Sarah Drabble Davis of London, Middlesex, England, were also baptized. Lydia Davis, born June 15, 1830, died March 8, 1869, Salt Lake City, Utah; Hannah Davis, born May 4, 1832, died February 5, 1896, Granger, Salt Lake County, Utah; Martha Davis, born January 9, 1836, died October 7, 1913, Salt Lake City.

Three or four more rooms were added to the original red brick room and the family increased at a rapid rate. For Melissa it was quite a period of adjustment. Years later, on one occasion, Mr. Wallace received complimentary tickets from a circus manager for himself and family. Imagine the look of dismay on the manager's face when he saw George, his four wives and twenty or more children march past him

In 1860 Mr. Wallace was chosen to act as second counselor to President Daniel Spencer of the Salt Lake Stake. In 1866 he was first counselor, and in 1874 was called to preside over the Salt Lake Stake, which position he held for about two years. In 1867 he was instrumental, with others, in organizing Brighton Ward on the west side of Jordan River. In October 1869 he filled another mission to the Eastern States. He left home in a wagon, accompanied by Nathan Eldredge. This mission was short as he returned the following April. He had charge of the territorial farm located where the Fairgrounds now stand, receiving this appointment from President Brigham Young. From 1877 until his death in 1900 he was president of the High Priests Quorum in Salt Lake Stake.

In 1875 George homesteaded 120 acres of land in Granger, where his wife, Hannah, lived. Martha and her sister Lydia resided at the home located at 168 North 2nd West, Salt Lake City. Melissa lived there for awhile, until her son Howes built her a home on Second Avenue in Salt Lake. Mr. Wallace planted the first trees in the community of Granger and his first nursery business stood where West High School now stands.
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            Name: Melissa M Wallace 
            Age: 24
            Captain: A. O. Smoot
            Arrival Date: 26 Sep 1847
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4/12/01    Earl Wallace in Salt Lake City  said that there is a monument in Nauvoo that has the names of Howes Crowell and the two children that died in Nauvoo.  He did not visit the actual graves.

18 Oct 2002...my note....Charles and I (Eleanor) along with our son, Mark and his wife, Amy visited the Old Burial Ground on East Parley Street......there a memorial building stands with the names of those that are buried in the cemetery....Howes and Georgianna are on that listing....I did not find an exact grave site.  I don't know where the other child is buried unless that child died before they arrived in Nauvoo...

IGI 1988  Extracted Marriage Records, LDS Temple Records.

Sealed to Howes Crowell: 14 Jan 1995 Las Vegas Temple...as Melissa M. King.  Originally sealed to Howes in Endowment House in 1867...but records not available....George B. Wallace acted as proxy for her first husband, 
Howes Crowell.

ARCHIVE RECORD
Archive record for William King & Lucy Snow.
Family records in possession of Eleanor L. Johnson, c/o 530 S. 4th St.,  (Mrs.Charles) Las Vegas, Nevada 89101.

RECOMMEND FROM BOSTON BRANCH PRESIDENT...from Howes Crowell Wallace Autobiography, copy in my possession:
Boston, October 1, 1843
"This is to certify that the bearers here of, Howes Crowell and Melissa Crowell, his wife, are members of the Boston Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in full faith and good standing.
G.B. Wallace."

Our Pioneer Heritage
Volume 9
The Heroic Pioneer
Worthy Pioneer
Emigrant's Guide

"While George Wallace was presiding elder of the Boston Branch of the Church, Howes Crowell and his wife, Melissa Mandana King Crowell, requested a recommend transferring their membership from Boston Branch to Nauvoo. Later, when George went to Nauvoo, he again met Melissa who was heartbroken with grief at the death of her husband and their two children. Their friendship ripened into love and they were married June 4, 1845, in Nauvoo. When the Saints were leaving this ill-fated city, the Wallaces fitted themselves out for the long journey west and left for Winter Quarters where they spent the winter of 184647. Their first child, Mary Melissa, was born January 8, 1847, and a few months later they started their trek to Utah."


DESERET NEWS ARTICLE:
Newspaper Salt Lake City, Utah:  The Deseret News, Saturday, May 11, 1935....p.7
Artist Reproduces Old Pioneer Homestead....
Picture of old pioneer home, picture of Melissa Crowell Wallace and George B. Wallace....

HISTORY:
BOOK:  Brigham Young, American Moses by Leonard Arrington p.319
Marriage Problem: 
"There were many instances when the situation became quite complex.  One woman, married her second husband, apparently was not happy with him but had not been sealed to her first husband and was in a quandry as to what steps to take.  Brigham explained that there were two courses open to her:
The first, and in my judgement the best, is for you to be sealed to your first husband, Brother Wallace acting as proxy for him in the ceremony, which would have been the better plan when you were first married to Brother Wallace, and then if you  perfer it, secure a shelter that will be reasonably comfortable for the accomodation of yourself and children, doing what you can for your own and their support, in which Brother Wallace promises to assist you as much as he may be able, and not to interrupt you and your children in living by and laboring for yourselves.  If this course should not suit you, you are also at liberty to get a bill of divorce from Brother Wallace.  These two are the best methods for changing your present condition that I am now aware of, and you are at full liberty to take your choice between them, or to remain as you are now situated, just as you may prefer."
Footnote in back of book indicates this was taken from Brigham Young to Melissa M. Wallace, 29 Mar 1859, Letterbook C:719.....
my note: She was sealed to Howes Crowell  9 Feb 1867 in the Endowment House.....George B. Wallace acting as proxy for her first husband.
Burial:  M.K.Wallace (Melissa King) buried Salt Lake City Cemetery; Plot R, Lot 9, Lot 3, Tier E, grave 2. Her 2nd husband, George B. Wallace is buried next to her.  In same plot is their first child that died in Salt Lake...1st child to be buried in Salt Lake Cemetery.
OBITUARY:
Obituary:  Salt Lake Newspaper: " Wallace--At Granger, Salt Lake County, Utah of dropsy.  Melissa King Crowell 
Wallace, wife of George B. Wallace.  Deceased was born May 14, 1823 at Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont. She was baptized into the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints January, 1843 and emigrated to Nauvoo the same year and afterwards to Salt Lake City, reaching this valley, Sept  25, 1847.
Funeral from Granger Ward Meeting House, Saturday, June 19, 1897 at 1:00.  Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend."

OLD LETTERS: (originals in my possession)
Written by Lucy King Holbrook to Edna King Farnsworth (my 2nd great grandmother) Dec. 10, 1842  speaks very well of Melissa's good husband and her being a good wife.  How she takes care of her house, very neat and very particular.

OLD LETTER:  Dated Feb 29, 1842 Boston stated Melissa is to be confined in May.

LUCY KING LETTER TO EDNA KING FARNSWORTH dated York, Maine 26 July 1846.  Lucy was in Maine to help her daughter, Emily Plaisted, with a new baby.  She wrote: "I hant took any comfort since Melissa went away.  I never expect to again.  The troubles I have seen about her has been almost too much for me and now she has gone were I never expect to hear from her again in this world."  Note: Melissa's mother, Lucy Snow King,  seemed to be very upset that Howes and Melissa had joined the Mormons and gone to Nauvoo, Illinois. Perhaps she was grieving too for the loss of Howes and her two grandchildren that died and that Melissa went across the plains to Salt Lake Valley.  She never did see her again in this life..

Howes & Melissa were in Nauvoo, Illinois. He received Patriarchal blessing from Hyrum Smith, 26 November 1843 and died in 1844.  The prophet Joseph Smith came by their house and gave Howes a blessing before he died.
(History of Howes Crowell Wallace).  .
   
9-16-1993 Correspondance and phone conversation with Earl Wallace, Salt Lake.  History of Howes Crowell Wallace, autobiographi in possession of Earl Wallace, 4479 Camille St., Salt Lake City, Utah.  Copy in files at Church Historian's office..

First Name Last Name Address 1 Address 2 City State Zip Zip+4 Phone 
Earl M. Wallace 4479 Camille St.  Salt Lake City UT  84124 3675 (801) 278-4573 

Family records and history shared regarding children of George & Melissa Wallace  11/1/93.
Phone conversation with Earl Wallace.  Earl had notes from Howes Wallace with names of two children of Howes and Melissa.  Also that Howes & Melissa were intimately acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith, that he came into their home and gave Howes a blessing before he died.  Evidently George B. Wallace acted as proxy for Howes and Melissa acted for herself and were sealed in endowment House 9 Feb 1867.  Howes Wallace received this information from Salt Lake Temple president George F. Richards, 17 March 1933 at the temple, Earl said.

Submitted Howes and Melissa sheet for Temple Work to be completed in Las Vegas Temple..
10-12-1993 
Family History Department cleared Melissa name for all ordinances  22 OCT 1993. 
Evidently could not find her baptism date for 1843 or any sealing information.
   
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                   Bernard Snow & Louisa King   by Eleanor Law Johnson    22 Jan 2003  Las Vegas, Nevada

Bernard Snow was born 22 Jan 1822 Pomfret,Windsor,Vermont. His parents were Ebenezer Snow & Polly Hayes.  He married in Cambridge,
Massachusetts 24 Nov 1841 to his cousin, Louisa King,  daughter of William King and Lucy Snow. . They had four children: 1) Stillborn male child bn November 1842 in Cambridge      2)Sidney Alfred b 13 Apr 1844 d. 19 Oct 1952 in Salt Lake City,Utah 3)Flora Melissa  b 1 Jan 1846 in Cambridge,Mass d. 1846 in Cambridge,Mass.; Bernard Snow b. 10 May 1847 Cambridge,Mass.  d. 10 Sep 1847 in Cambridge......Bernard and Louisa must have been broken hearted over the loss of these three children. 
      Bernard is found in California in 1850 Census so probably went to the gold fields.  Louisa was lonely and in poor health but decided to cross the plains to Salt Lake with her surviving son, Sidney, in the Wilford Woodruff Wagon Train group of Mormon pioneers.  Her sister, Melissa, was already in the Salt Lake Valley.  Melissa, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Boston along with her husband, Howes Crowell.  They gathered to Nauvoo, Illinois with the main body of the  Latter-day Saints.  He and their children died and she remarried and came west when the mobs ran the church members out of their homes in Nauvoo in the winter of 1846.  They stayed for a time in Winter Quarters, near Omaha, Nebraska and traveled on into the Salt Lake valley in 1847. 
       Louisa wanted so much to see her sister and her husband but she never made it to the valley.  Somewhere along the way, Louisa, became sick and died 6 July 1850.  Her grave is unknown.  Her son came on into the valley with the company of Saints. Bernard came from California and learned of her passing.  Then his only remaining child, Sydney died in 1852.  It's a sad, sad story.  Bernard wrote a letter to his wife, who was already dead, not knowing till later of her passing.  Bernard married later and has a huge posterity in the church.  He died in Idaho in 1893 at the age of 71.  Louisa only lived to the age of 26.  I consider them to be my precious relatives.



Research compiled by Eleanor L. Johnson, 530 S.4th St.,Las Vegas, NV 89101

Journal History of the Church  BYU Library  Bx No 19, Reel 10 (Wilford Woodruff Company).
June 2, 1850-January 24, 1852   ( JH Supp after 31 Dec 1850, p 17-18)
"Snow, Mrs. of Cambridgeport (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Died July 6,
1850."
Old letter dated February 29, 1842, In my possession Eleanor L. Johnson, c/o 530 S. 4th St., Las Vegas, Nevada 89101...mentions that Louisa married.
Additional Old Letter:  Stated that she was"going to have an addition to her family."
Letter dated December 1842....

Marriages & Deaths:
FHL/SLC  974.44/cl  V2b  Vol 2  Vital Records of Cambridge Massachusettes to the Year 1850...Marriages and Deaths:
p.362  "Bernard Snow and Louisa M. King of Boston, int.  Nov. 3, 1841.
p.741  "Snow,________,s. of Bernard, bur. November 24, 1842. Stillborn.
p.741  "Snow,Bernard,b. in Brighton, s. of Bernard and ________, Sept.10,
1847, a  4 mo. Colera infantum.
p.742 "Snow, Flora M., d. of Bernard and _____, bur. Mar. 12, 1846, a.
2 y. 4 m.  Lung fever. (Died in Brighton, dup.)
BYU Library   H/R Ref.  BX  8672.2  D457a   1989/90  Deseret News 1989-1990
Church Almanac  P. 175 "Kayesville, Iowa  Organized Camp 20 Jun (8)ld
Wilford Woodruff  about 209  ABT 44  14 Oct 1850 (Arrival SL City)  J.H Supp.
After 31 Dec 1850, p 17-18.

In my notes on her, I have a mention that her husband, Bernard Snow, was in California while she was crossing the plains. Bernard Snow's History confirms this information.  (Sue Hughes, Las Vegas, Nevada is a direct relation) Copy of history in my possession.
Decendent has history supporting the fact that he sailed around the cape to California.
Bernard Snow remarried later on after coming to Utah...Find him in 1856 Census of Salt Lake City, Utah with a wife, Alice & 2 Children.  Bernard had several wives and a total of 27 children.

Old Letter:
Old letter in my possession, dated 26 July 1846, Lucy Snow King writing to her distant dughter, Edna Farnsworth (my 2nd great, grandmother), in Ohio from her daughter's in York, Maine. "Louisa's health is very poor.  She has lost her babe.  She is gone up to Vermont to see if it won't help her.  She expects to spend the summer."

IGI 1988 Edition...find Bernard Born: 1847...this is the child that is mentioned in the Vital Records of Cambridge..(above)

Probate papers for her brother, William, who died in Pomfret, Vermont, mention her allotment from estate....Probate Court, District of Hartford, P.O. Box 275,
Woodstock, Vermont 05091...Bernard Snow is also listed in papers regarding this estate.

Cambridge Vital Records to 1850  Las Vegas Family History Library.
US/CAN Book  9744.44//c  V2 btw P.230 "Louisa M. King, of Boston, and  Bernard Snow, int. Nov.3, 1841  (Cambridge Marriages).

Old letter, in my possession, dated: Newbury Port (Mass) Dec.10,1842..letter to Edna King Farnsworth from her sister Lucy King Holbrook....mentions Louisa expects an addition to her family soon." Note:  It appears that she did not know as yet that the baby had died in November....buried November 24, 1842...Stillborn according to the Cambridge Deaths in Vital Records of Cambridge...sighted reference above.