Joseph HOLBROOK

                   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.