Alfred Bosworth CHILD

                   Child Fam. History Pg. 94 Utah Pioneer Bood, Family History
                  

                                POLLY ANN CHILD   CHILPOLY.821   Rin 233

     HISTORY OF POLLY ANN CHILD RICHARDSON WRITTEN BY HERSELF

    I was born in the little country village of Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York the 20th day of July, 1821, daughter of Alfred Bosworth and Polly Barber Child.  I was the 3rd generation of Childs to be born and raised in this little community in the Kyadeross mountains.  It was pleasant growing up in this section of New York, especially in the summer-time, when the cooling saline breezes of the Atlantic often traversed up the Hudson River, giving a climate similar to the seacoast.

    The deep ravines and valleys cut irregularly into the mountainsides, the marsh and swamplands at the headwaters of the Hudson, the numerous stand of beech, maple, wim and hemlock must have contributed immensely to the pleasure and probing enjoyment of childhood.  Here I grew into young woman hood amid the simple comforts and pleasures of the pioneer.

    In the year 1822, my family moved to Milton (it would now be Morristown) St. Lawrence Co., New York, where they took up a new farm and with the aid of a hired man cleared and put into cultivation some 30 acres of land situated on the banks of the St. Lawrence River.

    In 1823 a mortgage is recorded between my dad, Alfred B. Child and Abraham H. Wooster for $150.00, and this mentions a piece of land of 40 acres.  This on what is now called the Wooster road in Hammond, and this mortgage was recorded in 1828.  It was satisfied in 1838, and was recorded in July of that year.  The School District in the small area where our family lived was known as the Child School Dist...May 8, 1827, my father Alfred B. Child(s) elected Constable at the 1st town meeting.  Commissioner of Schools 1828-1829, and 1829-1830,,,feb, 21, 1832 through the 17 feb. 1835, He also held the position of Overseer of Highway (title changed to Post-Master in 1833).  In that same year father sold his farm and soon afterward bought another farm of about 160 acres, in the same town, for which he paid ten dollars per acre.

    (Again we found more information through Warren Gould Child a brother which fills in some empty places of Polly Ann.)  While living on the above mentioned 160 acre farm the Child family heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, called Mormonism.  They had opened up new farms and were in the process of improving them when there came into the town or neighborhood one George E. Blakely, a  Mormon elder, who after a time succeeded in getting a few to come out to hear the strange doctrine of the new prophet, known as Joe Smith.  He met with little success in the neighborhood.")

    Polly Ann says "My father, after  hearing him several times, was somewhat impressed with his doctrines, so much so that he continued to investigate them.  On the 5th of June 1838 the following members of the family with himself were baptized, with wife Polly Barber Child, and his children Mark A., Myself, Myron B., And Hannah P., The rest being under age for baptism.  On August the 11th the same year he started with his family, then ten in number, for Kirkland, Ohio."

    Embarking on a small steamer up the St. Lawrence River and crossing Lake Ontario and landing at Lewiston, a short distance
below the great Niagara Falls.  Having shipped his team and wagon and such of his effects as could be loaded with the family in one wagon drawn by two horses, thus he started by land via way of arriving at Kirkland some time in September.

    Little is know about Polly personally until she was 17 years old.

Polly says of her baptism

"On the 5th day of June 1838, with my parents I was baptized into the Mormon Church (I being 17 years of age), the 11th of August the same year we started from New York to Jackson County, Missouri, where the Morman Church was located."

    "My father came the entire route with one span of horses, a wagon, and ten in the family."  It takes little imagination to fill in the blanks in Polly's statement.  Carrying food, clothing, bedding, cooking utensils and a few meager supplies for an unknown farm in the West would have taken up every spare space in the wagon.  Thus, most of the 1500 miles would have been traversed on foot, sleeping in tents, or underneath the wagon at night--this through sparsely settled and often savage wastelands.  One must admit that a journey of this sort required a great deal of courage and fortitude--a courage and fortitude that would be tested to the breaking point within a few short months.

    The immediate destination of Polly's father was Kirtland, Ohio-about one-third of the distance to Jackson County.  Here he hoped to join up with a body of Saints moving from Kirtland to Missouri.  However, events moved faster than he, for many of the Mormans had vacated the city by the time he arrived.  Polly stated that the Saints had "left a few days before we got there."

    "We stopped over a few days in Kirkland, Ohio."  The city, however, offered Polly and her family only a brief respite from the rigors of the trek.  They stayed to rest the animals and replenish supplies before returning to the well-defined trail of the Saints moving west.  They had been traveling almost a month by the time they reached Kirtland.  It would be another month and a half to two months before they reached their destination in Missouri.

    "It was there I saw the first temple built by the Latter Day Saints."

    The Mormans had been advised to go to "Di-Amon" for safety.  Polly stated that they went 14 miles and pitched their tent and lived in it two weeks.  The people thought after the battle at Crooked River and Haun's Mill the mob would be pacified and they could live in peace for a time.  Everyone went to work again building houses for the settlement of Adam-Ondi-Ahman.

    Owing to the persecutions they had to leave all they had done there and go to Jackson County.  They were driven from Jackson County to Caldwell and Daviess Counties.  They called the city of tents and wagons (Adam-Ondi-Ahmen).  It was late fall when Polly's family finally reached Missouri.  Here, after months of back-breaking travel, they found a temporary resting place at Adam-Ondi-Ahman in Daviess County.  The Mormans were building quite a community after their expulsion from Jackson County.

    Polly has left us little information regarding this period.  However, one may well imagine the hardships the family must have experienced that first winter in Adam-Ondi-Ahman.  They had arrived late in the year--too late to plant crops or prepare an adequate shelter against the rapidly approaching winter.  They would have lived that year as they had traveled, in the meager shelter of the wagon, or in a tent pitched on the frozen ground.  It would be spring before a house could be build, lands cleared and crops planted.  In the meantime they must share in whatever sustenance was available for the entire community.

    Sometime during that year (1838), possible in the spring Polly says "My father had let his wagon to towards a piece of land."  Where this piece of land was located cannot be ascertained at the present time.  Polly Ann's mother sheds some rather ambiguous light on the subject, however, in a letter written to relatives in New York in June 1839--after the Saints had been driven from Missouri to Caldwell County Illinois.  She explains that their flight had taken them up to Far West, where they stayed for a short time before continuing toward Adam-Ondi-Ahman.  From this vague remark it may be assumed that Polly's family had located 12 miles below Far West, probably in either Caldwell or Ray County where the inhabitants had shown a great deal of sympathy for the Saints in times past.

    Polly B. stated in a letter to her sister, she and son Mark went 12 miles into Farr West to shop for flour, salt, toys for the children, and other items.  (Farr West at this time was quite a thriving town.)

    Polly B. returned home to find her husband and son Mark were to be put on guard duty with the armed Mormons, because the mob was burning houses in the area.  The satanic mob were on their march to Crooked River and Haun's Mill, where those saints were cruelly massacred.

    It was undoubtedly comforting to sink their roots into the soil again.  I'm sure that Polly and her family looked forward to the security a good  crop and a new home would bring.  The hoped-for-security was not forthcoming, however, for in February of 1839 they, along with the remainder of the Mormons in Missouri, were driven into Illinois at gunpoint.  Fear, jealousy, and political ambition led to an onslaught of persecution which rolled over the Mormon people like a great wave, tumbling and rolling them before it like so much flotsom and jetsom.

    Polly Ann's mother in the afore-mentioned letter provides more insight into the fear and determination of the times.

    "Alfred was called on to go to Diammon.  It was evening.  Some Brethren came and said orders was that every man that was able and willing to help what he could for the mob was gathering fast.  Already five or six hundred at Grindstone a few miles distance.
I was getting supper, I stopped, was motionless until one of them asked me if I was willing he should go.  All fear, all fluttering of the heart was gone from me.  I was all calm as ever I was when sitting in your house, mother...In the morning it was Monday, he came home on Friday... It was thought to go to Diammon for safety."

    In February 1839, persecutions commenced again.  They took nearly all the men.  The men were taken prisoners.  My father and oldest brother, Mark, were taken with the rest but they did not keep them very long.  They let all the men, except the leaders of the Church go, with the orders for them all to leave the state within fifteen days.  They took all the heads of the Church, or most of them, and put them in prison while the rest had a hard struggle to get out of the state.

    Thus Polly Ann and her family were forced to flee the state of Missouri in the dead of winter, leaving behind "a large farm...confiscated by the ruthless invaders,"  as well as their best horse--without compensation.  Their one remaining horse was given to one of the brethren "to help him".  Polly's father then took what little money he had and hired a man named Allred, a citizen of Missouri, to move the family out.

    Polly presents a very pathetic picture of her family and the Mormons in general as a result of their forced exodus.

    "A few of (us) had teams and some had to go on foot across frozen prairie, destitute of food and clothing...and there was a great deal of suffering among the women and children before we got to the Mississippi..The line between Missouri and Illinois.  When we got to the river the ice was running so that we could not cross.  Consequently we had to camp there the next three weeks before we could cross into Illinois.  By that time it was the middle of March.  (Read the History of the Church, see how it's records describe the same."

    It is impossible for us today to realize the misery Polly Ann was describing.  Her family was only one of hundreds and hundreds--women and children making up the greater part--driven from their homes and subjected to the rigors of winter on the prairie, not knowing where they were going or what they were going to do.  How can any of us today appreciate what these people bore, what Polly Ann and her family bore?  It defies the imagination as it defies description.  This was merely a foretaste of what the future held.

    With the coming of March the river was sufficiently clear of ice and the Child family was able to cross over into Illinois.  Most of the Saints headed toward Commerce, but Polly's Ann"s father stopped just across the river in the vicinity of Quincey.

    "Again I will not attempt to describe the suffering of the Saints up to that time, as you have the history of the Saints to read.  After we got into Illinois, my father rented a farm and remained there throughout the summer of 1839.  Mother and I took in washing to help maintain the family.

    We can again credit Polly's mother with providing information about the family at this time.

    "Mark did work on the railroad but two weeks.  Did not want to work there; hired to Mr. Thompson, a real old fashioned Baptist man from the state of Maine for eight dollars a month, a half mile from home.  Polly worked there two weeks and three days for six dollars.  They would give her two dollars a week all summer if I could spare her, but the babe is so unwell with his ulcers and leg, it takes one of us all the while to take care of him."

    Warren Gould Child says in his diary, "While here, we received kind treatment from a mr. ----, the name I do not recall, who let us occupy one room of his house, in which to make down on the punchion floor, our beds at night.  They would be rolled up and carried to the wagon during the day to wrap the smaller children, to keep them warm, as there was not room in the two room log cabin, which was the usual size of the country farm houses at that time.  The raw March winds that swept up or down the great river rendered our condition quite uncomfortable, and the few days that we were detained here seemed like weeks."

    The L.D.S. were scattered everywhere in the State where they could find anything to do.

    About this same time the majority of the Saints moved to the town of Quincy, State of Iowa, just across from Commerce, or Nauvoo as it was now called.

    That fall my father decided to move again.  The heads of the Church had bought a little tract of land in Hancock County, Illinois, where they started a little town called Commerce, later called Nauvoo."

    In the fall of 1839, my father went about 200 miles into Iowa, just across the Mississippi River from Commerce (or Nauvoo) and took him up a piece of land that was called the "Half Breed Land" as it was purchased from the Black Hawk Indians.  He started to put up a little log house and sent for us.  We hired a man to take what little we had to our new little home.  Unfortunately, winter arrived before father had the house finished.

    The move evidently took what little money the combined efforts of the family had accumulated during that summer.  Polly says:

    "Father had to leave his house unfinished while he and my two oldest brothers had to go and find work to get something to eat.  Just the body of the house and a few slabs on top that he had hewn out of logs for a roof, were our house, we had no floor.  We built a fire on the ground floor as we had no chimney.  My mother took in washing and I worked out for 75 cents a week.  We did all we could to live until Spring, then my father managed to put in a little grain and garden.

    With the coming of Spring the fortunes of Polly's family seem to be infused with a swelling, newness of life, for the next few years the family prospered exceedingly.  In 1840 Alfred planted his crops and reaped a bounteous harvest.

   "My father finished his house and raised a pretty good crop and I earned quite a little teaching school to help maintain the family.  My father raised a good crop of flax the year of 1841,
(I worked out all summer where I could get a chance and in the Spring and Summer of 1841, I taught school and in 1842) so the greater portion of 1843 I stayed home and helped my mother spin and make into cloth to clothe the children and make father pants and shirts.  We made sheets and pillow cases and we had dresses made out of flax."

    By this time several other pioneer families had joined Polly and her family, taking advantage of the cheap land offered by the Government.  By 1842 there were enough people in the area to consider themselves a community.

    On the 3rd of September 1842, my father was appointed post master.  They called this little settlement String Prairie.  Part of the year of 1843 I worked out a good deal, but mother not being very well, I helped at home.

    Polly captured that happiness and prosperity they were enjoying in the following lines: "Father attended to the office and with the help of my brothers made a nice 
                  

                   I just received a letter from Carl V. Larson :   Sent to him by Norman Erekson  Then on to June Bosworth and on to me.  Grand Info.

                YOUR QUESTION CONCERNING MARK ALFRED  CHILD BEING A MEMBER OF THE               MORMAN BATTALION CAN BE ANSWERED AS FOLLOWS.

1.  He enlisted in the Army at Fort Leavenworth in 1844.

2.  He went overland to Mexico with General Kearney as one of his staff.

3.  General Kearneyleft Fort Leavenworth before the Morman Battalion arrived there.

4  Being on Gen Kearney's staff would have put him in an entirely different battalion other then the                                 Morman Battalion.    When his time was up and he was released, He chose to remain in
Caligornia and he and others wee kille by Indians at Ripper or Pepper (California??)

5.  His timing was such that he had no connection with the Morman Battalion and could not have been a     member thereof.  He did indeed serve in the Mexican war .

6.  He was not paid through the Morman Battalion staff.  There is no record of them having paid him.  For this reason and for the reason that his name does not occur on any of the promary Morman Battalion records.

You will find him, however, on the Mexican War Records which are on file with the United States National Archives in Washington D. C.
                  

                             POLLY (Sally) BARBER  BARBPOLL.798  RIN 2492


    Polly Barber, also know as Sarah Ann, the daughter of Ichabod and Annie Dake (Deake) Barber, born on March 30th, 1799, at Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York.  She was the second child in the family of 7 children.  For a time before her marriage to Alfred B. Child, March 19th, 1817, she attended the Milton Academy in New York.

    In 1822, they moved to Morristown, New York, where she first heard the gospel preached, which was revealed from heaven to Joseph Smith by an angel sent from God.  After thoroughly investigating, being fully convinced of its truth, she was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ OF Latter-Day Saints, June 5, 1838, by Elder Charles Blakesly.

    Polly Barber Child accepted the gospel quickly after hearing it.  The family did the same.  On the 11th day of August following, their baptizing, they left for the state of Missouri, stopping on the way for a few weeks at Kirtland, Ohio.  They arrived in Caldwell County, Missouri, in September of the same year, having traveled the entire distance from the state of New York, by a two horse team and wagon.  The family at that time were ten in number.

    (It has been said by researchers, that in the early period of the church, no group in the church ever sacrificed more than the early Kirtland saints, in the monumental task in the building of the Kirtland Temple.  Polly and Alfred were part of that sacrifice.)

    She had taken with them only that which was necessary and joined the saints, moving in with them into the Missouri persecutions, loyal to the Prophet Joseph an the cause of righteousness, covenanted with others to stand loyal to one another in their hardships in their extermination from the state of Missouri, and their exodus to Illinois.  She was ever faithful during the Kirtland and Nauvoo period.

    They lived in poverty because they gave up all they had, toward this labor of love for the lord, and he was watchful of their welfare.  During this period, many of the saints received revelations and visitations from heavenly beings, to increase their faith and strength to endure the trials and persecutions that lay before them.

    On the 11 of August they left Ohio for the state of Missouri.  While traveling through Ohio, enroute for Caldwell County, Missouri, and passing through a heavily timbered country, a singular incident occurred.  One morning, soon after leaving the camp, a very aged person, whose hair was long, and as white as wool, appeared suddenly in the track immediately in front of the team and cried, "Whoa"  The horses stopped immediately.  Then he came up to the wagon, commenced with the oldest of the family, shook hands, and talked with each one in turn, according to their age.  He blessed them in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ, after which he disappeared as suddenly as he appeared, and vanished from sight.  Whither he went, the family never knew.

    Upon reaching Caldwell, County, the persecutions arose against the Latter-Day Saints, in which Alfred and Polly were victims.  Polly barber described this episode in a letter to Phoebe Wooster, her sister.  (Don't confuse this Phoebe Wooster with Polly Barbers' daughter Phoebe Wooster Child)
    In March, 1839, they arrived at Quincy, Illinois.  They were in destitute conditions, and remained there about eight months to recuperate.

    They moved into Davies County, at Adam-Ondi-Ahman.  They called it the city of tents and wagons. In February 1839, Alfred Bosworth and his son Mark were taken prisoners by the mob but later released. (I must read the history of the saints in Adam-Ondi-Ahman. What exactly happened there?  What would occur to have our grandfather and his son persecuted by a mob?)  Orders came to leave the state of Missouri in 15 days.

    During this period mother had to devise every means to provide food for the family, much of our little store having been exhausted and confiscated by the mob.  My brother Myron, the oldest left home, being quite young, and our best horse stolen, she borrowed a neighbor's horse to work with our remaining one and started for Jackson Co., If possible to get such supplies as were needed to feed and clothe the family, which , though invasions, had been rendered quite destitute, taking this youth, (Myron) with her to render what help he was able to give in caring for the team and driving.

    All the saints had to struggle to get out of the state.  Most had lost their teams to the mob.  Alfred had only one horse, the mob had stolen his best horse, so Alfred gave his remaining horse to the older brethren, Mr. Allred, for helping them move out of the state.

    Many of the saints had to go on foot across the frozen prairie, destitute of food and clothing, with the sand burrs cutting their feet.  There is no way to describe Polly's suffering as she watched her husband struggle to maintain and keep his family safe.  Many tears were shed as she watched her children struggle to keep pace with the frantic moments of the saints to get out of harms way.

    When they got to the river, the ice was running and they could not cross.  It was now the middle of March and so very cold.  Polly and her family had to help build shantys of brush and blankets and wagons were turned into homes.  The suffering was
very intense for they had very little food and no warm homes.
(Polly ann, Polly Barber's daughter tells us that she never had a pair of dry, warm stockings and shoes. She had to wash them, wring out her stockings, wash the mud off her shoes, and put them right back on.)  Bitter, bitter cold.

    In Feb 1839 when Polly B. arrived in Quincey, Illinois, Alfred found them a shell of a house, no floor and a few slabs on top for a roof.  They built a fire on the ground as they had no chimney.  Polly B. Took in washing to help way for their needs.

    As the country became settled she was usually sent for, sometimes to go distances ranging from one to ten miles, to prescribe and wait on the sick, her more special practice being that of midwife.  Mother always kept a stock of medicine consisting of lobelia, loneseteatis with turnip, jangshan, a pills made of butnut bark, which were manufactured by mother, she being the physician of the family and considered to be a very good one.

    She was quite expert in horseback riding, sometimes riding a distance of twenty miles on strange horses, and often during the nighttime and dark, and sometimes storming.  No kind of weather would deter her from responding in an urgent call of midwife.  She was usually very successful and considered one of the best of her day, seldom ever losing a case.

    They were able to raise a pretty good crop of flax that spring and summer of 1841 and 1842 Polly B., and her girls made it into cloth for clothing and sheets and pillow cases.  They even had dresses made of flax.

    We moved into Spring Prairie, Lee County, Iowa and in the spring of 1842, Alfred was appointed post master.  "Alfred was away a good deal so I took charge of the office.  With the help of our sons we had a nice farm.  In 1843 I was not very well and had to have more help from Polly Ann.  Our family enjoyed a year or two of peace in Iowa."

    The family apparently enjoyed a year or two of peace here in Iowa.  Their son, Mark, had enlisted in the army in 1844, and was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

    In 1846, at the time of the exodus, we moved to Pottawatomie County, Iowa, where we lived for 6 years, to procure and outfit to cross the plains, having three times sacrificed comfortable homes for the Gospel's sake.

    While the family was at Pottawatomie County, Iowa, Alfred and his son Warren G., then 14 years of age, went out into Missouri to work for provisions.

    "While at work, Alfred was taken ill at Pottawatomie County, Iowa and had to leave his work and come home.  We needed the money which he had not been able to collect before he was brought home.  I took my son Warren G., with me and we traveled by ox team traveling a distance of 75 miles to collect the pay my husband and earned.  It took us about two weeks.  My other children were left with a sick father to care for while I was away."

    Polly's unwavering faith and strong testimony had carried her through when her nights were long, dark and cold; it put strength in her heart when it seemed all would be lost; helped her to see and feel the power and promise of god's love in the dawn of a new day.  She had been blessed by a heavenly being that day in the wagon, to give her the spiritual strength she would need.
Also having her children living close by was a very important element of her strength.

    In reading Polly B.'s story we must feel and see in our minds, her unwavering faith and strong testimony had carried her through when those nights were long, dark an cold.

    In her letters to her mother, sister, and brothers in New York, this strength is shown forcefully.  The mobs in the near distance all around her tent, her husband and son out trying to protect themselves and their families; yet, she wrote that she "had no fear, all fluttering of the heart was gone from me.  I was as calm as I ever was sitting in your home, mother."

    "When the brethren came with the word that the mob was a few miles distant and all men were needed," she fixed her husband and son's supper and sent them off.  She and the baby, (whose name was Orville) went to bed.  She was tired because she had been washing.  She slept peacefully because she said, "I had no remembrance of it in the morning."

    She wrote that her feelings sometimes were melancholy, because she didn't know "how soon her loved ones would be lost in death."  (She had the right to be melancholy with the harassments and hardships she was enduring.) Polly's correspondence with her two brothers and one sister, there is evidence of much love and devotion, in their relationship with each other.  (Their letters were also written as their thoughts came, without regard or skill as to grammar or punctuation.)

    According to the correspondence between the members of the family, Alfred and Polly were evidently thinking of going to California with the Mormons, if that was the destination chosen by Brigham Young.  Her brother, Asa Barber, in his letter is heart broken and pleads with her not to go so far away.

    After the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the expulsion of the saints from that area of the country, and on July 12, 1852, she followed her husband, following the counsel of Pres. Brigham Young.  The Child's family joined in the exodus to Utah and made their way to the Salt Lake Valley on October 1st of the same year.  They settled in Ogden, Weber, Utah.

    For the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Polly and her family had left their home in Hammond, New York, where they had lived for more than 10 years.  They endured a perilous journey to Kirtland, Ohio, and Missouri.

    She was driven from homes in Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa.  She lived in dug-outs, crude log cabins, a wagon, and tents.  Many were the days she lived in tents as they were forced to endure those many years of hardship and persecutions, in their travels in a wagon from New York to Ogden, Utah.

    Polly was a courageously strong woman, with all of the poverty, privations, hunger, and sickness with cholera, and sorrows that she experienced in coming to Utah, and until her death.  She had to be strong.

    At last, in Utah, even after she safely arrived , on October 1, 1952, her faith and testimony was further tested, in the death of her husband Alfred, just two months later on 22 Dec. 1852.  She had her seven children and several grandchildren around her to comfort, in a strange and barren land, not much of a home, and prospects were dim for a livelihood for any of them.  (Note: "around her to comfort")  How did she feel that first christmas day?  Was it cold and snowy?  Did they have enough food, clothing and shelter?  Nothing has been recorded that I can find.
Possibly we should take the time to study other histories recorded of that time.

    She had buried her first three children as infants, two sons and a daughter, and a seven year old son, Asa Thomas who died in Iowa, just before they were driven out.  Her son, Mark, who was in the U.S. Army, was killed in California by Indians.

    The Lord had taken her mother, Annie Dake (Deake) Barber, who died the 23 of December 1851, and her brother Lonson died 4 days after her husband, on the 26 of December 1852.

    Had she not endured enough?  Did she say, "Lord, how much more do you want me to suffer before I can have peace and rest?"

    No, I don't think so.  She knew life must go on.  She probably just prayed for strength to carry on and make the best of it.  For 31 years more -- in fact, most of it had just begun.

    Most of her surviving children were now married, and her two un-married sons, Warren and Orville would lend their support as much as possible.  They were old enough, 18 and 15 years respectively, to help themselves.  She knew the Lord would continue to bless and sustain them all, and he did  They were faithful children.

    She not only was strong in character; physically, spiritually, and emotionally; but she was blessed with wisdom and intelligence and a kind and gentle disposition.

    Polly Barber had a God-Given ability for relieving pain and suffering.  She was always willing to help anyone, and rendered her service freely.

    This great lady could have written many faith promoting stories, but little is recorded about her life.  My what a great, strong willed lady to be so secure, and determined that she, with strength known only to herself and God, could take on such a task.  Think of her husband's story and then compound it by the strength it must have taken for this woman to under take all the tribulations of her life to follow him.

    As a nurse  and mid-wife, Polly Barber Childs had introduced hundreds of children into this world ...She has made thousands of warmhearted friends, and her name wa a household word among the earlier settlers.  She had practiced midwifery for a period of fifty years, during which time she dressed over 2,000 infants.  Being kind and gentle disposition she was endeared to all with whom she became associated.

    In her Patriarchal Blessing, she was promised wisdom and knowledge, and this promise was fulfilled.  She was blessed when she needed some remedy, and her faith-grounded intuition prompted her to use a certain herb, oil or plant for medicine.  There were no drug stores for medicine then.

    She had such tremendous faith, and relied upon the Lord constantly for help and guidance, in her ministrations to her patients.

    She willingly went where ever and whenever needed, day or night.  No wonder they spoke of her, at her funeral, "as a ministering angel, fulfilling her mission with love, intelligence, integrity and an unwavering faith in God.

    After all the trials of her younger years, Polly's faith and patience was further tested in her old age.  She lived to be 84 years old.The summit of polly's suffering was reached when about five years before she died, she suffered a paralytic stroke, which rendered her almost helpless, physically, but her mental faculties she retained almost unimpaired until her death.

    After her stroke, Polly's pathetic struggle during these last years of life was made more endurable by her many friends and relatives who visited her and attended her.

    She died peacefully, relieved of all of her burdens, on the 4th of February 1883, in Ogden, utah and was buried by the side of her dear Alfred in the Ogden cemetery.

    She had suffered much for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but she was a strong woman  She had endured courageously and faithfully to the end

    She was a mother of twelve children.  At her death she left six children, eighty-eight grandchildren, and one hundred and fourteen great-grandchildren. All are members of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, and not one of them was of them was ever known to swerve from
                  

                   John Married 2/ Mary Curtis
Child Fam. Hist. pg 94 Utah Pioneer Book
HE WAS FIRST BAPTIZED APR 1839
                  

                   I found the words in the records saying Phoebe  (alternate Birth Date January 17, 1833a0

Info on the ( Wooster family name)  William Harris Wooster enlisted in the Union Army, died 3 Mar 1862, in Quandro, Kansas.  (look for this line for I don't have it (yr 2005)

Phoebe, Wooster Child , Mother's , mother's, mother Hannah Bennedict # 2600 md. to Mark Anthon Child #2599,  had a daughter named Pamilia# 2614 who was a married Lyman Wooster # 2613.  Found  on Papers I gathered at the Child reunion June 4 2005.

Traveled the same trail as Brigham Young to Utah (3 years later.)
                  

                   Child #10 Warren Gold md. 2) 3 Feb 1858 Martha Jane Elmer. 3) 26 July 1870 Jerusia Jan Bybee. 4) 17 Nov 1903 Eleanor Caroline Pitt.

FIRST BAPTIZED SEPTEMBER 1847.

       "On Aug 1887 he acquired a contract with Ogden City to build a reservoir and the city waterworks to be constructed  of rock with cement on the inside.  They were blasting rock at the base of the mountain when an unexpected explosion occured.  The blast hit Warren in the face and threw him twenty feet backward.  His left hand wa blown to pieces and the right eye badly damaged.  His teeth were torn out, he lost his right eye.  His chin  and face had areas that were laid bare to the bone.

       He was placed buggy and taken home.  Four Doctors were called in to examine him.  After the consultaion they decided he would not live until morning so his wounds were not dressed, merely wrapped.  The blood, leaves, dirt, and gravel were not removed.  He remained in this condition for five days.  Doctor Benedict from Salt Lake City was called in, and he decided that both hands would have to come off.

       However, Warren strongly protested and said, "When both of my hands go, I will go with them."  His left hand was amputated and two figers on his right hand.  Leaves, sticks, and gravel continued to work out of his hand for months as it healed.  The family felt that through administrations, fasting, and prayers, he was healed.  Warren was fitted ith new teeth, an artificial eye, and strong glasses.  A hook replaced his lef hand.  His face healed so well there was hardly a noticeable scar.  It was difficult for him to write, but  he did write in his journal until shortly before his death.

       Warren spent a lot of time visiting friends and relatives, doing genealogy and Temple work.  He was still able to oversee and do some construction work on homes for others.

       Warren Gould Child Sr. died 17 Apr 1906, at the age of seventy one.

" Found in Pioneer Pathways, volume seven, Daughters of  Utah  Pioneers"

" These books "info" are available at the Utah Pioneers historys  are available in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (now on film that can be brought to Church Library Centers , possible world wide."
                  

                   HE WAS BORN IN WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE "HALF BREED" COUNTRY