Ichabod BARBER

                   Child Fam. History Pg. 94 Utah Pioneer Book,  Family History Dorothy S. Hadlock, 218 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake 17th Ward.

ENDOWMENTS  (GS SER #25163 PT. 2)  UPON RECEIVING THE PERMISSION TO USE THE MICROFILM RECORD OF SEALINGS, 1846-1857, EARLY UTAH PG. 705 WAS FOUND THE FOLLOWING "ALFRED BOSWORTH CHILD, BORN 15 NOV 1796, MILTON SARATOGA, NEW YORK AND SALLY BARBER, BORN 29 MAR 1799, GREENFIELD, SARATOGA NEW YORK WERE SEALED THE 6 OF MAR, 1848 BY PRES. BRIGHAM 6OUR IN CHILD'S HOUSE

CENSUS OF 1850 POTTSWATTAMIE CO., IOWA PG 215 DIST #21 (S SER. #2623 PT 3) ALFRED CHILD, LABORER, AND THREE OF HIS CHILDREN ARE LISTED.  HIS WIFE IS NOT. COULD IT BE THAT SHE IS AWAY FROM HOME HELPING THE SICK OR NEEDY?

SEE HUSBAND RECORD FOR OTHER RECORDS

Polly Barber Personal Record
     Father               Ichabod Barber
     Mother              Annie Dake
     Born                 30 Mar 1798
     Where              Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
     When Baptized      5 June 1837
     Where   "          Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
     By                    Elder Charles Blakesly
     Confirmed          5 June 1837
     By                    Elder Charles Blakesly
     Married             19 March 1817
     To Who            Alfred Bosworth Child
     Where Endowed      Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
     Date                 7 February 1846
     Where Sealed       Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
     Date                 7 February 1846
     To Whom            Alfred Bosworth Child  (Gs25163 pt.2)
     You may recall the Nauvoo Temple was in use only from Dec. 10 1845 to 8 Feb 1846. the records show thatno endowments are listed as started on Feb 8th, the last day, but that they were finishing the many sessions that had started the day before - the Temple had been in use all through that last night.

      Alfred and Polly were endowed on htat last day and I imagine it was asceen of imcomparable drama.  In those last days the mobs ranged about the town burning and looting.  I imagine the night sky lighted up by the burning barns and homes while the Saints huddled where they could find safety.  It was winter and cold for this was the time when the Mississippi froze over providing a frozen highway of escape as the Saints headed into the wilderness of the Iowa Territory.  Everywnere Saints were preparing wagons and teams and packing their most precious belingings as they prepared to flee persecution, once again.   In the Temple the lanterns burned through the night as the endowments were consumaated.  I think that Brigham Young or others leaders must have come to the Temo;e with the word that they must stop and all flee for their lives.  I noted that 500 endowments were done in that last day, one tenth of the total 5000 done in about two months.  I wish we had a journal from Alfred and Polly for they surely had a story to tell.

        We had three ancestors endowed in Nauvoo and others were buried in the area before the temple was finished.    Furnished from June Bosworth  and our cousin Skip.

     Patriarchal Blessing  by William Draper
     Date                 3 October 1850
     Died                 Plain City, Weber, Utah
     Date                4 February 1883
     Where Buried       Ogden City Cemetary, Ogden, Weber, Utah

She was found on the 1880 US Census in Plain City, Weber, Utah  film 1255339 Nat. Arch. Film T9-1339  page 477A.  She was 81 and a Midwife  Her father and mother were born in NY.  She decends from the 1620 mayflower Pilgrim, Robert Soule who was connected to the influential Winslow Family (who apparently funded his trip for later service.)

Other numbers for finding her are NTER Seb: PG 499-501 and her name variant:  Sally Barber