Mary married 1st Elias Palmer, record of his family is found is HISTORY OF STONINGTON, p. 547
a John Brown, son of John Brown.....Thomas Brown, was b. 1701...His mother was Elizabeth Miner. Further research needs to establish if this was the John Brown Abigail married........
They had 3 children
Of Westesrly, RI. A recordof their family is found in HISTORY OF STONINGTON, p. 261
Brigham kept bees and fruit trees. Original home at 341 S 100 E. Salem,UT
JANE ELIZABETH KING STONE – Scott and Amy Jensen Ancestry
On September 11, 1876, at the age of 55 years, Calvin G. Stone died. He was buried in the fenced-in family burial plot on the plantation that he and Jane owned when they were first married. His daughters Julia and Emma were buried there also at the time of their deaths.
Jane and Calvin lacked one day of being married 33 years when he died. They were the parents of 16 children, two of them preceding him in death.
The following is part of Jane's son Brigham's testimony:
"In my 21st year I was working for my brother-in-law John Hill. During this time Elder George Teasdale and Elder John R. Windsor came to our neighborhood as ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I attended their first meeting and was converted to the gospel. I was baptized March 15, 1875, after which I received instructions from Elder Teasdale relative to my duties. I returned to Mr. Hill's to attend to my daily labors, but I had received the spirit of gathering and was never satisfied until I went to Utah.
"I was instructed by Elder Teasdale to live a righteous life and never neglect my secret prayers, and if I was faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord I would be blessed with his spirit and would receive the comforter which would be a guide and protection through life, that I would know for myself that the gospel was true. Believing that I had received the above instructions from a servant of God, I resolved to try to keep them. I received a living testimony of the Gospel…."
Brigham immigrated to Utah in April 1877, and more than likely was able to see Calvin Augustin before he died in October 1877. Brigham married Nancy Oyler in 1878. Joseph Adams had moved his family from Fountain Green to Salem, Utah about this period of time.
1 August 1877: Burkes Garde, Tazewell, Va. Elder Henry G. Boyle was serving on another mission in the southern states. He wrote in his diary that he had received a letter from Jane E. Stone of North Carolina.
9 August 1877: Thursday. Elder Boyle writes: "I wrote a letter to Sister J. E. Stone of North Carolina answering her question relative to her intended immigration to Utah this fall or next spring with her family of seven children. She is a widow.
For whatever reasons, Jane did not emigrate until December of 1879. Her six youngest children went with her. Hampton preceded her by a little over a month.
Enoch Hampton Stone arrived in Ogden, Utah on November 10, 1879. He had traveled from North Carolina with Elder Jonas N. Beck who had been released from his labors in the southern states mission field.
The following letter was published in the Deseret Evening News on November 14, 1879.
Newton, Cache County, Ut.
November 14, 1879
Editor, Deseret News:
Dear Brother, I reached Ogden on the 10th and home on the 11th after an absence of a little more than a year. I left home on the 7 Nov. 1878 and returned on the 11 of Nov. 1879.
I labored in the North Carolina Conference in connection with Alexander Spence for about 8 months. In July Brother James H. Moyle and Newel W. Taylor arrived and commenced their labors in the same place and when I left were doing well. Up to the time of my leaving we had baptized ten and the prospect for more being added to the church was very good. I was treated well with few exceptions. One young man named Hampton Stone came along with me. The people have a hard job to sell their property or many more would emigrate. Some 12 or 15 expected to emigrate early in the spring if it is possible for them to sell out. I feel well in spirits but much worn out with my long journey of nearly 3000 miles by wagon and railway. I applied for 1/2 fare railroad ticket at Omaha and had not difficulty in getting it. From Linchbe, Virginia to Omaha cost me $25.50 which is very cheap considering the distance is very near 2000 miles. The fare from North Carolina to Ogden via Washington City, Cincinnati, St. Louis, St. Joseph, and Council Bluff is $72.00.
I feel to thank God for the valuable experience I have gained in my mission field. I am not ashamed of the record I made while laboring in the old state of North Carolina. I might have made more dollars by staying home, but I would not exchange what I have learned for many times as much. I have endeavored to live my religion and preach the pure principles of life and salvation to the world. I thank my brethren for sending me and my prayer is that God will bless them and qualify them to carry on His work with satisfaction and profit to themselves. I know that the hand of God had been over me, and I have been blessed on my mission. The people of Newton received me very kindly on my return, for which I feel grateful.
I made many friends. Many, even out of the church, shed tears when I bid them goodbye, and said if they lived until another spring they would be baptized. May God bless the honest humble seeker after truth.
The young brethren that I left are doing very well. I would not ask to be connected with better men. It is wonderful to note the rapid progress made by them in the little time they have been laboring in the conference. The very example of our Elders is calculated to make converts of the honest seeker of truth. We are closely watched and the least omission on our part is made an occasion to find fault by our enemies. Many are offended at the mention of the name of Joseph Smith, but I am not ashamed to say he was a prophet of God. I have a desire to go on and continue my labors in the great work of God in the last days.
I pray for God's blessings to rest upon all His faithful servants and saints.
I remain,
Jonas N. Beck
After Jane sold her property in North Carolina, her belongings were packed into a covered wagon. Among the things that Jane packed to bring to Utah were three feather beds filled with goose feathers, also quilts, coverlets and spreads. The coverlets and bedspreads were made by hand. The coverlets were made with a wood filler and interwoven with fine warp. The spread were woven of colored warp with beautiful colored designs. These spreads were called counterpanes.
It must have been very hard on her to say goodbye to those beloved family members that she had to leave behind: her children Thomas, Emma, Julia, their spouses, and her dear grandchildren and others. She had worked and planned and dreamed of immigrating to Utah for over 10 years. Of those loved ones that she sent to Utah, some had died before she saw them again. In her heart she knew that this would be true with those she left in North Carolina.
At age 51, the greater share of her life would have been lived in North Carolina, and cherished memories would stay with her. But now she must look ahead to a life among the Saints and family members in Utah. With a prayer in her heart for those dear ones who would stay, Jane Elizabeth climbed into the wagon, and with her six children started on the first lap of their journey west. The children who came to Utah with Jane were: Quincy, Walter, Phoebe, Eliza, Stacey, and Julius. Quincy was the oldest at 17 years, and was a great help to Jane Elizabeth on their journey. Julius was the youngest child at six years.
Their travels by wagon the first day brought them to the home of Mr. William Shelton, Surry County, where they stayed the night. The next day they continued their journey by wagon across the Blue Ridge Mountains to the train terminal at Bristol, Tennessee.
At Bristol they purchased their train tickets, checked in their luggage, and if necessary, purchased anything else required. Their train ride--especially from Bristol, Tennessee to Council Bluffs, Iowa--required many train changes. Each railroad company had different requirements covering passenger belongings and they had quite a problem meeting those requirements. When they arrived at Council Bluffs they ferried across the Missouri river (I do not know how they crossed the Mississippi river).
At Omaha, Nebraska they boarded an immigrant train. It was very slow moving, crowded, and very uncomfortable. The seats were made of slats without cushions, and had to be sat on, night and day, for the four days that it took to get to Ogden. Some of the passengers had never seen sage brush and at one of the stops picked some to take with them to Salt Lake, little realizing how much they would be able to find in Utah.
I try to imagine how the reunion may have been that cold December day. I visualize Jane's grown sons, Joseph and Brigham, and also Joseph's brother-in-law Hector Taylor watching as the train slowly approached the Ogden railroad station from a distance. Nearby, wagons, with teams of rested horses that have been fed and watered, are ready to start their journey to their various destinations with their cargo of new settlers.
The train slowly lumbers and sways along the tracks, while inside, the weary travelers strain to see if they can distinguish loved ones waiting to take them home. Finally, the noisy locomotive jerks to a stop at the station and travelers, arms loaded with belongings, quickly empty the train in anticipation of seeing those who wait for them. Of the emotions and actions of the children, I will not guess; as for Jane Elizabeth, tears of happiness and gratitude flow from her eyes as she embraces her grown sons and Hector.
Talking and getting reacquainted, they load their belongings into the wagon and travel as far as Salt Lake City where they stay the night at the tithing office building. Elizabeth found that, after all the expenses of the journey had been paid for, she had a balance of $30. Early the next morning they resume their journey with some of the members of the party taking turns riding and walking. The weather was threatening, and as they entered the vicinity of Lehi, it started to snow heavily, making travel difficult. It was a three day trip to Salem. They arrived there December 24, 1879; Christmas Eve. The snow was deep and it was cold outside, but there was warmth in Joseph's two-room house (one room built of logs and one framed room), and warmth in the hearts of the people who resided there.
That night, and for some time after, Joseph's little house would shelter his own family, as well as his mother and three brothers and three sisters. The winter of 1879-80 was very severe. The snow was deep and it remained cold until spring.
In March of 1880, Hampton married his brother's (Calvin Augustin's) widow Emmaline. The marriage took place at night by firelight with Emma's young son David as a witness. They made their home in the west part of Salem along the road to Payson.
Federal Census lists Jane as living in Payson on June 3, 1880, she had moved there in March. Jane was listed as the head of the household, and John, Phoebe, Eliza, Stacey and Julius were living at home. Her son James Walter may have been away working for Van Taylor, the brother of Joseph's and Hampton's wives.
With his pay, Walter purchased a piece of property along the road to Salem Cemetery (the location was about three to four blocks south and one block east of where the LDS church house stood on Main Street in later years). That summer John Q. and James Walter arranged for the use of a team, and by paying as rental one half their cut, got enough logs from Payson Canyon to build their mother a small 12 by 14 foot one room log cabin with an attic. It required many logs, as the rental for the team was half of the logs, and the charge for splitting was one half the remainder; however, when the summer was over, the cabin was completed and Jane and those of the family who didn't have employment elsewhere moved in.
The one room log house contained two beds, a clothes safe, a cupboard, stove, table and chairs. In this home Jane made a living for herself and her children with all honorable work that she could get. She dried fruit, she sewed clothing (all of her sewing was done by hand, she never owned a machine), and she made and sewed carpet rags.
That winter she taught, at her home, what is called "Subscription School." Her grandson David Stone was one of her pupils. He said, "It was about 1881 that grandmother taught school in this same house. I was one of her pupils and will never forget how crowded it was. As I remember she had six or eight pupils, and we studied the three R's--reading, 'riting, and 'rithmatic, and the parents paid her in vegetables for the service."
The children were seated in little benches made of boards, with pegs for legs. There were eight pupils and the parents paid in money or produce for her service. She was quite thrilled when two children that were part Indian and part Mexican joined her school. They had long black coarse hair. Jane cut a small lock from one of their heads and sent it to some friends in North Carolina.
In 1881 Jane's daughter Phoebe married Robert Davis, but the following year she died of childbed fever. Her baby lived and was raised by her husband's mother.
In November of 1884 her son James Walter, who had not yet married, died.
Shortly after this John Quincy married Matilda Beddoes and Eliza Olive married John W. Flygare. Both marriages were performed the same day.
In 1886 Jane received word that her daughter Julia Ann had died in North Carolina. She was buried in the same burial ground as her father on the plantation.
In 1889 Stacey Lee married John M. Cloward. Stacey Lee, like the other children, found any work that she could to help with family expenses as she was growing up. And, of course, she helped at home. One day Jane purchased a pig and Stacey was carrying it home when she met her future husband for the first time. Their first home was a one-room log house; their next home was a two-room frame house that her husband John built for her next to her mother's place; and the next home, a nice brick home, was near Eliza Olive's house. How they enjoyed living close to each other, sharing their joys and sorrows.
soldier in Narragansett War of 1675
Record of his family is found in HISTORY OF STONINGTON, p. 547
Mary married 1st Elias Palmer, record of his family is found is HISTORY OF STONINGTON, p. 547
He located at Colchester where he was admitted a freeman 6 dec 1763, but he probably located there a number of years before that date. He is represented as possessing great physical power and endurance, and some of his dealings with the lawless and troublesome elements of the half-formed society in this new country are repeated at the present time as 'reminiscences of early days in Colchester. Their children were all born in Stonington.