Notes:

Archive Record of Lillie Dunford Mecham; New York Genealogical & Biographical Magazine V 65, pp 387-388;
Archive Record of Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham;
TIB MT no. 25150 bk A-2 p 948; IGI CT 1984 p 9,103;
L. Derek Maude Records.

http://www.concentric.net/~Ssbray/mechsam.htm 9 Aug 2004:
"SAMUEL MEACHAM II (son of Samuel Meacham I and Bethia Pease) was born Nov. 15, 1739, in Norwich, Connecticut and married Phebe Main March 31, 1763 at Stonington, New London, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Thomas Main and Anna Brown, born Nov. 16, 1747 at Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Samuel II moved from Connecticut to New Hampshire, where he was one of the original grantees of Canaan, New Hampshire, in 1761. (Canaan, New Hampshire is only 25 or 30 miles from Sharon, Vermont, where the prophet Joseph Smith was born in 1805).
Samuel Meacham II served in the Revolutionary War, in Captain John Welles' Company, Colonel Chase's regiment of Militia, which was called out in response to the alarm of Oct. 20, 1780.
According to Polly Derby Mecham,
"Samuel's joining with the soldiers of the Revolution was very sudden. He left his family home for the purpose of gathering up some firewood in the adjoining forest, telling his family that he would be right back. While in the forest a group of men came dashing towards him, telling him that they were in urgent need of his services, and to join them immediately. This he did, not having time to tell his family of his whereabouts. At the finish of his service in the army (months or years later), he came by the forest, gathered up some firewood, and took it home just as if he hadn't been gone at all."
Samuel Meacham II and Phebe Main Meacham were the parents of 17 children, all of whom reached their maturity, married, and raised large families. The children were
1.PHEBE (md. EZEKIEL WELLS);
2.SAMUEL (md. PHEBE HASKALL);
3.POLLY (MARY) (md. WILLIAM BRADBURY);
4.Dr. THOMAS (md. 1-SARAH BOND or CAULEY and
2-REBECCA SANFORD);
**5.JOSHUA (md. PERMELIA CHAPMAN);
6.JEREMIAH (md. ABIGAIL DAVIS);
7.ELAM (md. MARY WILLIAMS;
8.JOSEPH (md. 1-SARAH BASFORD and
2-LUCINA HARMON);
9.BETHIAH (md. MOSES WORTHEN);
10.ANDREW (md. ABIGAIL EASTMAN);
11.OLIVE (md. AMOS WORTHEN);
12.SARAH (md. 1-ANDREW MAIN,
2-MOSES FALL, and
3-JAMES WORTHEN);
13.ANNA (md JOHN GARDNER);
14.OLIVE (md. 1-JAMES STREATOR and
2-DAVID BRADBURY);
15. ? - female (married JAMES KIDDER);
16.MIRIAM (md. ASA KIMBALL); and
17.TEMPERANCE (md. JUDAH WELLS).
(Three of these brothers, Joshua, Elam, and Joseph Mecham, and most of their adult children and families, joined the LDS Church around 1836 and moved to Iowa, across the river from Nauvoo. These three and their descendants changed the spelling and pronunciation of their surname from Meacham to Mecham, "and have almost created or originated a new family" according to one Meacham family researcher in the eastern states. Some descendants of another of the brothers, Dr. Thomas Meacham, joined the Church later in New York state, but kept the spelling of their surname as Meacham).
All of Samuel's children were born in Canaan, Grafton County, New Hampshire, with the exception of the oldest daughter Phebe. She was born in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, where her mother had gone home to her family for the first confinement. Samuel's sons Joseph, Joshua, Elam, and son-in-law James Kidder together with their families moved to Mercer, Erie County, Pennsylvania; while Dr. Thomas, Jeremiah, Andres, and Samuel together with their families moved to St. Lawrence County, New York (near Meacham Lake). The lake was named by Dr. Thomas Meacham, and it is located in the Adirondacks. Dr. Thomas became a frontier physician of some repute. He was skilled in the used of herbs, and avoided the practice of drawing blood from the sick which was customary in those days. He also became a successful trapper in the Adirondack Mountains. Some of his children later joined the LDS Church and joined their cousins in the west."

Samuel married Main, Phebe on 31 Mar 1763 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States. Phebe (daughter of Main, Deacon Thomas and Brown, Anna) was born on 16 Nov 1747 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States; died in 1843 in New London, New London, Connecticut, United States; was buried in , New London, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Lillie Dunford Mecham; L. Derek Maude.

Phebe married Wells, Ezekiel on 25 Nov 1778 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Ezekiel was born in 1761 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Lillie Dunford Mecham; L. Derek Maude.

Samuel married Haskell, Phebe in 1786 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Phebe was born in 1768 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Lillie Dunford Mecham; L. Derek Maude.

Polly married Bradbury, William in 1787 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. William was born in 1766 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Polly married Champlin, William Jefferson in 1844 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. William was born in 1764 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Archive Record of Lillie Dunford Mecham;
9 Aug 2004 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~colby/colbyfam/d415.html
(email: rmcolby@micro-net.com) :
"Doctor Thomas MEACHAM was born on 1 JUL 1771 in Canaan, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He died on 7 MAY 1849 in Dickinson, Franklin County, New York. He was buried on 7 MAY 1849 in Dickinson, Franklin County, New York. He has Ancestral File number 2TCN-36. DR. THOMAS MEACHAM To begin a sketch on the life of Dr. Thomas Meacham. We can do no better than to quote from "A BRIEF HISTORY OF MY LIFE" by Edward Thomas Meacham, a grandson of Dr. Thomas Meacham. Under the heading "Account of My Ancestors." he writes: "There is a tradition in our family handed down, and confirmed by my paternal grandfather, that the Meachams came from Scotland in a very early day. "My great-grandfather, Samuel Meacham, was born at Stonington, Connecticut about 1740. Of him I know but little. He moved from there, with his family, to Canaan, New Hampshire. His wife, my great-grandmother, lived to be nearly 100 year old. My grandfather, Thomas Meacham was born 1 July 1771 in Canaan, New Hampshire. He lived there 25 years or more; was married during that time and finally moved himself and family to the town of Fletcher in the north part of the State of Vermont, bought 100 acres of land or more. lived there 11 or 12 years and finally settled in Dickenson, County of Franklin, State of New York in the year 1807 or 1808. He bought land of H. B. Pierpont to the amount of 250 acres. The west bounds of his land joined Hopkinton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. He never did much farming, employed most of his time in hunting. He was a man of truth and integrity; a man that you could depend on. "Grandmother Meacham's maiden name was Sarah Cauley. She was of Irish origin, She was born 20 November. 1769, in New Salem, State of Massachusetts. She was a very good woman, very bright and intelligent. She could remember hearing the cannon at the commencement of the Revolution. She died in the town of Lawrence, St. Lawrence County, New York, 12 January, 1858, age 88 years, one month and twenty-three days." The author of "A Brief History of My Life," from which I shall quote freely, was the son of Thomas Meacham Jr. and the history was written at Hopkinton, N. Y.. where he had associated with his grandparents. Dr. Thomas and Sarah Cauley Meacham for many years. His "History," consists of five notebooks full of well written and interesting material which I have in my possession, given me by the last surviving child of the author, Ada R. Meacham Watson. During the eleven or twelve yeas that Dr. Thomas and his wife, Sarah, lived at Fletcher, Vermont. five more children were born to them: Stephen Peabody, 12 March 1797, Temma, 24 September 1799: Jeremiah, 28 July 1801; Hannah 28 April 1803, and Joseph 18 May 1806. Soon after the birth of the youngest of these children. for reasons unknown to us Thomas left Fletcher and his family and some debts, as is shown by the town records which give an account of the appraisal of his property to determine if a claim by two creditors could be settled. One item listed for appraisal is as follows: "One hundred acres of land, being the farm on which the said Meacham's family now resides." This appraisal was made 23 February 1807, but there is no record of the sale of any of the property and the family continued to live "on the farm" for several years afterward. Thomas Meacham is next heard of in Northern New York where he become famous as a hunter and trapper. The Historical Society of Malone, N. Y. gave the following under the title "A Mighty Hunter." "Franklin County, New York. Can boast of one of the greatest hunters of all time in the person of Thomas Meacham who was, probably, a Vermonter and who must have arrived in this county in the early part of the 19th century as it appears in the proceedings of the 'Board of Supervisors' for the year 1808, that he had been paid $50.00 as bounty on wolves he had killed." "He first settled in the town of Hopkinton. St. Lawrence Co.. N. Y.. but a little later on moved over the line into Franklin County and into what is now the town of Waverly, where he purchased fifty acres of land and built himself a home on the old Northwest Bay Road where he spent the remainder of his life." "The deed conveying this property is dated 10 Nov.1810, and is recorded in Liber No.1 of the deed records in Franklin County, it being the first tract of land sold to a settler by the executors of the will of Wm. Constable and lies in what is now the town of Waverly. He subsequently purchased three other fifty acre tracts between 1810 and 1828 all of which, it is said were paid for with wolf bounties. He died in 1849." "Frederick J. Seaver has this to say of him in his history of Franklin County. "It was he who gave the name to Meacham Lake, a beautiful body of water the Adirondacks laying lying twenty-five miles south of Malone. (Now owned by the State of New York.) "His earnings in bounties for noxious animals in the forty years of his activities, must have aggregated thousands of dollars, as his obituary written by a townsman state that he kept accurate account of the number of large animals trapped or shot by him and that the totals were: Wolves, 214; Bear, 210: Catamounts, 77: and Deer 2550. Bounties were payable for all of these except deer and if we average these at only $10.00 each, his revenue from the source would be over $5000.00." About the time Thomas came to St. Lawrence and Franklin counties, New York, and for reasons at present unknown to the writer, he and his wife, Sarah Cauley, separated. Whether or not they were divorced I cannot say, but he took a second wife, or woman companion, Rebecca Sanford, who had previously been twice married, first to a man named Grandy and then to Evan Call. She it was, who lived with him at Waverlv, Franklin Co.. N.Y, and bore for him two sons, Washington and Samuel, and two or more daughters. Sarah. the first wife whom Thomas left with her children at Fletcher, Vermont, followed her children to S1. Lawrence County, N.Y., in 1825, and took up her residence at Lawrence where she is buried having lived nine years after the death of Thomas, while Rebecca preceeded him by several years. Living descendants of Thomas Meacham who have heard their parents or grandparent say he was a doctor are borne out in this by the manuscript of the late Ida Meacham Storbridge and the following quotation from "A Brief History of My Life" by Edward Thomas Meacham which is as follows: "In a few days after I came home I was taken down with a fever. One morning a young doctor from the East, going West to practice, called at our home. Father requested him to see me. He decided that I should be bled; accordingly he bled me in my arms, taking a large quanity of blood. The result was I grew worse. Father decided to go after my grandfather Thomas Meacham who was good and successful Botanic Doctor, as well as a noted hunter. He did not approve of the bleeding. It was the practice in those days to bleed the patient at once, no matter what the cause of the sickness. My grandfather always opposed bleeding and never practiced it unless it was strictly necessary, Grandfather lived seven miles from our house. I was sick a long time. Grandfather came every day till I was better (on horse back) with his large leather saddle bags across his saddle. Some three weeks of the time I was sick was lost time to me. I was unconscious most of this time. Finally I got well again." In the manuscript of the late Ida Meacham Strobridge where she lists the children of Samuel, the Revolutionary War soldier, and Phebe Main Meacham, she names Thomas, who, she says, "became a physician and lived for many years on the shore of Meacham Lake in northern New York." She also states that he was known as "The Mighty Hunter of the Adirondacks." In an article published in the "Potsdam Courior and Freeman" the following story is told by C. Brush, whose grandparents had dealings with the "Famous Hunter." Speaking of Meacham he says "He kept a horse for riding on the road, and when the infirmities of age began, to curtail his hunting and trapping activities, tried to ride the old horse into the woods, but with poor success. Grandfather "Eliphalet Brush" was then raising some nice colts of the blood strain that later became famous as Morgans. Meacham took a shine to a three year old sorrel, and after much dickering reluctantly parted with the price. Being warned that the colt was unbroken he exclaimed, "That is just what I want. I can't teach my old horse new tricks, but this colt is kind and tame and looks knowin'. I believe he I can train hime to carry me huntin' and trappin'. He was not disappointed. It was said that the colt soon entered into the spirit of the thing, walking very quietly in the woods and creeping up on deer. The hunter would shoot from his back, then dismount, do the necessary skinning, place the deer saddles and hide on the horse and remounting, ride home. Sometimes he would kill mor than one deer and ride out with vension and hides for and after. The writer has in his possession the hunting knife with a nine-inch blade; the powder horn, with his initials T. M., carved on it, a shot pouch, and a fish-basket, or creel, which he had made; also several deeds and papers signed by Thomas Meacham. Information concerning Thomas and his second wife, Rebecca, I have received from Marion Meacham Young of St. Regis Falls, R. D. No.1, N, Y., who is the youngest daughter of Samuel, the son of Dr. Thomas and his second wife, Rebecca. Other information contained in this sketch not otherwise accounted for comes to me through records of the Mormon church and the family records of Stephen Peabody Meacham the second son of Dr. Thomas and Sarah Cauley Meacham, whose great grandson I am. --J. Arthur Meacham.

Thomas married Bond, Sarah in 1792 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Sarah (daughter of Bond, Daniel and Spring, Sarah) was born on 20 Nov 1769 in New Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; was christened on 28 Jul 1794 in Birmingham, Warwick, England; died on 12 Jan 1858 in Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, New York, United States; was buried in Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sanford, Rebecca in 1811 in , , New York, United States. Rebecca was born in 1775 in , , New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Archive Record of Lillie Dunford Mecham; L. Derek Maude;

Ronald C. Russell 1785 Lambert Drive Clarkston, WA 99403 509-758-1535 8-1992 herry Ann Miller 1540 N. Mountain Road N. Ogden, UT 84404 801-782-5079 (Letter 11-1994 (she is 4th gg dau and is interested in histories etc. & is a writer/editor)

http://www.concentric.net/~Ssbray/mechjosh.htm 9 Aug 2004:
"JOSHUA MECHAM (son of Samuel Meacham II and Phebe Main), was born April 12, 1773 at Canaan, New Hampshire. He married Permelia Chapman, who was the daughter of Samuel Chapman and Hannah Fox. Their children were all born in Canaan, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
There were nine children:
1. JOSHUA MECHAM Jr. (1795-1841),
md. LUCINA HARMON;
2. SAMUEL CHAPMAN MECHAM (1798-1882),
md. 1-ELIZABETH BALL and
2-MARY E. COLLINGS;
3. PERMELIA MECHAM (1800-1868),
md. GARDNER ELDRIDGE;
4. EDWARD MECHAM (1802-1895),
md. IRENE CURRIER;
5. LEONIDAS MOSES WORTHEN MECHAM (1804-1878),
md. ELVIRA DERBY;
6. ELIZABETH MECHAM (1807-1887),
md. FRANCIS KIDDER;
**7. EPHRAIM MECHAM (1808-1891),
md. POLLY DERBY;
8. CALEB MECHAM (1810-1852),
md. MARY CURRIER;
9. LEWIS MECHAM (1812-1895),
md. LYDIA WELLS.
Later the family moved from New Hampshire to New York and then on south to Mercer, Erie County, Pennsylvania. The year they arrived at Mercer is unknown, but believed to be around 1827. During the spring of 1836, Joshua came in contact with "Mormon" missionaries and was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (at age 63). He and his wife Permelia, along with some of their sons (Edward, Ephraim, and Lewis) and the sons' wives and families were baptized and moved to gather with the Saints in Missouri, later settling in Iowa. Here another son, Moses Mecham, had previously settled in 1836. He was converted to the Church in 1839 in Iowa -- his conversion story follows).
Joshua Mecham's younger brothers (Elam Mecham and Joseph Mecham) and some of their families also joined the Church, as mentioned previously. Presumably they were all converted around the same time (1836 or 1837) in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
Three of Joshua and Permelia Chapman Mecham's sons (Joshua Mecham Jr., Samuel Chapman Mecham, and Caleb Mecham) and their daughters (Permelia Mecham Eldridge and Elizabeth Mecham Kidder) never joined the Church, and remained in the East.
Quoting from Polly Derby Mecham:
"Joshua Mecham had nine children, all of whom reached their maturity. The mother being justly praised for her care over them... "Father and Mother Mecham (Joshua and Permelia) joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the summer of 1837 (another source says it was in the spring of 1836). In 1838 Joshua and Permelia, together with their sons Ephraim, Edward, Lewis and their families went to gather with the Saints at Missouri but were stopped by a mob at Quincy who would not let them cross the Mississippi River. They suffered many persecutions with the rest of the saints and were driven from place to place. One night they had to sleep in the woods with their little children and watch their home be burned to the ground by an angry mob. They also lived in Nauvoo."
The story of (Joshua Mecham's son) Moses Mecham's conversion has been preserved and written down, as follows:
"In the spring of 1836 he with his family moved to Kendrick, Iowa. The glowing reports of the western frontiers and of that wonderful Oregon country was the urge that started them westward. In Iowa, Moses engaged in the mercantile business, being very successful and prosperous. Sometime during the year 1838 he learned for the first time that his father Joshua and other members of his father's family had joined the Mormon Church. This worried him as he had witnessed seeing small companies of Mormons who had been driven from their homes (in Missouri) by a mob of bloodthirsty men; he realized fully just how unpopular they were. He started to investigate why the Mormons were persecuted because of their religious belief and what there was in their message that had interested other members of his family to join them. After studying earnestly for some time, he just couldn't get a testimony that it was true. So, one night he and his wife prayed to the Lord asking Him to bless them with a testimony as to the truthfulness of the gospel message given to them.Afterwards Moses startled members of his family by speaking in tongues. They had never heard of such a thing before and supposed that he was delirious. While still speaking in tongues he took the old family Bible and read from it still speaking in tongues. His wife understood and started reading the passages to the family as he turned from one section to another all dealing on the restoration of the Gospel. This experience convinced them the Gospel was true and they therefore decided to apply for baptism. From Kendrick they traveled to Columbus, Adams County, Illinois... Moses and other members of his family were baptized early in March 1839, by Elder James Tomlinson at Nauvoo, Illinois... Moses, along with his father (Joshua) and his oldest son (Clinton), had the privilege on several occasions to act as bodyguard for the Prophet Joseph Smith. After joining the church, Moses with his family returned to Lee County, Iowa... During this period he met persecution along with the rest of the Saints, losing his mercantile business and other possessions. On the 29th of June, 1849, Moses was ordained a Seventy by Joseph Young. On the 30th of December, 1845, he and his wife were sealed to each other along with other members of his family in the Nauvoo Temple (his parents Joshua Mecham and Permelia Chapman were endowed and sealed in the Nauvoo Temple December 25, 1845)."
It seems that none of the Mechams kept diaries or journals; like many people on the frontier in those days, they may have not have had much opportunity to attend school, and felt their literary skills to be inadequate. In the Diary of Hosea Stout, on Aug. 28 and Sept. 3, 1845 in Nauvoo he mentions that "Brother Lewis Mecham came here this morning and I wrote and finished his biographical history." Apparently Brother Stout wrote and arranged Lewis Mecham's story for him since he couldn't write very well himself.
Brother Stout also mentioned on 25 Aug 1845, "went on patrol guard with Parker, (Shadrach) Roundy, (Joseph) Warthan, (James) Pace, two of the Mechams and Langley; was out nearly all night." Apparently a few of the Mechams were in the police or guard patrol of Nauvoo at this time. However, since most of the Mechams lived on the Iowa side of the river, they weren't as closely involved with events in Nauvoo. At a conference of the Church held in Zarahemla, Iowa on Aug. 7-10, 1841 (from Times & Seasons Vol. 2:22:547:11), it is mentioned that "Bishop (Don Carlos) Smith (the Prophet Joseph Smith's younger brother) represented the branch at the Mecham settlement, consisting of about 65 members generally in good standing." There was a total of 750 members in all of Iowa at that time.
Joshua Mecham, along with others of his family, acted as bodyguard to the prophet Joseph Smith at various times. His two sons Moses and Lewis were called on missions, going to two different tribes of Indians. They were well received, feeling their mission was a success. The patriarchal blessing of Joshua Mecham, given Apr. 19, 1845 in Nauvoo by patriarch John Smith, reads in part, "The Lord is well pleased with thee because of thine obedience to His gospel in thine old age. Because thou art willing to forsake all for the sake of the blessings of the new and everlasting covenant; the Lord will grant unto thee all things which you desire, even the Holy Priesthood in fulness...thy wisdom shall reach unto the Heavens and thine understanding to the ends of the earth; thou shall have power to do mighty miracles, even all that comes into thine heart, and to the increase of thy posterity there shall be no end."
Joshua Mecham died October 8, 1846, at Bonaparte, Van Buren County, Iowa at the age of 73 (this is on the Mormon trail, just west of Lee County, Iowa). His wife Permelia later came on to Utah, traveling with friends and arriving in the fall of 1850. Her son Edward with his family arrived in Utah in 1851. Permelia then lived with Edward and later with other sons as they came to Utah. Her sons Ephraim and Lewis came in 1852, and her son Moses, (Leonidas Moses Worthen Mecham) came west in 1853.
Permelia Chapman Mecham died May 19, 1866 at Heber City, Utah at the age of 89. We have tried to locate her grave but have been unsuccessful. If she was buried in the Heber City Cemetery, the burial record and marker must have been lost.
In her patriarchal blessing, given April 19, 1845 in Nauvoo, Permelia had been told "Heavenly Father (will) bless you with health and strength of body and preserve unto thee all thy sensitive powers and the faculties of thy mind and enable you to endure in patience unto the end and thou shalt inherit eternal lives...to stand at the head of thy progeny to all eternity...Thy posterity shall increase as the sands upon the sea shore or as the stars of heaven for multitudes. Thou shalt live until thou art satisfied with life and every favor which your heart desires, depart in peace, and many shall mourn thee. This is thy blessing which shall not fail."
Information Compiled by Karen Bray Keeley"

http://www.concentric.net/~Ssbray/mecheph.htm 9 Aug 2004:
"EPHRAIM MECHAM was born 8 March 1808 in Canaan, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He was the son of Joshua Mecham (1773-1846) and Permelia Chapman (1777-1866), both of whom were born in Connecticut. Joshua's parents were Samuel Meacham Jr. (1739-1811) and Phebe Main (1747-1845). They had moved from Connecticut to New Hampshire before the Revolutionary War.
Quoting from Polly Derby Mecham:
"Ephraim's grandfather Chapman's name was Samuel Chapman (1741-1817), and his grandmother's name was Hannah Fox (1755-1844). She was the mother of three children; their names were Permelia, Amos, and Hannah. They lived in Connecticut. Samuel Chapman served in the war of 1812. Also his son Amos. Just preceding the battle Amos wrote to his folks at home saying that if he lived through it he would write again. They never heard from him again, so the conclusion is that he layed down his life for his country."
Ephraim Mecham's ancestors, the Meacham, Main, Chapman and Fox families, all lived in Connecticut and before that, in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Ephraim's grandfather on his mother's side, Samuel Chapman (1741-1817) was the son of Solomon Chapman (1706-1795) and his wife Susannah, of Connecticut. Solomon was the son of William Chapman (1665/1670-1734) and Lydia Lincoln (1682-1734), also of Connecticut. Lydia was the daughter of Samuel Lincoln (1658-1704) and Sarah Royce (1665-1688). Samuel Lincoln's parents were Thomas Lincoln (1638-1708) and Mary Austin (1632-1694). Sarah Royce was a great-granddaughter of Francis Eaton, a Mayflower pilgrim, through his daughter Ann Eaton (1605-1688) who married Hugh Calkins (1600-1690).
The Main or Mayne family came from Devonshire, England and settled in Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Phebe Main's other ancestors were families Brown, Price, Pendleton, Newhall, and Barry. Hannah Fox's ancestors were families Fox, Minor, Tuttle (Tuthill), Way, Burroughs, Brooks, Sumner, Lane, Bradford, West, Denslow, and Franklin. One interesting ancestor was Giovanni de Angelo, an Italian who was born about 1514 in Italy and settled in England after coming there as a sailor, and changed his name to George (or John) Denslow.
Ephraim Mecham was married to Polly Derby in Mercer County, Pennsylvania 29 Nov. 1828.
(Quoting again from Polly):
"As a boy he was very exemplary; he did not use bad language or tobacco or strong drink, he kept good company and before he was fifteen years of age he joined the Reformed Methodists. Being religiously inclined, he was prepared for the true gospel when he heard it preached where he lived. He knew it was the Shepherd's voice and gladly came into the fold. Always firm in the principles of the gospel, he has left a name that is worth more than gold or silver. He had no fear of death. He said he knew just what his condition would be when he got beyond the veil. He was a kind husband, a loving father, and a good honest Latter-day Saint. "Father and Mother Mecham (Joshua and Permelia) joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the summer of 1837 (another source says it was in the spring of 1836). In 1838 Joshua and Permelia, together with their sons Ephraim, Edward, Lewis and their families went to gather with the Saints at Missouri but were stopped by a mob at Quincy who would not let them cross the Mississippi River. They suffered many persecutions with the rest of the saints and were driven from place to place. One night they had to sleep in the woods with their little children and watch their home be burned to the ground by an angry mob. They also lived in Nauvoo."
After being prevented by the mob from entering Missouri, Ephraim and Polly Derby Mecham and their 3 children went to Iowa, where Ephraim's brother Moses had settled earlier. Eventually they settled near Montrose (across the river from Nauvoo), where they lived for 14 years. Six more children were born into the family while they lived in Iowa. Then, in 1853, Ephraim and Polly and their 6 surviving children crossed the plains to Utah and settled in Lehi. They had 12 children altogether, but four of these had died young and then two more were born after they settled in Utah. The children were:
1.AMOS MECHAM
(b. 1830 in Mercer, Erie Co., Penn.,
d. Apr. 1831);
2.PERMELIA MECHAM
(b. 11 Sep 1832 in Mercer, Penn.,
md. DANIEL BIGELOW,
d. 10 June 1911 in Wallsburg);
3.LEWIS MECHAM
(b. 18 Dec. 1835 in Mercer, Penn.,
md. VASTIA or VASHTI EMILY JOHNSON,
and later ESTHER HERBERT,
d. 14 Oct 1907 in Wallsburg);
4.ELVIRA MECHAM
(b. 1836 in Mercer, Penn. and d. Oct 1845);
5.EMMA MARIA MECHAM
(b. 9 May 1840 in Montrose, Lee Co., Iowa,
md. WILLIAM BROWN HILL, d. 6 Aug. 1923);
6.HYRUM MORONI MECHAM
(b. 20 Aug 1842 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. SARAH ANN STEVENS
and later LOUISA JANE KIRBY, d. 14 Feb 1917);
7.SARAH ANN MECHAM
(b. 1844 in Montrose, Iowa, and d. Jan 1847);
8.EPHRAIM DON CARLOS MECHAM
(b. 1846 in Montrose, Iowa, d. Oct 1846);
9.MARY HENRIETTA MECHAM
(b. 10 Apr 1848 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. MILES BATTY,
d. 21 Dec 1899 in Wallsburg);
10.POLLY CELESTIA MECHAM
(b. 2 Apr 1852 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. WILLIAM HAWS, d. 21 Apr 1890);
11.JOHN ALBERT MECHAM
(b. 21 June 1854 in Lehi, Utah,
md. ROSELLA ANN BIGELOW,
d. 14 Jan 1934 in Provo);
**12.ADELIA VILATE MECHAM
(b. 26 Dec 1856 in Lehi, Utah,
md. ROBERT WILSON GLENN, Jr.,
d. 25 Nov 1941 at the age of 84).
Ephraim Mecham and his wife Polly and many of their children moved in 1862 to Weber County. They later came back to Provo and then moved to Wallsburg, Wasatch County, Utah, near the top of Provo Canyon. One winter they got snowed in, in Wallsburg, in snow so deep no one could get out. Their provisions were scanty and their flour supply gave out. They lived mostly on meat. The following spring Ephraim had to pay $20 for a 100 pound sack of flour.
He suffered many hardships during his long and useful life but it was a happy life. He and Polly lived to celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary.
Ephraim Mecham died in Wallsburg 6 July 1891 at age 83; and Polly Derby Mecham died 1 Dec. 1898 at age 85. They are both buried in the cemetery in Wallsburg, Wasatch County, Utah.
The reason the Mechams delayed coming to the Rocky Mountains until the 1850's seems to have been because of a combination of things: elderly parents who were unable to travel, sickness, lack of supplies because of their poverty, and childbearing. It seems that all of the Mechams were rather independent in spirit, and since they lived in their own settlement over in Iowa, they were not in such a hurry to go west as the Saints who were driven out of Nauvoo.
(Lewis Mecham, 1835-1907, son of Ephraim Mecham and Polly Derby, didn't come west until 1862. He first settled in Rush Valley, and later moved to Wallsburg).
Information Compiled by Karen Bray Keeley"

"POLLY DERBY MECHAM was born in Grafton County, New Hampshire on 13 Aug 1813, the daughter of SARAH CURRIER (1788-1813) and JOHN DERBY (1789-1874). (SARAH and JOHN had only two children: ELVIRA, 1811-1886, who married L. MOSES WORTHEN MECHAM, and POLLY, 1813-1898, who married EPHRAIM MECHAM. Their husbands were brothers. ELVIRA and POLLY's mother SARAH CURRIER had died 10 Nov. 1813 when POLLY was only 3 months old, and their father JOHN DERBY remarried, to his first wife SARAH's younger sister, ANNA CURRIER. ANNA was the mother who raised her sister SARAH's two girls as well as her own children. See below for an experience of one of SARAH's granddaughters, when SARAH CURRIER DERBY appeared to her in a dream).
JOHN DERBY (Polly's father) was born at Lyme, New Hampshire on 26 May 1789. It is said that after his daughters joined the LDS Church and moved west, they wrote back to their father but he was quite opposed and angry that they had joined the Church, and refused to be reconciled.
(Quoting from POLLY DERBY):
"JOHN DERBY's father's name was NATHANIEL DERBY (1752-1812), whose sons were Jedediah, Benjamin, Nathaniel, Walter, Amassy (Amasa), John, and his daughters were Lucy and Elizabeth. Lucy and Walter were twins. NATHANIEL's wife's maiden name was JEMIMA SKINNER (1759-1812). (She was descended from early New England families including Strong, Dixon, Pratt, Stiles, Ingersoll, Bridges, Woodward, Bascom, Frye, and Ford). One of my (POLLY's) grandmother's brothers was run down and killed by the Indians. They had three children; he was carrying one of them, and seeing that the Indians were gaining on them, he said to his wife that he would run in another direction to draw the Indians' attention to him, and for her to hide with the children. He dropped the child that he was carrying into a bush, and then ran where the Indians could see him. The plan worked; the mother and children were all saved, but he was never seen again nor was his body ever found. He laid down his life for his family. "The SKINNERS, my grandmother DERBY's folks (JOSEPH SKINNER, 1723-1809, and RUTH STRONG, 1723-1815), lived in Lyme, New Hampshire. My grandfather CURRIER's name was SAMUEL (1746-1830). I think he was born in England (actually he was born in New Hampshire, the son of SAMUEL CURRIER, 1709-1766, and HANNAH MORRILL, 1711-1784, and the CURRIER family went back four more generations in America. They were descended from early English colonist families including Foote, Osgood, Stallion, Clere, Morrill, Wadleigh, Whittier, Marston, Clements, Eden, and Green). His father (also named Samuel Currier) owned a vessel, he had been to the East and West Indies several times, but was finally lost. Some thought that he was taken by pirates, but we never heard of him again. "My grandmother CURRIER (ANNA COLLINS CURRIER, 1754- ?) had consumption, and she died in or near the city of New York at a good old age. (Her parents were RICHARD COLLINS, 1713- ?, and ANNA FOWLER, 1717- ?. Her father was descended from colonists from the English families Shortridge, Eaton, Rowlandson, Dearborn, Southcott, Whitfield, Crocker, Colepepper, Servington, Manning, Pollard, Yeo, Grenville, Moore, Strowde, Giles, Atwood, Walrond, Brampton, Petley, Kirkner, Roper, Naylor, Wakehurst, Shelley, and Chaucer -- from the sister of the poet Chaucer. Also on her mother's side from Fowler, Worthen, Gould, Martin, Jones, Osgood, and Winslow families).My grandfather SAMUEL CURRIER served in the Revolutionary War. He drew a pension in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Three of his sons, Reuben, Ezekiel, and Samuel enlisted in the War of 1812. Samuel died at Plattsburg, Uncle Ezekiel served three years as commissary, he died at Springfield, Erie County, Pennsylvania at the age of 90. My mother, SARAH CURRIER DERBY, died while my uncle was in the war (1813). She was buried in Hanover burial grounds by the meeting house. My father's farm a few miles from Dartmouth College lay right at the foot of Moose Mountain. He sold it to the Shakers. I was only three months old when my mother died. I was in my fifth year when my father moved from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania and settled in Erie County. We lived there until I was in my fourteenth year. Both my grandfather and grandmother CURRIER lived until they were 84 years old. They were buried in Springfield Cemetery (Erie Co., Pennsylvania). Their sons and daughters were Reuben (he served in the War of 1812); John - married Sally Silver; Samuel - died at Plattsburg serving in the War of 1812; Ezekiel - married Sally Alldrich, he served in the War of 1812; and Abner - married Margaret Davis, died in Illinois." (portions of the above quoted from POLLY DERBY MECHAM, 5 Sept. 1895 - when she was 82 years old)
After being prevented by the mob from entering Missouri, EPHRAIM and POLLY DERBY MECHAM and their 3 children went to Iowa, where EPHRAIM's brother MOSES had settled earlier. Eventually they settled near Montrose (across the river from Nauvoo), where they lived for 14 years. Six more children were born into the family while they lived in Iowa. Then, in 1853, EPHRAIM and POLLY and their 6 surviving children crossed the plains to Utah and settled in Lehi. They had 12 children altogether, but four of these had died young and then two more were born after they settled in Utah. The children were:
1.AMOS MECHAM (b. 1830 in Mercer, Erie Co., Penn.,
d. Apr. 1831);
2.PERMELIA MECHAM (b. 11 Sep 1832 in Mercer, Penn.,
md. DANIEL BIGELOW,
d. 10 June 1911 in Wallsburg);
3.LEWIS MECHAM (b. 18 Dec. 1835 in Mercer, Penn.,
md. VASTIA or VASHTI EMILY JOHNSON,
and later ESTHER HERBERT,
d. 14 Oct 1907 in Wallsburg);
4.ELVIRA MECHAM (b. 1836 in Mercer, Penn. and d. Oct 1845);
5.EMMA MARIA MECHAM (b. 9 May 1840
in Montrose, Lee Co., Iowa,
md. WILLIAM BROWN HILL, d. 6 Aug. 1923);
6.HYRUM MORONI MECHAM (b. 20 Aug 1842 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. SARAH ANN STEVENS
and later LOUISA JANE KIRBY, d. 14 Feb 1917);
7.SARAH ANN MECHAM (b. 1844 in Montrose, Iowa,
and died Jan 1847);
8.EPHRAIM DON CARLOS MECHAM (b. 1846 in Montrose, Iowa,
d. Oct 1846);
9.MARY HENRIETTA MECHAM (b. 10 Apr 1848 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. MILES BATTY,
d. 21 Dec 1899 in Wallsburg);
10.POLLY CELESTIA MECHAM (b. 2 Apr 1852 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. WILLIAM HAWS, d. 21 Apr 1890);
11.JOHN ALBERT MECHAM (b. 21 June 1854 in Lehi, Utah,
md. ROSELLA ANN BIGELOW, d. 14 Jan 1934 in Provo);
**12.ADELIA VILATE MECHAM (b. 26 Dec 1856 in Lehi, Utah,
md. ROBERT WILSON GLENN, Jr. ,
and died 25 Nov 1941 at the age of 84).
POLLY was a faithful wife and mother and was very spiritual by nature. For example, when her niece died in Provo, POLLY knew of her death and the circumstances surrounding it before the family received the news the next day.
The following is an incident submitted by Celestia B. Rasmussen, one of POLLY's granddaughters, to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers (OUR PIONEER HERITAGE, 979.2 H2c, vol. 2, p. 111); in the chapter entitled, "And They Were Healed":
"POLLY DERBY MECHAM, my grandmother, it is claimed was cured of an unknown malady in the following manner: She had been a practical nurse and home doctor in many families (she was the first doctor in Wallsburg, and used herbs as well as faith and prayer in caring for the sick), but neither she, nor anyone else, seemed to be able to find a cure for her sickness. She became very weak, and was unable to move any part of her body, except to wiggle one big toe. The family stood mournfully about the room and she knew they expected death to claim her at any moment.
One day a man came to her bedside and taking the wasted hand said, "Madam, you are a very sick woman, but you are not going to die. If you could see your liver it would scare you. It has ulcers on it as big as my thumb. Have watercress brought and eat as much of it as you can every day and you will get well." Watercress was brought from the spring close by and the simple directions followed. POLLY soon became well again. As a "Doctor woman" she helped 500 women through confinements and was known and loved throughout Wasatch county for her services to mankind."
(No explanation is given as to whom the "man" was, but the implication is clear that he was an angel; otherwise how could he have instantly known the cause of her illness by "seeing" the sores on her liver, and have known that she wouldn't die, and that she would be cured by simply eating watercress? Surely the Lord extended her life, and showed forth his power to heal by this simple means, to test her faith as he did to the Syrian leper, who was told if he would wash in the River Jordan seven times, he would be made whole -- 2 Kings 5.)
The spring in Wallsburg, which still has lots of watercress growing in it today, is near the old Wallsburg school and the monument which commemmorates the Wallsburg fort and the founding of the settlement.

"POLLY DERBY MECHAM was a faithful wife and prayerful mother, true to the end. She maintained her love for poetry mingled with a strong love of the gospel. She composed the following poem for her sixtieth wedding anniversary:
We heard the gospel in our youth
A still small voice said "It is truth."
We left our homes and friends in tears,
And now it's over fifty years.

And now, dear children, I say to you,
The path of truth and right pursue,
You have been to me a constant care,
For I have offered my daily prayer.

I want you to be plants of honor and renown,
And come up to receive your crown;
That I may present you in the courts above
To my friends who are gone, which I so dearly love.

I have tried to polish my jewels bright;
Of your virtue and honor, I have never lost sight.
Prepare to meet me on the other shore,
Where pain and sorrow are known no more.

Where I have done wrong, pray forgive,
I do not know I have another day to live.
I have lived to see full seventy-six years;
My path has been strewn with sighs and tears.

Now I hope you will remember,
The twenty-second day of November
When you will come home to celebrate,
The sixtieth year of our wedded state;

Full sixty years have passed away,
Since our happy wedding day.
We traveled on together,
Through both fair and stormy weather,

And now we are nearly down the hill
We love and cherish each other still.
We are holding fast to the iron rod,
And love to obey the commands of God.
(Taken from the book HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS; a DUP publication about the history of Wasatch County. Section on the history of Wallsburg includes biographies and pictures of many of the MECHAMS).
EPHRAIM MECHAM died in Wallsburg 6 July 1891 at age 83; and POLLY DERBY MECHAM died 1 Dec. 1898 at age 85. They are both buried in the cemetery in Wallsburg, Wasatch County, Utah.

Information Compiled by Karen Bray Keeley"

ADELIA VILATE MECHAM was the 12th and last child of Ephraim and Polly Derby Mecham. She was born in Lehi, Utah, after the family had come west. In 1853, EPHRAIM and POLLY Mecham and their family (6 children at that time) had crossed the plains to Utah and settled in Lehi. They had 12 children altogether, but four of these had died young and then two more were born after they settled in Utah. The children were:
1.AMOS MECHAM (b. 1830 in Mercer, Erie Co., Penn.,
d. Apr. 1831);
2.PERMELIA MECHAM (b. 11 Sep 1832 in Mercer, Penn.,
md. DANIEL BIGELOW,
d. 10 June 1911 in Wallsburg);
3.LEWIS MECHAM (b. 18 Dec. 1835 in Mercer, Penn.,
md. VASTIA or VASHTI EMILY JOHNSON,
and later ESTHER HERBERT,
d. 14 Oct 1907 in Wallsburg);
4.ELVIRA MECHAM (b. 1836 in Mercer, Penn. and d. Oct 1845);
5.EMMA MARIA MECHAM (b. 9 May 1840 in Montrose, Lee Co., Iowa,
md. WILLIAM BROWN HILL, d. 6 Aug. 1923);
6.HYRUM MORONI MECHAM (b. 20 Aug 1842 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. SARAH ANN STEVENS
and later LOUISA JANE KIRBY, d. 14 Feb 1917);
7.SARAH ANN MECHAM (b. 1844 in Montrose, Iowa,
died Jan 1847);
8.EPHRAIM DON CARLOS MECHAM (b. 1846 in Montrose, Iowa,
d. Oct 1846);
9.MARY HENRIETTA MECHAM (b. 10 Apr 1848 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. MILES BATTY,
d. 21 Dec 1899 in Wallsburg);
10.POLLY CELESTIA MECHAM (b. 2 Apr 1852 in Montrose, Iowa,
md. WILLIAM HAWS, d. 21 Apr 1890);
11.JOHN ALBERT MECHAM (b. 21 June 1854 in Lehi, Utah,
md. ROSELLA ANN BIGELOW, d. 14 Jan 1934 in Provo);
**12.ADELIA VILATE MECHAM (b. 26 Dec 1856 in Lehi, Utah,
md. ROBERT WILSON GLENN, Jr.,
and died 25 Nov 1941 at the age of 84).

"Robert Wilson Glenn II was born on 16 Apr 1856, in Manti, Utah; the son of Robert Wilson Glenn I (1813-1873) and Sarah Williams Glenn (1836-1914). He and Vilate were married on 10 Sep 1876, in Lehi, Utah. Their family consisted of nine chidren; seven girls and two boys:
1.ADA VILATE GLENN (1877-1880);
2.MARY GLENN (1879-1954),
md. WILLIAM ELLER STOKER;
3.MARGUERITTE ("Maggie") GLENN (1882-1904),
md. JOHN LEE MASON;
4.ALICE GLENN (1884-1968),
md. THOMAS G. HOLMES;
**5.GENERVA ("Jennie") GLENN (1887-1937),
md. 1-CLEALON BRAY (div)
2-EARL TUCKER (div)
3-BERT BAYLOR (div)
4-TERRY A. MANN (div)
5-ALLEN DALE JACKSON (div)
6.ROBERT WILSON ("Bill") GLENN III (1889-1936),
never married;
7.EMELY ("Elma") GLENN (1891-1954),
md. 1-DANIEL JOSEPH DELANEY and
2-JAMES ALFRED THOMAS;
8.NORA GLENN (1894-1961),
md. 1-WILLIAM DOWDLE and
2-MILTON HENRY SMITH;
9.HUGH GORDON GLENN (1899-1972),
md. DELILA FERN SPRATLING.
(All of the children of Robert Wilson Glenn, Jr. and his wife Vilate Mecham were born in Wallsburg, Utah).
The family lived in Wallsburg for 29 years, from 1876 to 1905. During this period of time, Father operated a store for the family's source of income. They sold the store in Wallsburg in 1905 and bought a beautiful 60-acre farm on the Provo bench. But approximately two years later, in the fall of 1907, the farm was traded for a business in Bingham Canyon, consisting of a cafe, a meat market, and a grocery store. They moved to Bingham and lived there for about 30 years.
When they were in their late 70's (in 1934 or 1935) they moved from Bingham to the home on 3900 South. They had five acres of land there, on which they raised a few vegetables. The property was located approximately where the TRAX station now is.
Robert Wilson Glenn Jr. died on the 23rd of January 1936, at the age of 79, from hardening of the arteries and a bad heart. Vilate lived until she was almost 85 years old. She died on the 25th of November 1941. They are buried in the Elysian Burial Gardens in Murray, Utah. Their children Robert Wilson (Bill) Glenn III, Mary Glenn Stoker, Alice Glenn Holmes, Jennie Glenn (Bray) Jackson, and Hugh Glenn are all buried in the same cemetery near other extended family members.

Information Compiled by Karen Bray Keeley"

Joshua married Chapman, Permelia on 5 Apr 1793 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Permelia was born on 21 Jan 1777 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States; died on 19 May 1866 in Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joshua married Mayne, Elizabeth in 1798 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Elizabeth was born in 1777 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jeremiah married Davis, Abigail on 27 Nov 1794 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Abigail was born in 1776 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE: Sr.
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Alan V Funk 5870 Vista Del Mar Yorba Linda, CA 92687 714-777-1832 7-1993.

Ancestral File shows:
children Samuel and Sylvester born to Mary Williams and Elam, however Mary died in 1816 and during 1830's and up through at least 1850, Elam was married to Sarah, who was from Vermont." (see notes for father of Mary, Robert Williams).

Elam married Williams, Mary on 1 Mar 1798 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Mary was born in 1778 in Barrington, Stafford, New Hampshire, United States; died in 1816 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elam married Cheney, Sarah in 1816 in Madison Lake, Geauga, Ohio, United States, United States. Sarah was born on 27 Dec 1783 in Vermont, United States; died in 1886. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph married Basford, Sarah on 6 Sep 1801 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Sarah was born in 1780 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Harmon, Lucina in 1801 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Lucina was born in 1781 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Bethia married Worthen, Moses on 12 Oct 1797 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Moses was born on 12 Feb 1773 in Weare, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States; died on 7 Jun 1845 in Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, United States, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Andrew married Eastman, Abigail Hartman or on 18 Jun 1801 in Canaan, Grafton, Ohio, United States, United States. Abigail was born on 5 Jul 1783 in Sanborntown, , New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Olive married Worthen, Amos in 1806 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Amos was born in 1786 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Streator, James in 1806 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. James was born in 1786 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Bradbury, David in 1806 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. David was born in 1786 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sarah married Main, Andrew on 12 Mar 1800 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Andrew was born in 1782 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Fall, Moses in 1800 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Moses was born in 1782 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Worthen, James in 1800 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. James was born in 1782 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anna married Gardener, John in 1804 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. John was born in 1784 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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married Kidder, James in 1808 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. James was born in 1788 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Miriam married Kimball, Asa in 1812 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Asa was born in 1792 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Temperance married Wells, Judah on 29 Dec 1791 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Judah was born in 1766 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas married Hawley, Esther in 1817 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Esther was born in 1796 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married White, Sally in 1819 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Sally was born on 21 Jul 1798 in Marlboro, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States; was christened on 21 Jul 1798 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States; died on 2 Aug 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Stephen Meacham, "Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954"
url
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XFKZ-7VF
Citation
"Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XFKZ-7VF : accessed 22 Jul 2013), Stephen Meacham, 1797.
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Stephen Meacham, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
url
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8LK-LFW
Citation
"Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8LK-LFW : accessed 22 Jul 2013), Stephen Meacham, 12 Mar 1797.
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Stephen P Mecham in entry for Sylvia A Snider, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949"
url
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NQCM-79F
Citation
"Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NQCM-79F : accessed 22 Jul 2013), Stephen P Mecham in entry for Sylvia A Snider, 1894.
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IGI Vermont p 4,397 batch T998342 0316; Archive Record of Mrs. Ethel Perry;

History of Ida Meacham Strobridge;

History of Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr;
History of J. Arthur Meacham g-son of Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr;

IGI 1988 Vermont p 4,893
batch T998342 0316, 7450174 0, 8731501 91;

Archive Record of Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham;

Family Group Sheet of Mary E. Yeaman, 311 Palm Ave, Millbrae, CA; History of Ida Meacham Strobridge;
History of Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr;
History of J. Arthur Meacham, grandson of Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr;

NOTE: Father Dr. Thomas Meacham changed his name to MECHAM. He also used spelling MEACHAM. Children may be MECHAM / MEACHAM.

Dennis Kroll (California cousin) 10-2008 (from Ancestry.com "Family Book of Remembrances and Genealogy with Allied Lines" published Dec 25, 1952:
"Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr. was the fifth child of Stephen Peabody Meacham and Dorothy Maria (Known as Dolly) Ransom. He was born 20 July, 1826, at Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence County, New York where he lived till he was ten or eleven years old, when his parents, who had been converted to the faith of the Mormons by Stephen's uncle joined the church and moved, with other relative converts to Erie County, Pennsylvania.
In 1839 they moved to Springfield, Illinois, where three of the older children were married. Later the family moved to Nauvoo where Erastus D. as a young man was a member of the Nauvoo Legion and at times served as body guard to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
After the death of the Prophet while preparations were being made for the westward move Erastus D. worked as apprentice in the shop of Elisha Jones, a wheelright and blacksmith, who later became father-in-law to Erastus D. and became much interested in the abillity of the younger apprentice.
In late 1845 or early 1846 Erastus D. left Nauvoo and began across Iowa with shat was designated as the "Camp of Israel" by its leader, Brigham Young, and was camped at "Mount Pisgah" when the call came from the government for a battalion of Volunteers to take part in our war with Mexico. Erastus D., being of a venturesome nature, volunteered and on July 16, 1846, was mustered into the army of the United States at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a member of Company D and with it participated in the now famous march of the "Mormon Batallion."
Just when Erastus D. returned to his folks at the Missouri river the writer does not know, but we do know it was before February 4th, 1849, for on the date he was married at Council Bluffs, Iowa to Martha Jones, the seventeen year old daughter of Elisha Jones, the mechanic with hoom he had worked at Nauvoo.
From this point on history of Erastus Darwin Meacham must alwo be the history of his wife. It is therefore proper to here introduce her: Martha Jones was born August 7, 1832, in Jefferson County, Ohio, daughter of Elisha Jones and Margaret Tolbot. She remembered very vividly the stirring events connected with the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and participated in the hardships endured during the exodus of Nauvoo and the journey to the West.
On the 17th of December, 1849, at Kanesville, later named Council Bluffs, Iowa, a daughter was born to Erastus D. and Martha and was named Sylvia Amaretta. Thus our soldier, hunter-trapper and scout became a tender and devoted husband and father.
In 1851 Grandpa Meacham crossed the plains for the third and last time, this time with his wife and baby daughter and accompanied by his father-in-law and his family. They first settled at little Cottonwood, a few miles south of Salt Lake City, where their second child, William Henry was born December 31, 1851.
The family did not remain long in the Cottonwood settlement for they had made their home in Springville, Utah County, before their second son, Erastus Darwin Jr. was born Marth 17, 1854. Here Grandpa had opportunity to demonstrate his ability in dealing with the Indians and in solving the problems which they presented for he had lived with them and learned his language while he was working for the American Fur Company in Wyoming between the date of his discharge from the army and his return to Council Bluffs, where he married.
By the time their fourth child, Martha Maria, was born 19 February, 1857, the family had settled in Provo, where they remained till after the fifth child, Elisha Jones was born. Their next move took them in Fairview, Sanpete County... "
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Early History of the Town of Hopkinton
http://books.google.com/books?id=StQwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q&f=false
Citation
by Carlton E. Sanford; The Bartlett Press, Boston, Mass. Published 1903. This work is now in the public domain.
Seen at Google Books.
Notes
Pages 164-166 tell the story of the family of Stephen Peabody Meacham and others Hopkinton residents, who joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The story is told from the perspective of other Hopkinton residents who were clearly quite prejudiced against the "Mormon" religion.
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Of particular interest is the section about Stephen Peabody Meacham on pages 165 & 166. The story told by this anti-Mormon writer from Hopkinton is quite different from his history as told by family members (available in the book "Family book of remembrance and genealogy : with allied lines"). In this Hopkinton version of events, he "escaped" from Mormonism and returned to Hopkinton. The story, as told by family members, describes his loneliness for his recently deceased wife Dolly, and that the grieving old man just walked out of his son's home one day and returned home to Hopkinton. The wonderful thing about this Hopkinton narrative is the rich detail describing his lonely life after his return to Hopkinton, as recorded by people who visited him.
This record is the source for his death 27 February 1869 Parishville, St. Lawrence, New York.
http://books.google.com/books?id=StQwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q&f=false
Citation
by Carlton E. Sanford; The Bartlett Press, Boston, Mass. Published 1903. This work is now in the public domain.
Seen at Google Books.
Notes
Pages 164-166 tell the story of the family of Stephen Peabody Meacham and others Hopkinton residents, who joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The story is told from the perspective of other Hopkinton residents who were clearly quite prejudiced against the "Mormon" religion.
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Reason This Source Is Attached|Edit
Of particular interest is the section about Stephen Peabody Meacham on pages 165 & 166. The story told by this anti-Mormon writer from Hopkinton is quite different from his history as told by family members (available in the book "Family book of remembrance and genealogy : with allied lines"). In this Hopkinton version of events, he "escaped" from Mormonism and returned to Hopkinton. The story, as told by family members, describes his loneliness for his recently deceased wife Dolly, and that the grieving old man just walked out of his son's home one day and returned home to Hopkinton. The wonderful thing about this Hopkinton narrative is the rich detail describing his lonely life after his return to Hopkinton, as recorded by people who visited him.
This record is the source for his death 27 February 1869 Parishville, St. Lawrence, New York.
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Book: "Family book of remembrance and genealogy : with allied lines"
url
https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE109212
Citation
Seen at FamilySearch books.
Family History Library Call Number: 929.273 M464d 1967
Notes
This book is a very large document and takes a long time to load. The history of Stephen Peabody Meacham, written by J. Arthur Meacham is on pages 677-679.
Reason This Source Is Attached|Edit
This book is a must-read for Meacham/Mecham descendants. It contains a loving history of Stephen Peabody Meacham on pages 667-679.
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Letter Transcript - Stephen Peabody Mecham to Edwin Whiting and Dolly Mecham to daughter Sylvia
url
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xg5npyy13kb8a2l/1848_SPMecham-letter.pdf
Citation
Typewritten transcript of original letter SP MECHAM to Edwin Whiting and letter from Dolly Mecham to Sylvia (daughter)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xg5npyy13kb8a2l/1848_SPMecham-letter.pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7z3lkzaryvr1jct/1848_Dolly%20Mecham-letter.pdf

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Evidence supports the fact that Stephen Peabody Mecham changed the surname spelling for himself and his immediate family to MECHAM when the family joined the LDS Church. The source is a transcript of a letter written by Stephen Peabody Mecham to Edwin Whiting in Mt Pisgah:

Please note the transcript preface by J Arthur Meacham where he acknowledges that Stephen Peabody spelled the surname Mecham.

As further proof of this fact please see the following letter from Dolly Maria Mecham to her daughter Sylvia Mecham Whiting. Even though J Arthur spells the surname Meacham in most of the typewritten document he is careful to keep the original spelling of "Dolly Mecham" as her signature.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7z3lkzaryvr1jct/1848_Dolly%20Mecham-letter.pdf
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IGI Vermont p 4,397 batch T998342 0316; Archive Record of Mrs. Ethel Perry;

History of Ida Meacham Strobridge;

Hist of Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr;
History of J. Arthur Meacham g-son of Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr;

IGI 1988 Vermont p 4,893
batch T998342 0316, 7450174 0, 8731501 91;

Archive Record of Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham;

FGS Mary E. Yeaman, 311 Palm Ave, Millbrae, CA; History of Ida Meacham Strobridge; History of Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr; History of J. Arthur Meacham, grandson of Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr;

NOTE: Father Dr. Thomas Meacham changed his name to MECHAM. He also used spelling MEACHAM. Children may be MECHAM / MEACHAM.

Dennis Kroll (California cousin) 10-2008 (from Ancestry.com "Family Book of Remembrances and Genealogy with Allied Lines" published Dec 25, 1952:
"Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr. was the fifth child of Stephen Peabody Meacham and Dorothy Maria (Known as Dolly) Ransom. He was born 20 July, 1826, at Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence County, New York where he lived till he was ten or eleven years old, when his parents, who had been converted to the faith of the Mormons by Stephen's uncle joined the church and moved, with other relative converts to Erie County, Pennsylvania.
In 1839 they moved to Springfield, Illinois, where three of the older children were married. Later the family moved to Nauvoo where Erastus D. as a young man was a member of the Nauvoo Legion and at times served as body guard to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
After the death of the Prophet while preparations were being made for the westward move Erastus D. worked as apprentice in the shop of Elisha Jones, a wheelright and blacksmith, who later became father-in-law to Erastus D. and became much interested in the abillity of the younger apprentice.
In late 1845 or early 1846 Erastus D. left Nauvoo and began across Iowa with shat was designated as the "Camp of Israel" by its leader, Brigham Young, and was camped at "Mount Pisgah" when the call came from the government for a battalion of Volunteers to take part in our war with Mexico. Erastus D., being of a venturesome nature, volunteered and on July 16, 1846, was mustered into the army of the United States at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a member of Company D and with it participated in the now famous march of the "Mormon Batallion."
Just when Erastus D. returned to his folks at the Missouri river the writer does not know, but we do know it was before February 4th, 1849, for on the date he was married at Council Bluffs, Iowa to Martha Jones, the seventeen year old daughter of Elisha Jones, the mechanic with hoom he had worked at Nauvoo.
From this point on history of Erastus Darwin Meacham must alwo be the history of his wife. It is therefore proper to here introduce her: Martha Jones was born August 7, 1832, in Jefferson County, Ohio, daughter of Elisha Jones and Margaret Tolbot. She remembered very vividly the stirring events connected with the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and participated in the hardships endured during the exodus of Nauvoo and the journey to the West.
On the 17th of December, 1849, at Kanesville, later named Council Bluffs, Iowa, a daughter was born to Erastus D. and Martha and was named Sylvia Amaretta. Thus our soldier, hunter-trapper and scout became a tender and devoted husband and father.
In 1851 Grandpa Meacham crossed the plains for the third and last time, this time with his wife and baby daughter and accompanied by his father-in-law and his family. They first settled at little Cottonwood, a few miles south of Salt Lake City, where their second child, William Henry was born December 31, 1851.
The family did not remain long in the Cottonwood settlement for they had made their home in Springville, Utah County, before their second son, Erastus Darwin Jr. was born Marth 17, 1854. Here Grandpa had opportunity to demonstrate his ability in dealing with the Indians and in solving the problems which they presented for he had lived with them and learned his language while he was working for the American Fur Company in Wyoming between the date of his discharge from the army and his return to Council Bluffs, where he married.
By the time their fourth child, Martha Maria, was born 19 February, 1857, the family had settled in Provo, where they remained till after the fifth child, Elisha Jones was born. Their next move took them in Fairview, Sanpete County... "

SURNAME: Also shown as Mecham

DEATH: Also shown as Died Hopkinton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.

Stephen married Ransom, Dorothy Maria in 1817 in Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence, New York, United States. Dorothy (daughter of Ransom, Stephen and Cooper, Dorothy) was born on 26 Aug 1801 in Rochester, Rutland, Vermont, United States; died on 22 Jun 1852 in Kanesville, Potawattamie, Iowa, United States; was buried in Jun 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Lillie Dunford Mecham; IGI 1988 Vermont p 4,893 batch 7450174 0.

Notes:

Archive rec Lillie Dunford Mecham;

Jeremiah married Meacham, Phebe in 1821 in Fletcher, Franklin, Vermont, United States, United States. Phebe was born in 1803 in Fletcher, Franklin, Vermont, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Lillie Dunford Mecham;

Hannah married Page, Benjamin F in 1821 in Fletcher, Franklin, Vermont, United States, United States. Benjamin was born in 1801 in Fletcher, Franklin, Vermont, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Lillie Dunford Mecham;

Joseph married Maria Ann in 1826 in Fletcher, Franklin, Vermont, United States, United States. Maria was born in 1808 in Fletcher, Franklin, Vermont, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Page, America on 24 Oct 1847 in Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence, New York, United States. America was born in 1826 in Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arch rec A. Juniata Husted.

Notes:

Arch rec A. Juniata Husted.

Ida married Watson in 1834 in Waverly, Franklin, New York, United States. was born in 1816 in , , New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arch rec A. Juniata Husted.

Notes:

Arch rec A. Juanita Husted.

Notes:

Ronald C. Russell pedigree 1785 Lambert Drive Clarkston, WA 99403
509-758-1535 8-1992; Anc File shows birth date as 19 Feb 1804.

Leonidas married Derby, Elvira on 28 Nov 1827 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. Elvira was born on 6 Nov 1811 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States; died on 28 Apr 1886 in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On May 28, 2011, Francis & Darlene Alder wrote: (email alderfd@gmail.com)
Dear Brother Killpack,

I obtained your email form New Family Search. I hope you don’t mind me asking you to help me if you can. I have been researching the crossing of the plains of the Cyril Call family line. Nauvoo Records and New Family Search show that Sarah Call married Samuel Mecham. It appears that they had two children, Samuel Alvarus Mecham and Sara Josephine Mecham. You have been a contributor to the record about Sara Josephine Mecham. I have been trying to find when her mother, and brother, Samuel crossed the plains to Utah.

Do you have any information on Sarah CALL Mecham as to when she came to Utah? Do you know what happened to her husband Samuel Mecham or when and where he died? There is quite a discrepancy on new family Search as to those facts. My great great great great grandfather Cyril Call had 13 Children Sarah CALL (Mecham) was one of them. My line goes through his second child, Anson CALL.

Cyril Call started out with his children and extended family were selected to be in the advance party to cross the plains in 1846. They got as far as Nebraska and Brigham Young ask them not to go on because they had learned the Indians had set fire to the prairie grass and it would be better to go the next year. They wintered in Nebraska and were asked to go back to Winter Quarters to help raise crops for the Saints that would be coming. Cyril’s family then crossed the plains in various years from 1848 to 1851. I have been trying to list all of Cyril Calls descendants that went in wagon trains to Utah. Sarah CALL Mecham, Samuel Alvarus Mecham and Sara Josephine Mecham and the husband Samuel Mecham are descendants that I haven’t been able to get any data about.

Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Bro. Francis Call Alder

Samuel married Call, Sarah about 1846 in Madison Lake, Geauga, Ohio, United States, United States. Sarah was born in 1820 in Madison, (Lake) Geauga, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

US Census 1880 Census Place Corinna, Penobscot, Maine FH Lib Film 1254485 NA Film Number T9-0485 p.552B: Joseph Worthen age 67 birthplace New Hampshire, Occupation Farmer, Father and Mother birthplace New Hampshire. Eliza A Worthen wife age 62 birthplace New Hampshire, parents birthplace New Hampshire.

Joseph married Gilman, Eliza Ann on 17 May 1838 in Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, United States, United States. Eliza was born on 5 Nov 1817 in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States; died on 10 Apr 1881 in Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, United States, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Ethel Perry; Arch rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham.

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Ethel Perry; Arch rec Mrs. Richar LeRoy Mecham;

Judy Berryman McCombs PO Box 96 Aledo, TX 76008 817-443-0444 March 1991.

From Dennis Kroll (California cousin) 10-2008 from Ancestry.com"Family Book of Remembrances and Genealogy with Allied Lines" published Dec 25, 1952:
"Stephen Alonzo was affected by the persuasion of members of the Reorganized Church who seemed to have convinced him that Brigham Young and others of the leaders of the church were living, as they said, "on the hams and shoulders and leaving only the side meat for the poorer members of the church." So he came no farther west than Winter Quarters, later living at different localities of Nebraska, where he and his children became pioneers and prominent settlers. Several of them have, in recent years, joined the Latter-day Saints Church."

Stephen married Martin, Nancy Eliza on 13 Mar 1842 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. Nancy was born on 27 Jan 1823 in , Washington, United States, Ohio, United States; died on 2 Sep 1906 in , Davis, Nebraska, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Ethel Perry; Arch rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham.

From Dennis Kroll (California cousin) 10-2008 (from Ancestry.com)"Family Book of Remembrances and Genealogy with Allied Lines" published Dec 25, 1952:
"LaFayette Meacham, born September 20, 1829, at Hopkinton, New York, third son of Stephen P. and Dolly Meacham married Letitia Yager, then made his first home at Springville where his first child William Edwin was born December 22, 1852.
In 1854 LaFayette removed to San Bernardino, California. In 1855 he bought a 40 acre farm at what is now 9th and Broadway, in the heart of Los Angeles. At different times he owned and operated mining and business properties "on the desert." Later he returned to San Barnafdino where he maintained his home during the remainderr of his life; however, his ranch on the Cajon Pass is still a well known landmark.
LaFayette was a highly respected pioneer of the San Bernardino and Los Angeles areas where he is credited with having introduced many varieties of trees, among which is the Pepper tree, common in San Bernardino Country. In fact one of the first of such trees planted in those parts was planted by him and is still standing near his old home in San Bernardino.
LaFayette and Letiltia were parents of the eight children named below and whose descendants still live in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino area:
William Edwin, 1852; George Franklin, 1855; Charles LaFayette, Henry Denver, 1858; Ransom Marshall, 1863; Stephen Clarence, 1865; Isaac Augustus, 1867; Alida, the olny daughter, who died as a child.
LaFayette died July 24, 1914, and is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery at San Bernardino."

Charles married Yeager, Letitia Ann on 20 Mar 1852 in Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence, New York, United States. Letitia was born in 1831 in Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence, New York, United States; died on 18 Jan 1902. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Ethel Perry; Arch rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham; TIB Rec.

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Ethel Perry; Arch rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham.

Notes:

Dennis Kroll (California cousin) 10-2008 (from Ancestry.com)"Family Book of Remembrances and Genealogy with Allied Lines" published Dec 25, 1952:
Sylvia Amaretta married Dominicus Carter at Springfield, Illinois, and had for him one son, Erastus Francis who remained with his mother and came to Utah with her after she was divorced from her husband. Later Sylvia A. married John Snider, a trusted friend of the Prophet Joseph, with whom she came to Utah and lived in Salt Lake City where she had and reared a family for Snider. The latter few years of her life she spent with her son Erastus F. Carter and his family in Park Valley, Utah, where she died 24 May 1894."

Sylvia married Carter, Dominicus on 28 Mar 1839 in Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States. Dominicus was born on 21 Jun 1806 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine, United States; died on 2 Feb 1884 in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States; was buried on 6 Feb 1884 in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sylvia married Snider, John on 28 Feb 1822 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. John was born on 11 Feb 1800 in Pleasant Valley, York, New Brunswick, Canada; died on 19 Dec 1875 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roswell married Baldwin, Elizabeth Almira in 1856 in Massachusetts, United States. Elizabeth was born in 1838 in Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Ethel Perry; Arch rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham; Florence
L Mecham 1990

Dennis Kroll (California cousin) 10-2008 (from Ancestry.com "Family Book of Remembrances and Genealogy with Allied Lines" published Dec 25, 1952:
"Erastus Darwin Meacham Sr. was the fifth child of Stephen Peabody Meacham and Dorothy Maria (Known as Dolly) Ransom. He was born 20 July, 1826, at Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence County, New York where he lived till he was ten or eleven years old, when his parents, who had been converted to the faith of the Mormons by Stephen's uncle joined the church and moved, with other relative converts to Erie County, Pennsylvania.
In 1839 they moved to Springfield, Illinois, where three of the older children were married. Later the family moved to Nauvoo where Erastus D. as a young man was a member of the Nauvoo Legion and at times served as body guard to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
After the death of the Prophet while preparations were being made for the westward move Erastus D. worked as apprentice in the shop of Elisha Jones, a wheelright and blacksmith, who later became father-in-law to Erastus D. and became much interested in the abillity of the younger apprentice.
In late 1845 or early 1846 Erastus D. left Nauvoo and began across Iowa with shat was designated as the "Camp of Israel" by its leader, Brigham Young, and was camped at "Mount Pisgah" when the call came from the government for a battalion of Volunteers to take part in our war with Mexico. Erastus D., being of a venturesome nature, volunteered and on July 16, 1846, was mustered into the army of the United States at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a member of Company D and with it participated in the now famous march of the "Mormon Batallion."
Just when Erastus D. returned to his folks at the Missouri river the writer does not know, but we do know it was before February 4th, 1849, for on the date he was married at Council Bluffs, Iowa to Martha Jones, the seventeen year old daughter of Elisha Jones, the mechanic with hoom he had worked at Nauvoo.
From this point on history of Erastus Darwin Meacham must alwo be the history of his wife. It is therefore proper to here introduce her: Martha Jones was born August 7, 1832, in Jefferson County, Ohio, daughter of Elisha Jones and Margaret Tolbot. She remembered very vividly the stirring events connected with the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and participated in the hardships endured during the exodus of Nauvoo and the journey to the West.
On the 17th of December, 1849, at Kanesville, later named Council Bluffs, Iowa, a daughter was born to Erastus D. and Martha and was named Sylvia Amaretta. Thus our soldier, hunter-trapper and scout became a tender and devoted husband and father.
In 1851 Grandpa Meacham crossed the plains for the third and last time, this time with his wife and baby daughter and accompanied by his father-in-law and his family. They first settled at little Cottonwood, a few miles south of Salt Lake City, where their second child, William Henry was born December 31, 1851.
The family did not remain long in the Cottonwood settlement for they had made their home in Springville, Utah County, before their second son, Erastus Darwin Jr. was born Marth 17, 1854. Here Grandpa had opportunity to demonstrate his ability in dealing with the Indians and in solving the problems which they presented for he had lived with them and learned his language while he was working for the American Fur Company in Wyoming between the date of his discharge from the army and his return to Council Bluffs, where he married.
By the time their fourth child, Martha Maria, was born 19 February, 1857, the family had settled in Provo, where they remained till after the fifth child, Elisha Jones was born. Their next move took them in Fairview, Sanpete County... "

Erastus married Jones, Martha on 4 Feb 1849 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, United States. Martha was born on 7 Aug 1832 in Pennsville, Morgan, Ohio, United States; died on 14 Jul 1903 in Park Valley, Box Elder, Utah, United States; was buried on 18 Jul 1903 in Park Valley City Cemetery, Box Elder, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Ethel Perry; (Unmarried); Arch rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham.

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Ethel Perry; Arch rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham.

Other Events:

• FamilySearch Id: KWV3-QG8

Notes:

These are the notes from Almira Meacham in my PAF (Ancestral Quest): Be sure to also see Almira Meacham in Jim Whiting's website. I will make GEDCOMS later for Beverly's family and for Almira's families. L
Record of O.C. Day American Fork, UT; Myrtle Pitcher 1959; TIB 1966;
NOTE: Related to Brigham Young: John Young > Elizabeth Hayden > John Hayden > Josiah Hayden/Elizabeth Goodenow.
Almira Mehitable Meacham: Dorothy Ransom > Dorothy Cooper > Ezra Cooper > Elizabeth Axtell > Abigail Hayden > Josiah Hayden/Elizabeth Goodenow.
"Before and After Mt.Pisgah"-Christensen p:113: "...The first plural marriage within that set took place 3 Jan 1845 (Nauvoo) between Edwin Whiting and Almira Mehitable Meacham. (They had been married in Nauvoo 3 January 1845)" p.125:"...The next day after her attendance at the temple (Nauvoo 27 Jan 1846), to be sealed to Edwin Whiting, Almira M.M.Whiting bore him a son. They named the baby Edward Lucian Whiting (born 28 Jan 1846).
That was not Almira's first child. Almira was born 13 May 1824 at Hopkinton, St.Lawrence, New York, the daughter of Stephen Peabody Meacham and Dorothy Maria Ransom. Almira was the 4th child. The Meacham family were converts to the Mormon Church. In their westward migration, they stopped for a time at Springfield, Illinois where at the age of 15 years, Almira married Andrew Warren Palmer. To that marriage were born 2 sons, Almon Babbitt Palmer and 2nd, Warren Palmer, who died in infancy. Soon after the baby's death, Andrew Palmer (husband) died. Two years after that, Almira, the 20-year old widow with a four month old son, married Edwin Whiting."
Ancestral File Submitters: Katherine Mecham Barney 22340 E Queen Creek Rd Queen Creek, AZ 85242 AF97-112850; Rebecca Baker 12335 Lupine Ln Klamath Falls, OR 97603 AF97-113760.
1880 US Census (Springville, Utah) FHL Film 1255338 NA Film No. T9-1338 p. 160A. Shows Henry Packard age 55 (abt 1825) birthplace OH Occupation Mining, Fathers and Mothers birthplace MA.
Household included wife Almira Packard age 56, birthplace NY and parents from NY, Sophia O. Packard dau single age 14 and also a Stepson Franklin L. Whitney age 25 (about 1855) Occupation Laborer, parents born in NY.

United States Census, 1880," Henry Packard, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States
name : Henry Packard
event: Census
event date: 1880
event place: Springville, Utah, Utah, United States
gender: Male
age: 55
marital status : Married
occupation : Minning
race or color (original) :
ethnicity (standardized) : American
relationship to head : Self
birthplace : Ohio, United States
birthdate : 1825
spouse's name : Almira Packard
spouse's birthplace : New York, United States
father's name :
father's birthplace : Massachusetts, United States
mother's name :
mother's birthplace : Massachusetts, United States
page : 160
page character : A
entry number : 647
nara film number : T9-1338
gs film number : 1255338
digital folder number: 004244810
image number: 00552
HouseholdGender Age Birthplace
self Henry Packard M 55 Ohio, United States
wife Almira Packard F 56 New York, United States
daughter Sophia O. PackardF 14 Utah, United States
step son Franklin L. Whitney M 25 Utah, United States
Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (: accessed 08 Oct 2012), Henry Packard, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States; citing sheet 160A, family 0, NARA microfilm publication T9-1338.
Dennis Kroll (California cousin) October 2008 (From Ancestry.com )"Family Book of Remembrances and Genealogy with Allied Lines" published Dec 25, 1952:
Almira Mehitable Meacham went through all kinds of hardships endured by the early day converts of the Mormon Church. Her parents and their family in their westward migration had made a temporary stop at Springfield, Illinois, where Almirira, at the early age of fifteen, was married to Andrew Warren Palmer. To this marriage were born two sons, Almond Babbitt Palmer, who came to Utah and settled at Nephi, and Warren Palmer, who died in infancy. Soon after the death of this son the father, Andrew Warren Palmer, died (1843).
Two years later Almira was married to Edwin Whiting as a plural wife (Married 3 January 1845, Sealed 27 January 1846 Nauvoo Temple). To this marriage were born the following children, most of them in Sanpete and Utah Counties, Utah: Edward Lucian Whiting, Ellen Emerett Whiting, Catherine Emeline Whiting, Cornelia (Dolly) Whiting (my great grandmother), Elisha Franklin Whiting, Edwin Lafayette Henry Whiting, and Sylvia Almira Whiting.
The Whitings had come to Utah with Captain Morley's company in 1849 and settled in Manti where Edwin Whiting became quite prominent. In "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah" he is listed as the first mayor of Manti and as having held other important positions of public responsibility.
In 1861 the family moved to Springville where they lived during the early Indian troubles known as the Black Hawk and Walker Indian Wars.
Almira became one of Utah County's early nurses and midwife and did much in that way to provide a living for her family.
Plural marriage did not bring happiness. There was great pressure by the law and in 1861 Almira and Edwin Whiting separated.
July 24, 1863, Almira married Henry Packard and to this her third marriage was born a daughter, Sophia Olive Packard. Later the Packards moved to Healdsburg, California, where they lived until 1896 when Henry Packard died.
After the death of Henry Packard Almira moved to San Bernardino where she lived in a home given to her by her son-in-law, Nathan Henry Barton, and her daughter Sylvia Almira (Whiting).
Almira Mehitable Meacham passed away 1 October 1898 and is laid to rest in the Pioneer Cemetery in San Bernardino, California.
MARK E WHITING (jasper3616@msn.com)
8:56 AM


1850; Census Place: , Sanpete, Utah Territory; Roll: M432_919; Page: 113A; Image: 233. 13/13 Edwin Whiting 41 male chairmaker $100 Mass Elizabeth 37 fem Mass Mary 23 fem New York William 16 male farme


!Rec O.C. Day American Fork, UT; Myrtle Pitcher 1959; TIB 1966;

!"Before and After Mt.Pisgah"-Christensen p:113: "...The first plural marriage within that set took place 3 Jan 1845 (Nauvoo) between Edwin Whiting and Almira Mehitable Meacham." p.125:"...The next day after her attendance at the temple (Nauvoo 27 Jan 1846), to be sealed to Edwin Whiting, Almira M.M.Whiting bore him a son. They named the baby Edward Lucian Whiting (born 28 Jan 1846). That was not Almira's first child. Almira was born 13 May 1824 at Hopkinton, St.Lawrence, New York, the daughter of Stephen Peabody Meacham and Dorothy Maria Ransom. Almira was the 4th child. The Meacham family were converts to the Mormon Church. In their westward migration, they stopped for a time at Springfield, Illinois where at the age of 15 years, Almira married Andrew Warren Palmer. To that marriage were born 2 sons, Almon Babbitt Palmer and 2nd, Warren Palmer, who died in infancy. Soon after the baby's death, Andrew Palmer (husband) died. Two years after that, Almira, the 20-year old widow with a four month old son, married Edwin Whiting."

Rec O.C. Day American Fork, UT; Myrtle Pitcher 1959; TIB 1966;

!MARRIAGE: (1) Andrew Warren Palmer (2) 3 Jan 1845 Edwin Whiting (3) Henry
Packard (4) Mr. March.
Edwin Whiting Family Assn.-Springville, UT.
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1850; Census Place: , Sanpete, Utah Territory; Roll: M432_919; Page: 113A; Image: 233.
13/13 Edwin Whiting 41 male chairmaker $100 Mass
Elizabeth 37 fem Mass
Mary 23 fem New York
William 16 male farmer Ohio
Amelia 14 fem Ohio
Sarah 11 fem Ohio
Almon 10 male Illinois
Lucius 05 male Illinois
Albert 03 male Iowa twin
Oscar 03 male Iowa twin
Emeline 02 fem Deseret
Harriet 01 fem Deseret
Almira M Wd 27 fem New York
Edward 05 male Illinois
Ellen 03 fem Iowa
Loisa 01 fem Deseret
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1860; Census Place: Manti, Sanpete, Utah Territory; Roll: M653_1314; Page: 653; Image: 115; Family History Library Film: 805314.
136/124 Edwin Whiting 51 male farmer $900/1700 Mass
Elizabeth P 46 fem Mass
Edwin L 14 male ILL
Oscar 12 male ILL
Louisa M 10 fem Utah Territory
Caroline P 06 fem Utah Territory
137/125 Mary A Whiting 32 fem New York
Joseph 06 male Utah Territory
Daniel L 02 male Utah Territory
138/126 Mary E Whiting 33 fem New york
Albert 12 male ILL
Harriet L 10 fem Utah Territory
Charles 07 male Utah Territory
Edgar 05 male Utah Territory
Edwin M 03 male Utah Territory
Arthur 2/12 male Utah Territory
Hannah H 25 fem Ohio
Abby H 02 fem Utah Territory
139/127 Annia Whitiing 34 fem seamstress New York
Edwin L 14 male ILL
Ellen D 12 fem ILL
Emeline 11 fem ILL
Cornelia 09 fem Utah Territory attended school
Franklin 06 male Utah Territory attended school
Edwin H 03 male Utah Territory
140/128 William Whiting 25 male farmer $200/300 Ohio
Rebecca 15 fem ILL
Sarah E 1/12 fem Utah Territory

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BIRTH: Also shown as Born Hopkinton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence, New York, United States.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Hopkinton, St.Lawrence, New York, United States.

DEATH: Also shown as Died San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

DEATH: Also shown as Died San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

DEATH: Also shown as Died San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Pioneer Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Pioneer Cemetery San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

NOTE: Related to Brigham Young: John Young > Elizabeth Hayden > John Hayden > Josiah Hayden/Elizabeth Goodenow.
Almira Mehitable Meacham: Dorothy Ransom > Dorothy Cooper > Ezra Cooper > Elizabeth Axtell > Abigail Hayden > Josiah Hayden/Elizabeth Goodenow.

"Before and After Mt.Pisgah"-Christensen p:113: "...The first plural marriage within that set took place 3 Jan 1845 (Nauvoo) between Edwin Whiting and Almira Mehitable Meacham. (They had been married in Nauvoo 3 January 1845)" p.125:"...The next day after her attendance at the temple (Nauvoo 27 Jan 1846), to be sealed to Edwin Whiting, Almira M.M.Whiting bore him a son. They named the baby Edward Lucian Whiting (born 28 Jan 1846).
That was not Almira's first child. Almira was born 13 May 1824 at Hopkinton, St.Lawrence, New York, the daughter of Stephen Peabody Meacham and Dorothy Maria Ransom. Almira was the 4th child. The Meacham family were converts to the Mormon Church. In their westward migration, they stopped for a time at Springfield, Illinois where at the age of 15 years, Almira married Andrew Warren Palmer. To that marriage were born 2 sons, Almon Babbitt Palmer and 2nd, Warren Palmer, who died in infancy. Soon after the baby's death, Andrew Palmer (husband) died. Two years after that, Almira, the 20-year old widow with a four month old son, married Edwin Whiting."

Ancestral File Submitters: Katherine Mecham Barney 22340 E Queen Creek Rd Queen Creek, AZ 85242 AF97-112850; Rebecca Baker 12335 Lupine Ln Klamath Falls, OR 97603 AF97-113760.

1880 US Census (Springville, Utah) FHL Film 1255338 NA Film No. T9-1338 p. 160A. Shows Henry Packard age 55 (abt 1825) birthplace OH Occupation Mining, Fathers and Mothers birthplace MA.
Household included wife Almira Packard age 56, birthplace NY and parents from NY, Sophia O. Packard dau single age 14 and also a Stepson Franklin L. Whitney age 25 (about 1855) Occupation Laborer, parents born in NY.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNSL-4CB
United States Census, 1880," Henry Packard, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States
name : Henry Packard
event: Census
event date: 1880
event place: Springville, Utah, Utah, United States
gender: Male
age: 55
marital status : Married
occupation : Minning
race or color (original) :
ethnicity (standardized) : American
relationship to head : Self
birthplace : Ohio, United States
birthdate : 1825
spouse's name : Almira Packard
spouse's birthplace : New York, United States
father's name :
father's birthplace : Massachusetts, United States
mother's name :
mother's birthplace : Massachusetts, United States
page : 160
page character : A
entry number : 647
nara film number : T9-1338
gs film number : 1255338
digital folder number: 004244810
image number: 00552
Household Gender Age Birthplace
self Henry Packard M 55 Ohio, United States
wife Almira Packard F 56 New York, United States
daughter Sophia O. Packard F 14 Utah, United States
step son Franklin L. Whitney M 25 Utah, United States
Citing this Record

"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNSL-4CB : accessed 08 Oct 2012), Henry Packard, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States; citing sheet 160A, family 0, NARA microfilm publication T9-1338.

Dennis Kroll (California cousin) October 2008 (From Ancestry.com)"Family Book of Remembrances and Genealogy with Allied Lines" published Dec 25, 1952:
Almira Mehitable Meacham went through all kinds of hardships endured by the early day converts of the Mormon Church. Her parents and their family in their westward migration had made a temporary stop at Springfield, Illinois, where Almirira, at the early age of fifteen, was married to Andrew Warren Palmer. To this marriage were born two sons, Almond Babbitt Palmer, who came to Utah and settled at Nephi, and Warren Palmer, who died in infancy. Soon after the death of this son the father, Andrew Warren Palmer, died (1843).

Two years later Almira was married to Edwin Whiting as a plural wife (Married 3 January 1845, Sealed 27 January 1846 Nauvoo Temple). To this marriage were born the following children, most of them in Sanpete and Utah Counties, Utah: Edward Lucian Whiting, Ellen Emerett Whiting, Catherine Emeline Whiting, Cornelia (Dolly) Whiting (my great grandmother), Elisha Franklin Whiting, Edwin Lafayette Henry Whiting, and Sylvia Almira Whiting.

The Whitings had come to Utah with Captain Morley's company in 1849 and settled in Manti where Edwin Whiting became quite prominent. In "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah" he is listed as the first mayor of Manti and as having held other important positions of public responsibility.

In 1861 the family moved to Springville where they lived during the early Indian troubles known as the Black Hawk and Walker Indian Wars.

Almira became one of Utah County's early nurses and midwife and did much in that way to provide a living for her family.

Plural marriage did not bring happiness. There was great pressure by the law and in 1861 Almira and Edwin Whiting separated.

July 24, 1863, Almira married Henry Packard and to this her third marriage was born a daughter, Sophia Olive Packard. Later the Packards moved to Healdsburg, California, where they lived until 1896 when Henry Packard died.

After the death of Henry Packard Almira moved to San Bernardino where she lived in a home given to her by her son-in-law, Nathan Henry Barton, and her daughter Sylvia Almira (Whiting).
Almira Mehitable Meacham passed away 1 October 1898 and is laid to rest in the Pioneer Cemetery in San Bernardino, California.





BIRTH: Also shown as Born Hopkinton, St.Lawrence, New York, United States.

DEATH: Also shown as Died San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Pioneer Cemetery San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

Almira married Whiting, Edwin on 3 Jan 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, and was divorced. Edwin (son of Whiting, Elisha Jr. and Hulet, Sally) was born on 9 Sep 1809 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts; was christened in 1810 in Massachusetts, United States; died on 8 Dec 1890 in Mapleton, Utah, Utah; was buried on 11 Dec 1890 in Springville, Utah, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Almira married Packard, Henry on 24 Jul 1863 in Utah, United States. Henry was born on 6 May 1825 in Parkman, Geauga, Ohio; died on 17 Nov 1896 in Healdsburg, Sonoma, California, United States; was buried in Nov 1896 in Healdsburg, Sonoma, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Almira married Palmer, Andrew Warren about 1839 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. Andrew was born about 1811 in Hopkinton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States; died about 1843 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]