Married Rebecca Foreman 7 August 1834 in Illinois
Samuel-Mary Angeline-Mary Frances-Fenly-Clifford
Died 27 June 1888 in Antimony
Buried in Antimony
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The following was found here. There is a another good history here.
On his endowment record Samuel said he was born January 2, 1810, in Wake, Co., North Carolina. His father had paid poll tax in Wake County after the birth of his first two children. Samuel was the first child of his parents McCaslin and Pennina Smith Frost. The others were Nancy Ilewood [or Illenwood], Isabelle Van Dyke, Fereba, James McCaslin, Martha McKinney, Mary Ann, and Margaret Elzirah.
Before Samuel was six his parents moved to Knox County, Tennessee, a new and pioneering country, and the boy grew up knowing the weariness of toil, the joy of honest labor, and the value of home grown entertainment. Times were hard during that period and when Samuel was a young man he went north to Illinois and secured work. He liked the country and the opportunity it afforded and decided to remain there.
On the 7th of August 1834, in Hancock County, Illinois, Samuel married Rebecca Foreman. She was the youngest daughter of ,John and Hettie Horn Foreman and was born in Whit County, Tennessee, 20 [or 21] November 1920. John was a drinking man and the family had trouble over it. Hettie took Rebecca and left home in the night after John had threatened her life. John wanted to get Rebecca back even by force. Samuel married her to keep him from taking her. She was about fourteen and he was twenty-four.
Ten children were born to them, MARY ANGELINE, SARAN GEORGIANA, NANCY, WILLIAM ANDERSON, HETTIE, SAMUEL BUCHANAN JR., JAMES McCASLIN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, JOHN WESLEY AND CLAY ANN. The last three died in infancy living only months, weeks, and days [or hours] respectively on earth. The children were born in Hancock, Co., Illinois; Fremont, Co., Iowa; and one in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In Hancock County Samuel met some Mormon Missionaries and members of the Church. He was converted and was very enthusiastic over his new found faith and spent the rest of his life an ardent Latter Day Saint [sic]. His friend and son-in-law, Abram Acord, said he was baptized in 1838 in Tennessee, another source says it was Nauvoo , 19 Jan 1840. Likely it was Nauvoo, but there are things that favor the earlier date.
He immediately went back to his old home in Tennessee to visit his family and tell them of the Gospel of Christ. He converted his people and a number of the neighbors. As a result quite a community of people moved in a body to Illinois to be with the Saints. Early in the spring of 1841 Samuel went from Bear Creek, Illinois to visit his family, they cut a hole in two-foot ice and baptized his parents and part of the rest of the family. Margaret was too young, Fereba was married and away, and Isabell never did join the church because of her husband.
Samuel was ordained an Elder in Nauvoo 20 November 1841. Some time soon after he was advanced to a Seventy and appointed Second President of the Eighth Quorum of Seventy, as the Journal History of the Church for March 10, 1852, mentions that his continued absence in the East made a vacancy in the President of that Quorum.
He was serving a mission in the east, but in 1842 was in Iowa apparently doing missionary work. Three of Samuel’s married sisters and some friends from Tennessee lived in Jefferson County, Iowa. On October 3rd, 1842, Samuel wrote the following letter from there to Rebecca and his daughters in Nauvoo:
October the 3rd Jefferson Co., Iowa
Dearly Beloved and Affectionate Companion.
It is with thanksgiving that I now embrace the opportunity of dropping a line of information and I hope, that of consolation. I am in the enjoyment of good health and spirit for which I feel to thank the Lord, hoping these few lines may find you and those darling little babes enjoying the same blessings with all the friends and connections and Brethren. I have but one thing to regret particularly. That is that I did not over rule Br. Gordon so much as to hear what Brother Joseph said the day we started. If you think it something that would be profitable to me, I want you to give it in your first letter to me. I can not tell you yet where to write it.
The connections are all well and express their desires to see all of you and Fereba says she thinks she and William will make you a visit this fall. As for the others, I heard nothing of any of them coming. The subject of Wiley’s would not be much in my estimation. Isabelle seems piously disposed as usual and altogether friendly and affectionate. Mother Kerr is dead and the balance of the family is kind.
We have only preached three times by appointment, but have been busily engaged by
the fireside in preaching to all who were and are willing to hear. We were friendly and kindly received and treated in general. One exception only where we stopped to get some dinner in the round prairie at Mr. Gillum’s.
We have preached at Mr. Bealer’s eight miles from Old Thomas Smith’s; the next time at William Barger’s. On yesterday, which was Sunday, we preached on Skunk River at George Langley’s; the particulars of which Harman will tell you when he delivers the letters. We think the prospect of doing good is very flowering not withstanding persecution rages in the hearts of the people, or some of them yet. We don’t care any thing about that. We know it will deep out such as won’t stand, if they were in, therefore it rids us of trouble that’s more lasting and more fatal than its self. Under this consideration we are able to rejoice amidst all, such as we have ever met with yet.
I want you to be faithfully engaged in the discharge of your duties and pray for me, always remembering my infirmities and my want of divine aid in order to the sischarge of my duty in the ministry; having left you in the hand of God and feeling that He is ever merciful to those who are under the oppression of any bereavement whatever. I therefore pray God the Eternal Father in the name of Jesus Christ His Son to keep you and preserve you from all harm and supply your wants that you may be comfortably situated, counseled, and consoled in my absence. I wish to write a few lines to the little girls.
Mary: Father wants you to be obedient to your mother’s instructions and not forget your book. You know father wants that you should be as smart as any little girl in Nauvoo, and wants you to beat them all if you can. Mother must teach you to write so that when she writes me a letter you can write you name and age and send it to me. (Turn over and then comes instructions to Sarah).
Now Sarah I want to talk to you some. I want your curly head to be engaged in trying to beat all the little girls in Nauvoo. I want mother also to teach you to write that
you may write to Father your name and age in mother’s letter. Be a good little girl. Be kind to little sister that you may set her a good example. The same is intended for you, Mary.
Rebecca, I have good news for thee, and I want your prayers in behalf of the same.
Fereba this morning proffered to believe Mormonism, and William said as much as to say the same last night to me. I can and do and will rejoice because of the blessings of God being and having been extended to us. I am glad I turned my course on my mission from East to North. Yea, I have reasons to thank the Lord for my prosperity in the ministry amongst those of my beloved friends according to the flesh. For this let the name of God be praised.
S.B. Frost to Rebecca Frost and family. Write immediately to Fairfield and I think I shall be able to get it before we leave here.
That must have been his first mission for the Journal History records that he left for a Kentucky mission on the 15th of April 1844. His call was published in Nauvoo May 15 following. He was in Kentucky when the Prophet was martyred and for some time after for his father and brothers-in-law cared for his family for him. Family tradition says he presided over a mission but does not say where or when.
Abram Acord said, also, that Samuel was a Free mason before he became a member of the church, and that he was a local District Judge and held other positions of prominence where he lived in Iowa.
By trade he was a blacksmith but engaged is successful firming in Iowa and later in Utah. On his farms he owned “fine stock horses” and was well enough off that he hired other men to do his work for him which is how his daughter Mary met her husband, Jerome J. Adams, in Fremont Co., Iowa. In 1856 Samuel owned a farm in that county at Nis[h]nabotna, sixty miles south of Council Bluffs for about fifteen years, but lived in Lincoln County, Nebraska, part of that time. At various times in his life he owned and successfully ran taverns.
Tragedy came to Samuel in 1858 [or 1857] when Rebecca died October 9th after childbirth. The baby died the day it was born September 25th, but Rebecca lived about two weeks. While she lay ill the family dog seemed to sense that death was near and in spite of everything they could do, he howled mournfully. His noise worried Rebecca, so Samuel sad and worried determined to quiet the dog and beat him until he died. Mary Adams Acord told her daughter Sadie the story and at the end Sadie said, “Why, the old devil!” The next instant she was picking herself up off the floor where her mother had slapped her saying, “I’ll have you know you are speaking of my father.”
When the Civil War broke out Samuel brought his three married daughters, Mary, Sarah, and Nancy, their husbands and children, his three smaller children and his nephew Abram Barger with the William K. McKassock company from Fremont County, Iowa, to Draper, Utah, to the home of his sister Margaret Rawlins. They arrived in early 1861 and Samuel lived with the Rawlins until he could get a house built for himself. His daughters and their families soon found homes in other communities. The Journal History records that Samuel was a Justice of the Peace in Draperville Precinct during 1862, and that he was active in church work there.
In Draper lived a young English girl, Esther Davis, who had been married as a second wife to Henry Woollacott, but Henry’s wife was unhappy over his plural marriage so Esther took her young son Albert Henry and left to make her own way. She was a daughter of William Davis and Keziah Geers. She was born April 17, 1839 in Pauntley, Three Ash, Gloucestershire, England. She joined the church with her sister and came to the United States when she was nineteen. The girls worked in Boston about two years to earn the money to come to Utah. She worked in the home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and cared for his girls. They left Boston for Utah in 1861 with Captain Horner’s Company. Esther walked most of the way so that her sister who was not well and had two small children could take her turn riding. She learned to spin, weave, and sew beautifully. She made her own clothing and took in sewing for others end made silk dresses, wagon covers or horse blankets or whatever there was to sew.
Samuel first hired her to keep house for his family which she did with credit to herself. In those early days her son Albert and Samuel’s son James McCaslin, who was fifteen, both died. James had often been called Ned.
On April 17, 1861 in Draper, Samuel and Esther were married. His daughter Hettie married soon after and went to her own home. Samuel and Esther were endowed 23 May 1870 it the Endowment House in Salt Lake. They had seven children. STEPHEN, CHAUNCY, REBECCA PENNINA, ADOLPH LESSEAU, MARGARET ELZIRA, IVEN DANZOFF, and MARION. She was a wonderful wife, mother, and pioneer woman. She died December 26, 1910 at the home of her son Adolph in Marion, Cassia, Idaho. (She is buried in the Marion Cemetery).
Soon after his second marriage Samuel moved to Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah. There he farmed extensively, owned a fine home for the times, he did carpenter [cabinet] work, blacksmithing, and even shoe repair. He took an active part in Church affairs and in community life. He was a ward teacher for many years and held every political position in the county.
During the Black Hawk War he was Captain of the Militia and served his community fearlessly and well with advantage to them and credit to himself. People who knew him said he was without fear.
In September 1886 he met with a number of his sisters, children, grandchildren, and relatives in the Logan Temple for ordinance work. He was sealed to his parents and had his first four children sealed to him on the 15th of September. The work the Frost family did at that time and the information put on record has been of untold value in a genealogical way.
Samuel was an intellectual man, cheerful in disposition, thoroughly democratic, and was always a friend to young people. All his life he loved music and singing and took an active part at parties and entertainments, playing his “fiddle” and step dancing. He used the old violin made by his grandfather, James Frost, and won by his father McCaslin Frost, for learning to use it first among James’ seven sons. Samuel was a popular Fourth of July speaker and could deliver an inspiring ovation.
Having a touch of Puritan blood in him Samuel detested puffs and frills oz women’s clothing. He said they looked like “pigs guts.” He thought they called unnecessary attention to a woman’s figure and that the Lord meant women to be plain.
In his old age he became extremely hard of hearing and gave his family perverse answers to their questions, they thought intentionally. He hated the wind and would say: “Blow! dog gone you! Don’t I hate you! Blow in a man’s ear and drive him crazy!”
Like Daniel Boone, Samuel wanted “elbow room and lots of fresh air,” and disliked living in town. When a friend persuaded him to move south to Coyote (now Antimony), Garfield County, he planned to do so, though he was seventy-eight years old. Early in the spring of 1888 he fell from a hay stack and broke several ribs which never healed and made him ill most of the time. Never the less he moved to Coyote, pioneering again on the 12th of May. He lived little more than a month.
SAMUEL BUCHANAN FROST died June 27, 1888, at Coyote on the east fork of the Sevier River where he was buried in a most beautiful graveyard. There is a background of low hills covered with timber to the west; the hundred foot wide Sevier River lined with Cottonwoods curves through the hills at their feet.
An ever increasing posterity lives after him to keep his example of sturdy faithfulness to a righteous cause living in their memory so long as his blood remains in the earth.
“Every person should be diligently engaged in that which pertains to their occupation and in this way they will gain confidence and meet the approbation of their friends and surrounding acquaintances and obtain wealth and honor” (quote from Samuel B. Frost).
The following lines are still preserved in his own writing(1947).
A composition of words I send, the feeling of my heart to children and that Bosom Friend with whom I had to part.
The above as an introduction. Below that which is introduced.
My Bosom Friend, and children too
I wish to write and say to you
Who on that lovely, happy land
I had to give the parting hand.
You know not what my feelings were
Neither can I them all declare.
To think upon that lovely band,
Who gave to me the parting hand.
Yet duty calls me to proclaim
The gospel of Messiah’s name
And this enables me to stand
And give my friends the parting hand.
May God draw near and cheer your hearts
Whilst we are all so far apart,
But still I think in distant lands of them
To whom I gave the parting hand.
These lines I write that you might see
And whilst you read them think of me
Till again in Nauvoo stand
And give you all the meeting hand.
(Written on the back of a letter to Rebecca.)
Song Ballad of the Great Liberty Tree, by Samuel B. Frost
In a chariot of light from the regions of day
The Goddess of Liberty came.
Ten thousand celestials directed her way.
And hither conducted the dame.
A fair budding branch from the Garden of love
Where millions with millions agree
She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love
And the branch she named Liberty Tree.
The celestial Exotic stuck it deep in the ground
Like a native it flourished and bore
The fame of its fruit drew the nations all around
To search out our peaceable shore.
Unmindful of names or distinctions they came
For free men like brothers agree.
One spirit endowed, one spirit pursued.
And their temple was Liberty Tree.
Beneath this fair tree like the Patriarchs of old
Our bread in contentment we did eat,
Ne’er vexed with the troubles of silver and gold,
The cares of the grand or the great
With timber and tar we old England supplied
Supported her power o’er the sea.
Their battles we fought without gaining a cent
To the honor of Liberty Tree.
Hark! Hark! Hear ye swains, tis a tale most profane
How all the tyrannical powers Kings, Commons and Lords
United in vain to cut down this garden of ours!
From the East to the West blow the trumpet to arms
Through the land let the sound of it flee.
Yea far–yea hear unite with the cheer
In defense of our Liberty Tree.
Ye American ladies excuse us awhile
From doting your lovely charms
The fatigues of the war and the soldier in toils
We soon shall forget in your arms.
Then let us arise, our foe to chastise
Who repines at our living so free,
The laurels we reap we lay at your feet
And the soil that grew the Liberty Tree.
Died June 27, 1888, Coyote, Utah.
Frost, Samuel Buchanan (Son of McCaslin Frost and Penina Smith of Carolinas, Tennessee and Illinois and Fremont Co. Iowa). Born 2 Jan 1810, in Knox County, Tenn. Came to Utah 1861, William K. McKessack Company. Married Rebecca Foreman in Illinois (daughter of John Foreman and Hettie Horne of Carolinas). Their children: Mary md Jerome Adams; Sarah, md Valentine Acord; Nancy, md Abram Acord; William Anderson, died; Hettie, md Stephen Allred; Samuel Buchanan Jr., md Mary Patty; James McCaslin died, George Washington, died,; John Wesley, died; Clay Ann, died.
Family resided in Fremont Co., Iowa, and Spring City, Utah, after 1861.
Married Esther Davis 1863 at Draper (daughter of William and Keziah Geers Davis of Gloucestershire, Eng. pioneer in 1861, Joseph Horne Company). She was born April 24, 1839. their children: Stephen md. Sena Jensen; Chauncy, md Loneva Warner; Adolph, md. Emma Clayton; Rebecca, md Peter Nielsen; Margaret md Mortimer W. Warner; Iven, md. Sarah Brown; Marion md Elizabeth Ott.
When the Mormon Battalion was sent to Mexico he spent the night mending the men’s shoes for them. He also mended the wagons for the Saints when they left Nauvoo. He was a staunch member of the church.
Samuel knew Prophet Joseph Smith and whenever they met they wrestled. Although Samuel was five years younger than Prophet Joseph, he or no one else ever threw Prophet Joseph.
[This history obtained through the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 84602, MSS SC 192. There was a typed copy with many spelling errors, and a handwritten copy of almost the identical history, but with very few misspellings. This text follows more closely the handwritten copy. Any additional information has been added in italics.]
Additional references about Samuel B. Frost.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p 880.
Samuel Buchannan Frost (son of McCaslin Frost and Penima [sic] Smith of Carolinas, Tennessee, and Illinois and Fremont Co., Iowa). Born Jan. 2, 1810, in Knox County, Tenn. Came to Utah 1861, William K. McKessack company. Married Rebecca Forman in Illinois (daughter of John Forman and Hetta Horre [sic] of Carolinas). She came to Utah 1861 with husband. Their children: Mary, m. Jerome Adams; Sarah, m. Valentine Acord; Nancy, m. Abram Acord; William Anderson, died; Hetta, m. Stephen Allred; Samuel Buchannan, Jr., m. Mary Patty; James McCasslin, died; George Washington, died; John Wesley, died; Clay, died. Family resided Fremont Co., Iowa and Spring City, Utah, after 1861. Married Esther Davis 1863 at Salt Lake City (daughter of William and Keziah Davis of Gloucestershire, Engl., pioneers 1861, Joseph Home company). She was born April 24, 1839. Their children: Stephen, m. Sena Jensen; Chauncey, m. Lorevia Warner; Adolph; Rebecca, m. Peter Nielsen; Margaret, m. Organe Warner; Iven; Marion. Missionary to Southern States, ward teacher. Judge. Farmer and blacksmith. Died June 27, 1888, Coyote, [Garfield County], Utah.
From LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol 2, p. 644, for Janette Acord Hyde, granddaughter of Samuel B. Frost says:
Her mother, Nancy Frost, was a daughter of a fine scholar, who was of Virginia birth and inheritance. Samuel Buchanan Frost, (the father of Nancy) was in many ways a remarkable student and pioneer, being one of the first judges in the State of Iowa. Joining the Church he removed his family to Utah and settled in Spring City, Sanpete Co., just in time to permit little Janette to be born in Utah. [The biography above does not say Samuel was from Virginia, so other information in this little bio may also be incorrect.]
From history of Mary Frost Adams in “Young Women’s Journal” 17 (1906) p. 538.
Mary Frost Adams was born in 1836 in Hancock County, Illinois, just a few miles from Carthage. When she was about 7 years old, she moved with her father, Samuel B. Frost, to Nauvoo, where they became intimately acquainted with Joseph Smith’s family.
Alfred Young, autobiography, typescript, BYU p 26
Apparently on a mission in Tennessee in 1842 with Alfred Young, John D. Lee, and Alfonso Young.
[From Veterans born in Utah; 004236472 (51); Capt in CMMDNG Co, Utah Territory Militia, Blackhawk War, born 2 Jan 1810, Knox Co., Tennessee; died 27 Jun 1888, Coyote Utah, buried Antimony, Garfield County. Enlisted 1 May 1867, Discharged 1 Nov 1867. Also Capt Bn Adjt Sanpete Mil Dist 1 May to 1 Nov 1866.]
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