Rhoda Phillips

Born 1772 in Vermont to Elizabeth Noyes and Thomas Phillips (see this also)
Married Enoch King 31 August 1788 in Massachusetts
Rhoda-John Russell-Rose Ellen-Russell-Norma
Died 23 November 1825 in Massachusetts
Buried in Yarmouth

Enoch King

Born 22 January 1770 in Massachusetts to Mary and John King
Married Rhoda Phillips 31 August 1788 in Massachusetts
Enoch-John Russell-Rose Ellen-Russell-Norma
Died 8 October 1853 in Missouri
Buried in Barnard, Missouri

I'm always looking for more about Enoch.  Here's a bit his grandson, Thomas Franklin King, wrote about him:

In 1846, when I was just five years old, my family left Nauvoo. They owned a wagon but no team, as the team they used, belonged to my grandfather, Enoch King. Enoch and his wife, Sarah Brown, were traveling with us, or we with them.

My grandfather was quite aged, being about 76 years old, and his wife had not much faith in the gospel, they soon concluded to go no further. Thus, when they took the team off the wagon, we became side tracked. This took place about 40 miles from Mount Pisgah, in Iowa, about 100 miles west of Nauvoo.

Thomas's family was able to continue on to Utah in 1854.

Maren Larsdatter

Born 24 October1824 in Denmark to Ane Sophie Arvesdatter and Lars Nielsen
Married Ole Rasmusen 3 December 1843 in Denmark
Maren-Rasmus-Mary-Howard
Died 18 December 1903 in Denmark

After a lot of searching for anything I could find about Maren, I found her granddaughter Anna Sophia Andreasen's autobiography. Maren's daughter Marie was Anna's mother. Anna writes about her grandmother, Maren, and this is all I know about her. (Just to clarify, we're talking about the grandmother, Maren, then the mother, Marie, and then the granddaughter, Anna.)

Maren was widowed early and supported herself by selling pastries door-to-door. She would use a yoke to carry two large baskets of pastries over her shoulders and people called her Cake Maren.

When Anna was about 12, her mother Marie took Anna's three younger sisters to Utah, leaving Anna and her father behind. The next day a newspaper printed a story about a woman who had abandoned her family to go to Utah. Anna's Aunt Ane, who had a large family herself, took Anna to Anna's house and left her there to wait for her father. She waited for him for three days, but he never came and she was finally sent to an orphanage.

After Anna had been in the orphanage three months, Maren discovered where she was and came to Copenhagen to get her. Maren bought new clothes for Anna and then they returned to Maren's home. Maren also bought new clothes for Anna when she was confirmed.

When Anna was 15, a Mormon missionary gave her a ticket from her to go to Utah. Maren refused to allow him in the house and wouldn't let Anna go to Utah.

Anna also described Usserod where Maren lived as a pretty little town. There was a mill stream and a government factory where clothes were made for the military. It was near Horsholm where there was a lake and an old castle and Anna liked to go there. The other direction from Horsholm was the bay where you could see Sweden.

That's all there is about Maren, but if you're curious about what happened to Anna, she got married in 1897. I think they had two children in Denmark and then, in 1911, they left Denmark for Idaho. Her mother, Marie, had visited Denmark in 1905 when her husband was there on a mission. Anna's husband died a few years after they moved to Idaho and she remarried a few years after that. She lived until 1965 and is buried in Brigham City.

Nis Christensen 1793-1867

Born 27 January 1793 in Denmark to Anne Frandsdatter and Christen Nissen
Married Anne Poulsdatter 20 April 1831 in Denmark
Nis-Hans-Norman-Howard
Died 22 March 1867 in Denmark

All this comes from a history Forthilda Iverson Funk wrote about her mother, Ane Dorthe Nisdatter (Anna Nisson Iverson). Ane Dorthe was Nis and Anne’s oldest daughter. I’m just going to quote directly from the history because the beginning has a lot about Nis and Anne.


Anna Dortea Nisson Iverson was born May 13, 1835, in Vium, Hemmet, Denmark. She was the daughter of Nils Christensen and Anna Poulsen Christensen, When she was about ten months old and in the nurse’s care, she fell and injured her hip. She cried a great deal, but her injury was unnoticed until she was old enough to walk. She was very slow in learning to walk and limped on one leg. There were no doctors in the town to help her overcome her affliction. As she grew, it was discovered that she could not run or play games or do heavy work such as milking, making cheese, cleaning the barns, and field work as was the custom of Scandinavian girls. Her father and mother felt very badly that Anna Dortea was not strong and active like the other children. She was especially loved and tenderly cared for and every consideration was shown her by her parents, three brothers and one sister.

They decided that Anna Dortea should have as good an education as could be had at that time. She became an apt student and a beautiful penman. The family belonged to the Lutheran Church, and so she memorized many chapters and quotations from the Bible which caused the pastor to be especially attracted to her. She also learned dressmaking and millinery. Her house and home life were very beautiful.

Her father owned a large farm or estate which required much help besides that of the family. Her brothers learned other trades besides the farming, one of which was basket making.

Anna Dortea’s father had houses built for his workers on his farm and she often took her sewing and would visit with these families. It was in one of these homes that she learned of Mormonism. The Missionaries had come to this home and preached the Gospel. At one time when she was visiting, the missionaries were there and talked of the Gospel to her. Anna told her parents about this new religion. She became very interested and after study and prayer, she believed that it was the truth. She told her parents that she would like to become a member of the Church. They replied that it was a very serious thing, but she was old enough to know and to decide for herself. One of the missionaries whom she knew well from learning of the Gospel came to her home and talked to her parents about her baptism. They again stated that if she wanted to have it done, and if that would make her happy, that they would consent. She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints in 1857.

Real sorrow came when they wanted to emigrate to America. Her father had taken it for granted that the missionary and Anna Dortea were to be married at that time, which was not their intention. He offered them deeds to a home and land in Denmark, but Anna Dortea was determined to go to Zion, so her father gave her the money to take her there. There were many converts of the Church and all were anxious to emigrate and go to Zion in order that they might be with other members of the Church.

When the minister of the Lutheran Church learned of Anna’s Conversion and baptism, he was very much concerned and came to talk to her father and asked him not to let her have the money to emigrate. He told all kinds of stories about the Mormons. Anna’s father told the minister that he had told Anna that she could have the money and that he would not go back on his word.

Her parents knew nothing of America, excepting that it was a new country and had to he pioneered. This meant that their daughter would have hardships that she had never known and would be very far away from those that loved her so very much.



Later on Forthilda writes that “Anna wrote her parents in Denmark as often as she could, but it was not an easy task. Stamps and paper were difficult to get, and the chance of getting to Salt Lake to buy them were rare. The mail had to be forwarded by missionaries and it was sometimes months between letters.”

Forthilda also mentions Anna’s two brother who came to the US (Hans is our ancestor):

Anna Dortea had one brother, Neils, that was very bitter towards the Mormons, and the thoughts of them taking his idolized sister away made him more bitter. After she had gone, he had an accident which injured his leg and kept him confined to the house for weeks. He read and studied some of the literature she had left and was almost converted. His bitterness against the Mormons vanished and he had a strong desire to go to America to be among the Saints and to see for himself how his sister was getting along. He left home and came to America and shortly after arriving he joined the Church. Later he married a fine girl. To Anna it was a great comfort to have him near. He also wrote letters home which were a comfort to his parents and they would wear them out reading them over and over again. Later another brother, Hans, came to America and joined the Church and also married a Mormon girl.

Gwenllian Thomas

Born in 1792 in Wales
Married James Harman 28 Oct 1816 in Wales
Gwenllian-William-Gwendolyn-Norma
Died 17 October 1868 in Wales

Unfortunately I know nothing about Gwenllyn, not even how to spell her name correctly.

James Harman

Born in 1787 in Wales
Married Gwenllyn Thomas 28 Oct 1816 in Wales
James-William-Gwendolyn-Norma
Died 23 January 1851 in Wales

Hannah Amelia Montgomery

Born 7 April 1813 to Zilpha Potter and Robert Montgomery
Married John Russell King 20 April 1836 in Vermont
Hannah-Rose Ellen-Russell-Norma
Died 21 January 1892 in Ohio
Buried in Mantua, Ohio 

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This comes from the Hatch Family Album and has a little information about Hannah. I hope to find or create a more complete history soon.


Rose Ellen King Hatch's great-grandfather, John King, lived in Ashfield, Massachusetts, in the 1760s and died in Bennington County, Vermont, in 1822. His son, Enoch King, was the one who first joined the Church, in September, 1830, and moved to Hiram, Ohio. This was during the Kirtland period of Church history and many Saints were moving to Kirtland, Hiram, and vicinity. Enoch King also bought land in Jackson County, Missouri, and later near Nauvoo, Illinois. It is reported that he tried to come west but was unable to because of his wife's strong objections.

Rose Ellen's mother was Hannah Amelia Montgomery, who married Enoch's son, John Russell King. She was John Russell King's second wife, as his first wife had died. Rose Ellen had twelve brothers and sisters, three of them from the earlier marriage of her father.

Rose Ellen's father, John Russell King, farmed. He would often buy pieces of depleted land, replant the land with legumes, and then plow them into the soil. By doing this over a period of several years to enrich the soil, he was then able to sell the land for a profit. He and his family came west shortly after the first pioneers. They were a prosperous family and did not sell their home in Ohio. They were able to take many horses west with them.

When they arrived in Salt Lake City, they visited Jane King Smith, John Russell King's niece, who was the wife of Judge Elias Smith. While there, one of the King family had a dream which was interpreted to mean that only one of the family would remain in Utah. This was later fulfilled as Rose Ellen King was the only one to settle in Utah.

The family left the Salt Lake Valley and journeyed north to Brigham City, and, while there, John Russell King helped to survey Mantua, five miles east of Brigham City Utah. The Kings were not impressed by the farming conditions here and decided to return to Ohio by route of Alder Gulch (Virginia City, Montana) with the intention of doing some gold prospecting on the way. While traveling, in order to protect themselves from some roughnecks along the trail, they joined Ephraim Hatch and his brother who were freighting produce from their farm in Woods Cross to the miners in Nevada City, Montana.

Rose Ellen and Ephraim fell in love and later were married in Nevada City. She obtained work as a cook and Ephraim planted grain on a local farm. He grew a fine crop but became disillusioned as the owner allowed horses to run over and damage the grain. The young couple left Nevada City and returned to Woods Cross where they established themselves permanently. (Writings of Thomas F. King, Son of Thomas J. King, Treasures 0f Pioneer History, p. 49. Vital Records of Vermont, F6593 part 1.)

John Russell King

Born 16 Oct 1810 in Massachusetts to Rhoda Phillips and Enoch King
Married Hannah Amelia Montgomery 20 April 1836 in Vermont
John-Rose Ellen-Russell-Norma
Died 28 February 1877 in Ohio
Buried in Mantua 

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This comes from the Hatch Family Album and has a little information about John Russell King. I hope to find or create a more complete history soon.

Rose Ellen King Hatch's great-grandfather, John King, lived in Ashfield, Massachusetts, in the 1760s and died in Bennington County, Vermont, in 1822. His son, Enoch King, was the one who first joined the Church, in September, 1830, and moved to Hiram, Ohio. This was during the Kirtland period of Church history and many Saints were moving to Kirtland, Hiram, and vicinity. Enoch King also bought land in Jackson County, Missouri, and later near Nauvoo, Illinois. It is reported that he tried to come west but was unable to because of his wife's strong objections.

Rose Ellen's mother was Hannah Amelia Montgomery, who married Enoch's son, John Russell King. She was John Russell King's second wife, as his first wife had died. Rose Ellen had twelve brothers and sisters, three of them from the earlier marriage of her father.

Rose Ellen's father, John Russell King, farmed. He would often buy pieces of depleted land, replant the land with legumes, and then plow them into the soil. By doing this over a period of several years to enrich the soil, he was then able to sell the land for a profit. He and his family came west shortly after the first pioneers. They were a prosperous family and did not sell their home in Ohio. They were able to take many horses west with them.

When they arrived in Salt Lake City, they visited Jane King Smith, John Russell King's niece, who was the wife of Judge Elias Smith. While there, one of the King family had a dream which was interpreted to mean that only one of the family would remain in Utah. This was later fulfilled as Rose Ellen King was the only one to settle in Utah.

The family left the Salt Lake Valley and journeyed north to Brigham City, and, while there, John Russell King helped to survey Mantua, five miles east of Brigham City Utah. The Kings were not impressed by the farming conditions here and decided to return to Ohio by route of Alder Gulch (Virginia City, Montana) with the intention of doing some gold prospecting on the way. While traveling, in order to protect themselves from some roughnecks along the trail, they joined Ephraim Hatch and his brother who were freighting produce from their farm in Woods Cross to the miners in Nevada City, Montana.

Rose Ellen and Ephraim fell in love and later were married in Nevada City. She obtained work as a cook and Ephraim planted grain on a local farm. He grew a fine crop but became disillusioned as the owner allowed horses to run over and damage the grain. The young couple left Nevada City and returned to Woods Cross where they established themselves permanently. (Writings of Thomas F. King, Son of Thomas J. King, Treasures 0f Pioneer History, p. 49. Vital Records of Vermont, F6593 part 1.)

You can see an account here of John's brother Thomas's family's moving to Utah.

The following is from the Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio:

John R. King was born and reared in Massachusetts, and was educated in Bennington, Vermont. He was twice married. By his first wife, nee Alcista Miles, whom he wedded in Bennington, he had three children: Lewis, David M. and Chester. The last named served all through the war as a member of the Second Ohio Battalion, under Captain Conklin, and is now a resident of California. The mother of these children died in 1836. His second wife, whose maiden name was Hannah A. Montgomery, was a daughter of Robert Montgomery, a Revolutionary soldier. She died in Mecca township, January 21, 1892, at the age of seventy-nine years. This union resulted in the birth of ten children, four of whom died in childhood. Those living are Augusta P., Horace M., George E., Rose Ellen, A. P. and Elmer P. John R. King was one of the pioneer farmers and stock men of Portage county, Ohio. In 1863 he removed to Jefferson county, Montana, and located fifty miles south of Helena, where he remained until 1877, the time of his death.

Ira Stearns Hatch

Born 9 February 1802 in New Hampshire to Lucinda Rice and Ira Hatch
Married Wealtha Bradford 26 January 1824 in New York
Ira Stearns-Ephraim-Russell-Norma
Died 30 September 1869 in Bountiful
Buried in Bountiful

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There is a huge amount of information online about Ira Stearns. This is just a small part.

When the News of the successful venture of the Pilgrim Fathers' reached the homeland, other honest, sincere people were seized with a desire to also seek a haven of religious freedom in the new land.

The Hatches were mostly middle class, neither rich nor poor, mostly small landowners and farmers, pious industrious people, in fact good citizens.

One of the descendants of the above mentioned Hatches was Ira Hatch, the son of Jeremiah and Mary Stearns Hatch, who was born at Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut in 1772. The family later moved to Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, where a son, Ira Stearns, was born to Ira Hatch and Lucinda Rice Hatch on February 9, 1800.

The early settlers of our country were constantly on the lookout for opportunities to better themselves temporally, so the Hatch family again pushed out and established themselves in the sparsely settled, heavy timbered western part of New York State at a place named Farmersville, Cattaraugus. Here the family spent much time and energy clearing the land. The boy, Ira Stearns, when but eleven years old, made himself useful in the community by supplying wood for seven families whose husbands and fathers were engaged in the War of 1812.

On January 26, 1825 Ira Stearns married Wealtha Bradford, a daughter of Simeon Bradford and Martha True, who was born at Turner, Oxford, Maine in 1803. Wealtha was a direct descendant of William Bradford, the second Governor of the Plymouth Colony. This couple resided on the Hatch Farmstead at Farmersville, where the following seven children were born: Meltiah, July 15, 1825, Ransom, November 13, 1826, Orin, May 9, 1830, Rhoana, May 19, 1832, Ira, August 5, 1835, Ephraim, November 30, 1837, and Ancel, June 9, 1840.

Being averse to the intolerance of the religious leaders of the day and satisfied to live peaceful, honest, industrious lives, these people did not affiliate themselves with any religious sect. When the early missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were preaching the gospel to the Cattaraugus Indians, the Ira Stearns Hatch family had the privilege of hearing the gospel message and readily accepted it. Wealtha, who was the first to read the Book of Mormon and recognize it as truth, wished to join the Church immediately, but her husband advised waiting on the account of the persecutions. Ira and Wealtha were baptized in 1832, and were the only members of the Hatch family in those parts to join the unpopular faith.

Soon after this time the construction of the Kirtland Temple was commenced and they soon decided to make a contribution to it. Ira was also very eager to visit the Prophet Joseph and feel the spirit of the man, so they prepared to make the trip to Kirtland, taking their contribution of $200.00 with them. Three days were required to make the trip and upon arriving at Kirtland Ira inquired for the Prophet. After being informed that he could be found in the grove where they were cutting timber for the Temple, Ira Stearns made his way to that place. As he approached the workmen, one of them stuck his axe into a tree and came toward him. When close enough he shook the hand of Ira Stearns Hatch and said "Brother Hatch, I have been expecting you for three days; the money you have brought will be used to build the pulpit in the Temple." Thus, left with no chance for doubt, Ira Stearns Hatch was convinced that Joseph Smith was indeed a true Prophet, and his testimony was steadfast for the remainder of his life. No one in Kirtland was acquainted with Ira nor knew of his visit with the Prophet.

Ira returned to his home and in 1836 with his wife was given a blessing by Joseph Smith Sr. Later he returned to Kirtland to assist in the building of the Temple and on July 4, 1838 was ordained a Teacher in the Priesthood. In 1840 the family joined the Saints at a place near which the beautiful city of Nauvoo was to be founded. They lived at Eaton Farm on Job's Creek, Hancock, Illinois, at which place Wealtha was stricken and died on November 3, 1841, of a fever that was epidemic among the Saints. Thus leaving Ira with the responsibility of a family of young children.

In 1842, Ira Stearns Hatch was ordained an Elder. He and his oldest son, Meltiah were members of the Nauvoo Legion. At the time of the expulsion from Nauvoo, the Hatches went with the Saints and made their home at Bonary Lake on the Missouri River.

While living there, recruits for the Mormon Battalion were called for and Ira's sons Meltiah, who was 21 years old, and Orin, who was just 16 years and 2 months, were enlisted as members of Company C. The Hatch family left without the assistance of these two young men was unable to accompany the Saints to the Rocky Mountains at that time, so they rented a farm near St. Joseph, Missouri, where they remained until the summer of 1849.

About one year after the death of his first wife, Ira Stearns hatch married Abigail Whitney, who in February 1847 gave birth to a son and both mother and child died.

After their discharge from the Mormon Battalion, Meltiah and Orin journeyed eastward to the Rocky Mountains, the gathering place of the Saints. Coming over the route followed by the California Gold seekers around the north end of the Great Salt Lake, they went directly to Sessions Settlement (present day Bountiful, Davis, Utah) where they found that there was little opportunity to obtain a suitable piece of land on which to locate. Upon going about one and fourth miles west of the Settlement, they found a spring upon which they made some minor improvements and camped near it for some five weeks or from the latter part of July until the last of August 1847-48. Early in September of the same year, they resumed their journey eastward to the Missouri River, where they had left their loved ones.

With their assistance, the Hatch family was able to make the preparations to immigrate to the Rocky Mountains, which journey they commenced on July 4, 1849. They were members of the Enoch Reese Ten of the Taylor Allen Company, which company after three months of time filled with usual incidents of pioneers journeys, arrived in the valley just prior to the October Conference of 1849.

Soon after their arrival, the Hatch family was taken to the land adjacent to land upon which Meltiah and Orin camped on in the summer of 1848. Here they erected a Log cabin and were soon comfortably established with daughter Rhoana, the Miss Hatch in Utah in 1849 as the housekeeper. The spring near which they settled was some three hundred yards south of what was in 1939 the O.S.L. Depot at Woods Cross, Davis, Utah, and the one hundred sixty acres of land to which they acquired a squatters right extended one fourth mile south of what in 1939 was the Deseret Livestock Street and one mile west of the State Highway.

On November 27, 1852, Ira Stearns Hatch married Jane Tinto Bee, a widow with three children, who had recently immigrated to the area from Scotland. Eight children were born to them, Stearns, Philander, Abram, Rueben, Lucinda Jennette, Leonard, Ira Etta, and Alvin Willard.

On March 20, 1857, Ira Stearns Hatch married Jan Ann Stuart, a handcart emigrant from Scotland. Three children were born to them, Wealtha, Gilbert Stuart, and Stephen Cornelius.

Ira Stearns Hatch's son Ira performed missionary labors among the Indians from his early manhood until his death. He spoke 13 languages and spent most of life working with the Indians in Southern Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Another son Ephraim, served in the Black Hawk War. Ransom, Orin, Ephraim, and Ancel married pioneer women and settled in Woods Cross; Rhoana married James Henrie and settled permanently in Panguitch, Utah.

Ira Stearns Hatch was appointed one of the three trustees of the first day school established in Bountiful, Utah in March 1850. He and his sons were associated in farming, stock raising, dairying, brick making, and sheep raising, thus helping in the establishment of the great intermountain commonwealth. Ira was ever mindful of the weary emigrants and to many of them he gave material assistance. The Indians were very proud to own him as their friend and called him "Bobuke", meaning "truly a great man."

Ira Stearns Hatch was always true to the faith he embraced. He was a true friend of the Indians. At the close of his life he was a weary traveler. He was found dead one morning lying by his wife. He had passed to the great beyond September 30, 1869, after a long and useful and active life.



By Edith Folsom Hatch (1937)
Edited by Jason Hatch (2001)


About this time the construction of the Kirtland Temple had started. Ira Stearns Hatch, although not a member of the Church, and Wealtha [his wife] decided to make a contribution to its construction. Ira was very anxious to visit the Prophet, Joseph Smith, and feel the spirit of the man. So they prepared to make the trip and upon arriving at Kirtland Ira inquired for the Prophet. Being informed that he would be found in the grove where they were cutting timber for the Temple, Ira made his way to that place. As he approached the workmen, one of them struck his axe into a tree and came toward him. When close enough, he shook the hand of Ira Stearns Hatch and said, "Brother Hatch, I have been expecting you for three days; the money which you have brought will be used to help build the pulpit in the temple." This left Ira Stearns Hatch with no chance for doubt that Joseph Smith was indeed a true Prophet. Ira's testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel remained steadfast the remainder of his life.

The Hatch Family Historical Committee, Lula Campbell, "Wandering Home: Stories and Memories of Ira Stearns Hatch, Meltiar Hatch, and John Henry Hatch, and their Wives and Children, With Historical-Genealogical and Biographical Data on their Ancestry and Descendants," LDS Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1988, 3-5.


Ira Stearns Hatch and wife Wealtha, while living in state of New York, heard missionaries preaching gospel of Jesus Christ; the wife believed and read the Book of Mormon. They decided to visit the Prophet in Kirtland. After a three day journey they arrived and was directed to a place where Prophet Joseph was. As they approached the Prophet, he came toward them with out stretched hand and greeted them, with “Brother Hatch, I have waited three days for you, the money you bring will be used to build the pulpit of the temple. Ira Stearn’s testimony stayed with him all his life.


The Hatch Family In England:
"Hatch" is a name derived from an old Anglo Saxon word Hacche, meaning a door or floodgate, consisting of great stakes put up by fishermen to help in securing fish. Hacche is also a term for a bar across a woodland path to prevent deer escaping. If Henry lived near a hacche, he would be called Henry atte hacche and finally Henry Hatch. And Richard atte Hacche and Phillip de la Hacche are names in old records. The name first appears in the Domesday Book in the form of “Hache”. “Hache also means a small ax among French speaking people.

“The Hatch (written differently ‘Hacche; ‘Hach”) family were established as landowners in Devonshire at an early period. The Hatch family of Ardee Castle in County Louth, Ireland, have the same coat of arms as the Cornwall and Devonshire families.

http://www.hatchfamilyassoc.org/pdfs/News_Letter_4.pdf


http://www.flickr.com/photos/79514715@N00/sets/72157604483423394/


http://hatchs.net/Hatch%20History.htm

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~socrateselder/Family%20History%20Stories.htm#TOC1_15

John Barker Goddard

Born 29 June 1819 in England to Sarah Barker and James Goddard
Married Frances Widdowson 15 Apr 1841 in England
John-Elizabeth Ann-Elizabeth-Lloyd
Died 22 March 1882 in England

I have very little information about John Goddard and it isn't organized at all. If you have something about it, I'd love to hear from you. amirabook@gmail.com

Sarah Wright

Born 12 May 1835 in England to Charlotte and Richard Wright
Married James Shaw 31 July 1853 in England
Sarah-Joseph-Elizabeth-Lloyd
Died 17 April 1909 in England

James Shaw

Born 6 December 1829 in England to Ann Pegg and Joseph Shaw
Married Sarah Wright 31 July 1853
James-Joseph-Elizabeth-Lloyd
Died 26 July 1896 in England

I don't think I have anything about James Shaw, although I suspect there are things out there I haven't yet found. Email me if you know anything about him. amirabook@gmail.com

Richard Bradshaw

Born in 1812 in England to Ann Hall and Robert Bradshaw
Married Elizabeth Simpson 11 March 1844 in England
Richard-Isabella Jane-William-Lloyd
Died 16 October 1849 in England

I know very little about Richard Bradshaw.  As always, I'd love to know more about him if you do.

William Harmon

Born 20 Nov 1820 in Wales to Gwenllyn Thomas and James Harman
Married Ann Jones
Married Jane Davies 21 October 1876 in Salt Lake
William-Gwendolyn-Norma
Died in Salt Lake 31 Dec 1900
Buried in Salt Lake City

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Gwendolyn wrote the following about her father:

William Harmon was born November 22, 1820, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He worked in the coal mines, beginning as a very young boy and continuing until he reached the age of manhood. He was privileged to hear the everlasting gospel preached by two young Utah elders in the streets of his native city. He immediately sensed the truth of the words spoken and in due time was baptized (1847) a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a very enthusiastic member and was very anxious to impart the wonderful truth to others.

Because of his faith and earnestness he was given the privilege of preaching the gospel at the meetings of the Saints, and on the streets of Wales. Annie Poole Gardiner, Jane Davies Harmon's half sister, said she used to marvel at the man spending all the weekdays way down in the dark coal mines and then spending all day Sunday in the service of the Lord. He had the gift of healing to a very marked extent and all his life he used this gift for the benefit of his fellow men with thankfulness to his Heavenly Father for the gift.

He was an eyewitness to a miracle that was performed at the coal mine where he worked. A man was brought to the top after an accident, completely crushed, bones mostly broken, and life apparently gone. Elders of the Lord administered to the man; William Harmon saw the administration and testified with two others that he distinctly heard the bones crackle as they took their place in the man's frame. This is recorded in the life of one of our early church leaders with the names of William Harmon and two others as witnesses.

One of his uncles, an extremely wealthy man, was childless. He was getting old and needed someone to take his place and help him. He called William, his nephew, to his home and said, "William 1 have looked over all my relatives and I have chosen you to be my sole heir. You must begin now to take over my responsibilities, but there is one condition. You must promise that you will renounce this Mormonism and never go to Utah." William Harmon without hesitation said, "If I must renounce my faith and promise never to go to Zion, then you may keep your wealth for I choose my religion and Utah."

From the time he joined the Church he had a great desire to go to Utah, but he kept thinking, "I must have my wife and family to go with me." Time passed and he wasn't a young man anymore. His wife and family had no intentions of joining the Church or leaving Wales. What should he do? He had done everything he could to get them to see the light, but to no avail. Finally he told them that unless they showed some intention of listening, he would surely go to Zion alone. Even this did not stir them and so he left for the Zion he longed to see.

Not long afterwards, he received word of the death of his wife, although she was in good health when he left. This affected him terribly. He sought the Lord in his grief and asked the Lord to tell him if he had done right in leaving his wife. He received a wonderful answer to his prayer. He saw the spirit world. His wife and a friend were sitting sewing, and they were conversing, and his wife said, "Yes I made a great mistake. I know the Lord is displeased with me. My husband was right. Now I know the gospel is true and I am full of sorrow for the part I played in opposing the Church. I was in the wrong." This answer to his prayer was a great consolation to him and he thanked the Lord for it. He had his wife sealed to him in the temple.

After a few years he married Jane Thomas, a widow, and they raised a family of their own in Utah. Gwendolyn Harmon said her father was very talented musically and a good "soft shoe dancer." He was often asked to perform in the local wards. He was a very kind and loving man, and was loved dearly by his family.

His work in Utah was first as a construction laborer on the Salt Lake Temple, and later in grounds maintenance on the Temple Block. He lived to the ripe old age of 80 years, full of faith to the last, hardly ever missing a day's work, and working at his last job until ten days before his death, which occurred December 31, 1900, in his home in Salt Lake City, just as the whistles, bells, and noise of the new year began sounding.

Ephraim Hatch

Born 30 November 1838 in New York to Wealtha Bradford and Ira Stearns Hatch
Married Rose Ellen King 13 June 1864 in Montana
Ephraim-Russell-Norma
Died 10 July 1916 in Woods Cross
Buried in Bountiful

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The following information is from the Hatch Family Album written and compiled by Eph Hatch.

Ephraim Hatch is the son of Ira Stearns and Wealtha Bradford Hatch, and the father of John Russell Hatch. He was a quiet, peaceful man even though his life was punctuated with tragedy, war, and suffering. A few years after his birth November 30, 1837, in Farmersville, New York, the family with seven children moved west to Nauvoo to be with the body of the Church. His mother died there when Ephraim was just four years old. A kind stepmother brought order and happiness to this family but not for long as mobs drove them west in the winter of 1846.

The following summer saw two older brothers leave with the Mormon Battalion and his second mother died in childbirth later in March of 1847. In this weakened condition the family remained in Winter Quarters until the brothers returned. With a third mother and the family all together they left for the west when Ephraim was 11 years old. They arrived in Salt Lake City the first of October, 1849. This second stepmother did not remain with the family but went on to California. In 1852 his father, Ira, married a fourth wife and then in 1857 a fifth, when Ephraim was twenty years old and still single.

It was about this same time that General Daniel H. Wells of the Utah Nauvoo Legion assigned Ephraim Hatch and 40 or 50 other young men to serve under Major Lot Smith as a raiding party to turn back Johnston's army which was descending on the Saints from the east. No one could have been better trained or qualified for this assignment for his entire life had been one of survival, travel and obedience to Church authority. The exploits of these young men are almost unbelievable. They literally frustrated an army of over 2500 men, forcing them to pass through Salt Lake City peaceably and on Brigham Young's terms. Ephraim wore out three horses during this four month winter campaign. They followed orders explicitly, that there should be no bloodshed if at all possible. There is no parallel to this guerrilla warfare in history either before or after that time. The "treasonous" acts of Lot Smith's Raiders were later pardoned by the President of the United States when the truth of "Buchanan's Blunder" was finally brought out. Ephraim Hatch also served in the Utah Indian Wars and as usual made little noise about it. It was his nature to serve effectively and quietly.

Much of his life was spent in travel as a freighter. In 1860, on one of his seven trips across the plains he drove a wagon with mule teams carrying the machinery for the first paper mill in Utah. It was on a freighting trip to Montana that he met and married Rose Ellen King whose family was also going north by wagon.

Rose Ellen King

Born 13 December 1843 in Ohio to Hannah Amelia Montgomery and John Russell King
Married Ephraim Hatch 13 June 1864 in Montana
Rose Ellen-Russell-Norma
Died 1 April 1927 in Woods Cross
Buried in Bountiful

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There is a lot more about Rose Ellen scattered through the Hatch Family Album, but here's a little but about her.

When Ephraim and Rose Ellen Hatch settled in Woods Cross, they built a red brick ho use, in the center of town, with a small dairy, chickens, and a very fine apple orchard. Later they built the farmhouse pictured here, located in the southwest part of Woods Cross. This farm included a large dairy of about 20 cows, hay, grain, potatoes, and garden produce.

In this second house, the "farmhouse," Rose Ellen cooked three meals a day for 70 men working at the nearby Hatch Brickyard, managed by their son, Parley. She employed several girls in addition to her daughters, Minnie, Nellie, and Rhoana. Russell Hatch later said he could recall them peeling potatoes by the tubful. Rose Ellen was an extremely good organizer and business-woman in addition to being a marvelous cook. Russell remembered, as a young boy, pulling a wagon full of bottled root beer his mother had made with her hops over to the brickyard to sell to the workers there. He said it "sold like hotcakes," and they wished he had more.

When the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad installed their rails through Woods Cross, they failed to secure the right of way through the Hatch property east of this house. Rose Ellen stopped the track laying until they had secured the right of way and she also insisted on a higher price for the land than her neighbors received.

Elizabeth Ann Goddard

Born 2 April 1853 in England to Frances Widdowson and John Barker Goddard
Married Joseph Shaw 2 September 1872
Elizabeth Ann-Elizabeth-Lloyd
Died 23 May 1923 in England

Unfortunately I don't have a history just for Elizabeth. Working on that.

Gwendolyn Harmon

Born 31 July 1879 in Salt Lake to Jane Davies and William Harmon
Married John Russell Hatch 15 Aug 1907 in Salt Lake
Gwendolyn-Norma
Died 16 April 1957 in Provo
Buried in Bountiful  

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There is a huge amount of information about Gwendolyn in the Hatch Family Album, far too much for me to post here. If you're descended from Gwendolyn and don't have the digital version, you need it, but I don't know if it's available anywhere online.

John Russell Hatch

Born 11 April 1877 in Bountiful to Rose Ellen King and Ephraim Hatch
Married Gwendolyn Harman 15 Aug 1907 in Salt Lake
Russell-Norma
Died 9 November 1972 in Orem
Buried in Bountiful

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If you want to read about Russell, read the Hatch Family Album

Norma Hatch

Born 31 July 1914 to Gwendolyn Harman and John Russell Hatch
Married Lloyd Joseph Astle Eastley 14 May 1938 in Logan
Died 25 January 2009 in South Jordan
Buried in Logan

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I don't have a history for Norma right now, but I hope someone will write one soon. Any takers?

All these photos were taken when Norma lived in Yellowstone in the early 1940s, except for the one where she is reading to her children.  That one was taken while Lloyd was serving in the military near the end of WWII.