Henrietta Townsend: Box Girl who Married a Mormon Charlotte Stone February 2020
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Sometimes we receive a story which seems incredible for the quiet village of Box, such as the story of Henry Townsend and his sister Henrietta who moved to Utah, USA, in a polygamous relationship. This is Charlotte's story from USA which includes additional research from her relative Pat Jensen. I was raised in Utah, USA in the Mormon culture although when I was in my forties my father told me that he was Jewish. I was aware there was a Jewish Synagogue in Ogden, Utah, but I knew no Jewish people personally. It seemed very odd that my sister and I had never been told until later in life. When we searched for more family information, it just didn’t make sense. Now I am not a member of the Mormon or Jewish religions and, after my Mormon experience, I gave up on belonging to any religion. In my research I found an unusual picture of a lady named Henrietta Townsend. I have been unable to forget the picture in my mind and thinking I needed to find out more information about her and our family. Henrietta’s husband Simon Long Smith (courtesy Jane Townsend) |
I started to work out my family tree going backwards. Something never sat quite right with the search and the mixed-up mess that polygamy has created in the genealogy of Utah residents. My father was Fred Jay Stone, who was born 1923 and died in 2008 at Ogden, Utah. My grandfather was Fredrick Townsend Stone and my father’s only sibling was Gage Cross Stone. It became ever more confusing with a myriad of surnames. I think my father’s paternal grandmother was Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith who married Lewis (or Louis) Pease Stone. His father was Amos Pease Stone. A relative of mine, Pat Stone Jensen, has suggested that my three-times great grandfather, Amos, was a polygamist although his son Lewis wasn’t. Going back to Amelia, I traced that her mother was Henrietta Townsend Smith who was born in Box in 1829.
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Henrietta Townsend in Box
Henrietta Townsend was born 13 September 1829, the daughter of James Townsend, a cooper, and his wife Elizabeth. They had their daughter baptised at Box Church on 29 November that year. This was perhaps the only ordinary aspect of Henrietta’s life. Right: This is the only photo I have found which is alleged to be of Henrietta Townsend Smith but there is no way of knowing if this is accurate. Some people have suggested that the date of the clothes-style makes it more likely to be of her daughter, Henrietta (born 1856 or 1857). Or it may be none of them. |
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Her father James was a Box resident who married Elizabeth Amesbury of Batheaston on 26 December 1808. They were both Anglicans and neither had been married before. They may not have been as respectable as suggested, however, because in 1828 there is a reference that a James Townsend, a labourer in Box, was prosecuted in front of the local magistrates. He was charged with an assault on the local constable John Bullock and committed to the House of Correction, Devizes for one month.[1] For reasons unknown, the sentence was later increased to three months at The Treadmill, Devizes (the Wiltshire County House of Corrections established in 1818).[2] On 12 March 1834 someone who may have been Henrietta’s mother, Elizabeth Townsend, widow of Box, was prosecuted for assault. Later in 1844 two Box labourers John and Simon Townsend were charged with assaulting PC William Huntley whilst on duty.[3] It is difficult to get a full picture of Henrietta’s childhood but the possibility remains that she had a troubled family background after her father died in 1833.
Husband Simon Long Smith
On 30 September 1852 Henrietta married Simon Long Smith at the Vineyard Chapel, Bath.[4] Simon was a police officer at the time of the marriage (later recorded as a porter and brewery labourer). He signed his name but Henrietta, a milliner, appears to have been illiterate. The Smith family were gradually becoming members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). Simon was baptised into this Church in October 1848, following his own father, and in 1852, Simon’s younger siblings also joined. Henrietta attended but did not join the Church of Latter-day Saints and she appears to have been bitterly opposed to polygamy at this time. According to a testimony written later by Simon, she exclaimed: My husband wants me to go to Salt Lake to be queen over seven wives, and because I do not want to go, we live very unhappily. They parted company for some twenty years, when Simon left the home.
Simon emigrated on the sailing ship Wellfleet that left Liverpool on 1 June 1 1856 with about 500 travellers including 146 Mormons. They arrived at Boston on 13 July 1856, too late in the season to travel overland to Utah and had to settle on the east coast where they probably stayed during a period of military action in Utah in 1857-58. In the spring of 1859 Simon joined an ox wagon train going westwards led by Horton D Haight travelling from Iowa. In his testament, he recorded that he reached Utah Territory in 1859 and one of the travellers on the crossing was a young lady called Ann Booth, about whom more shortly. The journey was fraught with difficulty. Most travellers walked the majority of the route because the ox-wagons were needed to haul supplies of food and personal necessities, tools for maintenance of the vehicles and river crossings, and also goods for the spiritual needs of the travellers including the Church’s printing press. For many the walk involved pushing hand-carts of personal items.
In late 1859 or early 1860 Simon took a second wife, following the wishes of the Mormon elders. His wife was Mrs Susannah Claxton, a wealthy woman, twice his age, with adult children. She was a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints and owned a farm and property in Weber County, Utah, probably inherited from her deceased husband, George Claxton. The marriage didn’t work out and, after a very short time (in fact by 25 September 1860), Simon petitioned for divorce on grounds which he claimed were on account of her discontented, fault-finding disposition. Simon returned to Salt Lake City.
Simon’s third wife was Ann Booth, with whom he had travelled as part of the ox-train migration in 1859, a woman nine-years his elder with a teenage daughter Elizabeth (b 1845). She and her parents had travelled to America with a Mormon company in 1856. They married in Salt Lake City in December 1861 and moved to a new settlement at an area called Clarkston in 1864, where they farmed a thirty-acre smallholding. He became involved in a dispute when most settlers decided to relocate to Newton but he stayed at Clarkson where he rose through the ranks of the community of Latter-day Saints to become Bishop of Clarkston (local Mormon leader). He wrote as newspaper correspondent to the nearest paper at Salt Lake City 770 miles away describing how subsistence farming was often harsh, problematic with snow which lasted from autumn to mid-April, infestation of crickets which ate half the crop, and too little irrigation water causing poor harvests. Despite all, the community of some 150 families survived. Sometime after 1870, Simon took another wife in Clarkston, name unrecorded, who was mentioned by an 1873 visitor, when both of Simon’s families lived together in the same log cabin with different children in different corners.
On 30 September 1852 Henrietta married Simon Long Smith at the Vineyard Chapel, Bath.[4] Simon was a police officer at the time of the marriage (later recorded as a porter and brewery labourer). He signed his name but Henrietta, a milliner, appears to have been illiterate. The Smith family were gradually becoming members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). Simon was baptised into this Church in October 1848, following his own father, and in 1852, Simon’s younger siblings also joined. Henrietta attended but did not join the Church of Latter-day Saints and she appears to have been bitterly opposed to polygamy at this time. According to a testimony written later by Simon, she exclaimed: My husband wants me to go to Salt Lake to be queen over seven wives, and because I do not want to go, we live very unhappily. They parted company for some twenty years, when Simon left the home.
Simon emigrated on the sailing ship Wellfleet that left Liverpool on 1 June 1 1856 with about 500 travellers including 146 Mormons. They arrived at Boston on 13 July 1856, too late in the season to travel overland to Utah and had to settle on the east coast where they probably stayed during a period of military action in Utah in 1857-58. In the spring of 1859 Simon joined an ox wagon train going westwards led by Horton D Haight travelling from Iowa. In his testament, he recorded that he reached Utah Territory in 1859 and one of the travellers on the crossing was a young lady called Ann Booth, about whom more shortly. The journey was fraught with difficulty. Most travellers walked the majority of the route because the ox-wagons were needed to haul supplies of food and personal necessities, tools for maintenance of the vehicles and river crossings, and also goods for the spiritual needs of the travellers including the Church’s printing press. For many the walk involved pushing hand-carts of personal items.
In late 1859 or early 1860 Simon took a second wife, following the wishes of the Mormon elders. His wife was Mrs Susannah Claxton, a wealthy woman, twice his age, with adult children. She was a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints and owned a farm and property in Weber County, Utah, probably inherited from her deceased husband, George Claxton. The marriage didn’t work out and, after a very short time (in fact by 25 September 1860), Simon petitioned for divorce on grounds which he claimed were on account of her discontented, fault-finding disposition. Simon returned to Salt Lake City.
Simon’s third wife was Ann Booth, with whom he had travelled as part of the ox-train migration in 1859, a woman nine-years his elder with a teenage daughter Elizabeth (b 1845). She and her parents had travelled to America with a Mormon company in 1856. They married in Salt Lake City in December 1861 and moved to a new settlement at an area called Clarkston in 1864, where they farmed a thirty-acre smallholding. He became involved in a dispute when most settlers decided to relocate to Newton but he stayed at Clarkson where he rose through the ranks of the community of Latter-day Saints to become Bishop of Clarkston (local Mormon leader). He wrote as newspaper correspondent to the nearest paper at Salt Lake City 770 miles away describing how subsistence farming was often harsh, problematic with snow which lasted from autumn to mid-April, infestation of crickets which ate half the crop, and too little irrigation water causing poor harvests. Despite all, the community of some 150 families survived. Sometime after 1870, Simon took another wife in Clarkston, name unrecorded, who was mentioned by an 1873 visitor, when both of Simon’s families lived together in the same log cabin with different children in different corners.
Henrietta’s Life in England
Meanwhile, while all this was happening in Utah between 1856 and 1873, Henrietta was still living in Bath. She gave birth to a second daughter, also called Henrietta, who is variously recorded as born 25 October 1856 or 1 November 1857 on different documents.[5] Curiously, the birth was registered at Newport, Wales rather than in Bath. Henrietta gave details that Simon was the father, a cellarman (probably brewery warehouseman) but the suspicion exists that the distant registration was in order to obscure that the details were false. Whatever the truth of this daughter, Henrietta registered the birth of a third daughter Amelia Louisa Smith at Bath on 25 August 1862, giving the mother’s name as Henrietta Smith formerly Townsend and recording Simon Smith as the father working in a brewery. It is apparent that this child wasn’t Simon’s but there is no evidence who the father was.
Henrietta had to establish an independent life in Bath and, at some point before 1863, she met other members of the Latter-day Saints in Bath. She was baptised into the Mormon Church in Bath in 1863 by Edward Aaron Wherrett (born 1825 - died 1 December 1904 in Ogden, Utah). Edward had been a Mormon since 1848 and married Matilda Jane Amelia Gay in 1846. In 1861 they lived at Reform Cottage, 2 Industrious Place, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Bath. Edward had risen to become a Church Elder and the whole family planned to move to Utah in 1864 but only Matilda and one teenage son, Edward Aaron Wherrett, made the trip in June of that year. Edward stayed in Bath and on 19 December 1864 he married Henrietta at the Bath Registry Office, rather than in the Mormon Church which accepted bigamy. On the registration documents they incorrectly described themselves as widower and widow. Matilda married again in Salt Lake City in 1866 to a man called George Tomlinson.
We can speculate on Henrietta’s choices at this time. She was married to Simon Long Smith who had deserted her when he left for Utah. Probably she heard nothing more from him for a long period. With limited earning capacity and two children to support, she found the Mormon Church welcomed her and had no problem with her children born out of wedlock, unlike the Church of England and the Methodist Church. Edward and Henrietta lived in Bath and Horfield, Bristol, for over a decade and had three children: Louisa M (b 1868 at Bath); James H (b 1870 at Bristol); and Elizabeth Isabelle (or Arabele) (b 1873 at Bristol). Edward appears to have taken Henrietta’s children under his wing.
Meanwhile, while all this was happening in Utah between 1856 and 1873, Henrietta was still living in Bath. She gave birth to a second daughter, also called Henrietta, who is variously recorded as born 25 October 1856 or 1 November 1857 on different documents.[5] Curiously, the birth was registered at Newport, Wales rather than in Bath. Henrietta gave details that Simon was the father, a cellarman (probably brewery warehouseman) but the suspicion exists that the distant registration was in order to obscure that the details were false. Whatever the truth of this daughter, Henrietta registered the birth of a third daughter Amelia Louisa Smith at Bath on 25 August 1862, giving the mother’s name as Henrietta Smith formerly Townsend and recording Simon Smith as the father working in a brewery. It is apparent that this child wasn’t Simon’s but there is no evidence who the father was.
Henrietta had to establish an independent life in Bath and, at some point before 1863, she met other members of the Latter-day Saints in Bath. She was baptised into the Mormon Church in Bath in 1863 by Edward Aaron Wherrett (born 1825 - died 1 December 1904 in Ogden, Utah). Edward had been a Mormon since 1848 and married Matilda Jane Amelia Gay in 1846. In 1861 they lived at Reform Cottage, 2 Industrious Place, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Bath. Edward had risen to become a Church Elder and the whole family planned to move to Utah in 1864 but only Matilda and one teenage son, Edward Aaron Wherrett, made the trip in June of that year. Edward stayed in Bath and on 19 December 1864 he married Henrietta at the Bath Registry Office, rather than in the Mormon Church which accepted bigamy. On the registration documents they incorrectly described themselves as widower and widow. Matilda married again in Salt Lake City in 1866 to a man called George Tomlinson.
We can speculate on Henrietta’s choices at this time. She was married to Simon Long Smith who had deserted her when he left for Utah. Probably she heard nothing more from him for a long period. With limited earning capacity and two children to support, she found the Mormon Church welcomed her and had no problem with her children born out of wedlock, unlike the Church of England and the Methodist Church. Edward and Henrietta lived in Bath and Horfield, Bristol, for over a decade and had three children: Louisa M (b 1868 at Bath); James H (b 1870 at Bristol); and Elizabeth Isabelle (or Arabele) (b 1873 at Bristol). Edward appears to have taken Henrietta’s children under his wing.
Back Together
Amazingly, in 1874 Henrietta and Simon began to write to each other after nearly twenty years.[6] Simon’s two older daughters, Theresa and Henrietta, travelled out to Utah in October 1875 in a small company of members of the Latter-day Saints. Wife Henrietta and four other children (Amelia and three Wherrett children) made the trip in 1876. However, Simon’s circumstances as a Church leader and owner of substantial land in Clarkston, were beginning to alter. Simon had annoyed other members of the church in Clarkston and he was quickly relieved of his position as Bishop. He blamed his fall on polygamy and sent away the two Utah wives and their children, intending to live with Henrietta and her children. At this point his house included his children with Henrietta and those of Edward Wherrett, but not the children of his Utah marriages. He claimed in his testament that his aim was to have peace in the house.
We might assume that Simon and Henrietta were seeking to re-establish the marriage situation they had previously enjoyed but there was no peace in the Smith house. Simon’s third wife, Ann, sued him for a divorce, and was awarded a huge sum: forty-six acres of land, building plots, a team of horses, three cows, yearlings, pigs and chicken, together with household and other goods. In total, the award amounted to $2,005, but he sought a reduction because of his debts amounting to $825. Simon was financially and spiritually destitute and he and Henrietta left Clarkston. He broke with the established Mormon Church and joined a break-away group called the Re-organised Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1879.
Their lives were falling apart. Henrietta filed for a divorce from Simon in 1880 on the grounds of wilful neglect and his cruel treatment causing great bodily injury and great mental distress. In the event, Henrietta did not continue with the divorce case. The family settled in Weber County, Utah, where Simon was a part-time farmer, Henrietta went back to work as a milliner, and they shared the house with another family to save costs. In the autumn of 1880, Henrietta and Simon returned to England with the three younger Wherrett children, leaving the three eldest daughters in Utah. They settled at Lansdown Terrace, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, in a rank of eight terraced properties. In the 1881 census Simon described himself as farmer and Henrietta milliner, and the three children as scholars. Simon continued to write to the leaders of the Re-Organised Church in Utah.
At some point after 1881, the Smith family returned to Utah where they resettled in April 1882. In another religious conversion, he came to believe that Zion was actually in Missouri, where he and the rest of the family moved by October 1883. He continued to pontificate about his interpretation of Mormonism from his home at St Joseph, Missouri, until his death on 29 April 1898 but his importance in the various branches of the Church of Latter-day Saints was largely unrecognised and his death little recorded in the movement.[7] He was buried at Mount Mora Cemetery, St Joseph. I was able to find where Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith was buried on 20 September 1933 at Independence, Jackson, Missouri and her mother, Henrietta Townsend Smith, at St Joseph, Missouri in January 1911, later joined by her two eldest daughters, Theresa and Henrietta.
Amazingly, in 1874 Henrietta and Simon began to write to each other after nearly twenty years.[6] Simon’s two older daughters, Theresa and Henrietta, travelled out to Utah in October 1875 in a small company of members of the Latter-day Saints. Wife Henrietta and four other children (Amelia and three Wherrett children) made the trip in 1876. However, Simon’s circumstances as a Church leader and owner of substantial land in Clarkston, were beginning to alter. Simon had annoyed other members of the church in Clarkston and he was quickly relieved of his position as Bishop. He blamed his fall on polygamy and sent away the two Utah wives and their children, intending to live with Henrietta and her children. At this point his house included his children with Henrietta and those of Edward Wherrett, but not the children of his Utah marriages. He claimed in his testament that his aim was to have peace in the house.
We might assume that Simon and Henrietta were seeking to re-establish the marriage situation they had previously enjoyed but there was no peace in the Smith house. Simon’s third wife, Ann, sued him for a divorce, and was awarded a huge sum: forty-six acres of land, building plots, a team of horses, three cows, yearlings, pigs and chicken, together with household and other goods. In total, the award amounted to $2,005, but he sought a reduction because of his debts amounting to $825. Simon was financially and spiritually destitute and he and Henrietta left Clarkston. He broke with the established Mormon Church and joined a break-away group called the Re-organised Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1879.
Their lives were falling apart. Henrietta filed for a divorce from Simon in 1880 on the grounds of wilful neglect and his cruel treatment causing great bodily injury and great mental distress. In the event, Henrietta did not continue with the divorce case. The family settled in Weber County, Utah, where Simon was a part-time farmer, Henrietta went back to work as a milliner, and they shared the house with another family to save costs. In the autumn of 1880, Henrietta and Simon returned to England with the three younger Wherrett children, leaving the three eldest daughters in Utah. They settled at Lansdown Terrace, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, in a rank of eight terraced properties. In the 1881 census Simon described himself as farmer and Henrietta milliner, and the three children as scholars. Simon continued to write to the leaders of the Re-Organised Church in Utah.
At some point after 1881, the Smith family returned to Utah where they resettled in April 1882. In another religious conversion, he came to believe that Zion was actually in Missouri, where he and the rest of the family moved by October 1883. He continued to pontificate about his interpretation of Mormonism from his home at St Joseph, Missouri, until his death on 29 April 1898 but his importance in the various branches of the Church of Latter-day Saints was largely unrecognised and his death little recorded in the movement.[7] He was buried at Mount Mora Cemetery, St Joseph. I was able to find where Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith was buried on 20 September 1933 at Independence, Jackson, Missouri and her mother, Henrietta Townsend Smith, at St Joseph, Missouri in January 1911, later joined by her two eldest daughters, Theresa and Henrietta.
Troubled Lives
Simon and Henrietta’s life together was complicated. Simon appears delusional at times and Henrietta comes across as naïve and impulsive. Their decisions caused much misery to their families and happiness never seems to have come to them. Their descendants suffered lack of identity and, because of all the surnames, tracing my ancestors was difficult. I was upset to discover the circumstances which caused the decline of Henrietta and Simon and the fate of Edward Arron Wherrett who died in a poor house in Ogden, Utah. At the same time, their arbitrary decisions about their children caused much upset, including to my great great grandmother Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith-Wherrett and to my father. They ended in financial difficulty and people around them also suffered.
At the same time, I love the journey of Henrietta’s life. I can only imagine being a young, illiterate woman who packed up her children in the 1800s and travelled from England to America twice, all in search of a different, perhaps better, life for her and her children. What courage, commitment, open mindedness, and honesty she possessed - a unique, unorthodox, and courageous woman.
It is possible that some of the connections in my family need further review. I welcome any further information about these people which might clarify some of the events.
Simon and Henrietta’s life together was complicated. Simon appears delusional at times and Henrietta comes across as naïve and impulsive. Their decisions caused much misery to their families and happiness never seems to have come to them. Their descendants suffered lack of identity and, because of all the surnames, tracing my ancestors was difficult. I was upset to discover the circumstances which caused the decline of Henrietta and Simon and the fate of Edward Arron Wherrett who died in a poor house in Ogden, Utah. At the same time, their arbitrary decisions about their children caused much upset, including to my great great grandmother Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith-Wherrett and to my father. They ended in financial difficulty and people around them also suffered.
At the same time, I love the journey of Henrietta’s life. I can only imagine being a young, illiterate woman who packed up her children in the 1800s and travelled from England to America twice, all in search of a different, perhaps better, life for her and her children. What courage, commitment, open mindedness, and honesty she possessed - a unique, unorthodox, and courageous woman.
It is possible that some of the connections in my family need further review. I welcome any further information about these people which might clarify some of the events.
Family Trees
Townsend Family
James Townsend (1786 - July 1833) , a cooper, and his wife Elizabeth Amesbury (1787-1862). Their 11 children include:
Henrietta Townsend (13 September 1829 – January 1911)
Smith Family
John Smith married Catherine White, born December 23, 1805, in the small village of Evington in Wiltshire. Children included: Thomas Smith (died 1 March 1853)
Thomas Smith (died 1 March 1853) married Alice Long (born 31 March 1800, daughter of William and Hannah Long) about 1825 and they lived at Steeple Ashton. Children included:
Sidney Smith (b 21 August 1826); Charles Smith (14 June 1830 – December 1849); Simon Long Smith (21 January 1833 – 29 April 1898); Thomas Smith (b 9 May 1835); John Smith (b 27 December 1838); and William Smith (b 12 November 1841)
Simon Long Smith’s first marriage was to Henrietta Townsend Smith on 30 September 1852 in Bath. Children said to be progeny of Simon and Henrietta included:
Joseph (b 13 June 1854, died in childbirth); Theresa (b 5 August 1855); Henrietta (b 25 October 1852 or 1 November 1857-1911); Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith (29 August 1862 - September 1933), my paternal great grandmother.
His second marriage was to Mrs Susannah Claxton (b 1807). No children from this marriage.
Third marriage was to Ann Booth (b 25 July 1824). Children: Annie Eliza (b 27 April 1863); Emma Booth (b 5 March 1865); Simeon Heber Booth (b 19 July 1868).
Fourth marriage after 1870 name unknown with whom he had children; names unknown.
Stone Family
Amos Pease Stone (born 18 March 1815 in New York and died 17 March 1890 in Ogden). He married Augusta Hawkins, Amelia Bishop, Minerva Leantine Jones, Sarah Spencer, and also married Dinah Alice Rawlins (1816-1893) whose son was:
Lewis (or Louis) Pease Stone (born 13 November 1853 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and died 7 January 1927 In Ogden) who married Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith (born 29 August 1862 and died September 1933). Their children are: Fredrick Townsend Stone (1890–1972); Lewis (Lew) Clyde Stone (1881-1970); Ethel Grace Stone Henderson (1882-1936); Irvine Rich Stone; William E Stone (1883-1904); Henry J Stone (1886-1887); Roy Amos Stone (1887-1964); Blaine Henry Stone (1891-1964); Mildred Stone Soule 1891-1966); Stanley Stone (1896-1922); and Mark John Stone (1901-1909).Children include:
Roy Amos Stone married Lucretia Caroline Smith on 15 September 1908. Children:
Delmas Lewis Stone (Pete) (1909-1979) who married Madaleina Payne on 22 July 1929. Child: Vernon Lewis Stone (1935-2006). Vernon had 6 children;
Derald Roy Stone (Doxey)(1911-1989) who married Ella June Leavitt on 9 May 1934. Children: Dennis Roy (b 1935 and has 9 children); Gary Leavitt (1936-2009 and has 1 child); Don Jay (b 1938 with 4 children); Roy J (b 1947 no children, never married); Colleen June (b 1949 4 children); Patsy Lee (b 1952 5 children);
Evelyn Bernice Stone (1914-1991) who married George Raymond Hinkle on 26 December 1936. Children: Carolyn, Penny, Randy.
Melba Elizabeth Stone (1918-1944) who married Thomas Earl Owen on 11 September 1940. Children: Sharel (1942-1983), Steven (Sonny).
Fredrick Townsend Stone (1890–1972) married Avis Arita Cross. (1892-1957). Their children are Gage Cross Stone (1919-1974, never married and no children) and Fred Jay Stone (born 1923 - and died in 2008 at Ogden, Utah) married Beverly Jean Larsen (1923-2010). Their children are: Charlotte; Claudia; Fred Randall Stone (1954-2014) and Jay Scott Stone (1956-2014).
Wherrett Family (sometimes spelt Wherreatt)
Edward Aaron Wherrett (1825 - Dec 1, 1904 in Ogden, Utah), a carpenter, was baptised as a Mormon in 1848. He married first Matilda Jane Amelia Gay in 1846. Children: Edward Aaron (b 1847); James Thomas (b 1849).
His second marriage was to Henrietta Townsend Smith in 1864. Children: Louisa Matilda (b 13 May 1868 at Bath); James Henry (b 23 March 1870 at Bristol); and Elizabeth Isabelle (or Arabele) (b 28 October 1873 at Bristol)
William and Elizabeth Wherrett. Children:
Edward Wherrett (b 1865 at Bath); Charles (b 1866); John (b 1870); Emma (b 1871); Rosa (b 1873); and Florence (b 1880)
Townsend Family
James Townsend (1786 - July 1833) , a cooper, and his wife Elizabeth Amesbury (1787-1862). Their 11 children include:
Henrietta Townsend (13 September 1829 – January 1911)
Smith Family
John Smith married Catherine White, born December 23, 1805, in the small village of Evington in Wiltshire. Children included: Thomas Smith (died 1 March 1853)
Thomas Smith (died 1 March 1853) married Alice Long (born 31 March 1800, daughter of William and Hannah Long) about 1825 and they lived at Steeple Ashton. Children included:
Sidney Smith (b 21 August 1826); Charles Smith (14 June 1830 – December 1849); Simon Long Smith (21 January 1833 – 29 April 1898); Thomas Smith (b 9 May 1835); John Smith (b 27 December 1838); and William Smith (b 12 November 1841)
Simon Long Smith’s first marriage was to Henrietta Townsend Smith on 30 September 1852 in Bath. Children said to be progeny of Simon and Henrietta included:
Joseph (b 13 June 1854, died in childbirth); Theresa (b 5 August 1855); Henrietta (b 25 October 1852 or 1 November 1857-1911); Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith (29 August 1862 - September 1933), my paternal great grandmother.
His second marriage was to Mrs Susannah Claxton (b 1807). No children from this marriage.
Third marriage was to Ann Booth (b 25 July 1824). Children: Annie Eliza (b 27 April 1863); Emma Booth (b 5 March 1865); Simeon Heber Booth (b 19 July 1868).
Fourth marriage after 1870 name unknown with whom he had children; names unknown.
Stone Family
Amos Pease Stone (born 18 March 1815 in New York and died 17 March 1890 in Ogden). He married Augusta Hawkins, Amelia Bishop, Minerva Leantine Jones, Sarah Spencer, and also married Dinah Alice Rawlins (1816-1893) whose son was:
Lewis (or Louis) Pease Stone (born 13 November 1853 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and died 7 January 1927 In Ogden) who married Amelia Louisa Townsend Smith (born 29 August 1862 and died September 1933). Their children are: Fredrick Townsend Stone (1890–1972); Lewis (Lew) Clyde Stone (1881-1970); Ethel Grace Stone Henderson (1882-1936); Irvine Rich Stone; William E Stone (1883-1904); Henry J Stone (1886-1887); Roy Amos Stone (1887-1964); Blaine Henry Stone (1891-1964); Mildred Stone Soule 1891-1966); Stanley Stone (1896-1922); and Mark John Stone (1901-1909).Children include:
Roy Amos Stone married Lucretia Caroline Smith on 15 September 1908. Children:
Delmas Lewis Stone (Pete) (1909-1979) who married Madaleina Payne on 22 July 1929. Child: Vernon Lewis Stone (1935-2006). Vernon had 6 children;
Derald Roy Stone (Doxey)(1911-1989) who married Ella June Leavitt on 9 May 1934. Children: Dennis Roy (b 1935 and has 9 children); Gary Leavitt (1936-2009 and has 1 child); Don Jay (b 1938 with 4 children); Roy J (b 1947 no children, never married); Colleen June (b 1949 4 children); Patsy Lee (b 1952 5 children);
Evelyn Bernice Stone (1914-1991) who married George Raymond Hinkle on 26 December 1936. Children: Carolyn, Penny, Randy.
Melba Elizabeth Stone (1918-1944) who married Thomas Earl Owen on 11 September 1940. Children: Sharel (1942-1983), Steven (Sonny).
Fredrick Townsend Stone (1890–1972) married Avis Arita Cross. (1892-1957). Their children are Gage Cross Stone (1919-1974, never married and no children) and Fred Jay Stone (born 1923 - and died in 2008 at Ogden, Utah) married Beverly Jean Larsen (1923-2010). Their children are: Charlotte; Claudia; Fred Randall Stone (1954-2014) and Jay Scott Stone (1956-2014).
Wherrett Family (sometimes spelt Wherreatt)
Edward Aaron Wherrett (1825 - Dec 1, 1904 in Ogden, Utah), a carpenter, was baptised as a Mormon in 1848. He married first Matilda Jane Amelia Gay in 1846. Children: Edward Aaron (b 1847); James Thomas (b 1849).
His second marriage was to Henrietta Townsend Smith in 1864. Children: Louisa Matilda (b 13 May 1868 at Bath); James Henry (b 23 March 1870 at Bristol); and Elizabeth Isabelle (or Arabele) (b 28 October 1873 at Bristol)
William and Elizabeth Wherrett. Children:
Edward Wherrett (b 1865 at Bath); Charles (b 1866); John (b 1870); Emma (b 1871); Rosa (b 1873); and Florence (b 1880)
References
[1] Devizes & Wiltshire Gazette, 2 November 1828
[2] The Bath Chronicle, 27 November 1828
[3] Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard, 16 November 1844
[4] The details in this section are derived from a marvellous piece of research by Larry D Christiansen, Simon Long Smith: Bishop Simon Smith of Clarkston, available on-line at http://theusgenweb.org/ut/cache/bishopslsmith.html
[5] Larry D Christiansen, Simon Long Smith: Bishop Simon Smith of Clarkston
[6] Larry D Christiansen, Simon Long Smith: Bishop Simon Smith of Clarkston
[7] Larry D Christiansen, Simon Long Smith: Bishop Simon Smith of Clarkston
[1] Devizes & Wiltshire Gazette, 2 November 1828
[2] The Bath Chronicle, 27 November 1828
[3] Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard, 16 November 1844
[4] The details in this section are derived from a marvellous piece of research by Larry D Christiansen, Simon Long Smith: Bishop Simon Smith of Clarkston, available on-line at http://theusgenweb.org/ut/cache/bishopslsmith.html
[5] Larry D Christiansen, Simon Long Smith: Bishop Simon Smith of Clarkston
[6] Larry D Christiansen, Simon Long Smith: Bishop Simon Smith of Clarkston
[7] Larry D Christiansen, Simon Long Smith: Bishop Simon Smith of Clarkston