Chapter Twenty-Five
Ancestors of
Lillie Cecelia Bliss
Lillie Bliss DeMille
Norman Ingles Bliss
Dola’s Mother
Lydia Maria F Stout
Lillie’s Mother
Lillie’s Father
The Bliss Family
To escape the political and religious persecution
within England at the time, many English families left for
the various British colonies abroad and made the difficult
voyage to the new world in crowded ships. There were
much sickness and death in the cramped, overcrowded
areas of the ships.
One of the first generation Bliss Pioneers in New
England was Thomas Bliss, blacksmith of Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, who married Dorothy Wheatley. Thomas
was born in Daventry Northans, Belstone, Devonshire,
England. His parents were William and Elizabeth Bliss,
his grandfather was William Blysse, and his great- Illustration of ships leaving Europe for American
in 1850 depicting crowded decks poor living
grandparents were Richard and Joyce Bliss who were born
conditions.
around 1500. We trace Lillie’s ancestral lines though the
ages to these early pioneer immigrants beginning with her
parents Norman Ingles Bliss and Lydia Maria Fisk Stout who seem to be not a bit diminished in their
courageous pioneer spirit.
The Earliest Bliss Ancestor in America
[From Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America by Aaron Tyler Bliss]
Thomas Bliss, brother of George and cousin of Thomas, was born about 1588 probably in
Preston Parva, Northamptonshire. He married Dorothy Wheatley on November 22, 1614 at
Holy Cross Church in Daventry by Thomas Mariott, minister. Thomas Bliss, blacksmith, and
his wife, emigrated to Massachusetts about 1638. They landed first in Boston, settling ten
miles south of Boston at Braintree. According to the first book of the Boston Town Records,
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Thomas Bliss was granted 36 acres of land in Braintree in 1639. He took the freeman's oath
May 18, 1642 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He relocated to Rehoboth in 1643.
One of the original proprietors of Rehoboth, Thomas received a home lot of eight acres in
the northwest end of town. By the time of his death in 1647, he owned 45 acres. Of seven
children born to Dorothy Wheatley and Thomas Bliss, "four" are referred to in his will:
1- Elizabeth was baptized Sept. 19, 1615 in England. She married Sept. 18, 1640 in Rehoboth
and died in 1676. Her husband, Thomas Wilmarth, is referred to as Fillmore in the will.
2- Mary was baptized March 16, 1616 in England. She married Nathaniel Harmon of
Braintree about 1638, and died?
3- Martha was baptized Dec. 8, 1622 in England. She married Nicholas Ide May 16, 1647 and
died Nov. 3, 1676 in Rehoboth.
*4- Jonathan was baptized April 2, 1626 at Daventry, England. He married Miriam Harmon
in 1648 and died June 11, 1687 at Rehoboth.
NOTE: Jonathan (Gen #8) is the 4 th great-Grandfather of Lillie Bliss DeMille, Mother of Dola
or the 5 th great-Grandfather of Dola. Abraham (Gen 6 below) is the grandson of Jonathan.
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son whom they named Orley Dwight Bliss who is
born on 25 July 1837 at Hartwick in New York. Family
records indicate that his dear wife Mary Elizabeth
died on their journey to Nauvoo.
Generation 3
Norman Ingles Bliss & Lydia Stout
Parents of Lillie & Grandparents of Dola
Returns to New York on LDS Mission
Norman Ingles Bliss was born on 19 August 1814
in Hartwick, Otsego County, New York. Norman is
the son of Jesse Bliss and Fanny Tuttle of Hartwick.
Hartwick is part of Otsego County close to Otsego
Creek and close to the Susquehanna River. Norman’s
father Jesse was a farmer and good at Iron works. He
taught his children well and Norman learned how to
farm and he became a good blacksmith.
Life is with
Norman as it is
with the early
settlers of the
area. The mode
of transportation
is horse and
w ag o n
o r
walking.
They
work hard to
survive and hard
work is a way of
life.
Norman becomes an active member of the church
and settles in Nauvoo and is probably a blacksmith
and a farmer there. He cares for his son for about
eight years before he finds someone to marry. He
must have been a very lonely young man during
these years.
The Church, at this time has been commissioned
to send missionaries out and share the gospel with the
people throughout the world. Norman receives a
mission call to return to New York and preach the
gospel there. Norman is probably thrilled with the
opportunity to return and share his love of the Savior
and share his testimony with his family. Taking his
boy with him he returns to New York and his parents
take care of the boy while he finishes his mission. He
is not allowed to mention his message of the gospel of
Jesus Christ in his father's home.
Hardships in Ohio and Missouri
Beautiful Hartwick
Norman Married Elizabeth Cole
When Norman was about 23 years old he finds a
companion whom he marries named Mary Elizabeth
Cole.
One day he heard two men talking about some
gold plates that have been found in a hill near
Palmyra by a young man named Joseph Smith.
Norman becomes interested and eventually joined the
new religion which became known as The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Norman and his wife faces some very difficult
decisions at this time in their life. His parents are very
unhappy when he joins the Church but helps take
care of his children while he returns and serves a
mission. His parents will never allow him to speak of
the church in their home.
Great Sacrifices for the Church
They desire to be with those of their own belief
and so they get a wagon and team together and load
up all their belongings and head for Nauvoo,
Hancock County, Illinois. At this time they have one
The Church and the people are having many
hardships in Ohio and Missouri with mobs burning
their property, killing livestock and occasionally
killing members of the new church. The Prophet
Joseph Smith and his brother have been killed along
with many others. The church thus decides to move
westward. Norman has eight oxen and two strong
wagons filled with household belongings, seeds and
roots of all kinds for the trip west.
Norman is Teamster for Brigham Young
Because of the poor and destitute people along the
way Norman gives one of his wagons to a family that
has nothing. Norman Ingles Bliss is a teamster
crossing the plains for Brigham Young and his son
Orley drive the Bliss wagon. They endure all the
hardships that the Saints endure crossing the plains.
Norman Marries Elizabeth Ann Bird
In about 1845, Norman marries Elizabeth Ann
Bird who is the daughter of Charles Bird and Mary
Ann Kennedy. Elizabeth Ann gives birth to a baby
daughter Mary Ann Bliss on 19 November 1846 at
Florence, Douglas, Nebraska. Mary Ann is raised by
Norman. Mary Ann marries Thomas Stapley who
later has a descendant named Delbert L Stapley who
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is an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.
Some time later Elizabeth Ann Bird divorces
Norman and he is left again.
Norman is Talented
Norman makes several trips back for poor saints
who have been left on the way to reroute. President
Brigham Young always pays Norman on his return in
gold for his work.
Norman is a very talented man being a farmer and
blacksmith, it is no wonder that Brigham Young has
him with his families to keep the wagons in repair
and to keep the wagon trails going so they will be free
from all the persecutions.
Norman Bliss builds a
home and establishes a blacksmith shop.
Norman Married Sariah Lewis
He marries the 17 February 1854 to Sariah Lewis.
She is the daughter of Timothy and Nancy Lewis. He
is 22 years older than Sariah.
Norman is called along with many other families
to settle Southern Utah. There is much suffering and
hardship in this new land. The Indians stole cattle
and many new settlers are killed.
Norman assists in building St. George,
Harrisburg, Washington, Toquerville, Virgin, Duncan,
& Rockville and he settle in Toquerville.
The hardships are unbearable and after having six
children Sariah left Norman. She takes three of the
children with her and three of the children stays with
their father in Toquerville. Sariah left and later
married David Muir and she died 11 April 1906 at
Providence, Arizona.
Norman Married Mary Elizabeth Forbush
Sometime later he marries Mary Elizabeth
Forbush but they end getting a divorce before they
have any children. She later marries a polygamist and
has about 13 children.
Norman finds himself again single with children
to raise and to care for. Times are hard and life has its
happy moments and its discouraging moments. He
needs a mother for his children at home and a
companion as a comfort and strength to him. At this
time he is about 56 years old.
Norman Marries
Lydia Mariah Fisk Stout
Norman married Lydia Amanda Fisk Stout on 30
April 1871 in Toquerville, Washington County, Utah.
Lydia was born on 16 April 1849 in St Joseph,
Buchanan County Missouri and is the daughter of
Allen Joseph Stout and Amanda Melvina Fisk who
were both born in New York and died in Utah. Lydia
is the oldest of fourteen children of Allen and
Amanda.
Lydia’s Early Life
Lydia's schooling is very irregular but as good as
the majority of those pioneer days. Among her
teachers are Alonzo Winters at Pleasant Grove and
Henry Jennings in Rockville.
Lydia's father is a weaver of baskets, he taught his
children how to weave and they are of great value to
them. Here in Rockville the family lives the United
Order during the years 1872 to 1874.
“I will never forget!”
She said, "So vivid in my mind that I will never
forget is the sickness of both my parents, the hunger
and cold of winter, the heat of summer, the loss of
Father's oxen, the broken down wagons. While
Father is so ill at times, he always thinks of Mother
and tries to give her the best of everything. I well
remember when we would camp at night and the
scant meal would be prepared, he would hand to
mother up in the wagon, the first and best, then if
there is any left he and we children would eat.”
“ Many times my childish eyes will watch, and
wish that we can all have enough to eat, like he would
give to mother. Father always thinks of his family
first. Father grieves, and at times all but go frantic
over the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and
his brother, Hyrum. I am very happy when we
reached Salt Lake and I saw my sick mother carried
into Uncle Hosea Stout's house."
Lydia Spins Wool for Clothing
“When Lydia is just a child, she spins wool into
yarn for the family and knit socks when she is ten
years old. She sits at the old cloth loom from morning
till late evening. At thirteen she weaves all the cloth
for the family's pants, shirts and dresses. While doing
this, she memorizes many of the old hymns the
pioneer sang. She goes many times to dances barefoot
in her long homespun dress, having to stop to pick
slivers from her feet.”
Very Delicate, Tall, Slender, Bashful
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“She is a very delicate, tall, slender, bashful girl, so
afraid of the Indians that she never ventures very far
away. Many times she gives them their last much
needed biscuit. They come in swarms and our
menfolk all gone. Some of them are so large and
frightful-looking that it frightens the children. "In my
girlhood many nights I have gone to bed hungry."
Marries into Polygamy with Charles Griffin
At the age of not quite seventeen she is influenced
to marry Charles Griffin in polygamy. She is very
young and bashful and very sensitive of the humble
surroundings of her parents. She is very ambitious
and therefore is treated as a poor stranger by the
Griffin family. She never eats at the same table with
the family. Their homemade furniture consists of a
table, chairs, benches and some shelves. These and
the floor must be scoured every day with sand, this
being Lydia's job.
Charley Griffin's first wife is Emily Smith,
daughter of Patriarch Hyrum Smith. She is a real
lady, very refined - a neat woman. She is not used to
the hardships Lydia has endured. Lydia calls her
"Aunt Emily." At first they live in a dugout. Emily
and Lydia would drag up flood wood from the
cottonwood streams to burn, to find their husband,
Charles, sitting with his feet in the warm ashes,
playing his violin and smoking. Lydia is pregnant
with her first child. She loves and respects Emily and
she knows that polygamy and their poverty are a
terrible trial to her. These two women never speak an
unkind word to each other.
Uncle Hosea Stout
Lydia loves her uncle
Hosea Stout, her father's
brother, and Utah's first
Attorney general. She has
earlier lived with him for
many months, weaving cloth
for his family. He is very
good to her and help to clothe
her.
Now he came with
President Young, visiting the
Hosea Stout
different towns. They visit the
Griffins and, seeing their poverty and the slave Lydia
is made to be, Uncle Hosea, being Utah's Attorney
General, said, "Lydia, my girl, sign this divorce." She
said, "What will I do to keep from starving, and I
expecting a baby?" He replies, "I'll take you to my
home and give you work," which he did.
Develops Weaving Talent
She weaves cloth for his family then go to Long
Valley to help her parents, her mother being very ill.
A canyon in that area is named "Lydia's Canyon."
Here they live the United Order, but the Indians are
so hostile the saints are called to St. George. Here her
baby, Joseph Griffin, is born and for days neither
mother nor child is expected to live, due to
malnutrition.
For four years she weaves all the cloth her family
had. Her brothers, Alfred and Hosea, have only one
shirt each and would have to go to bed while they are
washed and dried.
Lydia Goes to Rockville
She went to Rockville to weave cloth for her
mother's family, as they are very destitute by now.
She also works in the home of Henry Jennings,
weaving cloth for pants for his three boys and
clothing for his girl, Emma. Lydia laughs and tells a
joke about a seamstress who made a pair of pants for
Brother Jennings that is too long. The next pair is too
short. The seamstress said, "Don't mind that. The
long ones will shrink and the short ones will stretch."
One evening
a group of young
folks goes to
Grafton to a
dance, riding on
only the running
gears, just the
body of the
wagon with
boards for a box.
Pioneer Girls in Rockville
As they are
pulling out of the
Virgin River a part of the harness broke, so Lydia and
Emma Jennings lent their rag garters to tie it up,
which serves the purpose until they get nearly home,
on their way from the dance, so they walk the rest of
the way. Music for their dancing is furnished by a
good old-time fiddler named Russell.
They cut apricots, peaches and apples, spreading
them on rocks and on the roof of the house, to dry for
winter food. They also save all their cottonwood
ashes, pouring water over them in a tub and let it
stand for a day or two to soften the water for washing
their clothing. Lydia and her baby are in a very
destitute condition and her Uncle Hosea sends for her
to come to Salt Lake and work for him. He has
transportation for her from Cedar City to Salt Lake if
she can get from Rockville to Cedar City.
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molasses. She never again in her life goes hungry.
Pig Pays Way to Cedar City
She starts out on foot with her son, a change of
clothing for him, a small sack of cornbread, and
parched corn. She also has with her Ann Dalton, the
polygamist wife of Brother John Dalton who also
wants to go to Salt Lake to find work. Sister Dalton is
carrying a little pig, yes, a pig to pay for her
transportation from Cedar City to Salt Lake. Just
before sundown they sat down to rest, Sister Dalton
putting her pig down. It ran over hills and hollows,
the women in pursuit until all are exhausted and the
women are able to catch the pig.
They reach Toquerville about dusk and are guided
to stop at a little adobe room adjoining a log cabin,
with a garden and young fruit trees nearby. It is
owned by a pioneer named Norman Bliss. They ask
for a night's lodging in his yard. He kindly gives
them supper and breakfast the next morning. They
slept on his porch with one quilt under them. He
said, "You can stay the night and until you're rested.
Eat some of my garden stuff.
Lydia Married
Norman Ingles Bliss
“It's a long way to Cedar City and my team of
mules is not very safe to drive you there, and I'm so
busy at work." He is a widower with three young
children and he said to his little daughter, "We will
ask the young woman (which is Lydia) to stay and
work for us for a few months." She works for him for
six weeks then on the first of August 1871 they are
married by Bishop Willis of Toquerville. Her
wedding dress is of blue calico with trim all the way
down the front.
It is just like heaven to her to have all the
vegetables and fruit that Dixie produces, and an
adobe room to sleep in. Norman Bliss was a
professional gardener and farmer and has fruit and
sweet potatoes to sell. He supplied some of the
restaurants in Silver Reef, a little mining town located
between Toquerville and St. George, with lovely
tomatoes, peas, beans, cucumbers and muskmelons.
He also raised beautiful, large yellow clingstone late
fall peaches.
Lydia Never Again Goes Hungry
Lydia washes and irons lovely white shirts for the
business men of Silver Reef for from ten to twenty
dollars a week in gold pieces. She puts into kegs of
brine hocks and shoulders of their own pigs, makes
kegs of pickled grapes, and cucumbers, peaches
preserves in molasses, and kegs of their own
She weaves carpet for the townspeople, knit
stockings for her husband and children, knit white
stockings with a turn stitch, which she sold. She also
knit pillow slips which she sold for $1.50 a yard. Five
children are born to this couple - Fannie, Norman,
Lillie, Sanford and Alfred.
Norman Killed in Accident
Norman stacks his hay in the field which is
located on the main road to LaVerkin, then in the
winter when he has more time he hauls it home. With
his last load on December 18, 1880, a terrible tragedy
occurs. His untrusty mule team ran away within a
block of home, throwing him off the load and under
their heels and the wagon wheels. He lives five hours
and passes away, leaving Lydia to give birth to her
baby alone three days later, which is Alfred. The
family has had morning prayer that day and their
husband and father is gone before sundown. It is a
terrible shock to the children as well as to Lydia.
She struggles hard to care for her city lot, water
being scarce and she is with a young baby. Her good
brother, Allen, comes and cares for her farm but in
two summers it goes to weeds.
Norman is killed in an accident at Toquerville 12
December 1882. This death is a crushing loss for
Lydia, who three days later gives birth to a son. The
accident occurs while he is driving a team of runaway
mules at Toquerville, Utah. This account is a little
different than is recorded in the journal of Lydia's
father.
Journal Entry of Allen Joseph Stout
Allen Joseph Stout the father of
Lydia enters the following in his
journal. One the 21st of November
1882, my daughter Rebecca gives
birth to a son; we call his name
John. One the 12th of December
my son-in-law Norman Ingles
Bliss, is thrown off a load of hay
and crushes to death under the
Allen Joseph Stout
wagon wheels. My wife and I and
some six others of the family go to
Toquerville to the funeral. He is buried on the 13th. And
on the 15th my daughter Lydia, his wife, gives birth to a
son who we call Alfred Fisk Bliss. My wife and I tarry ten
days with our daughter, who seems to be getting along
quite well. So we return home in time to attend the
celebration of the Anniversary of the Prophet Joseph
Smith's birth on the 23rd.
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At this time in Lydia's life she is only 33 years old.
She has 5 of her own children by Norman, 1 by
Charles Griffith. Norman’s children at this time are
Orley Dwight Bliss age 45, Mary Ann Bliss age 36,
Wilford Norman Bliss age 28, Eliza Bliss age 26, Lucy
Ann Bliss age 24, Almeda Bliss age 22, Henry Bliss
age 19, Edgar Bliss age 14. Lydia's children are, Allen
Joseph Griffith age 14, Fanny Melvina Bliss age 10,
Norman Ingles Bliss age 7, Lillie Cecelia Bliss age 5,
Sanford would have been 3 but dies the 29 May 1882
and Alfred Fisk Bliss is a newborn infant.
All of the children that Norman has by his other
marriages are most likely on their own at this time so
she probably only have 6 children at home at the
death of Norman.
Lydia Nearly Dies
Just a year later Old Doctor Allred and others are
camps at Lydia's place. She has made hot biscuits and
invites them to have breakfast in her home because it
is very cold outside. She pinches off a bite to test the
biscuits and there is a very fine, sharp needle in it,
which lodged crosswise in her throat. She is at
death's door for eleven days with her face and throat
swollen.
Eliza R. Snow Administers to Lydia
Sister Eliza R. Snow is in the
area organizing primaries. She,
Selinda Bringhurst and Sister
Slack come and administer to her
[a blessing of faith] and Sister
Snow talks in tongues. Lydia's
children listen in amazement but
are not frightened. Sister Snow
said, "Sister Bliss, your life shall
Eliza R. Snow
be spared and you will be healed
and live to do all that you came
here to do." She also said other things, It is a
wonderful blessing and Sister Snow said, "This is only
part of the blessing."
That very evening Lydia said, "I am so hungry,"
She has not eaten for eleven days, but she arose and
walks toward the kitchen, giving a quick cough as she
stoops over. The needle flew out of her throat. Quack
doctors had nearly kills her probing for it. Through
her children's lives this is a testimony to them of the
power of Faith. Their hearts are touched that this
dear mother can be spared to live and care for her five
fatherless children.
Lydia Moves to Rockville
In 1882 Lydia sold her little home and farm in
Toquerville, which was dear to their hearts, and
moved to Rockville. She was a very religious person,
always attends her meetings, and a devoted Sunday
School teacher to her class of boys. She received first
prize two years for punctual attendance - two books
which she prized. She never did any cooking or
sweeping the floor on Sunday. She always read either
the Bible or the Book of Mormon.
Lydia Married Cyrus Jennings
At this time she thinks that it is her duty to marry
into polygamy again to Cyrus M. Jennings. This is
during the raid of government marshals who are
hunting for the polygamist families. Her whole
family lives in exile.
On 1 January 1885 baby David Stout Jennings is
born. He is born in 1886 and is named after Lydia's
brother David Stout who is so good and faithful to
help care for her in times of trial and tribulation. He
is a joy and pride to the whole family. When he is
six-weeks-old Lydia takes her three small children
and leaves her home to let the surroundings to grow
to weeds, and the fruit to waste. Norman Jr. and
Fannie are left to live with the Jennings family, Joseph
to live with a neighbor while Lydia lives in exile until
David is a year old.
Aunt Lizzie Cox who, with her family, so kindly
gives Lydia protection, told the children many times,
“You children know nothing about the poverty and
hardships your mother endured, uncomplaining, at
this time, living in exile. "The government marshals
are at the place several times but they never find her.
When she returns to find her home and surroundings
in such a sad condition it nearly broke her heart.
Marriage Dissolved
Mr. Jennings does not dare be found on her
property in fear that the marshals would get him.
This is a terrible trial to both families. Aunt Hannah
feels it is too much to endure longer so Mr. Jennings
thinks it best that Lydia is the divorced wife, since she
is sealed to Norman Bliss for eternity. This all but
broke her heart for her family and the Jennings family
have become very close.
Lydia Dies at Age 39
Lydia died on 14 September 1888 in Washington,
Washington County, Utah. She was buried in
Toquerville in the same county.
Allen Joseph, Lydia’s father records: “On the 14th
of September 1888, my oldest daughter Lydia by my
second wife dies and left six children, they are now
living with Hosea, which makes him have a big
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family. My health being so poor, and I have to work
so steady to save my fruit that I soon fell sick also. I
get a letter stating that my only brother is at the point
of death.”
Ingles Bliss.
In the life sketch of Hosea Fisk Stout it is recorded
that when his oldest sister Lydia Jennings died in
Washington, Washington County in September 1888
and he takes her five children into his home and keep
them until the oldest girl Fannie marries John Terry in
1889.
and died 29 May 1882.
*3 Lillie Cecelia Bliss ( See story above)
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5
It seems at that period of time
that Fannie and her husband help
the children and cares for them
until they are on their own.
The Stout family and other
families are near by and must have
helped also. Fannie would have
been 17 and that is a large
responsibility to take on. John
Terry must have been a wonderful
man to help with such a big
responsibility.
Norman and Sariah Lewis
1
Wilford Norman - born 10 Dec 1854 in Salt Lake
City, Utah and died 12 Nov 1924 in Islip, Suffolk,
New York. He married Mary Sarapta Lee in 1882.
She was born 23 July 1865 In New Harmony, Utah
and died 23 Nov 1897 in Washington, Utah.
2
Elizabeth Bliss - born 1856 in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
3
Lucy Ann Bliss - born 19 Oct 1858 in Salt Lake
and died 16 may 1937 in Los Angeles, CA. She
married Michael Kane on 13 Dec 1875 in Holden,
Utah. He was born in 1837 and died in 1914.
They had children: Henry Michael, Michael
Henry, Louisa, Jesse, Joseph, James, Lucy Almeda,
Roy, Edgar Francis and Raymond Kane.
4
Almeda Bliss - born 7 Jan 1860 in Salt Lake City
and married Frederick White in 1877. He was
born 1854 and died 1895. They had children Roy
Frederick, Frank, Ella A, Henry Lampitt and Fred
White.
5
Henry Bliss - born 1863 in Toquerville, Utah and
died 1881.
6
Edgar Francis Bliss - born 6 Mar 1868 in
Toquerville and died 20 oct 1935 in Phoenix, Az.
Fannie Bliss Terry
Lydia & Norman
Fanny Melvina Bliss - born 15 June 1872 in
Toquerville, Washington County, Utah. She died
14 July 1952 in Gardenia Las Angeles County,
California. She married John Richard Terry on 21
March 1889 in St George, Washington County,
Utah. He was born in July 1868 in Mendon, Cache
County, Utah and died 5 Nov 1952 in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Their children are: James Richard, John Richard,
Melvina, Lillie, Norman, Hortense, Steven Bliss, Elma,
David Clark, Joseph Elmer and Elva Janice Terry.
2
Alfred Fisk Bliss - born 15 Dec 1882 in
Toquerville and died 16 Oct 1968. He married
Mattie Copper 12 Jan 1905 in Fillmore, Utah. She
was born 31 Dec 1886 in Deseret, Utah. They had
children: Laurance, Paul, Verdon Lynn, Martin
Alfred, Kenneth Cropper, Beatrice, Ray Ingles,
Larue, Jay Allen, Iona, Betty, Barbara and Richard
Eugene Bliss.
Children of
The Children of
1
Sanford Bliss - born 19 Nov 1879 in Toquerville
Norman Ingles Bliss born 24 Jan 1875 in
T o q u e r v i l l e ,
Washington, Utah and
died 4 Aug 1919. He
married Mary Elizabeth
Morris on 31 Oct 1895.
She was born about 1878.
They had children:
Norman Jr
Clarence, Clark Leon,
Oren Vernon, Maitlan and Earl Morris Bliss.
Child of
Norman and Mary Elizabeth Cole
He married Harriet Theobald on 1 April 1908 in Salt
Lake City and their children are: Stanley, Mary,
Howard, Theon, Jesse Max, Ferron Lane and George
Orley Dwight Bliss - born 25 July 1840 in Palermo,
Oswego, New York and died 9 May 1930 in Moab,
Grand, Utah. He married Harriet Josephine Lee on 12
Oct 1867 in Moab. She was born 1850 and died 1922.
They had children: Martha Eliza, William Jessie,
Thirza Armelia, Orley Dewight, Harriet Janet, Ada
Almeda, Ida Alnora, Samuel Marion, Herbert Delmar,
Vernon Norman, Vera Laura and Pearl Edith Bliss.
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Fanny was born 26 Sep 1787 in New York and died
13 Jan 1871 in Middlefield New York. Fanny is the
daughter of Sarah Ann Pratt Tuttle.
Child of
Lydia and Charles E. Griffin
Allen Joseph Griffin - born 15 Jan 1868 in Salt Lake
City, Utah and died 9 Mar 1925 in Portland,
Multnomah, Oregon. He married Sedenia Huber on
2 Nov 1899 who was born 1876 in Rockville, Utah and
had children: Archie, Leon, Lerain, Majorie, Zina
Gretta, Dorothy and Lydia Wanda Griffin.
Child of
Lydia and Charles E. Griffin
David Stout Jennings - born 1 Jan 1885 in Rockville,
Washington, Utah and died 19 Dec 1966. He married
Henrietta Zeporah Webb 12 Oct 1908 in Brigham City,
Utah who was born 1886 and died 1987. They had
children Lydia, Robert Webb, Ruby, Paul Cornell,
Grace and David S. Jennings.
Jesse's mother died in 1808 and his father
remarried Sally Tuttle in 1810, Jesse married Sally's
daughter Fanny Tuttle the same year.
The Children of
Jessee and Fanny
(All of the children were born in Hartwick, Otsego, New York)
1 Sarah Ann Bliss - born 15 Apr 1811 and died in
July 1835 in Buffalo, NY. She married Orlando
Bliss on 16 Mar 1804 in Otsego.
*2 Norman Ingles Bliss - b. 1875 (See Story Above)
3
Rensselaer A. Bliss - 12 May 1817 and married
Betsy Chase on 9 March 1840. She was born in 1811
and died in 1860. They had children: Otis, Leverett,
Phoebe, Amy Ann and Betsy Maria Bliss.
Generation 4
4
Jesse Bliss & Fanny Tuttle
Phebe A Bliss - born 15 May 1819 and died 22
May 1843.
5
Adah M Bliss - born 12 April 1822 and died 13
Oct 1855.
6
Harriet J Bliss - born 13 Feb 1826 and died in 1904
in Middlefield, New York. Married Henry K
Jarves 13 Feb 1846 who was born 1824 and had
children: Kent, Willard, Lena E Jarves.
7
Eleazer Edgar Bliss - born 13 May 1830 and
married Sarah ___ about 1872 and had children:
Pheobe and Edgar Eleazer Bliss Jr.
8
Mary Bliss - born 10 Nov 1832 and died 10 June
1833.
9
William D Bliss - born 17 Feb 1835 and died 2 Sep
1875. Married Celestia Chase 3 July 1855 in
Clintonville, NY who was born 1 Nov 1836 in
Hartwick and died Sep 1913. They had children:
Parents of Norman & G-Grandfather of Dola
Jesse Bliss was born on 15 December 1787 in
Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts and died on 22
January 1860 in Hartwick, Otsego, New York.
Hartwick is part of Otsego County close to Otsego
creek and close to the Susquehanna River. Jesse is a
farmer and good at Iron works. He taught his
children well his skills.
“He is the son of Eleazer Elias Bliss and Betsey
Ingalls. His parents were originally from Rehoboth
Massachusetts, where the Bliss family had lived since
at least 1644. Jesse was apparently the youngest of
four children, Betsey, Eleazer Jr., Judith and then
Jesse. “
“Jesse was a farmer by profession living mostly in
Hartwick in Otsego County New York. . . .”
“Jesse was a Deacon in the Christian Church,
which he helped to establish, for 40 years. He died the
22 Jan 1860 in Hartwick and is buried in Field
Cemetery. Jesse and Fanny had ten children, all of
whom were born in Hartwick. (From Relative Bliss
“http://www.relativebliss.com/bliss,_jesse.htm)
Jesse Married
Fanny Tuttle
George W, Eva, Jeannette H, Fred M, Frank N,
Eda Mary, William L and Wilburn N Bliss.
10 Stanford Bliss - born 12 Dec 1839
Generation 5
Eleazer Elias Bliss & Betsey Ingalls
Parents of Jesse & 2nd G Grandfather of Dola
Eleazer Elias Bliss was born on 7 May 1745 in
Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts the son of Abraham
Bliss and Sarah Ormsbee. He died in September 1833
in Hartwick, Otsego, New York.
Jessee married Fanny Tuttle in 1810 in Hartwick,
Otsego, New York.
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A Miller
He learned milling from his father, Abraham Bliss.
He operated family saw and grist mill during
revolution.
Mr. Miller about 1797 who was born 1773 in
Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
*4 Jesse Bliss - born 15 Dec 1787 (See story above)
Eleazer was a miller 1785-1803 in Berkshire MA
and ran the mill with his father. Removed to Pittsfield
in 1790, then to Hartwick by 1801. bought land in
Hartwick 1803. (per Dan Touse.)
Generation 6
Abraham Bliss & Sarah Ormsbee
Parents of Eleazer & GGG Grand parents of Dola
A Patriot
Eleazer was a Patriot - Private in Capt. Joseph
Wilmarch's Co., Col. Thomas Carpenter Regt., that
marched from Rehoboth to Tiverton RI in answer to
the Alarm at Tiverton of 1 Aug 1780. Was discharged
8 Aug 1780. Served 9 days under Gen. Heath. (Rev
War, MA - DAR #240536)
Eleazer married Betsey Ingalls . . .on 16 Feb 1769,
and had 3 children b. at Rehoboth, before removing to
Berkshire, where he was a large miller. After birth of
Jesse Bliss family moved to Renssalaerville, SW of
Albany, where he resided until 1803. Then went to
Hartwick, Otsego Co to be near brother Jacob Bliss
and wife's bro Steven INGALLS who was there by
1791. . . The area was very sparsely settled and the
paths from one settlement to another being merely
blazed trees.
(per BLISS fam by A T Bliss, v1 p 123, #467)
Abraham Bliss was born on 28 Oct 1697 in
Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass and died in 1787 in Rehoboth.
He is the son of Samuel Bliss and Mary Kendrick.
Abraham Married Sarah Ormsbee
Abraham married Sarah Ormsbee on 11 July 1728
in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass. She was born on 29 July
1707 in Rehoboth of Jonathan Ormsbee and Mercy
Abbe.
Children of Abraham and Sarah
1
Abraham Bliss, born 20 Jan 1729 in Rehoboth.
2
Sarah Bliss, born 28 Nov 1732 in Rehoboth and
married Azrikim Pierce 6 May 1766 who was born
1729 in Reboth.
3
Mary Bliss, born 11 Dec 1733 in Rehoboth and
married 13 Sep 177s Daniel Eddy born 1730 in
Rehoboth.
4
Abraham Bliss, born 10 April 1735 and died 6 Oct
1816 and married Rolly Scudder about 1783 and
married Rebecca Barnum about 1760.
5
Isaac Bliss, born 10 May 1737
6
Jacob Bliss, born 16 Oct 1739 in Rehoboth, Bristol,
Mass. and married Mary Sherlock about 1765 and
had children: Charles, Rebeccah, Mary, Sarah,
Diantha, Jacob, William and Aaron Rowley Bliss.
7
Ebenezer Bliss, born 20 Mar 1740/41 in Rehoboth
8
Rachel Bliss, born 8 Feb 1742/43 in Rehoboth and
married Daniel Bullock Aug 1767.
Eleazer married
Betsey Ingalls
Eleazer married Betsey Ingalls on 16 Feb 1769 in
Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Betsey was born on
18 March 1750 in Rehoboth. She is the daughter of
Samuel Ingalls from Rehoboth and Ruth Moulton
from Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Betsey died on
25 May 1808.
The Children of
Eleazer and Betsey Bliss
1
Betsey Bliss - born 1 March 1769 in Otsego, New
York and died 30 Oct 1855 in Rehoboth, Bristol,
Mass.
Betsey married, about 1790 Sanford Tracy who
was born 1762 in Connecticut and died in 1840.
Betsey married Ezra Perry on 10 Dec 1786 and had
children: Ezra and Daniel.
2
Eleazer Bliss Jr. - born 6 June 1774 in Rehoboth
and died 6 Jan 1850 in Otsego, New York. He
married Clarissa Boardman 12 March 1792 and
had children:
*9 Eleazer Elias Bliss, born 7 May 1745 (See Story
Above)
10 Levi Bliss, born 1747 in Rehoboth and married
Elizabeth Bullock 16 Feb 1769.
11 Catherine Bliss, born 1749 in Rehoboth
12 Ann Bliss, born about 1750 of Rehoboth.
Abraham, Sylvester, Lucy, Eleazer, Betsy, Jesse,
Clarissa, Harvey, Shuyler, Nancy and Fannie Bliss.
3
Judith Bliss - born 1776 in Rehoboth and married
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(Born in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts)
Generation 6
Samuel Ingalls & Ruth Moulton
Parents of Betsey & 3rd G Grandparent of Dola
Samuel Ingalls was born on 20 April 1723 in
Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass. of Edmund Ingalls (b. 1680
in Rhode Island) and Eunice Luddin (b. 1684) who
were married in Rehoboth. Samuel died 1795 in Che,
Brook Mass.
Samuel married Ruth Moulton on 11 June 1744.
She was born 11 May 1718 in Newbury, Essex, Mass.
and died 19 Apr 1778. Ruth is the daughter of
William Moulton (born 1618 in England) and Ruth
Emery (born 26 June 1698 in Newbury, Essex, Mass.)
They were married 24 Apr 1716 in Newbury.
1
Samuel Ingals, born 14 Aug 1745 and married
Catherine Semor on 26 May 1763.
2
Ruth Ingalls, born 30 Jan 1749 and married Aaron
Miller 14 Jan 1770.
*3 Betsey Ingalls who Married Eleazer Elias Bliss.
(See above for story)
4
Rebecca Ingalls, born 18 Mar 1751 and died 22
Sep 1833. Married Daniel Wood 21 Feb 1771.
5
Stephen Ingalls, born 30 June 1755 and married
Sarah or Salle Miller 24 Jan 1776.
6
Mary Ingalls, born 21 Sep 1757.
Children of Samuel & Ruth Ingalls
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Generation 4
Allen Joseph Stout & Amanda Melvina Fisk
Parents of Lydia & G-Grandparents of Dola
Allen Joseph Stout was born on 5 Dec 1815 in
Danville, Mercer County, Kentucky and died 18 Dec
1889 in Rockville, Washington
County, Utah.
In the year 1819 when he is
four years old, his father moves
to Clinton County, Ohio. Here
he is ill with the measles,
mumps, whooping cough, and
chicken pox. Here also his sister,
Elizabeth Mahala dies, and four
years later his mother dies
leaving her husband and eight
children.
His father leaves the children with other people
and sets out to find a home taking Allen with him.
They travel through several southern states, going by
water and foot most of the way. After many
hardships and narrow escapes they return to
Missouri. He finds his son Hosea and daughter
Annie and stays with them for some time. And it is
here they first hear the word Mormon.
Family Joins LDS Church
Sister Annie has joined the Mormons and brother
Hosea was investigating the gospel, and he teaches
his father and brother Allen Joseph.
About July 1837 the family all moves to Caldwell
County, Missouri. Here Allen Joseph is baptized on
22 April 1838 by Charles C. Rich.
Testimony of Allen Joseph
Allen Joseph Stout
Father Leaves Children to Find a Home
His testimony reads thus: "It seemed to me that I
could fly as soon as I was baptized, and I felt relieved
of a great weight. As I walked home, it seemed I was
walking on air." He is administered soon after this
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and is healed of the sickness and sores that has
afflicted him for so long.
one of those traitors without wanting to cut out his
heart."
Persecution Begins
Ordained a Seventy
Soon after this the mobbers and traitors to the
church begin to persecute the leaders of the Church
and in order to defend themselves they organize
companies with captains of fifty to one hundred.
Allen Joseph belonged to the 3rd fifty led by Renolds
Cahoon. He is with the company in the battle when
David Patton is wounded and holds him in his arms
while he is dying.
On 22 December Allen Joseph is ordained a
seventy in the 11th quorum of Seventies. J.P. Harmon
or Jarmon is President of the quorum. The 9th of
February 1845 he is ordained a President of the 19th
quorum of Seventies, with Samuel Moore as
President.
Ordained Elder - Joins Nauvoo Legion
This is on the 24th of October 1838. He is
ordained an Elder by Alphus Cutler 29 Nov 1839. On
20 October 1848 he is commissioned 3rd Lieut. In the
Nauvoo Legion. Soon after this he joins the mason
lodge. He goes to work for Miles Anderson of
Tennessee, and here he falls in love with Anderson's
daughter Elisabeth. Persecutions becomes so great
the Legion is called out again and Allen is
commissioned Captain of 1st company, 2nd Battalion,
5th Regiment, 2nd corps of Nauvoo Legion. His
commission paper was found years ago.
Marries Elizabeth Anderson
During the summer he returns to Tennessee and
marries Elizabeth Anderson 17 July. Her folks being
very opposed to their marriage. They return to
Nauvoo and there help build the Nauvoo temple and
Seventies's Hall. The following fall their son Charles
Heber is born, which gives them much joy and
comfort in the midst of their poverty and
persecutions.
Prophet Joseph Smith Is Killed
The next spring the mobbers become very active
again and take the Prophet prisoner again. Allen has
to take charge of his regiment.
. . . They have to guard the city and the leaders of
the Church all the time and finally the Prophet gives
himself up to the traitors and is taken to Carthage
Illinois. The Prophet Joseph Smith has the promise
that he will be protected while the legion is still on
guard in Nauvoo. In the evening of 27 July word is
sent around the city that the Prophet is killed.
Allen Joseph says "I know not how to contain
myself. We love the prophet so much that we were
willing to lie down our lives for him." His beloved
body is brought to the city and we behold him and his
beloved brother reposing in the arms of death. The
whole city is in mourning, and to this day I cannot see
Prophet Speaks to John the Revelator
Allen was traveling by foot with the Prophet in the
open country when they saw a man approaching
from the side road. When the man was within a
hundred yards, the Prophet turned to Allen and
asked him to: "Wait here while I speak with this man."
Allen waited while Joseph talked to the stranger, for
what seemed like hours to Allen.
Finally, the Prophet returned to where Allen was
standing. Allen was deeply disturbed and apologized
for being so negligent. Joseph waved his defense
aside; saying, "That man wouldn't hurt me, he is John
the Revelator."
Battle of Crooked River
Also Allen Joseph is at the battle of the Crooked
River when David Patton dies. Allen Joseph says
"there was a call made for men to go and retake some
prisoners from Captain Bogart, so Jones and Hosea
went, but I had no arms nor saddle, so I could not go,
but next morning, Oct 24, 1838, I heard that the
Brethren had a fight with Bogard and retook the
prisoners, but David W. Patten, Gideon Carter, and
Patterson Obanion was slain in the fight. I helped to
tend on Patten while he was dying. (Autobiography
to Allen Joseph Stout compiled by Dell C. Stout)
Guarding the Prophet Brigham Young
Allen becomes personal body guard to President
Brigham Young. He also is a bodyguard to Heber
C. Kimball and moves in one of his rooms to live
through the winter. The mobs are determined to
destroy the heads of the Church if possible and so
the body guards are on hand at a minutes warning.
(Autobiography of Allen Joseph Stout compiled by Dell
C. Stout June 1997)
On May 30th he goes up to the top of the tower of
the Nauvoo temple. On the 23rd of June he and John
Scott are on guard at President Brigham Young's
house when they hear some blows struck as though
someone is beating an ox with a club, and someone
cries out, "Don't kill me." Scott says "who are you?"
For it is very dark. "I am Irvin Hodge, who are you?"
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"I am John Scott." "Then you are my friend. I am a
butchered man." He then falls to the ground. They
brought a light and find he is stabbed three or four
times and soon expires. The assassins escape.
following months he is busy guarding the cattle,
tending the stray animals, farming, and acting as
assessor.
Crosses Mississippi
The 25th of January 1848, his wife Elizabeth gives
birth to a daughter whom they name Martha Ann, but
the Mother grows weaker and weaker until on 30
January 1848 she dies leaving three small children.
After the burial he lets the three babies live with their
grandmother Anderson for some time until his sister
Annie comes and keeps house for him for a while
then he gets a girl named Elcennia Shirtliff to help.
He has to be a minute man now for the mob is
determined to kill the heads of the church, so the
leaders start west, and all begin to make
arrangements for starting in the spring. On the 10th
of February 1846 he crosses the Mississippi river for
he has no outfit of his own so he goes with his
Father-in-law Miles Anderson, in his big five horse
wagon.
His brother, Hosea, is captain of about two
hundred and he is captain of ten. While camped on
sugar creek, Benjamin Stewart shoots one of his men
by the name of Abner Blackburn, but the man lives.
Crossing the Plains
Allen Joseph becomes nearly blind with the sore
eyes so has to stay behind for a week and leave
Brother Martin Ewel in charge of his company. The
16th of March he catches up with his company and
they travel on until the 27th of April 1846 when they
land at a place called Garden Grove. There is a great
deal of sickness in camp because of exposure, of snake
bites, and want of food. Here his brother's son dies.
The son of Hosea.
Become Gravely Ill
During the months of May they travel on again,
but on the 12th of June he becomes so ill he moves
into a house. He is so sick he can hardly speak and
while here he is sent for by President Young to join
the Mormon Battalion but is too ill to go, so he returns
to Garden Grove and in time builds a house and buys
a lot. While here he receives word that his
father-in-law has lost three of his family.
To Council Bluffs
On the 14th of
November he sets out
again for Council Bluffs.
On the 17th day of
November they get to
Mt Pisgah. On the way
they pass the grave of
another son of his
Historic Council Bluffs
brother Hosea, and the
10th of December they
get to the Missouri river which they cross on ice and
go to his brother Hosea's house in Winter Quarters.
He builds here another log house. During the
Wife Elizabeth Dies
Marries Amanda Fisk
At last he hires a girl named Amanda Fisk to work
for him and on the 30th of April 1848 he is married to
her at his home by President Brigham Young. He
now moves back over the river to Pisgah Creek and
rents a house from Riley Howard and begins to raise
a garden.
. . . While living here Amanda gives birth to a
daughter whom they name Lydia Mariah Fisk Stout.
This is on 16 April 1849. For two years he goes
through many privations and persecutions and all the
time trying to get an outfit together to go west with
the Saints. His wife gives birth to a son the 9th of
March 1851 named Alfred Fisk in memory of
Amanda’s father. He finally gets a wagon by
promising to haul 600 pounds of freight for Elder
Hyde. He obtains three yoke of wild steers from John
Brown, an agent for the emigration fund and starts for
the Rocky Mountains on 20 May 1851. The Missouri
river is so high they cannot get across it until the 8th
of July. While waiting there he hunts up his wife,
Elizabeth's grave at Winter Quarters.
Arrive in Salt Lake City
He travels in Alfred Cardon's company of fifty
and Miles Anderson's company of ten. As they get to
Independence Rock, his wife becomes ill with
inflammatory Rheumatism and cannot get out of the
wagon the rest of the journey. This is very hard on
him to drive the oxen the rest of the journey, tend five
little children and wait on his sick wife. They arrive
in Salt Lake City on 2 October 1851.
About this time Allen Joseph's brother, Hosea has
been called to go to China on a mission. Allen Joseph
moves his family out to Hosea's place at Holiday so
he can help care for his family. They go to the home
of Hosea Stout's and they bring out the big chair and
carry Amanda into the house.
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On 14 December Amanda gives birth to another
son named Hosea Fisk Stout. Soon after, in January
Hosea's wife gives birth to a son, Joseph Allen but the
mother and child both die.
A Man of Great Faith
He lost one ox on the plains and the wolves have
killed another so he pays sixty-seven dollars for the
use of the two oxen and the ones he had lost and then
pays his tithing of five dollars. He rents a house from
Melvina Snow in which they live till the next March
when he moves into a house owned by Sanford Porter
in the 10th ward. In August he goes back to
Sweetwater to get the freight he has left on his way to
Utah, but twelve of the plows are gone, so he and
Jared Porter loads up a ton of old wagon wheels and
the eight plows and return to their home. On arriving
home he finds his son Charles Heber ill with
inflammation of his foot which speedily grows worse
and he dies the 19th of November 1852. About this
time his brother Hosea is called to China on a mission.
Settles in Pleasant Grove, Utah
Called to Help Settle Dixie
When the Saints go South to get away from
Johnson's army he settles in Pleasant Grove where he
becomes better off as far as the world goods are
concerned then he has been. But he is called by
Brigham Young to go help settle Dixie, so he sells all
he can and leaves for the South the 31st of October
and arrives in Cottonwood Creek, now know as
Harrisburg. The following day another son is born
which made six sons and four daughters in the
family. He is named John Henry.
he and family goes to Saint George to live.
Moves to Rockville
In 1868 he moves to Rockville and begins a new
home but his eye pains him for some years and is so
bad he goes to Salt Lake and has it cut out by Dr.
Anderson. The Spring of 1874 he begins doing work
for the dead with the help of his wife and niece
Elizabeth Cox. May 1, 1884 he is ordained a High
Priest by J.D.R. McAlister,
In Jan 1886 his sister Annie Stout Millet dies.
Amanda Dies
He continues working in the temple as much as he
can, the following years. Although he and his wife
has very poor health until the 18th of September 1888,
when Amanda takes the second stroke and suffered
until the 27th when she dies at the home of her son
David.
His daughter Lydia Bliss dies this month on the
14th leaving six children which are taken to the home
of her brother Hosea. He, his wife, and family care
for them one year.
Spends Much of His Time in the Temple
During the year of 1889 Allen Joseph spend much
of his time in the Temple and he states he now has
done the work or has it done for some 1600 names.
His history closes the 29th of December 1889 at the
home of his son Allen Joseph Stout. He is 74 years
old. (Found in vol. 31 Utah Pioneers biographies.)
Allen Joseph married
Elizabeth Anderson
A Testimony to His Children
Allen Joseph has this to say to his family at this
time, "I wish to say some thing to my children of ways
of the Lord, and the order of His Kingdom. I want
them to ever keep with the Church and observe the
orders of the Church in all things, obey council, seek
to help roll on the work of the Lord, for there is a
great work for you to perform in the temples of the
Lord which you will help to rear to His name and you
must attend to his ordinances of the Priesthood for
our dead friends and your dead kindred and perhaps
for your own parents for we have not had the
privilege of doing our own work."
Allen married Elizabeth Anderson on 19 July 1843.
She was born 13 Oct 1823 in Rutherford, Tennessee of
Miles Anderson and Nancy Pace of Tennessee. She
died 30 Jan 1848 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
This was written the 18th of May 1863. He is then
living at Harrisburg. The next Spring he moves to
Berryville, now called Glendale, and takes up a ranch
and put in a crop which does fine and they prosper.
But in 1866 President Young sends word for all the
inhabitants of Long Valley to move back to Dixie, so
The Children of Allen Joseph & Elizabeth
1
Charles Heber Stout, born 1 May 1844 in Nauvoo,
Hancock, Illinois.
2
Allen Joseph Stout Jr, born 3 Dec 1845 in Nauvoo
and he died 11 Dec 1917. He married Lucy
Elizabeth Cole 6 July 1872.
3
Martha Ann Stout, born 25 Jan 1848 in Winter
Quarters, Nebraska and died 8 July 1889. She
married Thomas Pitts 28 July 1866. He was born
1824 in Shipley, Yorkshire, England and died
1890.
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Allen Stout on 30 April 1848 in Winter Quarters,
Douglas County, Nebraska. Amanda is 16 when she
becomes the bride of Allen who is 16 years older than
her and he becomes an immediate mother to Allen’s
three children.
Allen Joseph Married
Amanda Melvina Fisk Stout
Wife of Allen Joseph - Grandmother of Dola
Amanda Melvina Fisk
was born 12 June 1832 in
Silver Creek, Chitaugua
County, New York.
Amanda is the daughter of
Alfred Fisk and Mariah
Sagers of New York. She
died 21 September 1888 in
Rockville, Washington,
Utah.
Blessed by Joseph Smith
Allen Joseph Stout and his family moves back from
Winter Quarters across the river to Pidgeon Creek and
rents a house from Riley Howard, a relative, and
begins to raise a garden.
The next spring, on the 16th of April 1849
Amanda gives birth to a daughter whom they name
Lydia Mariah Fisk Stout, the mother of Lillie and
grandmother of Dola DeMille.
Amanda’s Crossing Plains and Family Life
Amanda M elvina Fisk
As a baby, she is blessed
by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Ohio in 1834. She is
baptized into this new 13 year old church by Trueman
Gillett in July 1842. She is then confirmed a member
of the LDS Church by Lysander Gee.
Father Dies on Zion’s Camp
Her parents join the Church shortly after it is
organized. They faithfully follow the Prophet Joseph
Smith wherever he goes. When the Prophet calls the
brethren to go West with Zion's Camp, Alfred Fisk
goes with them. Alfred is one of the members who is
stricken with cholera in the Missouri camp (Zion's
camp). He dies and is buried on the banks of the river
on 19 June 1834. He was 28 years old.
Mother Dies at Age 25
Three years later Mariah Sagers, then 25, becomes
ill and dies at leaving three small children. One of the
children is our Amanda. Amanda and the other
children are left in the care of whoever will care for
them.
Amanda is among the Saints and extended family
until she is fourteen-year-old. In spite of the poverty
and hardships of these trying times she has grown
into a wonderful caring young woman.
NOTE: See story of Allen Joseph (above) for the
story of Amanda’s family life.
Amanda’s Illness and Death
On the 9th of January 1888 Amanda suffers a
stroke and is moved to her son David's home in town.
She is never able to walk again and on 18 September
1888 she has another stroke which causes her death
on the 27 September 1888.
She was a beloved mother and grandmother and
was loved by all who knew her. Her oldest daughter,
Lydia, died the same month, on the 14th leaving a
family of six children. Hosea Fisk Stout took the
children into his home and cared for them for one
year.
She is buried at Rockville, on 29 September 1888 at
the age of fifty-six.
The Children of
Allen Joseph and Amanda
*1 Lydia Mariah Fisk Stout, born 16 Apr 1849 (See
Story Above)
2
Alfred Fisk Stout, born 9 March 1851 in
Kanesville, Pottawatomie, Iowa. Married May
Emma Langstone 7 March 1872, born 15 Feb 1859
in Alpine, Washington, Utah and died 2 Feb 1938.
Amanda Work for Allen J. Stout, A Widower
When Allen Joseph Stout loses his wife at Winter
Quarters, and is left with three small children, he
hires Amanda to work for him and help take care of
the children.
3
Hosea Fisk Stout, born 14 Dec 1852 in Salt Lake
City, Salt Lake, Utah and died 22 Jan 1931.
Married Clarinda Jane Langstone 22 Mar 1872
born 2 Feb 1857 in Alpine, Utah. Married Martha
Luella Sherrell born 12 Jan 1890 in Smithfield,
Tennessee.
Amanda Marries
Allen Joseph Stout
4
After working with Allen for three months, he asks
Amanda to be his wife. Amanda married Joseph
David F. Stout, born 3 Feb 1855 in Centerville,
Davis, Utah and died 1 Oct 1932.
Married Hanrietta Cox 17 May 1875 who was born 24
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Nov 1856 and had children: Henrietta, David F.,
Daisie, Achsah, Aureta or Artie, Dewey and Leland
Moroni Stout.
Married Mary Jan Terry on 13 Jun 1884, born 26 Sep
1867 and died 5 Mar 1935 and had children: Morgan
Terry, Vernon Wesley, Valeria, Madona, Melvina
Agnes and Willard Richard Stout.
Married Julia Jan Cox on 18 Jun 1884, born 20 Jun
1861 in Fairview, Utah and died 3 Aug 1927 in Logan,
Utah. Had children Irving Waldo, Emerald Wycliffe,
Juanita, Wayne Dunham, Ruth, Thurlow Weed, Derby
Emer Stout.
Married Sarah Lucretia Cox 26 Jun 1888, born 20 Dec
1866 in Saint George, Ut and died 1 Oct 1932 in
Logan, Utah and had children: Wendell Snow, Grant
Montgomery, Genevieve, Carlyle Fenton, Franklin
Lyman, Abraham Lincoln, Beulah Attaleah and
Eunice May Stout.
5
Rebecca Alvira Fisk Stout, born 13 Jan 1857 in Mill
Creek, Salt Lake, Utah. Married John Fabin
Dinnett 18 April 1872, born 10 Oct 1853 in Mill
Creek and had daughter Clara Dennett.
14 Marion Fisk Stout, born 20 Nov 1876 in Rockville
and died in Hurricane, Utah on 25 Oct 1948.
Married Caroline Larson Christensen on 23 Nov
1900. She was born 27 Dec 1881 in Logan, Utah
and died 2 Dec 1902 in St George. They had
daughter Cara Stout who died in a few days.
Generation 5
Joseph Stout & Anna Smith
Parents of Joseph Allen & 2nd GGrandparents of Dola
Joseph Stout was born on 25 June 1773 in Cane
Creek, Orange County, North Carolina and died in
September of 1839 in Caledonia, Washington County,
Missouri.
Anna Smith was born 17 Sep 1778 in Cane Creek
and died 28 July 1824 in Wilmington, Clinton County
Ohio. She is the daughter of Daniel Smith and
Pleasant Chancy. Anna’s grandfather, Daniel Chancy
was also the grandfather of Joseph.
Joseph and Anna married on 3 November 1796 in
Cane Creek, Orange County, North Carolina.
6
Allen Joseph Fisk Stout Jr, born 14 Feb 1859 in
Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah and died 24 April
1933. Married Sarah Ann Sullivan Empey 27 Nov
1884. She was born 16 Sep 1859 in Salt Lake City.
Joseph and Anna were strict Quakers and
experienced extreme hardships. They had twelve
children who were born in Northern Tennessee,
Quincy, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio.
7
Amanda Melvina Fisk Stout, born 15 Jan 1861 in
Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah and died 29 Jun 1916
and married Lewis Wilson Stout 18 Sep 1879.
8
John Henry Fisk Stout, Born 18 May 1863 in
Harrisburg, Washington, Utah and died 15 Sep
1933 and married Anna Selina Hall 5 Mar 1889
who was born in 1866 in Rockville, Utah.
9
Orlando Fisk Stout, born 14 Jul 1865 in Lydia’s
Canyon, Kane, Utah and died 16 Jul 1866.
Finally, two years after Elizabeth, their last child
was born Joseph’s wife Anna died of consumption
(tuberculosis), on 28 July 1824. Elizabeth, the
youngest daughter dies the year before and Rebecca,
the oldest daughter, who might have helped the
family, died the next year. Allen 8 and Hosea 13,
were passed from home to home as hired help to help
provide for the very large family.
10 Milton Fisk Stout, born 9 May 1867 in St George,
Utah and died 7 Apr 1900. Married Adelaide
Smith 22 Dec 1897. She was born 1867 in St George,
Utah.
11 Don Carlos Fisk Stout, born 28 Oct 1870 in
Rockville, Utah and died 15 Mar 1871.
12 Hulda Louisa Fisk Stout, born 24 June 1872 in
Rockville, Utah and died 27 Sep 1923. Married 28 July
1890 Nathan Harrison Terry, born about 1869. She
married Charles William James Rawlinson on 22 Nov
1905. He was born 1872.
13 Anna Smith Fisk Stout was born 8 Apr 1876 in
Rockville, Utah and died 28 May 1876.
Hosea, the oldest living son recalls: By her death I
lost the only unwavering friend that I had and our
family was now left like a ship without a rudder to be
the sport of misfortune, and me sure felt and realized
her loss, and now when deprived of her could begin
to see my own ingratitude and disobedience to her."
Allen made the comment: "I was a very weakly child;
this man (who hired him) used to abuse me by
whipping me for things which I could not help."
Children of Joseph and Anna
1
Rebecca Stout, born 20 May 1798 in East
Tennessee and died in 1830 in Adams County,
Illinois.
2
Sarah Stout, born 29 October 1799 in East
Tennessee and died in 1839 near Quincy, Adams
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County, Illinois.
3
Samuel Stout, born in 1802 in Quincy, Adams,
Illinois. He married Margaret Paisley on 30 Oct
1832 in Hopedale, Tazewell, Illinois. She was
born 18 Jan 1809 in Robertson County, Tennessee.
They had a son Samuel Stout.
4
Margaret Stout (twin) born 23 Nov 1804 in
Quincy, Adams County, Illinois and died 28 Feb
1889 in Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah. She married
William Stout on 6 June 1823 who was born in
1800 in Cane Creek, Orange, North Carolina.
They had a son Samuel Stout b. 8 Oct 1824.
5
Mary Stout (twin) born 23 Nov 1804 in Quincy
and married Nicholas Jameson on 7 Jan 1825 in
Jefferson, Kentucky. Nicholas was born 1801 in
Cane Creek. They have a son Benjamin Walter
Jameson.
6
Anna Stout, born 26 Dec 1806 in Silver Creek,
Madison, Kentucky and died 16 Jan 1886. She
married Artemas Millett about 1827 who was born
11 Sep 1790 in New Hampshire and died 19 Nov
1874 in Scipio, Utah.
She married Benjamin Jones on 19 Nov 1832 in
Tazewell, Illinois. He was born in 1804 in Silver
Creek.
7
Daniel Stout born in 1808 in Madison, Kentucky
and died 2 March 1889.
8
Hosea Stout, born 18 Sep 1810 in Pleasant Hill,
Mercer, Kentucky and died 2 March 1889.
She was born in 1834 in Green Township, Ohio and
died 1910 in Salt Lake. They had children:
Lewis Wilson, Brigham Hosea, Alfred Lozene, Allen
Edward, William Hooper, Alvira, Frank Henry, Edgar
Walter, Arthur, Ada and Charles Stephen Stout.
Wilmington, Ohio
9
Cynthia Stout, Born 12 Apr 1812 in Danville,
Mercer, Kentucky and died 4 Dec 1815.
10 Allen Joseph Stout, b. 1859 (See Story Above)
11 Roena Lydia Stout, born 5 Jan 1820 in
Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio. She married John
Larkey in 1837. He was born 23 Dec 1807 in
Easton Penn. They had children: Charles H.,
Maria Louisa, Edward, Amanda, Lydia Ann, and
John Larkey.
12 Elizabeth Mahala Stout, born 5 March 1822 in
Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio and died 5 July 1823.
Generation 6
He married:
Samuel Stout & Rachel Chancey
Samantha Peck on 7 Jan 1838 in Caldwell,
Missouri who was born in 1821 in Bainbridge, New
York and died in 1839 in Sugar Creek, Iowa.
Louisa Taylor 29 Nov 1840 in Nauvoo who was
born 1819 in Bowling Green, KY and died 1853 in Salt
Lake City. They had Children: Lydia Sarah, William
Hosea, Hyrum, Louisa, Elizabeth, Hosea, Eli Harvey
and Joseph Allen.
Lucretia Fish on 20 April 1845 in Nauvoo, Illinois
who was born 1830 in Dalton, New Hampshire.
Marinda Bennett on 30 June 1845 in Nauvoo, Ill
who was born 1826 in Bedford, Tennessee and died
1846 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska and had a child on
26 Sep 1846 and died as a child.
Aseneth Harmon, on 9 Jan 1854 in Salt Lake City.
She was born 1823 in Fayette, Indiana and died 1899
in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Parents of Joseph & 3rd G-Grandparents of Dola
Samuel Stout was born on 10 April 1740 in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and died in 1825. He
is the son of Peter Stout (1715 in New Castle,
Delaware and died 1802 in Cane Creek, North
Carolina) and Margaret Cypert (born 1716 in
Germany and Died 1799 in Cane Creek, North
Carolina.
Samuel married Rachel Chancey on 16 December
1762 in Warrington, York County, Pennsylvania. She
was born on 7 August 1741 in Orange County, North
Carolina and died in 1831 in Tazewell, Illinois. She is
the daughter of Daniel Chauncey (born about 1707
and died in 1754) and Ann Overman (born 7 August
1714 in Perquimans, North Carolina).
Alvira Wilson on 19 July 1855 in Salt Lake City.
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The Children of Samuel & Rachel
1
Peter Stout, born 13 Oct 1763 in Cane Creek,
Orange County, North Carolina and married on 2
Oct 1785 Ellen Leonard, born 1768 in Guilford, NC
and had children: Mary, Zacharias, Elizabeth and
Amassa Stout.
2
Margaret Stout, born 11 Sep 1765 in Cane Creek
and died 1828.
3
4
Isaac Stout, born 14 April 1768 in Cane Creek and
died 15 March 1853 in Clinton, Ohio. Married on
3 Nov 1792 in Lost Creek, Jefferson, Tennessee,
Susannah Hobson, born 1769 and had children:
Sarah, Samuel, Jesse, Rachel, Phebe, Rebecca,
Lydia, Matilda, Mary, Martha, Isaac Hobson and
Isiah Morris Stout.
Samuel Stout, born 14 Apr 1771 in Cane Creek
and married about 1795 Leah Sidwell, born abt
1774 in Randolph, North Carolina and had
children: William, Joseph, Elizabeth, Isaac, Fannie,
Samuel, John, Hugh, Mary, Maraha and Ephriam
Stout.
*5 Joseph Stout, Born 25 June 1773(See Story Above)
6
Ephraim Stout born 26 Feb 1775 in Cane Creek
and died 1852. Married on 29 Nov 1797, Jane
Smith born abt 1778 in Randolph, NC. Their
children are: Ephraim, James, John, Hugh, Rachel,
Anna and Jane Stout.
7
Rachel Stout, born 23 Jun 1777 in Cane Creek and
died 26 Jun 1827. Married about 1798 John Stout
born about 1774 in Cane Creek.
8
Mary Stout, born 19 Dec 1779 in Can Creek
married about 1802 E. Whitton, born in Can Creek
and had son Samuel Whitten.
9
Jacob Stout, born 27 July 1782 in Cane Creek and
died in 1840 married about 1805 Sarah long, born in
Alamance, North Carolina and had children:
Elizabeth, Ephraim, Silvia, Jane, John, Savany, Rachel,
10 David Stout, born 18 May 1785 in Cane Creek,
Orange County, North Carolina and died in 1869.
Married in 1802 Elizabeth Osborne, born 1784 in
Alamance, North Carolina and had children:
Mary, John, Margaret, Samuel, George, Elisha,
Jesse and Elizabeth Stout.
Extended Stout Ancestry
NOTE: This is one of several versions of this story
which have been published. For additional information on
stories and histories of the Stout extended ancestors contact
Helen Willden.
The parents of both Richard Stout and Penelope
Prince Stout lived in that part of England where
Puritanism was most violent, as did passengers on the
Mayflower, and were "dissenters" among those who
fled persecution in England, otherwise Richard Stout
would not have welcomed the refugees who fled New
England, he so ardently helped to found Gravesend.
At Middletown, the long sought haven where
freedom of conscience became a reality at great cost,
where it was that:
" We spoke of branded men walking the streets;
others were there with slit noses and their ears
cropped. This was the penalty for political of religious
offenses." (Manderville, page 30.)
Penelope Van Princis Stout
Born in 1622 in the Netherlands and died in 1732 in
Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
The early Dutch settler Penelope Van Princis Kent
Stout, dubbed the "Mother of Middletown,” may also
be New Jersey's most famous survivor. The daughter
of Baron Van Princis (a.k.a. Van Prinzen), she was
born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1622.
After her marriage to John Kent c.1640, bride and
groom set sail for New Amsterdam (present day New
York), but near the end of the journey their ship ran
aground near what is now Highlands in Monmouth
County, New Jersey. Although the other stranded
passengers resumed their journey on foot, Penelope
stayed behind in the Navesink woods with Kent, who
had become too ill to travel.
Falls Prey to Hostile Indians
Cane Creek Valley in North Carolina
There the couple fell prey to hostile Indians who,
after killing her husband, left Penelope to die.
Partially scalped and bleeding from an abdominal
wound, she was rescued by friendly Indians and
eventually recovered from her injuries.
Samuel and Elisha.
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After her return to
the
European
settlements, Penelope
married an English-born
colonist, Richard Stout,
with whom she had a
large family. In time the
Stouts came to settle in
Middletown, NJ, where
Penelope lived to the
ripe old age of 110.
Several of the Stouts'
colonial era descendants
are interred in the
Presbyterian Burial
Statue of Penelope Stout
Ground off King's
Highway in Middletown, and while the exact location
of Penelope's grave is unknown, she, too, was buried
in this Monmouth County town. (bio by: Nikita Barlow)
(www.findagrave.com)
Established in Hopewell by Stouts
A son of Richard and Penelope, Jonathan, in 1685
took for his wife Anna Bollen. . . . Jonathan and Anna
lived on a farm at Hopewell, south of Amwell
township. Together with Nathan Drake, John Hart,
and the Bowen Family. Jonathan helped establish
the Baptist church of Hopewell. For forty-one years
the meetings were held at the home of Jonathan or at
that of one of his children, before a meetinghouse was
built in the early 1700's.
John Hart, Signer of the Declaration of
Independence, donated the land for the church and
was later buried in the graveyard adjoining. Nine of
the fifteen original members of this church
organization were Stouts or Stout descendants.
Jonathan served as a Captain of the Militia and as
President of the County Court. At his death, he left a
personal estate of $2500. Nine children survived
Jonathan. It is written that"Richard Stout was the
most prominent of the founders of the new colony at
Middletown . . . " "Richard Stout was the chief
negotiator with the Indians for the purchase of their
lands."
Gen #9 Peter Stout and Mary Bullen
Gen #10 Richard Stout & Penelope Kent
the first Stout ancestor to arrive in America
married 1645 in New Amsterdam, New York
First Baptist Church
Generation 6 (see Ped15)
Daniel Smith & Pleasant Chancy
Parents of Anna & 4th G-Grandparents of Dola
Daniel Smith was born about 1743 and was
married and died in Cane Creek, Alamance County.
North Carolina. He is the son of Thomas Smith (born
23 Dec 1721 in Berkeley, Perquimans County, North
Carolina), and Esther Sawyer (of Pasquotank,
Perquimans County, North Carolina.) Daniel died in
1791 in Cane Creek, Alamance, North Carolina.
Daniel married Pleasant Chancy who was born
about 1748 of Chatam, North Carolina and died in
1815 in Cane Creek, Alamanca, NC. She is the
daughter of Daniel Chauncey (born about 1707 and
was of Perquimans, NC) and Ann Overman (born 7
Aug 1714 in Perquimana, North Carolina).
Daniel and Pleasant were strict Quakers and were
neighbors to the Stout families.
The Children of
Daniel and Pleasant
1
County, North Carolina and died before 1860 in Adar,
Missouri. Esther married Sampson Caps in 1796 in
Chatham, NC who was born in 1766 in Orange, NC
and had children: Sarah, Margaret, Virginia Jane,
Edith, William, Hiram P, Jacob, Rebecca, Sampson
Anderson and David Kenney Capps.
2
Anna Smith, born 17 Sep 1778 (See Story Above)
3
Abigail Smith, born 8 July 1780 in Chatham, NC.
4
Thomas Smith, born 4 June 1782 in Chatham,NC.
5
Sarah Smith, born 17 Aug 1784 in Chatham, NC.
She married about 1805 John Capps, born 1781 in
Chatham, NC.
6
Rebecca Smith, born 9 June 1785 in Chatham, NC
and died in Sep 1835.
7
Daniel Smith, Born 31 Dec 1790 in Chatham, NC.
Ancestors
Gen #4 Allen Joseph Stout
Gen #5 Joseph and Annie Smith Stout,
Gen #6 Samuel and Rachel Chancy Stout,
Esther Smith, born 4 Nov 1778 in Chatham
Gen #7 Peter Stout, and Margaret Cypert
Gen #8 Samuel Stout and Margaret Price
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The Fisk Family
Generation 5 (see Ped15)
Alfred Fisk & Maria Sagers
Parents of Amanda & 2nd G-Grandparents of Dola
Alfred Fisk was born on 8 January1806 in Pomfret,
Chautauqua County, New York and died in 1834
during Zion’s Camp, Clay County, Missouri and
buried at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. He is the
son of Hezekiah Fisk and Rhodah Walker.
Alfred married Maria Sagers in 1831 of Silver
Creek, Chautauqua, New York.
Maria was born on 2 January 1810 Genesee or
Chautauqua, New York and died in 1835 in Liberty,
Clay County, Missouri. She is the daughter of John
Sagers and Amy Sweet.
Alfred Fisk was part of a very large family, the
seventh of fourteen children of Hezekiah Fisk and
Rhoda Walker. He and all of his siblings were born in
Chautauqua County New York. The rolling green
hills and lush forest grew atop rich loamy soil which,
when cleared, provided excellent farm land.
After learning the necessary life skills he proposed
to Mariah Sagers. Her parents divorced when she
was only twelve years old and her mother married Ira
Clothier, a good stepfather. Along with Mariah's four
full brothers and sisters, her mother and Ira added six
half siblings probably born in Genesee or Chautauqua
County New York within a year. Twins, Amanda
Melvina and John Henry, were born the following
year in Chautauqua County. Lucretia and John
Henry both died young.
Join the LDS Church
Mormon missionaries came to the area in 1833.
Hearing their doctrine, Alfred was converted. Several
members of his family as well as himself and wife,
Mariah, were baptized in the spring. Desiring to
gather with the Saints, they moved to Kirtland, Ohio.
Both the Fisk and Clothier families had a close
relationship with Joseph Smith and the growing
number of members in the small community.
Zion’s Camp Organized
On Monday the 24th of February in 1834, a
revelation concerning the redemption of Zion was
given through the Prophet, Joseph Smith, at Kirtland,
Ohio. Joseph commenced to obtain volunteers to go
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and relieve the Saints in Missouri from their
oppressors as per the Lord's instruction. Alfred was
one of over 20 men and four baggage wagons that left
Kirtland on 1 May with the prophet. Stopping at New
Portage, Ohio, they waited for the rest of the group
which also included a few women and children.
Being more formally organized into companies of
twelve with 20 baggage wagons, the 150 men were
ready to march some 250 miles across Ohio.
Alfred Joins Zion’s Camp
The departure of many able-bodied men of Zion's
Camp the first week in May 1834 slowed the Kirtland
Temple construction. Alfred turned his focus from
the House of the Lord to join the Prophet on the trek
to Missouri. Leaving his eight-month pregnant wife,
Mariah, and twenty-two month old daughter,
Amanda Melvina, in the care of her parents, he
readily volunteered to follow Joseph Smith in what
was to become a rigorous "refiner's fire.” It is
noteworthy that his father, Hezekiah and brother,
William and Sterry, were also members of Zion's
Camp.
Difficult Journey
As the small army proceeded on its divinely
mandated march, camp members followed a strict
regimen that was centered on their faith in God.
Every night before retiring to rest, at the sound of
the trumpet, we bowed before the Lord in the several
tents, and presented our thanks offerings with prayer
and supplication; and at the sound of the morning
trumpet, at about 4 o'clock, every man was again on
his knees before the Lord, imploring His blessing for
the day. Hampered by bad roads near the Scioto
River, many times ropes had to be fastened to wagons
to pull them from sloughs and mud holes.
Heber C. Kimball wrote. "Our feet were very sore
and blistered, our stockings wet with blood.
Discover Skeleton of Lamanite Chief
During their journey on the 3rd of June 1834,
Joseph Smith and some members of the Camp
climbed a large mound along the Illinois River bluff.
A skeleton was unearthed which the Prophet
identified as Zelph, a Lamanite warrior and chief. In
a letter to Emma, Joseph wrote that he had been
‘wandering over the plains of the Nephites."
Mob Turned Away by Miracle
On the 8th of June the Camp was strengthened by
an additional 55 men and 5 more wagons brought by
Hyrum Smith and Lyman Wight to assist in the relief
of the Missouri Saints. Traveling through Richmond,
Missouri, on the 19th, the group camped between two
branches of the Fishing River. A mob, numbering
over 300 men, had arranged to concentrate that night
to attack them, were prevented from crossing the
river by a terrible storm." The mob fell into disarray
and fled to shelter from the elements.
Alfred Died of Cholera
Further into Missouri, cholera struck some 68
members of Zion's Camp with thirteen succumbing
including Alfred Fisk. He died on the 25th of June
1 8 3 4, " an d w a s
buried on the banks
of Rush Creek in Clay
County Missouri.
Though Zion's Camp
members became the
leaders in two great
exoduses; the first,
but four years in the
future . . . from
Missouri to Illinois;
and the other . . . to
the Salt Lake and
other
Rocky
Mountain valleys.
From their numbers
would be called the
Twelve apostles.
Mariah’s Faith
Continues
Zion’s Camp at Fishing River
Alfred's father,
Hezekiah, returned to Kirtland. Mariah's faith
imbued her with the desire to seek a home in "Zion.”
Although now a widow with one child, she journeys
in 1835, with her mother and stepfather and their
children to western Missouri, the New Jerusalem.
Mariah died in September of 1835 and was buried
next to Alfred near Rush Creek.
Faith Leads to courage, and courage leads to
commitment. Life and death are inevitable. What
happens in between is important. Both Alfred and
Mariah had faith, courage and commitment. Their
lives were short but worthy of their existence.
(Taken from the book Norman Ingles Bliss and his wives
by Sharon Mangum Bliss and Callie Crosby Bliss page
137-138)
The Children of Alfred & Mariah
*1 Amanda Melvina Fisk, b. 12 June 1832 (See Story
Above)
2
John Henry Fiske, Born 12 June 1933 in Elk Creek,
Erie County, Pennsylvania. Died as child.
3
Emma Mariah Fisk, Born 8 June 1834 in Kirtland,
Lake County, Ohio. Died as a child.
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June 1809 in Leroy, Genesee, NY and had son
William Riley Howard Fisk.
Generation 6 (see Ped15)
Hezekiah Fisk & Rhodah Walker
5
Hezekiah Fisk, born 19 Sep 1802 in Coventry and
died 10 July 1803.
6
William Fisk, Born 1 May 1804 in Pomfret,
Chautauqua, NY and died 11 Nov 1839.
rd
Parents of Alfred & 3 G-Grandparents of Dola
Hezekiah Fisk was born on 13 Aug 1775 and was
of Providence, Scituate County, Rhode Island and
died on 9 Nov 1839 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. He
is the son of Moses Fisk (b. 20 Aug 1745 and died 24
Nov 1816) and Hulda Wilbur or Wilber (b. 13 Oct
1751 and died 23 May 1823).
Hezekiah married Rhodah Walker in 1795 in
Fredonia, Chautauqua, New York. She was born 22
March 1777 and died 6 Nov 1839 in Nauvoo,
Hancock, Illinois. She is the daughter of John Walker
Jr (born 28 Oct 1753 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island)
and Mary Round (born a. 1753 in Foster, Providence
Rhode Island.
Hezekiah, Oldest of Eight Children
The oldest of eight children of Moses Fisk and
Huldah Wilbur in Scituate, Rhode Island. He was
born about two months after the Battle of Bunker Hill.
His grandfather, for whom he was named, died the
following year. After the Revolutionary War,
movement was to western New York and the Fisk
family was part of the migration. They settled in
Chatauqua County right on the border of Ohio.
Parents of Fourteen Children
Hezekiah met Rhoda Walker and married her in
1795 in Chautauqua County New York. They were
the parents of fourteen children.
1
Rhoda Fisk, born 30 May 1796 in Sharidon,
Chautauqua, New York and died 26 July 1839.
Married about 1816, Job Knight, born 1793 in
Sharidon,
2
Sterry Fisk, born 9 Nov 1797 in Sharidon and died
26 July 1839. Married Amanda Dennis about 1817.
She was born in Sharidon in 1793. He married
Maria P. Fisk, born about 1810 and had daughter
Harriet Maria Fisk.
3
Moses Fisk, born 19 July 1799 in Sharidon and
died 10 Dec 1826. Married about 1819, Hannah
Stevens, born 1802 in Sharidon.
4
Ira Fisk, born 21 Feb 1801 in Coventry, Kent,
Rhode Island and died 7 Dec 1868 in Kaysville, Utah.
Married 16 Feb 1832 in Penn. Lucretia Trask, born
1804 in Coventry, Kent, RI and had daughter Ellen
Rosalie Fisk.
Married Minerva Sagers 1827. She was born 5
*7 Alfred Fisk, born 8 Jan 1806 (See Story Above)
8
Hulda Louisa Fisk, born 23 May 1807 in Pomfret
and died 15 March 1890. Married David Tucker,
born 1804 in Pomfret and died March 1827.
9
Hezekiah W. Fisk, born 26 Apr 1809 in Pomfret
and died 7 Oct 1839. Married 4 March 1837
Ledicia Sly, born 1812 in Pomfret.
10 Marvin Morris Fisk, born 30 Oct 1810 in Pomfret
and died 1884. Married 4 Feb 1838 in Geauge,
Ohio Julietta Stevens, born 1813 in Pomfret.
11 Mary Fisk, born 10 Sep 1812 in Sharidon,
Chautauqua, New York and died 1884. Married
28 Jan 1834 John B. Carpenter, born 1809 in
Sharidon.
12 Russell W. Fisk, born 13 Jun 1813 in Forrestville,
Chautauqua, New York and died 1901. Married
30 Dec 1843 Emilya Trask, born 1815 in
Forrestville.
13 Orra Fisk, Born 24 Feb 1817 in Forrestville and
died 18 May 1852. Married 9 Apr 1840 Oliver
McMahon, born 14 Aug 1819 in Adams, Ohio and
died 20 Aug 1892 in Clinton, Iowa and had
children Alice Rhoda and Oliver Gregory
McMahon.
14 Peleg Fisk, Born 30 Oct 1818 in Forrestville and
died 2 Nov 1819.
Hezekiah was born of a long line of religious
ancestry who came to America early on. Hezekiah
felt the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ when
the Mormon missionaries peached in the county. He
and his wife and all of his living children along with
their spouses joined the Church. Taking them with
him, Hezekiah led the way to Kirtland, Ohio.
Joins LDS Church
Mormon missionaries came into Chautauga
County and converted the Fisk family. Nearly all
members of the family were baptized. Hezekiah
became an active temple builder.
Joins Zion’s Camp
He was actively engaged in both the spiritual and
physical activities of the Saints. As a member of
Zion's Camp, he followed the Prophet on the journey
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to Missouri, proving faithful. Sons, Sterry, William
and Alfred volunteered and accompanied the group
as well. When the Camp was disbanded on the 24th
of June 1834. Hezekiah returned to Kirtland leaving
Alfred buried on the banks of Rush Creek in Missouri.
Labored on Kirtland Temple
At the Kirtland Conference March 8, 1835, he and
his son William, each received a special blessing for
their labor on the Temple. The Kirtland Elder's
Quorum records Hezekiah's anointing in the Temple
on the 25th of January 1836. A fervent worker, he
helped complete the edifice.
reiterated their desire to join the Saints who had
already settled in
Missouri. After much
discussion, the Spirit
of the Lord Manifested
that they should travel
together as a body
u n d e r t h e n a me
"Kirtland Camp.”
An estimated 900 to 1000 people attended the
Kirtland Temple dedication May 27, 1836 and again
on the 31st. ". . . . Heavenly manifestations, angels
appeared to some while a sense of divine presence
was realized by all . . . "wrote Eliza R. Snow.
Hezekiah's commitment and testimony led to
approval for his ordination as an Elder on 28
December 1836.
The Seventies
committee continued
to meet together often
in preparation for their
departure.
A
constitution was
drafted that outlined
the rules and laws for
Zion - Land of New Jerusalem
the organization and
government of the
camp.
Obstacles posed by extreme poverty,
opposition of apostates, and the organization of such
a large body of people had to b e overcome.
Kirtland Safety Society
Member of Planning Committee
A petition in 1836 was submitted to the Ohio State
Legislature by the Kirtland Saints to authorize the
establishment of a bank. The proposal was rejected.
A practice used by other Ohio towns was adopted
and the Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking
Company was organized by Church leaders and
opened in January 1837. Shareholders included his
son, Sterry, and son-in-law, John Carpenter.
Hezekiah is mentioned numerous times in the
Kirtland High Counsel Minute Book as he was a
member of the planning committee. Being ordained
1st counselor in the Elder's Presidency July 8, 1838, he
became a wise and cautious motivating force in the
exodus.
Heavenly Manifestations
The Prophet cautioned investors against excess
and speculation. The bank suffered losses after only
ten months operation and Joseph Smith was blamed.
However, it was discovered that Warren Parrish had
been defrauding the bank and counterfeiting notes
which led to its collapse in November of that year.
This causes apostasy, devastation to the saints,
financial insecurity, and the necessity for the
Prophet's refuge in Missouri.
They were not alone in financial upheaval as the
entire nation suffered a universal panic in August of
1837. Farms were lost and a westward movement
began throughout the nation. The church was already
established in Missouri which had been designated as
the gathering place. Many of those remaining in
Kirtland desired to emigrate there. But how would
they accomplish this move with so many of them in
poverty?
Saints in Missouri
On March 6, 1838, leaders of the Seventies who had
previously met to formulate a place to help the poor
to leave Kirtland, met again in the Temple and
The "Camp" commenced gathering on July 5, 1838,
on a piece of vacant land behind a house formerly
occupied by Mayhew Hillman, about one hundred
rods south of the Kirtland Temple. The group left
about noon the next day consisting of 529 people
representing 105 families.
A cloud over the party kept the saints from the
scorching rays of the sun until evening when the
horizon was opened to their view and everything
seemed to indicate that the God of Heaven has His
all-searching eye upon the camp of the Saints, and
had prepared the day for the express purpose or
organizing the camp. Thus their journey had an
auspicious beginning!
Leaving Kirtland, they traveled through Akron,
Mansfield, Bucyrus, Bellefontaine, Urbana,
Springfield, and to Dayton, Ohio. Near the Scioto
River on July 21st, the company encountered bad
roads as did Zion's Camp on 13 May, 1834. This delay
proved a blessing though. Nine days later the
able-bodied men of the company were asked to stay
in Dayton, Ohio, to work on the Springfield to Dayton
Turnpike. They contracted to make one-half mile of
the Turnpike. After a month's labor on the National
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Road, $1200 was added to their resources for travel.
Reaching Eaton, Ohio, on 31 August, they crossed
into Indians passing Richmond, Bellville, and Terre
Hauts. By September 7, 1838, they had traveled 433
miles. Their route then took them to Springfield,
Illinois, traveled miles totaling 575. The southern
towns of Illinois through Jacksonville, and Atlas
brought them 662 miles into their journey. After
crossing the Mississippi River, they camped at the
town of Louisiana in Missouri, then moved on to the
Chariton River, then Chillicothe, arriving at Far West
on October 1, 1838. The eight hundred and seventymile exodus was completed. Some settled in
Adam-Ondi-Ahman and others went to Caldwell and
Davies counties.
& Callie Crosby Bliss page 141-143) A few items were
added from other histories.
Suffer Atrocities by Mobs
They suffered atrocities at the hands of numerous
mobs, losing their possessions, homes and lands.
Fleeing to Illinois, they were ill-prepared to meet the
hardships and cold weather under such duress. The
town, Commerce, was purchased by Joseph Smith
and 30 April, 1839, and saints started building
Nauvoo. Within seven months both parents and four
children died Hezekiah W passed away the 7th of
October. Then Hezekiah's wife Rhoda, died the 6th of
November, and himself on the 9th. Another son,
William died two days later on the 11th. Rhoda,
Sterry, Hezekiah W. And William's deaths, along with
their parents were notes in the Times and Seasons
published in December 1839. Their graves are in the
Old Nauvoo Burial Ground. Though they lived but a
short time, they left a faithful legacy.
Disease and Death
The most common cause of death in Nauvoo was
"ague and fever,” or what is commonly known as
malaria. Typhoid was undoubtedly present also
although it might easily have been confused with
ague. Brain fever was also mentioned, which was
probably meningitis. Other common causes were
"consumption,” or what we could call TB or
pneumonia. Whooping cough (especially among the
very young), inflammation and diarrhea (symptoms
again ) measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria and canker,
which according to contemporary dictionaries simply
meant to "waste away" by any noxious cause.
After the Saints reached Utah, petitions were
gathered from the families who had lost property by
being driven out of Missouri. The documents were
sent to the federal government in hopes of redress.
Hezekiah's family petition was among them.
(This story found in the Book Norman Ingles Bliss
and his wives by compiled by Sharon Mangum Bliss
Old Photo of Nauvoo, Illinois
Extended Fisk Ancestors
Origin of the Name of Fiske
The name Fisk is simply an older form of Fish. In
Anglo-Saxon times the termination sh was regularly
sounded hard, like sk. The breakfasting Engliseman
of those days ate their fisc from a disc.
Fiske Family in England
The family of Fiske flourished for a very long
period in England, in the County of Suffolk, So early
as the eighty years of the reign of King John, A.D.
1208, we find the name of Daniel Fisc of Laxfield
appended to a document issued by the King,
confirming a grant of land in Digneveton Park, made
by the Duke of Loraine to the men of Laxfield. The
original is in the Public Record office in London and
is dated 1 May 1208.
Ancestral and Historical
(by Rev Albert A. Fiske.)
The Fiskes in America are descended from an
ancient family of that name, which for centuries and
until a recent period, had its seat and manorial lands
in Laxfield, in the county of Suffolk, England. As
early as 1422, one Symond Fisk resided there as Lord
of the Manor of Stradhaugh, and entitled by grant to
coat armour. Several of his descendants appear to
have justly gained repute for piety and education,
both among churchmen and nonconformist, and
numbers of them during the protracted struggle of the
Reformation, and especially in the days of Queen
Mary, endured severe persecutions on account of
their staunch adherence to Evangelical principles.
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Robert Fisk, Progenitor of New England Fisks
Robert Fisk, of Laxfield, son of Simon and fourth in
descent from Symond Fisk, of the same , married
Sibyl Gold, and had sons, William, Jeffrey, Thomas
and Eliezer. These parents were the progenitors of all
the Fiskes that settled in New England, so far as
known before 1640.
Many others of the family came later.
Daniel Fiske is Dola's 17th Great-grandfather
1. Daniel about
1345
2. Hugh about
1370
3. Simon about
1399
4. William about
1425
5. Simon about
1500
6. Robert about
1520
7. Thomas about
1560
8. Phineas about
1600
9. John about
1627
10. John about
1654
11. Benjamin about
1683
12. Hezekiah about
1704
13. Moses about
1745
14. Hezekiah about
1775
15. Alfred about
1806
16. Amanda Melvina
1832
life. In 1637 four of his children, two sons and two
daughters, in consequence of the persecuting spirit of
that day, left their home and came over to New
England and took up their abode in Salem.
John Fiske - Minister to Medicine
John was the eldest of the four, and his father at his
death committed to him the charge of his mother, two
sisters and youngest brother. John had been educated
at Immanuel College, England, and became a
preacher of the Gospel, but on account of his
nonconformist, being advised by his friends, he
relinquished the ministry and turned his attention to
the study of medicine, and obtained license for public
practice as a physician.
Return to Ministry
On arriving at Salem, however, he recommenced
the work of the ministry, his favorite pursuit. He was
both a preacher of the Gospel and tutor and instructor
to divers young men in Salem and was also employed
as a physician whenever he would consent.
Their mother died before they arrived in New
England. They came well provided with servants and
all sorts of tools for husbandry and carpentry, and
with provisions for their support for three years, out
of which they helped others, whom they found in
want and distress. They remained together at Salem
about three years. John then went to a new village in
Salem, called Wenham, where he gathered a church
and congregation, and continued their pastor about
fourteen years. About the end of the year 1655 he
removed to a town called Chelmsford, where he lived
the greater part of his days.
17. Lydia Mariah Fisk Stout 1849
18. Lillie Bliss DeMille
19. Dola DeMille Blackburn Perry Campbell
John’s Wife was John’s Concordance
Something of the English and American Fiskes
(By Rev. Thaddeus Fisk, of North Cambridge, Mass.)
The most remote ancestors of the Fiske family that
have come to our knowledge lived in a village or
parish of St. James, in the County of Suffolk, England,
in the reign of Queen Mary, in the sixteenth century.
There were six brothers, three were Papists and
three were Protestants. Their ancestors, parents,
grandparents, and great-grandparents, as far as
history gives an account, are said to have been
eminently pious and religious people.
The wife of Rev. Joh Fiske died which was the
greatest of all his trials and afflictions. She was
endeared to him by forty-three years of mutual care
and toil, affection and piety. By her incomparable
knowledge of the Scriptures she became his
concordance of the Bible and he needed no other. She
could refer him to any passage of the Scripture that he
wished to find.
Hundreds of stories can be found. Thanksgiving
is a time to be thankful for the gift that was given up
by those of our family who settled for us in this land.
Persecutions
Those of Protestant religion were grievously
persecuted. One of them, to avoid being burned at
the stake, was hid many months in a woodpile, and
afterward half a year in a cellar where he worked by
candle light at manufactures and remained
undiscovered. But his many hardships shortened his
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Generation 6 (see Ped15)
Amanda Melvina Sagers, born 5 May 1821 in
Hanover, Chautauqua, New York and died 22 Oct
John Sagers & Amy Sweet
1848 and married 5 Sep 1838, Lysander Gee born
Parents of Mary & 3rd G-Grandparents of Dola
1818 in Hanover and had son Orlando Lysander
John Sagers was born on 5 November 1788 in
South Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island and died
in November 1843. He is the son of John Seager (born
28 May 1757 and died 18 Feb 1819 in South Kingston)
and Abigail Bryton (born 11 Dec 1766). His parents
married on 9 Nov 1786 in South Kingston,
Washington County, Rhode Island.
John (Jr.) married Amy Sweet in 1809 in Jefferson,
New York. Amy was born 3 Aug 1794 and died in
Tooele, Utah. She is the daughter of Asa or Asel
Sweet (born 18 Aug 1754 in West Greenwich, Kent,
Rhode Island) and Martha Whitford (born about 1 755
in East Greenwich, Kent, RI). Her parents were
married on 26 March 1780 In East Greenwich.
Gee.
John married Lucy Beaumont
John married Lucy Beaumont about 1817. She was
born 5 Nov 1788 in Lebanon, New London,
Connecticut and died 4 May 1861 in Westerly,
Washington, Rhode Island. They had children:
1
John I Sagers, b. 29 Sep 1818 in N Kingston,
Washington, Rhode Island.
2
Samuel Beaumont Sagers, born 17 Jan 1820 in N
Kingston and married 1 Jan 1849 Charity Kenyon
The Children of John and Amy
1
and had children: Charles, Ida, J Francis, Janes S,
Abby C Sagers.
Minerva Sagers, born 5 June 1809 in Leroy,
Genesee, NY and married Joseph Eaton, born 1806
3
Washington, Rhode Island and died 6 Mar ch
Minerva married Ira Fisk in 1827 who was born 21
1851. He married Edwin Allen, born 1818 in
Feb 1801 in Coventry, Kent, RI and died 7 Dec
Washington, RI.
1868 in Kaysville, Utah and had son William Riley
4
Howard Fisk.
5
Minnie, Jennie, John, Edward and Frank Sagers.
*2 Mariah Sagers, born 2 Jan 1810 (See Story Above)
Desmonia Sagers, born 1812 and married Alfred
6
Fisk b. 8 Jan 1806 in Pomfret, NY and Died 1834 in
Zion’s Camp.
William Henry Harrison Sagers, born 3 May 1813
of Leroy, Genesee, New York and died in 1887.
He married a) France Camelia Adams, 1939, b)
Sarah Bailey 1846, c) Olive Amands Wheaton, 22
Jan 1846, d) Ruth Adelia Wheaton 1851, e) Lucy
Marlio Wheaton, 1851, f) Marian Smith ,5 Jun 1858
and g) Hariett Emeline Barney, about 1866.
5
William Sagers, born 16 Sep 1830 in N Kingston
and Married Sarah A. Walker and had children:
Minerva married 28 April 1836 Ralph Rose.
4
Joseph D Sagers, born 15 Jar 1825 in N Kingston
and died 11 Jan 1861.
Minerva married 1832 Daniel Howard.
3
Abigail B Sagers, b. 13 Jan 1822 in N Kingston,
in Leroy, Genesee, NY.
Lery Sagers, born 1815/1820 and married Mary
Martin about 1840.
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Mary I Sagers, born 18 Aug 1834 in N Kingston
and died 13 Nov 1856.
SUMMARY
One of the purposes of the chapters of our extended ancestors has been to increase
our understanding and appreciation of the faith, courage, sacrifice, ambition,
knowledge, spirit and love of our ancestors.
In our age, when knowledge begins to fill the earth with our advanced technology,
we can begin to feel that our generation is superior to those who paved the way for
us. Our hope is that we can only begin to rise to the nobility of many of our great
fathers and mothers.
Many ancestors may have been privileged to look through a “keyhole” seeing our
day and were willing to dedicate and give their lives so their children and children’s
children would live in a land of liberty and help prepare the earth for the prophesied
Millennial Raine of Jesus Christ. We are at the door. It is now our turn to help open
the door by continuing the legacy they gave to us.
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