wedding gifts

With the gift cards we got for Bed, Bath, and Beyond from our wedding reception in Provo last year, Dave and I bought this set of 4 spatulas. I can honestly say this was probably our best buy. These spatulas have been super helpful in cooking everything and they were cheap.

PB William Stevens

Along with Clemency's PB I received William Stevens'. He was born on 13 December 1819 in Bridgewater, Somerset, England, married Emma Crowden in 1847, they were baptized in 1855 and crossed the plains with the Franklin Brown Company in 1860. He did the PB in 1869 and died in Oakley, Utah in 1902. Their son Theophilus Franklin was born on 27 June 1860 while they were crossing in Nebraska.

When I looked up William on FamilySearch it says he had two other wives, Ingrid Svensson and Charlotte Crowden (Emma's sister?). It says Charlotte was sealed to William in the Endowment House in 1874 and that she died around 1875. And Ingrid Svensson was born in 1821 in Hyby, Sweden and died in 1914 in Brigham City, Utah and that she married William in 1844 and they were sealed in the Endowment House in 1870. But it also says she was married to Carlos Lundmark in 1850 in Sweden and had a daughter in 1851. So I don't know if I would really believe he had two more wives. My Mom was up at the Family History Library in SLC and she found out that FamilySearch is going to be replaced by a new program. One of the new things is that not just anyone can add information about people you will have to be related to change information about dead people. This would be helpful since there is a lot of wrong information (misspelled names is common).

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PB list update

I only have six more to request on my Spackman side of the family!

Spackman

1. Joyce Lucille Spackman 1936 Raymond

2. Amy C Neal Spackman 1921 Stirling

3. Sarah Ann Criddle Spackman 1899 Farmington

4. Thomas Spackman 1909 Stirling

5. Christinna E Greenburg 1862 GSLCity

6. Mary Ann Bull Criddle

7. Clemency Litten Casper 1847 Kirtland Ohio

8. William Stevens 1869 GSLCity

No PB

1. Alfred Bohman

2. William Henry Spackman

3. Cora Caroline Walker

4. John Marion Neel

5. Thomas Alfred Spackman

6. Axie Matilda Bohman Spackman

7. John Perkins

8. Henry Criddle

9. Johan/John Larsson Bohman

10. Maria Christina Gavert

11. Mattias Anderson

12. Elizabeth Larsdotter

13. John Austin Neel

14. Ellen Christiana Stevens

15. John Neel Sr

16. Rebecca Guess

17. William Casper

18. Nancy Durbin

19. John Neel Jr

20. Emma Crowden

Need to get

1. Walter Pharas Walker

2. Charlotte Wright

3. Edmund Walker

4. Maria Antoinette Swallow

5. Thomas Henry Wright

6. Elizabeth Barrett

Clemency Litten Casper Neel PB

I received the PB for my 4th Great Grandmother, Clemency Litten Casper Neel. She was born on 19 July 1816 in Bellville, Ohio. I found her father William Casper in the 1830 Census, but that Census was still before the Civil War so only the head of household is listed. I also found her husband John Neel Jr in the 1840 Census. The top of both pages says, "Schedule of the whole number of Persons within the Division allotted to".

Clemency's PB starts by saying they were in Kirtland Ohio in 1837, which was a year after the Kirtland Temple was dedicated and that it was performed by Joseph Smith, Sr. I about had a heart attack when I read that. I really didn't know that one of my ancestors had joined the church early enough to have a PB by the original church Patriarch, which is just so awesome! Clemency was still single at the time and the blessing says, "The Lord in dew time will give you a compagnion." Clemency married John Neel Jr. on 31 December 1837, eight months after the blessing, and their first child (William) was born eighteen months later. Clemency, John and seven of their children crossed the plains to the Utah Territory with the John Hindley Company in 1855. Clemency gave birth to a daughter on the trail, Sarah Platte Neel, but she died a month later. Clemency and John eventually had a total of 11 children with only two that died in infancy and the last child, Rachel, died in 1932, almost 100 years after Clemency received her PB.

The two notes at the end of the blessing 1- says it was copied by Elder A.O. Smoot for Clemency Neel Jan the 14th, 1838, and 2- "I have made this copy from the original which I was able to read with just a few exceptions Fern Densley Holt, Gr Grand daughter". I tried to find this Fern, but no luck. If anyone in the family has heard of Fern let me know.