Part 43 (2/2)

William G., Albert H., Jeremiah,*

Moroni.

”Jerry” was accidentally killed by falling from a railway train, between Fort Scott and Camas, Kansas, on the night of May 25th, 1887, while on his way to Europe to fulfill a mission.

The sisters Harriet and Ellen Sanders next occur to mind. The latter has already been mentioned as one of the three women who accompanied the pioneers from Winter Quarters to the Rocky Mountains in 1847.

HARRIET'S offspring:--

Harriet,*

Hyrum H., Eugene.

(Hyrum fulfilled an honorable mission to the Southern States.)

ELLEN'S:--

Samuel,*

Joseph S,* } twins.

Augusta,* } twins.

Jedediah, Rosalia.

FRANCES SWAN,* one of Heber's wives who left him, was the mother of one child, a daughter named for herself.

Heber also married Martha Knight,+ by whom he had one child, a son; name unknown.

One of his last wives was Mary Smithies,* the same whom, in her infancy, in a far-off land, he had blessed and promised that she should live to become ”a mother in Israel.” Her children are:--

Melvina, James,*

Wilford, Lorenzo, Abbie.

In the foregoing lists we have cla.s.sed together the wives who were the mothers of his children. Besides these there were many others, most of them aged ladies and widows whom he merely supported, without living with them. Following is a list of their names:--

Mary Fielding Smith,*[A]

[Footnote A: Widow of Hyrum Smith, sealed to Heber for time.]

Margaret McMinn,*

Hannah Moon,*

Dorothy Moon, Adelia Wilc.o.x, Huldah Barnes, Eliza Cravath, Mary Ann Shefflin,*

Charlotte Chase, Theresa Morley,*

Ruth L. Pierce, Maria Winchester,*

Laura Pitkin,*

Abigail Pitkin,*

Ruth Wellington,*

Abigail Buchanan,*

Sophronia Harmon,*

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