Upper Level: Abraham Mitchell 1779-1863 Annie Colpetzer 1790-1844

Friday, August 28, 2009

Abraham Mitchell 1779-1863 Annie Colpetzer 1790-1844

Remnants of Abraham's original headstone
in Salt Lake City cemetery

NEW headstone paid for by Carol Kalender
who felt inspired to do so

M- 4th great grandfather
Abraham Mitchell

Parents William Mitchell and Mary Browne

Born 29 Oct 1779 Muncytown, Lycoming, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Note: his death information claims he was born 1789 in Buffalo Valley, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Occupation: Shoemaker
Married Annie Colpetzer about 1811

Utah Mormon Pioneer overland trek
Unknown company, 1847

Death 4 Mar 1863 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
COD: Croup

Abraham in SLC Cemetery Records "Records of the dead"
Books A-C 1848-1888, left-hand page which shows his name, that he is
related to Benjamin T, born in 1789 in Buffalo Valley then continues the information
clipped below

Abraham in SLC Cemetery Records "Records of the dead"
Books A-C 1848-1888, the right-hand page which shows he was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the date he died (4 March), the cause of Death was croup,
and the gravesite is D 3 8

Note: his given name was spelled Abram in the record and his marital status is widowed

Buried: Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah

Note: Plot: D-3-8-3W

Sources

1810 US Census Pennsylvania West Buffalo, Northumberland, Pennsylvania

1834 US Tax Records Sharon Township, Medina, Ohio

1836-1837 US Tax Records Sharon Township, Medina, Ohio

AGBI (American Genealogical Biographical Index)

Death: Utah Death and Burials 1888-1946 Batch B54932-9 Film 26553 p 41 #1633
Utah Salt Lake City Cemetery Records

Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37441474/abraham-mitchell
Family Search

ancestry.com

Utah Mormon Pioneer overland travel database: https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/abraham-mitchell-1779?lang=eng

Annie Colpetzer
Abt 1790 Buffalo, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Parents Johan Adam Colpetzer and Sarah Rhoades

Died 9 Oct 1844 New Garden, Columbiana, Ohio

Buried New Garden, Columbiana, Ohio
Note: no headstone
Sources
Family Search
Ancestry.com
Picture: Family Search
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37407210/annie-mitchell

CHILDREN

William Mitchell
Born abt 1812 Pennsylvania
Possibly stayed in Illinois - found a William Mitchell in the 1860 Census that was born in Pennsylvania
Sources
1860 US Census for Monmouth, Warren, Illinois
Levi Mitchell
Born abt 1814 Pennsylvania
Married Sarah Whitten 25 August 1841 Jennings County, Indiana
Children: Walter, Louisa, Winfield, Marietta
Died 1866 Rockcreek, Bartholomew, Indiana
Note: A 1940s inventory of Donaldson Cemetery noted a stone for Levi Mitchell, died 1866. His marker was not found during inventories done in 1999 and 2002 but maybe hidden beneath the sod. Two sons, Walter and Winfield, are buried here.

Levi's wife, Sarah, and youngest daughter Marietta, were still residing in Rock Creek township in 1870. Another daughter, Louisa Josephine Mitchell, married John Trent and moved to Montgomery Co., Kansas.

Buried Donaldson Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Bartholomew, Indiana
Sources
1860 US Census for Rockcreek, Bartholomew, Indiana page 137
Note: I'm not sure this is the right Levi, right now it needs more research

Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160215299/levi-mitchell

Benjamin T Mitchell

*Benjamin Trotter Mitchell
Note: According to Family Group sheets/Family Legend, this is the name he was born with - "Thomas" was added and Trotter dropped because one of his wives did not like the name Trotter which is a family surname from one of his great grandmothers.
To see him as a husband/father on my blog go here: https://upperlevelgen.blogspot.com/2009/08/benjaman-thomas-trotter-mitchell-and.html
Born 12 Jan 1816 Muncytown, Lycoming, Pennsylvania
Blessing 15 Oct 1835 by Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Ohio
LDS Missions to British Isles and Nova Scotia
Occupation: Stonecutter for Salt Lake Temple, Shoemaker, Farmer
He was a polygamist and had 7 wives
1) Sarah Trieseback 26 Apr 1835 (died of measles in Nauvoo)
Children: Benjamin Jr, Sarah, Emily
2) Lovina Buckwalter 10 Oct 1843 (She died 21 Mar 1875)
Children: Joseph, Percis, Hyrum, Jerome, Martha, Rachel, Margaret, Mariah
Note: Louvina was head of household in 1850 Davis county, Utah. The census spelled her given name Souvina. She also had the three children from Benjaman's first wife living with her.
3) Caroline Deseret Conrad 1 Jan 1845 (She died 18 Aug 1851)
Children: Amanda, Zadoc

Benjamin and Susanna's headstone

4) Lois Judd 1 Jan 1848 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska (She died 9 Jun 1912)
Children: Rachel, Mary, Ruth, Daniel, Annie, Nathaniel, Fanny, Lucy, Byron
5) Lydia Maria Day 30 Jun 1851 30 Jul 1851 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Hugh, Amelda, Alonzo, Franklin, John, Jedediah, Lois, Rosanna, Rhoda, Bernetta, Marion

6) Catherine Frederikke Marcussen Jensen 21 Dec 1856

Children: Rosanna, Frederick, Brigham, Benjamin, Mark, Annie, Alice, Henry, George

7) Susannah Houston 6 Mar 1857 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children: Thomas, Edward, Erastus,Charles, Lehi, Nephi, Walter

Died 7 Mar 1880 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Note: alternate death place: Kamas, San Pete, Utah
Burial 11 Mar 1880 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
Sources

1860 US Census for Salt Lake City, Utah page 152 (age 44)

Online: Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868 (this lists the names of all those who traveled with his company, their ages etc.)
Book: Conquerors of the West Stalwart Mormon Pioneers by Sons of the Utah Pioneers Volume 1, edited by Florence C Youngberg page 1683-1686

Lexly Mitchell

Born 1818 Overton, Columbiana, Ohio

Sources
Family Search

Esther Mitchell

Born 1820

Sources
Family Search

Ohio Mitchell

Born 1822 Ohio

Sources
Family Search

Jesse Mitchell

Born 1825 Ohio
Note: FS has him married to Eliza Jane Gould of Ontario, Canada, but listed as James Mitchell, not Jesse. I'm not sure he ever left the U.S. I have not found him on any Canadian census. I will keep looking. If any of you know more, please share.

Sources
Family Search

Julia Ann Mitchell
Born 18 Feb 1828 Ohio
Married Thomas Woolsey 28 Jan 1846 Pulaski, Fayette, Kentucky
Children: Margaret, Nancy, James, Ephraim, Eliza, Abraham, Louisa, Don, Joseph, Sarah, John, Catherine, Richard
Died 10 Jan 1896 Manti, San Pete, Utah
Buried Manti Cemetery, Manti, San Pete, Utah Plat B Block 1 Lot 13 Grave 8
Sources
1860 US Census for Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah page 69 (age 29)
1870 US Census for Utah (age 40)
1880 US Census for Panguitch, Iron, Utah page 343 (no age given, just estimated birth year - 1830)
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45120064/julia-ann-woolsey

Jeremiah Mitchell

Born 1830 Ohio

Possibly moved to California - there is a voter registered in 1882 named Jeremiah Mitchell born in Ohio

Sources

California Great Registers 1866-1910 page 30

Samuel Mitchell

Born 1832

Sources

Family Search

Thomas Mitchell

Born 1834

Married Sarah T abt 1858

Note: this is speculation all based on the Census information below. More research is needed

Sources

1900 US Census for Chicago, Cook, Illinois page 8B

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From a Funeral Program

When I come to the end of the road

And the sun has set for me

I want no rites in a gloom-filled room

Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little - but not for too long

And not with your head bowed low

Remember the love that we once shared

Miss me, but let me go.

For this is a journey that we all must take

And each must go alone

It's all part of the Master's plan

A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart

Go to the hills we know

And bury your sorrow among the trees

Miss me, but let me go.

The Line

Every minute someone leaves this world behind.
We are all in “the line” without knowing it.
We never know how many people are before us.
We can not move to the back of the line.
We can not step out of the line.
We can not avoid the line.

So while we wait in line -

Make moments count.
Make priorities.
Make the time.
Make your gifts known.
Make a nobody feel like a somebody.
Make your voice heard.
Make the small things big.
Make someone smile.
Make the change.
Make love.
Make up.
Make peace.
Make sure to tell your people they are loved.
Make sure to have no regrets.
Make sure you are ready.

I'm My Own Grandpa

Many, many years ago when I was 23,
I got married to a widow
who was as pretty as could be.
She had a grown up daughter
who had a hair of red.
My father fell in love with her
and soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
for she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother -in-law to dad
and so became my uncle though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
then that also made him brother to the widow's grown-up- daughter,
who of course, was my stepmother.
Father's wife then had a son,
who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
and it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
she's my grandma too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
then I am her grandchild.
and every time I think of it,
it simply makes me wild.
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!

Quotes from the Prophets

President Gordon B Hinckley: "It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future. It is good to look upon the virtues of those who have gone before, to gain strength for whatever lies ahead. It is good to reflect upon the work of those who labored so hard and gained so little in this world, but out of whose dreams and early plans so well nurtured, has come a great harvest of which we are the beneficiaries. Their tremendous example can become a compelling motivation for us all, for each of us is a pioneer in his own life."

President Spencer W Kimball: "I hope to see us dissolve the artificial boundary line we so often place between missionary work and temple and genealogical work, because it is the same great redemptive work!"

President Joseph Fielding Smith: " The responsibility on behalf of our kindred dead rests with equal force on all, according to our individual ability and opportunities...the greatest and grandest duty of all is to labor for the dead."

The Passing of the Pot (Chamber Pot)

As far back in childhood
As memory may go
One household vessel greets me
That wasn't made for show
Beneath the bed twas anchored
Where only few could see
But served the entire family
With equal privacy
Some called the critter Peggy
And some the thundermug
And others called it badger
A few called it jug
To bring it in at evening
Was bad enough no doubt
But heaven help the person
Who had to take it out
Our big one was enormous
And would accomodate
A watermelon party
Composed of six or eight
When nights were dark and rainy
It was a useful urn
On icy winter mornings
The cold rim seemed to burn
At times when things were rushing
And business extra good
Each took his turn a waiting
Or did the best he could
Sometimes when in a hurry
To our disgust and shame
We fumbled in the darkness
And slightly missed our aim
The special one for company
Was decorated well
But just the same it rendered
That old familiar smell
Today this modernism
Relieves me a lot
And only in my vision
I see that homely pot.
(author unknown)

Poem about ancestors

Though steep is the path I follow today,
The footprints of time will show me the way.
For many have traveled a smiliar road,
And carried an equal of heavier load.

No troubles I face are new to this earth,
That man has not faced from time of his birth.
The route has been charted and roads have been paved
By legions before me who were stalwart and brave.

Their steps never faltered nor courage grew dim,
For they trusted the Lord and let Him led them.
If my faith and my trust remain steadfast and true,
God will guide and protect me in all that I do.
- Dolores Karides

The Elusive Ancestor

I went searching for an ancestor.
I cannot find him still.
He moved around from place to place
and did not leave a will.
He married where a courthouse burned.
He mended all his fences.
He avoided any man who came to
take the US census

He always kept his luggage packed,
This man who had no fame,
and every 20 years or so,
This rascal changed his name.
No one else inthis world is
searching for this elusive man,
so I play "Gene-solitaire"
To find him, if I can!

I'm told he's buried in a plot,
with tombstone he was blessed;
but the weather took engravings,
and some vandals took the rest.
He died before the county clerks
were appointed to keep records
No family Bible has emerged -
In spite of all my efforts.

To top it off, this elusive ancestor
who has caused me many groans -
left me even one more challenge:
He brothed a lady,
by the name of "Jones"!
(Got this from a publication
put out by the DUP organization
that names the author: Merrell Kenworthy)

Poem: Heaven's Door

If I should go before you,

If life on earth were through;

I'll stop just inside Heaven's door,

and there I'll wait for you.

You've but to look 'cross star filled skies,

Past the moon and then beyond;

To know my leaving could never break,

This heart's undying bond.

And if you should go before me,

If your journey on earth were through;

You know I will be close behind,

I'll never be far from you.

Across the span of time and space,

This love will reach this far;

For you'll always carry a bit of my heart,

No matter where you are.

Allison Chambers Coxsey©1995 ~ All Rights Reserved

Which Shall It Be? by Adelaide Proctor

Which shall it be?

"Which shall it be? Which shall it be?
I looked at John and John looked at me,
And when I found that I must speak,
My voice seemed strangely low and weak:
˜Tell me again what Robert said,"
And then I, listening, bent my head.
This is his letter:˜I will give
A house and land while you shall live,
If, in return, from out your seven,
One child to me for aye is given."

I looked at John's old garments worn;
I thought of all that he had borne
Of poverty, and work, and care,
Which I, though willing, could not share;
I thought of seven young mouths to feed,
Of seven little children's need,
And then of this.

˜Come, John,said I,
We'll choose among them as they lie
Asleep. So, walking hand in hand,
Dear John and I surveyed our band:
First to the cradle lightly stepped,
Where Lilian, the baby, slept.
Softly the father stooped to lay
His rough hand down in a loving way,
When dream or whisper made her stir,
And huskily he said: ˜Not her!"

We stooped beside the trundle bed,
And one long ray of twilight shed
Athwart the boyish faces there,
In sleep so beautiful and fair;
I saw on James rough, red cheek
A tear undried. E'er John could speak,
He's but a baby, too," said I,
And kissed him as we hurried by.

Pale, patient, Robbie's angel face
Still in his sleep bore suffering's trace.
˜No, for a thousand crowns, not him!"
He whispered, while our eyes were dim.
Poor Dick! bad Dick! our wayward son”
Turbulent, restless, idle one”
Could he be spared?
Nay, He who gave
Bade us befriend him to the grave;
Only a mother's heart could be
Patient enough for such as he;
˜And so," said John, ˜I would not dare
To take him from her bedside prayer."

Then stole we softly up above,
And knelt by Mary, child of love;
˜Perhaps for her ˜twould better be,"
I said to John. Quite silently
He lifted up a curl that lay
Across her cheek in a wilful way,
And shook his head: ˜Nay, love, not thee,
The while my heart beat audibly.

Only one more, our eldest lad,
Trusty and truthful, good and glad,
So like his father. ˜No, John, no!
I cannot, will not, let him go."

And so we wrote, in courteous way,
We could not give one child away;
And afterward toil lighter seemed,
Thinking of that of which we dreamed,
Happy in truth that not one face
Was missed from its accustomed place;
Thankful to work for all the seven,
Trusting the rest to One in heaven."

Friday, August 28, 2009

Abraham Mitchell 1779-1863 Annie Colpetzer 1790-1844

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