Thomas Turney 1719-1783 Martha Lyon 1723

Thomas Turney
Parents Thomas Turney and Abigail Wells
Born abt 1719 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married Martha Lyon 28 Dec 1746 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America

Marriage record from book: Fairfield Vital Records

Died: 21 Jan 1783 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut
Buried
Sources
Online Book: Lyon Memorial: Families of Connecticut and New Jersey by Louise Lyon Johnson, Samuel R. Winnans (Jr.) page 270
Book:  History and Genealogy of the Old Families of Fairfield  Vol 1 page 976

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Martha Lyon
Parents Samuel Lyon and Mary Davis
Born abt 1726 Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Died 1765 Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Buried
Sources
Online Book:  Lyon Memorial:  Families of Connecticut and New Jersey by Louise Lyon Johnson, Samuel R. Winnans (Jr.) page 263, 270
Marriage:  Book:  Fairfield Vital Records page 84
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CHILDREN

Elizabeth Turney
Born 10 Jul 1748 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married Isaac Seeley son of Nathaniel Seeley and Rebecca Hubbell abt 1768 Connecticut
Children:  Rebecca, Ozias, Isaac, William, John, Polly
Died 15 May 1836  New Lisbon, Otsego, New York
Buried Welcome Cemetery, New Lisbon, Otsego, New York

Burial Notice for Isaac and Elizabeth in the original Old Fuller and Priest Cemetery
now known as the Welcome Cemetery

Sources
1820 US Census Cherry Valley, Ostego, New York
1830 US Census Cherry Valley, Ostego, New York
Birth: Connecticut, Births and Christenings AND IGI Film 0002959 Batch 7450373
Online Book:  Lyon Memorial:  Families of Connecticut and New Jersey by Louise Lyon Johnson, Samuel R. Winnans (Jr.) page 270
New York State Cemetery Records
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Benjamin Turney
Born 25 Mar 1750 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married Eunice (Sarah?) Lyon Jul 1771 British Colonial America
Died aft 1790
Buried
Sources
Birth: Connecticut, Births and Christenings AND IGI Film 0002959 Batch 7450373
1790 US Census Ballston, Saratoga, New York
Online Book:  Lyon Memorial:  Families of Connecticut and New Jersey by Louise Lyon Johnson, Samuel R. Winnans (Jr.) page 270
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Eunice Turney headstone

Eunice Turney
Born 19 Jan 1752 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married Daniel Cable 22 Nov 1769 Easton, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
No Children
Died 17 Sep 1818 New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut
Buried:  Gaylordsville Cemetery, New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut
Sources
Birth: Connecticut, Births and Christenings
Birth: IGI Film 0002959 Batch 7450373
Online Book:  Lyon Memorial:  Families of Connecticut and New Jersey by Louise Lyon Johnson, Samuel R. Winnans (Jr.) page 270
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12654356/eunice-cable

*Thomas Turney (the 'turncoat')
Born 2 Mar 1754 Fairfield Township, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Fled to Long Island, New York to join the Loyalists in 1776.  He was said to have 'joined the enemy' (18 May 1781 Fairfield Town Records) and was not mentioned in his father's will.
Married Amy Coy 15 Nov 1792 Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada
Children: Jerusha, Amasa, Mary, Sarah, Martha, Thomas, Levina, David, Nelson, Elizabeth, Amy, Margaret, Frances
Died 23 Mar 1840 Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
Sources
His joining the Loyalists:  Generations Newsletter Vol 55-62 page 30
Birth: Connecticut, Births and Christenings AND IGI Film 0002959 Batch 7450373
Online Book:  Lyon Memorial:  Families of Connecticut and New Jersey by Louise Lyon Johnson, Samuel R. Winnans (Jr.) page 270
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Hannah Turney

Born 27 Mar 1756 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married  Eliphalet Wheeler by 1783
Children:  Abby (there were more children:  the US census of 1790 for Weston, Fairfield, Connecticut, indicates 2 males under age 16, 1 male over and 3 girls in Eliphalet Wheeler household.  They didn't distinguish ages for females.  
Note about Eliphalet: In book Maritime Connecticut in the Revolution, page 198 his name appears on the "List of the Government Guard" of men that served May and June 1777 at the "Salisbury Furnace."
Died 
Sources 
Birth:  Fairfield Vital Records Vol 1 page 135
Family member researching this name:  Alan Wheeler (email upon request - with his permission)
Birth: Connecticut, Births and Christenings AND IGI Film 0002959 Batch 7450373
Online Book:  Lyon Memorial:  Families of Connecticut and New Jersey by Louise Lyon Johnson, Samuel R. Winnans (Jr.) page 270
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Sally Turney Odell headstone

Sarah (Sally) Turney

Born 1758 Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married William Odell abt 1778
Children: Olive, Martha, Jerusha, Nehemiah, William, Harry, Sally
Died 1832 New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut
Buried: Center Cemetery, New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46805585/sally-odell
Daughter of the American Revolution Magazine 1913 Vol 43-45 page 125
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Martha Turney

Born abt 1760 Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married Thaddeus Gilbert  18 March 1775 Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Children:  Banford, Turney 
Died 11 Jun 1822 New York
Buried Spencertown Cemetery, Columbia, New York
Sources
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Martha Turney Gilbert headstone

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19914496/martha-gilbert
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.connecticut.counties.windham/3496.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Note:  This link is still working as of 16 Feb 2020
Jemima Turney
Born 28 May 1762 Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married Daniel Hall abt 1780
Children:  Tabitha, Mabel, Turney, Alanson, Zalmon, Alban, Benjamin
Died 24 Jan 1821 Connecticut

Jemima Turney Hall

Buried Long Hill Cemetery, Trumbull, Fairfield, Connecticut
Sources
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Mentioned: http://connecticut-genealogy.blogspot.com/2010/06/francis-hall-descendants.html
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21137289/jemima-hall

David Turney

Birth 19 January 1765 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America
Married: 1) Parthenia Johnson 10 January 1787 Weston, Fairfield, Connecticut

David and Parthenia's marriage record

Children:  Thomas, James, Albert, Abiah, David, Alson, Roswell, Zalman, Martha, Willis, Emeline, Caroline, Sally
2) Clarissa Johnson 1816 Connecticut
No children

David Turney headstone

Died 25 Jul 1829 Fairfield, Connecticut
Buried: Union Cemetery, Easton, Fairfield, Connecticut
Sources
1790 US Census Weston, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
1800 US Census Weston, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
1810 US Census Weston, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
1820 US Census Weston, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Connecticut Town Birth Records
Connecticut Death Records
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139586405/david-turney

James Houston 1779-1841 Mary Ettleman 1786-1847

Note: This family was steeped in the early history of the LDS church. They suffered much and were given much. There is a lot of information out there available online but be careful because you need to pay attention to research (for example see my notes on Catherine).

M - 4th Ggrandfather

James Houston
Parents William Houston and Catherine Boyle
Born abt 1779 Franklin Co, Pennsylvania
Married Mary Magdalena Ettleman 7 Sep 1813 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Buried Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska
Note:  No stone exists
Sources
Book:  LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol 1 page 800
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His parents, wife, and children: http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm#20

LDS Pioneers

NOTE:  This link is no longer operative as of 2020

Group Headstone 

M - 4th Ggrandmother

Mary Magdalena Ettleman
Parents Jacob Frederick Ettleman and Chloe Ann Benner
Christened 27 Aug 1786 Franconia Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania
Died 26 Mar 1847 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
COD:  Scurvy (poor nutrition)
Buried Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska Plot #116
Note: Remember her name appears as Mary Houston on the monument
Sources
Online: http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
NOTE:  This link is no longer operative as of 2020
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35005827/mary-magdalena-houston
Her personal plot:  http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/graves.aspx#Top
NOTE:  This link is no longer operative as of 2020
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CHILDREN

Elizabeth H McBee

Elizabeth Houston
Born 25 Feb 1814 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married James Riley McBee 27 Jan 1831 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Note:  married by George Roberts, Justice of the Peace

Obituary

Children: Mary, John, Levi, Harriet, Henry, Caroline, Sarah, James, Sam, David
Died 6 Mar 1893 Tinney's Point, Missouri
COD: Paralysis and old age
Buried: McBee Chapel Cemetery, Carroll, Missouri

Headstone

Sources
Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ohio County Marriages 1789-1994 Film 897628 page 218
1850 US Census for Ray County, Ray, Missouri (age 35)
1860 US Census for Morris, Carroll, Missouri (age 46)
1870 US Census for Morris, Carroll, Missouri (age 56)
1880 US Census for Bates, Carroll, Missouri page 403C (age 66, widow, living with son, David)
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91515559/elizabeth-mcbee

John Houston
Born 17 May 1816 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married Christiana Ettleman 15 Oct 1840 Adams, Illinois

Christiana's obituary

Note:  his surname given as Huston in record
Children:  William, Catherine, Lucy, Mary, Wilson, John
Died and Buried 5 July 1852 On the plains
Life Events:
John marched in Zion's Camp. 
John crossed the plains in a handcart company, died, and was buried along the trail.
 John was a member of the Quorum of Seventy and ordained as such in Nauvoo. 
John served in the Military as Private, Company E
Sources
http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
NOTE:  This link is no longer operative as of 2020
Illinois County Marriages 1810-1934
Christiana Ettleman Houston Forney's obituary
The following sources were listed on Family Search
The Forney Five Family Records by Charles W Forney 1931 Standard Printing Company, Boone, Iowa p 72. Nauvoo Land & Records Office A biographical story written for the young child by Dorothy Wight Brinck is in the Daughter of the Utah Pioneer's Files for John Houston.
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Headstone

Mary Houston
Born 11 Sep 1818 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married: 1) Joseph Smith Jr 1842 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Note: This marriage is debatable.

Heber Chase Kimball

2) Heber Chase Kimball 3 Feb 1846   Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Note;  she was one of  43 wives - they had no children)
Note: Some have recorded this as a proxy Temple marriage
Died 24 Dec 1896 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Buried 27 Dec 1896 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah Plot A-8-75-E
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69396974/mary-kimball

Wiki about Joseph/wives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joseph_Smith%27s_wives#cite_note-SmithGD-12

Wiki about Heber/wives:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_C._Kimball

Anne Houston Headstone

Anne Houston

Born 8 May 1821 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married Newel Kimball Whitney 7 Jan 1846 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Children: Jethro 
Note:  this is her ONLY child
Died 16 Nov 1848 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska

Newel K Whitney

Note: records are inconclusive about her final resting place.  The monument stone is in Salt Lake.
Buried: Kimball-Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Note:  Supposedly the first person to be buried in the private cemetery. What it does not say it if she died in Nebraska and her body brought to Salt Lake.
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65790/anne-whitney
The Utah genealogical and historical magazine, Volumes 28-29 page 67
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Sarah Houston Pratt headstone

Sarah Houston
Born 3 Aug 1822 Jackson, Stark, Ohio

Parley Parker Pratt
picture likely taken by
Marsena Cannon

Married 1) Parley Parker Pratt 15 Oct 1845 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Children:  Julia, Mormon, Teancum, Sarah, David
2) A. Louis Taussig 15 Nov 1857 President's Office, Salt Lake City,
Salt Lake, Utah (polygamy - 3rd wife)
Children:  Isabell, David, William
When Louis deserted them, Sarah took back the surname Pratt, and the two older children, Isabell and David, also took the Pratt name.
3) Culbert King  This is NOT her husband, but her son-in-law, married to her daughter Sarah (thank you Paul for pointing this out in the comments)
Died 22 May 1886 Coyote, Garfield, Utah 
COD: dropsy (edema)
Buried Antimony Cemetery, Antimony, Garfield, Utah
Her obituary
A Hard Experience
Richfield, June 15, 1886
Editor Deseret News:
I send you a very brief sketch of the life of Sister Sarah Houston Pratt, who died at Coyote Creek, Grass Valley, Garfield County, May 26th 1886, which you will confer a favor by publishing.
She was the daughter of James and Mary Houston, born in Stark County, Ohio, August 3rd, 1823. When 9 years of age she became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and, with her parents, gathered with the Church and suffered in all the persecutions of that time.
In 1848 she was married to Apostle Parley P. Pratt, and in 1847, in company with her husband and the first company of Saints, started across the plains, traveling on foot, with her infant in her arms, most of the way. From that time until her demise she suffered many severe hardships; but in the hardest trials she trusted in the will of God. It may truly be said of her, “Thou hast come out of much tribulation.” Of late she has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Sarah E. King, at Grass Valley. She leaves 6 children and 30 grandchildren to mourn her departure.
–J.G.
[Deseret News, June 30, 1886]
[Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 15, 1886, 4]
Sources
http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
1870 US Census (age 47, working as domestic servant for the J. Smith family)
1880 US Census (age 56, occupation:  Spinning at home, living with Eugene and Wesley Pratt - supposedly children of hers)
http://jared.pratt-family.org/parley_family_histories/list_parley_wives_histories.html
Online: History of Parley Parker Pratt by Marie Dean Speakman
Patriarchal Blessing of Sarah Pratt
Obituary Deseret News, June 9, 1886
History of Sarah Houston Pratt and A. Lewis Taussig by Phil Cowley
“Research Report on Sarah Houston Pratt (Taussig)” by Angie M. Grigg.
Personal History of Sarah Huston Pratt Tausig by Gardner Cousins, Blane Gardner, 1983
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Susanna Houston Mitchell

* Susannah Houston
Born 11 Feb 1826 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married 1) Gideon Cooper Matlock 1848 Council Bluffs, Pottawatomie, Iowa
Children:  Alexander

Susanna Mitchell headstone

2) Benjamin Thomas Trotter Mitchell 6 Mar 1857 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children:  Thomas, Edward, Erastus, Charles, Lehi, Nephi, Walter

M - 3rd Ggrandmother

Died 6 May 1900 Salt Lake City,
Salt Lake, Utah
Buried 8 May 1900 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7543293/susanna-mitchell
1860 US Census for Utah, 15th ward, page 152 (age 34, called 'Susan')
1880 US Census for Utah (age 54, widow)
http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
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Catherine Houston Alexander

Catherine Houston
Born 12 Mar 1831 West Canton, Stark, Ohio
Traveled with the Willard Richard's Company to Utah Jul-Oct 1848
Married Horace Martin Alexander 15 Feb 1849 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Died 22 Mar 1900 Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah

Buried: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Utah, Utah

Sources

http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
Online: Mormon Pioneer Overland Trail 1847-1868

Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61528
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A short history written by Lucille H. Walker

Catherine's shared headstone

Note: While the history from Lucille is fun to read, there are a few points I feel are important enough to bring up for they change relationships and timing.
1) Catherine became an orphan on 21 Mar 1847 when her mother died in Winter Quarters (see Winter Quarters Project website) so she was not an orphan when she first arrived there and likely traveled to Winter Quarters with her mother and maybe a married sister or two.
2) In the story, Catherine's sisters were listed as Mrs. Heber C. Kimball and Mrs. Henry Rollins. Anne, her sister, did marry Heber, but I the way I understood it, Mrs. Rollins was actually the sister of

Horace's first wife, Nancy Walker - see below.

Written and compiled in 1927 by his granddaughter, Lucille Walker, and displayed online at homeutah@edu: It explains how Catherine, much younger than Horace, came to be his 2nd wife:

"...with Nancy (Horace's 1st wife) during her illness was my grandmother, Catherine Houston, then an orphan girl of fifteen years. After the children went to live with Nancy's sister, Mrs. Henry Rollins. Catherine was taken along too, to take care of the children who loved her. Together they crossed the plains.

Horace Martin Alexander

Grandfather received word that his children, with one of the Parley Pratt Companies was well on its way to the Valley. (NOTE: Catherine traveled at the age of 16 with the Willard Richards company which left 3 Jul 1848 and arrived in Salt Lake in mid October 1848) So with a few other brothers he hurried forth again on horseback to meet them. It is thought that he sighted the emigrant train somewhere in Wyoming. Grandmother still continued to live with the Henry Rollins family and to take care of the little Alexanders until her marriage to Horace.