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Show r THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, Church Deportment erieaiogif. high adventure. Many typical Mormon pedigrees have one branch tracing down to the south, another to New England; one line links up with the Dutch and German and Swiss founders" of New York and Pennsylvania; another with the cavaliers of Virginia or the Puritansof Boston through their offshoots in Maine or New Hampshire or Vermont. The tide of population rolled westward, mingling together into one common bloodstream these forming a new and more"virTTe" race, possessing the noblest qualities of the parent peoples. Nor wras the resulting admixture composed of European elements only. Literally thousands of Latter-daSaint families have one or more lines tracing back to Indian progenitors. One searcher. President A. Merlin Steed of the San .Fernando . Stake presidency, always had: an in- in the Indians but . tense interest never suspected he himself was of that lineage until he began tracing his ancestors, when he discovered that he had not just one but many lines link-t and Chief g him the New England tribes which met and Welcomed the Pilgrims. Few members are really aware of the vast number of lineal ancestors they have. When President Cannon spoke of streams of blood from a thousand different sources he was not overstating the extent of our blood fes.- - In 1SS8- - Henry Kendall "wrote a volume entitled The Kinship of Men. Here are a few sentences quoted from his first chapter diverse-elemen- Nation y F. BENNETT Genealogical Society of Ltah) BY ARCHIBALD (Secretary, A Tth'e dedication of the Salt Lake Temple- - President George Q. Cannon made this inspired declaration to the assembled throngs: A people like we are, ga'hered from all nations of the earth, will comprehend in our ..labors There are but few of us, but we represent a vast numlrer of the families of the earth. Hence the anxiety there is on.the other side of the veil in regard to us. Streams of blood from a thousand different sources may concentrate in one man or woman, and that man or woman will be the representative of thousands of entire-natio- ns. - souls.- Hence it is that the Latter-daSaints are a highly repi esentative people. By the overruling power of God a mighty modern miracle has been performed. A new' nation of Israel is being formed in this new' land from select members of various aces and peoples, in such a remarkable way that virtually every family among us has ancestral roots reaching into the various countries of Europe. A few examples of. this may be y 1 ' cited. Two weeks ago we referred to the pedigree of W. Henry Chace. His father, born in the South, derives from the and numerous New England family of Chase, which came early in the seventeenth century from England. His mother is of mixed Spanish and Irish descent. His fathers mother W'as a Zewadski, scion of the Polish nobility. Practically .every Mormon congregation is made up of nearly all northern European nation- well-know- ts, n alities. During the process of the colonization of North Arperica each European country sent its nationals here. Some came as outcasts, fleeing religious persecution at home and seeking here in America freedom to worship. Others were political refugees. Still others were alert and vigorous seekers of new opportunities and Priceless Records No more wonderful thing has ever been accomplished in the history of the world than the turning of the -- hearts of the children to their fathers. Fronrthrr day this message was declared by Moroni to the Prophet Joseph," men and women all over the world have been organizing societies, hunting up their ancestors, and compiling genealogical records of their families. Millions of dollars have been expended for these purposes. I have spoken to and heard many times of men who have spent large sums of money to compile av record of tlleir forefathers, and after it was compiled, when asked why they did it, tlwy said: I do not know; I was seized with an irresistble desire to compile that record and to spend money freely to do It. Now that it is compiled I have no special use for it. The latter-daSaints value books of that kind price or money, and when. we. seek earnestly, year after year, to gain knowledge regarding those . of our family who have passed away without a knowledge of the gospel, I am sure the Lord blesses us in obtaining It. (President Heber J. Grant, Conference address, April 6, 1928 The y d Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 20, p. 36). on Mav-asoi- th up-wi- Ancestry: It is the common notion that each person now living has had only two ancestors in each generation of is favored by past time. the fact that each has only two parents, and is fostered by the prevalent of practice of ignoring the mothers all the way . . .If this impression were correct, the number of a mans ancestors, traced back from him to the origin of the race, and adding all the ages together, would be found to increase by two for every generation, neither more nor less, and though forming a long procession from the beginning of th world till now, would not amount altogether, according to common chronology, to What more than 354 persons then, really, is the truth on this subject? What is the normal law according to which a man's ancestors increase? It is that the number of them doubles in every generation as his . In descent is traced upwards . the first generation he has only two ancestors his father and his mother. In the second generation the two are converted to four, since he has two grandfathers and two grandmothers, his father having had two parents .and his mother also two. But, then, each of these four grandparents had likewise two parents, and thus in the third generation there are found to be eight ancestors, that is eight In the fourth generation the number of ancestors is 16; in the in the sevfifth, 32; in the" sixth,-64- ; harisen-tit tenth in 128; the enth, 1,024; in the twentieth it become in the thirtieth no fewer than This-notio- n s fore-elder- . . . great-grandparen- o 1,073,741,824 . . . To ascend no higher than the generation of ancestry, we reach the sum of 16,777,216, which is more than all the inhabitants of twenty-fourt- Great Britain when that generation was in existence. For if we reckon a years and generation at thirty-threfour months, or, a third of a century, of such will carry us twenty-fouback eight hundred years, that is to A. D. 1088. At that time the total number of inhabitants of England could have been little more than two milof a nineteelions. It was only nth-century mans ancestors if the normal ratio of progression as Just c shown by a simple process of om had received no check-frany quarter. A considerable proportion of those ancestors, indeed, if we could trace them back to their places of abode, would be found in foreign lands. But when these were deducted, (Continued on Page Eight) e r one-eight- h arith-meti- J MARCH 21, 1942 YOUR NAME By W. Henry Chace 28 June 1812, Washington Co., Penoa.J. 260 b Dear Brother Chace: William Lewis was born 19 Aug. 1620, in either Wales or England; married first, in 1644, Mary Hopkins, and second, 22 Dec. 1671, to Mary Cheever. He died 18 Aug. 1690, Farmington, Conn. A son, James, was born 10 July Conn ; married 1667, Farmington, Mary Meekins. Mary Hopkins was the daughter of William Hopkins and I want the ancestry of Mary, William Lewis and also Mary Hopkins, and the children of this couple. E. C. (September 27, 1941). ANSWER: Mrs. M. M. C., of Ogden, LEWJS-HOPKIX- S Utah, submitted lire follow ing information relating to the ance.-lry-William Lewis: ' William Lew is was the soil of William Lewis and Felix Collins. William Lewis, Sri was horn 3' Jan 1591, Lan-- ' inar- dough, Wales; died 2 7 Felix Collins Feb. ried 1618, to Felix Collins lived in Cardiff, Wales and where she" migrated to Hadley, died. She was the daughter of Walter Collins and Felicia Bondi ih William Lewis,- Sr. was the son of William Lewis and Sarah Catheart. Children of William Lewis and MaryHopkins were as follows: Mary ..Lewis., born .6 May 1645, Conn; married Benjamin Judd. Philip Lewis, baptized 13 l)ec. 1640, Conn.; died in 1721; married Sarah of Aug.-168- dr Mj, - Ashley. Samuel Lew-is-, born 18 Aug. 1648, Conn; married Elizabeth Judd. Sarah Lewis, born in 1(52, Conn; marriejl Samuel Boltwood Hannah Lewis, born about 1654, Conn; married Samuel Oiowe. William Lewis, baolized 15 Mar. Conn.; married Phebe Moore. Felix Lewis, baptized 12 Dec. 1(558, Conn; died in 17.38; man ted Thomas Seldon. Ebenezer Lewis', lxn n about 1661, Conn ; married Elizalietb Merriam. John Lewis, born 15 May 1665, Conn ; died 1694. James LtfWis, Ixirn 10 July 1667, Conn; died in 1728; mart it'd Mary Meekins. The family group sheets of some of the descendants of this couple are filed in the Archives of the Genealogical Society of Utah These are accessible to those interested in the lineage. 1657, Can You Answer These? TAYLOR PIERCE. I want the names of the parents and ancestry of Elizabeth Taylor, born 14 Xoy, 1776, in Vermont; died 7 Sept. 1836, Deposit, Broome Co , New York; married 19 Feb. 1794, to Isaac Pierce. This couple had a son, Isaac W. Pierce, born 3 Feb. 1811, who joined the L. D. S. Church. J. P, C. ALLEN-ALLEN- . Can a none give- me any names and'dates on the lines of Marcia Allen? She was born 6 Nov. 1804; died 25 Deo. 1866; married in 1826 to Albern "Allen, born 22 May 1802, Cornwall, ' Conn. Her parents were Gideon Allen and Rachel Hand. I shall also appreciate any other information about Marcia Allen and Albern Allen. Z. A. HUGHES DAVIS. I should' bke to. s learn the names and dates of the of Thomas Hughes and Mary Davis, his wife. They had a daughter Sarah who married Clearies Wilkinson, Sarah was Ixirn in May 1815, Denbighshire, Wales. I also want to know fiar-ent- whether there were other members in this family. E. A. W. I want to learn the names of the parents arid ancestry of Thomas Kidd and his wife, .Susannah Shafer. Me was born 1?" JruTyT?90J GundoryT Ireland; later he moved to Washingtin Co., Penna., and married Susannah Shafer in 1812. He died 22 Aug. 1873. Susannah Shafer was born 9 June 1789, York Co., Penna. They had the following children: William, KIDD-SHAFE- NEWS IS Alexander,. born 1. Dee: IS14, Washing-toCo., Penna.; Thomas, born 27 Apr. 1 816, Virginla. John, boriT8June18l8 Va.; Catherine, born 24 Dec. 1819, Va ; David, born 19 Aug. 1820, Va.; Eliza, born 20 Aug. 1821, Va. I also want the names of the brothers and sisters of Thomas Kidd and Susannah Shafer. n E. J. H. a. MOOR VAN HORN. I am seeking the place of birth and the ancestry of Fredric R. Moor, born 24 May 1773; died in 1876 (age 103 yrs V- Louisa Lawrence Co , Ky. I also want information concerning his wife, PameJia Van Horn, bornf Aug.: 17Sl;died 22 - NTayTS67, in Virginia. They went into irginia, we think fiom Boston or - Da it imore,.jmd .settled 111 u hat is now-WeVirginia," near the town of Fort st Gay. b. WALLACE ,MOOR (or MORE).' also ) ant the same information about Thomas Wallace, w ho settled at Louisa, Lawrence Co , Virginia, and who married second, Mary E. More, daughter of Fredric Moor. Thomas Wallaces first wife was Elizabeth , born 11 Feb. 1817; died s May 1840. M. T. R T a. Charles' Cook, born 22 Feb. 18.30, was married in the State of New York to 'Lucinda Jane Ferren, born 21 Aug 1833. I need the names of their parents; also more data concerning this couple. COOK-FERRE- hBLSI I PPS J also need the parents and data of Alexander Bush (or Alexander ter Bush), born in 1805, New lork; married Jane Phipps, born 1820 in England They lived in Oakland County, Michigan, where both died. He died in 1874 and she died in 1889. H. P. W. . I shotild like additional information about the ancestors of John Holmes and Mary Ann White. John Holmes was born 25 Oct. 1801, Simpson, Buck., England; died July 1888, at North Ogden, Utah; mar-rieMary Ann White, ixirn 5 Nov. 1810, at Leighton, Buzzard, England; died 26 June 1884, at North Ogden, Utah. The parents of John Holmes were John Holmes and Sarah Fowler; the parents of Mary Ann were Richard White and Sarah Samuel. HOLMES-WHITE- d C. H. T. PILGRIM L1YERMORE. I should like data concerning Josejih Pilgrim and Elizabeth Livermore and their ancestry. Joseph Pilgrim was born 22 Nov. 1768, Great Chesterford, England; died 8 Mar. 1842; married 15 Oct 1789 to Elizalieth Livermore. Joseph was the son of Samuel Pilgrim and Susannah Watters. Samuel and Susannah Pilgrim were married 21 Oct 1767. Elizabeth Livermore was born 1764, Chesterfield, England; buried 8 Dec. 1810. Her father was John Livermore, horrr 250 r "17 IT; Chesterfield, Essex, England j k P. CROUCH. I want the ancestry of William Crouch and the maiden name of his wife, Elizabeth They had a son, Caleb Ebenezer Crouch, who was born 24 Nov. 1820. Wadhurst, Sussex, England; married Sarah Russell, born 2 Dec. 1822, Huntington, Sussex, England H. B. C Give us, O give us the man who his- - work Be his occupation what it may, he is "equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. Ho will do more in the same time he will do it better he will persevere longer. One Is scarcely sensible of fatigue while he marches. to music. The very stars are said to make harmony.as thoy.rev-ol ve in sings at their, spheres. Wondrous Is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculations its powers of endurance. Efforts permanently useful must be uniformly joyous a spirit all sunshine graceful from very gladness beautiful because hrlg4iC to-b- e . |