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[38190] This person from the unverified Shires Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2014.
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_Reginald II DE SAINT-VALéRY _|
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[6141] http://www.mathematical.com/valeryreginald1094.html reports that she is of Isleworth, Middlesex, England. For information about this remarkable woman, see "Knighthoods of Christ. Essays on the history of the crusades and the Knights Templar, presented to Malcolm Barber, Chapter 7", Norman Housley. ed. (Aldershot-Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007).
_Robert GRAY ________+
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_Joshua GRAY ________|_Elizabeth FREETHY __
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| | _Shadrack WATSON ____|_Ruth HARTSHORN _____
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| |_Susanna KIMBALL ____|_Susanna CLOYES _____
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| | | |_Catherine ("Kate") RICE ___|_Margaret LOY _______
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_Joseph HEICHEL ______|_Katharine ALBERT _________________
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_Francis Marion HEICHEL ____|
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| | _Frederick COLEMAN ___|_Rachel STAHL _____________________
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[12037] Herschel apparently had two children, Floyd and Fern (who m. _____ Jamison). Hershel(l) is age 18 at the 1880 census, living with his parents. The 1900 federal census lists him in Biggsville Village, Henderson Co., IL. His death record states Herschel r. Smithshire, Ellison, Warren Co., IL.
[29851] See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_von_Hessen_(1503-1563).
[48348] Thie couple and his line are from the unverified file L61Q-RH3 in 2021 in familysearch.org.
[32614] Alice r. Howell, Hand Co., SD in 1880, in Howell, Hand Co., SD in 1900, in Amistad Union Co., NM in 1910 and 19 Feb 1920 in Justice Precint 3, Harris Co., TX. She is daughter of Lewis Raymond (b. ca. 1835 in PA) and Cassie _____ (b. ca. 1849 in Canada). Ancestry.com offers: "Raymond Name Meaning - English and French: from the Norman personal name Raimund, composed of the Germanic elements ragin 'advice', 'counsel' + mund 'protection'. Americanized spelling of German Raimund, a cognate of 1."
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[54249] "The Bangor Daily News [Bangor, Maine]," 4 February 1939, p. 50: "Cherryfield, Feb. 3 - George Ray Strout, 74, who died at the home of his son, Harold Strout, in Waterville where he had been receiving treatment the past three week was born in Cherryfield, the son of Arthur and Hannah Ray Strout, and was a carpenter. He married Miss Fannie Strout. They observed their golden weddirng in 1937. He is survived by his wife, his daughter, Mrs. Maurice Strout, three sons, Harold Strout and Albert Strout of Waterville and Russell Strout of Cherryfield; ten grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, five sisters, Mrs. Wilbur Strout and Mrs. Spencer Moore of Cherryfield, Mrs. Colin Strout, Mrs. Arno Jordan and Mrs Fannie Tabbutt of Bar Harbor; and two brothers, Herbert Strout and John Strout of Cherryfield."
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| | |_Hepzibah DEATH _____|_Mary PEABODY _______
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| _Edward GODDARD _____|_Elizabeth MILES ____
| | (1675 - 1754) m 1697 (1627 - 1697)
| _Ebenezer GODDARD ___|
| | (1713 - 1762) m 1737|
| | | _Simon STONE ________+
| | | | (1631 - 1708)
| | |_Susannah STONE _____|_Mary WHIPPLE _______
| | (1675 - 1754) m 1697 (1633 - 1720)
|_Susanna GODDARD ____|
(1742 - 1837) m 1761|
| _Samuel BRIGHAM _____+
| | (1652 - 1713)
| _Samuel BRIGHAM _____|_Elizabeth HOWE _____
| | (1689 - 1771) (1673 - 1733)
|_Sybella BRIGHAM ____|
(1718 - 1807) m 1737|
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|_Abigail MOORE ______|_____________________
(1696 - 1731)
Young was the American religious leader and colonizer of Utah, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).
Young spent his boyhood in the farm country of Vermont and western New York and received only two months of formal schooling. He worked as a carpenter, glazier, and journeyman painter. In 1829 he settled in the town of Mendon, New York, where he met a brother and disciple of Joseph Smith, founder and prophet of the Mormons. Smith's brother converted Young, previously a Methodist, to Mormonism, and on April 14, 1832, he was baptized and confirmed in the church. Young quickly distinguished himself as a preacher and evangelist in the area around Mendon; within the year he was ordained an elder.
Between 1833 and 1836, Young's fame and stature within the Mormon movement rapidly increased. About 1833 he organized a group of Mormons in the eastern states and led them to Kirtland, Ohio, where Joseph Smith had established headquarters. At Kirtland, Young met Smith for the first time. Impressed by Young's zeal and persuasive powers, Smith sent him into the surrounding states and Canada on missionary assignments. When, in 1835, the Mormons created a Quorum, or Council, of Twelve Apostles with powers second only to those of Smith, Young was named one of the apostles. In 1836 he was elected president of the Quorum. He was a strong figure in the movement during the period of persecution, climaxed (1838) by the migration to Hancock County, Illinois, and the establishment there of Nauvoo as the new center of Mormonism.
From 1839 to 1841 Young worked with the Mormon mission in Liverpool, England, preaching and distributing religious literature; he arranged for the emigration of about 70,000 converts from Europe to America. He returned to the U.S. in 1841 and for several years served as a missionary in the eastern states. After Joseph Smith was shot and killed by a lynch mob in 1844, Young was elected acting president of the Mormon church and henceforth was its leader.
Because of sentiment against their group in Illinois, Young and his colleagues decided to leave Nauvoo. In 1846-47 he organized and supervised the migration of close to 5000 Mormons across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains into the arid Great Basin. There, in Great Salt Lake Valley, he founded (July 1847) Great Salt Lake City. On December 5, 1847, he was formally elected head of the Mormon church.
Under Young's autocratic leadership Salt Lake City and the surrounding region soon became the Zion, or promised land, that the Mormons had long sought. His followers build extensive irrigation projects; developed farms, small businesses, and cooperative stores; and set up a legislature, public school, and two institutions of higher learning. In 1850 the U.S. Congress enacted legislation establishing the region, previously known as the state of Deseret, as the territory of Utah. Young was made territorial governor.
In August 1852, Young publicly endorsed the doctrine of polygamy, basing his pronouncement on a revelation said to have been experienced by Joseph Smith in 1843. His open advocacy of the doctrine disturbed the federal government and the non-Mormon residents of Utah. Finally, in 1857, President James Buchanan appointed a new territorial governor. Young refused to relinquish his post, and when rumors of an armed Mormon rebellion reached Washington, the president sent federal troops to Utah. Hostilities were averted, largely as a result of Young's statesmanship, and the new governor was installed without incident. Nonetheless, as president of the church, Young continued to play a dominant role in Utah. In 1871 he was indicted on a polygamy charge but was not convicted. Young is believed to have married 27 times and was survived by 17 wives and 57 children.