Family Histories

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Heywood, Leland 1892-1976 - Letters

(Leland is the father of the contributor, Richard N. Heywood)

Letter to his future wife, Margaret Eleanor Smurthwaite, 1921
"... the Lord has answered my prayers."

Leland and Margaret were married 18 August 1921
Salt Lake Temple

Letter to his brother, Neal, in 1964 - "... sixty years ago... one of the saddest times of my life."

Monday, November 17, 2014

Heywood, Leland 1892-1976 - Documents

Leland Heywood is the father of the contributor, Richard Neal Heywood

Birth: 17 April 1892
Alpine, Arizona.
Parents: Joseph Neal Heywood and Sarah Francell Coleman
Marriage: 18 August 1921
Salt Lake City, Utah
Margaret Smurthwaite Heywo0d
Death; 6 December 1976, Mesa, Arizona

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Documents

Birth Certificate

1900 US Census

1910 US Census

Draft Registration 1917

Mission Call 4 May 1917, to Start 31 May 1917

Minister's Certificate 1917

Passenger List 1919 - From Hawaii after mission.

Leland Heywood
Arrival 27 Dec 1919
Age 27
Birth Date: Abt 1892
Birthplace: Alpine, Arizona, United States
Ship Name: Manoa
Port of Departure: Honolulu, Hawaii
Port of Arrival: San Francisco.

Enlarged

1922 Membership Record, St. Johns, Arizona

1926 Index to Register of Voters, Wiseburn Precinct No. 3, Los Angeles, California.
140 Heywood, Leland, 10513 Freeman av. phrmcst. R[epublican]
141 Heywood, Mrs Margaret S. 10513 Freeman av. tchr, D[emocrat]
142 Heywood, Mrs Sarah F. 10513 Freeman av. hskpr, R[republican]

1928 Index to Register of Voters, Los Angeles City Precinct No. 194, Los Angeles, California.
... Heywood, Leland, 4116 1/2 Budlong av, stdnt, R[epublican]
... Heywood, Mrs. Margaret S, 4116 1/2 Budlong av, tchr, D[emocrat]
... Heywood, Mrs Sarah F. 4116 1/2 Budlong av, hskpr, R[republican]

1928 Certificate of Dentistry

1930 US Census

1940 Census, Mesa, Arizona

Death: Dec. 6, 1976, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. Congestive Heart Failure

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Spence, Martha (Heywood) 1812-1873 - Documents

Martha Spence Documents

Immigration
Martha Spence 21 yo, Ship Helen
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Port of Entry: New York, New York
Date of Arrival: 13 Dec 1834

Home of Joseph E. Johnson, Iowa, 1850

Home of Joseph Leland Heywood, Salt Lake City, 1850

Home of Joseph Leland Heywood, Salt Lake City, 1860

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Spence, Martha (Heywood) 1812-1873)

(Great grandmother of the contributor, Richard N. Heywood)

Martha Spence Heywood

Birth: 8 March 1812, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Death: 5 February 1873, Washington, Washington, Utah

Obituary: 19 March 1873, Deseret News, V 22 No. 7

Martha Spence Journal: Not by Bread Alone - The Journal of Martha Spence Heywood,

Digital Copy via Utah Division of State History (1850-1856)

Brown, Sarah Robbins Bailey (1837-1902)

Great grandmother of the contributor, Richard N. Heywood

Click to go to her husband's page, Joshua Wood Brown.

Sarah Robbins Bailey (Brown)

Links:

Husband's Bio: Brown, Joshua Wood (1832-1903) Bio by Margaret Ellen Brown Smurthwaite

Browngenealogy.org (Includes family pictures and vital information.)
Find A Grave
Images for Sarah Robbins Bailey Brown Google
Crossing the Plains Pioneer Overland Travel

Birth: 11 September 1836, Stalybridge, Lancashire England

Marriage: 2 Apr 1856, Salt Lake City

Death: 9 Oct 1902, Logan, Cache, Utah

Family:

Husband: Joshua Wood Brown (1832-1902)

Children—

Mary Jane

Charles Bailey

Sarah Ann

Joshua Bailey

Margaret Ellen

Kate Ethlinda

Susan Bailey

Roselia Bailey

Joseph Bailey

John Armond

Agnes Matilda

Date	Age	Event	Comment
11 Sep 1834		Birth, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England	Eight miles east of Manchester city center
1834		Christening	Christened Sally, later changed to Sarah.
Nov 1836	2	Father, John Cook Bailey’s, death, Stalybridge. Age 29.	Death due to cholera. Buried in a coffin he had made for another.
22 Jan 1838	4	Mother married Charles Ramsden Sr.	Deserted the family before the family moved to Mosley, a suburb of Birmingham, England
1 September 1839	5	Birth of half-brother, Charles Ramsden Jr.
	8	Attended school in London. Home of uncle, John Bailey	Proposal that she be adopted by John Bailey and his wife was refused by Sarah’s mother.
	15	Lived with aunt and uncle, Catherine and William Broomhead, Mosely, England	Heard of gospel from her Uncle William and the elders
4 Aug 1851	16	Baptism	Moseley, England. By Elder Clinton.
		Family stayed with Mary Ann Richard Robbins (grandmother) in West Bromwich for 10 months
		Lived in Manchester
18 Dec 1854		“Entrained for Liverpool”
21 Dec 1854		Boarded the boat on the River Mersy.	600 souls. Terrific storm disabled the ship.
17 Jan 1855	21	Emigration – Liverpool. The Charles Buck
18 Mar 1855	21	Immigration – New Orleans.
		Sailing on the Missouri in the Golden State	6 days sailing.
9 Apr 1855	21	Arrival: Atchison, Kansas	Fitting station, 48 days.
1 and 2 July 1855	21	Migration– Mormon Grove (Near Atchison), Kansas to Salt Lake City	Richard Ballantyne Company 402 individuals, 45 wagons “Troublesome journey” Accident: Mary Ann, Sarah’s sister, almost killed. Note: Grandmother, Mary Ann Campbell died 5 Oct 1855 at Ash Hollow at age 94. (Traveled in the Milo Andrus Company.)
27 Jul 1855	21	Arrival in Salt Lake Valley,	8 Months and 10 days after leaving England
2 Apr 1856	21	Marriage – Joshua Wood Brown – Salt Lake City	Lived 4 years in Farmington, Utah
1859	24	Moved to Maughn’s Fort, later named Wellsville.	First home, a large dugout Indian Trouble: “Feed rather than fight.”
1857-1875		11 Children—All born in Utah	“Their house would ring with their voices in harmonious song”
1857-		Asthma	“A lingering illness for many years.”
9 Oct 1902		Died	Her sister’s home in Logan.
6 Dec 1903		Death of her husband, Wellsville

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Heywood, Joseph Leland 1815-1910

(Joseph Leland Heywood is the great grandfather of the contributor, Richard Neal Heywood)

Joseph Leland Heywood - Short Auto Bio

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia

Volume 1
Biographies
Davis, Nathan

Heywood, Joseph Leland, first Bishop of the Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake City, is the son of Benjamin Heywood and Hannah Rawson and was born in Grafton, Worcester county, Mass., Aug. 1, 1815. Elder Heywood writes: "My early days were spent on my father's farm, with intervals of about two months in the winter time in attending the common schools which the law of the State provided. Early in life I chose the occupation of a merchant. I left my native State in the spring of 1838 and became a citizen of Illinois; I spent some time in Alton and Springfield, Ill., and moved to Quincy, Adams county, Ill., in the fall of 1839. Engaging in the mercantile business in partnership with my brother-in-law, Oliver Kimball, I remained there until the fall of 1845, when I moved with my family to the city of Nauvoo, Hancock county, Ill. In December, 1842, I visited the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, and after listening to his preaching by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost, I was converted and asked for baptism the same hour. I was baptized by Elder Orson Hyde, in the Mississippi river, the Prophet Joseph assisting in cutting the ice. I was then confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the hands of Elders Orson Hyde, Joseph Smith and Jedediah M. Grant. I was ordained an Elder by Elder Orson Hyde, in March, 1844, and ordained a High Priest and also a Bishop under the hands of Elders Heber C. Kimball, Brigham Young and Parley P. Pratt Oct. 8. 1844. In 1846, when the Church commenced its exodus to the west, I, in connection with Almon W. Babbitt and John S. Fullmer, was chosen one of the trustees of the Church, for the care and disposal of the Church property at Nauvoo. I bore arms in defense of the lives and property of the people of Nauvoo, when attacked by the mob Sept. 12, 1846, at which time Brother Wm. Anderson with his [p.647] fourteen-year-old son and a Brother Norris were slain. I remained in Nauvoo until the spring of 1848, when I journeyed to Winter Quarters, in time to join the last company of that season's emigration which was presided over by Pres. Willard Richards, with Elder Franklin D. Richards as captain of fifty, and Elder John S. Fullmer as captain of ten. We made the journey from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake valley with ox-teams, arriving Oct. 19, 1848. I was appointed (by the government at Washington, D. C.) postmaster of Salt Lake City in the spring of 1849, and in the fall of that year I was appointed, in connection with Elder Edwin D. Woolley, on a mission to the Eastern States, to purchase merchandise for the Church. I also visited Washington, D.C., and assisted Delegate John M. Bernhisel in obtaining a Territorial government for Utah. In the winter of 1855-56 I was instrumental in getting a petition signed by Colonel Steptoe and his officers, by which Gov. Brigham Young was retained in office several years longer. In February, 1849, I was ordained and set apart as the first Bishop of the 17th Ward, Salt Lake City, and filled this position for six years. In the spring of 1851 I accompanied Pres. Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball and Apostle Ezra T. Benson on their visit to Parowan, and was appointed to form a settlement on Salt Creek (now Nephi, Juab county). I assisted the Territorial surveyor, Jesse W. Fox, in laying out the city of Nephi, where I presided for three years. In the spring of 1855 I accompanied Apostle Orson Hyde with a company of Elders to form a settlement in Carson valley (Nev.), acting at the same time as a guard for the Hon. George P. Stiles, who was going to Carson valley to hold a session of the District Court. In the spring of 1856, in company with Apostles Orson Pratt and Ezra T. Benson (who were en route for a mission to Europe) and Geo. A. Smith, as delegate from the people of Utah, to petition Congress for a State government, I again crossed the plains, my destination being Washington, D.C., to arrange my business with the government as U. S. Marshal for Utah, which office I then held. I had been appointed to that office by Pres. Millard Fillmore in 1851, and reappointed by Pres. Franklin Pierce in 1855. On my return I spent one week in Independence (Mo.). Leaving Independence Nov, 7, 1856, I was winterbound at the Devil's Gate, on Sweetwater, and, in connection with about twenty Saints, presided over by Elders Daniel W. Jones, Benjamin Hampton and Thomas M. Alexander, lived for about six weeks mostly on cooked rawhide. I arrived in Salt Lake City in time for the general conference held in April, 1857. In the spring of 1857 I accompanied Pres. Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Daniel H. Wells, Apostle Orson Hyde and a large company of brethren and sisters on a visit to Fort Limhi, on Salmon river. At the October, conference, in 1855, I was sustained as a home missionary and labored in all the settlements in Utah as far south as Fort Harmony, Washington county, until the fall of 1861, when I was called to locate in the "Dixie country." I settled in Washington, Washington county. In the spring of 1863 I moved to New Harmony, Washington county, and resided there until February, 1872, when I moved to Panguitch, Iron county (now Garfield county. I was ordained a Patriarch Feb. 3, 1874, at St. George, under the hands of Pres. Brigham Young, George A. Smith and Erastus Snow, and have labored in that calling in Panguitch and surrounding Stakes. At the organization of the Panguitch Stake of Zion in April, 1877, I was appointed to preside over the High Priests quorum of the Stake, and served in that capacity until honorably released by Apostle Francis M. Lyman at the quarterly Stake conference held in September, 1898. My first wife was Sarepta M. Blodgett; later I took as plural wives Sarah Symonds, Martha Spence and Mary Bell; the latter is still alive. I am the father of twenty children, twelve of whom are living, and also forty grandchildren, thirty-two of whom are now alive."
Source Information:
Jenson, Andrew. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901.