Here is a blog to follow, it is the missionary adventures of Rachel
Christine Johnson.
18monthsinoregon.blogspot.com
Happy reading!
Aunt Linda
Monday, October 18, 2010
rachel's blogsite
Hi, all,
Here is a blog to follow, it is the missionary adventures of Rachel
Christine Johnson.
18monthsinoregon.blogspot.com
Happy reading!
Aunt Linda
Saturday, July 24, 2010
July 2010 Nauvoo heritage
July 24, 2010
Hi, everyone,
Hope your summer is going wonderfully!
I had the opportunity to spend the week of July 12 – 17 on a church history tour visiting Independence, Liberty, Far West, Adam-ondi-Ahman and Nauvoo. Vey hot and humid and lushly beautiful country.
I was able to visit the Lands and Records office in Nauvoo and learn more
Details about our ancestors, William Junior and Elizabeth Bell Bennett and their son, John.
They left Tennessee in 1829 to take up homesteading in Shelby County, Illinois.
On August 16 and 17, 1831 William E. McLellin and Hyrum Smith preached of the restored gospel in Shelbyville, Shelby co. This is probably the meeting where William Jr. first heard the gospel message. He was baptized in 1835 and moved his family to Nauvoo to help build the Nauvoo temple. Elizabeth was baptized in 1839. The Bennett family lived at lot 107, section 4 in Nauvoo until 1846. On Feb 3, 1846 William and Elizabeth were endowed and sealed for time and eternity in the Nauvoo temple.
Then they were called to join the Saints heading west. Then comes a BIG mystery: William was cruelly murdered on the banks of the Des Moines River in Lee county, Iowa Oct. 30, 1846. I have not found the rest of that story.
I have seen the grave marker of Elizabeth Bell Bennett in the Provo Cemetery.
John Bell Bennett, my great-great grandfather was born in Shelbyville, Illinois in 1830, the tenth of 11 children This means Nauvoo (Hebrew for beautiful) became his home when he was just 5 years old. He actually grew up in Nauvoo, coming west at age 16.
What were his experiences? Did he help with the temple? At 14 years, how did the death of the prophet affect him? We know he was faithful. He stayed true to the faith. He died in 1902 and is buried in the Payson Utah Cemetery.
Does anyone have thoughts to share?
Remember you are creating your children's heritage. Let's give them great stories to tell.
Love ya'
Aunt Linda
Sunday, June 27, 2010
from Tennessee to Nauvoo to Utah
Other things may change us, but we start
and end with the family. ~Anthony Brandt
June 27, 2010
Greetings to all you family members!
As June draws to a close another school year is ending for most of us. What stories could you write down, of your life this year; that could become part of your family history? What could your descendants learn from your views of the world in 2010?
Mary Fleming is fifth generation removed from Pocahontas and I am 12th. She was born about 1728 in Goochland, Virginia, a new country nurturing the seeds of independence. She married William Bernard and they had a daughter, born in 1758, whom they named Catherine.
The early history of Virginia indicates that our ancestors were well educated.
Here is quote from John Adams: “A native of America who cannot read and write is as rare an occurrence…as a comet or an earthquake…and I have good authority to say, that all the candid foreigners who have passed through this country, and conversed freely with all sorts of people here, will allow, that they have never seen so much knowledge and civility among the common people in ay part f the world.” (from THE EDUCATION OF JAMES MADISON)
Are we living up to our opportunities to be educated as our ancestors were? Can we make a difference when we need to?
Catherine Bernard married William Bennett. They had a son, William Junior Bennett, born in 1790, 14 years after the Revolutionary War, he was born in Prince Edward County Virginia.
Two centuries have passed for our American ancestors; two centuries of literacy and independent thinking. In 1818, with the American population under 20 million, Noah Webster’s spelling book sold 5 million copies.
Our noble history turns an important corner when William Junior Bennett married Elizabeth Bell.
They were among the first converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; they were among the first to join the Saints in the new city of Nauvoo Illinois. My great-great grandfather, John Bell Bennett, was born in Shelbyville, Illinois, on the way to Nauvoo.
He made the trek with his mother and family, across the plains to Utah.
We all are of hardy pioneer stock.
More stories to come.
Have a great week. Walk with honor. Do well thy part,
Aunt Linda
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Fleming Connection
Blog 6 Thursday June 10. 2010
Mary Bolling married John Fleming. John was the son of Charles Fleming and Susannah Tarleton. He was colonel commanding the militia of Goochland, and burgess for Gooshland in 1732. His will recorded in Cumberland, December 27, 1756, names sons John, Charles, Thomas, Richard and William, and daughters, Mary (our ancestor; who married William Bernard) and Caroline. Charles and Thomas were prominent officers in the American Revolution and William was judge of the superior court of Virginia.
Two hundred fifty years later we can still know who these people were. We can know that they made a difference. How will we be remembered 250 years from now? How are we adding to our family history today?
Always pondering; always learning. Aunt Linda
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Post 5 June 2, 2010
Blog 5
June 2, 2010
There is sunshine all over Southern Alberta! What a joy, after so many days of gray – rain –and snow! What a joy!
“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.” ~Shirley Abbott
Who is lingering in your DNA?
Major John Bolling was a colonist, farmer and politician in the Virginia Colony. He was born at Kippax Plantation, in Charles City County. He made his home at the Bolling family plantation call “Cobbs”, just west of Point of Rocks on the north shore of the Appomattox River downstream from present-day Petersburg, Virginia.
John married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, on December 29, 1697 at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. The had at least six children: Jane, John Bolling Jr., Elizabeth, Mary (1711-1744) married John Fleming,
Martha and Anne.
We are descendants of Mary Bolling and John Fleming, part of the immense posterity of Major John Bolling and Mary Kennon Bolling; we are part of the American posterity of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. We share this lineage with such characters as Woodrow Wilson’s wife, Edith. Astronomer Percival Lowell, Harry Byrd (50th governor of Virginia) and his brother, Richard Byrd (aviator, polar explorer), and Nancy Reagan.
Any of these names can be explored in greater detail via the internet.
Enjoy finding out who really are! Aunt Linda
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Blog 4
A cool morning; again it is much warmer in Yellow Knife than it is in Stirling; a good time to spend a few minutes discussing family history.
When Jane Rolfe grew up she married Colonel Robert Bolling.
We are descended from their son, Major John Bolling. Major Bolling served in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1710 until his death in 1729.
You may want to google the significance of the House of Burgesses in U. S. history. It is an important chapter.
“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.” ~Shirley Abbott
Have a great week adding to our family history!
Best of everything,
Aunt Linda
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