Rasmus Hansen

Family History of Rasmus Hansen

Introduction

The story of this family is made up of facts and dates gathered from numerous sources and pieced together and held with imagination form the mental picture painted by the description of places and events as they were told to me by some of the members who supplied much of the information. Of these I wish to give honorable mention to Ole Hansen, the grandfather of our children; Aunt Annie Hammon of Roy Utah, and Aunt Hannah Smith of Cleveland, Idaho. Each one very shortly before their death, so graciously told me of their home in Denmark and their emigration to Utah. This information will be told in the history to follow. We dedicate this record to the memory of those noble father and mothers in generations past and trust that the Spirit of Elijah will rest upon us as descendants of a noble family to the organization and salvation of all its’ members.

Mary Emeline H. Dye- Descendant

Isaac Buhinin

Isaac Buhinin (also Behunnin)         1803

And Meribah Morton and Almina Tyler

Written by Dr. Barbara (Bobbi) Andersen, Wife of Phil Larsen Andersen, Great-great-great grandson of Isaac Buhinin, 9/84

Isaac Behunin, a Scotch-Irish American, was born 20 October, 1803 in Richland, Oswego County, New York. He was born two years before Joseph Smith was born. His father was Albert Behunin and his mother was Nancy Lord. Isaac joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the very beginning years of the church’s organization. Since he lived in the same geographical area, and at the same period of time as Joseph Smith, it is very likely that Isaac was well acquainted with most of the founders of the Church.

Records show that Isaac married Meribah Morton (born 16 March 1804) when he was twenty years old and she nineteen. Her father was Isaac Morton and her mother was Nancy Drake. Isaac and Meribah married on 25 December 1823 in Willistown, Vermont- Meribah’s home town. Wouldn’t it be interesting if we knew how these young people met? They were born in different states- he in New York and she in Vermont. Their courtship and marriage would undoubtedly have made a sweet story to tell.

William Bate

Born Staffordshire, Pteriss, Hanley Co. England on May l2, l846

I was taken to work in the coal pits by my father before I was 7 years old, with 5 miles to walk morning and evening for 3 years.  The pit was l00 yards deep.  I had to rise to the morning by 3:00 o'clock.

My father's name was Peter Bate, born in Staffordshire England.  My mothers maiden name was Margaret Cross, born Liverpool, Lanchire, England.

Mary Flint Call

Picture of Anson Call and his wife, Mary Flint Call.


Mary Flint was the daughter of Rufus Frederick Flint and Hannah Haus, born 27 March 1812 at Braintree, Orange County, Vermont.

When Mary was a young woman, her father moved westward and took up a homestead in Ohio. With himself and his two daughters Mary and Hannah, they started a new home. However, it soon became necessary for him to go away and lave the responsibility of the homestead to the two girls. They hired a man to come and help on the farm by the name of Anson Call. Mary fell in love with Anson and a courtship resulted.
On the third of October, 1833, they were married. Hannah continued to make her home with them, as the farm belonged to their father.

History of Robert Charles Wills and Selena Alice Wheeler Wills

Robert Charles Wills was born 31 March 1858 in Torquay, Devon, England.  A son of Robert Wills and Mary Ann Williams.  In his youth he learned the trade of a stone mason.  As a young man he met and courted Selena Alice Wheeler and they became engaged.  She was the daughter of Thomas Wheeler, Jr. and Lydia Sophia Pullen.  She was born 14 December 1869 in Acton Beauchamp, Worch. England.  While in her early teens, she contacted a contagious disease which left her quite deaf, which was a great handicap to her.

Robert Wills decided to go to Canada to look for work and save enough money to send for his future wife, Selena.  She arrived in Toronto, Canada on August 27, 1884 and they were married that day.  The following year they moved to Mammoth, Utah, where Robert started to work in the mines.  He worked there for twenty-one years, putting in long hours seven days a week.  While working there he contacted miners consumption.

Stringham origins from French Huguenots

I always had assumed that the Stringhams were of English descent because we trace the Stringham line to a birth in England.  But the name comes from France, and the Tringhams were Huguenots.  More information can be found in this short history:

http://www.surnames.com/documented_websites/Yvonne/stringham_history.htm


I nearly identical history can be found on this website:

http://www.myplanet.net/cstringham/stringhamindex.html

Because the cursive is harder to read, I typed up the "Stringham Family Overview (1572-present)", which reads as follows:

History of John and Rheumina Wilson Earl

Prepared by their Grandson Frank J. Earl in 1975.

John Earl, son of William, who was the son of Henry Earl, was born Sept. 8, 1827 in Scarborough, York County, Ontario, Upper Canada, near present Toronto, Canada. Rheumina Wilson, John’s wife to be, was born in Perryville, Green Township, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1829. Your writer has no further information of her until after her marriage to John Earl.

John Earl died July 13, 1908 in Fileding, Utah and was buried in Farmington Cemebery, Davis County, Utah. Rheumina Wilson Earl died Dec. 16, 1904 in Farmington and was buried beside her husband.

Wiliam and Sarah Syphers Earl, John’s parents, joined the Church in Scarborough, Canada in 1836 and shortly thereafter they moved to Kirland, Ohio. In 1836 John was nine years old. July 6, 1838 John’s parents and their nine children left Kirtland, Ohio as a part of the Kirtland Camp. There were 529 members of this group. After a very strenuous journey of 870 miles the group arrived in Far West, Missouri Oct. 2, 1838. Two days later they were in Adam-ondi-Ahmen where the family may have lived for some time.

Spackman Heirlooms

We recently visited Grandma Spackman and asked to take some pictures of family heirlooms.  Here are a few treasures to look for next time you visit.

This glass chicken belonged to Elva Morgan Rindlisbacher (Grandma’s mother).  She had picked it out for the children and placed some Easter eggs in it to give to them on Easter.  The children found it and decided that it would be a perfect gift for their mother, and so it was hers instead.

This was Elva Rindlisbacher’s butter churner.

This is Grandmother Morgan’s (Elizabeth Bawden Morgan’s) bread mixing bowl, with an enamel bowl that Grandma Spackman put inside.

This is the sewing machine that Grandma Spackman learned to sew on.  It does a straight stitch, not a back stitch or anything like that.  It belonged to Elva Rindlisbacher.

The high chair that the Spackman children ate on, including the metal tray that Grandma recently found.

...and a silver spoon she used to feed them.  She recently found this spoon in the dirt behind the old farm, evidence left behind by would-be archeologists. 

Here is Grandma's glass case, full of little treasures picked up during the years, especially showcasing Grandma's bell collection.

Bell detail...

Little humorous play-on-words objects like this can be found throughout the house.

Here are a couple of items to remember Grandpa by.

Briant Stringham

This picture was recently discovered by Steven C. Nelson.  For years it was believed that there were no known photographs of him, so this is a real treasure.  The following note was shared with me from Aunt Donnette about the discovery:

Joseph Warren Hancock, Sr.

This oral history was posted on a personal Web page for which a relative posted a link on the Wall of this group, but it is now a dead link. However, while the Web page was still up, she copied what follows:

Joseph Warren Hancock, Sr.: A short history by his grandson Lewis Alma Hancock

To Alvah Hancock and Juletta Eames on 12 October 1832 was born a son they named Joseph Warren. Not much of his life is known as far as I know but from meager stories. It seems that his folks went to missouri with the Saints to Nauvoo. He was baptized April 1840. The family owned a lot in Nauvoo.

John Scott

Information drawn from http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11241017
A native of Armagh, Ulster, Ireland, John was the son of Jacob and Sarah Warnock Scott. At the age of eight, he immigrated to Trafalgar, Canada with his parents. On April 15, 1836, he married Elizabeth Menerey. Elizabeth was born September 10, 1815 in Dublin, Ireland. After their marriage they were converted to the LDS Church; John, his wife, and all of his father's family were baptized into the Mormon religion.

The following year, they moved to Far West, Missouri and two years later to Nauvoo, Illinois, passing through great hardships and persecutions with the Saints at that time. John accepted the principle of plural marriage and took for his wives Mary Pugh on February 3, 1845, and Sarah Ann Willis on March 24, 1846.

John was chosen as one of the bodyguards to the Prophet Joseph Smith and held the position of Colonel in the First Regiment of the Nauvoo Legion. He and all three of his wives were in attendance at the meeting held after the martyrdom when the mantle of the prophet fell upon Brigham Young. They bore testimony of this many times to their family. They traveled to Winter Quarters and came west the following year, settling in Millcreek, Utah. John served a mission to England; and after his return he married his fourth wife, Esther Yeates, on February 11, 1860, later marrying Angeline Roxy Keller April 11, 1868.

John moved Esther and Angeline to Millville in 1868; and he resided there until 1876 when he returned to Millcreek. In December 1876, while visiting his family in Millville, he died of pneumonia. He is buried in the old Salt Lake City Cemetery. His wives were all honorable women who lived lives of good Latter-day Saints and set good examples for all to follow.

Elizabeth Meneray, Mary Pugh and Sarah Ann Willis are all buried at the old Salt Lake City Cemetery. Esther Yeates is buried in Millville. Angeline remarried and relocated to Union County, Oregon. Her burial information is unknown.

Birth: May 6, 1811, Ireland
Death: Dec. 16, 1876
Millville
Cache County
Utah, USA

Redick Newton Allred

Redick Newton Allred, son of Isaac and Mary Calvert, was born February 21^st, 1822 in Farmington, Marshall County, Tennessee. Redick’s father, Isaac, was born in Pendalton County, South Carolina on January 27, 1788. Grandfather William and his grandmother, Elizabeth Thresher had moved from Randolph County, North Carolina, to Pendalton County, South Carolina, some time between 1784 and 1788, as their oldest son James was born in Randolph County in North Carolina in 1784, while their second son, Isaac, was born in South Carolina in 1788.