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.

Thomas Hancock III

Thomas Hancock of Long Meadow, Mass. was too young to enlist in the army with Washington in the beginning of the war, but at the last offered his services, but Washington told him "No, one man now will make no difference, you go home and take care of your mother, she has sacrificed enough, having sacrificed her husband and two sons in this cruel war."

He married a daughter of old General Ward, her name was Amy Ward on May 25, 1786 in Longmeadow, MA.

Juletta Eames Hancock

Birth Date and Place: November 6, 1806, Mentor, Lake County, Ohio
Father: Benjamin Eames
Mother: Julia Bacon Eames
Spouse: Alvah B. Hancock
Death Date and Burial: August 28, 1888, Burrville, Sevier Co., Utah

Children: Birth date Death Date
Abigail April 3, 1825
Sarah November 3, 1826
Benjamin April 24, 1830
Joseph Warren October 12, 1832 1912
John Turney June 18, 1835 (died at age 17)
Aurilla April 2, 1838 (died as a child)
Cyrus Mortimer June 6, 1841
Martha Angeline September 30, 1846

Thomas Hancock

Thomas Hancock was born on 21 Nov 1763 in Bloomfield, New York. On 25 May 1786 he married Amy Ward, daughter of Revolutionary Army General Jacob Ward. By 1820 they were living in Chagrin, Ohio. Thomas was among the very first converts to the newly formed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and his daughter Clarissa were baptized by Parley P. Pratt on Sun 14 Nov 1830, on the very day they first hear the restored gospel preached by him in the neighboring town of Mayfield, Ohio. His wife Amy and most of his other children followed immediately thereafter. His son Levi became one of the seven presidents of the Seventy's, being an incredible missionary and retaining that position until his death. Much of this history is taken from his journal.

Are my husband and I related?

One of the first things I did after we were married (and a bit before, although I was afraid to look), was to see if my husband and I are related.  I was relieved to see that as far as I can tell, we are not.  Of course we are both descended from Noah, and our lines are bound to cross several times after that.  But I haven't found out where yet.

But as I have been digging through my husband's history, I have found a common relation.  Have a look at the pedigree of Ann Alger on this site:

http://www.johnpratt.com/gen/7/1.ped.html

John Alger is my husband's first cousin four times removed on his Hancock line.
Sarah Pulsipher is my great-great-great-great aunt on my Laub line.
(What does that make us?  Two people in love with a common relation.)

There is a comment on the marriage in one of the histories that I ran across, that I can't find now, about how the Pulsiphers and Hancocks were good friends in the early days of the church.  They rejoiced in the marriage of John Alger and Sarah Pulsipher because it linked their families together, "never to be separated again".

When I search the family histories, I have been mostly eager to find connections going back in time, but these early saints were thinking about their posterity.  It is amazing to me that none of our four parents are related, and yet, through my marriage, these early saints who knew each other so well become linked together.  Many of them, like the Hancocks and Pulsiphers, have been linked together for a long time, and yet, 164 years later, the link has grown even stronger through the eternal marriage of my husband and I.

Close friends may, in the future, become linked to you through the marriages of your children, grandchildren, or other descendants.

Every temple marriage and sealing creates and strengthens family dynasties.

The hearts of the fathers also turn to the children.