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Holbrook and Angell Families

Most of this document is composed of odds and ends excerpts concerning the Angell and Holbrook family during the early days of the church; their families were very close. In most cases the urls from which the excerpts came, are also listed.

There will be emphasis on Solomon Angell and Joseph Holbrook; their lives were unusually close.  Things are not in chronological order!

a) They were both born the same year and they were first cousins.

 b) They were both born in the same town.

c) They both joined the church at the same time.

d) They both went on Missions to the Eastern States.

e) They both joined Zions Camp in 1834.

f) They were both ordained a Seventy  in the First Quorum of the Seventy.

g) They both moved from town to town, at the same time, as the saints progressed to Salt Lake. In 1850, Joseph moved to Bountiful for his remaining years while Solomon first stayed in Salt Lake and then moved to Leeds for his remaining years

h)They both crossed the plains in 1848.

i) Joseph married Solomon’s sister.

j. Joseph and Solomon’s mothers were sisters.

k) They both had four wives and each of them had a wife named Lucy.

 http://www.sedgwickresearch.com/holbrook/jh_history.htm

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http://byustudies.byu.edu/Indexes/BioAlpha/MBRegisterA.aspxAngell,

 Angell, Truman O. (1810-1887), carpenter, joiner, architect. Brother-in-law to Brigham Young. Born at Providence, Rhode Island. Married Polly Johnson, 1832. Living in China, New York, when converted to Mormonism, 1833. Moved to Kirtland, Ohio in 1835 and worked on the temple. Member of the Second Quorum of Seventy. Moved to Missouri, 1837; and Illinois, 1839. Supervised joiner work on Nauvoo Temple. Arrived in Salt Lake Valley with pioneers of 1847. Appointed Church architect; supervised construction of many buildings, including Salt Lake Temple. [PJSv1]

Holbrook, Joseph (1806-1885), farmer, carpenter, judge; born at Florence, Oneida County, New York. Converted to Mormonism in Genessee County, New York, 1833. A member of Zion’s Camp, 1834. Wounded at the battle at Crooked River in 1838. Commissioned a captain in the Illinois state militia in 1841. Appointed to the Nauvoo, Hancock County, police, 1845. Left Nauvoo with the Latter-day Saints in 1846 and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1848. In 1850 moved to Bountiful, Davis County, where he lived until his death. He served as Davis County Judge, was elected to the Utah territorial legislature, and was a bishop’s counselor. He built the first schoolhouse in Bountiful. [PJSv2]

http://www.holbrook-family.com/bios/joseph_journal.htm#Short%20Sketch%20from%20Joseph's%20Journal

    April 29, 1833 started on a mission in company with Truman O. Angell through York State, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, 1200 miles. Sept. 1833 was appointed to preside over the branch of church in Weathersfield and China numbering 80 members. April 14, 1834 started for the Land of Zion, united with my brethren at Kirtland in Zion's Camp, Joseph Smith the Prophet of the Lord being our leader, arrived in Clay County, Missouri June 26, 1834.

Joseph Holbrook, Born Jany. 16, 1806

Nancy Lampson Born Aug. 14, 1804

Joseph Holbrook married to Nancy Lampson in the Township of Western , County of Worcester, Massachusetts Dec.30, 1860, and by this the following children were born:

Nancy Holbrook died at Nauvoo, Hancock County, State of Illinois July 16, 1842. Age 37 years 11 months and 2 days. Sickness, cholera, morbus and inflammation on the lungs. Sick nine days from the time she was taken.

Nancy Jane Holbrook died at Nauvoo, Hancock County, State of Illinois Sept.7, 1843. Age 4 years, 7 months, 10 days.  Disease, measles & canker. The place of their burial, in the Public burying ground at Nauvoo on block 5, lot 5, Nancy Holbrook grave 2. Nancy Jane grave 1.  I put at the head of Nancy Holbrook a good cut grave stone with her age, death and also at the grave of Nancy Jane.

Joseph Holbrook married Hannah Flint at Nauvoo Jany.1, 1843.  Married by Heber C. Kimball.  Hannah Flint born July 18, 1806

Joseph Holbrook sealed to Nancy Lampson, my first wife, deceased. Hannah Holbrook my second wife acting as proxy, at the house of Brigham Young, Great Salt Lake City, Dec.31, 1850, and also to Hannah Holbrook my second wife & to Caroline Frances Angell at the same time and place.

Caroline Frances Angell born in North Providence, Road island [sic] Oct.3, 1825

She had two children living and one dead when I married her.  

After being sealed to Caroline Frances Angell the following children [were born].

Caroline Frances Angell Holbrook had a son born April 18, 1863, Saturday 1 O’clock A.M. and [I] blessed him on the 8th day with [a] fathers blessing in the name of the Lord and named him Ephraim Angell Holbrook. Ephraim Angell Holbrook died Feb.25,1864. Age 10 months & 10 days.

Caroline Frances Angell Holbrook had a son born July 12, on Wednesday at 15 minutes past 12 O’clock in the morning 1865 and [I] blessed him on the 19th with a Fathers blessing that he may live to help to build up Zion and see the Zion of Enoch gain, an inheritance with the Saints, and receive a fullness of the Holy Priesthood in the name of the Lord and [I] named him Enoch Angell Holbrook.

Caroline Frances Holbrook had a son born June 5,1867, Wednesday at seven O’clock in the morning and [I] blessed him [on the] 13th with a fathers blessing, with long life to the fullness of the Blessings of the Holy Priesthood and the blessing of the sulumess[?] Kingdom in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and [I] named him Heber Angell Holbrook.  

Zions Camp 1834  

Taken from American Moses:

http://books.google.com/books?id=d6am4q-fknoC&pg=RA1-PA39&lpg=RA1-PA39&dq=solomon+angell&source=web&ots=K5oYp2FWlk&sig=YQhXYlE7JpWjo4Z_vgKcg6ADHmM&hl=en

Brigham had the added responsibility of providing for his wife Mary Ann (Angell) who was pregnant. Her brother Solomon Angell, might have taken care of her but he wanted to join the Zions Camp as did Solomon’s friend Lorenz Booth so they left their families with Mary Ann.

Taken from Joseph Smiths journal: "Wednesday 21st. We forded White River. Sunday 25th. Arrived at the State line of Illinois. We had no meeting but attended to washing, baking, and preparing to resume our journey, which we did on Monday the 26th, and at night were aroused by the continual threats of our enemies. Notwithstanding our enemies were continually breathing threats of violence, we did not fear, neither did we hesitate to prosecute our journey, for God was with us and his angels went before us, and the faith of our little band was unwavering. We know that angels were our companions, for we saw them.

"Tuesday, June 3, 1834. During our travels we visited several of the mounds which had been thrown up by the ancient inhabitants of this county, Nephites, Lamanites, etc., and this morning I went up on a high mound, near the river, accompanied by the brethren. From this mound we could overlook the tops of the trees and view the prairie on each side of the river as far as our vision could extend, and the scenery was truly delightful.

"On the top of the mound were stones which presented the appearance of three altars having been erected one above the other, according to ancient order; and human bones were strewn over the surface of the ground. The brethren procured a shovel and hoe, and removing the earth to the depth of about one foot discovered [a] skeleton of a man, almost entire, and between his ribs was a Lamanitish arrow, which evidently produced his death. Elder Brigham Young retained the arrow and the brethren carried some pieces of the skeleton to Clay County.

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• Ordained Seventy and called to First Quorum of Seventy 1835
• Migrated west with saints, arriving 1848
• Died 1881 Leeds, Utah

This is an interesting account of Zions Camp 1834. http://www.centerplace.org/history/ch/v1ch17.htm

In November, 1830, I took a journey again with my brother going with me to New In November, 1830, I took a journey again with my brother going with me to New York State, went to Florence, the place of our birth but found that Mr. Mackey had not sold the farm as yet so we left the farm as before with him given full power of an attorney to do with as seemed good by his giving us a bond to pay over to us or either of us the amount so realized for said farm.

We now started for Genessee County where our mother went two years before. This was the last time I saw the place of my birth. My brother and myself took the canal at New London for Rochester where we left and went on foot to Batavia thence up the Gonawana, a creek to China, a distance from Batavia twenty-five miles south to where our mother lived. We found them all well but yet poor. After spending two weeks in looking for a farm, I bought in Weathsfield about six miles of where my mother lived. The farm contained one hundred acres, about fifty under fence and thirty of meadow and pasturage and etc, with a frame barn thirty by forty feet, a frame house 20 by 28 feet, some 50 apples trees, peach, plum, currents, etc., for which I was to give $812.50 in cash with the Holland Purchase money, having four years to pay $400 of it. I purchased of a man by the name of Seth Louis Esey.

My brother Chandlier bought fifty acres of one John Goodsperd, about ten acres of improvements on it about one mile from mine as I had got to return to Massachusetts, he gave me orders to collect his money on my return and bring to him when I moved on to my farm. He took a school that winter and stayed in the country. I traveled all the way back on foot, averaging about thirty-five or forty miles a day, 400 miles in mud and snow to the place of my grandfather. I soon went to Western to visit Nancy Lampson and inform her of my intentions of going west as soon as I could get ready and to know whether she would accompany me thither which she cheerfully agreed to be ready as soon as I should require her.

I then took a journey to Providence, Rhode Island to visit my Aunt Phoebe Angell, the eldest of my mother's sisters. She had married James Angell in Florence before my father was married and moved to this place from York State where she had been for many years, brought up her family. I found them all well. My cousins whom I never had seen before were glad to see me. Some of them were married. Mary Ann, the eldest belonged to the free will Baptist Church. She took much pains to influence me to get religion. I told her when the right kind came along I should embrace it for I did not care for any other. I tried equally hard to have the whole family to move west the next season as they could do much better in a new country. I had a good visit, stayed about three days and returned home on foot as I came, a distance of forty-five miles.

York State, went to Florence, the place of our birth but found that Mr. Mackey had not sold the farm as yet so we left the farm as before with him given full power of an attorney to do with as seemed good by his giving us a bond to pay over to us or either of us the amount so realized for said farm.

I then took a journey to Providence, Rhode Island to visit my Aunt Phoebe Angell, the eldest of my mother's sisters. She had married James Angell in Florence before my father was married and moved to this place from York State where she had been for many years, brought up her family. I found them all well. My cousins whom I never had seen before were glad to see me. Some of them were married. Mary Ann, the eldest belonged to the free will Baptist Church. She took much pains to influence me to get religion. I told her when the right kind came along I should embrace it for I did not care for any other. I tried equally hard to have the whole family to move west the next season as they could do much better in a new country. I had a good visit, stayed about three days and returned home on foot as I came, a distance of forty-five miles.

January 21, 1832, my wife had her first-born child, a daughter. I named her Sarah Lucretia Holbrook, after her two grandmothers.

The next season I continued to labor on my farm. In the course of the summer many vague reports were in circulation about a certain sect of people who were called Mormonites. In the course of the season my Aunt Phebe Angel and her family moved from Rhode Island to Genesee County about the 1st day of September, 1832. I heard there was to be a Mormon meeting in China, four miles distant. I said I would go and hear this strange sect but upon arriving and waiting some time at the place of the meeting, the Elder John P. Greene sent word by his son Even W. Green and Lorenzo D. Young that he would not be able to attend. Mr. Green had sent by the bearers two of the papers the Evening and Morning Star printed in Jackson County, Missouri, containing the articles of the church and also the prophecy of Enoch which they requested a Mr. Carline, a universal preacher, to read to the congregation. They made a few remarks after they were read which gave me some little light as to Mormonism. I met the young man in the floor of the school house and asked them where I could get a Book of Mormon. They said they did not know. I then told them I would go 50 miles the next day to get one if they could direct me where. They said they could not tell me. I told them where I lived and if they could direct any elder there in the future, they would be welcome as I wished to learn more about this new revelation to man.

About this moment my cousin, Mary Ann Angel heard my anxiety to get a Book of Mormon, and whispered to me and said she had one she would lend me in about two weeks as she had it promised for that time. I said I would go home with her and see it. She said I could do so. I saw the Book of Mormon and read the testimony of the witnesses and looked at some of the gospel. I felt much rejoiced - to think that an angel had come from God and brought such good news. I thanked my cousin for the favor of seeing the book, hoping she would not disappoint me in having the privilege of reading it in two weeks. The weeks passed away and I thought much of Mormonism, I believed all I heard and saw. I felt much to rejoice for the words came often to my mind. "Blessed are ye for ye believe and have not seen." The two weeks brought my cousin Mary Ann Angel with the Book of Mormon to my house with her father James Angel and the Mormon Elder John P. Greene. I spent two or three hours with them while my wife was getting dinner. This was on Friday and I commenced reading that evening, but being brought up not to spend any time on a weekday to read, I thought I must work and as my cart was in the field where I left it the day before where I was digging potatoes, I went to digging potatoes, but soon found I could not content my mind at work.

I returned to the house, took the Book of Mormon, and read for a few hours but as this was so unusual a thing for me to stop work in the daytime, my wife became alarmed and thought I had better be at work than spending the time reading such deception, which called my attention again to my potato digging. I had not dug long before I wished with all my heart I knew all there was in that book. I went out into a large place nearby where the thistles were very large and thick. I knelt down to pray. I no sooner closed my eyes than it seemed as though the whole thistle plantation was in motion. I opened my eyes. I could see nothing the matter. I closed my eyes the second time when it seemed as if there was a whistle wind among the thistles, yet I felt no wind. I continued my prayer for the forgiveness of my sins and for the Lord to lead me right and show me the truth of Mormonism. When I rose, I said I would go to the house and read the Book of Mormon, work or no work. This was the after-part of Saturday. I read that day and night late. On Sunday, I read again. My wife took the child in the morning and went about 3/4 mile to my brother's, saying she would not be in the house and hear such nonsense. I read and prayed a number of times that day, being all alone and marvelled much that the thistle should be so troubled at my prayers and my wife should be so disturbed she could not stay at home for she was always fond of sitting down and reading evenings and Sundays. I read the Book of Mormon through in two days and three nights and carried it home on a Monday morning to my cousin, Mary Ann Angel. She asked me what I thought of it. I told her I believed it was true and that God was at the bottom of the work. She said she felt glad for she believed also but had not said much about it. I told her I would like to see some of the Mormon elders. She said she would send them along to my house, if she had an opportunity. I thanked her and told her I was ready to fulfill my promise to her some few years before that I would have religion when the right kind came along and I believed this was the right kind.

About this time, one of my neighbors brought me a subscription paper to sign to pay a minister missionary from Massachusetts to the heathen in Weathersfield. He said he would preach one year for $300.00 so I signed for $1.00 which he said was liberal seeing I did not belong to any church. I told him that I did not know that I should ever hear him preach but someone else would and that would keep them out of greater mischief.

These things passed along for some time when Elder John P. Greene called and stayed all night with me much satisfaction concerning the coming forth of the Book of Mormon of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. I became more and more established as to the truth every day of my life as things came to my mind. My connections became much alarmed about my being a Mormon and my grandfather Abraham Morton on my mother's side and my Uncle Benjamin Morton called at my house one day and inquired as to my faith in Mormonism. I told them I believed it was true so far as I could see and I was glad of it.

CHAPTER 3

On Saturday, January 5, 1833, I took my ox team and cart with my wife Nancy, my Aunt Phebe Angel and cousin Mary Ann Angel and went to Warsaw to Elder Aaron C. Lyons to be there on Sunday. Brother Lyons gave us a cheerful welcome on our arrival that night. In the morning I told Brother Lyons and Rich I would like to be baptized if they thought I was worthy as I had brought my clothes for that purpose. So after breakfast I was baptized with my Aunt Phebe Angel by Leonard Rich, Mary Ann having been baptized about one week before. We were confirmed by Aaron C. Lyons about 11:00 o'clock A.M. They had a meeting, the first I had ever been to. Different elders occupied the time during the day and evening. Windsor C. Lyons then spoke in tongues which was the first I had ever heard. My wife became convinced that Mormonism was true. On Monday, the 7th day of January [1833] she was baptized also by Leonard Rich and confirmed by Aaron C. Lyons. I was also ordained a teacher in the Church of Christ under the hands of Aaron C. Lyons, a high priest, and was directed to teach the principles to all who might wish to hear, and received my license which I shall enclose in this journal.

I returned home on the same day much rejoiced to think that my wife was with me in the faith of the gospel, but found that I got myself into business for I met with opposition on all hands and from every quarter, but this kept me the more faithful. I visited my brother Chandler and his wife and told them there would be a meeting the next week at my house and invited them to attend with sister, and also a meeting at my Aunt Phebe Angel's in China. I continued to go from house [to house] and carry the Book of Mormon to them and try to get them to read it. The result was that my brother, Chandler, and his wife, Eunice, my sister, Phebe, and Dwight Hardin, who was boarding at my house, father Owens and mother and many others in the vicinity were added to the church in the course of a few months. Brother Lyons and Rich and some other elders met with us often until the church in this place numbered about 85 members. Many had the gift of tongues and interpretation with prophesying by the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the church did meet together often to preach, exhort and speak to another of the things of the kingdom which gave them much love for one another, strengthening their faith, etc.

On March 18, 1833, I took a journey on foot to Kirtland, Ohio to see the Prophet Joseph Smith. I visited the prophet's house and found him away from home. I also visited Sidney Rigdon and father Joseph Smith and some other of the elders and gained much strength and faith and hope to the comfort of myself and which I hope hereafter might be to others.

In the course of a few days, Joseph the prophet came home so that I got a chance to see him when he told me much of the work of the last days in which I hope to ever prove of great value to me. Mary Johnson, a sister of Luke and Lyman Johnson, died at the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr.'s home, age about 15 years, which caused much gloominess at the prophet's house. Yet, I fully believe in the gospel of the kingdom which was being set up in the last days.

The prophet said, "Go and prosper and be faithful and the Lord would help me." I then took my leave of the brethren for home and found all well. [I] traveled 400 miles.

On April 12, 1833, I was ordained an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ under the hands of Reynolds Cahoon. A high priest from Kirtland in the town of Warsaw, state of New York, continued to meet with the branch twice a week and in a while we had good meetings.

On April 29 [1833], I took leave of my family for a mission to the world with brother Truman O. Angel to the east. [We] traveled 14 miles to Warsaw. On the 30th [we] traveled 26 miles. We met with the brethren of the church of Genesee, held a prayer meeting and found there was a wrong spirit with some of the brethren, the presiding elder even forbidding us to believe in the vision of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon but as there was present in the branch Lyman E. Johnson and Orson Pratt, who would stay and correct the errors. We left the next day, May 1 [1833] and traveled 15 miles and held a meeting in the evening. May 2 [1833] we held a meeting in the same place by the request of the people.

May 3rd [1833] we traveled 30 miles and called a number of times, but the people were unwilling to hear of Mormonism. We took dinner in the town of Manchester where the Book of Mormon was found. The gentlemen did not believe that Joseph Smith was the author of said book as he was well acquainted with him and did not know any harm of him until the Book of Mormon came forth, but he believed the Smith family were honest, industrious farmers.

May 4th [1833] we traveled 11 miles and found where we could have a meeting. On Sunday, May 5th [1833] we held a meeting. The people came out of curiosity more than to know about the requirements of heaven.

May 6th [1833] we traveled 31 miles and found much trouble to get a place for the night as we were without purse or scrip. We were refused six times and at last were kept at a widow's house.

  Solomon Angell, of the First Quorum of the Seventy and presiding Elder of the Leeds Ward, St. George Stake, Utah, from 1869 to 1876, was born April 21, 1806, at Florence, Oneida Co., N.Y. He was the eldest of the five sons and five daughters born to James William Angell and wife Phebe Ann Morton.

    On March 21, 1824 Solomon took to wife Eunice Clark Young. She would bear him ten children. For the genealogically minded, it does not appear that Eunice was closely related to Brigham Young.

    Solomon was baptized in 1833, and  was recruited into Zions Camp, the expedition from Kirtland, Ohio to releive the saints in Missouri who were suffering persecution at the hands of the mob. After the camp was disbanded, Solomon returned to the Kirtland area, where the following year, 1835, as a result of his valor and faithfulness, he was ordained a Seventy and called into the First Quorum of the Seventy, a presiding quorum of the Church. Thus he entered the ranks of the General Authorities.

    Brigham Young and Solomon Angell were very close friends, Brigham being five years older. A further measure of the esteem with which Solomon Angell was held  is seen in the fact that on March 23, 1847 Brigham Young adopted Solomon as a son.

    After the expulsion of the saints from Nauvoo, Elder Angell migrated west with the saints, arriving in Utah in 1848. In Utah he embraced the principle of plural marriage and eventually married four more times. Since the Ancestral File lists three of his wives as being named either Lucy or Lucinda, one imgines either a mistake in the record or massive confusion in the home!

    Elder Angell was appointe