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- [S847] Nichols Online Library, Digital Documents Researched and Scanned by Chad Nichols & Relatives, Nichols, Chad G., (Chad Nichols has catalogued over 40,000 relatives, with over 5,000 of them having documentation to support their place in the family tree. Recent generation surnames (great grandparents) in his tree include Anderson, Campbell, Dutson, Kump, Kylen, Nichols, O'Donnell, Roberts, Stone, and Walker. One generation further back adds Broman, Cloward, Conder, Ericksen, Farmer, Holyoak, Nielson, Richardson, and Shelley. Most ancestors are from England, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany.
[online] www.nicholslibrary.org
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Photos - 000655, 002706, 002707, 002708, 003016
Nauvoo Homesite Images - 000652, 001521
Springville Home - 003015
Newspaper Article - 002822
Grave Marker - 001496
- [S652] Website of the Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Lovell & Maria Catherine Boyer, Mendenhall, Mark, ([online] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mendenhall/index.html [email] catmem # yahoo.com).
Autobiography of William Mendenhall
(Transcription by Mark Mendenhall)
Early in the Spring of 1841 I first heard a Mormon Elder preach. I was at once convinced of the truthfulness of the gospel, and was baptized by Elder William A. Moore in Red Clay Creek, December 12, 1841... In May, 1842 I started to Nauvoo, IL in company with Elias Harmer, Asher Baldwin and their families, leaving my wife and two children at her father's house in Delaware. We reached Nauvoo the last of May, and I at once went to work at my trade building brick houses. I worked at Nauvoo all summer and then returned to my home in Delaware late in the fall. On May 8, 1843, I started to Nauvoo with my wife and two children, Mary Frances and Thomas. My father-in-law, Richard Lovell, brought us in a wagon to Wilmington, from which place we went by steamboat down the Christiana River to the Delaware River and up the Delaware River to Philadelphia 30 miles. There we took a canal boat, which was on wheels on the railroad, and traveled northwest to Columbia on the Susquehanna River; thense in the canal up the river to Chambersburg; thense on wheels to the Allegheny mountains to Johnstown on the Allegheny river, from which point we went by canal to Pittsburgh, 300 miles from Philadelphia. We took a steamboat down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River, a distance of 950 miles; thence up the Mississippi to St. Louis, 150 miles, and thense to Nauvoo, 200 miles farther, which we reached in the latter part of May.
I lived in Nauvoo following my trade as a builder, until June 1846. I was ordained an Elder at the October Conference of 1842, and ordained a Seventy at the October Conference of 1844. I was acquainted with Joseph Smith, and heard him preach many times, and was blessed by Patriarch Hyrum Smith, and was in Nauvoo at the time the Prophet and his brother were martyred.
Having been driven from our homes in Nauvoo, we crossed the Mississippi river and travelled in a wagon by ox team across the state of Iowa to Council Bluffs, 300 miles. Here we remained six years farming and stock raising. In June, 1852, we crossed the Missouri; thence across the plains with my wife and 5 children, in wagons with ox teams to Salt Lake City, arriving September 18, 1852, over 1,000 miles. We remained in Salt Lake City two days, and then came south to Springville, Utah county, Utah, arriving September 26, 1852. From then until the present time, February 1904, my home has been in Springville...
I was ordained a High Priest by Issac Bullock in Springville on September 28, 1884, and was ordained a Patriarch by John Henry Smith, April 14, 1901. My family consists of nine children, five sons and four daughters. Three sons and two daughers are living. I have 54 grandchildren, 39 living, and 34 great-grandchildren. On October 28, 1876, I started on a mission to visit relatives and friends in the eastern States to collect genealogies. . . During the winter I obtained and recorded 900 names. I have performed work for the dead in St. George, Logan, Manti and Salt Lake Temples. I am reasonably well, at the age of 89 years and six months.
- [S652] Website of the Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Lovell & Maria Catherine Boyer, Mendenhall, Mark, ([online] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mendenhall/index.html [email] catmem # yahoo.com).
William Mendenhall, son of Abraham and Elizabeth Wells Mendenhall, was born April 8, 1815 at Mill Creek Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware. He was raised on a farm one mile north of Brandywine Springs. He married Sarah Lovell, daughter of Richard Lovell and Frances Sawdon, on February 21, 1839. After pioneering Springville, Utah, he was a missionary to the Eastern States; presiding teacher and superindendent of the Sunday School; Master Mason; contractor and builder. He died June 5, 1906.
- [S917] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Name Index, Marquardt, H. Michael, ([online] www.xmission.com/~research/family/familypage.htm).
William Mendenhall, b. 8 Apr 1815, end. 6 Jan 1846
[Research by Chad G. Nichols]
- [S440] Grave Marker.
IN MEMORY
OF
Wm MENDENHALL
BORN
New Castle Co.
Delware
Apr. 8, 1815
DIED
June 3, 1906
~~~
IN MEMORY
OF
SARAH LOVELL
Wife of
Wm MENDENHALL
BORN
Mar. 12, 1818
DIED
Oct. 17, 1899
---
MENDENHALL
[Photo & transcription 20 Mar 2005 by Chad G. Nichols]
- [S310] Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Index, 1847-1868 ©, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Salt Lake City, UT : 2004-2007 [online] http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library This index is the most complete listing of individuals and companies in which Mormon pioneer emigrants traveled west to Utah from 1847 through 1868. It is an incomplete listing, as rosters have not been found for all companies. It also identifies sources to learn more about the experiences of each company.).
David Wood Company lists these Mendenhall family members:
Thomas Mendenhall (age 46)
Cathern Mendenhall (age 47)
William Mendenhall (age 37)
Sarah Mendenhall (age 34)
Susanah Mendenhall (age 18)
George Mendenhall (age 16)
Lewis Mendenhall (age 13)
Mary Mendenhall (age 13)
Thomas Mendenhall (age 11)
Thomas Mendenhall (age 8)
Richard Mendenhall (age 7)
John Mendenhall (age 5)
Elizabeth Mendenhall (age 2)
[research by Chad G. Nichols]
- [S180] List of the Heads of Families with the Number of Persons in each Family, of the Emigration of 1852, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret News, 18 Sep 1852).
6th Company, David Wood, Captain... Wm. Mendenhall and 6 persons... Thos. P. Cloward and 3 persons... Daniel Coward and 4 persons... Thos Mendenhall and 5 persons
(research by Chad G. Nichols)
- [S275] Springville Cemeteries Online, Springville City, ([online] www.springvillecemetery.org).
William Mendenhall
b. 8 Apr 1815 New Castle Co, Delaware
d. 2 Jun 1906 Springville
Cause of death General Debility (Old Age)
parents: Abraham Mendenhall & Elizabeth Mills
bur. Sec. D Lot 62 Pos. 1
(research by Chad G. Nichols)
- [S119] Mendenhall Family Association (MFA), ([online] : http://www.mendenhall.org).
William, the eighth child of Abraham and Elizabeth Wells Mendenhall, was born on a farm near Brandywine Springs, DE, on April 8, 1815. When he was 15 years old, he learned to be a brick mason from his older brother, James. William met Sarah Lovell, the daughter of Richard Lovell and Frances Sawdon, and they were married February 21, 1839. Soon thereafter they heard some Mormon preachers and became convinced that they should give up their Quaker heritage and exchange it for the way of the Mormons. Sarah decided to accept this new faith even though it invited the censure and the ridicule of her relatives as long as she lived. She was baptized in June, 1841, about six months before her husband.
The conversion of this young married couple, with their two children, was an event that would change the course of their lives. In May, 1843, William began the trip to Nauvoo, IL with his wife and two children, Mary and Thomas. Nauvoo had been chosen by the Mormons as a place to establish their community. They traveled to Nauvoo by wagon and canal boat, reaching Nauvoo in the latter part of May. On April 22, 1844, Abraham, their third child, was born. He died on August 27 of the same year. About one year after Abraham's death, their fourth child, Richard Lovell, was born on August 19, 1845.
A series of lawless events and circumstances culminated in the burning and destruction of the Nauvoo Temple by vandals and the ejection of the Mormons from their homes and their lands by mob violence. By April 27, 1846, William had traded his house and lot for a wagon, two horses, gears and fifty dollars. One of the last things he did in Nauvoo was to set a stone at the grave of his little son, Abraham. Exactly four months after the first company of Mormons left Nauvoo, William and his family left the city to join them in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Council Bluffs was the home of the Mendenhalls for six years. William and his family were met by his two brothers, James and Thomas, who had preceded them.
- [S471] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
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