117. Anne Chamberlain, (born Cape of Good Hope) and Hiram Miles Dayton, Cedar Fort, and Ophir, Utah, early Pioneers
Hiram Miles Dayton was born 10 October 1821 at Welchfield, Ohio. He was the eldest son of eleven children of Hiram and Permelia Bundy Dayton. His parents had been prosperous farmers and stock raisers, and had a beautiful home in Parkman, Ohio. During their prosperity Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, came to Parkman and taught them the Gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were converted and baptized Feb. 18, 1832. After this, even their friends and neighbors heaped persecutions upon them. Hiram Miles was a boy of eleven years and it was hard for him to understand this sudden hostility of his associates. Following the new church, the family moved to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1834 and went through the many persecutions there. In 1838 they moved to Davis County, Missouri, then to Far West, Jackson County, Missouri. They were driven out of Missouri into Illinois. The Prophet Joseph Smith had purchased a large...