163. My great-grandparents Haden Wells Church, and Sarah Ann Arterbury, pioneers in Nauvoo, Salt Lake City, and St. George
HADEN WELLS CHURCH, AND SARAH ANN ARTERBURY A brief history of these ancestors was first told in entry # 23, on Dec. 3, 2013 The enticements of new land and adventure probably encouraged newly married Abraham and Polly (Mary Jane) Emmons Church to leave home in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and go westward about three hundred miles into Tennessee. It was in their newly established home in Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, that their first child, Haden Wells, was born on August 29, 1817. While living there, seven more children were added to the family. Haden was well into his teen-age years when the family moved a few miles westward to Shady Grove, Hickman County, where the ninth and last child, Charles Houston Church, was born. The new home was near the Duck River and also close to the Natchez Trace which was the main travel route between Nashville and the Mississippi River Town of Natchez.