Thoughts and stories, by Pal

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...

William Chamberlain and his wife Mary Allen Chamberlain were the great grandparents of Gladys Tregenna Dayton Eckman.  Anne Chamberlain, mentioned below, became the wife of Hiram Miles Dayton, and was Gladys's grandmother.   Hiram's father's history is told about in blog # 67.  William Chamberlain was born 27th October, 1815, in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England. He was married November 12, 1836 to Mary Allen, born 1 Jan 1815, also born in Oxfordshire, England . They spent the first part of their married life in England where Mary gave birth to John 1838; Henry, 1840; Elizabeth, 1842;  and Joseph in 1844, who died at 11 months of age.  They lived near Oxford, which has the oldest university in the English speaking world.  As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II...