Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Do you have Mormon pioneer heritage? FamilySearch has created a simple sign-in tool that will allow you to discover your pioneer heritage. After you discover more about the pioneers in your history, take the time to read their trail stories, also found on this page. The past is an amazing storybook. http://spr.ly/6185lI9X    (copy and paste!) Wayne's great great grandfather Phillip Kirk, had quite a history, and 3 of his children came 4 years before the parents had enough money to come also.  This tells their touching stories. 61. Wayne's great great grandfather, Phillip Kirk, "Burned in effigy" Today, I want to tell the story of Wayne's great great grandfather, Phillip Kirk, and his wife Mary Ann Taylor.    Mary Ann was 17 years old when she married Philip Kirk, 20 years old. They had 10 children, four of whom died young. Early in the 1840’s, Mormon missionaries had been sent to England to tell the people there of a new rel...

Last night, with a few minutes before bed, I decided to post the story of Richard and Ann Kirk Henwood.  I couldn't get it to copy and paste, so I did a "print screen", and I decided it was to small to read good, so I'm rewriting it today, condensed, and with information about handcart traveling, which Richard did.  I hope this gives their sweet story more exposure: ---- JOHN HENWOOD, AND RICHARD AND ANN KIRK HENWOOD written by Gladys Tregenna Dayton Eckman My Grandfather, Richard Henwood, born 5th December 1837, at Plymouth, Devonshire England, was the son of  John Henwood and Jane Tregenna Henwood.   (Note, Glady's middle name is Tregenna, and that name is the maiden name of Richard Henwood's mother.) Richard came to Utah with the Captain Edward Ellsworth Company in 1856, the very first handcart company, pulling the handcart of a widow with five  children who were bound for Utah. His father, John, step-mother Elizabeth, and  sister Elizabeth, were...

I decided tonight to do a quick post -- Actually I have enjoyed this so much, I don't really want to give up doing one blog a day -- but I probably won't do every day.  Please watch for it --   This is about Wayne's mother Gladys' grandmother and grandfather, and was written by Gladys Dayton Eckman. This is about Ann Kirk, (and her husband Richard Henwood) who was the daughter of Phillip Kirk, whose story is told in blog # 61, Phillip Kirk -- burned in effigy.  I have copied 4 pages in the history, which are below.  Ann was one of the 3 children the parents sent over to America four years before they had money enough to come.  She married Richard Henwood, who came with the very first handcart company in 1856.  The first few companies that year came without incident, but the last two were the Willie and Martin companies, we've all heard about a lot.  Richard came with his sister, and his father and stepmother.  He was 18 years old, and we've hear...