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...

                          GLADYS TREGE NNA DAYTON ECKMAN             (Copied from her own Book of Remembrance in her own writing,                                       written in 1961 --  and condensed somewhat.) My parents were Joseph Henry Dayton , born in 1871 at Cedar Fort, Utah, and died in 1915 at Tooele, Utah, and Ann Elizabeth Henwood , born in 1872 at Tooele, Utah, and died in 1944.  They had 7 children,  two who passed away when they were two years old.  ( More about them after Gladys' history.)  Her middle name "Tregenna" was after the maiden surname of her mother Ann Elizabeth  Henwood's paternal grandmother -- Jane Tregenna who lived her life in England.          This is Glady's parents, Ann Henwood, and Joseph Henry Dayton. ...