The Buzz’n Joneses

Dear Family,

We hope you are all doing well. We are doing well here in Nephi.!

This past month has been a good one. We are enjoying our garden. It sure is growing fast. It is fun to see the watermelons and the cantaloupes coming on. They are getting ready to be harvested. (In fact, we called Mom and Dad to come and enjoy our first watermelon today. It was sweet and crisp.) It leaves us a little "meloncholy" though, because we know that it means summer is over.

Jim has been busy "jerking" honey the last week. We are hoping for a good crop. We are excited to also announce that the insurance company finally forked over $50,000 to pay for the loss of our bees in Vegas. Now we have enough to pay for the bees we were buying to replace them. On the 23rd of August, Jim had a very productive birthday fishing with Grandpa T. at Fairview Lakes. They had to call it quits early because of rain, but not before they pulled in 8-10 large trouts. They both had large grins on their faces.

Over Labor Day weekend, Mary got the stomach flu and Roseola. She got over the stomach flu in a day, but it took a week for the roseola to go away. (Nice rhyme.) Mary is growing like a weed. She is learning new words every day. Two new words are "Bampa" and "belbow." That translates to Grandpa and elbow, respectively. She will be 18 months old in 13 days. My! Time sure does pass quickly!

Thanks for all of you love and support.! We sure do appreciate you all!

Love,

The Tres Nephites

Stand by My Servant Joseph: The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration

Author: William G. Hartley and the Smith Institute, Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University and Deseret Book, 2003, 6.25x9.25" hardbound, 590 pages. (The book is still available from Desert Book. The suggested Retail Price is $37.95 but it can be obtained less expensively from some retailers.).

In April 1829 the Lord instructed Oliver Cowdery, “Stand by my servant Joseph, faithfully, in whatsoever difficult circumstances he may be” (D&C 6:18). Oliver stood for a while but then faltered. By contrast, Father Joseph Knight, acquainted with Joseph Smith before he received the plates, stood by the Prophet through every circumstance. So did almost all of Father Knight’s married children, their spouses, and dozens more in the extended family. In this volume, historian William G. Hartley tells the extraordinary story of these ordinary members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

He explores the family’s intimate role in obtaining the gold plates, the translation of the Book of Mormon, the experiences of the Colesville Branch, the gathering to Kirtland, the sufferings in Jackson County, the building of Nauvoo, and the journey to the Great Salt Lake Valley.

This fascinating account is drawn from important original documents that detail mobbings and losses, spiritual experiences, miraculous healings, and contacts with Joseph Smith. These writings are given context and corroboration by other early documents, contemporary records, and the best scholarship about Mormonism’s early years.

More than sixty Knight relatives who were acquainted with Joseph Smith from the beginning of his ministry “stood” by him and his mission until their deaths. Though none of them was among the Three Witnesses or the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, the Knight family itself furnishes an unequaled collective witness of the Restoration through their actions of loyalty and sacrifice for the man they knew to be a prophet of God.

Review Excerpts:

Winner of the Mormon History Association 2004 Thomas Rice King Best Family or Community History Award

“This is a true story of one of the earliest families of the Church who witnessed the events of the Restoration from an independent point of view. They consitute a strong family witness that Joseph Smith Jr. was a true prophet.” --Darrell Knight, 2004.

William Hartley has published in BYU Studies and is the author of multiple books including “My Best for the Kingdom”: The History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman, The Iowa Mormon Trail: Legacy of Faith and Courage and The Everything Family Tree Book: Finding, Charting, and Preserving Your Family History.

Smith Family Research

Dear Family,

I went to the Family History Center this week and looked a little bit at the film I had ordered in. Surprise!!! Ann Wollage Bartington, the aunt Sarah Bean Shearring had lived with, was an LDS member, too. I had to go to Salt Lake today and spent a few minutes at the Family History Library and found that the records telling of Ann Bartington’s baptism must have been lost. So I haven't found her baptism date but she was a member when she died. Sarah Bean (Shearring) was "Cut off" - which means! she was excommunicated - They cut them off the church for trivial things then. And the Cousin, William Bartington, Ann Wollage Bartington’s son, was baptized and emigrated.

SLFHL film 087,037

Record of Baptisms & Ordinations London Conference

The new style register adopted Jan 1853 [Minnie Margetts, the secretary in the Church Offices who indexed these old records, called this Bk 425] from 1843 to 1855 Walworth Branch

Line 17 Ann Bartington, widow, Wilds Rents,

Rec'd 23 Apr 1852 from Southwark

Line 81 Sarah Bean, age 12, single, Smith Bldgs,

rec'd from Limehouse, 9 Oct 1853, cut off 1855

Line 82 William Bartington, age 15, single,

Smith Bldgs, born 9 Apr 1838 Lambeth, Surrey,

bapt 10 Oct 1853 at Finsbury

emigrated 23 Jul 1855

Another book - Walworth

Line 57 Ann Bartington, widow, Smith Buildings, bapt by Kemp, confirmed by Penrose, recd 6 Dec 1857 from Lambeth, dead

Another book: Ann Bartington, died 23 Sept 1866

William Bartington emigrated to the US. I found him on the Mormon Immigration Index CD crossing the ocean in 1855. But I haven’t been able to find him in any US records. He wasn’t on the records of those LDS companies who crossed the plains. And he wasn’t anywhere in the US in the 1860 Census. There were several diaries on the CD of people who were on that ship and while they mentioned several babies dying on the trip, they didn’t say anything about adults dying.

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Mormon Immigration Index CD

BARTINGTON, William [born] 1838>

[ship] Cynosure [sailed] 1855

Gender: M

Age:17

Origin: London

Occ: Laborer

Note: BMR, p.213

Ship: Cynosure

Date of Departure: 29 Jul 1855

Port of Departure: Liverpool, England

LDS Immigrants: 159

Church Leader: George Seager

Date of Arrival: 5 Sep 1855

Port of Arrival: New York, New York

Source(s): BMR, Book #1040, pp. 204-

214 (FHL #025,690); Customs (FHL#175,512)

Notes: "DEPARTURE. -- The ship Cynosure,

Captain Pray, sailed on Sunday the 29th ultimo for New York, with 159 souls of the Saints on board, under the presidency of Elder George Seager, with Elder William Rogers and William J. Silver as counselors. It is impossible for us to determine at present when our next vessel will sail, but it will be as soon as a ship's complement of passengers can be made up.! In the meantime we would say to those who have determined to emigrate the first opportunity, do not delay sending in your deposits."

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Well - It is strange that all these years we have thought that Sarah Bean had no contact with the church after she went to live with her aunt. Now we find that the aunt was LDS all the time!!! The aunt, Ann Wollage Bartington died 5 years after Sarah was married.

Big mysteries - but fun to research.

Donnette

Kimberly's Fruit Dip and LaRae Kendall's Fruit Salad

Fruit Dip

1 pkg 8 oz cream cheese

1-cup brown sugar

2 tbsp Carmel (like the ice cream kind)

1 tsp vanilla

Blend it up. If too thick add a little more Carmel or milk

Green Salad and Mix

Lettuce

Green onion

Almonds

Sunflower seeds/and or sesame seeds

Wontons or Chinese dry noodles

Dressing (add right before serving)

2 tsp apple cider vinegar

2 tsp sugar

1⁄2 c oil

2 tsp accent (or soy sauce—accent is better, if you use soy sauce, add salt and pepper to taste)

LaRae Kendall’s Fruit Salad

1 11-oz can mandarin oranges

1 25-oz can fruit cocktail

1 20-oz can chunk pineapple

2 apples

2 bananas

1 pg. instant lemon pudding

Drain mandarin oranges and set aside. Put fruit cocktail in a bowl that will hold at least 2-quarts. Cut cherry halves into smaller pieces to distribute red color. Add pineapple chunks, then instant pudding. Stir until the pudding is dissolved. Peel and cut apples into small wedges and add fruit mixture and then add the drained

orange segments. Refrigerate several hours. Slice bananas and add to salad shortly before serving. Use liquid drained from oranges however you like. You may want to thin the salad a bit with it.

From Charlotte

Hi Myrna, We will be down for Dad on his birthday Saturday and then Wally has an appointment for his regular biopsy and etc. on Monday at LDS Hospital. Think our Brenda will come along with us. How about a more intimate

gathering for us all and we can better visit our loved ones and either take Dad out to brunch, lunch or a picnic with all of us and then go back to the house for ice cream and cake? This will be good to do on his BD and also it won't interfere with the baptism. We will try to come for that, but will now have to work around Brenda and her work schedule, Thanks so much. 

I love you both, Char

Patriarch Pitts

The news for Grandpa was good. It doesn’t appear that he has cancer. In about five minutes, the doctor told him that he thinks he has pneumonia. Uncle Bob (his youngest brother) drove him to Provo. Dad and I met them there and went to the doctor with them. He is a pulmonary specialist. He looked at the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) Grandpa had brought with him from Price. He then listened to his lungs. (Pneumonia may be suspected when the doctor examines the patient and hears coarse breathing or crackling sounds when listening to the chest with a stethoscope. There may be wheezing, or the sounds of breathing may be faint in a particular area of the chest.) He then showed us the area of pneumonia in the lung and prescribed antibiotics for him which should last for 22 days. He then goes back to the doctor (Oct. 20) to see if the lung is clear. He also wants to see the MRI done six months ago and one year ago. He said he then could see the changes that had taken place in that time. Most people who develop pneumonia initially have symptoms of a cold which are then followed by a high fever, and a cough with sometimes bloody sputum production. In other cases of pneumonia (we used to call it “walking pneumonia), there can be a slow onset of symptoms. A cough, headaches, and muscle aches may be the only symptoms. In some people with pneumonia, coughing is not a major symptom because the infection is located in areas of the lung away from the larger airways. Elderly people, children and babies who develop pneumonia may have few symptoms. The doctor also wants him to see an endocrinologist because he suspects he has a nontoxic nodular goiter. Those occur when the thyroid gland is unable to meet the metabolic demands of the body with sufficient hormone production. The thyroid gland compensates by enlarging, which usually overcomes mild deficiencies of thyroid hormone. Grandpa told the doctor that he has had the problem show up before and has been tested in the past. The previous doctors told him that the nodule was a birth defect and was not dangerous.

AnnMarie, Matthew and Rachel came to Chuck-A-Rama and ate with us all. Grandpa got to see new little Rachel and we all had a nice visit.

From Kevin Childs

HI Mryna, I have just finshed unpacking and am all moved in!! Here is my new address just in case you all need to update your address books! Take care  Kevin - Kevin

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Amazing world we live in!

Melanie: I have been corresponding with my Young Women Presidency Secretary via email since the birth of her baby three weeks ago. I asked her on Monday if she might be related by marriage to Robin Olsen Wirthlin. She responded with a "that would be a definite yes!" We then corresponded about how Robin was doing and how I knew the Olsens. My secretary, Cheri Wirthlin, then told me that Ann was out here to help with the children because Robin is due to have her baby today (in fact she might be having a c-section as well), and that the next time she talked with them, she would mention me.

This is the latest response:
(Connie Moessing is my Laurel Advisor, and is from California, via BYU.)

I just talked to Robin and she is thrilled to hear you're in our ward. She said she would love to see you and said she and her mom will have to drive out sometime to see you. Her mom is here for several months while Robin recovers after her baby, so I'm sure they'll find the time. Anyway, she was very excited to hear that you're out here.

I find more connections out here, of all places, with people who know Robin. Connie Moessing was her roomate back at BYU! Isn't that crazy?! :)
Cheri

Amazing world we live in!

Melanie

Myrna:Isn't life amazing? 

Ann isn't quite the Ann you and I remember. She isn't far off, just a bit. She seems to talk a bit more slowly and takes more care in speaking than she once did. She had a brain tumor which required surgery and (I think) chemo. She said it had a large effect on her memory for a time, not her long-term memory but her short-term memory. However, she seems to be well-recovered from that. She is, she said, still not quite better. It was a funeral day and I did not press her. Then she called to talk to me while I was at Am's home and told me that she would be with Robin for a few months. I still did not ask her why she did not consider herself fully recovered.

She said she had lived with some of her kids while she recovered.

She and Ron did get a divorce. I guess Ron left her for another woman. One of the girls he knew at college. However, they didn't end up together. He did want Ann to forgive him and she said she did but she had her health to think about and did not take him back. She said he had really suffered since the accident and that had been a "Refiner's Fire" for him.

Love, Mom

Bean descent chart‏

So many people have said they can't keep the people in the Saga of Sarah
Bean straight, so here is a descent chart which I hope will help.

Howard Shearring, great grandson of the Mayor, William Shearring, at the
bottom is the man in England who has been driving all this frenzy. I've
left a lot of children off the chart for clarity. These are the ones that
have interest to us.

Love, Donnette

William Bartington

Donnette Smith wrote: 

I am going to look in the 1860 US census this week to see if I can see William Bartington as someone in the US. According to the ship's diaries several babies died on the way over on the ship but no adults. I think is is so interesting he joined the church. I wonder if Sarah Bean living with them had any influence on him. From what I can see from the old LDS records Sarah was at Smith Buildings about the time he joined the church. I have sent for a film of the records and am waiting for it to come to find out.

Donnette