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Caroline <I>Luce</I> Chatwin

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Caroline Luce Chatwin

Birth
Hancock County, Maine, USA
Death
22 May 1924 (aged 92)
Jensen, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Burial
Jensen, Uintah County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Born:North Fox Island, Veral Haven, Hancock, Maine

Mrs. C. L. Chatwin Pioneer of 1877 Buried Saturday. Jensen Pioneer of 1877 Passes To Her Reward At Home Of Her Daughter After Long Illness. The funeral services of Mrs. Caroline Luce Chatwin was held at the Jensen Ward house Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. Bishop T. J. Caldwell presided. The Jensen choir assisited by A. G. Goodrich, Byron Goodrich and J. N. Lybbert of Naples, sang "Come, Come Ye Saints," "Oh My Father," "Resting Now From Care and Sorrow" and "We Thank Thee Oh God For A Prophet." Prayer was offered by Robert Bodily. The speakers were Seymour B. Snow, John N. Davis, Andrew Dudley, Jr., Edward Watkins, Sr. and Bishop Caldwell, who told of the honored life of the departed. The pallbearers were sons and grandsons and great-grandson of the deceased, Fred, Owen, Don, and George Wall, Warren Billings and Elbert Weeks. Mrs. Charwin is survived by the following children, Mrs. Lydie Wall, Henry J. Chatwin and William Chatwin of Jensen; Mrs. Annis Snyder Williams, California. Interment was made in the Jensen Cemetery. Mrs. Caroline Luce Snyder Chatwin was born at Vernal Haven, Fox Island, Maine, September 14, 1831. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1838, being baptized by President Wilford Woodruff, then a missionary. The family left Maine in 1838, going to Iowa. Then on to Illinois where they remained until the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed. They were then driven from the home by persecutors of the church, camping on the Mississippi River, moving back to Iowa, and shared the hardship of the Saints at Winter Quarters. She crossed the plains and landed in Salt Lake City in 1850. She was married to Sam Snyder in 1851. She later moved to Parley's Park and passed through the Indian troubles of the earlier days. She moved to Jordan, then later to Heber City. She married William Chatwin in 1865. She came to Jensen in 1877 and it has been her home until her death. She was a mother of 7 children and 41 grandchildren, a large number of great-grandchildren and several great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Chatwin was a faithful worker in the church all her life, spending many of her latter years in the Saint George, Manti and Salt Lake Temples, working for the dead. -Vernal Express, May 30, 1924, transcribed by Rhonda Holton

1924 Utah Death Certificate

Caroline was born in Vinal Haven, the larger of two Fox Islands, Knox County, Maine.
Caroline is a direct descendant of Reynolds Jenkins of Kittery, Maine (7 generations) who arrived from Broomfield, England to Maine-1634
Dean C. Jenkins
Contributor: Dean Clayton Jenkins (49436277)
Born:North Fox Island, Veral Haven, Hancock, Maine

Mrs. C. L. Chatwin Pioneer of 1877 Buried Saturday. Jensen Pioneer of 1877 Passes To Her Reward At Home Of Her Daughter After Long Illness. The funeral services of Mrs. Caroline Luce Chatwin was held at the Jensen Ward house Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. Bishop T. J. Caldwell presided. The Jensen choir assisited by A. G. Goodrich, Byron Goodrich and J. N. Lybbert of Naples, sang "Come, Come Ye Saints," "Oh My Father," "Resting Now From Care and Sorrow" and "We Thank Thee Oh God For A Prophet." Prayer was offered by Robert Bodily. The speakers were Seymour B. Snow, John N. Davis, Andrew Dudley, Jr., Edward Watkins, Sr. and Bishop Caldwell, who told of the honored life of the departed. The pallbearers were sons and grandsons and great-grandson of the deceased, Fred, Owen, Don, and George Wall, Warren Billings and Elbert Weeks. Mrs. Charwin is survived by the following children, Mrs. Lydie Wall, Henry J. Chatwin and William Chatwin of Jensen; Mrs. Annis Snyder Williams, California. Interment was made in the Jensen Cemetery. Mrs. Caroline Luce Snyder Chatwin was born at Vernal Haven, Fox Island, Maine, September 14, 1831. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1838, being baptized by President Wilford Woodruff, then a missionary. The family left Maine in 1838, going to Iowa. Then on to Illinois where they remained until the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed. They were then driven from the home by persecutors of the church, camping on the Mississippi River, moving back to Iowa, and shared the hardship of the Saints at Winter Quarters. She crossed the plains and landed in Salt Lake City in 1850. She was married to Sam Snyder in 1851. She later moved to Parley's Park and passed through the Indian troubles of the earlier days. She moved to Jordan, then later to Heber City. She married William Chatwin in 1865. She came to Jensen in 1877 and it has been her home until her death. She was a mother of 7 children and 41 grandchildren, a large number of great-grandchildren and several great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Chatwin was a faithful worker in the church all her life, spending many of her latter years in the Saint George, Manti and Salt Lake Temples, working for the dead. -Vernal Express, May 30, 1924, transcribed by Rhonda Holton

1924 Utah Death Certificate

Caroline was born in Vinal Haven, the larger of two Fox Islands, Knox County, Maine.
Caroline is a direct descendant of Reynolds Jenkins of Kittery, Maine (7 generations) who arrived from Broomfield, England to Maine-1634
Dean C. Jenkins
Contributor: Dean Clayton Jenkins (49436277)


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