Daughter of William Gould & Huldah Gilmore
Married Seymour Brunson, abt 1823, Hector, Tompkins, New York. Children - Lewis Brunson, William Morgan Brunson, Rueben Brunson, Seymour Brunson, Joseph Brunson
Married John Elmer, 21 March 1841, Winter Quarters (now Florence), Douglas, Nebraska. Children - Jerusha Kibbee Elmer, William Depan Elmer, Lucretia Elmer.
History - Harriet Gould was born 11 August 1801 in Hector, Seneca County, New York. She was the second child in a family of twelve children born to William A. and Hulda Gilmore Gould. Her brothers were: George and Elisha, and her sisters were Polly, Mary, Sophia, Betsey, Naomie, Caroline, Sally Ann, Amanda and Elsie. All of these children were born in Hector, New York. Only part of them lived to maturity.
About 1824, when Harriet was 23 years old, she married Seymour Brunson. He was 26 at the time, having been born December 1, 1798 in Vermont. (One record says Sept 18, 1799 in Virginia. Another says he was born in New York State) His parents were Reuben Brunson and Sally Clark. Seymour and Harriet lived in Hector, New York, where their first child, Reuben, was born 20 March 1825.
In New York State at this time there was a great religious stir among the people; young Joseph Smith of Palmyra, New York, had organized the Church of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1830 in Fayette, Seneca County, New York, not far from where the Brunsons lived.
Seymour and Harriet were deeply impressed with this new religion and Seymour was baptized soon after on 17 January 1831. However, it wasn't until March 1832 that Harriet was baptized.
According to Jensen's Church Chronology we read that "late in 1830 and 1831 the saints started moving from New York State to Kirtland Ohio." The Brunsons were willing to sacrifice everything for this new found religion, and they, too, moved to Ohio.
Their second child, Lewis, was born 27 January 1831 in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio. Joseph, their third child, was born 20 November 1834 in Bloomfield, Ohio, and Jershua about 1835 in Orenton, Vinton County, Ohio.
In 1831 the first Elders went to Jackson County, Missouri, and dedicated that place for the gathering of the Saints to build the New Jerusalem. From then on, thousands of Saints gathered there and underwent terrible persecutions from wicked mobs.
During the summer of 1836, Seymour, Harriet and their four children left Ohio to join the Mormons. The records show that they were in Tompkins, Illinois in November 22 of that year, because their fifth child, Seymour Jr. was born there on the 8th of November, 1836.
Books on early Church History tell of the prominent part Seymour Brunson played in the building up of Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, where they had moved in the spring of 1837. However, the Mormons were not to enjoy peace at this time and place. One can hardly imagine the terrible things that the Mormon haters did to these defenseless Saints. Harriet Brunson lived in constant fear, not knowing at what time they might be killed. Finally, in October 1838 Governor Boggs issued his famous extermination order, which gave the Saints the choice between banishment from Missouri or death.
Again referring to Church Chronology, p. 16 it is noted that after the Saints had been banished from Missouri, they made their escape to Quincy (Commerce), Hancock County, Illinois. Here the citizens treated them kindly and the place was selected as a new gathering place for the Saints. The Prophet purchased a large acreage of swamp land on the banks of the Mississippi River to build a new place (Nauvoo) to live. The Brunsons are in Quincy (Commerce) early in the year of 1839, because their sixth child, William Morgan, was born there 3 March 1839.
The Brunsons were right there to help when this community was enlarged and incorporated into the City of Nauvoo. On page 17 Church Chronology we note that at the October General Conference Seymour Brunson was one of the men chosen and set apart as a High Councilman, with William Marks as Stake President. Harriet was proud that her husband was worthy of such an important church position. He also acted as body guard for their beloved Prophet Joseph Smith, whose life was in constant danger.
Then the grim reaper "Death" visited the Brunson household and took the husband and father, Seymour, and 10 June, 1840. [Correction: 10 August 1840] He was only 41 years old, and Harriet and the children needed him so badly. Joseph Smith delivered the funeral oration, and it was in this sermon that he first gave to the Church the revelation of the baptism for the dead that he had just received. (Note: Church Chronology says that in November 1841 baptisms for the dead were commenced in the font in the basement of the Nauvoo Temple.) Bowed in sorrow, Harriet carried on, but again death struck after just four months from the death of the father. Baby William Morgan died on 12 October 1840.
A history of Lewis Brunson (Harriet's next oldest son) says that after his father's death, he and brother Joseph went to live at the home of Brother Hyrum Smith, who was a good friend of the family. In 1841 Harriet married John Elmer, whose wife Sarah had died in 1838. The children then came to live with her and their stepfather. It wasn't long until 7 year old Joseph died, March 3 1842.
Records in the possession of Betty Smith give the information that Harriet had one child by John Elmer. This was Lucretia, born 28 August 1845 in Pottawatomie County, Iowa. Lucretia died as a child. For some reason we don't know she was sealed to her mother and Seymour Brunson on 26 October 1877 in the St. George Temple, along with the most of the Brunson children.
John Elmer came to Utah with his family in 1852 and settled in Payson, Utah County. In Volume 12 Heart Throbs of the West page 433, we find that Harriet Gould Brunson, (Note that she is not listed as Harriet Elmer.) Lewis Brunson and Seymour Brunson Jr. crossed the plains to Utah in 1851. Apparently she came to Utah with her sons rather than with John Elmer.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, page 777, says that they arrived in September 1851 with the Roswell Stevens Company. Harriet Gould Brunson is listed in Milestones of Millard as a pioneer of Fillmore, Utah, where her sons Lewis and Seymour Jr. settled. Strangely enough, she is nowhere called Harriet Elmer. However, she apparently lived for a time with John Elmer in Payson, because Dr. Clyde F. Brunson recalls hearing how his father, Lewis Brunson, was called to go to Payson to bring his mother to Fillmore to live after the death of John Elmer.
Her daughter Jershua married John Spencer. Her oldest son Reuben married Deborah Townsend and never joined the church. He was baptized by proxy in 1950. He did not come west with the rest of the family.
Her son Lewis married three wives: Amanda Louisa Park, Lamira Mace, and Catherine Keaton Carling. Seymour Jr. married Elizabeth Armitta Mace. Lamira and Armitta Mace were daughters of Hyrum Mace.
Harriet Gould Brunson died in Fillmore on 31 July 1879. She lacked twelve days of being 78 years old. On March 30 1852 she had gone to the Salt Lake Endowment House and received her own endowments.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, John G. Smith Company (1851); Age at departure: 48; John 74; Jerusha. They departed Kanesville (Council Bluffs) Iowa on 1 May 1851.
Married Seymour Brunson, abt 1823, Hector, Tompkins, New York. Children - Lewis Brunson, William Morgan Brunson, Rueben Brunson, Seymour Brunson, Joseph Brunson
Married John Elmer, 21 March 1841, Winter Quarters (now Florence), Douglas, Nebraska. Children - Jerusha Kibbee Elmer, William Depan Elmer, Lucretia Elmer.
History - Harriet Gould was born 11 August 1801 in Hector, Seneca County, New York. She was the second child in a family of twelve children born to William A. and Hulda Gilmore Gould. Her brothers were: George and Elisha, and her sisters were Polly, Mary, Sophia, Betsey, Naomie, Caroline, Sally Ann, Amanda and Elsie. All of these children were born in Hector, New York. Only part of them lived to maturity.
About 1824, when Harriet was 23 years old, she married Seymour Brunson. He was 26 at the time, having been born December 1, 1798 in Vermont. (One record says Sept 18, 1799 in Virginia. Another says he was born in New York State) His parents were Reuben Brunson and Sally Clark. Seymour and Harriet lived in Hector, New York, where their first child, Reuben, was born 20 March 1825.
In New York State at this time there was a great religious stir among the people; young Joseph Smith of Palmyra, New York, had organized the Church of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1830 in Fayette, Seneca County, New York, not far from where the Brunsons lived.
Seymour and Harriet were deeply impressed with this new religion and Seymour was baptized soon after on 17 January 1831. However, it wasn't until March 1832 that Harriet was baptized.
According to Jensen's Church Chronology we read that "late in 1830 and 1831 the saints started moving from New York State to Kirtland Ohio." The Brunsons were willing to sacrifice everything for this new found religion, and they, too, moved to Ohio.
Their second child, Lewis, was born 27 January 1831 in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio. Joseph, their third child, was born 20 November 1834 in Bloomfield, Ohio, and Jershua about 1835 in Orenton, Vinton County, Ohio.
In 1831 the first Elders went to Jackson County, Missouri, and dedicated that place for the gathering of the Saints to build the New Jerusalem. From then on, thousands of Saints gathered there and underwent terrible persecutions from wicked mobs.
During the summer of 1836, Seymour, Harriet and their four children left Ohio to join the Mormons. The records show that they were in Tompkins, Illinois in November 22 of that year, because their fifth child, Seymour Jr. was born there on the 8th of November, 1836.
Books on early Church History tell of the prominent part Seymour Brunson played in the building up of Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, where they had moved in the spring of 1837. However, the Mormons were not to enjoy peace at this time and place. One can hardly imagine the terrible things that the Mormon haters did to these defenseless Saints. Harriet Brunson lived in constant fear, not knowing at what time they might be killed. Finally, in October 1838 Governor Boggs issued his famous extermination order, which gave the Saints the choice between banishment from Missouri or death.
Again referring to Church Chronology, p. 16 it is noted that after the Saints had been banished from Missouri, they made their escape to Quincy (Commerce), Hancock County, Illinois. Here the citizens treated them kindly and the place was selected as a new gathering place for the Saints. The Prophet purchased a large acreage of swamp land on the banks of the Mississippi River to build a new place (Nauvoo) to live. The Brunsons are in Quincy (Commerce) early in the year of 1839, because their sixth child, William Morgan, was born there 3 March 1839.
The Brunsons were right there to help when this community was enlarged and incorporated into the City of Nauvoo. On page 17 Church Chronology we note that at the October General Conference Seymour Brunson was one of the men chosen and set apart as a High Councilman, with William Marks as Stake President. Harriet was proud that her husband was worthy of such an important church position. He also acted as body guard for their beloved Prophet Joseph Smith, whose life was in constant danger.
Then the grim reaper "Death" visited the Brunson household and took the husband and father, Seymour, and 10 June, 1840. [Correction: 10 August 1840] He was only 41 years old, and Harriet and the children needed him so badly. Joseph Smith delivered the funeral oration, and it was in this sermon that he first gave to the Church the revelation of the baptism for the dead that he had just received. (Note: Church Chronology says that in November 1841 baptisms for the dead were commenced in the font in the basement of the Nauvoo Temple.) Bowed in sorrow, Harriet carried on, but again death struck after just four months from the death of the father. Baby William Morgan died on 12 October 1840.
A history of Lewis Brunson (Harriet's next oldest son) says that after his father's death, he and brother Joseph went to live at the home of Brother Hyrum Smith, who was a good friend of the family. In 1841 Harriet married John Elmer, whose wife Sarah had died in 1838. The children then came to live with her and their stepfather. It wasn't long until 7 year old Joseph died, March 3 1842.
Records in the possession of Betty Smith give the information that Harriet had one child by John Elmer. This was Lucretia, born 28 August 1845 in Pottawatomie County, Iowa. Lucretia died as a child. For some reason we don't know she was sealed to her mother and Seymour Brunson on 26 October 1877 in the St. George Temple, along with the most of the Brunson children.
John Elmer came to Utah with his family in 1852 and settled in Payson, Utah County. In Volume 12 Heart Throbs of the West page 433, we find that Harriet Gould Brunson, (Note that she is not listed as Harriet Elmer.) Lewis Brunson and Seymour Brunson Jr. crossed the plains to Utah in 1851. Apparently she came to Utah with her sons rather than with John Elmer.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, page 777, says that they arrived in September 1851 with the Roswell Stevens Company. Harriet Gould Brunson is listed in Milestones of Millard as a pioneer of Fillmore, Utah, where her sons Lewis and Seymour Jr. settled. Strangely enough, she is nowhere called Harriet Elmer. However, she apparently lived for a time with John Elmer in Payson, because Dr. Clyde F. Brunson recalls hearing how his father, Lewis Brunson, was called to go to Payson to bring his mother to Fillmore to live after the death of John Elmer.
Her daughter Jershua married John Spencer. Her oldest son Reuben married Deborah Townsend and never joined the church. He was baptized by proxy in 1950. He did not come west with the rest of the family.
Her son Lewis married three wives: Amanda Louisa Park, Lamira Mace, and Catherine Keaton Carling. Seymour Jr. married Elizabeth Armitta Mace. Lamira and Armitta Mace were daughters of Hyrum Mace.
Harriet Gould Brunson died in Fillmore on 31 July 1879. She lacked twelve days of being 78 years old. On March 30 1852 she had gone to the Salt Lake Endowment House and received her own endowments.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, John G. Smith Company (1851); Age at departure: 48; John 74; Jerusha. They departed Kanesville (Council Bluffs) Iowa on 1 May 1851.
Daughter of William Gould & Huldah Gilmore
Married Seymour Brunson, abt 1823, Hector, Tompkins, New York. Children - Lewis Brunson, William Morgan Brunson, Rueben Brunson, Seymour Brunson, Joseph Brunson
Married John Elmer, 21 March 1841, Winter Quarters (now Florence), Douglas, Nebraska. Children - Jerusha Kibbee Elmer, William Depan Elmer, Lucretia Elmer.
History - Harriet Gould was born 11 August 1801 in Hector, Seneca County, New York. She was the second child in a family of twelve children born to William A. and Hulda Gilmore Gould. Her brothers were: George and Elisha, and her sisters were Polly, Mary, Sophia, Betsey, Naomie, Caroline, Sally Ann, Amanda and Elsie. All of these children were born in Hector, New York. Only part of them lived to maturity.
About 1824, when Harriet was 23 years old, she married Seymour Brunson. He was 26 at the time, having been born December 1, 1798 in Vermont. (One record says Sept 18, 1799 in Virginia. Another says he was born in New York State) His parents were Reuben Brunson and Sally Clark. Seymour and Harriet lived in Hector, New York, where their first child, Reuben, was born 20 March 1825.
In New York State at this time there was a great religious stir among the people; young Joseph Smith of Palmyra, New York, had organized the Church of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1830 in Fayette, Seneca County, New York, not far from where the Brunsons lived.
Seymour and Harriet were deeply impressed with this new religion and Seymour was baptized soon after on 17 January 1831. However, it wasn't until March 1832 that Harriet was baptized.
According to Jensen's Church Chronology we read that "late in 1830 and 1831 the saints started moving from New York State to Kirtland Ohio." The Brunsons were willing to sacrifice everything for this new found religion, and they, too, moved to Ohio.
Their second child, Lewis, was born 27 January 1831 in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio. Joseph, their third child, was born 20 November 1834 in Bloomfield, Ohio, and Jershua about 1835 in Orenton, Vinton County, Ohio.
In 1831 the first Elders went to Jackson County, Missouri, and dedicated that place for the gathering of the Saints to build the New Jerusalem. From then on, thousands of Saints gathered there and underwent terrible persecutions from wicked mobs.
During the summer of 1836, Seymour, Harriet and their four children left Ohio to join the Mormons. The records show that they were in Tompkins, Illinois in November 22 of that year, because their fifth child, Seymour Jr. was born there on the 8th of November, 1836.
Books on early Church History tell of the prominent part Seymour Brunson played in the building up of Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, where they had moved in the spring of 1837. However, the Mormons were not to enjoy peace at this time and place. One can hardly imagine the terrible things that the Mormon haters did to these defenseless Saints. Harriet Brunson lived in constant fear, not knowing at what time they might be killed. Finally, in October 1838 Governor Boggs issued his famous extermination order, which gave the Saints the choice between banishment from Missouri or death.
Again referring to Church Chronology, p. 16 it is noted that after the Saints had been banished from Missouri, they made their escape to Quincy (Commerce), Hancock County, Illinois. Here the citizens treated them kindly and the place was selected as a new gathering place for the Saints. The Prophet purchased a large acreage of swamp land on the banks of the Mississippi River to build a new place (Nauvoo) to live. The Brunsons are in Quincy (Commerce) early in the year of 1839, because their sixth child, William Morgan, was born there 3 March 1839.
The Brunsons were right there to help when this community was enlarged and incorporated into the City of Nauvoo. On page 17 Church Chronology we note that at the October General Conference Seymour Brunson was one of the men chosen and set apart as a High Councilman, with William Marks as Stake President. Harriet was proud that her husband was worthy of such an important church position. He also acted as body guard for their beloved Prophet Joseph Smith, whose life was in constant danger.
Then the grim reaper "Death" visited the Brunson household and took the husband and father, Seymour, and 10 June, 1840. [Correction: 10 August 1840] He was only 41 years old, and Harriet and the children needed him so badly. Joseph Smith delivered the funeral oration, and it was in this sermon that he first gave to the Church the revelation of the baptism for the dead that he had just received. (Note: Church Chronology says that in November 1841 baptisms for the dead were commenced in the font in the basement of the Nauvoo Temple.) Bowed in sorrow, Harriet carried on, but again death struck after just four months from the death of the father. Baby William Morgan died on 12 October 1840.
A history of Lewis Brunson (Harriet's next oldest son) says that after his father's death, he and brother Joseph went to live at the home of Brother Hyrum Smith, who was a good friend of the family. In 1841 Harriet married John Elmer, whose wife Sarah had died in 1838. The children then came to live with her and their stepfather. It wasn't long until 7 year old Joseph died, March 3 1842.
Records in the possession of Betty Smith give the information that Harriet had one child by John Elmer. This was Lucretia, born 28 August 1845 in Pottawatomie County, Iowa. Lucretia died as a child. For some reason we don't know she was sealed to her mother and Seymour Brunson on 26 October 1877 in the St. George Temple, along with the most of the Brunson children.
John Elmer came to Utah with his family in 1852 and settled in Payson, Utah County. In Volume 12 Heart Throbs of the West page 433, we find that Harriet Gould Brunson, (Note that she is not listed as Harriet Elmer.) Lewis Brunson and Seymour Brunson Jr. crossed the plains to Utah in 1851. Apparently she came to Utah with her sons rather than with John Elmer.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, page 777, says that they arrived in September 1851 with the Roswell Stevens Company. Harriet Gould Brunson is listed in Milestones of Millard as a pioneer of Fillmore, Utah, where her sons Lewis and Seymour Jr. settled. Strangely enough, she is nowhere called Harriet Elmer. However, she apparently lived for a time with John Elmer in Payson, because Dr. Clyde F. Brunson recalls hearing how his father, Lewis Brunson, was called to go to Payson to bring his mother to Fillmore to live after the death of John Elmer.
Her daughter Jershua married John Spencer. Her oldest son Reuben married Deborah Townsend and never joined the church. He was baptized by proxy in 1950. He did not come west with the rest of the family.
Her son Lewis married three wives: Amanda Louisa Park, Lamira Mace, and Catherine Keaton Carling. Seymour Jr. married Elizabeth Armitta Mace. Lamira and Armitta Mace were daughters of Hyrum Mace.
Harriet Gould Brunson died in Fillmore on 31 July 1879. She lacked twelve days of being 78 years old. On March 30 1852 she had gone to the Salt Lake Endowment House and received her own endowments.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, John G. Smith Company (1851); Age at departure: 48; John 74; Jerusha. They departed Kanesville (Council Bluffs) Iowa on 1 May 1851.
Married Seymour Brunson, abt 1823, Hector, Tompkins, New York. Children - Lewis Brunson, William Morgan Brunson, Rueben Brunson, Seymour Brunson, Joseph Brunson
Married John Elmer, 21 March 1841, Winter Quarters (now Florence), Douglas, Nebraska. Children - Jerusha Kibbee Elmer, William Depan Elmer, Lucretia Elmer.
History - Harriet Gould was born 11 August 1801 in Hector, Seneca County, New York. She was the second child in a family of twelve children born to William A. and Hulda Gilmore Gould. Her brothers were: George and Elisha, and her sisters were Polly, Mary, Sophia, Betsey, Naomie, Caroline, Sally Ann, Amanda and Elsie. All of these children were born in Hector, New York. Only part of them lived to maturity.
About 1824, when Harriet was 23 years old, she married Seymour Brunson. He was 26 at the time, having been born December 1, 1798 in Vermont. (One record says Sept 18, 1799 in Virginia. Another says he was born in New York State) His parents were Reuben Brunson and Sally Clark. Seymour and Harriet lived in Hector, New York, where their first child, Reuben, was born 20 March 1825.
In New York State at this time there was a great religious stir among the people; young Joseph Smith of Palmyra, New York, had organized the Church of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1830 in Fayette, Seneca County, New York, not far from where the Brunsons lived.
Seymour and Harriet were deeply impressed with this new religion and Seymour was baptized soon after on 17 January 1831. However, it wasn't until March 1832 that Harriet was baptized.
According to Jensen's Church Chronology we read that "late in 1830 and 1831 the saints started moving from New York State to Kirtland Ohio." The Brunsons were willing to sacrifice everything for this new found religion, and they, too, moved to Ohio.
Their second child, Lewis, was born 27 January 1831 in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio. Joseph, their third child, was born 20 November 1834 in Bloomfield, Ohio, and Jershua about 1835 in Orenton, Vinton County, Ohio.
In 1831 the first Elders went to Jackson County, Missouri, and dedicated that place for the gathering of the Saints to build the New Jerusalem. From then on, thousands of Saints gathered there and underwent terrible persecutions from wicked mobs.
During the summer of 1836, Seymour, Harriet and their four children left Ohio to join the Mormons. The records show that they were in Tompkins, Illinois in November 22 of that year, because their fifth child, Seymour Jr. was born there on the 8th of November, 1836.
Books on early Church History tell of the prominent part Seymour Brunson played in the building up of Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, where they had moved in the spring of 1837. However, the Mormons were not to enjoy peace at this time and place. One can hardly imagine the terrible things that the Mormon haters did to these defenseless Saints. Harriet Brunson lived in constant fear, not knowing at what time they might be killed. Finally, in October 1838 Governor Boggs issued his famous extermination order, which gave the Saints the choice between banishment from Missouri or death.
Again referring to Church Chronology, p. 16 it is noted that after the Saints had been banished from Missouri, they made their escape to Quincy (Commerce), Hancock County, Illinois. Here the citizens treated them kindly and the place was selected as a new gathering place for the Saints. The Prophet purchased a large acreage of swamp land on the banks of the Mississippi River to build a new place (Nauvoo) to live. The Brunsons are in Quincy (Commerce) early in the year of 1839, because their sixth child, William Morgan, was born there 3 March 1839.
The Brunsons were right there to help when this community was enlarged and incorporated into the City of Nauvoo. On page 17 Church Chronology we note that at the October General Conference Seymour Brunson was one of the men chosen and set apart as a High Councilman, with William Marks as Stake President. Harriet was proud that her husband was worthy of such an important church position. He also acted as body guard for their beloved Prophet Joseph Smith, whose life was in constant danger.
Then the grim reaper "Death" visited the Brunson household and took the husband and father, Seymour, and 10 June, 1840. [Correction: 10 August 1840] He was only 41 years old, and Harriet and the children needed him so badly. Joseph Smith delivered the funeral oration, and it was in this sermon that he first gave to the Church the revelation of the baptism for the dead that he had just received. (Note: Church Chronology says that in November 1841 baptisms for the dead were commenced in the font in the basement of the Nauvoo Temple.) Bowed in sorrow, Harriet carried on, but again death struck after just four months from the death of the father. Baby William Morgan died on 12 October 1840.
A history of Lewis Brunson (Harriet's next oldest son) says that after his father's death, he and brother Joseph went to live at the home of Brother Hyrum Smith, who was a good friend of the family. In 1841 Harriet married John Elmer, whose wife Sarah had died in 1838. The children then came to live with her and their stepfather. It wasn't long until 7 year old Joseph died, March 3 1842.
Records in the possession of Betty Smith give the information that Harriet had one child by John Elmer. This was Lucretia, born 28 August 1845 in Pottawatomie County, Iowa. Lucretia died as a child. For some reason we don't know she was sealed to her mother and Seymour Brunson on 26 October 1877 in the St. George Temple, along with the most of the Brunson children.
John Elmer came to Utah with his family in 1852 and settled in Payson, Utah County. In Volume 12 Heart Throbs of the West page 433, we find that Harriet Gould Brunson, (Note that she is not listed as Harriet Elmer.) Lewis Brunson and Seymour Brunson Jr. crossed the plains to Utah in 1851. Apparently she came to Utah with her sons rather than with John Elmer.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, page 777, says that they arrived in September 1851 with the Roswell Stevens Company. Harriet Gould Brunson is listed in Milestones of Millard as a pioneer of Fillmore, Utah, where her sons Lewis and Seymour Jr. settled. Strangely enough, she is nowhere called Harriet Elmer. However, she apparently lived for a time with John Elmer in Payson, because Dr. Clyde F. Brunson recalls hearing how his father, Lewis Brunson, was called to go to Payson to bring his mother to Fillmore to live after the death of John Elmer.
Her daughter Jershua married John Spencer. Her oldest son Reuben married Deborah Townsend and never joined the church. He was baptized by proxy in 1950. He did not come west with the rest of the family.
Her son Lewis married three wives: Amanda Louisa Park, Lamira Mace, and Catherine Keaton Carling. Seymour Jr. married Elizabeth Armitta Mace. Lamira and Armitta Mace were daughters of Hyrum Mace.
Harriet Gould Brunson died in Fillmore on 31 July 1879. She lacked twelve days of being 78 years old. On March 30 1852 she had gone to the Salt Lake Endowment House and received her own endowments.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, John G. Smith Company (1851); Age at departure: 48; John 74; Jerusha. They departed Kanesville (Council Bluffs) Iowa on 1 May 1851.
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