Son of William Atkins Gheen and Esther Ann Pierce
Married Mary Adelia Hardy, 6 Nov 1856, Ogden, Weber, Utah
Children - Lucy Ann Gheen, Stephen Pierce Gheen, William Joseph Gheen, Amanda Elizabeth Gheen, Ida Viola Gheen, Lillian Uzel Gheen
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Howard Egan Company (1849); Approximate age at departure: 14
Biography - This is a copy, of a copy, of the writings of Stephan Harris Gheen, Pearl Wyoming, 26th of February 1891.
Great great grandmother Esther Ann Pierce Gheen arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the spring of 1849.
I Stephen Harris Gheen, knowing as I do that life is uncertain and that death is certain sooner or later and while I am in my right mind, I deem it necessary for my children to understand who I am.
I here state my father, William A. Gheen, who was the son of Thomas and Alice Gheen, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of September, 1798.
My mother was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Pierce and was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1801.
Our family consisted of eight children; Margaret P. was married to James Browning in Nauvoo, Ill. by Joseph Smith the Prophet. Thomas P. was lost. Ann Alice and Amanda were wives of Heber C. Kimball. Mary Ann, married William Elmer is now in Ogden. Myself, off here in the mountains. Levi A., we don’t know where he is.
My father, nor mother never belonged to any sect or society. Their parents were Quakers.
In the spring of 1840 the first Elders came to Chester Co. Pennsylvania. And in August the same year; father, mother and Margret were baptized.
In the fall of 1841 my father and Brother Hunter came to Nauvoo to visit the prophet and other friends and received his Patriarchal Blessing and (he) was ordained an Elder by Hyrum Smith. He returned home in good health and spirits. And on the 21st of January 1842 he sold his farm and prepared to leave our native land, friends and relations for the Gospels sake.
The 11th of May 1842, we started west by team, well fitted out with everything for our comfort. We were blessed on our journey and arrived in the city of Nauvoo on the 28 of June. My Father bought a city lot two blocks west of the temple and built a fine brick house and a frame barn. He bought 80 acres of land on the Carthage Road four miles from the city from Joseph Smith for which he paid $800 but he received no title for it, so he could not sell it.
He labored hard and made his family comfortable. He helped to build the temple both with means and Labor and helped also on the Nauvoo House.
My father went out to visit Joseph and Hyrum in the Carthage Jail the day before they were killed. He received some good instructions and a blessing from them. He assisted in bringing them home and burying them.
He was very anxious to see the temple finished but was sick and died, July 15th 1845.
President Brigham Young preached his funeral sermon. He said that he had known Brother Gheen for 3 years and said; If father had his life to live over again he didn’t think he could mend it, that he was a good man.
At the tine of my father’s death the five youngest children had the whooping cough and Sarah, the baby, only seven months old, nearly died; but mother Chase came and washed and anointed her, and she lived to have a nice family.
One can see the responsibility that rested upon my Mother with so many of the family sick. But she was a woman of good sound mind and (had) a splendid education to help her.
In the spring of ’46 we left the beautiful city of Nauvoo and crossed the Missouri with two wagons and three yoke of cattle to each wagon. We journeyed west with the main body of the church. I got the mountain fever and was baptized for my health. I was only about 11 years old. We stayed on the Missouri just about where Omaha is now. We lived that winter in what is known as Winter Quarters. We witnessed and participated in (the) trials, privations and suffering that a great many pasted through.
In the spring of ‘47 the pioneers journeyed westward. My mother and the four youngest children bid good-bye to my three oldest sisters, that left us and went with Brother Kimball. We went down the river about 40 miles below and stayed with an old friend of ours, that summer.
The following winter Edward Egan came to our place from Salt Lake City and told us all about the folks and country there. He had some freight to take out to the Valley. He counselled with my mother about fitting me out with a team we had then and two yoke of oxen and the wagon and take a load of freight, which I did to raise means to bring my mother and the rest in the following spring. (1849) I was 14 years old. As near as I can understand that freight with some others at the same time was the first merchandise to be sold in Salt Lake.
After my mother and the rest of the family came to the valley we went to Ogden. I was there to witness the trouble with the Indians in 1850. I helped to break some of the first land in North Ogden. (The) next spring I went to Willard Creek, now known as Willard.
In 1852 I witnessed another scare with the Indians but no one was killed. I helped plow, plant and harvest the first crops raised in what is known as Three Mile Creek, from there to the old Bingham Fort.
Married Mary Adelia Hardy, 6 Nov 1856, Ogden, Weber, Utah
Children - Lucy Ann Gheen, Stephen Pierce Gheen, William Joseph Gheen, Amanda Elizabeth Gheen, Ida Viola Gheen, Lillian Uzel Gheen
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Howard Egan Company (1849); Approximate age at departure: 14
Biography - This is a copy, of a copy, of the writings of Stephan Harris Gheen, Pearl Wyoming, 26th of February 1891.
Great great grandmother Esther Ann Pierce Gheen arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the spring of 1849.
I Stephen Harris Gheen, knowing as I do that life is uncertain and that death is certain sooner or later and while I am in my right mind, I deem it necessary for my children to understand who I am.
I here state my father, William A. Gheen, who was the son of Thomas and Alice Gheen, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of September, 1798.
My mother was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Pierce and was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1801.
Our family consisted of eight children; Margaret P. was married to James Browning in Nauvoo, Ill. by Joseph Smith the Prophet. Thomas P. was lost. Ann Alice and Amanda were wives of Heber C. Kimball. Mary Ann, married William Elmer is now in Ogden. Myself, off here in the mountains. Levi A., we don’t know where he is.
My father, nor mother never belonged to any sect or society. Their parents were Quakers.
In the spring of 1840 the first Elders came to Chester Co. Pennsylvania. And in August the same year; father, mother and Margret were baptized.
In the fall of 1841 my father and Brother Hunter came to Nauvoo to visit the prophet and other friends and received his Patriarchal Blessing and (he) was ordained an Elder by Hyrum Smith. He returned home in good health and spirits. And on the 21st of January 1842 he sold his farm and prepared to leave our native land, friends and relations for the Gospels sake.
The 11th of May 1842, we started west by team, well fitted out with everything for our comfort. We were blessed on our journey and arrived in the city of Nauvoo on the 28 of June. My Father bought a city lot two blocks west of the temple and built a fine brick house and a frame barn. He bought 80 acres of land on the Carthage Road four miles from the city from Joseph Smith for which he paid $800 but he received no title for it, so he could not sell it.
He labored hard and made his family comfortable. He helped to build the temple both with means and Labor and helped also on the Nauvoo House.
My father went out to visit Joseph and Hyrum in the Carthage Jail the day before they were killed. He received some good instructions and a blessing from them. He assisted in bringing them home and burying them.
He was very anxious to see the temple finished but was sick and died, July 15th 1845.
President Brigham Young preached his funeral sermon. He said that he had known Brother Gheen for 3 years and said; If father had his life to live over again he didn’t think he could mend it, that he was a good man.
At the tine of my father’s death the five youngest children had the whooping cough and Sarah, the baby, only seven months old, nearly died; but mother Chase came and washed and anointed her, and she lived to have a nice family.
One can see the responsibility that rested upon my Mother with so many of the family sick. But she was a woman of good sound mind and (had) a splendid education to help her.
In the spring of ’46 we left the beautiful city of Nauvoo and crossed the Missouri with two wagons and three yoke of cattle to each wagon. We journeyed west with the main body of the church. I got the mountain fever and was baptized for my health. I was only about 11 years old. We stayed on the Missouri just about where Omaha is now. We lived that winter in what is known as Winter Quarters. We witnessed and participated in (the) trials, privations and suffering that a great many pasted through.
In the spring of ‘47 the pioneers journeyed westward. My mother and the four youngest children bid good-bye to my three oldest sisters, that left us and went with Brother Kimball. We went down the river about 40 miles below and stayed with an old friend of ours, that summer.
The following winter Edward Egan came to our place from Salt Lake City and told us all about the folks and country there. He had some freight to take out to the Valley. He counselled with my mother about fitting me out with a team we had then and two yoke of oxen and the wagon and take a load of freight, which I did to raise means to bring my mother and the rest in the following spring. (1849) I was 14 years old. As near as I can understand that freight with some others at the same time was the first merchandise to be sold in Salt Lake.
After my mother and the rest of the family came to the valley we went to Ogden. I was there to witness the trouble with the Indians in 1850. I helped to break some of the first land in North Ogden. (The) next spring I went to Willard Creek, now known as Willard.
In 1852 I witnessed another scare with the Indians but no one was killed. I helped plow, plant and harvest the first crops raised in what is known as Three Mile Creek, from there to the old Bingham Fort.
Son of William Atkins Gheen and Esther Ann Pierce
Married Mary Adelia Hardy, 6 Nov 1856, Ogden, Weber, Utah
Children - Lucy Ann Gheen, Stephen Pierce Gheen, William Joseph Gheen, Amanda Elizabeth Gheen, Ida Viola Gheen, Lillian Uzel Gheen
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Howard Egan Company (1849); Approximate age at departure: 14
Biography - This is a copy, of a copy, of the writings of Stephan Harris Gheen, Pearl Wyoming, 26th of February 1891.
Great great grandmother Esther Ann Pierce Gheen arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the spring of 1849.
I Stephen Harris Gheen, knowing as I do that life is uncertain and that death is certain sooner or later and while I am in my right mind, I deem it necessary for my children to understand who I am.
I here state my father, William A. Gheen, who was the son of Thomas and Alice Gheen, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of September, 1798.
My mother was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Pierce and was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1801.
Our family consisted of eight children; Margaret P. was married to James Browning in Nauvoo, Ill. by Joseph Smith the Prophet. Thomas P. was lost. Ann Alice and Amanda were wives of Heber C. Kimball. Mary Ann, married William Elmer is now in Ogden. Myself, off here in the mountains. Levi A., we don’t know where he is.
My father, nor mother never belonged to any sect or society. Their parents were Quakers.
In the spring of 1840 the first Elders came to Chester Co. Pennsylvania. And in August the same year; father, mother and Margret were baptized.
In the fall of 1841 my father and Brother Hunter came to Nauvoo to visit the prophet and other friends and received his Patriarchal Blessing and (he) was ordained an Elder by Hyrum Smith. He returned home in good health and spirits. And on the 21st of January 1842 he sold his farm and prepared to leave our native land, friends and relations for the Gospels sake.
The 11th of May 1842, we started west by team, well fitted out with everything for our comfort. We were blessed on our journey and arrived in the city of Nauvoo on the 28 of June. My Father bought a city lot two blocks west of the temple and built a fine brick house and a frame barn. He bought 80 acres of land on the Carthage Road four miles from the city from Joseph Smith for which he paid $800 but he received no title for it, so he could not sell it.
He labored hard and made his family comfortable. He helped to build the temple both with means and Labor and helped also on the Nauvoo House.
My father went out to visit Joseph and Hyrum in the Carthage Jail the day before they were killed. He received some good instructions and a blessing from them. He assisted in bringing them home and burying them.
He was very anxious to see the temple finished but was sick and died, July 15th 1845.
President Brigham Young preached his funeral sermon. He said that he had known Brother Gheen for 3 years and said; If father had his life to live over again he didn’t think he could mend it, that he was a good man.
At the tine of my father’s death the five youngest children had the whooping cough and Sarah, the baby, only seven months old, nearly died; but mother Chase came and washed and anointed her, and she lived to have a nice family.
One can see the responsibility that rested upon my Mother with so many of the family sick. But she was a woman of good sound mind and (had) a splendid education to help her.
In the spring of ’46 we left the beautiful city of Nauvoo and crossed the Missouri with two wagons and three yoke of cattle to each wagon. We journeyed west with the main body of the church. I got the mountain fever and was baptized for my health. I was only about 11 years old. We stayed on the Missouri just about where Omaha is now. We lived that winter in what is known as Winter Quarters. We witnessed and participated in (the) trials, privations and suffering that a great many pasted through.
In the spring of ‘47 the pioneers journeyed westward. My mother and the four youngest children bid good-bye to my three oldest sisters, that left us and went with Brother Kimball. We went down the river about 40 miles below and stayed with an old friend of ours, that summer.
The following winter Edward Egan came to our place from Salt Lake City and told us all about the folks and country there. He had some freight to take out to the Valley. He counselled with my mother about fitting me out with a team we had then and two yoke of oxen and the wagon and take a load of freight, which I did to raise means to bring my mother and the rest in the following spring. (1849) I was 14 years old. As near as I can understand that freight with some others at the same time was the first merchandise to be sold in Salt Lake.
After my mother and the rest of the family came to the valley we went to Ogden. I was there to witness the trouble with the Indians in 1850. I helped to break some of the first land in North Ogden. (The) next spring I went to Willard Creek, now known as Willard.
In 1852 I witnessed another scare with the Indians but no one was killed. I helped plow, plant and harvest the first crops raised in what is known as Three Mile Creek, from there to the old Bingham Fort.
Married Mary Adelia Hardy, 6 Nov 1856, Ogden, Weber, Utah
Children - Lucy Ann Gheen, Stephen Pierce Gheen, William Joseph Gheen, Amanda Elizabeth Gheen, Ida Viola Gheen, Lillian Uzel Gheen
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Howard Egan Company (1849); Approximate age at departure: 14
Biography - This is a copy, of a copy, of the writings of Stephan Harris Gheen, Pearl Wyoming, 26th of February 1891.
Great great grandmother Esther Ann Pierce Gheen arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the spring of 1849.
I Stephen Harris Gheen, knowing as I do that life is uncertain and that death is certain sooner or later and while I am in my right mind, I deem it necessary for my children to understand who I am.
I here state my father, William A. Gheen, who was the son of Thomas and Alice Gheen, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of September, 1798.
My mother was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Pierce and was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1801.
Our family consisted of eight children; Margaret P. was married to James Browning in Nauvoo, Ill. by Joseph Smith the Prophet. Thomas P. was lost. Ann Alice and Amanda were wives of Heber C. Kimball. Mary Ann, married William Elmer is now in Ogden. Myself, off here in the mountains. Levi A., we don’t know where he is.
My father, nor mother never belonged to any sect or society. Their parents were Quakers.
In the spring of 1840 the first Elders came to Chester Co. Pennsylvania. And in August the same year; father, mother and Margret were baptized.
In the fall of 1841 my father and Brother Hunter came to Nauvoo to visit the prophet and other friends and received his Patriarchal Blessing and (he) was ordained an Elder by Hyrum Smith. He returned home in good health and spirits. And on the 21st of January 1842 he sold his farm and prepared to leave our native land, friends and relations for the Gospels sake.
The 11th of May 1842, we started west by team, well fitted out with everything for our comfort. We were blessed on our journey and arrived in the city of Nauvoo on the 28 of June. My Father bought a city lot two blocks west of the temple and built a fine brick house and a frame barn. He bought 80 acres of land on the Carthage Road four miles from the city from Joseph Smith for which he paid $800 but he received no title for it, so he could not sell it.
He labored hard and made his family comfortable. He helped to build the temple both with means and Labor and helped also on the Nauvoo House.
My father went out to visit Joseph and Hyrum in the Carthage Jail the day before they were killed. He received some good instructions and a blessing from them. He assisted in bringing them home and burying them.
He was very anxious to see the temple finished but was sick and died, July 15th 1845.
President Brigham Young preached his funeral sermon. He said that he had known Brother Gheen for 3 years and said; If father had his life to live over again he didn’t think he could mend it, that he was a good man.
At the tine of my father’s death the five youngest children had the whooping cough and Sarah, the baby, only seven months old, nearly died; but mother Chase came and washed and anointed her, and she lived to have a nice family.
One can see the responsibility that rested upon my Mother with so many of the family sick. But she was a woman of good sound mind and (had) a splendid education to help her.
In the spring of ’46 we left the beautiful city of Nauvoo and crossed the Missouri with two wagons and three yoke of cattle to each wagon. We journeyed west with the main body of the church. I got the mountain fever and was baptized for my health. I was only about 11 years old. We stayed on the Missouri just about where Omaha is now. We lived that winter in what is known as Winter Quarters. We witnessed and participated in (the) trials, privations and suffering that a great many pasted through.
In the spring of ‘47 the pioneers journeyed westward. My mother and the four youngest children bid good-bye to my three oldest sisters, that left us and went with Brother Kimball. We went down the river about 40 miles below and stayed with an old friend of ours, that summer.
The following winter Edward Egan came to our place from Salt Lake City and told us all about the folks and country there. He had some freight to take out to the Valley. He counselled with my mother about fitting me out with a team we had then and two yoke of oxen and the wagon and take a load of freight, which I did to raise means to bring my mother and the rest in the following spring. (1849) I was 14 years old. As near as I can understand that freight with some others at the same time was the first merchandise to be sold in Salt Lake.
After my mother and the rest of the family came to the valley we went to Ogden. I was there to witness the trouble with the Indians in 1850. I helped to break some of the first land in North Ogden. (The) next spring I went to Willard Creek, now known as Willard.
In 1852 I witnessed another scare with the Indians but no one was killed. I helped plow, plant and harvest the first crops raised in what is known as Three Mile Creek, from there to the old Bingham Fort.
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