Don Carlos Ashby

Don married Hulda Effie Johnson 3 Apr 1918, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Hulda was born 6 Sep 1898, , , Utah, United States; died 23 Jun 1996, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; was buried 27 Jun 1996, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

1. Gordon Blaine Ashby was born 10 Apr 1919, Maeser, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 26 Jun 2002, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; was buried 30 Jun 2002, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
2. Enid Ashby was born 9 Dec 1920, Maeser, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 22 Aug 1997.
3. Dona Ashby was born 21 Feb 1922, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; died 9 Apr 1999.

Notes:

Data from Lois Crow Goodmansen, 20 Apr 1997. In Markham file.

William married Sarah Elizabeth Markham 25 Oct 1878, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Sarah (daughter of Stephen Markham and Mary Lucy Curtis) was born 12 Jul 1857, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States; died 1 Jan 1913, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 3 Jan 1913, Maeser Fairview Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Burial, death, marriage data from Lois Crow Goodmansen.

Family records of Ina Markham Mangum

Temple Index records

Her granddaughter is Lela Carter, who lives in Orem.

Data from Lois Crow Goodmansen, 20 Apr 1997. In Markham file.

rebaptized 25 Oct 1867

Ancestral File said she died in Maeser, Uintah, Utah

Samuel married Hannah Ward 15 Apr 1847, Thornby, Belgrave, Leicester, England. Hannah was born 12 Jun 1825, Belgrave, Leicester, England; was christened 10 Jul 1825, Belgrave, Leicester, England; died 30 Jul 1913, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States; was buried 31 Jul 1913, Maeser Fairview Cemetery, Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died at home of daughter, wife of Jerry Murray

Notes:

Born in Hartford, Ontario, New York or Avon, which is now Rush?

Source: Fgs by Marilyn Markham of SLC, UT. Her source is fgs submitted
by Charlotta J. M. Crow who cites family records in her possession.

Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p. 1023 (in my LDS file)
!Heart Throbs of the West, v. 2, v. 8, 11
!Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, v. 4

Life Sketch: "...Stephen Markham, was born 9 February, 1800, in Genesee
Valley, the town of Rush now called Avon, New York. He was baptized
into the Latter-Day Saints Church in July 1837 in Chester, Ohio, by Elder
Abel Lamb. He played an important part in the building of the City of
Nauvoo. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the first regiment, first
cohort of the Nauvoo Legion. He was a very good and faithful friend to the
Prophet Joseph Smith and acted as a body guard to him through all his
troubles with the mobs. Stephen Markham came to Utah with Brigham
Young and was Colonel of the whole pioneer company that arrived on July
23, 1847, of which he acted as scout along the way.
Grandfather (Stephen Markham) was one of the first to see the Great
Salt Lake Valley and to hear President Young say, "It is enough, this is
the place." Three weeks after his arrival, he went back to Nauvoo to help
other companies to Utah. He continued in this work for two years.
! Eliza R. Snow wrote the song "O My Father" in her meagerly furnished
low-roofed room in the home of Stephen Markham in Nauvoo. It was
penned on a wooden chest which was the only table her room afforded.
! In the fall of 1851, Stephen Markham and his family (at this point it
consisted of his wife Mary Curtis Houghton Markham, her son, Edgar
Houghton, and her two nieces) settled in Palmyra (possibly now called
Leland, UT) and in March 1852 the first Church organization was made
with him as President. Grandfather's home was always open to the
immigrants and because of his generous hospitality his house was full
all the time. A few of the ones who made their home with him are John
Hayes, Thomas D. Evans and his wife, Priscilla.
! In 1856, when the Saints were advised to move to the present site of
Spanish Fork, Stephen Markham took a section of land just west of
Spanish Fork and it was there that he made his home until his death."
! TAKEN FROM A "BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM DON CARLOS MARKHAM"
compiled by Nean Markham (GGD to Stephen Markham), of Spanish Fork,
UT. Information sourced from geneology of Keith George Markham of SLC,
UT.

!Burial date from Lois Crow Goodmansen. She reported that Avon,
Livingston, New York is now Rush, Monroe, New York. Records are in
Rush.

!Town was Hartford, Ontario, New York when Stephen was born. Then it
was Avon, Livingston, New York, which is now Rush, Monroe, New York.
(Verda Kitchen and Lois Goodmanson)

!Married (1) Hannah Hogaboom,
!Might have married Mary Curtis on 5 Oct. 1850

!Family records of Ina Markham Mangum
!Temple Index records

!Baptized in July 1837 by Elder Abel Lamb in Chester Geaugo Co., Ohio,
which was 12 miles from the Kirtland Temple.

!Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, v. 3 (see my LDS file)
!Heart Throbs of the West, v. 8 (see my LDS file)

!Data from Lois Crow Goodmansen, 20 Apr 1997.

Stephen married Mary Lucy Curtis 5 Oct 1850, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Mary (daughter of Jeremiah Curtis and Ruth Stratton) was born 15 Nov 1832, Highland, Oakland, Michigan, United States; died 6 Oct 1900, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States; was buried 7 Oct 1900, Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: family records formerly in the possession of Charlotta J.
M(arkham) Crow, SLC, UT (deceased). Information came from Marilyn
Markham, SLC, UT.

Heart Throbs of the West, v. 11

Came to Utah in 1850, in Stephen Markham's company. Listed both as
Mary C. Houghton and as Mary C. Markham.

Life Sketch: (William) Don (Carlos) Markham's mother, Mary Curtis
Houghton Markham, was born in Highland, Oakland, Michigan. She was the
daughter of Jeremiah Curtis and Ruthy Stratton. She marr5ied Oren
Houghton when she was 14 years old and to them was born one son,
Edgar. Her husband died, and in 1850, Mary with her son and her sister's
two children, immigrated to Utah in one of Grandfather's (Stephen
Markham) companies. They left Nauvoo in June, 1850. She worked hard
for four long months driving a span of mules, a yoke of cows, and a yoke
of heifers across the dreary plains. The weary company arrived in Salt
Lake on 4 October, 1850. She was married to Grandfather (Stephen
Markham) when she was 18 and he was 50 years old, and they settled in
Palmyra (may now be Leland, UT) in 1851.

Baptized into LDS Church as a child probably about 1840; baptism date is for a rebaptism.

Family records of Ina Markham Mangum; Temple Index records; Data from Lois Crow Goodmansen, 20 Apr 1997.

Buried at Spanish Fork City Cemetery

Notes:

!Source: Pedigree chart from Marilyn Markham, SLC, UT. Original
submitter was Mrs. Mariam Hamilton, Rexburg, ID. Also cited was "Willey
Family Record of Isaac and His Descendants" by Henry Willey, p.22

!Death: Was accidentally killed by neighbor while shooting firearms off
during Fourth of July celebration.
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Irwin Merry, "A 300 year record of descendants of Cornelius Merry of
Northampton, Mass. and Northfield, Mass."

!Born 1768/1770/75. Bap. Cong. Ch. in Acworth, N.H.
!Died Avon, N.Y. 1802. Killed by Woodruff accidently at Elm Place, Avon,
!New York on the 4th of July (fm. Mrs. Dorothy Tripp)

!Dinah's 1st husband.

!Town was first called Hartford. In 1808, Hartford became Avon. Avon
was divided and Rush was the name given to the north half. (Edwin
Crow)

David married Dinah Merry Abt 1795. Dinah (daughter of Ebeneser Merry, II and Sarah Whiting) was born 14 Oct 1777, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 17 May 1850, Painesville, Lake, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!Ruth McArthur notes that Presidents William Henry Harrison and
Benjamin Harrison were Merry's

!Another husband Samuel Potter, m. 10 March 1810 in Mentor Lake, Ohio.
He died 30 March 1850. Samuel and Dinah had five children. Children are
sealed to David Markham.

!Records by Nean Beck.
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!Irwin Merry, "A 300 year record of descendants of Cornelius Merry of
Northampton, Mass. and Northfield, Mass."

!Married (2) Mr. Kelsey. Dinah had one child by Kelsey.
!Married (3) Samuel Potter. He died 17 March, 1850, Newberry, Conn.

!Verda Kitchen found death place as Painesville, Lake, Ohio, in a record at
Livingston County Historian's Office, Genesseo, NY, rather than her dying
at Newbury, Geauga, Ohio.

Notes:

Batch 8730211, sheet 53 for marriage.

!Married (1) Aurelia Meacham, 10 Apr. 1816.

Might have been born 10 Nov. 1782.

Fam rec. and letters in poss of Ina Markham Mangum, Heber City, UT.
History of the Church, v.2
Nauvoo Temple records
New Salem, Franklin, Mass. Census records
Family group record by Beth Richmond.

!Baptized Nov. 1832 in Michigan.

Jeremiah married Ruth Stratton 10 Apr 1816, , Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Ruth (daughter of Jonathan Stratton and Ruth Foster) was born 23 Feb 1795, New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States; died 14 Dec 1859, , Bandera, Texas, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

!Ruth died 14 Dec./Nov. 1859 in Oklahoma/Texas. Death date might be
1 Nov. or Dec. 1859.

!New Salem might be in Franklin county.