Friday, June 4, 2010

Ruth Franklin biography

RUTH FRANKLIN
from Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude
At the age of fifteen, Ruth married Enos Curtis who was twenty-two years of age. They were married in New York City. Ruth and Enos moved to Pennsylvania and settled in Tioga County. Enos was a farmer and carpenter by trade. Ruth was a devoted mother having born 14 children.
They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Letter-day Saints in 1831, soon after it was organized. In the mid-1830's, they joined with the body of the Church and were living in Far West Missouri, in 1838.
In the 1840's, they lived in Morley Settlement near Quincy, Illinois. Ruth and Enos received their Endowments and were sealed in the Nauvoo Temple on January 1, 1846.

Violence continued to increase against the Saints. Ruth and her children used to hide in the woods to avoid the mobs. When it rained they used a blanket as a tent.


One night, the mob came to the house when all the men were away. The mob ordered all the occupants out so the could burn their home. Everyone left except Ruth who was very ill in bed. They told the mob the situation and they left only to return a second and third time and set fire to the house. The women ran into the fire, wrapped Ruth in a blanket, and carried her out of the burning home and put her in their wagon to make their escape. She was very ill when they crossed the Mississippi River and journeyed on to Council Bluffs.

Ruth and her family were preparing to cross the Plains with the pioneers in 1848. Before they started, Ruth died on May 6, 1848, at the age of fifty-eight. Brigham Young said of her, "She shall wear a martyr's crown."

Ruth's family crossed the Plains with the Brigham Young Wagon Company which left Winter Quarters on May 26, 1848, and arrived in Salt Lake Valley, September 24, 1848.




SPOUSE: ENOS CURTIS
Marriage: 15 December 1805
Place: New York City, New York, New York
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Birth Date: 14 November 1790
Birth Place: Sterling, Windham, Connecticut
Death Date: 6 May 1848
Burial: Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa

CHILDREN
Lydia Curtis   5 Feb 1808 (died at age 1)
Maria Curtis    22 Mar 1810
Martha Curtis   12 Aug 1812
Edmond Curtis   5 Nov 1814 (died in infancy)
Jeremiah Curtis   12 Nov 1815 (died in infancy)
Seth Curtis     8 Mar 1817 (died in infancy)
Simmons Philander Curtis    26 Mar 1818
John White Curtis  10 Aug 1820 (twin)
David Avery Curtis    10 Aug 1820 (twin)
Ezra Houghton Curtis***   19 Feb 1823
Ruth Curtis   4 Jan 1825 (died in infancy)
Ursula Curtis   14 Dec 1826
Sabrina Curtis   3 Apr 1829
Celestia Curtis   21 Apr 1832


Father: JOHN FRANKLIN
Mother: ABIGAIL FULLER

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