Albey Lyman Sherman

 

Mary Elvira Sherman Cox headstone

Mary Elvira Swan Sherman headstones

Albey Lyman Sherman military headstone

Elias Cox headstone marker

Elias Cox military headstone

Albey Lyman Sherman biography (by Mary Jones Brown?)

HISTORY OF ALBEY LYMAN SHERMAN

Grandfather lived in Nauvoo at the time when great persecutions were taking place, when the mob was after the Prophet Joseph Smith and other leaders of the Church. He witnessed the sorrow and mourning among the Saints when their beloved Prophet, Joseph Smith and Patriarch, Hyrum Smith were shot and killed by the mob. Grandfather was about fourteen years old at the time.
The persecution became so great that the Saints were threatened with their lives if they did not leave Nauvoo and the state of Illinois. So in the middle of the winter they left their homes, farms and everything they had except what few things they could take with them in their wagons and crossed the Mississippi River on the ice and made camp on the other side which was in the state of Iowa.

Albey Lyman Sherman and Mary Elvira Swan

Mary Elvira Swan photo

Mary Elvira Swan biography

BORN: 15 December 1836 at East Wemyss, Fife, Scotland
PARENTS: George Swan & Elizabeth Warrender
PIONEER: 1849 or 1851 with Almon W. Babbitt Family and again After 21 October 1854 with and unidentified company (18 years old, Crossed the plains three times)
SPOUSE: Albey Lyman Sherman
MARRIED: 10 June 1854 at the North Platte River
DIED: 15 November 1914 at Huntington, Emery, Utah

HISTORY OF MARY ELVIRA SWAN SHERMAN

A Sketch of my mother’s life, as I remember her telling me

By Ada Sherman Jones as told to Mary Jones Brown

Mary Swan was born 15 December 1836 in East Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland. Mary lived there with her parents, George Swan and Elizabeth Warrender Swan. When she was six years old, they were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841. Reports are that their families disowned them.
There were six children: George, David, Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth and Helen. As soon as arrangements could be made, they set sail for America in a large sailing ship. There were six weeks that they did not see land.

Mary Elvira Swan (Sherman) headstone

All of the information I have says she was born in Dec. 15, but the headstone looks to me like it says Dec. 16.  Someday I will go there and check it out.

Albey Lyman Sherman headstone

Elias Cox biography

ELIAS COX

1835-1917

Elias Cox, the seventh of sixteen children born to Jehu Cox and Sarah Pyle, was born on January 15, 1835 in Green Castle, Putnam County, Indiana (35 miles west of Indianapolis) Because his wife Sarah was in poor health, Jehu moved the family from Indiana to Crawford County, Missouri, in the heart of the Ozarks, in 1836. There the family found a better climate and all enjoyed good health. In the winter of 1837-1838, Mormon missionaries came to the area and Jehu was converted to the Mormon Church. He was baptized January 12, 1838; Sarah was baptized February 13, 1838. Both were baptized outside and had to have the ice broken in order to be baptized. Joining the church at this time must have taken a great deal of courage because the Mormon Church was then undergoing the height of the Missouri persecution. The saints were being threatened with extermination and were being driven from the state. Despite the persecution, the family remained in Missouri, however, until November of 1839 when they moved to Hancock County, Illinois, within three miles of Nauvoo. It was while they were living here on October 7, 1844, that Elias Cox was baptized.

Albey Lyman Sherman biography

BORN: 30 October 1832 at Pomfret, Chautaqua, New York
PARENTS: Lyman Royal Sherman & Delcena Didamia Johnson
PIONEER: October 1854 before the 21st unidientified company (21 years old)
SPOUSE: Mary Elvira Swan
MARRIED: 10 June 1854 at the North Platte River
DIED: 18 September 1911 at Huntington, Emery, Utah

ALBEY LYMAN SHERMAN

The story of Albey Lyman Sherman begins in Pomfret, Chautauqua County, New York where he was born, 30 October 1832 and ends with his death at Huntington, Emery County, Utah on the 18 September 1911. His life’s journey of 79 years and 3,000 miles led from New York to Kirtland, Ohio in 1833 from there to Far West, Missouri, 1838 Nauvoo and 1840 Illinois across Iowa to Council Bluffs in 1849, where in June 1854 the long trek to Utah began concluding in pioneering in Payson, Santaquin, Fountain Green and finally Huntington, Utah.

Elias Cox by James Albert Jones

Elias Cox

from: "Some Early Pioneers of Huntington Utah and Surrounding Area"

by James Albert Jones

Elias Cox, 7th child of Jehu and Sarah Riddle Pyle Cox, was born 15 Jan 1835, Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, about 35 miles west of Indianapolis. Rosannah, the oldest child in his father's family, was a strong and healthy child, but their next two children were boys who died shortly after birth. The next oldest brother was named Henderson, the next child was a girl named Sarah, and after her Mary Jane.


Their mother was in poor health, so the family moved about in search of a climate where her health would improve. Elias was 1 year old when his father moved the family to Crawford County, Missouri, in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. The climate was much better and the entire family began to enjoy better health. Their mother improved and soon became strong again.

Albey Lyman Sherman biography (by Mary Jones Brown)

ALBEY LYMAN SHERMAN

by Mary Jones Brown

Albey Lyman Sherman was born 30 October 1832 at Pomfret, Chautauqua County, New York, son of Lyman Royal Sherman and Delcena Diadamia Johnson. Pomfret was no far from Palmyra and Hill Cumorah from which Joseph Smith got the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated.

His parents were converts to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints before he was born, they being baptized in the fall of 1831, thus being among the earliest members.