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Lucinda Clark Hutchings Angell (1822- 1905) Lucinda Clark
Hutchings
Birth: 1822
Death: 1905 (Salt Lake
City) 83 years
old
Baptized
(first)_________ First marriage date: 25 Nov. 1839 (Shepherd Pierce Hutchings) Sealed: likely the
Where
___________ Rebaptized _______ Divorced
________ Second
marriage date: (Solomon Angell
(1806) Where____ Father: Joseph Mother: Susannah Lucinda
was the mother of Solomon"Saul"
Angell
(1861) , my great
grandfather.
This is the line we will follow with this web
page. Grandma Lucinda
was first married to a Mr.
Sheered Pierce Hutchings, and had 9 children
by him; she had 2 children by Grandpa
Solomon(1806) .
In November of 1839, Lucinda married Shepherd Pierce Hutchings. These are a few of the details concerning her life while married to Hutchings.
In November of 1839, Lucinda married Shepherd Pierce Hutchings. These are a few of the details concerning her life while married to Hutchings.Hutching's family joined the LDS church in 1830 and were very active in it. In 1834 Hutching's father, Elias, was called to go to Zion's Camp to fight for members of the Church who had been driven out of Jackson County, Missouri. Later, as did many other members of this memorable excursion, he became a General Authority. In 1836 Elias Hutchings went on a mission, leaving his large family to fare for themselves. Shepherd who was 16 years old at the time, had a lot of responsibilities in his father's absence.
When Lucinda married Hutchings, she was 17
years old and he was 21.
They were quite happy together, setting up their own home. Soon they were
blessed with a baby girl whom they named Paulina. Their next little girl, Mari, died when
she was only 9 months old. When the exterminating orders came to the Saints in
Missouri, many thousands of men rallied out against the Saints, with their
commanders at their heads. The Prophet Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and
Sidney Rigdon were put in jail in chains. Many Mormons were killed in a
most barbarian and brutal manner, many were plundered and robbed, while
others were whipped almost to death, and women ravished. Lucinda and
Shepherd were a witness to it all. When Joseph Smith was candidate for President of the
United States, Shepherd was called on a political mission to advocate the
Prophet's views of the power and policy of government of the United
States. On the 27 June 1844 the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred in cold
blood, and the missionaries were all called home. On the 5th of
August, 1844 Esther Louisa, Lucinda’s third little girl was born.
Three days later, at the famous, special called church conference, Sidney
Rigdon claimed that it was his legal right to be President of the Church
because he was the Prophet Joseph's counselor. Shepherd were there and
disagreed with Sidney Rigdon. Shepherd declared, because of divine
inspiration, that he knew Brigham Young was the right one to lead the
Church; he said that he felt inspired that Brigham Young was called
of God for that purpose. In the year 1846 Lucinda, and her family, prepared to go west with the Saints, but they did not have the means to go with the pioneers of 1847. They went back to Missouri and put up a shop mending wagons until the year 1849 when they again started for the Salt Lake Valley along with Lucinda’s parents. They joined the Richards Company of fifty. Lucinda was pregnant, and they had a hard trip crossing the plains. Their outfit consisted of one big wagon, one small one and a horse. They hired a young 17 year old girl, Eliza Ann Pectol, to go along with them to help with the work. It seemed an endless journey, crossing streams, over rocks, sand, and all kinds of roads through all kinds of weather. They stopped one day a week to wash and cook and would stop on Sundays to rest and hold meetings. There were some hard storms along the way. On October 18, 1849, Lucinda lost another baby, her first
little boy, they called him Erwin Harlow Hutchings. Just 11 days
later, they arrived in Salt Lake. They found a two room house in the
fort which they rented for the winter. Plural marriage was accepted at the
time and Hutchings and the young girl that accompanied them crossing the
plains, Eliza Ann Pectol, were married in December. They were married in
Brigham Young's office by the Prophet. Lucinda had been quite sick for
some time; she had lost her last two babies, and things were still
unpleasant. Without seeing it actually written, I'll assume that
Lucinda actually appreciated the help of her husband's second
wife. Here is an interesting
note, by one of Eliza Ann's descendants, concerning church
ordinations: "When I, Verlean Brewster, was verifying all of the baptism and endowment dates of my forefathers a few years ago, I wasn't able to verify the baptism dates of Shepherd Pierce Hutchings, Lucinda Clark, and Eliza Ann Pectol. He had originally been baptized in 1831 and Eliza Ann in 1847 but we were unable to find the record. When they had been driven from place to place by the mobs many of the records were undoubtedly destroyed. After searching in the ward records of several places they had lived, I stumbled onto the information that they had lived in the 19" Ward in Salt Lake in the early days." "I found the old ward records and went over the baptisms
carefully, and hurriedly skipped over other business notations and minutes
of the ward bishopric meetings. I reached the end of the microfilm and
hadn't found it, thinking we might have to have them rebaptized. I put the
microfilm on automatic, and closed my eyes while it rewound. Suddenly it
stopped, and there were the names of Lucinda, Shepherd, and Eliza Ann
Pectol with the record of their baptisms. The reason I hadn't found them
was because it was in the middle of other ward business instead of with
the list of baptisms. Chills ran up and down my spine! It couldn't have been a
coincidence! I felt strongly that Eliza Ann Pectol was really there and
had stopped the machine so I would find the needed records. They had done
the ordinances themselves and she didn't want anyone to have to do it
again." What Ms. Brewester did not find, and possibly it was because of the Nauvoo Temple fire of 1850, was that Shepherd Pierce Hutchings, and Lucinda Clark were married for time and eternity in the Nauvoo Temple! In 1852 Eliza Ann received her endowments in the Endowment House, but was not sealed to Shepherd until after he and Lucinda were divorced. During the next five years the Hutchings built another
house and a shop for Shepherd. Besides the farm, he built wagons,
buggies, houses, cupboard, tables and chairs for extra income.
Lucinda recovered from her illnesses and had three more children, Joseph
Elias and Cornelia, and Sarah Even though plural marriage was sanctioned by the
church, family problems developed in the Shepherd Hutchings
family. In 1855, Lucinda and Shepherd were divorced; they had been
unhappy for some time. Lucinda, and her 5 children, the oldest being 15,
and the youngest (2), had became resentful of Eliza Ann and her 3
children. At the time, Lucinda was 33 years old and Eliza Ann was
23. Lucinda, while married to Shepherd Pierce Hutchings, had
been a first hand witness of the early days of the church and all of the
trials and tribulations of that period of time Just a short
note: Two years after the divorce, Lucinda
became the 3rd wife of Solomon Angell. Six years after the divorce,
Shepherd, who was then 43, married two more wives, within a months
time. The youngest was only 15 years old, six years younger than his
oldest child!
In July 1857, Lucinda married Solomon Angell. These are a few of the details concerning her life while married to Angell. Solomon Angell-General Authority1806 – 1881 . * note For more on Solomon (1806) open http://www.fretel.com/~halo/solomon1806.htm During her marriage to Solomon, Lucinda had two children, Solomon and Lucinda, bringing her total number of living children to eleven (11). Her first 5 children were never adopted by Solomon although they lived with him for the next several years. Solomon was already married to two other wives when they were married. His first wife Eunice Clark was the mother of ten of his children. His second wife, Lucy Ann Fry, passed away soon after Lucinda and Solomon were married. Unless there is a mistake in the records, she had no children. Solomon had worked on construction of the Salt Lake Temple every since he had came to the Salt Lake Valley in 1848. In 1863, Solomon married a fourth wife, a young woman from
Lucinda finished raising her three youngest children, who were still not married, alone. From everything that I can find out (very little), after (Saul) her youngest child married in 1885 she lived alone (in Spanish Fork?) until 1905. I have very little additional information. If you are reading this, and have anything of any kind that I can add, I'd appreciate hearing from you! My e-mail is: http://www.fretel.com/~halo/halo@fretel.com
Children of Lucinda
and Shepherd Hutchings http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~probart/F24.HTM#F603Children 1. Paulina Hutchings AKA: Plinia Spouse: Thomas Jefferson King ( - ) 2. Mari Hutchings Born: 15 Dec 1841 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA 3. Esther Louisa Hutchings Born: 5 Aug 1844 - Lima, Hancock, Illinois, USA 68 97 Spouse: Hans Thoresen Carlston ( - )
Born: 27 Sep 1845 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA 68 95 97 5. Erwin Harlow Hutchings Born: 18 Oct 1849 - , , Missouri, USA 68 95 6 .Mary Hutchings Born: 1850 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA 68 7. Joseph Elias Hutchings Born: 23 Sep 1851 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA 95 Spouse: Princetta Williams ( - ) 8. Cornelia Hutchings Born: 28 Sep 1852 - Salt Lake City, Salt
Lake, Utah, USA Spouse: William Henry Letter ( - )
Born: 1853 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA 95 |
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