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Ancestors of Cody Ryan SMITH

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128. William Henderson SMITH

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 4DKM-56

129. Hannah MCLEAN

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 4DKM-6C

131. Hannah Elizabeth STALEY

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 4DKM-8P

132. Elihu Marcellus ALLEN

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1T4H-Z7

133. Lola Ann CLAWSON

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1T4J-0C

134. William Adams HICKMAN

Died 2: 21 Aug 1882
Died 3: 21 Aug 1883, Landry, Sweet Water (now Fremont) co., Wyoming
Burial: 24 Aug 1883, Baldwin Creek, Lander, Swee (now Fremont) co., Wyoming
Occupation: Teacher
Other info: Morman Religion? - multiple wives/same time

WILLIAM ADAMS HICKMANWilliam A. HickmanWilliam Adams Hickman was born 16 April 1815 in Warren County, Kentucky. He moved with his parents to the Missouri Territory when he was four years old, two years before Missouri statehood.Indians and wild animals were a part of the settlers' daily life on the frontier, while guns and fists settled most disputes. This rugged boyhood influenced Hickman throughout his lifetime of sixty-eight years. He died in August 1883 in a dugout on America's last frontier near Lander, Wyoming. Known as the "Notorious" or the "Danite Chief" of Utah, Hickman did not consider himself an outlaw, but rather an appointed lawman or soldier in the Mormon militia.He first married in Missouri in 1832 when he was barely seventeen years of age. By 1858 he had married nine more wives in polygamy; all but the first marriage were performed by or sanctioned by Brigham Young. He was father to thirty-five children; few Mormon men had a larger family.Shortly after his first marriage, he met Mormons from Ohio as they passed by his farm on their way to Jackson County, Missouri. He talked to them, fed many, and ended up a convert to Mormonism in 1838. After the expulsion of the Mormons from Missouri he moved to Illinois.At the close of the Nauvoo period in September 1846, Hickman showed his fighting spirit by being one of the last 100 defenders of the beleaguered city, using only a home-made cannon for defense until the city's residents could be evacuated.At Winter Quarters, Brigham Young appointed Hickman as a lawman. His assignment included a charge to protect Orson Hyde, a church apostle and the political and civic leader of what became a large 20,000-member community.Green River County, organized by the Utah legislature in 1852, was staffed in 1854 by Brigham Young's appointees. Hickman was sheriff, tax collector, tax assessor, assistant federal marshal, and the first legislator to represent the county. During this period, besides maintaining a semblance of law and order, he negotiated, perhaps by force, the sale of Fort Bridger to the Mormons in August 1855, for $8,000.In February 1857 Hickman carried the mail east to Independence, Missouri, for the B.Y. Express Company. He made the round trip, returning in haste to the territory to report to Brigham Young on 24 June 1857 that the U.S. Army was coming to Utah to take over the local government. Brigham Young kept this report confidential until a month later when it was dramatically confirmed by the arrival of Orrin Porter Rockwell at the 24 July picnic.The Utah War of 1857-58 resulted in all able-bodied Mormon men taking part in the defense of the territory. Hickman served heroically, mainly in Green River County, where he helped destroy army wagon trains; later, on the night of 7 October, he burned Fort Bridger. Ten days later he executed an enemy spy named Richard Yates.Later, with the establishment of Camp Floyd, Hickman and his gang, later called "the Hickman Hounds," found a livelihood as well as excitement in pillaging the army's livestock. Hickman felt justified in these activities because of an earlier oath he had taken to defend the Mormons against all enemies; and his actions were defended by church leader Orson Hyde.A gunfight on Christmas Day 1859 in downtown Salt Lake City nearly ended Hickman's life. He was shot in the hip by his long-time friend and protégé, Lott Huntington in an argument over stolen horses. The effects of this wound plagued Hickman throughout the last 22 years of his life and caused him to walk with "a shuffling gait."From 1863 to 1865 Hickman was an "Army guide and Indian Spy" for the U.S. government, serving under the direction of General Patrick Connor. His friendship with General Connor led to Hickman's involvement in the first mining venture in the territory, in Bingham Canyon, and later in other ventures in Wyoming. His friendship with Connor also helped cause his estrangement from Brigham Young.On 12 June 1868, while Hickman was on a visit to California, he was excommunicated from the Mormon Church by his Taylorsville bishop. All but his first wife left him when his practice of polygamy no longer came under the protection of the church.In September 1870 Hickman, no longer a lawman, shot and killed a man in Tooele County who had threatened his family. He was indicted for murder, which charge was dismissed by an arrangement proposed by Third District Court Judge James B. McKean, a well known anti-Mormon. The conditions of Hickman's exoneration included an appearance before a grand jury where he would tell all he knew about the death of Richard Yates during the Utah War. Hickman's testimony before the grand jury brought indictments for murder against Brigham Young and several other prominent church leaders. All were jailed at Fort Douglas except Brigham Young, who was placed under "house arrest".During this period Hickman was encouraged by anti-Mormons to write his autobiography, Brigham's Destroying Angel, published in New York City in January 1872. For decades, people believed this was Hickman's true story, when all it did was exaggerate the bad he did and eliminate the good he had done for the territory. The manuscript was extensively edited by J.H. Beadle.In June 1880, sick and persecuted, Hickman left Utah with a few family members to live in the wilderness of the Wind River Mountains in western Wyoming, where he died in August 1883.See: William A. Hickman, Brigham's Destroying Angel (1904); and Hope A. Hilton, "Wild Bill" Hickman and the Mormon Frontier (1988).
Lynn M. Hilton and Hope A. Hilton

I have placed a copy of the book Brigham's Destroying Angel here for you as a reference. It is not meant to be offensive to anyone. Please read chapter 2. It is an interesting account of Bill's life. Most of the book is anti-Mormon literature.
<brighams_destroying_angel_full_text.htm> <brighams_destroying_angel_full_text.htm>Link to the full text of the book. Please be patient... it is a very large file.
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Ancestral File Number:<AFN> FQX4-VV
Died 2: 21 Aug 1882
Died 3: 21 Aug 1883,Landry, Sweet Water (now Fremont) co., Wyoming
Burial: 24 Aug 1883, Baldwin Creek, Lander, Swee (now Fremont) co., Wyoming
Occupation: Teacher
Other info:Morman Religion? - multiple wives/same time

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> FQX4-VV

135. Brenetta Waters BURCKHART-BURKHARDT

Date born 2: 11 Aug 1812
Died 2: 27 Dec 1886
Aka (Facts Pg) 1: Bronetta Walters Burckhardt
Aka (Facts Pg) 2: Bernetta Burckhardt
Aka (Facts Pg) 3: Breetta Waters Burckhartt
Aka (Facts Pg) 4: Brenetta Walters Burkhart
Aka (Facts Pg) 5: Brenhetta Buckhard
Aka (Facts Pg) 6: Brennetta Burkhart
Other info: Was listed twice in several files

Brennetta (Burckhardt or Burckhartt) Hickman
8 Aug, 1810 -- 27 Dec, 1885
Bill Hickman said that Brennetta was the prettiest little black eyed girl that he had ever met! Brennetta was the daughter of George Burckhardt and Ruth Dorsey. George was the "Randolph County" legislative representative in Huntsville, Missouri in the 1830's. Bill had been sent to live with the Burckhardt family, when he was 15 years old, to study law. While he was there he fell madly in love with Brennetta who was almost three years his senior.

The following is an excerpt from the book: Wild Bill Hickman and the Mormon Frontier by Hope A. Hilton
The book is wonderful! You will want to own a copy!
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0941214672/auntromas-20> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0941214672/auntromas-20>

"Despite their age difference nineteen-year-old Brennetta fell in love with sixteen-year-old Bill. undissuaded by his abrasive surface. Apparently she saw qualities in Bill that earned her life-long loyalty over fifty years. In spite of hardships and poverty, not to mention Mormon polygamy, obstacles that might have lessened the ardor of a less dedicated woman, Brennetta remained by Bill until his death. She dismissed the sheltered life she might have had as unimportant.
Both the Hickman and Burckhardt families disapproved of the budding romance; the Hickmans because of their desire to see their oldest son get and education, and the Burckhardts because Bill seemed below their social standing, and his age and lack of education were less than impressive. Although later Bill wrote, "Our parents consented" to the marriage, a Burckhardt relative still living in Missouri in 1965 gave a different account of the circumstances surrounding Bill's and Brennetta's marriage.
According to Burckhardt family history, a midnight elopement was planned by the teenage lovers. They wisely waited until Bill's seventeenth birthday in April 1832. To implement their escape a string was tied to Brennetta's big toe. The string hung out from her upstairs bedroom window to where Bill could reach it on horseback. Brennetta could not sleep; the anticaped pull on her toe had driven sleep from her mind. Finally Bill came. He helped Brennetta to climb down to his horse and together they rode all night to another town where they were married the next day by a justice of the peace.
Anxious parents awaited their return. Fortunately, the new couple was welcomed back after their marriage."
Copyright © 1988 Signature Books, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, All Rights Reserved

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 4DKM-C7
Date born 2: 11 Aug 1812
Died 2: 27 Dec 1886
Aka (Facts Pg) 1: Bronetta Walters Burckhardt
Aka (Facts Pg) 2: BernettaBurckhardt
Aka (Facts Pg) 3: Breetta Waters Burckhartt
Aka (Facts Pg) 4: Brenetta Walters Burkhart
Aka (Facts Pg) 5: Brenhetta Buckhard
Aka (Facts Pg) 6:Brennetta Burkhart
Other info: Was listed twice in several files

136. John STEWART

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1K6T-K6

137. Lydia Mandana ROLFE

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1K6T-LC

138. Daniel Stillwell THOMAS

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1LKD-BD

139. Martha Pane Paine Payne Pain JONES

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1LKD-CK

140. John BOURNE

Invalid endowment temple code: NA.

Invalid endowment temple code: NA.

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1MQ8-PB
Invalid endowment temple code: NA.

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1MQ8-PB

141. Elizabeth JOHNSON

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1MQ8-QH

142. Isaac ABEL

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1TM1-WH

143. Ann METHLEY

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 1TM1-XN

150. Francis BELL

1880 Census Caroll Co. IL, FairHaven:
Census Place: Fair Haven, Carroll, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254178 National Archives Film T9-0178 Page 492B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Francis BELL Self M M W 61 PA
Occ: Farmer Fa: IRE Mo: SCOT
A. C. Pringe BELL Wife F M W 54 PA
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NH Mo: VT
Eddard MAC MILLEN Other M M W 22 WI
Occ: Farmer Fa: WI Mo: WI
Anna MAC MILLEN Other F M W 20 IL
Occ: Keeping House Fa: PA Mo: PA

151. Ann Anna Catharine PRINCE

Census Place: Fair Haven, Carroll, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254178 National Archives Film T9-0178 Page 492B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Francis BELL Self M M W 61 PA
Occ: Farmer Fa: IRE Mo: SCOT
A. C. Pringe BELL Wife F M W 54 PA
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NH Mo: VT
Eddard MAC MILLEN Other M M W 22 WI
Occ: Farmer Fa: WI Mo: WI
Anna MAC MILLEN Other F M W 20 IL
Occ: Keeping House Fa: PA Mo: PA

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 19N7-36
Census Place: Fair Haven, Carroll, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254178 National Archives Film T9-0178 Page 492B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Francis BELL Self M M W 61 PA
Occ: Farmer Fa: IRE Mo: SCOT
A. C. Pringe BELL Wife F M W 54 PA
Occ: Keeping House Fa:NH Mo: VT
Eddard MAC MILLEN Other M M W 22 WI
Occ: Farmer Fa: WI Mo: WI
Anna MAC MILLEN Other F M W 20 IL
Occ: Keeping House Fa: PA Mo: PA

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 19N7-36
Census Place: Fair Haven, Carroll, Illinoi s
Source: FHL Film 1254178 National Archives Film T9-0178 Page 492B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Francis BELL Self M M W 61 PA
Occ: Farmer Fa: IRE Mo: SCOT
A. C. Pringe BELL Wife F M W 54 PA
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NH Mo: VT
Eddard MAC MILLEN Other M M W 22 WI
Occ: Farmer Fa: WI Mo: WI
Anna MAC MILLEN Other F M W 20 IL
Occ: Keeping House Fa: PA Mo: PA

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