Ancestors

For mutual, my kids were asked to find 3 ancestors stories.  With 3 kids, that makes 9 stories.  Here they are:

Francis Pomeroy - He memorized the small dictionary so he could go see the circus.  He went on a whaling trip for several years.  He became 2nd in command and was shipwrecked off the coast of Peru (some accounts say Chile).  He stayed around 3 years with the family that rescued him.  He learned Spanish very fluently.  He was able to use this skill later in his life.  He eventually founded the city Mesa. This story has helped Josh in that he put in the effort that he really wanted.  He worked really hard and never gave up, especially when he was shipwrecked.

James Pace - He was baptized in April 1839 along with his wife.  He moved to Nauvoo and the was called to be a member of the Seventy in 1840.  In 1943, he was a chosen policeman by Joseph Smith  and later was selected as captain of the first infantry organized in Nauvoo.  He was apart of the Nauvoo Sentinals.  In 1846, he was called by Brigham Young to join the Mormon Battalion.  He was elected 1st Lieutenant of Company E.  After serving in the Mormon Battalion, he formed a company and brought his family west.  He is the founder of the city of Payson, UT and helped settle the Gila Valley in Arizona.

James Pace

James Pace visits James Pace's grave

Joseph Josephson Wall -  When he was a young man in Swed, he joined the army where he served for several years.  Being a commissioned officer, he lived in government-owned house (these houses being names after the first person living in them).  Joseph live in "Wall's Place," thus making his name Joseph Josephson Wall.  Upon leaving the army, Joseph retained the army name "Wall".

Joseph Josephson Wall

John Alden was a crew member on the historic 1620 voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower.  Rather than return to England with the ship, he stayed at Plymouth, and can be considered a passenger. He was hired in Southampton, England, as the ship's cooper, responsible for maintaining the ship's barrels. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact.  he married fellow Mayflower passenger Prsicilla Mullins, who entire family perished in the first winter. 

Mayflower Voyage

In honor of John and Priscilla

^{Jacob Johannes Martin Bohn was an artist and wrot hymns for the the Saints.  The Hymns were written in Danish.}

Yeteve Pace - She lived near QT and had goats and chickens in her yard.  She had a chicken named Cockroach.  She lived with Ray Pace for many years in Gilbert.  Every Christmas, until her death, we would get pictures with us and we received our traditional stuffed animals.  We loved Grandma Pace and it was sad when she diedl.

Ray and Yeteve Pace

Christmas Eve Tradition with Grandma Pace

Visiting her grave

John Pack – He traveled with Brigham Young across the plains.  He was a pioneer scout and entered the Salt Lake Valley two days before the group led by Brigham Young.  There is a statue of him on the “This is the Place” monument in Salt Lake City

John Pack

Angela and her cousins at the "This is the Place" Monument

Benjamin Mitchell – He cut the first sunstone for the Nauvoo Temple.  He also worked with Brigham Young to decide to use sandstone or granite for the Salt Lake Temple.  He was in charge of the stone cutting for the Salt Lake Temple for a while.  Temples were important to him.

Benjamin T. Mitchell

The Nauvoo Sunstone

Angela at the Salt Lake Temple

Selma Wall – She met Conrad Wall on his mission to Sweden.  She didn’t get to know him well, she just met him.  She joined the church after hearing it the missionaries.  She planned a trip to Norway, Denmark, and the United States before returning to Sweden in 1919.  She never returned to Sweden.  She took the train from New York and moved to Salt Lake City.  She was a modern day pioneer.   She met Conrad Wall again and she married him.  

Selma Wall

Selma, Arlene, and Tami