Return-Path: Received: from pimout3-int.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.102]) by mtiwgwc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010831045401.VOJM1541.mtiwgwc22.worldnet.att.net@pimout3-int.prodigy.net> for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 04:54:01 +0000 Received: from hlp (A050-1316.LSAN.splitrock.net [63.255.45.46]) by pimout3-int.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f7V4rgq153768 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: <001601c131d9$3500e580$2e2dff3f@hlp> From: "Harvel Penrod" To: "Delbert W. Adair, Jr." References: <003101c131c6$0a810dc0$2352530c@acer> Subject: Re: book Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:55:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0013_01C1319E.721299E0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Disposition-Notification-To: "Harvel Penrod" X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C1319E.721299E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Delbert=20 This is what is in the book but I don't think that it has been edited so = there may be some error. Some of it came from other books, some I wrote. = Leon HISTORY OF WILLIAM LEWIS PENROD 1832-1916 =20 Not much is known about William Lewis and Polly Ann before they came to = Arizona. William was born in 1832, and was the oldest child of David = Penrod and Temperance Hinkle Keller. He was born in Jonesboro, Union = County, Illinois, which is in the southern part of the state.=20 His parents later joined the L.D.S. Church and=20 William crossed the plains to Utah with them as a 17-year-old boy. His = parents settled in Provo, Utah. The first we really know about William = is when he was about 22 years old. He married Polly Ann Young in 1854.=20 They evidently moved to Wallsburg, Wasatch, Utah where his sister, = Elizabeth, and her husband, William Wall were living. It is located up = Provo Canyon, over the mountain, to the east of Provo. Wallsburg was = named after his sister=92s husband. In Wallsburg their first child, = Mary, was born followed by four more children.=20 By 1864, they had moved to Payson, Utah where their first set of twins = boys were born, grandfather Delbert Abraham, was one of them. Sometime = between 1864 and September 1866 they had moved to Provo where they lived = until after 1869.=20 Next, we find another set of twins boys were born back in Wallsburg in = May of 1871. Four more children were born in Wallsburg before the family = left to go to Arizona in the fall of 1878.=20 It seems they had done quite well while in Utah as is indicated in the = following poem by Eva (Penrod) Sabin, a niece, as she gives us a little = insight into granddad William=92s life while in Utah. . His long journey now completed He had reached Utah at last, Tired, footsore and weary But had completed his task. .=20 Time passed until his manhood. We hear no more of his life so far, Until again he proved himself a hero, Protecting the saints in the Black Hawk War. I remember their home in Provo Where Uncle William lived as a boy. The walls of adobe were slowly crumbling When I, as a child viewed it with joy. The family it is true had scattered And had gone their different ways, But the steps still strong but battered Stood strong as in by gone days. Uncle Israel did save and preserve them, As years passed on by the score, And several Years ago his daughter=20 Used them as steps at her back door. When I visited the old home Grandma had moved to a new one She had left worn out and discarded The machine that had proven true. It had sewn tiny clothes and big ones And clothes with heavy bands, But it was odd to me then, and now is, For it turned at the wheel by hand. When Uncle William lived in Wallsburg He always came down every night to visit his brother, Abraham To joke, laugh and make things bright. When Uncle and Aunt lived in the Valley Their family large there-fore blessed by the Lord, Uncle William was a good provider, They bought factory jeans and calico by the bolt, not yard. Sad were our hearts when they left us, New homes and new lands to explore. I=92ll never forget the scene that was pictured Of the fine group that left our door. The wagon stood in waiting The cover was slightly drawn, Aunt Polly sitting in the seat The girls with their bonnets on. Many times he came back to visit, I believe as many as six. His brothers he said, never had time to visit him, They were always after that dollar on the end of the stick Our children remember his last visit, Of the fish and wild turkey he told. I know they shall always remember him Until they reach the end of their goal. He told them of Aunt Polly And the dresses she had done, Made for the days that were coming=20 With a breast pin on every one I am glad to learn of their fine families Although Uncle and Aunt have passed on to heaven To learn that their descendants=20 Have reached the number of 800 and 97. (The following was written by Sarah Ann Penrod, a daughter-in-law, the = wife of Ralph Penrod) William L. Penrod and his wife Polly Ann Young, left Utah October 26, = 1878. Their mode of travel was one cow and an ox when they left = Wallsburg; and when they arrived at the Pyreah, they got another ox to = replace the cow. They also got two horse teams. They left Wallsburg with = nine children, Dave and Mary being married at the time. Mary married = John Gibson in 1870, at Wallsburg, Utah. Dave married Cynthia Ann Smith, = June 6, 1877, at Pyreah, Utah and went to the St. George Temple June 6, = 1878. The family traveled about six days having fine weather and a good trip. = The morning of the seventh day when they got up both teams and oxen were = gone. Dad hunted until two o=92clock in the afternoon before he found = them. We broke camp, went to the Pyreah. There we laid over for two = weeks waiting for Tom Adair=92s family, then we came on to Lees Ferry, = where we waited for two more weeks for the water to go down so they = could cross the Colorado River. They crossed the river on a flat boat. = After crossing, they had to put three teams to a wagon to pull to the = top of the hill. Tom Adair had two teams and Dad had one. We then came on to Willow = Springs and laid over two days. It was here at Willow Springs that Susan = met Will Stephens and after a short courtship, he became her husband. = These frequent stops were made to rest the teams and cattle. Our next = stop was Holbrook. We were two days coming from Willow Springs to = Holbrook. At that time there were no railroads in Holbrook, and only one = adobe house. The nearest store they know of was Albuquerque, New Mexico. = They had provisions enough with them to last six months. They left = Holbrook and got to Showlow December 31, 1878, where they camped in an = old house that belonged to a sheepherder. That night three feet of snow fell. As we were out of feed for our = horses and cattle, we turned them out to browse on the willows along the = creek. That morning dawned into New Year=92s Day of 1879. Dad saddled = his horse that morning and went to Forest Dale. On his return he was = very dissatisfied and wanted to go back to Utah, but mother who was a = very delicate lady and in ill health at the time, would not go back. John Willis had Dad stay over that summer and to take care of his ranch = and cattle. In the fall of 1879, September 25th, Susan Penrod married = William Stephens at the Willis Ranch near Showlow. After the wedding, they went to building them a home. Their home was = made of round logs. The roof was covered with dirt and a dirt floor. We = ground our corn in a coffee mill to make our bread, but in spite of our = hardships, we were a happy family. David Penrod came to Arizona the fall of 1879, bringing with him his = wife and one child, Cynthia Jane, and took up a ranch at Juniper, = Arizona. Times were hard and if it had not been for C.C. Cooley, we would have = all been massacred. Two Indian squaws from Allasaya Camp, came and told = Cooley=92s wives that the Indians were on the war-path and were going to = kill the white settlers, so we all had to fort up at Showlow and none of = us were hurt. The next spring Dad put up a shingle mill and sold shingles to the = settlers as the country grew. The first shingles he sold were to a sheep = man by the name of Bob Scott. In the fall of 1880, Dell and Bert went to = work for C.C. Cooley at Cooley=92s Ranch at Showlow. The older boys = being away from home, Ralph, being a child of seven, rode the mule while = his Dad cut shingles. We were very hard up that spring and Dad worked = for Cooley when he had no shingle sales. Cooley paid off in pork, beans = and corn, which kept the family eating. During this time the Indians were on the warpath often. The ranchers all = had to go to the Cooley Ranch and fort up for about three months. Then in the fall of 1881, they took up a ranch out at what is now = Linden, and stayed there until the fall of 1883, then they went back to = Utah with a team of horses, the oxen having died. They stayed in Utah = two and one half years. While the folks were gone those two and one half = years, Dave, Bert and Dell hauled freight from Wilcox to Globe with a = horse team. Mary and Eph stayed at the ranch and took care of things. = Mary was a widow at that time. She and her husband having separated over = family troubles (whisky being the main reason) while at Juniper. Later Mary went to work for George Scott where she met John F. Norton, = whom she married June 4, 1884, at Showlow, Arizona. Albert met Mary Catherine Beckstead at Juniper, December 20, 1884. Mary, = at that time, being 15 years old. Their courting was brief and they were = married at Taylor, Arizona, May 25, 1885. They ate supper at the home of = the bride=92s father, Alma Beckstead. They danced till the small hours = of the morning. William Penrod enjoyed dancing as well as other sports. He was always = jovial and a jolly fellow and happy go lucky fellow, never having the = blues and always whistling (his motto was, if you can help the cause, = O.K., if not why weary). He was never a man to get discouraged or down hearted. He always had an = open door for strangers as well as friends, of whom he had many. He = always fed everyone who came to his door hungry, regardless of color or = creed. While at Juniper we attended Church at Fool Hollow, a little = place about five miles from our ranch. The sick were often cheered by his presence. One night while I was in = hard labor, he came to my room and laid his hands on my head and = although he never said a word out loud, he prayed for me and I felt = better immediately. I was always treated like one of the family. I lived = in the same house with them till after my first child was born. He = seldom had trouble with his in-laws. We were always on the look out for = Indians, but Dad believed in what Brigham Young said, "It is better to = feed the Indians than to fight them." We were quite friendly to them, so = we were not bothered much; however, we did have a lot of scares. Elnore Penrod met George Edward Beckstead the same evening Bert met Mary = and they had a double wedding.=20 Eph met Vilate Whipple at Showlow and were married July 17, 1885, at = Showlow. When Bert had been married a year he took his wife back to Utah to visit = her folks and he took Dell with him to visit while there. Dell met = Merintha Altheria Calaway. She was fifteen at the time. Dell and Seed = (Merintha) were married the 18th of Aug. 1887, at Marysvale, Utah, and = started back to Arizona in September 1887. They arrived at the ranch in = October 1887, and lived at the ranch with the folks that winter. They = had to haul water, so they started out to find a place with water on it. = They found a beautiful valley with meadows and lots of water. Dad and = Dave decided here is where we will locate and haul no more water. There being no one living there at the time but one man, he naturally = welcomed the family. His name was Johnny Fipps. The winter of 1887, the family moved to what is now Pinetop. They lived = in a wagon box and camped out till they cut logs and built a one room = cabin which took them about ten days. Then in the spring of 1888, they = cut the trees off from the land and put in a crop. Then Dad put up = another shingle mill. The following June, Susan and husband with three children moved to = Pinetop (1888) and made their home joining her dad=92s place. Then later = on, Bert, Dell and Eph. came. While at Pinetop, all of the men folks were away shearing sheep for Bill = Amos. We women folks were alone. Mary Penrod was preparing to wash when = two buck Indians rode into the yard. They had fish to sell. When we = wouldn=92t buy them, one of them took off his dirty handkerchief and = made Mary wash it, then he tried to get her to go with him and live. She = grabbed her baby and ran over to Dave=92s place. The Indians thought = this great sport and how they did laugh. They followed her over there. = Dave=92s wife, Cynthia Ann, knew how to handle Indians and soon got rid = of them. While here, Eph lost his wife by death (Vilate, in 1888). She left two = small children, Lee and Bessie. Bessie later died at Clifton, Arizona = with Typhoid Fever, at the age of twelve. (Lee was later killed at = Kingman, Arizona, October 1928). The next to marry was, Mazetta. She married Nephi Packer, in the summer = of 1891, at Pinetop. By this time, Pinetop had grown until it was quite = a town. It had a post office, store, and a small school. The children = had very little schooling while pioneering. Liola met Martha Senora Packer, at Duncan, Arizona and after a courtship = of about one year, they were married at Duncan, Arizona in 1898. William L. Penrod and family continued to live on the farm in Pinetop. = They then were having good crops and had plenty to do with, as they were = a thrifty family and always lived within their means, never going in = debt or mortgaging their home. In 1892, at the old Warren place between Pinetop and Woodland, Eph met = Mary Jane Hansen, and they were married December 1892, at Woodland, = Arizona, leaving only Owen, Ralph and Neve (Geneva) at home. While at Pinetop, we had to go to Showlow to church, a distance of = eleven miles and no roads. We set out some apple and plum trees. The = plums were bearing at that time. They had planted alfalfa and now had = lots of hay, corn, beans, and potatoes, as well as plenty of vegetables. = By this time, Dad had lots of pigs and some milk cows, but he still ran = the shingle mill.=20 Liona married the sister of Eph=92s wife, Marcina Hansen. They were = married February 6, 1901, at Woodland, Arizona. They, with the rest of = the family, settled in Pinetop near the folks. In the year of 1881, the baby Geneva came July 27, on her daddy=92s = birthday. She was a great comfort to her parents. She made their home = very happy with her bright smile and cunning ways. They said she was = their Arizona baby, and had come to cheer them in their old age. She had = a smile for everyone that came to their door. Then came a very sad blow for the family. Of course, babies have a way = of growing the same as other children. Geneva bloomed into a beautiful = young lady and scores of suitors she had, but a gallant young man by the = name of George Hall, started courting her. They were married in Pinetop, = December 24, 1900, leaving the home very lonely with only Ralph being = left. At the age of thirty, Ralph went to Greer to visit his brother Dave, who = was a forest ranger at the time. There he met Annie (Sarah Ann) Butler. = Their courtship was brief, only a year, and on July 17, 1905, they were = married at the home of the bride=92s father, Jacob N. Butler, by Bishop = E. W. Wiltbank. Father and mother, being left alone, continued to live at their home. It = now contained six rooms. They were always open to welcome their children = back, but they were never allowed to smoke in the house; they were asked = to step outside to smoke. Mother not being very well, passed to the Great Beyond April 9, 1909, at = Pinetop, Arizona. Ralph and family then moved into the home, and father = lived with them for eight years. He took sick in June and passed away = August 21, 1916. About ten days before he died, he went to live with his = daughter, Susana. She cared for him till he died. He loved his home so = much that he requested to be fetched back home for his funeral. His = request was granted. Both William Lewis and Polly Ann were buried not = far from their home in Pinetop, Arizona. There is a large headstone = marking the place. Most of their children and spouses are buried around = them.=20 HISTORY OF DAVID PENROD 1815-1872 Written by Mary P. Young =20 David was born 9 January 1815, in Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois, son = of Lewis and Polly Beggs Penrod. He married Temperance Hinkle Keller. = She was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, 17 November 1817.=20 A study of the Federal Census records shows us that David=92s = grandfather, Samuel Penrod Sr., came to Illinois sometime before 1817. = The family is not listed in the 1812 Census, so it was between those = dates when they came. David=92s father, Lewis, was married to Polly = Beggs and his mother=92s name was Polly, but we do not know her maiden = name. This Polly was the wife of Samuel Penrod Sr.; there are eight = Penrod heads of families listed in the 1818 Census for Union County, = Illinois. According to the group sheet we have for Samuel=92s father, = John Penrod Sr., they seem to be brothers of Samuel Penrod Sr. David = joined the Mormon Church and was a very intelligent and religious man; = he accepted the Gospel in all its fullness, lived it, and taught it to = his family.=20 It seems, judging by the birth dates of some of their children, four of = them were born before David and Temperance joined the church. Those born = before that time were:=20 William Lewis b 27 Jan 1832 Union Co., Illinois Solomon b 17 Mar 1834=20 Elizabeth b 9 Sep 1836=20 Israel b 13 Mar 1838=20 Sarah Evelyn b 15 Apr 1840=20 Christina b 6 Mar 1842=20 After the assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the mob persecution = intensified until the Saints were compelled to abandon their homes. It = was decided to go west where they hoped to worship God according to the = teachings of the Gospel, as restored through Joseph Smith. David, with = his family, joined the Saints in the journey west. David was a wagon and = carriage maker by trade before leaving Illinois. He stayed near the = Missouri River for some time repairing wagons. Some of the Saints had = begun the journey with ill prepared wagons and outfits, so they were = held there until the wagons were in good condition, the wheels and tires = giving the most trouble. This probably was no trouble for David as we = read in the Pioneer History of Illinois, "The lumber from their rude = sawmills was used for building purposes, and for making wagons, farming = implements, and furniture for local use." Perhaps it was at this time he became expert in the making of wagons = etc. The Penrods were already Pioneers to Illinois when David was born = and he had been raised in a Pioneer community.=20 Some time was spent by them in Hancock County, Iowa. According to the = family group record, two of their children were born in Hancock County, = Iowa. Abraham b 12 July 1844=20 Polly Elmina b 23 May 1847 (died in infancy)=20 It seems that Polly passed away soon after her birth. According to these = birth dates, they were in Iowa from 1844 until 1847. He could have, at = this time, been helping to get wagons and outfits prepared for the long = journey across the lonely prairie and mountains.=20 When the trouble at the river was cleared up, David and family joined = the Orson Hyde Company. While crossing the plains, Solomon, next to the = oldest child, passed away. According to his birth and death date, he was = about fifteen years old. He was buried on the plains, his last resting = place was covered with rocks and sage so the Indians would not notice = it. This was a terrible bereavement and sorrow, so far away from home = and on the lonely prairie.=20 Many hundreds of the Saints died with Cholera while they were camped on = the plains. Temperance became ill from it as they were crossing the = lonely prairie; it is a very contagious disease so their outfit was left = behind at the side of the road. One woman stayed to help them. Their = faith was strong, and through their faith and the laying on of hands, = she was restored to health and they were able to overtake their company. = David drove the oxen and the children took turns gathering buffalo chips = to make the fires at camping time. The children were barefoot most of = the time, their feet often leaving prints of blood in the sand. They = arrived in Salt Lake City in 1849, remaining there for several months = and then moved to the Fort in Provo, Utah.=20 While living in the Fort a son was born to them, 24 October 1850. They = named him David Nephi; he was one of the first few babies born at the = Fort. It is interesting to note that the census says he was born in = Deseret. (This was the name of this territory before it became a state). = There is a monument standing where the Old Fort stood, in loving memory = of those who lived there and those who died there.=20 After it was safe enough to move from the Fort, Grandfather obtained = ground on Main Street in Provo, between Third and Fourth West Streets on = the north side of the road. He built an adobe house with four rooms or = so. The house faced south. Here the rest of their children were born. Temperance b 19 Sep 1852 Provo, Utah, Utah Minerva Olive b 24 Feb 1854=20 Ephraim b 11 June 1857=20 Amasa Lyman b 12 Nov 1858=20 David worked on the Salt Lake Temple hauling granite blocks from Little = Cottonwood Canyon. He served with many others in the Black Hawk War and = during the Indian trouble. His name along with his son, Israel, is = engraved on the monument in Pioneer Park in Provo, in memory of those = who served. In Provo David was a farmer and stock raiser. He owned = several large tracts of land. One of his farms was on 12th North and = University Avenue. His sons, Nephi and Amasa, later built homes on that = farm and lived the rest of their lives there.=20 Mr. Ed Peck, an early pioneer, made plows for the farmers and David = would stock them. He also made cradles for cutting grain. They ate a lot = of corn bread as very little white flour was made at that time. They = very seldom had more than a pound of sugar a month. Sometimes people = would borrow a pig rind to grease their bread pans, then return it with = many thanks.=20 In summertime it wasn=92t too bad to go barefoot, but when the cold = weather came something had to be made for foot covering, moccasins or = shoes. Stephen Bee=92s father used to make shoes out of ox-hide. David = would buy a pair of shoes from him for each member of the family in the = fall of the year and they would have to last until the next year.=20 David kept sheep, and of course each spring he would shear them. = Temperance would wash the wool, then take it to Shedrick Holdaway=92s = home for him to make it into rolls. She would then spin it into yarn to = make stockings, shawls and mittens.=20 Although they were comfortably well off, they were very conscious of the = needs of others. Anyone in need was always given supplies as far as it = was possible to do so. They gave potatoes, corn and in later years = wheat. People were never refused and the bins were never empty from year = to year. They, and their family, were blessed in so many ways. It seemed = the Lord cared for them even as they had cared for the ones in need.=20 David had severe sick spells for a few months, of what was then called = "Cramp Colic." During one of these spells, more severe than usual, he = passed away, on 26th of February 1872. He was buried in the Provo City = Cemetery.=20 He became quite well off for those days. From one of the accounts during = the settling of his property, the following possessions are listed with = the names of the appraisers, Gilbert Haws and George Baum. A house and lots in Provo City, one fourth interest in the Smith Flour = and Saw Mill, one and one half shares in the First Ward pasture, one = share in the South Meadow, nine acres of farm land near Smith Mill. Five = acres of land in River bottoms, land in South pasture on river bottom, = and sixty sheep, stock in East Co-op Store, stock in Provo Woolen Mills. = I believe we are justified in comparing David with Abraham of old. We = remember that the Lord sent Abraham out of his own country, into the = wilderness and promised him that he would multiply his seed as numerous = as the dust of the earth. Was not David sent into the wilderness and = plains to Pioneer the great and wonderful west and he was blest with a = large family (13 in all) and a numerous posterity. Surely his children = and his children=92s children, to the last generation, shall arise and = call him "Blessed"!=20 HISTORY OF LEWIS PENROD 1791-1832 Written by Leon Penrod Lewis Penrod=92s father was Samuel Penrod Sr., the son of John Penrod = Sr. (Johannes Benracth or Benrod) His father was born in Maryland and = his grandfather moved into the western part of Pennsylvania in 1773. = This was just before the Revolutionary War. His father was too young to = join the war but some of his brothers joined. Lewis=92 father and mother lived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania = during the 1890=92s, just southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In = about 1791, Lewis was born. In the early 1800=92s, we find his father in = Kentucky. In 1812, Lewis married Polly Beggs, in Logan County, Kentucky. = We also found, in the county records, Alexander Beggs signed to give his = daughter, Polly, permission to marry Lewis Penrod. Lewis appeared to = have been old enough to be married without his parent=92s consent. From = census records, we found that the Beggs had come from Pennsylvania in an = area not too far from where the Penrods had lived. Lewis probably spent his early childhood in western Pennsylvania and his = teens in Kentucky. The 1810 census showed that his father was still in = Kentucky, but he was not listed in the 1812 Kentucky state census. We = found that he was on the Kentucky 1811 tax records, with his brothers. = It could have been following 1811, that they started their move into the = southern part of Illinois. Lewis=92 oldest son, David (our David) was born in Jonesboro, Union, = Illinois in 1815. Thus they joined the move to Illinois. We find that = Polly=92s parents were also in Illinois in the 1818 state census. Lewis = and Polly had four children, three boys and a girl. Sometime before = 1830, Polly died and Lewis married Elizabeth Barber. On October 14, = 1931, David, our grandfather, married Temperance Keller. In 1817, Lewis purchased a hundred and sixty acres of land and the = records show that in 1820 it was fully paid for. In 1823, Lewis was = commissioned a captain in the Illinois State Tenth Regiment. Also he was = commissioned a second time in December of 1831. On August 4, 1832, Lewis = died. The court records show where his children all received guardians. = Note, David had married the previous October, but he still received a = guardian. Two and a half months later, his only daughter, Elizabeth, = married John F. Gore. Although Lewis did not live a very long life, the = probate of the estate showed that he had done quite well financially.=20 HISTORY OF SAMUEL PENROD 1765 by Leon Penrod Samuel was the son of John Penrod Sr. and Catherine. He was born in = Maryland before 1765, and married a Polly, we do not know her last name. Samuel moved with his parents to Bedford County, = Pennsylvania. It was later divided and they ended up living in the = Somerset County portion.=20 We find Samuel in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the 1790 census = with no family listed, but in the 1800 census, he is listed as head of a = family of 12. Westmoreland County is to the northwest of Somerset = County. We next see Samuel in Kentucky, where he is suing Daniel Kenny, = for the sum of five hundred pounds for trespass. There was no date. But = in 1806, Samuel was sued for four hundred dollars by a William Bradford = for trespass. Thus they used pounds before 1806, and dollars thereafter. = (Lawsuits for trespass generally meant that the cattle or hogs of one = party had destroyed a part of the other party=92s crop).=20 Some of Samuel=92s brothers had moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky = during the 1790=92s. But it seems Samuel moved there between 1800 and = 1805. It could have been when his brother, Emanuel, and his mother, = Catherine, moved. Many people moved down the Ohio River, into Kentucky = and then into Illinois.=20 Samuel Sr. was in Kentucky during the 1810 census. In 1811, there were = two Samuels on the tax list of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. But in 1812, = neither were on the list. Yet in 1812, his son, Lewis, married Polly = Beggs in Logan County, Kentucky. The family of Samuel and two of his = brothers (David and Solomon) had moved into Union County, Illinois right = after 1812. They were not listed on the Illinois 1812 census, but = Lewis=92 son, David, was born in 1815, in Jonesboro, Illinois. "Up to 1812, there had been little immigration into Illinois. This was = due to fear of Indian atrocities and the inability of settlers to gain = legal title to the land, upon which they located. In 1813, Congress = passed a law enabling settlers to take up a quarter section of land (160 = ac.) and if they made improvements on it, they would have the first = right to buy at government sale. If the settler didn=92t choose to buy, = they still had a lien on the property for the amount of the = improvements, when it was bought by another."=20 "The Passage of this law, the ending of the War with England, and = subsequent treaties with the Indians in 1815, under which they conveyed = their titles to the United States, opened wide the doors in Illinois for = rapid settlement and growth for the first time in its history. Up to = 1815, the increase of its population had been stayed by Indian guerrilla = warfare, the war with England, difficulty of travel over mountains, = through tackless forests and over bridgeless rivers, and insecure land = titles."=20 "By the end of 1814, the steamboat had arrived, railroads were being = planned, and the United States was selling its lands to settlers, at the = very low price of $1.25 an acre. In 1818, Illinois was admitted into the = Union, as the twenty-first state. Union County was one of three counties = established in January of 1818. It was formed from Johnson County, which = was formed in 1812. There were 392 families in Union County in 1818, and = in March 1818, the County Commissioners located the county seat; and = gave it the name of, Jonesboro." In the 1820 census we find listings for many of the Penrods who had = moved into Union County Illinois with Samuel. We also found from the = census, Samuel later moved to Adam=92s County Illinois. We find his sons = listed in different counties of Illinois, in the 1830 census.=20 JOHN PENROD Sr. and Wife CATHERINE By Leon Penrod John and Catherine were the parents of Samuel Penrod Sr. who left = Pennsylvania and moved to Kentucky for a time, then moved on into = Illinois after 1811. Dr. Delbert Lee Penrod, has written a biographical sketch of their life = and children. The following are excerpts from his writing and research. "Little is known of the early life of John Penrod. Some suggest that he = was born about 1726 in New York Colony or in Germany. Extensive searches = have turned up no record of immigration. Others believe that he came = from Germany, perhaps in the 1709 immigration, by way of England. There = was a Johannes Bonroth, who came to New York Colony about 1710 with the = Palatine Emigration, who could have been his father. There is little = doubt that John Penrod lived in a German community. His daughter, Mary, = married John Vancil, and his daughter, Drucilla, married Phillip Kimmel, = both of German background." "We do know that Frederick County, Maryland, records indicate that he = purchased land there about 1754-5. Naturalization document from = Frederick County lists a Johannes Benracth, who affirmed allegiance as a = citizen of the colony of Maryland May 7, 1767. Benracth could have been = an attempt to spell the way his name sounded. Normal naturalization was = to take an oath of allegiance to the King. However, an act of Parliament = allowed Quakers to make a solemn affirmation of allegiance, rather than = take an oath. John Penrod was one of five persons who, on that day, = declared allegiance by solemn affirmation.......Thus, John and these = four others, must have been opposed to swearing an oath. He is certified = as taking communion in the Coconocheague Congregation, where George Adam = Martin, Baptist, was pastor........ It must have been a German Baptist = Church, located near the border, between Pennsylvania and Maryland. He = was listed as a, =91German member of our congregation=92. The name, John = Penroth (Penrod) was in Old German script. John=92s estate was valued at = about thirteen hundred and seventy-seven pounds, which would have been = almost four thousand dollars." "After John died in 1799, his widow, Catherine, moved to Muhlenberg = County Kentucky, and may have lived with the Daniel Rhoads family. I = believe that she was related somehow to the Rhoads family. Could she = have been the sister of Daniel Rhoads Sr.? Or, perhaps, she was a sister = of Daniel=92s wife. (There is no record of any of the Penrods marrying a = Rhoads). A bill of sale, recorded in Muhlenberg County in 1808, = indicates that Catherine transferred all her possessions to Daniel = Rhoads. This seems unusual, since at least three of her children lived = nearby." "For a number of years, before 1773, John Penrod spent winters with a = group of hunters in the Glades area of Bedford County, Pennsylvania. = With that group were son, John Penrod Jr., son-in-law, John Vancil, = Aquilla White, Harmon Husband, and Isaac Cox....... The tax roll of = 1772, lists John Penrod as an inmate, which means that he lived with = someone else, rather than having his own home and family in the county. = John=92s family was in Maryland. Acquilla White had 200 acres. John = Winsel (John Vancil, husband of John Penrod=92s daughter, Mary) had 100 = acres. Phillip Kimble (Phillip Kimmel, husband of John=92s daughter, = Drucilla) had 300 acres." "John Penrod moved his family to the Glades area of Pennsylvania about = 1773. On September 29th of that year, he got warrant number 57, for 250 = acres in Milford Township. This part of Bedford County later became = Somerset County. The tax roll of 1783 lists John Sr. as having 600 acres = of land in Milford twp., four horses and two cattle. The 1784 tax list = enumerates the John Penrod family as eight white persons. During the = Revolutionary War, John Penrod served as a private for twenty-four = months, in the Bedford County Militia. This branch of the Militia served = protecting the settlements from Indian attacks." "In Bedford County the John Penrods were part of the Quemohoning Seventh = Day Baptist Church. It met for a while in the Penrod home and was = referred to by some, as the Penrod Church. " John=92s estate inventory indicated that he had accumulated quite a sum = of money and seems to have been an unofficial community banker. Three = pages of loans and bonds are listed as property of his estate. His will = says, =91First I order that my whole estate shall be and remain in my = own hands, and in the hands of my children, as it now is, till after my = decease, and at my decease shall devolve to my wife, Catherine Penrod, = during her natural life and at her decease, then the whole estate = belonging to, I order and it is my will shall be equally divided amongst = my children as possible, males and females all equal and alike to them = or to their heirs.=92 John Penrod loaned money to his children, either = on note or account, to put his money into their hands for their use. He = was listed on the 1796 tax roll in Quemahoning Township, Pennsylvania. = He died by April 13, 1799, when his will was probated.=20 John Penrod Sr. (Johannes Bonroth, or whatever his name really was) is = the ancestor we have first in our Penrod line. We should remember, = Penrod is the name that some Englishman probably gave grandfather. We = are quite sure that he was German, since he associated with the German = community, and his family married into it. Their children=92s signatures = were in old German script. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C1319E.721299E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Delbert

This is what is in the book = but I don't=20 think that it has been edited so there may be some error. Some of it = came from=20 other books, some I wrote.

Leon

HISTORY OF WILLIAM LEWIS = PENROD

1832-1916

=20

Not much is known about William Lewis and Polly Ann = before they=20 came to Arizona. William was born in 1832, and was the oldest child of = David=20 Penrod and Temperance Hinkle Keller. He was born in Jonesboro, Union = County,=20 Illinois, which is in the southern part of the state.

His parents later joined the L.D.S. Church and

William crossed the plains to Utah with them as a = 17-year-old=20 boy. His parents settled in Provo, Utah. The first we really know about = William=20 is when he was about 22 years old. He married Polly Ann Young in 1854. =

They evidently moved to Wallsburg, Wasatch, Utah = where his=20 sister, Elizabeth, and her husband, William Wall were living. It is = located up=20 Provo Canyon, over the mountain, to the east of Provo. Wallsburg was = named after=20 his sister=92s husband. In Wallsburg their first child, Mary, was born = followed by=20 four more children.

By 1864, they had moved to Payson, Utah where their = first set=20 of twins boys were born, grandfather Delbert Abraham, was one of them. = Sometime=20 between 1864 and September 1866 they had moved to Provo where they lived = until=20 after 1869.

Next, we find another set of twins boys were born = back in=20 Wallsburg in May of 1871. Four more children were born in Wallsburg = before the=20 family left to go to Arizona in the fall of 1878.

It seems they had done quite well while in Utah as is = indicated=20 in the following poem by Eva (Penrod) Sabin, a niece, as she gives us a = little=20 insight into granddad William=92s life while in Utah.

. His long journey now completed

He had reached Utah at last,

Tired, footsore and weary

But had completed his task.

.

Time passed until his manhood.

We hear no more of his life so far,

Until again he proved himself a hero,

Protecting the saints in the Black Hawk War.

I remember their home in Provo

Where Uncle William lived as a boy.

The walls of adobe were slowly crumbling

When I, as a child viewed it with joy.

The family it is true had scattered

And had gone their different ways,

But the steps still strong but battered

Stood strong as in by gone days.

Uncle Israel did save and preserve them,

As years passed on by the score,

And several Years ago his daughter

Used them as steps at her back door.

When I visited the old home

Grandma had moved to a new one

She had left worn out and discarded

The machine that had proven true.

It had sewn tiny clothes and big ones

And clothes with heavy bands,

But it was odd to me then, and now is,

For it turned at the wheel by hand.

When Uncle William lived in Wallsburg

He always came down every night

to visit his brother, Abraham

To joke, laugh and make things bright.

When Uncle and Aunt lived in the Valley

Their family large there-fore blessed by the Lord,

Uncle William was a good provider,

They bought factory jeans and calico by the bolt, not yard.

Sad were our hearts when they left us,

New homes and new lands to explore.

I=92ll never forget the scene that was pictured

Of the fine group that left our door.

The wagon stood in waiting

The cover was slightly drawn,

Aunt Polly sitting in the seat

The girls with their bonnets on.

Many times he came back to visit,

I believe as many as six.

His brothers he said, never had time to visit him,

They were always after that dollar on the end of the stick

Our children remember his last visit,

Of the fish and wild turkey he told.

I know they shall always remember him

Until they reach the end of their goal.

He told them of Aunt Polly

And the dresses she had done,

Made for the days that were coming

With a breast pin on every one

I am glad to learn of their fine families

Although Uncle and Aunt have passed on to heaven

To learn that their descendants

Have reached the number of 800 and 97.

(The following was written by Sarah Ann Penrod, a=20 daughter-in-law, the wife of Ralph Penrod)

William L. Penrod and his wife Polly Ann Young, left = Utah=20 October 26, 1878. Their mode of travel was one cow and an ox when they = left=20 Wallsburg; and when they arrived at the Pyreah, they got another ox to = replace=20 the cow. They also got two horse teams. They left Wallsburg with nine = children,=20 Dave and Mary being married at the time. Mary married John Gibson in = 1870, at=20 Wallsburg, Utah. Dave married Cynthia Ann Smith, June 6, 1877, at = Pyreah, Utah=20 and went to the St. George Temple June 6, 1878.

The family traveled about six days having fine = weather and a=20 good trip. The morning of the seventh day when they got up both teams = and oxen=20 were gone. Dad hunted until two o=92clock in the afternoon before he = found them.=20 We broke camp, went to the Pyreah. There we laid over for two weeks = waiting for=20 Tom Adair=92s family, then we came on to Lees Ferry, where we waited for = two more=20 weeks for the water to go down so they could cross the Colorado River. = They=20 crossed the river on a flat boat. After crossing, they had to put three = teams to=20 a wagon to pull to the top of the hill.

Tom Adair had two teams and Dad had one. We then came = on to=20 Willow Springs and laid over two days. It was here at Willow Springs = that Susan=20 met Will Stephens and after a short courtship, he became her husband. = These=20 frequent stops were made to rest the teams and cattle. Our next stop was = Holbrook. We were two days coming from Willow Springs to Holbrook. At = that time=20 there were no railroads in Holbrook, and only one adobe house. The = nearest store=20 they know of was Albuquerque, New Mexico. They had provisions enough = with them=20 to last six months. They left Holbrook and got to Showlow December 31, = 1878,=20 where they camped in an old house that belonged to a sheepherder.

That night three feet of snow fell. As we were out of = feed for=20 our horses and cattle, we turned them out to browse on the willows along = the=20 creek. That morning dawned into New Year=92s Day of 1879. Dad saddled = his horse=20 that morning and went to Forest Dale. On his return he was very = dissatisfied and=20 wanted to go back to Utah, but mother who was a very delicate lady and = in ill=20 health at the time, would not go back.

John Willis had Dad stay over that summer and to take = care of=20 his ranch and cattle. In the fall of 1879, September 25th, = Susan=20 Penrod married William Stephens at the Willis Ranch near Showlow.

After the wedding, they went to building them a home. = Their=20 home was made of round logs. The roof was covered with dirt and a dirt = floor. We=20 ground our corn in a coffee mill to make our bread, but in spite of our=20 hardships, we were a happy family.

David Penrod came to Arizona the fall of 1879, = bringing with=20 him his wife and one child, Cynthia Jane, and took up a ranch at = Juniper,=20 Arizona.

Times were hard and if it had not been for C.C. = Cooley, we=20 would have all been massacred. Two Indian squaws from Allasaya Camp, = came and=20 told Cooley=92s wives that the Indians were on the war-path and were = going to kill=20 the white settlers, so we all had to fort up at Showlow and none of us = were=20 hurt.

The next spring Dad put up a shingle mill and sold = shingles to=20 the settlers as the country grew. The first shingles he sold were to a = sheep man=20 by the name of Bob Scott. In the fall of 1880, Dell and Bert went to = work for=20 C.C. Cooley at Cooley=92s Ranch at Showlow. The older boys being away = from home,=20 Ralph, being a child of seven, rode the mule while his Dad cut shingles. = We were=20 very hard up that spring and Dad worked for Cooley when he had no = shingle sales.=20 Cooley paid off in pork, beans and corn, which kept the family = eating.

During this time the Indians were on the warpath = often. The=20 ranchers all had to go to the Cooley Ranch and fort up for about three=20 months.

Then in the fall of 1881, they took up a ranch out at = what is=20 now Linden, and stayed there until the fall of 1883, then they went back = to Utah=20 with a team of horses, the oxen having died. They stayed in Utah two and = one=20 half years. While the folks were gone those two and one half years, = Dave, Bert=20 and Dell hauled freight from Wilcox to Globe with a horse team. Mary and = Eph=20 stayed at the ranch and took care of things. Mary was a widow at that = time. She=20 and her husband having separated over family troubles (whisky being the = main=20 reason) while at Juniper.

Later Mary went to work for George Scott where she = met John F.=20 Norton, whom she married June 4, 1884, at Showlow, Arizona.

Albert met Mary Catherine Beckstead at Juniper, = December 20,=20 1884. Mary, at that time, being 15 years old. Their courting was brief = and they=20 were married at Taylor, Arizona, May 25, 1885. They ate supper at the = home of=20 the bride=92s father, Alma Beckstead. They danced till the small hours = of the=20 morning.

William Penrod enjoyed dancing as well as other = sports. He was=20 always jovial and a jolly fellow and happy go lucky fellow, never having = the=20 blues and always whistling (his motto was, if you can help the cause, = O.K., if=20 not why weary).

He was never a man to get discouraged or down = hearted. He=20 always had an open door for strangers as well as friends, of whom he had = many.=20 He always fed everyone who came to his door hungry, regardless of color = or=20 creed. While at Juniper we attended Church at Fool Hollow, a little = place about=20 five miles from our ranch.

The sick were often cheered by his presence. One = night while I=20 was in hard labor, he came to my room and laid his hands on my head and = although=20 he never said a word out loud, he prayed for me and I felt better = immediately. I=20 was always treated like one of the family. I lived in the same house = with them=20 till after my first child was born. He seldom had trouble with his = in-laws. We=20 were always on the look out for Indians, but Dad believed in what = Brigham Young=20 said, "It is better to feed the Indians than to fight them." We were = quite=20 friendly to them, so we were not bothered much; however, we did have a = lot of=20 scares.

Elnore Penrod met George Edward Beckstead the same = evening Bert=20 met Mary and they had a double wedding.

Eph met Vilate Whipple at Showlow and were married = July 17,=20 1885, at Showlow.

When Bert had been married a year he took his wife = back to Utah=20 to visit her folks and he took Dell with him to visit while there. Dell = met=20 Merintha Altheria Calaway. She was fifteen at the time. Dell and Seed = (Merintha)=20 were married the 18th of Aug. 1887, at Marysvale, Utah, and = started=20 back to Arizona in September 1887. They arrived at the ranch in October = 1887,=20 and lived at the ranch with the folks that winter. They had to haul = water, so=20 they started out to find a place with water on it. They found a = beautiful valley=20 with meadows and lots of water. Dad and Dave decided here is where we = will=20 locate and haul no more water.

There being no one living there at the time but one = man, he=20 naturally welcomed the family. His name was Johnny Fipps.

The winter of 1887, the family moved to what is now = Pinetop.=20 They lived in a wagon box and camped out till they cut logs and built a = one room=20 cabin which took them about ten days. Then in the spring of 1888, they = cut the=20 trees off from the land and put in a crop. Then Dad put up another = shingle=20 mill.

The following June, Susan and husband with three = children moved=20 to Pinetop (1888) and made their home joining her dad=92s place. Then = later on,=20 Bert, Dell and Eph. came.

While at Pinetop, all of the men folks were away = shearing sheep=20 for Bill Amos. We women folks were alone. Mary Penrod was preparing to = wash when=20 two buck Indians rode into the yard. They had fish to sell. When we = wouldn=92t buy=20 them, one of them took off his dirty handkerchief and made Mary wash it, = then he=20 tried to get her to go with him and live. She grabbed her baby and ran = over to=20 Dave=92s place. The Indians thought this great sport and how they did = laugh. They=20 followed her over there. Dave=92s wife, Cynthia Ann, knew how to handle = Indians=20 and soon got rid of them.

While here, Eph lost his wife by death (Vilate, in = 1888). She=20 left two small children, Lee and Bessie. Bessie later died at Clifton, = Arizona=20 with Typhoid Fever, at the age of twelve. (Lee was later killed at = Kingman,=20 Arizona, October 1928).

The next to marry was, Mazetta. She married Nephi = Packer, in=20 the summer of 1891, at Pinetop. By this time, Pinetop had grown until it = was=20 quite a town. It had a post office, store, and a small school. The = children had=20 very little schooling while pioneering.

Liola met Martha Senora Packer, at Duncan, Arizona = and after a=20 courtship of about one year, they were married at Duncan, Arizona in = 1898.

William L. Penrod and family continued to live on the = farm in=20 Pinetop. They then were having good crops and had plenty to do with, as = they=20 were a thrifty family and always lived within their means, never going = in debt=20 or mortgaging their home.

In 1892, at the old Warren place between Pinetop and = Woodland,=20 Eph met Mary Jane Hansen, and they were married December 1892, at = Woodland,=20 Arizona, leaving only Owen, Ralph and Neve (Geneva) at home.

While at Pinetop, we had to go to Showlow to church, = a distance=20 of eleven miles and no roads. We set out some apple and plum trees. The = plums=20 were bearing at that time. They had planted alfalfa and now had lots of = hay,=20 corn, beans, and potatoes, as well as plenty of vegetables. By this = time, Dad=20 had lots of pigs and some milk cows, but he still ran the shingle mill. =

Liona married the sister of Eph=92s wife, Marcina = Hansen. They=20 were married February 6, 1901, at Woodland, Arizona. They, with the rest = of the=20 family, settled in Pinetop near the folks.

In the year of 1881, the baby Geneva came July 27, on = her=20 daddy=92s birthday. She was a great comfort to her parents. She made = their home=20 very happy with her bright smile and cunning ways. They said she was = their=20 Arizona baby, and had come to cheer them in their old age. She had a = smile for=20 everyone that came to their door.

Then came a very sad blow for the family. Of course, = babies=20 have a way of growing the same as other children. Geneva bloomed into a=20 beautiful young lady and scores of suitors she had, but a gallant young = man by=20 the name of George Hall, started courting her. They were married in = Pinetop,=20 December 24, 1900, leaving the home very lonely with only Ralph being = left.

At the age of thirty, Ralph went to Greer to visit = his brother=20 Dave, who was a forest ranger at the time. There he met Annie (Sarah = Ann)=20 Butler. Their courtship was brief, only a year, and on July 17, 1905, = they were=20 married at the home of the bride=92s father, Jacob N. Butler, by Bishop = E. W.=20 Wiltbank.

Father and mother, being left alone, continued to = live at their=20 home. It now contained six rooms. They were always open to welcome their = children back, but they were never allowed to smoke in the house; they = were=20 asked to step outside to smoke.

Mother not being very well, passed to the Great = Beyond April 9,=20 1909, at Pinetop, Arizona. Ralph and family then moved into the home, = and father=20 lived with them for eight years. He took sick in June and passed away = August 21,=20 1916. About ten days before he died, he went to live with his daughter, = Susana.=20 She cared for him till he died. He loved his home so much that he = requested to=20 be fetched back home for his funeral. His request was granted. Both = William=20 Lewis and Polly Ann were buried not far from their home in Pinetop, = Arizona.=20 There is a large headstone marking the place. Most of their children and = spouses=20 are buried around them.

HISTORY OF DAVID PENROD

1815-1872

Written by Mary P. Young

=20

David was born 9 January 1815, in Jonesboro, Union = County,=20 Illinois, son of Lewis and Polly Beggs Penrod. He married Temperance = Hinkle=20 Keller. She was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, 17 November 1817. =

A study of the Federal Census records shows us that = David=92s=20 grandfather, Samuel Penrod Sr., came to Illinois sometime before 1817. = The=20 family is not listed in the 1812 Census, so it was between those dates = when they=20 came. David=92s father, Lewis, was married to Polly Beggs and his = mother=92s name=20 was Polly, but we do not know her maiden name. This Polly was the wife = of Samuel=20 Penrod Sr.; there are eight Penrod heads of families listed in the 1818 = Census=20 for Union County, Illinois. According to the group sheet we have for = Samuel=92s=20 father, John Penrod Sr., they seem to be brothers of Samuel Penrod Sr. = David=20 joined the Mormon Church and was a very intelligent and religious man; = he=20 accepted the Gospel in all its fullness, lived it, and taught it to his = family.=20

It seems, judging by the birth dates of some of their = children,=20 four of them were born before David and Temperance joined the church. = Those born=20 before that time were:

William Lewis b 27 Jan 1832 Union Co., Illinois

Solomon b 17 Mar 1834

Elizabeth b 9 Sep 1836

Israel b 13 Mar 1838

Sarah Evelyn b 15 Apr 1840

Christina b 6 Mar 1842

After the assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, = the mob=20 persecution intensified until the Saints were compelled to abandon their = homes.=20 It was decided to go west where they hoped to worship God according to = the=20 teachings of the Gospel, as restored through Joseph Smith. David, with = his=20 family, joined the Saints in the journey west. David was a wagon and = carriage=20 maker by trade before leaving Illinois. He stayed near the Missouri = River for=20 some time repairing wagons. Some of the Saints had begun the journey = with ill=20 prepared wagons and outfits, so they were held there until the wagons = were in=20 good condition, the wheels and tires giving the most trouble. This = probably was=20 no trouble for David as we read in the Pioneer History of Illinois, "The = lumber=20 from their rude sawmills was used for building purposes, and for making = wagons,=20 farming implements, and furniture for local use."

Perhaps it was at this time he became expert in the = making of=20 wagons etc. The Penrods were already Pioneers to Illinois when David was = born=20 and he had been raised in a Pioneer community.

Some time was spent by them in Hancock County, Iowa. = According=20 to the family group record, two of their children were born in Hancock = County,=20 Iowa.

Abraham b 12 July 1844

Polly Elmina b 23 May 1847 (died in infancy)

It seems that Polly passed away soon after her birth. = According=20 to these birth dates, they were in Iowa from 1844 until 1847. He could = have, at=20 this time, been helping to get wagons and outfits prepared for the long = journey=20 across the lonely prairie and mountains.

When the trouble at the river was cleared up, David = and family=20 joined the Orson Hyde Company. While crossing the plains, Solomon, next = to the=20 oldest child, passed away. According to his birth and death date, he was = about=20 fifteen years old. He was buried on the plains, his last resting place = was=20 covered with rocks and sage so the Indians would not notice it. This was = a=20 terrible bereavement and sorrow, so far away from home and on the lonely = prairie.

Many hundreds of the Saints died with Cholera while = they were=20 camped on the plains. Temperance became ill from it as they were = crossing the=20 lonely prairie; it is a very contagious disease so their outfit was left = behind=20 at the side of the road. One woman stayed to help them. Their faith was = strong,=20 and through their faith and the laying on of hands, she was restored to = health=20 and they were able to overtake their company.

David drove the oxen and the children took turns = gathering=20 buffalo chips to make the fires at camping time. The children were = barefoot most=20 of the time, their feet often leaving prints of blood in the sand. They = arrived=20 in Salt Lake City in 1849, remaining there for several months and then = moved to=20 the Fort in Provo, Utah.

While living in the Fort a son was born to them, 24 = October=20 1850. They named him David Nephi; he was one of the first few babies = born at the=20 Fort. It is interesting to note that the census says he was born in = Deseret.=20 (This was the name of this territory before it became a state). There is = a=20 monument standing where the Old Fort stood, in loving memory of those = who lived=20 there and those who died there.

After it was safe enough to move from the Fort, = Grandfather=20 obtained ground on Main Street in Provo, between Third and Fourth West = Streets=20 on the north side of the road. He built an adobe house with four rooms = or so.=20 The house faced south. Here the rest of their children were born.

Temperance b 19 Sep 1852 Provo, Utah, Utah

Minerva Olive b 24 Feb 1854

Ephraim b 11 June 1857

Amasa Lyman b 12 Nov 1858

David worked on the Salt Lake Temple hauling granite = blocks=20 from Little Cottonwood Canyon. He served with many others in the Black = Hawk War=20 and during the Indian trouble. His name along with his son, Israel, is = engraved=20 on the monument in Pioneer Park in Provo, in memory of those who served. = In=20 Provo David was a farmer and stock raiser. He owned several large tracts = of=20 land. One of his farms was on 12th North and University = Avenue. His=20 sons, Nephi and Amasa, later built homes on that farm and lived the rest = of=20 their lives there.

Mr. Ed Peck, an early pioneer, made plows for the = farmers and=20 David would stock them. He also made cradles for cutting grain. They ate = a lot=20 of corn bread as very little white flour was made at that time. They = very seldom=20 had more than a pound of sugar a month. Sometimes people would borrow a = pig rind=20 to grease their bread pans, then return it with many thanks.

In summertime it wasn=92t too bad to go barefoot, but = when the=20 cold weather came something had to be made for foot covering, moccasins = or=20 shoes. Stephen Bee=92s father used to make shoes out of ox-hide. David = would buy a=20 pair of shoes from him for each member of the family in the fall of the = year and=20 they would have to last until the next year.

David kept sheep, and of course each spring he would = shear=20 them. Temperance would wash the wool, then take it to Shedrick = Holdaway=92s home=20 for him to make it into rolls. She would then spin it into yarn to make=20 stockings, shawls and mittens.

Although they were comfortably well off, they were = very=20 conscious of the needs of others. Anyone in need was always given = supplies as=20 far as it was possible to do so. They gave potatoes, corn and in later = years=20 wheat. People were never refused and the bins were never empty from year = to=20 year. They, and their family, were blessed in so many ways. It seemed = the Lord=20 cared for them even as they had cared for the ones in need.

David had severe sick spells for a few months, of = what was then=20 called "Cramp Colic." During one of these spells, more severe than = usual, he=20 passed away, on 26th of February 1872. He was buried in the = Provo=20 City Cemetery.

He became quite well off for those days. From one of = the=20 accounts during the settling of his property, the following possessions = are=20 listed with the names of the appraisers, Gilbert Haws and George = Baum.

A house and lots in Provo City, one fourth interest = in the=20 Smith Flour and Saw Mill, one and one half shares in the First Ward = pasture, one=20 share in the South Meadow, nine acres of farm land near Smith Mill. Five = acres=20 of land in River bottoms, land in South pasture on river bottom, and = sixty=20 sheep, stock in East Co-op Store, stock in Provo Woolen Mills.

I believe we are justified in comparing David with = Abraham of=20 old. We remember that the Lord sent Abraham out of his own country, into = the=20 wilderness and promised him that he would multiply his seed as numerous = as the=20 dust of the earth. Was not David sent into the wilderness and plains to = Pioneer=20 the great and wonderful west and he was blest with a large family (13 in = all)=20 and a numerous posterity. Surely his children and his children=92s = children, to=20 the last generation, shall arise and call him "Blessed"!

 

HISTORY OF LEWIS PENROD 1791-1832

Written by Leon Penrod

Lewis Penrod=92s father was Samuel Penrod Sr., the = son of John=20 Penrod Sr. (Johannes Benracth or Benrod) His father was born in Maryland = and his=20 grandfather moved into the western part of Pennsylvania in 1773. This = was just=20 before the Revolutionary War. His father was too young to join the war = but some=20 of his brothers joined.

Lewis=92 father and mother lived in Westmoreland = County,=20 Pennsylvania during the 1890=92s, just southeast of Pittsburgh, = Pennsylvania. In=20 about 1791, Lewis was born. In the early 1800=92s, we find his father in = Kentucky.=20 In 1812, Lewis married Polly Beggs, in Logan County, Kentucky. We also = found, in=20 the county records, Alexander Beggs signed to give his daughter, Polly,=20 permission to marry Lewis Penrod. Lewis appeared to have been old enough = to be=20 married without his parent=92s consent. From census records, we found = that the=20 Beggs had come from Pennsylvania in an area not too far from where the = Penrods=20 had lived.

Lewis probably spent his early childhood in western=20 Pennsylvania and his teens in Kentucky. The 1810 census showed that his = father=20 was still in Kentucky, but he was not listed in the 1812 Kentucky state = census.=20 We found that he was on the Kentucky 1811 tax records, with his = brothers. It=20 could have been following 1811, that they started their move into the = southern=20 part of Illinois.

Lewis=92 oldest son, David (our David) was born in = Jonesboro,=20 Union, Illinois in 1815. Thus they joined the move to Illinois. We find = that=20 Polly=92s parents were also in Illinois in the 1818 state census. Lewis = and Polly=20 had four children, three boys and a girl. Sometime before 1830, Polly = died and=20 Lewis married Elizabeth Barber. On October 14, 1931, David, our = grandfather,=20 married Temperance Keller.

In 1817, Lewis purchased a hundred and sixty acres of = land and=20 the records show that in 1820 it was fully paid for. In 1823, Lewis was=20 commissioned a captain in the Illinois State Tenth Regiment. Also he was = commissioned a second time in December of 1831. On August 4, 1832, Lewis = died.=20 The court records show where his children all received guardians. Note, = David=20 had married the previous October, but he still received a guardian. Two = and a=20 half months later, his only daughter, Elizabeth, married John F. Gore. = Although=20 Lewis did not live a very long life, the probate of the estate showed = that he=20 had done quite well financially.

 

 

 

 

HISTORY OF SAMUEL PENROD

1765

by Leon Penrod

Samuel was the son of John Penrod Sr. and Catherine. He was born = in=20 Maryland before 1765, and married a Polly, we do not know her

last name. Samuel moved with his parents to Bedford County, = Pennsylvania. It=20 was later divided and they ended up living in the Somerset County = portion.

We find Samuel in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania = in the 1790=20 census with no family listed, but in the 1800 census, he is listed as = head of a=20 family of 12. Westmoreland County is to the northwest of Somerset = County. We=20 next see Samuel in Kentucky, where he is suing Daniel Kenny, for the sum = of five=20 hundred pounds for trespass. There was no date. But in 1806, = Samuel was=20 sued for four hundred dollars by a William Bradford for trespass. = Thus=20 they used pounds before 1806, and dollars thereafter. = (Lawsuits=20 for trespass generally meant that the cattle or hogs of one party had = destroyed=20 a part of the other party=92s crop).

Some of Samuel=92s brothers had moved from = Pennsylvania to=20 Kentucky during the 1790=92s. But it seems Samuel moved there between = 1800 and=20 1805. It could have been when his brother, Emanuel, and his mother, = Catherine,=20 moved. Many people moved down the Ohio River, into Kentucky and then = into=20 Illinois.

Samuel Sr. was in Kentucky during the 1810 census. In = 1811,=20 there were two Samuels on the tax list of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. = But in=20 1812, neither were on the list. Yet in 1812, his son, Lewis, married = Polly Beggs=20 in Logan County, Kentucky. The family of Samuel and two of his brothers = (David=20 and Solomon) had moved into Union County, Illinois right after 1812. = They were=20 not listed on the Illinois 1812 census, but Lewis=92 son, David, was = born in 1815,=20 in Jonesboro, Illinois.

"Up to 1812, there had been little immigration into = Illinois.=20 This was due to fear of Indian atrocities and the inability of settlers = to gain=20 legal title to the land, upon which they located. In 1813, Congress = passed a law=20 enabling settlers to take up a quarter section of land (160 ac.) and if = they=20 made improvements on it, they would have the first right to buy at = government=20 sale. If the settler didn=92t choose to buy, they still had a lien on = the property=20 for the amount of the improvements, when it was bought by another."

"The Passage of this law, the ending of the War with = England,=20 and subsequent treaties with the Indians in 1815, under which they = conveyed=20 their titles to the United States, opened wide the doors in Illinois for = rapid=20 settlement and growth for the first time in its history. Up to 1815, the = increase of its population had been stayed by Indian guerrilla warfare, = the war=20 with England, difficulty of travel over mountains, through tackless = forests and=20 over bridgeless rivers, and insecure land titles."

"By the end of 1814, the steamboat had arrived, = railroads were=20 being planned, and the United States was selling its lands to settlers, = at the=20 very low price of $1.25 an acre. In 1818, Illinois was admitted into the = Union,=20 as the twenty-first state. Union County was one of three counties = established in=20 January of 1818. It was formed from Johnson County, which was formed in = 1812.=20 There were 392 families in Union County in 1818, and in March 1818, the = County=20 Commissioners located the county seat; and gave it the name of, = Jonesboro."

In the 1820 census we find listings for many of the = Penrods who=20 had moved into Union County Illinois with Samuel. We also found from the = census,=20 Samuel later moved to Adam=92s County Illinois. We find his sons listed = in=20 different counties of Illinois, in the 1830 census.

JOHN PENROD Sr. and Wife = CATHERINE

By Leon Penrod

John and Catherine were the parents of Samuel Penrod = Sr. who=20 left Pennsylvania and moved to Kentucky for a time, then moved on into = Illinois=20 after 1811.

Dr. Delbert Lee Penrod, has written a biographical = sketch of=20 their life and children. The following are excerpts from his writing and = research.

"Little is known of the early life of John Penrod. = Some suggest=20 that he was born about 1726 in New York Colony or in Germany. Extensive = searches=20 have turned up no record of immigration. Others believe that he came = from=20 Germany, perhaps in the 1709 immigration, by way of England. There was a = Johannes Bonroth, who came to New York Colony about 1710 with the = Palatine=20 Emigration, who could have been his father. There is little doubt that = John=20 Penrod lived in a German community. His daughter, Mary, married John = Vancil, and=20 his daughter, Drucilla, married Phillip Kimmel, both of German = background."

"We do know that Frederick County, Maryland, records = indicate=20 that he purchased land there about 1754-5. Naturalization document from=20 Frederick County lists a Johannes Benracth, who affirmed allegiance as a = citizen=20 of the colony of Maryland May 7, 1767. Benracth could have been an = attempt to=20 spell the way his name sounded. Normal naturalization was to take an = oath of=20 allegiance to the King. However, an act of Parliament allowed Quakers to = make a=20 solemn affirmation of allegiance, rather than take an oath. John Penrod = was one=20 of five persons who, on that day, declared allegiance by solemn=20 affirmation.......Thus, John and these four others, must have been = opposed to=20 swearing an oath. He is certified as taking communion in the = Coconocheague=20 Congregation, where George Adam Martin, Baptist, was pastor........ It = must have=20 been a German Baptist Church, located near the border, between = Pennsylvania and=20 Maryland. He was listed as a, =91German member of our congregation=92. = The name,=20 John Penroth (Penrod) was in Old German script. John=92s estate was = valued at=20 about thirteen hundred and seventy-seven pounds, which would have been = almost=20 four thousand dollars."

"After John died in 1799, his widow, Catherine, moved = to=20 Muhlenberg County Kentucky, and may have lived with the Daniel Rhoads = family. I=20 believe that she was related somehow to the Rhoads family. Could she = have been=20 the sister of Daniel Rhoads Sr.? Or, perhaps, she was a sister of = Daniel=92s wife.=20 (There is no record of any of the Penrods marrying a Rhoads). A bill of = sale,=20 recorded in Muhlenberg County in 1808, indicates that Catherine = transferred all=20 her possessions to Daniel Rhoads. This seems unusual, since at least = three of=20 her children lived nearby."

"For a number of years, before 1773, John Penrod = spent winters=20 with a group of hunters in the Glades area of Bedford County, = Pennsylvania. With=20 that group were son, John Penrod Jr., son-in-law, John Vancil, Aquilla = White,=20 Harmon Husband, and Isaac Cox....... The tax roll of 1772, lists John = Penrod as=20 an inmate, which means that he lived with someone else, rather than = having his=20 own home and family in the county. John=92s family was in Maryland. = Acquilla White=20 had 200 acres. John Winsel (John Vancil, husband of John Penrod=92s = daughter,=20 Mary) had 100 acres. Phillip Kimble (Phillip Kimmel, husband of John=92s = daughter,=20 Drucilla) had 300 acres."

"John Penrod moved his family to the Glades area of=20 Pennsylvania about 1773. On September 29th of that year, he = got=20 warrant number 57, for 250 acres in Milford Township. This part of = Bedford=20 County later became Somerset County. The tax roll of 1783 lists John Sr. = as=20 having 600 acres of land in Milford twp., four horses and two cattle. = The 1784=20 tax list enumerates the John Penrod family as eight white persons. = During the=20 Revolutionary War, John Penrod served as a private for twenty-four = months, in=20 the Bedford County Militia. This branch of the Militia served protecting = the=20 settlements from Indian attacks."

"In Bedford County the John Penrods were part of the=20 Quemohoning Seventh Day Baptist Church. It met for a while in the Penrod = home=20 and was referred to by some, as the Penrod Church. "

John=92s estate inventory indicated that he had = accumulated quite=20 a sum of money and seems to have been an unofficial community banker. = Three=20 pages of loans and bonds are listed as property of his estate. His will = says,=20 =91First I order that my whole estate shall be and remain in my own = hands, and in=20 the hands of my children, as it now is, till after my decease, and at my = decease=20 shall devolve to my wife, Catherine Penrod, during her natural life and = at her=20 decease, then the whole estate belonging to, I order and it is my will = shall be=20 equally divided amongst my children as possible, males and females all = equal and=20 alike to them or to their heirs.=92 John Penrod loaned money to his = children,=20 either on note or account, to put his money into their hands for their = use. He=20 was listed on the 1796 tax roll in Quemahoning Township, Pennsylvania. = He died=20 by April 13, 1799, when his will was probated.

John Penrod Sr. (Johannes Bonroth, or whatever his name really was) = is the=20 ancestor we have first in our Penrod line. We should remember, Penrod is = the=20 name that some Englishman probably gave grandfather. We are quite sure = that he=20 was German, since he associated with the German community, and his = family=20 married into it. Their children=92s signatures were in old German=20 script.

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