Joseph William SPENDLOVE

HUSBAND:
[F126]. Joseph William SPENDLOVE. [PC W4].
Born 18 DEC 1832 at Stanion, Northamptonshire, England; son of John SPENDLOVE [F252] and Mary Lanston SLAWSON [F253].
He was christened in 20 JAN 1833 at Stanion, Northamptonshire, England.

He married Harriet PAYNE [F127] on 7 MAR 1853 at St. Margaret's Church, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.

He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and followed his brother William to America. He sailed on the ship General McClellan from England on 21 MAY 1864, and docked in New York on 23 JUN 1864. They traveled up the Hudson River to Albany, some 100 miles, where they could board the trains to the Missouri River. He said, "I didn't much like getting on another ship, but I felt much better because the steamboat was more calm and we didn't have the smell of the sea." It rained the day they boarded the steam boat and all the people had to crowd down under the top deck to keep from getting wet. That night the saints had two parties at each end of the ship with singing and games to celebrate the beginning of their journey. The steamboat churned up the river most of the day and landed at Albany the next morning. Joseph said, "That was the best ride I ever had on a boat." Pratt wrote, "Our cares seemed to be lifted for a little while."

After embarking from the boat and getting their luggage off the ship, the saints were told they would have to walk some two miles to the station to catch the train to Rochester. Some of the local people lined up along the two mile walk to watch the company trudging along. Some of the people were making remarks and Joseph later related some of them thus:

"Most of the people stood watching but some of them were yelling at us. We could hear some saying that we were just a bunch of land grabbers and every one had better watch out. Two or three men, who looked like they were drunk called us Mormon idiots and another man said we were going out to get all the gold in California. So we just listened to what they said but we all kept together and said nothing as we had been told to do."

When the saints reached the station and were waiting for the train, Joseph remembered that one of the saints pulled out a lovely gold watch that he had brought from England. "This was what I had always wanted" stated Joseph, and some few years later he did buy a lovely gold watch that he prized through the years and handed down to his descendants.

From Albany, the group traveled by train to Rochester, then on to Buffalo, then to Chicago. From there they traveled to St. Joseph, on the Missouri River, a trip of about 2 and 1/2 days. St. Joseph was the end of the railroad until about 1868. The total trip from Albany to St. Joseph took 8 or 9 days, with delays and stop- overs accounting for most of the time.

From St. Joseph, the immigrants traveled up the Missouri by steam boat to the town of Wyoming, Nebraska. The group enjoyed this boat trip. In 1864, Wyoming, Nebraska,a town some 8 miles below the mouth of the Platte River, was the stopping off place where wagon trains assembled before going west. So they stayed at Wyoming for a time while they prepared for the rest of the journey.

They left Wyoming, Nebraska on the 15th of July 1864 in the company of Captain Joseph S. Rollins. Their wagon train consisted of 60 wagons and 500 or 550 people. First they crossed the Elkhorn river. After crossing the river and travelling the north bank of the Platte River to a point near the Loup river, the wagon trains held their first meeting to reorganize and plan their mode of travel. Next they stopped at Grand Island. They then passed Fort Kearney. They stopped at Wood River, Winters Grove, Scott's Bluff, Fort Platte, Fort Lawrence, and Chimney Rock.

The next main stop was at Fort Laramie. Joseph’s wife Harriet and daughter Mary Ann were sick with fever and had to ride in the wagons. At Ft. Laramie they could rest and wash clothes and repair them.

After Ft. Laramie, they crossed the Platte River because the south shore afforded much easier travel, and traveled through Wyoming Territory to Douglas and Casper, to Sweetwater, the Green River, where they spent some time, then on to Black Rock, Fort Supply and Fort Bridger.

Upon reaching Salt Lake City on the 21st of SEP 1864 the wagon train drove into the large yard of Brigham Young. They set the wagon up on Temple Square and stayed there several nights while they visited friends and relatives in the city. Joseph said, "On the 8th and 9th of October we all attended the great conference. There we heard President Young speak for the first time and others of the twelve. They were all that a man might expect them to be. Pres. Young spoke like a kind father would to his children. I could have listened to him for hours. He spoke with that power and authority that could come only from God."

After the conference in October, Joseph took his family in their wagon pulled by oxen to Morgan County, where they were called to settle. He built a home at Littleton and there he stayed for the rest of his life.

His wife Harriett died there in 1881. He remarried (2) 8 AUG 1886 Sarah Catherine STONE.

Joseph died 16 OCT 1915 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah and was buried 20 OCT 1915 at Littleton, Morgan County, Utah.

WIFE (1):
[F127]. Harriet PAYNE. [PC W4].
Born 14 APR 1833 at Luttersworth (Medbourne-S3), Leicestershire, England (or possibly at Medbourne in Leicesteshire. Denton in Northamptonshire has also been suggested as a birthplace, but this is unlikely). She is the daughter of Cornelius PAYNE [F254] and Ann BLOUT [F255].
She married Joseph William SPENDLOVE [F126] on 7 MAR 1853 at St. Margaret's Church, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. She traveled with him from England to Utah and helped him start a farm in Morgan County.
She died 13 MAY 1881 at Littleton, Morgan County, Utah. She was buried 15 MAY 1881 in the Littleton Cemetery at Littleton, Morgan County, Utah.

CHILDREN of Joseph SPENDLOVE [F126] Harriet PAYNE [F127] :


WIFE (2):
Sarah Catherine STONE.
The were married 8 AUG 1886.

CHILDREN of Joseph William SPENDLOVE [F126] and Sarah Catherine STONE:


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