RESIDENCE: at time of marriage was of Lewisville, ID

DEATH: Certificate of death from State of Utah.
Cause of death: multiple abcess of liver
died 27 Dec 1916 at Providence, Cache, Utah usual address was at Rigby, Idaho
buried at Rigby, Idaho; [other records say buried at Lewisville]
Informant Frank Van Sickle

DEATH: Obituary: Newspaper--The Rigby Star
Thursday Jan 4, 1917 Death of Mrs. Van Sickle: Mrs. Alice Van Sickle, of this city, died at Logan, Utah last Wednesday after suffering from a complication of diseases and following an operation for abcess in the head. The funeral services were held at Milo Sunday, internment being held in the Lewisville cemetery. Aside from a husband and a girl and boy she leaves the following brothers and sisters to mourn her loss: Ammon and Marion Harmon, Mrs. S. Looslie, Mrs. K. Stine and Mrs. Meda Coles.

DEATH: ID: 118526
Last Name: VanSickle
First Name: Frank Mrs.
Age:
Gender: U
Cemetery:
Birth Date:
Birth Place:
Date Died: Funeral 31 Dec 1916
Death Place: Logan,UT
Father:
Mother:
Spouse:
Sources: Publ. 11 p5
Remarks:

DEATH: ID: 118519
Last Name: VanSickle
First Name: Alice
Age:
Gender: U
Cemetery: Lewisville,Idaho
Birth Date: 3 FEB 1877
Birth Place: Providence,Cache,UT
Date Died: 27 DEC 1914
Death Place: Logan,UT
Father: Ammon Harmon
Mother: Margaret Scott
Spouse: Frank VanSickle
Sources: Rigby Star 4 Jan 1915, Sexton
Remarks

CHURCH: Lewisville Ward Records Film 2404 pt. 5: Baptized by R.F. Jardine

CHURCH: Transferred from the Eagle Rock Ward Record Film 007,240
July 12, 1885 Ammon Harmon was baptized by Elder W. Blackburn. Margaret Harmon was baptized by Elder W. Blackburn.
July 19, 1885 Ida Alzina Harmon was baptized by Elder W. Blackburn. Alice Caroline Harmon was baptized by Elder W. Blackburn.

St. Anthony Idaho Ward Records Film 007598 page 8 No. 288
Van Sickle, Alice Caroline
baptized 6 Aug 1885 by R.F. Jardine
Redeived 10/5/07

Dear uncle aunt and cousinsIt is with pleasure that I take my pen in hand to ancer your welcome letter that we received some time A go and was glad to get it and I would have written before but I have not ben to home. I received the lace and I think it is lovely and I thank you for it father is down in the mine to work they have just started to running it. I think they will do first Jtr(?)ate. My sister Candis had A baby boy born the 17 of July it is her first child and sh has ben married 13 years what do you think of that I will send you my picture that is my tin tipe(?) They say it is more natural than the one on the family picture. Well I will close for this time hoping to heare from you soon I remain as ever your niece and cousinAlice Harmon

CENSUS: 1900 Lewisville, Fremont, IDaho (Mistaken indexing--found by browsing--on image 8 of 19 Ancestry.com)
Harmon, Ammon head b. Jan 1837 age 63; md 47 years; b. OH fb PA; mb Canada E; weaver carpet rags
Margaret wife b. Mar 18--, age 5-- ; md ditto; mother of 11 children; 8 living; b. OH; fb NY; mb KY
Ammon A. son b. Dec 1872; age 27 single; b. UT; day laborer
Alice C. dau b. Feb 1877; age 23 single; b. UT
Marion H. son b. ... 1881; age 19 single; b. UT day laborer.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Ammon HARMON and Margaret SCOTT. Parents: Ammon HARMON and Margaret SCOTT.

Spouse: Clara Kite MONTAGUE.

Spouse: Ada Vashti BAXTER. Ada Vashti BAXTER and Allen Ithamer HARMON Jr. were married on 15 November 1920 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville Co., ID.

Spouse: Orilla Farnsworth LEAVITT. Orilla Farnsworth LEAVITT and Allen Ithamer HARMON Jr. were married on 14 January 1960.

Spouse: Pearl Julia Hahn SIEPERT.

Baptism date is for rebaptism. Original date unknown.
Treasures of Pioneer History, Vol.4, p.187
The first school held in Star Valley was at Afton in the winter of 1886-7. It was held in a small vacant cabin of Charles Green. William G. Burton was the teacher. There were fourteen students enrolled. The cabin had a dirt floor and roof with a half window and a rough board floor. The heating equipment was a little old cook stove. The blackboard was a planed board painted with lampblack. Old slates were used to write on and if they had no pencil, they used a soft rock. For problems the olders boys were taught to measure wood, land, hay, etc. "But the thing I remember best," says Benjamin W. Hale, pioneer of Star Valley, "was how excited the children were when the teacher would try to shoot, with a pistol, the chipmunks and weasels that would run on the log walls. I also remember how hard it was to get the cabin warm enough in the morning and how the little girls would come in crying with their nearly frozen hands and feet. We would try to comfort them by rubbing their hands and feet with snow. We had to wrap our feet with gunny sacks or with rawhides to wade the deep snow. The next winter, 1887-8, we went to school in the log meetinghouse which was built during the summer. Sam Barrier was the teacher, and our equipment, although crude, was much improved.
"To show the faith of the pioneer people in their religion they came on skiis to this meetinghouse in Alton from all settlements in [p.188]the valley. From Auburn: John Corbridge, his wife, Caroline, and their two daughters; Charles and Sarah Limberg and Ben Welch. From Grover: Hans Neilson and James Jensen. From Freedom: Social Rolph, Marion and Sis Heapes. From Smoot: Charles Gomm. From Fairview: Ezra and Chester Campbell and Al Harmon."

BIOGRAPHY: From the Lewisville Centennial 1882-1982 by Joyce Lindstrompg. 91-92:
Allen Ithamor Harmon was born April 12, 1867 at Clarkston, Utah, the son of Henry Martin Harmon and Susan Marler. He grew up at Harrisville, Utah, and worked for Dick and Dan Costley on their ranches in Nevada and Utah. Here he learned the horse business from all angles.
On 25 Jul 1886, he married Emma Louisa Henderson in Afton, WY. They were the first couple married there. She was born 7 Aug 1866 at Brigham City, UT, the daughter of Samuel Henderson, Jr. and Helen Mar Cutler. When she was sixteen, the family moved to Clifton, ID where she met Allen. They were both from polygamist families who fled to Star Valley with their younger families to keep from being persecuted.
They lived in Star Valley until the spring of 1887, then moved to Clifton, ID where their first child was born. In late Oct, 1887, they came to Lewisville in a covered wagon and camped where their brick home was later built. This is located one mile east of Lewisville where Melba Passey lives today. The remained there until November when they found shelter lower down on the island. In January they moved into Orrin Myler's log granary (on Frank Poulsen's place) and spent the rest of the winter there.
Upon their arrival in Lewisville, Mr. Harmon started chopping sage and clearing land for the wage of $1.00 per day and took wheat and vegetables for pay. In March he traded a sorrel mare for forty acres of land from Orrin Myler and enough logs to build a home. From March to August they lived in a tent while they built thier log house. Later he bought forty acres east of the original forty from his brother, Henry Martin Harmon, for $1,000 and built a brick home on this site in 1905.
They were parents of eight children.
He assisted in the construction of Lewisville's second church and worked on the Parks and Lewisville Canal, taking stock in the canal as pay for his labor. He also helped build and maintain both Feeder Canals on the South Fork and the Snake River.
Because of his experience as a horseman, he was often called to doctor and care for horses in the neighborhood. He was the veterinarian of the community.
After the family was raised, Mr. Harmon retired from farming and purchased a home in Lewisville's townsite where they lived for some time. Then they moved to Rigby. On July 25, 1936, they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Shortly after that, he suffered a stroke and died August 23, 1940. His wife passed away 9 Mar 1941 at Helena, Montana at the home of her son, George. Both are buried in Rigby's Pioneer Cemetery.

CENSUS: 1900 Lewisville, Fremont, Idaho
Harmon, Allen I. head; b. Apr 1866; age 34; md 14 yrs; b. UT; fb. IL; mb Unk; farmer
Emma L. wife b. Aug 1866; age 33; md 14 yrs; mother of 6 ch; 6 living; b. UT; fb MO; mb NY
Walter F. b. Jul 1887age 12 b. ID
Susan M. dau b. Jun 1890; age 9; b. ID
Allen I. son b. Nov 1892; age 7 b. ID
Samuel T. son b. Jan 1895; age 5 b. ID
George A. son b. Aug 1897; age 2 b. ID
Emma L. dau b. Jan 1900, age 4/12 b. ID

CENSUS: 1910 Lewisville, Fremont, Idaho
Harmon, Allen I. head age 43 md 24 years; b. UT; IL OH; farmer
Lizzie wife; age 41 yrs; md 24 yrs; mother of 8 children; 8 living; B. UT; MO; AR
Walter, son age 23 b. ID laborer
Susie dau age 19 b. ID
Allen son age 17 b. ID
Sam son age 16 b. ID
George son 12 b. ID
Emma L. dau age 10 b. ID
David son age 8 b. ID
Dora dau age 8 b. ID

CENSUS: 1930 Lewisville, Jefferson, Idaho
Harmon, Allen I. owns home; valued 1000; no radio; age 63; married age 19; b. UT; laborer garage
Emma L. b. UT

by Dora Harmon Armstrong

Allen I. Harmon was born April 12, 1867 at Providence, Utah, and his wife Emma Louisa Henderson Harmon was born at Brigham City, Utah, both spending much of their youth in Utah. It was at Clifton they met and courted. A few weeks prior to their marriage they went to Star Valley Wyoming. There they had the honor and distinction of being the first couple married in Star Valley. This marks the period of time of the polygamist persecution. Afton, Wyoming was the first town surveyed and settled in star Valley, and it was there they were married on July 25, 1886. Bishop Charles C. Cazyer married them in a little one-room log cabin. They lived at Afton nearly a year, moving to Clifton for a few months. While here, they prepared to go to the Logan Temple to be married and sealed, which they did June 15th, 1887.
Walter, their first child, was born July 17th. In late October they came to Lewisville, Idaho in a covered wagon. There were among the first pioneers of this valley and well acquainted with hardships. They camped where the brick home stands today for about a month. Winter began to set in and they found shelter lower down on the Island until sometime in January. This is when they moved to the Orin Myler place and lived in his log granary. This place is at present the Wilford J. Taylor place. In March they made a purchase of forty acres of land and enough logs to build a home from Orin Myler. They traded a sorrel mare for it. They lived in a tent from March until August when their log home was finished. A few years later they purchased the east forty acres from Father’s brother, Henry Martin Harmon (son of Henry Martin Harmon). In 1905 the brick home was built and still stands today on the ranch.

Father and Mother celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on
July 25th 1936, at the old home place with all of their children in
attendance, also their brothers and sisters. Two days later while in the Yellowstone Park with Allen and family, mother had the misfortune to injure her right foot when she slipped on a rock. From then on it seemed trouble came their way. That next February Father suffered a stroke and became a paralytic in the
wheel chair and remained that way until the time of his death. Mother was his constant nurse.
After father’s death, August 23, 1940, mother’s health failed rapidly. She became bed fast in September. After three months, she was removed to George’s home in Helena, Montana. George was a doctor, and desired to have her where he could give her daily attention. She remained there until the time of her death. She died March 9, 1941. Her body was returned to Rigby, Idaho, and placed by the side of father’s in the Pioneer Cemetery just east of Rigby.

by Allen I. Harmon Jr.
During his early teenage Allen I. Harmon was at Harrisville with other boys at the home of Uncle Green Taylor. This seemed to be the gathering place for a lot of boys and young men to assemble and play ball and marbles, ride calves and ponies, and enjoy other boyhood recreation. Because the Taylor family had a lot of boys, and Uncle Green was always with them, made their home a natural Youth Training Center year round with a very good instructor, Uncle Green Taylor. Many times complete families assembled with the men and boys to enjoy the fun. This made it almost the Ward Recreation Center, with a very good environment and surroundings. Allen’s early teen years were spent this way.
Father also helped with the family living, and he obtained work with
two brothers year round who had stock ranches in Utah and Nevada, namely Dick and Dan Costly. One of their grandsons now lives at Rigby, Ward Costly. As a boy in his late teens, this was the life that father desired. The work was to herd stock, ride fences to keep the fences in repair, transfer herds of horses from the ranches at Blue Crick, Nevada to the ranch on the Washboards north west of Logan, I believe. Again the young fellows were under good supervision, and still where excitement was going on every day. Boys in their late teens learned the proper care of livestock, and also learned to handle untamed stock, including braking the horses to ride and for work teams. The sale of these well-broken horses was one of the major sources of revenue for the Costly Brothers. Some time later Father and another of his brothers were put to a new test of ability. There was Grandfather Harmon, Grandfather Henderson, and Father’s brother-in-law, and quite a few other men who had plural wives. These men had to keep out of sight of the Revenue men, since there was a law against polygamy and the law was after them. The young men cared for the families and helped keep the polygamist men hidden. They also helped neighbor men whose boys helped them. This took them from Brigham City, Utah to Clifton, and Oxford, Idaho and up the Portneuf Canyon, over into Star Valley, Wyoming and back and forth so much that they hardly knew where was home. Father’s oldest sister, Aunt Susan Dixon, was involved in this and one time Uncle Harvey Dixon wrote a letter to his
wife and addressed it to her as follows: “Harvey Dixon, the web- toed, scrub running around bumming his grub. Where this letter wants to go is Clifton City Idaho.” And this letter was delivered to Aunt Susan at Clifton.
After father was married and moved to Lewisville, he traded a horse for 49 acres of land and went to work clearing the sagebrush, and here he remained. He was often called a veterinary because he doctored sick horses and horses that were not sick for the neighbors at 50 cents each. This was knowledge learned while working at the Costly ranches.
Father’s first work suit was one that mother made from deer skins
that Father tanned. And Mother was sometimes asked why father
was out in the fields naked; the suit was skin color and a tight fit.
Harrisville was the ward where Uncle Green Taylor lived, I think.
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Upon their arrival in Lewisville Mr. Harmon started chopping sage and clearing land for the wage of $1.00 per day and took wheat and vegetables for pay. In March he traded a sorrel mare for forty acres of land from Orrin Myler and enough logs to build a home. From March to August they lived in a tent while they built their log house. Later he bought forty acres east of the original forty acres from his brother, Henry Martin Harmon, for $1,000 and built a brick home on this site in 1905. He assisted in the construction of Lewisville’s second church and
worked on the Parks and Lewisville Canal, taking stock in the canal
as pay for his labors. He also helped build and maintain both Feeder Canals on the South Fork of the Snake River.
After the family was raised, Mr. Harmon retired from farming and
purchased a home in Lewisville’s town-site where they lived for some time. Then they moved to Rigby. On July 25, 1936 they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Shortly after that he had suffered a stroke and died August 23, 1940. His wife passed away March 9, 1941 at Helena, Montana at the home of her son, George. Both are buried in Rigby’s Pioneer Cemetery.

________________
“A.I. Harmon Funeral Held Sunday”
1867 - 1940
The Rigby Star
23 August 1940
Allen I. Harmon, 73, died Friday morning at his home in Lewisville
after an illness of 3 1/2 years. Mr. Harmon suffered a paralytic stroke prior to his long illness. The deceased was born April 12, 1867, at Providence, Utah. As a youth he spent much of his time working on the range for Dan Castley in northern Utah and south Idaho. He was married to Emma Louisa Henderson at Afton, Wyoming on July 25th, 1886, and they came to Lewisville in October of 1887 to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon later made a trip by team and wagon to the Logan temple.
Upon their arrival in Lewisville, Mr. Harmon started chopping sage
and clearing land for the wage of $1.00 per day and took wheat and vegetables for pay. He later traded a horse for 40 acres now owned by Elmer Kershaw of Lewisville and later bought another 40 acres for $1000. The latter place has been his home ever since. As a builder, Mr. Harmon assisted in the construction of Lewisville’s first church; he worked on the building of Parks and Lewisville canal and took stock in the canal as pay for his labors. He also helped to build and maintain both feeders on the South Fork.
Mr. Harmon, after retiring from farming, lived in Rigby for many years. His friends were legion. Jovial, kind-hearted, and friendly, he was valued as a friend. He was a devoted husband and father and a man respected among men. He is survived by his devoted wife and the following sons and daughters: Walter H. Harmon, Idaho Falls, Mrs. John Lewis(Susan Mar), Lewisville, Allen I. Harmon, Jr., Rigby, Sam Harmon, Lewisville, Dr. George Harmon, Helena, Montana, Mrs. Chris Taylor (Emma Louisa), Boise, David Harmon, Stockton, California, and Mrs. W.L. Armstrong (Dora)of Rigby, route 1: surviving brothers and sisters: (Henry Martin & Susan Marler Harmon’s children:) William Ammon Harmon, Rigby, Idaho, Mrs. Millie Henderson, Clifton, Idaho, Appleton Milo Harmon, Logan, Utah, Mrs. Frank Davis (Alvaretta), Rexburg, Idaho; (Henry Martin & Mary Alzina Sperry Harmon’s children:) Mrs. J.B. Crapo (Harriet Matilda), Vernal, Utah, and Mrs. Joseph Crapo (Orby Anne), Fairview, Wyoming, and Walter Sperry Harmon, Essie Harmon of Fairview, Wyoming, and Mrs. Thomas
Weekes (Orilla) of Weston, Idaho. Funeral services were held Sunday at one o’clock from the Lewisville church.
Bishop Vernon Ball conducted the services that were opened with the singing of “Jesus Lover of My Soul”, sung by a male quartet
composed of Joseph Jardine, Ernest Dutson, Wm. Sharp and
Norman Brown with Mrs. Leonora Erickson as accompanist. The
invocation was given by George Casper. A duet “Whispering Hope” was sung by Mrs. Ruth Bright and A.M. Harmon with Mrs. Melba Kinghorn as pianist.
The speakers were J.R. Sayer of Idaho Falls, former Bishop Hyrum Lee, Frank L. Davis and David Kinghorn of Idaho Falls. Harvey Harmon sang “That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine”, and a mixed quartette composed of Mrs. Vernon Ball, Mrs. Charles Casper, Wm. Sharp and Joe Jardine sang “Beautiful Home”. Walter S. Harmon asked the benediction.
Honorary pall bearers were Bash L. Bennett, Wallace Fife, George Casper, Dave Lee, W.H. Walker, and Arthur Goody, Sr. The active pall bearers were Gerald Lee, Frank Kinghorn, Delbert Kinghorn, Lee Jones, Jesse Briggs and Edwin Goody.
The flowers were in charge of Mrs. Dave Lee and Mrs. Lee Jones
and were carried by grand daughters.
Interment was in Pioneer cemetery at Rigby with Wm A. Harmon
offering the dedicatory prayer.

DEATH: ID: 803
Last Name: Harmon
First Name: Allen I.
Age:
Gender: U
Cemetery: Rigby,Id.
Birth Date: 12 APR 1867
Birth Place: Providence,UT
Date Died: 23 AUG 1940
Death Place: Lewisville or Rigby,ID
Father: Henry Martin Harmon
Mother: Susan Marler
Spouse: Emma L. Henderson
Sources: Post Register 27 p3, Rigby Star 20 p1, Sexton Book p38
Remarks: Age at Death: 73 Funeral at Lewisville

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Henry Martin HARMON and Susan MARLER.

Spouse: Emma Louisa HENDERSON. Emma Louisa HENDERSON and Allen Ithamor HARMON were married on 25 July 1886 in Afton, Uintah Co., Wyoming. Children were: Walter Frederick HARMON, Susan Marler HARMON, Allen Ithamer HARMON Jr., Samuel Theodore HARMON, George Andrew HARMON, Emma Louise HARMON, David HARMON, Dora HARMON.

Birth: place is an educated guess as family went to Kirtland by June 1834 where Huldah and Alpheus were baptized. Alma is named for a famous Book of Mormon prophet. In March of 1835, Alpheus was living in Kirtland and working on building the Kirtland temple.

Marriage: Elizabeth Scott

Residence: Alma died in 1881 and left the following heirs: Francis, Matilda, William, Elmer, Curtis, Emma, Celestia residing in Estherville, Emmet, Iowa and Glenwood, Mills, Iowa.

CENSUS: 1860 Missouri, Atchison County, Buchanan twp.
M653 606 page 573
Harmon, Amm, 23, chair maker, b. Ohio
Margarett, 19, b. Ohio
next door:
Harman, A., 28?, chair maker, b. Ohio ( Alma)
Elzabeth, 21, b. Ohio
Frances M., 1, b. Iowa

CENSUS: 1870 Rawles, Mills, Iowa (Aug 20, 1870)
HARMER, Alma 35m farmer b OH
Elizabeth 31f keeping house b. OH
Francis M. 11m b. Iowa
Matilda O. 9 f b. MO
William H. 7m b. Iowa
Elmar S. 4m b. Iowa
Emma J. 2f b. Iowa

CENSUS: Census Place: Bigelow, Holt, Missouri
1880 Source: FHL Film 1254690 National Archives Film T9-0690 Page 63B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Alma HARMON Self F M W 46 OH
Occ: Phys. & Surg. Fa: PA Mo: CAN
Elizabeth HARMON Wife F M W 42 OH
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NY Mo: KY
F. M. HARMON Son M S W 21 IA
Occ: Laborer Fa: OH Mo: OH
Matilda HARMON Dau F S W 10 MO
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Wm. HARMON Son M S W 19 IA
Occ: Laborer Fa: OH Mo: OH
Elmore HARMON Son M S W 14 IA
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Enma HARMON Dau F S W 12 IA
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Curtis H. HARMON Son M S W 9 IA
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Clista HARMON Dau F S W 4 IA
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Clarance HARMON Son M S W 3 MO
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH

OCCUPATION: Physician and Surgeon

MILITARY: Marvin Moore P.O. Box 1851 Portland, OR 97207 (503) 287-9684 says: "I have copies from the National Archives of Alma's Civil War records and later widow Elizabeth's pension application which includes her marriage record and births of the younger children.
marvelousmarvinmoore@yahoo.com

MILITARY: Alma Harmon enlisted on the 13 Oct 1862 in Co. A. 4th Regiment Iowa Volunteers [Alma Harman]

MILITARY: Civil War
Name: Alma Harmon
Company: A
Unit: 4 Iowa Inf.
Rank - Induction: Private
Rank - Discharge: Private
Allegiance: Union
Notes: Harman, Alma

DEATH: Military Burials Glenwood, Iowa 1834-05 Feb 1881
Co A. 4th IA Inf. CW-GAR

DEATH: This is the physician who last attended Alma in his final sickness:
1880 ensus Place: Glenwood, Mills, Iowa
Source: FHL Film 1254356 National Archives Film T9-0356 Page 307A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
D.W. HAMILTON Self M M W 53 CAN
Occ: Physician Fa: SCO Mo: ---
Elizabeth HAMILTON Wife F M W 43 IN
Occ: Keeping House Fa: MD Mo: ---
Amanda HAMILTON Dau F S W 18 IA
Occ: At Home Fa: CAN Mo: IN
Chas. A. HAMILTON Son M S W 16 IA
Occ: At School Fa: CAN Mo: IN
Wm. J. HAMILTON Son M S W 14 IA
Occ: At School Fa: CAN Mo: IN
E.P. HAMILTON Son M S W 10 IA
Occ: At School Fa: CAN Mo: IN

DEATH: "Glenwood, Iowa April 25th 1882
I am 54 years old. My post office address is Glenwood, Iowa. I reside in Glenwood, Iowa. I have been practicing medicine nearly 29 years. I was called to see Alma Harman in his last sickness, treated him for Dropsy which he was laboring under at that time. The last time I saw him was January 11, 1881. He was in a dangerous condition at that time; no hope of recovery from above cause his death is reported. D.M. Hamilton, M.D."

EMAIL:
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BURIAL: I have an Alma Harmon from "Graves Registration Service," State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa. It says he was born in 1834, died Feb 5, 1881 at Glenwood. This record says his wife's name was Elizabeth and that he had a son, Elmer. He enlisted Oct 30, 1862 at Davenport, Iowa; discharged Feb 4, 1865. He was a private in Co. A., 4th Iowa Infantry. Burial at Glenwood.
Does any of this fit your Alma Harmon?
On the back of this record of Alma Harmon was an interesting story --
" On Friday, May 24, 1935, a group of Legionnaires from Glenwood, Iowa, in the presence of County Coroner, F.H. Raynor, who represented the State Board of Health, moved the body of Harmon from Potter's Field. Only the handles of the casket were found, but the entire bone structure, which had reposed in its earthen bed for more than fifty years, was found to be intact. The bony fingers of the skeleton were crossed over the body just as the hand had been folded in earth's last sleep. Although all traces of the garments were gone, the buttons remained in position on the framework and a bow tie was in position around the neck. These material remains of one who had once offered his life in the service of hisnation were reverently assembled, placed in an appropriate box and buried in a place of honor in the G.A.R. plot between two of his comrades. A government headstone has been placed at his new grave."

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Alpheus Amuleck HARMON and Hulda Dimeras VAUGHN.

Spouse: Elizabeth SCOTT. Elizabeth SCOTT and Alma HARMON were married on 2 May 1858 in Rockford,Floyd,Iowa. Children were: Celestia Evelyn HARMON, Curtis Homer HARMON, Matilda Olena "Lena" HARMON, Elmer Scott HARMON, Emma Jane HARMON, William Henry HARMON, Francis Marion HARMON.

Spouse: Elizabeth SCOTT. Elizabeth's sister, Margaret Scott, married Alma's brother, Ammon Harmon. In Margaret Scott Harmon's Declaration for Widow's Pension, she makes the following statement: "That she was married under the name of Margaret Scott to said soldier at Marble Rock, Floyd Co., Iowa, on the 2nd day of May 1858 by Probate Judge Ripley (given name forgotten); that there was no legal barrier to the marriage and that she had NOT been previously married; that the soldier had not been previously married."Children were: Francis Marion HARMON, Matilda Olena "Lena" HARMON, William Henry HARMON, Elmer Scott HARMON, Emma Jane HARMON, Curtis Homer HARMON, Celestia Evelyn HARMON, Clarence M. HARMON.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Mark HARMON and Elizabeth NORTON.

Spouse: Isaac Newton KASSON. Almeda HARMON and Isaac Newton KASSON were married on 14 October 1815 in New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts.

Spouse: Ephraim FOSTER. Almira HARMON and Ephraim FOSTER were married on 8 January 1823 in Vernon, Oneida, New York.

AF gives another husband: Howard Nicholis Robertson. This makes me wonder
because of Almira's death date so near to her husbands.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com

1. Ancestral File. Parents: Oliver HARMON and Sarah HARMON. Parents: .

Spouse: Thomas CARR. Almira HARMON and Thomas CARR were married on 1 July 1831 in Coneaut,Erie,Pennsylvania. Children were: Sarah Naomi CARR, George Guies CARR, Amy Arvilla CARR.

Spouse: Howard Nicholis ROBERTSON.

Spouse: Gardner CRAFT. Almira HARMON and Gardner CRAFT were married on 13 December 1855 in Sempronius,Cayuga,New York.

CENSUS: 1820 Cattaraugus, New York
1830 Yorkshire,Cattaragus,New York

LAND: Alpheus Harmon from Richard Bailey
Film 028,193 Book 2 pages 153-158
Deeds.VT
Alpheus Harmon from Richard Bailey
Know all men by these presents that I, Richard Bailey of Rupert in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont. For and in consideration of the sum of Fifteen pounds lawful money to me in hand paid before the Ensealing hereof by Alpheus Harmon of Rupert in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have given, granted, bargained, and sold unto him the said, Alpheus Harmon all my right title and Interest which I have in and unto a certain tract of land in Namely the fourth Division Lot on the Original Right of Naomi Lyman in the Township of Rupert and do by these presents give, grant, bargain, and sell, convey and confirm unto him the said, Alpheus Harmon, his heirs and assigns the said lot being fifty acres and bounded as follows:
Beginning at the N.E. corner of the lot Selah Harmon now lives on thence running Northerly to a Witch Hazel stand marked and numbered; thence westerly to the line of a lot of Ezra Sheldon's; thence Southerly to a hundred acre lot laid to Samuel Robinson; thence on the line of said Lot to the first mentioned bound.
To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises with the appertenances thereof to him the said Alpheus Harmon his heirs and assigns to his and their own proper use, benefit and behalf forever. I hereby engaging to warrant and defend the same against any person or persons claiming from by or under me or the original propritor. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of November AD 1786 in presents of:
Richard Bailey
Witnessed by:
Nehemiah Harmon
Eunis Harmon
Bennington County: Rupert June the 22, 1787
There personally appeared Richard Bailey the Signer and Sealer of the foregoing Instrument and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed before me.
David Sheldon Justice Peace

LAND: Alpheus Harmon from Nehemiah Harmon
Film 0,028,793 Book 2 pg 155-56
Know all men by these presents that I, Nehemiah Harmon of Rupert in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont. For and in consideration of the sum of Six pounds lawful money to me in hand paid before the Delivery hereof by Alpheus Harmon of Rupert in the County and state aforesaid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge I was given, granted, bargained, and sold and by these presents unto him the said Alpheus Harmon one certain piece or parcel of Land in said Rupert bounded as follows; That is Beginning at the N.E. corner of David Scott's lot he now lives on. Thence W. ... ... S. 10 rods to a Maple Tree; thence on a parallel line with the said Scott's Westerly line to a stake and Stones 31 rods and thence ... a parallel line to the line of the said Scott's... to a sticks and stones. Thence on said line to the first mentiond bound to have and to hold the said Granted and bargained premises to him the said Alpheus Harmon his heirs and assigns to his and their own proper use, benefit and behalf forever. I hereby engaging to warrant and defend the same against all claims or demand of any person or persons claiming from by or under me or the original propritor. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and sent this fourth day of February A.D. 1788 and in Presents of:
Nehemiah Harmon
Witnessed by:
Richard Bailey
Martin Harmon
Bennington County Rupert Feb the 4th 1788 then personally appeared Nehemiah Harmon signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument and acknowledges the same to be his free act and deed before me.
David Sheldon, Justice Peace
Received the preceeding deed for Recording December the 20th 1792.
Attest: Josiah Graves Town Clerk.

MILITARY: Name: Alpheus HARMON Birth Date: 175? Birthplace: Vermont Volume: 72 Page Number: 465 Reference: Stat of Vt: Rolls of the soldiers in the Rev. War, 1775-1783. By John E. Goodrich. Rutland, Vt. 1904. (22,2,927p.):8, 170, 225, 597, 803

MILITARY: Military Timeline
Spring 1775 (Massachusetts Regiment) Ticonderaga & Crown Point [one month]
1775 Fort St. Johns North end of Lake Champlain in Canada
1776 Ticonderaga Hubberton (Vermont Militia)
1777 Ticonderaga & Battle of Bennington Mt. Independence
Oct 1777 Battle of Saratoga
1778 Beginning of year: Salem, Washington Co., New York
May 1779 Cumberland County
23 Aug 1779 Arlington
Fall of 1780 Discharged at Salem, Washington, New York
1 May 1781 Served 6 days
1 May 1781 Served 13 days
18 Jan 1784 Rupert (State Vermont)
21 Jan 1820 Wolcott, Seneca Co. New York
[Try Court of Common Pleas at Waterloo 31 Jan 1820 for material.

MILITARY: Green Mountain Boys and DAR
Military: Revolutionary War
Corporal in Capt. Tehan Noble's Co, Ira Allen's Regt.

MILITARY: Pension papers:
District of New York; County of Seneca: On the twenty-first day of January 1820 before me the subscriber , one of the judges in and for the county of Seneca and for the said District, personally appeared Alpheus Harmon of Wolcott in Seneca in the said district, aged sixty-four years last March, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaragion in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress, entitled "An Act to Provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War>" That he, Alpheus Harmon volunteered with Seth Warner and Ethan Allen in the spring of the year 1775 and was of the party with them at the surrender and taking possession of the Brittish Garrisons of Ticonderaga and Crown Point where he remained one month to keep the garrison then he enlisted for nine months at Crown Point with Captain Robert cochran in Col. Easton's Regiment, Massachusetts Troops and went down Lake Champlain, was with General Montgomery at the seige and taking of Fort St. Johns at the North end of Lake Champlain in Canada and at the close of the campaign was with the Regiment discharged at Ticonderoga. His next military tour was in 1776 under Captain Tahan Noble's Vermont Militia under whose command he marched to Ticonderaga some time previous to General Burgoynes appearance before the fortress at that station; remained there until the retreat, was one of an inconsiderable detachment who took eleven prisoners at Hubberton.
That in the beginning of the year 1778 he enlisted into a corps of Rangers in a Company belonging to that corps commanded by Captain Joshua Conskey at Salem, Washington county, New York to serve during the war on Continental Establishment said to be raised by the General Government through the influence of General John Williams principally--they were fed, clothed and paid by the Continental congress, and that he continued to serve in the said corps until late in the fall of the year 1780 when he was discharged with the applause of his officers for his good and faithful services at Salem, Washington, New York. That during the seige of Fort St. Johns 1775, he was in several scirmishes, some of them sharp and severe, the most distinguished commenced near the Fort with the Indians but they were strongly reinforced with British and Indians. We were reinforced andthe battle was hot and heavy. It commenced at eleven o'clock a.m. and continued until after the sun set. We were wasted and lost several hundred men killed.
In 1777, he was in the retreat from Ticonderaga; was in several battles and scirmishes in the Battle of Bennington and at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Signed Alpheus Harmon.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid, Adonijah Church.

MILITARY: Attached to the above pension application was a statement by Solomon Wright, resident of Wolcott, Seneca, New York that he was well acquainted with Alpeheus Harmon and the judge, William Moulton stated: "that he (meaning Solomon Wright) is well acquainted with Alpheus Harmon and his embarrassed circumstances that he is in such reduced circumstances that he needs the assistance of his country for his support."

POSSIBILITIES: 1865 Town of Yorkshire Index: (This could be a grandson)
Alpheus Harmon and Elizabeth Harmon pg. 651
http://www.enchantedmountains.com/CATTARAUGUS/1865Census/1865YorkshireIndex.htm
There are two Harmons in 1875 pg. 375 and pg. 389. (first names not in index.

BIRTH: He could have been born in Vermont.

BURIAL: Alpheus HARMON Cemetery: McKinstry Hollow Cem Location: Yorkshire, Cattaraugus Co NY 71 Reference: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.2, p. Serial: 12978; Volume: 2

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Nehemiah HARMON and Abigail NORTON.

Spouse: Dorcas GIBBS. Dorcas GIBBS and Alpheus HARMON were married on 29 August 1782 in Rupert, Bennington, Vermont. Children were: Lucy HARMON, Cynthia HARMON, Phebe HARMON, Eunice HARMON, Son HARMON, Levi HARMON.

Spouse: Susannah SMITH. Children were: Bohan S. HARMON, Susannah HARMON, Nathan HARMON, Udilla HARMON.

POSSIBILITIES: Some records give him the name "Alpheus Amulek". I believe that is incorrect and is a mixup between Alpheus and his son, Alpheus Amulek. Amulek is a Book of Mormon name and this Alpheus was born before the Book of Mormon was published; however, after his conversion to the Mormon religion, Alpheus and Hulda began using Book of Mormon names for their children.

RESIDENCE: Artemus Harmon: The Harmon Genealogy pg. 198: "Father told me about his cousins, Lucina, Oliver, Nehemiah, Alpheus lived near Molley in Erie Co. Lucina came with Horatio and Martin to Erie Co."

CENSUS: 1820 Census of Conneaut, Erie, Pennsylvania
Elfyes Arman Under 25 (Single man living alone and engaged in farming.)
Near Charles Vaughn & Adonijah Barnes (his brother, Jesse, md. Adonijah Barnes' daughter)

CENSUS: 1830 Elk Creek, Erie, Pennsylvania
Alpheus Harmon
2 males 3 females
Not too far from Charles Vaughn

CENSUS: 1840 Sangamon County, Illinois pg. 28 a no township listed
Alpheus Harmon
males 2(under 5); 2 (5-10); 2(10-15); 1(40-50)
females 1 (10-15); 1 (15-20); 1(30-40)

CENSUS: 1842 Nauvoo, Illinois
Ward 4 Block 2, 2 Feb 1842
Alpheus Harmon, Member
Huldah Harmon
Caroline Harmon
Edwin Harmon
Elizabeth Harmon
Ebenezer Harmon
Henry M.Harmon
Alma Harmon
Amon Harmon
Amulec Harmon
Hulda Harmon

CENSUS: 1842 Han [Hancock] p. 230
Harmon, Alpheus
Taxes: Nauvoo 120-4, Tenant
Harmon, Alpheus
Frozen to death, Nov 17, 1842 DHC 5:193 WASP Dec 3,1842

CENSUS: 1850 Hancock, Illnois
Lorin Bassett
Huldah [Vaughn Harmon] Bassett
Elizabeth [Harmon] Bassett
Alma Harmon
Andrew Bassett
Ammon Harmon
Amalek Harmon
Hulda Harmon
Loring Bassett
Edwin Bassett
Next page:
William Lincoln
Caroline [Harmon] Lincoln

CENSUS: 1860 Rockford, Floyd, Iowa
Lorin S. Bassett
Huldah Bassett
Loren Bassett, Jr.
Edina Bassett
Harriet Bassett
William Berry
Elizabeth Berry
Henry Berry

CENSUS: 1870 Providence, Cache, Utah
Lorin Bassett
Huldah Bassett

CENSUS: 1880 Providence, Cache, Utah
Lorin Bassett
Huldah Bassett
Deaths: Bassett--Clarkston, Cache County, 12 Oct 1886 of paralysis: Huldah Bassett..

DEATH: From a history written by the granddaughter of his son, Ammon, (Leora Brown) we read an interesting account that has been passed down through that branch of the family: "Alpheus married in 1823 Hulda Dimries Vaughn. After his arrival in Illinois he was called to serve a mission to the Indians; so leaving wife and children in Nauvoo, he left to teach the gospel to the Indians. This was the last time his family saw him alive. His mission being completed in 1843 (it was actually Nov 1842), he was returning home with two companions. This was in the winter and they were driving a team of oxen. A terrible blizzard came up and soon the snow drifts were so bad the oxen could not flounder through. One of the men was almost helpless, so the other two took all the extra wraps they had and made their companion as comfortable as possible. They soon saw that the oxen could not go on and unless they had shelter would freeze to death in the harness, so they turned them loose in the hopes that the animals could find shelter on their own. Leaving the one man wrapped as warm as possible, Grandfather and the third man started on foot to seek help. When the storm was over, all three men were dead. Grandfather was found in the snow with his Book of Mormon under his cheek. The two men were within two hundred yards of a house, but evidently had been unable to go that last few yards.

DEATH: http://www.lavazone2.com/dbroadhu/NY/spec1833.htm
The New York Spectator
Vol. XLV. Wednesday,
December 28, 1842. No. 46 Pine St.
FROZEN TO DEATH. -- We learn from the Southport (Wisconsin Territory) Telegrapj that Alpheus Harmon, a Mormon preacher -- one of the three hundred commissioned by Joe Smith to spread the doctrines of Mormonism -- and his nephew, Orsey Harmon, were frozen to death on Thursday, the 17th ult., on the open prairie between Carthage and Nauvoo, about seven miles
from the latter place. They were travelling across the prairie toward Nauvoo with an ox team and wagon, and it is supposed they became bewildered in the storm. Mr. Alpheus Harmon was found on the Saturday following, a few rods from the wagon, and his nephew, a young man, was not found until the following Monday. It appears he had wandered some two miles from the wagon before he perished.
The older Harmon had just made the tour on Indiana, and was returning to the city of the latter day saints, where he had a wife and nine children anxiously awaiting his return; but while yet a short space intervened between him and his domestic fireside, death arrested him on his homeward journey.

DEATH: Early Church Vital Records taken from Utah Genealogical Magazine Vol XXVIII April 1937 No. 2 pg. 79:
"Report of Deaths for the Week Ending Friday the 25th ULT*., [Nov 1842] by Wm. Huntington, City Sexton:
Fredrick Mowry, 40 years, dropsy
Almy Thompson, 6 months, consumption
Joseph Brown 8 years; ague and fever
Nicholas Welch, 47 years; ague and fever
Alpheus Harmon 44 years; froze to death
Asa Harmon, 23 years, froze to death
*Ult means during last month--this information appeared in issue of Dec 3, 1942.

CHURCH: On 18 Mar 1833, two Mormon Missionaries visited a Mr. Harmons at Elk Creek and talked about two hours. While the specifid Harmon is not identified, we know that it was here that the Harmon family became acquainted with the gospel. Alpheus' nephew wrote about the missionaries visiting his home: "Twas in our humble cottage that a servant of God in his pilgrimage on his holy errand had called to refresh his weary limbs and get a cooling draught, who in turn imparted to us the word of eternal life that was like a well of living water springing up into everlasting life that never failed. It worked upon us. It would not let us linger here but Zionward it bent our way. We left our pleasant home, to gather with the Saints of the Most High God, to build up Zion and live forever pilgrims in the cause of Zion. We were persecuted for the sake of peace. I am here on the old farm (in Erie county, PA) on my way to a foreign land to carry this same gospel that has wrought this wonderful change in our family. These reflections passed across my mind and brought a sensation to me that might have been visible to any bystander:
I lingered here---I was loath to leave the spot
For well do I remember that this was my father's lot.
Where in my boyish days I reveled on the green
Now in riper years, I ponder on the scene.
Strange has been my pilgrimage since I was here before
Now the bearer of a message unto a distant shore." baptized 52 and gathered upwards of 40 to Nauvoo where he was ordained one of the seventies....."
This tells us that Joseph Mecham, who was married to Lucina Harmon, sister of Alpheus and Jesse P., went on a mission with his nephew, son of Jesse P. Harmon and was gone during the time that Alpheus died while returning from his mission in Nov. 1842.

MISC: Alpheus Harmon was a 6th cousin to Joseph Smith Jr. Here is how the relationship goes:
Joseph Loomis married Mary White. Two of their daughters were:
Mary Loomis who married John Skinner and Sarah Loomis who married Nicholas Olmstead.
Mary and John had Joseph Skiller who married Mary Filley.
Sarah and Nicholas had Sarah Olmsted who married George Gates. [Joseph Skiller and Sarah Olmstead were first cousins.]
Joseph Skinner and Mary Filley had Mary Skinner who married Nathaniel Harmon.
Sarah Olmstead and George Gates had Daniel Gates who married Rebecca Dutton. [Mary Skinner and Daniel Gates were second cousins.]
Mary Skinner and Nathaniel Harmon had Nathaniel Harmon Jr. who married Esther Austin.
Daniel Gates and Rebecca Dutton had Daniel Gates Jr. who md. Lydia Fuller. [Nathaniel Harmon Jr. and Daniel Gates Jr. were 3rd cousins.
Nathaniel Harmon and Esther Austin had Nehemiah Harmon who married Abigail Norton.
Daniel Gates and Lydia Fuller had Lydia Gates who married Solomon Mack.
Nehemiah Harmon and Lydia Gates were 4th cousins.
Nehemiah Harmon and Abigail Norton had Martin Harmon who md. Tryphena Poole.
Lydia Gates and Solomon Mack had Lucy Mack who married Joseph Smith Sr.
Martin Harmon and Lucy Mack were 5th cousins.
Martin Harmon and Tryphena Poole had Alpheus Harmon who md. Hulda D, Vaughn.
Lucy Mack and Joseph Smith Sr. had Joseph Smith Jr. who md. Emma Hale.
Alpheus Harmon and Joseph Smith Jr. were 6th cousins.

MISC: WEB information: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ILHANCOC/2001-01/0978999836
Death of Alpheus Harmon.

MILITARY: Was Alpheus the brother of Jesse P. Harmon's who was in the Nauvoo Legion?
Joseph Smith seems to have loved military displays. Under the date of May 7, 1842, we find this statement in the History of the Church: "The Nauvoo Legion ... was reviewed by Lieutenant-General Joseph Smith, who commanded through the day.... At the close of the parade, Lieutenant-General Joseph Smith ... remarked 'that his soul was never better satisfied than on this occasion' " (vol.5, p.3). Joseph Smith's military plans and maneuvers were very disturbing to the non-Mormons who lived around Nauvoo. On July 21, 1841, the anti-Mormon paper, Warsaw Signal reported: "How military these people are becoming! Everything they say or do seems to breathe the spirit of military tactics. Their prophet appears, on all occasions, in his sp[l]endid regimental dress signs his name Lieut. General, and more titles are to be found in the Nauvoo Legion, than any one book on military tactics can produce; ... Truly fighting must, be a part of the creed of these Saints!" http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/changech17.htm

BIOGRAPHY:
Alpheus Harmon was introduced to the gospel in Erie County,
Pennsylvania before going to Kirtland to be baptized in 1834 by
Elisha Cheney – who later married Alpheus’ widowed sister, Sarah. Alpheus was born 2 Jul 1798 at Rupert Bennington, Vermont to Martin Harmon and Tryphena Poole. Siblings that were baptized were Sarah Harmon; Orilla; Jesse Pearce; and Lucina Harmon Mecham. The only ones of Alpheus’ siblings who were not baptized were Martin Norton, who died in 1814, and Diantha Harmon Hanchett who died in 1838. Diantha’s family joined the Church and she and Martin were baptized vicariously in Nauvoo.
Alpheus married in 1823 Hulda Dimeras Vaughn. Hulda is the
daughter of Cathles (or Charles?) Vaughn and Elizabeth Morgan. In 1820 as Elfyes Arman is on census – near Charles Vaun. A large portion of the converts on this list are the family of Martin Harmon – immediate and extended. Siblings that were baptized: Sarah Harmon, an ardent member who gave her life for the gospel. The only siblings who were not baptized were Martin Norton who died in 1814 and Diantha Harmon Hanchett who died in 1838. Diantha’s family joined the church and she and Martin were baptized vicariously in Nauvoo. Alpheus and Hulda are the parents of Caroline b. 27 May 1824; Edwin b. 7 Jun 1826; Elizabeth b. 8 Jun 1828; Ebenezer b. 1830; Henry Martin b. 19 Jun 1832; Alma b. 21 Oct. 1834; Ammon b. 27 Jan 1837; Alpheus Amulek b. 14 Apr 1839; Hulda b. 2 Aug. 1841; and possibly Dimeras Delila. Alpheus and family moved to the
Kirtland and Portage, OH areas; then to Springfield, Illinois.
About this time Alpheus’ father, Martin Harmon, who remained in
Erie County, sent the following letter to his children: Now my dear children. I want you should see this and read it attentively, and remember it is the dying words or your aged Father to you, who never expects to speak or write to you again, but my love for
you is as great as it ever was. I desire your welfare. You need not think that because we do not think alike, I am going to throw you away. No, we do not look alike and we shall not be separated for that as well as for the other. The same thing. But I want to be with you all, there or not. Lucina wrote to me the 3 June, last, that she expected you would all be together in the fall, so I write to you all in one letter, as I can write no more. I want all to see it and hear it in their minds and love me and answer as soon as you can. As time is short with us, let us prepare to meet the Lord at His coming, for without Holiness, no
man can see His face in peace. Alpheus wrote to me to have me go with him to Illinois, but it appeared to me like throwing my life away to undertake such a journey, as it was not that I should have lived to get there. So do not think hard of me for not coming, for if I had got there, the climate is so different that my days would have been very short. So I must conclude my letter by subscribing my letter: Your affectionate father, Martin Harmon.
Martin died 20 Nov. 1845 at age 86

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Martin HARMON and Tryphena POOLE.

Spouse: Hulda Dimeras VAUGHN. Hulda Dimeras VAUGHN and Alpheus Amuleck HARMON were married on 1 February 1823 in Elizabethtown,Lancaster,Pennsylvania. Children were: Caroline HARMON, Ebenezer HARMON, Elizabeth HARMON, Henry Martin HARMON, Alma HARMON, Ammon HARMON, Edwin HARMON, Alpheus Amuleck HARMON, Huldah HARMON.

The following history from Elaine Johnson:
Alpheus Amuleck Harmon was born 14 April 1839 in Kirtland, Ohio [WRONG! They were not in Kirtland at this time], almost five years after his parents had joined the restored church led by Joseph Smith Jr. He was the ninth (I, cb have the 8th) child born to the family. He lived near many members of his extended family who had also joined the church, although some had moved to Missouri. His parents' family was listed in the 1840 census in Kirtland, Ohio. [WRONG! They were in Sangamon, Springfield, IL in 1840] His parents moved their family to Illinois well before he was old enough to retain any memory of it. He recalled a time when the prophet, Joseph Smith, held him on his knee and talked to him. [This would have been while in Nauvoo, Illinois] When Alpheus was only four and one half years old his father, for whom he was named, died as he was returning from a mission for the church. Little more than a year later [About 1 1/2 years later] the prophet was struck down while the Harmon family watched.

From a journal entry by Sarah Killarnia Moore Jackman written in 1981: "He told us that he was around four years old and he and the jailor's boy was playing in the yard when that assassination took place. He was there on the jail yard playing with the jailor's boy. And the mob came but he doesn't remember anything about it. We asked him, "Grandpa, did you see the light?" and he said, "No, I didn't I was too young to have remembered anyway." But he remembered the stillness around, and when he went home of his mother being in tears and crying."

His mother married a man who was not a member of the church and the family remained in Carthage when the rest of the Saints fled into Iowa and then farther west. The older children in the family, who remembered their father, had trouble getting along with their step-father and at least one of his older brothers left for Utah before Alpheus was old enough to go along. Alpheus made his way west and arrived in the valley 15 Sep 1859 with a freight company probably working as a teamster. {Utah records say he arrived in 1854--probably went with brother, Henry who went then--then Alpheus Amulek worked as a teamster bringing others to Utah]

Alpheus married Eliza Bramwich 1 Feb 1860 in North Ogden and their first daughter was born while they still lived there. He was away, probably working as a teamster, during the 1860 census. His wife and children were staying with his cousin, Appleton Harmon, taht summer. Alpheus was baptized a member of the church 15 Jun 1861. He moved his wife, daughter, and step-son to the Cache Valley about 1861. Once again he left his family with his cousin, Appleton Harmon in Providence, while he went east to bring immigrants back to Utah. While he was gone, his second daughter, Almeda, was born and named after Appleton's wife. He returned to his wife and they had a third daughter late in 1863. Alpheus was affected by the Conscription Act of Congress in 1863 which required men of fighting age to register for possible draft [for the Civil War].

[His mother and step-father and family came to Providence, Utah in 1863. In 1860, his brother, Henry Martin Harmon, was living in North Ogden and he, too, went to Providence, Ut. Henry was a missionary for the church and I wonder if Henry may have been the one who baptized his brother, Alpheus Amulek in 1861. cb]

From an article in the Deseret News, 9 Sep 1863: "A communication from Mr. C. Wright of Providence, Cache County, among other items, announces that a few days since Mr. Ira Rice set a trap and caught therein a large grizzly bear which had been in the habit, for a length of time, of making nocturnal visits to a cornfield near that place. On finding one of his legs adorned with the engine placed in his path to impede his locomotion, Bruin walked off with the concern as bears of all kinds generally do, when they are so unfortunate as to get caught, unless something be attached to the trap of sufficient weight or strength to prevent.

On discovering what had transpired, Mr. Rice, with tow or three others, taking the trail, followed the grizzly some distance to his lair on the banks of the Logan River. A shot fired at him on sight, which did not prove fatal; but greatly incensed the monster, previously much chafed and vexed with the trapping arrangement to which he had become a victim. In his anger, he rushed upon his pursuers, immediately on being wounded with the ball, intending to vent his speen upon the man who had shot him; but missing the individual, who got out of the way, the furious beast came in contact with another of the company, William Dees, who was considerably injured by the collision which laid him prostrate. He also received a serious wound in the head. The bear then put off, but not till he had received three or four more shots.

Deeming further pursuit, at that time useless, the men returned home for reinforcements. The next morning preparations were made for a vigorous pursuit of the wounded, crippled bear, and a company of twelve or fifteen men, some without arms of any kind and others having either shot guns or revolvers--useless weapons in a bear fight--started out for the purpose of renewing the contest and giving grizzly no quarters. They found him camped on the battle field of the preceding evening, awaiting another assault.

Not having learned the science of bear hunting, the amateur Nimrods soon found it necessary to act on the defensive, after arriving on the field, and some of them, to insure safety, took position in the tops of the tallest timber they could find. Two of the men, attempting to escape by flight, finding themselves too closely pursued to suit their ideas of security, had recourse to strategy and opened to the right and left to let the bear pass, intending to give him a shot as he went by, which one of them, Alpheus Harmon, attempted, but failed, as his gun misfired; upon which the bear, instead of passing, closed in upon him, and a hand to hand fight ensued, in which the man got shcokingly mangled. Seeing that Harmon was in a fair way to be "gobbled up," one of the others approached, placed the muzzle of his gun near one of the bears ears, but it also misfired; upon which he attempted to beat the bear over the head with it to induce him to quit his hold of Harmon, who was being roughly handled. At that moment Henry Gates came up and discharged one barrel of his shot gun, charged with buck shot, into the bear's mouth and knocked out several of his teeth, but before he could discharge the other barrel the bear left Harmon and seized him and tore his legs, arms and face, inflicting frightful wounds.

The cries of these men, as they were being lacerated by the infuriated monster, brought some of the others to their assistance, one of whom fired three or four shots into the Bruin from a revolver, of which he took no notice. William Dees, who was wounded in the encounter on the previous evening, then came up, got astride the bear, as he was operating upong Gates, put the muzzle of his gun to his head, blazed away, and thus ended the conflict.

The wounded men were then cared for as well as circumstances would permit, and conveyed home. Gates died of his wounds on the 30th ult, six days after the sad occurrence. Harmon, although severely wounded and literally "chawed up," was doing well the last heard from him, and in a fair way to recover.

The "hunt" as it was called, was certainly not well planned and its consequences such as might be expected to result from such arrangements. Battle should not be made with a grizzly, unless in self-defence, when the attacking party is not prepared to make successful resistance to such onslaughts as such animals make on being wounded."

It isn't clear how often Alpheus made the trip across the plains as a teamster, but Eliza felt he had deserted her and didn't provide for his family and in 1865, she divorced him. She remarried a year later in North Ogden.

Twice he was caught in a snow slide in the Little Cottonwood Canyon. One of these times, it took three men to dig him out.

Alpheus received his endowments in the Endowment House on 8 Nov 1867---the day that his mother had her endowments. He was a religious man. He told one of his granddaughters that he worked in the Logan temple with his mother for a few years. It opened two years before her death. [Alpheus was the administrator of his mother's estate. cb]

Alpheus and four other men from Providence accompanied a caravan eastward in 1868. They were sent to get poor converts from Europe and assist them in coming to Utah.

He went to Idaho and had some interest in a mine around Arimo;.... then went over to Rigby and lived for a while. Then he went to Price to live with my Aunt Harriet, and then he came to our place in Joseph and lived with us until he died. [Killarnia, his granddaughter wrote]

He was a mining prospector for years. But he was always alone. He never went back.
___________________

Came to Utah 1854, Oxteam company. Assisted in bringing immigrants to Utah. Residence: Star Valley, Wyoming at mother's death. Age 50; residing at Clarkston, Utah 1886.

In interview of granddaughter, Susan Killarnia Moore Jackman, she was asked: What do you remember about Alpheus Amulek?
Killarnia: Well, the first I remember of him, Eva and I (that is my sister) were out playing and we saw a man coming with a pack on his back, a roll of bedding on his back, and he came as far as the wood pile and sat down. And we went running to the house and said to mother, "There is a tramp out there." Tramps use to go through a lot and stop and beg for meals and mother didn't bother to look out, but in a few minutes, my father came in and he said, "Meedy, your father is out there." That is the first I can remember of him. He came there from Price, Utah. He had been living with my mother's only sister, Harriet Marsing, who lived in Price, so he came over to our place and set out there. He didn't come to the door, but mother had been sort of prejudice against her father because her father and mother had been divorced and she had heard only one side of the story. But my father was just such a square dealer, fair dealer, he went out and invited him in. Mother was very cool with him, but he came and it was evident he came to stay, which he did. He lived there until he died and then my father buried him. He died in 1916, I think."

Do you remember the stories dealing with Eliza Bramwich and Alpheus Harmon's separation?

"Yes, it was just before my mother was born, well some months before she was born and grandfather left and went back east. He said to help bring the saints back. And she always contended that he deserted her, but we never heard anything about that until we started hunting genealogy. Because, at the dinner table one time he started...he was feeling rather low ( and he did drink quite a bit when he came there and that is another reason why...Mother, she despised liquor) and so he had a drink or two and he started to cry and he started to tell his side of the story. And my father put up his finger and said, "No, your grandmother came here when she was sick, lived here until she died. We took care of her the best we could. We buried her. These girls never heard her side of the story and now it isn't necessary that they hear your side. We will not hash those things over. They've never heard their grandmother tell her side." And there were just four of we girls home then. (Father) had heard both sides and he had weighed the evidence and didn't think it was necessary that we as young girls needed to know.

My Grandfather had his endowments, but never was sealed to anyone and he tried to get us to listen to genealogy. He had a roll of papers, but I didn't think I needed to be bothered with it and I wasn't interested and neither was anyone else. I don't know what happened to that roll of papers. We just lost it after he passed away. My older sister and younger sister sealed my grandma and grandpa together. He did have his endowments the day his mother Hulda Vaughn had her endowments. He respected his garments very much. He was a religious man but he had been out where there wasn't any church.

I remember a picture of his mother when he was trying to get us to listen to him about genealogy and we didn't have gumption enough. And he said, "I have this information and at sometime it will come handy to you. He said, "This is my Mother, Hulda Vaughn and sometime this will be valuable to you." I didn't pay attention. So he took this picture of his mother to my oldest sister and told her the same story. "I wish you would keep this picture because it is the only link we have with my genealogy, my mother." And he also told us she was related some way to Abraham Lincoln. He said, "You'll find that this picture will come in handy sometime." Sometimes I think he almost prophesized things. He never went to church. He did that bad habit of drinking but after he came to live with us he stopped. My mother would not put up with it.

When he showed this picture to my sister, he told her the same story he did me. And so one time when a man came to me after Grandpa was gone, a man came to me with some Harmon genealogy and he wanted me to copy it down. He couldn't read or wirte, this man couldn't and his wife had died, so I copied it for him and he sent it to a Harmon over in Price who was making a Harmon family tree. And so when he did that, I sat down and wrote my sister a letter and told her that I had found this new information and I had written up for this Harmon. So, we tried and tried to make a connection in with the other Harmon family. Now, about five generations back, Grandpa and I are cousins. His father came from a Harmon family and my mother came from a Harmon family, but we have never been able to establish the connection. So my sister wrote to this man in Price and said, "I am a direct descendent of Hulda Vaughn mother of Alpheus Amulek Harmon, he was my grandfather." And they immediately wrote back and said if you can prove that you are a descendent of Hulda Vaughn that is the link we are looking for. And so she sent this picture with all kinds of instructions that it must come back. She sent this picture and it was Grandpa's handwriting on the back. Alpheus Amulek Harmon and with his mother Hulda Vaughn. And so we made the connection with the two Harmon families through that picture just like Grandpa told us we would. This picture of his mother was one that he had from when he was a young man and he carried it with him. And my sister, it is with her papers someplace, this picture of Hulda Vaughn. But that is as far as we have been able to go. We know that her (husband) Alpheus Harmon was buried in Nauvoo and Hulda came to Utah and was buried in Clarkston, Utah--the same place where Martin Harris is buried. In the same cemetery in Clarkston, Utah.

Grandpa was a very well informed man. He told us that he went as far as the fourth grade in school, but he was a great reader. He liked to read history and he was an exceptionally good musician. He played a five string banjo and he could really pick that banjo. I remember evenings that the Jackman family would come to our place and spend the evening and we had an organ. It was a good one. Ezbon's father would play the violin and my grandfather would play the banjo and they taught me how to play the organ. Playing seconds they called it. I didn't have much of an ear for music like they did and I think I hurt their feelings a lot of times with the discords I made. But then on the side of my grandfather would play the banjo and then he would show me how to change from dominant and subdominant and tonic and all that. I didn't know anything about that, but he called it first, second, and third change and he taught me how to accompany on the organ with that. So I am just grateful. And he was patient. He used to sit and play that old five string banjo and tap his heal then we would sneak around behind him and put something under his hat and he would just push if off and go on playing, good natured about it. And then when we were older he got so he didn't hardly feel like playing the banjo and then he made what he called a bodaline. It was made in the shape of a boat something like these electrical guitars nao and it was played on that order. He had a wooden stick and he would run that along the strings and stop between or on the fret he wanted and take another stick and do this across the strings of the upper end and he never did get a patent on it. He used the same violin strings, the G,D,A, and E. It was strung up just like a violin and he tried to teach me how to play that, but I didn't get far. I remember he used to play some falmingo on the banjo and I can just hear it now, how his fingers went on that five string. Now the five string banjo players today don't play like he did, but he played the melody all the time and then a lot of variations with it. He was a real good musician. He had a wonderful ear and when he tuned his banjo, he'd have me sound the A on the organ and he would tune until he was exactly on pitch. He had a very pleasing voice--kind of medium pitch--more of a tenor, I'd say. [Levi Harmon Jackman is the one who played the fiddle while my grandfather played the banjo. Levi had a bald head and a very long beard down to his chest. ]

Grandpa told us that he was around four years old and he and the jailor's boy were playing in the yard when that assassination (of the Prophet Joseph Smith) took place. And the mobs came but he doesn't seem to remember anything about it. We asked him, "Grandpa, did you see the light?" And he said, "No, I didn't." But he remembered the stillness around and when he went home, of his mother being in tears and crying. The gloom that was over the place, he sensed it but he didn't know what it was all about. He told us that story all the time. He bore us that testimony lots of times that he was there, but he was too young to sense what was going on. His father was buried in Nauvoo.

And then he started to invent a beet blocker and he got quite a long ways on it but didn't have the money to go ahead and buy the patent, but as he was finishing getting the details on it a man supplied some money. James M. Peterson of Richfield, but he was getting older and he kind of lost interest in it and he never got a patent on his beet blocker.

(Grandfather)walked very briskly. He only wore a number 5 shoe. He could put on any of our shoes. He had a tiny foot and was less than 5 feet tall--a little runt of a fellow. And then he had one bad habit and that was smoking a pipe, but before he died he decided he was going to quit tobacco.

He wore Levis Straauss Overalls and usually a colored shirt. He owned a home in Rigby, Idaho and then he sold that and went to Price to live with my grandmother. He had money when he came to our place so evidently he had been working. He was a school janitor for a couple years after he came to our place. He took care of the school house and then well, he was kind of older. He was also a shoe cobbler. He had a shoe outfit. He mended shoes--half-soled and mended shoes. He did that and he tanned hides and made drum heads. He was a good snare drum player. Oh, he could just make those old sticks just fly--especially when the Jackmans would get together for a marshal band. After he came there he played Yankee Doodle. It made you just want to get up and march. The Jackmans every fourth of July had this Marshal band. They had piccolos and fife's and base drum and the snare drum and I remember him killing a cat and tanning the hide to make a snare drum. I remember he had arsenic and that he tied it in a sack and put it way up in the grainery and warned us it was poison. Don't get around that. Don't touch it. But he used that arsenic for the tanning of this hide. I watched him tan that hide and watched him stretch it like the Indians do the deer hides.

We really liked him. Whenever we would make a cake, he would say, "Girls, would you please leave the egg out? Don't put an egg in the cake," because anything with an egg in it poisoned him. He was allergic to eggs and milk. My mother used to say it was because of his liquor and tobacco that made him allergic to it.

When Grandfather became older, he cut his hair Dutch crop aroundthis way, it would always come down. It wasn't too long, but it was down to the bottom of his ears, but he didn't have any hair on top of his head, so he had just a circle around this way...and Grandpa always had a beard. And he would want us tostand on a box behind him and comb his hiar, he wanted Elma, once in a while, he thought she was such a cute little girl, he wanted her to kiss him and she'd say, "I won't kiss you o nthe whiskers, but I'll kiss you on the side head," and she'd kiss him up here on the forehead.

Killarnia wrote: I remember one time I was going away to work, it was just not long before he died and he knew that we didn't like his pipe and he would go out and sit in the granary door and smoke his pipe. He had his own room back i nthe back, and he smoked there and "course it came clear through the house, too. But he was out sitting and smoking his pipe and my father had consented to let me go up to Sevier mine to work while one of the women was coming down to get married. i went out to the wood pile and got an armful of wood and was starting to the house and he took his pipe out of his mouth and he said, :"Klinney, come here. I'd like to talk with you. Now, Klinney, I don't know how much your mother told you before she passed away. I'm sure she counseled you plenty. And I don't know whether your father has warned you about these things. you know I've been around a lot. I've been in mining camps just like this one you're going into. You're going into a very rough element. You're going to have to watch every minute you're there. You've got to watch your speech, you've got to watch your actions. If things look like they're going to get out of hand, I want you to remember this one thing. There'll be one gentleman in that crowd. Stand your ground, hold up for what you know is right, and you'll always find one gentleman in that crowd, no matter how rough they seem, there'll be one gentleman....if you want to say no, say no, if you know you should, and you'll find there's always one gentleman."

Hattie and I were alone with him when he died. He died at our place and my father was up Three Creek putting up hay and Hattie and I were alone. He had been ailing for quite a while and he died on Memorial Day. I still have that picture vividly in my minde. I was 19 or 20 years old and my sister was about 23, we were alone with him and a man was passing by there on a horse and we went to the door and called him. And then he called the sexton and he came in and took care of him. Then we had to send daddy's brother to Three Creek to tell him that Grandpa had passed away.

They buried Alpheus in the Joseph Cemetery next to his ex-wife, Eliza, and near their daughter, Almeda. Alpheus only married once. When his granddaughters began to work on their family history, they made a decision to seal him to Eliza. First they talked and prayed and sought advice from a temple president. A patriarch later told one of them that Alpheus and Eliza knew of the sealing and rejoiced in it.

BIOGRAPHY: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p.918
HARMON, ALPHES AMULECK (son of Alphes Amuleck Harmon and Hulda Dimrus Vaughn, both of Kirtland, Ohio). Born April 14, 1839. Came to Utah 1854, oxteam company.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p.918
Married Eliza Bramwich (daughter of John Bramwich and Mary Brown, latter pioneer 1854, Milo Andrus company). She was born March 29, 1834. Their children: John Henry Moulton, d. aged 12; Henrietta Terrill, m. Edward Orr Covington; Harriet Elizabeth, m. Niels Larson Marsing; Almeda, m. Joseph A. Moore; Susan, d. infant; Eliza Riddle, d. aged seven. Family home Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah. Assisted in bringing immigrants to Utah.

BIRTH: It is reported that A.A. was born in Portage or Trumbull Co, OH. Portage Co is where many of the Saints gathered after being expelled from Kirtland and there are other Vaughn and Harmon families living there also. If his parents traveled with Kirtland Camp in 1838, they would have been in Springfield, Illinois prior to his birth.

BIRTH: IGI has Partridge, Ohio as birth place on one of many submissions. Portage, Portage, OH on some; and Kirtland, OH on one.

Levi Jackman's family used to come to our place and spend the evening. He would bring his violin and Grandfather Harmon (Alpheus Amulek) would play the banjo. They taught me to play with them on the organ. [Sarah Killarnia Moore Jackman]

LAND: Book I pg. 386: Edwin Bassett, A. Cummings, A.A. Harmon, Jacob Tyler made a purchase of Cleaveland Mine--located 1/2 mile easterly from Lucky Boy and 1/4 mile westerly from the falls in left hand fork of Blacksmith's Fork Canyon, Cache Co, Utah; purchased 3 Jun 1885; recorded 20 June 1885 at 9:45 a.m.

CHURCH: Index to Patriarchal Blessings Film no. 50673 pt 26
Alpheous Jr. Harmon
born Kirkland, Ohio
fatherAlpheous Harmon
date of blessing 17 Oct 1861 Smithfield, Cache, Utah
Tribe of Ephriam
Patriarch: Isaac Morley
Recorded Historian's office: Patriarchal Blessings. Vol 23; page 219

CENSUS: 1870 Clifton, Cache, Utah Territory [image 2 of 3]
Harmon [looks like Hansman, but I know it should be Harmon]
Harmon, Henry 38 M W Farmer $500/$550 Tennessee [should be Pennsylvania]
Susan, 31 F W Keeping House Mississippi
Susan E. 13 FW at home Idaho
Henry M. 11 M W at home Utah
William 6 F [should be Male] at home Utah
Allen I. 3 M W at home Utah
Milla A. 8/12 F W [should be Millie Almeda] at home Utah b. Sep.
Mary E. 15 F W Keeping House Utah
Alpheus 31 M W Works in Saw Mill Ohio

CENSUS: 1900 Kilgore, Fremont, ID [Mis-indexed for both John Crapo and Alpheus Harmon. See Image 2 of 6 for Kilgore District 52] * Alpheus is in index as Alfene a Harmon b abt 1839 uncle on Ancestry.com*
Crapo, John B. head b. Feb 1871age 29 md 7 years; b. UT; fb MA; mb IL; rancher
Harriet M. wife b. Dec 1874; age 25; md 7 yrs; mother of 3; 3 living; b. ID; fb PA; mb UT
Cecil V. son b. Jul 1894; age 5 b. ID
LaVon dau b. Apr 1896; age 4 b. ID
Lewis V. son b. Apr 1898 age 2 b. ID
George A. brother b. Jan 1875; age 25; b. UT; fb MA; mb IL
Harmon, Alpeus A uncle; b. Apr 1839 age 61; b. OH; fb PA; mb Canada
.

MILITARY: Alpheus was affected by the Conscription Act of Congress in 1863 which required men of fighting age to register for possible draft [for the Civil War].

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Alpheus Amuleck HARMON and Hulda Dimeras VAUGHN.

Spouse: Eliza BRAUMWICH. Eliza BRAUMWICH and Alpheus Amuleck HARMON were married on 1 February 1860 in Joseph, Sevier, Utah. Children were: Harriett HARMON, Almeda HARMON, Susan HARMON.

Spouse: Eliza BRAMWICH. Eliza BRAMWICH and Alpheus Amuleck HARMON were married on 1 February 1860 in North Ogden, Weber, Utah. They were divorced. Salt Lake County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852-1887 Recordabout ALPHIUS A HARMON
Name: ALPHIUS A HARMON
Plaintiff or Defendant: D
Case Type: DIVORCE
Filing Date: 7/19/1864
Opposing Party: HARMON
Reel: 11
Box/Folder Number: 09/042

Salt Lake County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852-1887 Recordabout ELIZA HARMON
Name: ELIZA HARMON
Plaintiff or Defendant: P
Case Type: DIVORCE
Filing Date: 7/19/1864
Opposing Party: HARMON
Reel: 11
Box/Folder Number: 09/042

Children were: Harriet Elizabeth HARMON, Huldah Almeda "Medie" HARMON, Susan HARMON.

MILITARY: Company C 10th Iowa Infantry; Soldier's Certificate No. 156367.; pension papers name wife and gives children's names and dates of birth.
Declaration for Pension:
State of Iowa, County of Pocahontas, On this 4th day of June A.D. one thousand nine hundred and twelve, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, within and for the county and State aforesaid, Alpheus B. Harmon who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is 68 years of age and a resident of or near Plover, county of Pocahontas, state of Iowa; and that he is the identical person who was enrolled at Iowa City, State of Iowa, under the name of Alpheus B. Harmon, 10th Regiment of Iowa Vet. Infantry in the service of the United States, in the Civil war, and was honorably discharged at Kingston, Georgia, on the 8th day of September 1864. I further state that I was wounded in the right thigh (gun shot wound) at Champion Hill, Miss., May 16th 1863. That his personal description at enlistment was as follows: Height 5 feet 6 1/2 inches; complexion--light; color of eyes--Blue; color of hair--Light; that his occupation was a farmer; that he was born on or about August 25th 1843, at Cataraugus county, NY. I further state that I am unable to perform manual labor and claim the maximum rate of pension herein. That his several places of residence since leaving the service have been as follows: Traer, Iowa; Havelock, Iowa; and then near Plover, Iowa, where I now reside. That he is pensioner under certificate No. 156367. That his post office address is Plovet, county of Pocahontas; State of Iowa. Signed Alpheus B. Harmon
Attest: Susie Jepson
C.D. Ferguson

MILITARY: Name: Alpheus B. Harmon
Company: C
Unit: 10 Iowa Infantry.
Rank - Induction: Private
Rank - Discharge: Private
Allegiance: Union

CENSUS: CENSUS: 1860 Carroll, Tama, Iowa [This is pretty conclusive that Alpheus is son of Nathan]
N. Harmon 44m b. NY; farmer $1000/700
P.S. 47f b. PA
F.A. 19f b. NY
A.B. 16m b. NY farmer
F.N. 15m b. NY farmer
T 12m b. NY
L.S. 8f b. NY
G.W. 3m b. Iowa

CENSUS: 1870 Perry, Tama, Iowa
Alpheus B. Harmon 26m farmer b. Ny $2000/600
Lilla 25f b. NY
Ernest H. 3 b. Iowa
Clarence N. 2 b. Iowa
Thomas French 18m farm laborer b. NY

CENSUS: 1880 Perry, Tama, Iowa
A.B. Harmon farmer b. NY; parents b. NY
Lily, 26 housekeeping b. NY; parents b. NY
Ernest 13m b. Iowa; attended school
Clarence 12m b. Iowa; attended school
May 7f b. Iowa b. Iowa; attended school
Ellie 5f b. Iowa
A.B. 1m b. Iowa (Is this same as George in the military records?????)

RESIDENCE: 1912: Alpheus lived near Plover, Pocahontas, Iowa.; Since leaving the military he has lived in: Traer, Iowa; Havelock, Iowa and Plover, Iowa.

DEATH: He was in a Soldier's Home in Marshalltown, Iowa at time of death. He received a $50 pension per month till 4 Dec 1924. He died 3 Jan 1925.

MARRIAGE: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iatama/MH.html
Harmon, A.B. - Lillie M. Jacobs 16 Sept 1865 by T.A. Graham book A page 59

BURIAL: Name: Alpheus B. Harmon
Page #: 72
Cemetery: Woodlawn
Town: Toledo Level Info: Gravestone Records of Tama County, Ia.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Nathan HARMON and Phebe Subrina BURGESS.

Spouse: Lilla Mandana JACOBS. Lilla Mandana JACOBS and Alpheus Benejah HARMON were married on 16 September 1865 in Toledo, Tama, Iowa. married by T.A. Graham, County Judge of Tama County; military pension record states there is a county record in Toledo, Tama, Iowa. Children were: Ernest H. HARMON, Clarence N. HARMON, Frances Mina HARMON, Pheba Minnie HARMON, Eva May HARMON, Ella Myra HARMON, George W. HARMON, Lizzie M. HARMON, Lilla M. HARMON.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com

Parents: Henry Martin HARMON and Mary Alzina SPERRY.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com

Parents: Henry Martin HARMON and Susan MARLER.

Spouse: Frank Leroy DAVIS.

Lewisville Centennal by Joyce Lindstrom pg. 92 [The history as it appears in this book has some errors and I have corrected them here.]
Ammon Harmon was born 27 Jan 1837 at Kirtland, Ohio, the son of Alpheus Harmon and Huldah Vaughn. He was the seventh child from a family of nine children. His parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1834 (correction) and the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois (in 1841). Here his father was called on a mission, so he left his wife and nine children. Upon his return from his mission he was caught in a blizzard between Carthage and Nauvoo, and unable to find shelter, froze to death. His mother then married Lorin Bassett. Ammon was only five years old when his father died 17 Nov 1842.
On 2 May 1858, Ammon married Margaret Scott at Shell Rock, Butler, Iowa. [Marriage Records prove this marriage took place in Floyd County, Iowa--most likely at Rockford] She as born 15 Mar 1841 at Jackson Co, Ohio, the daughter of John and Margaret Gray Scott, residents of Kentucky. To this union eleven children were born.
Shortly after Ammon was married, his mother and her new husband moved to Utah where she became well-known throughout the state caring for the sick and operating when necessary. Her picture hangs in the Manti Temple as a tribute for her wonderful work as a doctor. (We have contacted the temple to verify this and can find no evidence of the picture being there....we have wondered why Manti because she never lived there, but lived in Logan.)
While Ammon served in the Civil War from Iowa, he studied to be a doctor. After he was seriously wounded in the back, he was given an honorable discharge. The summer of 1864 the family migrated to Utah where Ammon joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (actually Ammon came to Utah at the same time his mother and step-father came.). They settled at Providence, Utah where he helped build the fort. He also performed with the Providence Players, a local theatrical group. He was also part owner of a carding mill at Millville in Cache Valley.
In 1884, he and his family moved to Lewisville where he took up a 160 acre homestead half a mile north of the Lewisville townsite. Here he resided until his death April 26, 1902. His wife died May 20, 1916 at Milo while living at the home of her daughter, Hulda Almeda Coles. Both are buried in the Lewisville Cemetery.

Susan's story of her parents:
Ammon Harmon was born at Kirtland, Geauga Co, Ohio, 27 Jan 1837. The son of Alpheus Harmon and Hulda Dimrus Vaughn. Margaret Scott born at ?, Jackson co, Ohio, 15 Mar 1841.
Ammon and Margaret Scott Harmon were married 2 May 1858 at Shellrock, Iowa, (Shell Rock was later called Iowa Center.) They were parents of 11 children.
Susan's story:
My father was five years old at the time of his father's death. His father, Alpheus Harmon, joined the Church in 1837, the year my father, Ammon, was born. [I believe this is a mistake and that it was 1834, the year Ammon's brother, Alma was born--Alpheus is documented as working on Kirtland Temple and receiving blessings from the Prophet in 1835--cb Also Hulda was baptized in 1834.] He had been on a mission for the church and was returning home in extremely cold weather. He was found frozen to death on a prairie between Carthage and Nauvoo. He was found alone with a Book of Mormon under his arm. [Notation here by Ida, daughter of Susan: The body of Asa (Orsey) Harmon, nephew of Alpheus, was also found frozen on the prairie as was an ox which the men were evidently using to help with their transportation. One account I've heard isthat Alpheus and Asa werre called at the same time and served as companion missionaries.] Susan continues:
Ammon, my father, was 7 years old at the time Joseph Smith was martyred. He and an older brother were returning home with a cow they had been hunting, it was getting late when they saw a beautiful light in the heavens. The older brother marveled at the thought of lightning in a cloudless sky. My father, being only seven thought nothing of it until later. He listened to stories of the prophet's martyrdom and as he grew older, he felt sure he had seen the light at the time of the prophet's death.
About two years after Alpheus died, Hulda married Lorin Bassett. He was very strict with the children and not well liked. He mellowed a lot in later years. He was not a member of the Church when Hulda married him, but joined several years later after they had moved to Utah.
My father lived with his mother and step-father until he was 15 at which time Lorin apprenticed him out to a shoemaker so he could learn the trade. My father was supposed to stay with the Shoemaker until he was 21. Strangely, the man's name was Shoemaker, and he made father's first pair of shoes. The shoes were made with the hair side of the cow turned in, and they had wooden soles.
After a year with Mr. Shoemaker, he ran away and went to stay with his oldest sister, Caroline Lincoln. That fall, just before he was 17, he went to his first school. He was only in school about three months but was an apt student and studied hard. He continued to study after leaving school and read many books and became an avid reader.
In the fall of 1855, Father decided to take up medicine and studied for a year under two doctors, but gave up because he was too sympathetic. He couldn't toughen himself to deal with the harshness required in those days.
Ammon met Margaret Scott and after a short courtship, they were married by Judge Tubbs, 2 May 1858 at ShellRock, Iowa (later ShellRock was called Iowa Center). The occasion was special as it was a double wedding. Ammon's brother, Alma married Margaret's sister, Elizabeth at the same time.)
Margaret proved to be a wonderful wife, mother, and homemaker. From Almeda's record, Susan received this account of their parents:
"In October of 1859, there was a little boy come into their home. We know him as George Washington Harmon. He lived three days and died. In May their little girl was born (Candis). During that summer, father joined the Army." Susan explains as follows:
"Father fought in the war between the north and the south, fighting with the northern army. He served faithfully, but while on duty (It is said he was taking horses to drink) he fell over an embankment, causing serious damage to his back. He received an honorable discharge in Dec 1862.
In February 1863, another girl was born to them. Her name was Victoria Emsiella.
June 30, 1863, my parents started across the plains with an independent wagon train with Captain Patterson at the head. This was the same train my father's mother and her husband Lorin Bassett came with. The wagon train arrived in Salt Lake Friday the 4th of September. They moved on to Cache Valley in February and settled in Providence.
My father had not been baptized as a boy, and my mother's family were not LDS. however, both my parents gained strong testimonies while traveling with the Mormon wagon train and becoming acquiinated with Mormon doctrine. Soon after arriving in Providence, Father cut through ice so he and my mother could be baptized. This was in Feb 1864. My parents were early pioneers to Utah. Soon after moving to Providence, Victoria died. The family was saddened to lose another child.
Eight more children were born to my parents after moving to Providence. They are: Mary Louise, Harriet Cordelia, Susan Margaret, Hulda Almeds, Ammon Alpheus, Ida Alzina, Alice Cordelia and Marion Henry. I well remember a few things concerning my parents from the time I was 7 years old. They were hard-working people seeming to enjoy full and happy lives.
I remember my parents sitting in a little two-room humble home, singing songs to us children in the evening after work. My parents were very home-loving people and seemed to find peace in the old-time songs. They would have prayer circles which I can picture now, and also the singing practices. Both my parents sang with the Providence Choir. After these meetings and practices, my parents continued to sing softly. Other times we would be awakened from our sleep, they were so enthused with what they were singing, it seemedthey were so very happy to have come to Zion. They were active Church members trying to live lives that would be regarded as ideal. Father was a faithful ward teacher and mother was a relief society teacher for 25 years. They both took their assignments seriously.
I can see my mother spinning yarn all evening long. I have gone to bed and awakened to see her still spinning, while Father read to her.
Mother did much knitting, with so many children; many sweaters, caps, stockings and mittens were needed. The oler girls were taught to knit at an early age and Cancis and Mary were very good at stockings and mittens.
Mother also made our dresses. She spun wool and wove it into a cloth called Linsey. Each of us girls had one good home-spun dress. When the dresses needed to be laundered, we would go to bed while mother washed them and hung them to dry. We often layed on the trundle bed, which is a bed that can be pushed under another bed. In this wame way our stockings were washed.
Our feet were measured once a year, and Father would take the measurements to a shoemaker and have a pair made for each child. When they were new we hoped they would squeak so our friends would notice them.
To have two dresses was a rare thing and a person was considered lucky to have such an extravagance. This was not hard as all our freinds and neighbors had this same way of living. We accepted it as part of life and quite enjoyed it.
Mother told us when they first were getting started in Providence, they just barely got along on their meager living. FAther would go into the Canyon for wood with notheing to eat except brown bread and greens and a little salt.
I remember when Father made molasses from sugar cane. This provided almost the sole sweets in those days.
During the 20 years Father and Mother lived in Cache Valley, they were both very, very busy people. Father was a skilled carpenter and was always in demand. Among other things he worked on the Logan Temple and helped build the Old Fort at Providence. He helped build and with President Ricks, was owner of a carding mill in Millville.
Father wanted to own a dairy herd and started building such by acquiring one cow at a time when they could do so. Mother took over the management of this project, increasing her customer list for dairy foods as fast as they could increase their herd. Mother made wonderful biutter and cheese. People came from long distances to bjy from her, especially her wonderful cheese.
After Father's expereince at the carding mill, he made mother larger carding equipment and larger weaving looms. Mother then made and sold beautiful rugs as well as being ableto make her own home more cheerful. Mother was a cheerful, happy person that loved to whistle and she really could whistle well. We all loved Mother very much even though she would not put up with any nonsense from any of us. We took notice when Mother spoke, but she was not mean, she was very kind.
Father was much more quiet than Mother. He was a very inoffensive man. We loved to hear Father play his violin and the bull fiddle. He always smiled, his dark blue eyes twinkled and he tapped one foot. He also tapped one foot, tapping louder and faster when the children were getting too rowdy. He got complete attention without saying a word.
Father's hobby was theatrical work and he made quite an actor. For several years he played with the Providence Troupe. They played in many different communities through the years. The first time I saw Father in a play was in Providence. One of the older girls pointed Father out when he made his entrance. Of course we were mighty excited by his actions. During the course of the play, he was tied to railroad tracks, with his head on one side and his feet on the other. Then the train came puffing and blowing, just so real; and horrors! right towards Father! Then we began to yell and scream and tried to get over our seats to him. It looked like blood that spurted, then down went his body through a trap door. It was quite a while before we were quieted down. We thought he was killed for sure!
After 14 years in Providence my parents took over the Logan Dairy which was across the River from Weston. One year later they moved to a Ranch north of Clarkston. The family all missed Providence so after one year they moved back. They soon realized this was a mistake as they needed the Ranch for the sizeable dairy herd they had acquired, so back to the ranch where they remained for 4 years.
In June 1884, our family moved to Idaho where opportunities to expand were much greater than Cache Valley, which they loved. Settling in Lewisville they soon were doing much the same as they had in Providence and Clarkston. They engaged in the dairy business, father did carpenter work and farmed and he built a special room on their home where mother could set up her looms and she made and sold woven rugs as before. With a room just for carding and weaving, friends were
[this ends all the story I have access to. cb]

From a history of his son, Marion--written by a grandchild of Ammon's:
Grandfather (Ammon) liked the country (Providence) and the opportunities around that part of the country and decided to remain there. It was there that my father, Marion Henry Harmon was born. Father's grandmother (Hulda) was the midwife who brought him into the world. Grandfather, like his father, was a farmer, and a carpenter. Both he and Grandmother were converts to the church, joining after they got to Utah. Grandfather, being a carpenter, was much in demand in the settlement and was kept pretty busy. He was away from home a great deal, due to his work, so the greater burden of rearing the children fell upon Grandmother's shoulders. They had many trials and frightening expereinces in their new home. My father tells of one time when a band of marauding Indians came to their door. They simply walked inside as if they owned the place. Grandmother, if she was frightened, did not show it. She picked up a stove poker and drove them out of the house. What wonderful faith and courage those pioneer mothers must have had.

Grandfather brought his family and came to Idaho in 1884, when father was just three years old. They settled in Lewisville, in Fremont County. Father grew up in that community and received his education there. His father still followed the carpentry trade and did a little farming also. Grandfather had a reputation of an honest man and was called "Old Honest Harmon." He was a lover of all children and always had a group of them around him. He was "uncle" to every child who ever knew him.

Marriage: Margaret Scott 2 May 1858

MILITARY: 4th Iowa Infantry Co. A; Pvt. Ammon Harmon enlisted July 1, 1861; discharged for disability Sep 28, 1862. Studied to be a doctor; seriously wounded in the back and given an honorable discharge.

MILITARY: Civil War
Name: Ammon Harmon
Company: A
Unit: 4 Iowa Infantry.
Rank - Induction: Private
Rank - Discharge: Private
Allegiance: Union

LAND: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/
80 acres; cash sale; Utah 7/15/1870
160.91 Acres; homestead act; Idaho 2/3/1891

LAND: Personal visit 9 Nov 1970 Court House, clerks office, Blackfoot Idaho
Book A Homestead page 63
"Know all men by these presents that I do hereby certify and declare that I am married and that I do now at the time of making this declaration actually reside with my family on the land and premises hereinafter described that my family consists of a wife and four children; that the lands and premises on which I reside are bounded and described as follows; to wit: [lying and being in the county of Bingham and State of Idaho] Lots 2 r 3 the ?8th of NW and SW and NE of Sec 5 twp 4N Ra 38f AM containing 160 acres and 91/100 of an acre; the cash value of said homestead being $2000. That it is my intention to use and claim the said lands and premises above described together with the dwelling house and out buildings thereon and its appuertenances as a homestead and I do hereby select and claim the same as a homestead. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 9th day of Dec Eighteen hundred and ninety one. Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of William Lindsay and John Lindsay. Signed Ammon Harmon
Recorded at the request of A. Harmon Dec 10th 1891 at 10:10 a.m.

His son-in-law, Ernest had a farming accident and lost his fingers, Ammon rebuilt Ernest's violin so he could play left-handed.

BIOGRAPHY: From the book, "Providence and Her People" by the Historical Society of Providence, Utah; printed by the Herald Journal Printing Co. Logan Utah 1949
March 2, 1868: Ammon Harmon reported that one brother had been throwing an axe at a bull and cursing and taking the name of the Lord in vain, being angry because the bull interferred with his cattle.
pg. 71 Nov. 20, 1866: H.M. Harmon, Ammon Harmon [and many others] agreed to pay one bushel and a half of wheat per quarter or its value, to pay John Barker, teacher, for the schooling of each scholar. We sign for the quarter to commence Dec 3, 1866.

BIOGRAPHY: Treasure's of Pioneer History Vol 2 By Kate Carter Page 462
THE PLAYER'S OF PROVIDENCE It show's a Rock building of which they did their play's in with the Marker on the side of it. Not a good picture tho. and it say's Pioneer dramatic player's entertained early Cache Valley audiences in the Rock building. When errected 1868-70, the only assembly hall in Providence, it had the finest dance floor, Stage, Proscenium, Painting. Curtain in the valley. Among the player's were Chas.and joan m Johnson, Harry Brown Jessie Hammer, John Wilson Alzina Hammond, Jas. Nye, Thos. Piday, Jos. A Smith, Mary Neaf, Lucinda Monroe Wm. Reading, Jas Fife. Ammon Harmon, Geo. and Mary Marler Wm W . Low, Henry Bullock, Lorin Bassett and Rudilph Hugg.
By the Elizabeth Mathew's Camp Cache Valley It say's the marker was dedicated Nov. 6 1949, Providence, Utah.

BIRTH: Lewisville Ward Records Film 2404 pt. 5 pg. 22: Ammon was born CLOSE to Kirtland, Ohio; Mother's name is listed as Huldy Vaughn.

CHURCH: Lewisville Ward Records Film 2404 pt. 5 pg. 22:
Baptized 1864 by Bro. Ramwell
Rebaptized 1884 at Idaho Falls by G. Evans, Lewisville Ward
Ordained Elder by Bp. Budge

CHURCH: Transferred from the Eagle Rock Ward Record Film 007,240
July 12, 1885 Ammon Harmon was baptized by Elder W. Blackburn. Margaret Harmon was baptized by Elder W. Blackburn.
July 19, 1885 Ida Alzina Harmon was baptized by Elder W. Blackburn. Alice Caroline Harmon was baptized by Elder W. Blackburn.

CENSUS: 1860 Missouri, Atchison County, Buchanan twp.
M653 606 page 573
Harmon, Amm, 23, chair maker, b. Ohio
Margarett, 19, b. Ohio
next door:
Harman, A., 28?, chair maker, b. Ohio (presumably
Alma)
Elzabeth, 21, b. Ohio
Frances M., 1, b. Iowa

CENSUS: 1900 Lewisville, Fremont, IDaho (Mistaken indexing--found by browsing--on image 8 of 19 Ancestry.com)
Harmon, Ammon head b. Jan 1837 age 63; md 47 years; b. OH fb PA; mb Canada E; weaver carpet rags
Margaret wife b. Mar 18--, age 5-- ; md ditto; mother of 11 children; 8 living; b. OH; fb NY; mb KY
Ammon A. son b. Dec 1872; age 27 single; b. UT; day laborer
Alice C. dau b. Feb 1877; age 23 single; b. UT
Marion H. son b. ... 1881; age 19 single; b. UT day laborer.

1880 Census Place: Clarkston, Cache, Utah
Source: FHL Film 1255336 National Archives Film T9-1336 Page 226D
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Amond HARMOND Self M M W 43 OH
Occ: Farmer Fa: PA Mo: PA
Margaret HARMOND Wife F M W 39 OH
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NY Mo: KY
Candies HARMOND Dau F S W 17 IA
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Mary L. HARMOND Dau F S W 15 UT
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Henrietta HARMOND Dau F S W 13 UT
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Susan M. HARMOND Dau F S W 11 UT
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: OH
Huldeh A. HARMOND Dau F S W 9 UT
Fa: OH Mo: OH
Amond A. HARMOND Son M S W 7 UT
Fa: OH Mo: OH
Ida A. HARMOND Dau F S W 5 UT
Fa: OH Mo: OH
Alice C. HARMOND Dau F S W 3 UT
Fa: OH Mo: OH

It appears that Ammon was on the 1880 census twice:
Census Place: Eagle Rock And Willow Creek, Oneida, Idaho
Source: FHL Film 1254173 National Archives Film T9-0173 Page 334D
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Thomas COLLIER Self M M W 23 IA
Occ: Laborer Fa: VA Mo: KY
Annie F. COLLIER Wife F M W 25 OH
Occ: Keeping House Fa: SWE Mo: SWE
Laura COLLIER Dau F S W 7M UT
Occ: Laborer Fa: IA Mo: OH
Ammon HARMON Other M M W 43 OH
Occ: Laborer Fa: NY Mo: CAN
Jacob BISSEGER Other M S W 16 SWI
Occ: Laborer Fa: SWI Mo: SWI
Hans JENSEN Other M M W 22 DEN
Occ: Laborer Fa: DEN Mo: DEN
August BISSEGAN Other M M W 22 SWI
Occ: Laborer Fa: SWI Mo: SWI
Charles BIGLER Other M S W 20 UT
Occ: Laborer Fa: VA Mo: PA
Antone HEYRAND Other M M W 33 FRA
Occ: Laborer Fa: HOLLAND Mo: FRA
Adolph BISSEGAN Other M S W 21 SWI
Occ: Laborer Fa: SWI Mo: SWI
James TIBBETTS Other M S W 23 MA
Occ: Laborer Fa: ENG Mo: ENG
Albert BOLLINGER Other M M W 30 SWI
Occ: Laborer Fa: SWI Mo: SWI
Alfred SPARKS Other M S W 19 UT
Occ: Laborer Fa: ENG Mo: WALES
John ALDOUS Other M S W 14 UT
Occ: Laborer Fa: ENG Mo: PA
Godleib FUHRIMAN Other M S W 20 SWI
Occ: Laborer Fa: SWI Mo: SWI
Joseph BARNWELL Other M S W 20 UT
Occ: Laborer Fa: UT Mo: UT
Fountain WELCH Other M M W 45 IN
Occ: Laborer Fa: PA Mo: KY
Edwin GLEASON Other M S W 66 CT
Occ: Laborer Fa: VT Mo: VT
Margaret BLAIN Other F S W 18 UT
Fa: FRA Mo: SCO

DEATH: ID: 719
Last Name: Harmon
First Name: Ammon
Age:
Gender: U
Cemetery: Lewisville,Id.
Birth Date: 27 JAN 1837
Birth Place: Kirtland,OH
Date Died: 26 APR 1902
Death Place:
Father: Alphias Amuleck Harmon
Mother: Hulda Vaughn Dimerus
Spouse: Margaret Scott
Sources: Sexton Row 4, Lot 13
Remarks:

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
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Spouse: Margaret SCOTT. Margaret SCOTT and Ammon HARMON were married on 2 May 1858 in Shell Rock,Butler,Iowa. Children were: George Washington HARMON, Candis HARMON, Victoria B HARMON, Mary Louisa HARMON, Harriett Cordelia HARMON, Susan Margaret HARMON, Huldah Almenia HARMON, Ammon Alpheus HARMON, Ida Alzina HARMON, Alice Caroline HARMON, Marion Henry HARMON.

Spouse: Margaret SCOTT. Margaret SCOTT and Ammon HARMON^2636,2637 were married on 2 May 1858 in Marble Rock, Floyd, Iowa. Family records have had Shell Rock, Butler, Iowa as place of marriage for a long time. Since Ammon and Alma both married sisters on the same day and Alma has a marriage certificate in his pension papers testifying to being married in Floyd County, it didn't make sense to me that Ammon would be married in the next county over. I found his marriage record in Floyd County, Iowa on the internet:
Harmon, Ammon Scott, Margaret E. 05-02-1858
http://www.rootsweb.com/~iafloyd/EarlyMarriages.html

In Margaret Scott Harmon's Declaration for Widow's Pension, she makes the following statement: "That she was married under the name of Margaret Scott to said soldier at Marble Rock, Floyd Co., Iowa, on the 2nd day of May 1858 by Probate Judge Ripley (given name forgotten); that there was no legal barrier to the marriage and that she had NOT been previously married; that the soldier had not been previously married." Children were: George Washington HARMON, Candis HARMON, Victoria Emezella HARMON, Mary Louisa HARMON, Harriet Cordelia HARMON, Susan Margaret HARMON, Huldah Almeada HARMON, Ammon Alpheus HARMON, Ida Alzina HARMON, Alice Caroline HARMON, Marion Henry HARMON.

unmd

BIOGRAPHY: Ammon A. Harmon, son of Ammon and Margaret Scott Harmon was born Dec. 10, 1872 at Providence, Utah. He passed away August 26, 1953 at the age of 80.
Ammon was the 8th child in a family of 11 children.
In April of 1884, the family moved to Lewisville, Idaho. The family was engaged in farming. Ammon followed this occupation all his live; moving to Milo in 1903 where he farmed the land around his home until he retired. He lived in his present home until two weeks before his death at which time he was taken to a rest home. He passed away while there.
Although he never married, he assisted with the raising of other children and caring for his relatives. After his father's death, Ammon cared for his mother until she passed away. Later his sister, Alice died leaving two children, Ervid and Margaret Vancycle. At this time he was living at the home of his sister, Candis. Together they cared for Ervid and Margaret until they were married. Ammon cared for Candis until she passed away.
Since that time he has lived alone, always helping others in everyway he could. His friends as well as his relatives admired him for his kindness and hospitality. He was "Uncle Ammon" to all who knew him. He was loved by children and grownups alike. He enjoyed helping others, not thinking of his own comforts in life.
During his younger days, he set a good example for the other young people with whom he associated. He lived a clean, exemplary life, always doing his best to live up to the principles of the gospel. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Milo ward High Priest group of the East Rigby High Priest Quorum. He enjoyed doing temple work and searching the genealogy records for names of his family. He spent considerable time during the later part of his life doing this work. It was always a great thrill to him when a new name was found by the researchers.
Of him his neighbors have said, "He was a good neighbor and was as concerned about us as any father could possibly be." He enjoyed visiting with others. He loved to tell incidents of the past. He remembered well the happenings of the days when he was a boy and during his younger days. His friends and members of the family always enjoyed listening to him tell of these incidents.
He is survived by a brother, Marion, who resides at Nampa, and many nieces and nephews who mourn his passing.

CHURCH: Lewisville Ward Records Film 2404 pt. 5: Blessed by Henry Brown; Baptized by R.F. Jardine;Ordained Deacon; removed to Milo.

CHURCH: Milo Ward: Received 17 Apr 1910 from Lewisville Ward, Rigby Stake; Ordained Priest 9 Mar 1925 by Parley J. Davis; Ordained Elder 29 Nov 1926 by Fred J. Storer.

DEATH: Funeral program:
In Memory of Ammon Alphias Harmon
1872-1953
Services at Milo Ward LDS Chapel
Friday August 28, 1953 1:00 p.m.
Bishop David F. Cook, presiding
Family Prayer: Ammon Harmon Jr.
Opening Song: Jean & Janice Olsen, Halley Blair, Lo'a Cook "In The Garden"
Life History: Kay Baird
Organ Solo: Ruth Sessions
Speaker: Bishop Wm. J. Sperry
Vocal Duet: Maxine Jensen & Nellie Chapel accompanied by Ruth Sessions "Whispering Hope"
Speaker: Pres. H. Stanley Lee
Remarks: Bishop David F. Cook
Closing Song: Jean & Janice Olsen, Halley Blair, Lola Cook: "Going Home:
Benediction: Warren Bird
Interment in Lewisville Cemetery
Dedicatory Prayer: Stanley Farnsworth
Pall Bearers: Martin Garn, Richard Olsen, Warren Bird, Raymond Larson, Walter Cahpple, Wood Skinner
Flowers under Direction of Milo Ward Relief Society
Funeral under direction of Eckersell Funeral Home
(poem The Twenty-Third Psalm)

DEATH: Top of Form 1
ID: 720
Last Name: Harmon
First Name: Ammon Alphias
Age: 80
Gender: M
Cemetery: Lewisville, Idaho
Birth Date: 10 Dec 1872
Birth Place: Providence, Utah
Date Died: 26 Aug 1953
Death Place: Rigby, Idaho
Father: Ammon Harmon
Mother: Margaret Scott
Spouse:
Sources: Post Register, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 27 Aug 1953, pg 10, 1 Sep 1953, pg 9 Funeral. Eckersell Mortuary, Rigby, Idaho.
Remarks: Funeral at Milo, Idaho.
Bottom of Form 1

CENSUS: 1900 Bruneau, Owyhee, Idaho
Harmon, Armond white male; employee b. Dec 1872; age 27 single; b. UT; parents b. Ohio; farm laborer libing with John and Emma Turner from England.
Earlier on same page is his sister, Candis Stine and her family and his brother Marion Henry Harmon.
CENSUS: 1900 Bruneau, Owyhee, Idaho pg 77/78
Eugene Stine, head white male; July 1851; age 48; md 15 years; b. IL; f b. PA; mb. Vermont; US Mail contractor
Candis Stine, wife b. May 1861; age 39; md 15 years; mother of 1 child; 1 child living; b. Iowa; parents born Ohio
Eugene F. Stine, adopted son, b. Jan 1896 age 4; b. Idaho; parents birth places unknown;
Harmon, Marion H. brother in law; b. Jan 1881; age 19 single; b. UT; parents b. Ohio; farm laborer
(Later on page is brother, Almond (should be Ammon) Harmon working as farm laborer)

CENSUS: 1900 Lewisville, Fremont, IDaho (Mistaken indexing--found by browsing--on image 8 of 19 Ancestry.com)
Harmon, Ammon head b. Jan 1837 age 63; md 47 years; b. OH fb PA; mb Canada E; weaver carpet rags
Margaret wife b. Mar 18--, age 5-- ; md ditto; mother of 11 children; 8 living; b. OH; fb NY; mb KY
Ammon A. son b. Dec 1872; age 27 single; b. UT; day laborer
Alice C. dau b. Feb 1877; age 23 single; b. UT
Marion H. son b. ... 1881; age 19 single; b. UT day laborer.

CENSUS: 1910 Rudy, Jefferson, Idaho
Candis StineHead; age 48; widowed; mother of 1 child; one child living; b. Iowa; parents b. OH;
Frank Stine son; age 14 sing;e; father b. Illinois; mother b. Iowa;
Harmon, Margrett; mother; age 69; widowed; born Iowa;
Harmon, Ammon, brother; age 36 single; b. UT; odd jobs
next household
Coles, Henry head age 42 married 18 years; b. UT; general farm hand
Huldah, wife, age 39; married 18 years; mother of 2 children; 2 living; b. Utah
Henry, son age 14; single; b. Idaho

CENSUS: 1920 Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho
Alvin Coles 40m b. UT father b. Engalnd; mother b. England; farmer
Ida, wife; 40 b. UT
Leo, son 17 b. Idaho
Theola, dau 14 b. Idaho
Dewett, son 13 b. Idaho
Violet, dau 10 b. Idaho
Ethel dau 7 b. Idaho
Lila, dau 5 b. Idaho
Vernal son 1 6/12 b. Idaho
Listed as same household but separate family:
Candis Stine 58 b. Iowa
Eugene F. Stine son 24 b. Idaho
Vansickle, Margaret 11 b. Idaho
Ammon Harmon, brother 47 b. UT
[next door is Henry Coles--probably brother of Alvin. I originally thought Ida was dau of Ammon Harmon. Marriage records proved differently. She is possibly a relative of Florence Fogg who married Marion Harmon, who is a son of Ammon Harmon.]

MILITARY: World War I Military Draft Index: Jefferson County, ID
Harmon, Ammon Alpheus 10 Dec 1872 W

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
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Spouse: Mary TRUMBLE. Mary TRUMBLE and Amos HARMON were married on 1 December 1768. Children were: Miss HARMON, Amos HARMON, Shadrack HARMON, Gideon HARMON.

1880 Census Place: Silver Reef, Washington, Utah
Source: FHL Film 1255339 National Archives Film T9-1339 Page 376A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Amos HARMON Self M M W 50 PA
Occ: Carpenter Fa: VT Mo: MA
Mary J. HARMON Wife F M W 29 CAPETOWN
Occ: Keep House Fa: ENG Mo: ENG
Ida HARMON Dau F S W 5 UT
Fa: PA Mo: CAPETOWN
Charles E. HARMON Son M S W 2 UT
Fa: PA Mo: CAPE TOWN
Anna THEABOLD SisterL F S W 18 UT
Occ: House Keeper Fa: ENG Mo: ENG

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
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Spouse: Mary Jane OULD. Mary Jane OULD and Amos Washington HARMON were married in 1873 in Salt Lake City,Salt Lake,Utah.

Spouse: Mary Jane THEABOLD. Children were: Ida HARMON, Charles E. HARMON.

Spouse: Sarah RAWSON. Sarah RAWSON and Anan HARMON were married in 1762 in New Marlboro,Berkshire,Massachusetts. Children were: Samuel HARMON, Rawson HARMON, Persis HARMON, Anan HARMON, Sarah HARMON, Cynthia HARMON, Samuel HARMON, Nathaniel Bridgeman HARMON.

Occupation: Farmer and vessel owner.
Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve Vol 2 pg 628
" Anan and Tryphenia (Harmon) Harmon, from Berkshire Co., Mass joined the tide
of western emigration and arrived in Ashtabula in 1816. They settled on a
tract of wild land one mile north of the present city. Six children came to
bless their home: Clarissa, Edwin, Roxana, Achsah, Anan, and Polly. Edwin was
for many years identified with the progress and prosperity of the township of
Ashtabula."

Census: 1850 Census for Ashtabula, Ashtabula, OH, page 42, Dwelling 167Anan Harmon age 76 Farmer MARoxa Cenith Thompson age 43 MAAchsa Harmon age 39 MAPolly Harmon age 33 OH(on 2nd page) Emma Thompson age 8 IL (she is Roxina's dau.)

RESIDENCE: 1810-1816 Taxes List for Ashtabula County
KEY:
1810 List: Modern Geauga, Lake, Ashtabula & Cuyhoga.
1811 List: Modern Geauga, Lake, Ashtabula & Cuyhoga.
1814 List: Modern Geauga and Lake counties.
1816 List: Modern Ashtabula County.
Landholders for Ashtabula & Geauga appear on 1814 and 1816 lists.
Examples:
10-11-14-16 = name appears on 1810, 11, 14, and 16 lists.
10-11-14-00 = Geauga Co. landholder.
10-11-00-16 = Ashtabula Co. landholder.
00-00-14-00 = name appears only on 1814 Geauga list.
00-00-00-16 = name appears only on 1816 Ashtabula list.
287 Harman Aman 00-00-00-16
288 Harman Moses 00-00-00-16
289 Harman Nathanael B. 00-00-00-16

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
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Spouse: Tryphena HARMON. Tryphena HARMON and Anan HARMON were married on 13 December 1797 in New Marlborough, , Massachusetts. Children were: Austin HARMON, Clarissa HARMON, Edwin HARMON, Elizabeth HARMON, Roxa Cenith HARMON, Achsah HARMON, Anan HARMON, Polly HARMON.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
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A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ANSIL PERSE HARMON
Written by his daughter
Jane Harmon Pratt
This sketch is to be about my father, but to do justice to it, I must introduce to you some who are in his rich background. They are: John Harmon, our immigrant ancestor, my grandfather, Jesse Perse Harmon; my father's brothers, Appleton Milo and Amos Washington; also his sister, Sophronia.
John Harmon, the immigrant, and his wife, Elizabeth, came to America in 1640 and settled in Massachusetts. His posterity which was numerous, scattered; some remaining in Massachusetts, others going to Connecticut and Vermont.
Jesse Perse was born in Rupert, Bennington, Vermont the 11 Aug 1795 and was the son of Martin and Tryphena Poole Harmon. My father, Ansil Perse Harmon, was born 5 Apr 1832 in Conneaut Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Jesse Perse and Anna Barnes Harmon. He was the youngest of four children: Appleton, Amos, Sophronia, and Ansel.
Father came from a line of patriots. A number of his forebears fought in the Revolutionary War and his father and his father's brother, Martin, were soldiers in the War of 1812. Grandfather received a wound from an Indian's tomahawk and Martin (his uncle) was mortally wounded. Jesse received an honorable discharge from the Army in 1815 and resided in New York State for some time; going from there to Springfield, Pennsylvania. Here he met Anna Barnes, the daughter of Abijah and Abi Bradford Barnes. She was a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford. Abijah descended from Charles Barnes of Long Island, known as Charles, the School Master.
After a romantic courtship, Jesse and Anna were married on 29 Apr 1819. In December of the same year, they moved to Conneaut, Erie, Pennsylvania and it was here that all their children were born.
Anna was a kind and loving wife and mother; very sweet and gentle and strongly spiritual. When she heard of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ from the Apostle Orson Hyde, she investigated, was converted, and was baptized the 29 May 1833, only three years after the organization of the Church.
When father was five years old, the family moved to Kirtland, Ohio, to be with the body of Saints. It was here that his father and brother, Amos were baptized on the 28 Apr 1838. After being driven from one state to another with the Saints, they moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, hoping that they could live there unmolested. Uncle Appleton was baptized in Nauvoo. He and grandfather were both very active in church and civic affairs. They were policemen and grandfather was a bodyguard of the Prophet Joseph. He was also a major and later a colonel in the Nauvoo Legion. When the "Nauvoo Expositor"--a paper issued by the enemies of the church--was printed, the City Council declared it a misdemeanor and ordered the police to destroy it. The Prophet promised them that not one of them would be harmed; although it caused great excitement and many threats from the mob; no one was injured.
Grandfather's brother, Alpheus, and his nephew, Arzey Harmon, were returning from a mission. In crossing the prairie from Carthage to Nauvoo, both perished in a storm. The following is from Appleton's journal:
It appears that Arzey had fallen first, being of tender constitution. The howling blast had overcome them and the snow was falling fast and the wind blew. My uncle had left his nephew some twelve or fourteen miles toward Carthage. Being without chart or compass and the snow falling so fast that no landscape or mark on the road was visible, lost and bewildered; overcome with fatigue and hunger and cold, uncle fell asleep lying on his face. He was found five or six days later; frozen stiff, leaving a widow and seven children to mourn his loss.
And thus perished two martyrs to the cause of truth and missionary labors.
After a short time, Nauvoo had become the largest and most beautiful city in the State of Illinois. A temple was erected and my grandparents had their endowments and were baptized for their kindred dead. But they were not permitted to enjoy those blessings long. In the fall of 1845, persecutions became unbearable. The enemy began burning houses and grain stacks, driving off cattle; whipping the brethren and even killing some. For the sake of peace, the Saints agreed to leave early in the spring. So, in February 1846, the great exodus of a company of twelve or fifteen hundred wagons began crossing the Mississippi. Grandfather and family stayed in Nauvoo until June; then crossed the River. Here they remained for some time making preparations for the long journey ahead and to help others to cross the river. In the meantime, Appleton had married and gone ahead with a company to help in routing the way. In September they reached a place about three miles from the Missouri River. Here they settled for the winter, built temporary houses and a saw mill. This place was named Winter Quarters.
Appleton had just finished his home [at Winter Quarters] when his father's family arrived in December. They had endured many hardships of cold, hunger, and sickness. They were all ill with chills and fever when they reached there. Grandmother and Sophronia continued to grow worse and on Jan 16, father was deprived of the kind and loving mother. Ten days later, death again entered the home and claimed his only sister [who was the wife of Heber C. Kimball]. The weather was severe and the ground frozen three feet deep, which made it very difficult to dig their graves.
The family remained in Winter Quarters until 1848 when they again started on the trek across the plains to the Rocky Mountains. Grandfather had his own outfit; Father and his brother, Amos, drove teams for [brother-in-law] Heber C. Kimball for which they received their board. They and Appleton and his wife and child arrived in the Salt Lake valley 5 Oct 1848; ragged and weary, but thankful to reach a haven of rest. They lived in their wagons until they had made enough adobe to build a one-room house for Appleton--where they all lived for a few months then they moved into Grandfather's new log house.
The day after their arrival in Salt Lake Valley, Father went to work at a molasses mill where he worked two weeks for a gallon and a half of molasses made from corn stalks. Can we imagine our sixteen year old boys of today working for such a wage?
Father remained at home helping his father until 1852, then went to work for Briant Stringham. The winter of 1845-55 he spent in Cache Valley looking after church cattle. He returned in the spring and began working for the YX Company. In Aug 1857, when Johnston's Army came to Utah to exterminate the Mormons, Father went with the first company under the command of Captain Robert Burton to meet them. While on guard, he found a soldier who had deserted and was in hiding. He was a German and unable to talk English. He surrendered his gun and was turned over to Captain Burton. He brought him into Salt Lake. Sometime later he became a member of the church and an ardent worker.
In 1861, father went to the Missouri River as a night guard with the first ox team that made a return trip the same year with emigrants. The following year, he went again as an assistant to Captain Joseph W. Young. At Fort Laramie, Brother Young left the train in his charge and when in Florence, Nebraska, ready to return, he was appointed Captain of the Company. After returning in October, he remained until February; then left for lower California as teamster for George Stringham. He returned the first of May. Had he been told that his children would be able to make the same trip in a few hours that took him nearly three months with a mule team, he would no doubt have considered it a miracle.
The day after his return from Lower California, he was notified that he had again been appointed Captain of a Company to return to the Missouri River after emigrants. He left May 11 and returned 27 Sep. In the company was a young girl named Roseline Chandler from New York City. She had lost her parents, her brothers and sisters and was all alone. Father was attracted to this beautiful maiden and showed much interest in her. By the time they reached Salt Lake, a close friendship had developed which soon ripened into love. She became his bride on 29 Nov 1861. The ceremony was performed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City by Daniel H. Wells. They made their home in Salt Lake until the next spring when father was called to Cedar Springs (now Holden), Utah, to take over the management of the church property. It may be on interest to my readers to hear why the name Cedar Springs was changed to Holden. This is a story I have heard my father tell. A man named James Holden was bringing a herd of sheep from the north. He had hired a boy, the son of a widow, to help him drive them. When they were between Scipio and Cedar Springs, it began to snow and became very cold. It being only September, they were thinly clad and not prepared for such weather. Mr. Holden took his coat off and put it on the boy. They sought shelter under the trees but could not fight the cold. They both perished. My father helped look for the bodies. They found the man but couldn't find the body of the boy. Some Indians joined the searchers. They said, "We will watch were the crows fly." After a while they saw a flock flying towards a tree and followed them there. Sure enough, there was the body under a tree. The crows had discovered it and had been picking flesh from his bones. And so the name Cedar Springs was changed to Holden in honor of the man, James Holden, who had perished there.
While father was working for the church, they lived in an adobe fort with a few other families. The fort was built as a protection against the Indians who were on the war path. Four of their young children were born there: Anna, Milo, Joseph, and Mary. Joseph died when very young.
Our folks entertained President Young and his company whenever they were traveling. Often there would be quite a crowd.
In the spring of 1871, my father and his family moved into an eight-room house which they had built. When my sister, Emma was three weeks old, Father left for a mission to the Eastern States. He met many of his relatives and bore his testimony to them. He returned home the next March. Mother was ill and confined to her room all during his absence.
Father served in the Bishopric for twenty-eight years. He was counselor to two bishops. Always active in church and civic affairs, he held many responsible positions. Dependability was one of his greatest characteristics. He was a kind and loving father. He had wonderful discipline. We obeyed because we loved him.
He was a good story teller. His experiences with the Indians and other life stories would keep us spellbound. He was a friend to the poor and the sick and was often called in to administer to the sick. His was truly a life of service. Little children loved him. He was a man of great faith. I have often heard him bear his testimony of the divinity of Joseph Smith. One day when father was coming home from the field he was thrown from a horse and seriously injured. He was about 60 years old at the time and his life was despaired of by many, but Apostle Francis M. Lyman gave him a blessing and promised him that he should recover and this promise was fulfilled. He lived many years after. He was the father of nine children; two boys and seven girls. He was preceded in death by three children. My mother and three others have since followed.
Father was frugal and industrious. After building our home, he planted fruit trees, grape vines, flowering shrubs, and shade trees. He planted a row of locust trees on each side walk of our lot and they are still standing and have furnished shade for many a weary traveler who has stopped to enjoy the fruits of his labors.
A short time ago, I met a friend who had visited our home and he said, "Your father was the most methodical man I ever knew. Everything on his place was in order. He could go in the dark and find any tool or implement he needed." There were no sagging gates or broken down fences. He took great pride in our home; looking after the welfare of his family as well as his flocks and herds, furnishing plenty of feed and shelter for all. The hospitality of our home was extended to many. In early days when traveling was slow, it was not unusual to have people drive in to spend the night or longer and they were always welcome.
Father's life was one of heroic adventure. Four times he made the long and arduous journey from Salt Lake City to the Missouri River; three of these times with slow ox teams. On these trips he endured the danger of attack by hostile Indians and the toil and hardship of these long and wearisome journeys. When the Union Pacific Railroad extended its line from Molena to Los Angeles, father enjoyed the luxury of traveling by rail over the desert which he had crossed when driving a slow mule team years before. He visited his brother Amos and family in San Bernadino and a number of old friends. It was a fitting climax to a well-spent life.
Father was well and active until the spring of 1908 when his health began to fail. He grew continually worse until the time of his death, which occurred the 12 Sep 1908, at the home of his daughter, Anna Stringham, in Vermillion, Utah. His memory will long be cherished and held in reverence by his many friends and descendants.
I have heard my father tell of hearing his father relate the following incident which happened while he was in the War of 1812. He, with a few other soldiers had sought shelter in an old cabin and were surrounding the table eating when a cannon ball was shot into the room and burst--killing everyone but Jesse. The bodies were dismembered and arms. legs, heads were scattered all over the room. Why was Jesse not killed. We will let some of his descendants say why.

1880 Census Place: Holden, Millard, Utah
Source: FHL Film 1255336 National Archives Film T9-1336 Page 469A
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Ansel P. HARMON Self M M W 48 PA
Occ: Farmer Fa: PA Mo: PA
Rosalone HARMON Wife F M W 39 NY
Occ: Keeping House Fa: MD Mo: NY
Anna HARMON Dau F S W 16 UT
Occ: At School Fa: PA Mo: NY
Milo HARMON Son M S W 14 UT
Occ: At Home Fa: PA Mo: NY
Mary HARMON Dau F S W 10 UT
Occ: At School Fa: PA Mo: NY
Lucy HARMON Dau F S W 8 UT
Occ: At School Fa: PA Mo: NY
Emma HARMON Dau F S W 5 UT
Fa: PA Mo: NY
Jane HARMON Dau F S W 3 UT
Fa: PA Mo: NY

Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 10, p.410
Sophronia Harmon Kimball was born April 5, 1824, the daughter of Jess Perse and Anna Barnes Harmon. While at Kirtland, her parents became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They lived in Nauvoo and reached Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in December of 1846, Sophronia accompanying them. The date of Sophronia's marriage to Heber C. Kimball is not known, but members of the family believe the ceremony took place in Nauvoo. In the histories which mention her, she is listed as Sophronia Melinda Harmon Kimball. From the history of her brother, Ansel Harmon, we quote:
Ansel's mother and his sister became sick through exposure and hardships of the journey and his mother died January 16, 1847, and his only sister, Sophronia, a grown young lady, died ten days later, January 26, 1847. At the time of their deaths the family was ill. Ansel was the only one who was able to go and see his mother buried, and he was having chills every other day. It was a sad time for a boy of scarcely fifteen years, to lose his mother and only sister just ten days apart. He has told how affectionate and kind they both were and what a trial it seemed to his father, his brother Amos, and himself to be left alone.
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 10, p.410
This twenty-four-year-old woman was also the sister of Appleton M. Harmon who came to Utah with the first pioneers. In 1848 the Harmon family began the trek across the plains, and Amos and Ansel each drove a team for Heber C. Kimball, while Appleton drove his own team. Her name is engraved on a cemetery monument at Omaha, Nebraska, Sophronia Harmon Kimball. —Mary Harmon Seegmiller

CURTIS, JOSEPH (son of Joseph Curtis of London, Eng.). Born Sept. 22, 1812, in London. Came to Utah Sept. 23, 1861, Ansel P. Harmon company.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p.832
Married Sarah Morrell 1837, in London (daughter of John Morrell of London, pioneer Sept. 23, 1861, Ansel P. Harmon company). She was born Nov. 23, 1814. Their children: Sarah C., m. William Husbands; Edwin, m. Fanny Harrison, m. Delia Crockett; Annie, m. Thomas Armstrong; Eleanor, m. Charles Cowley; Eliza M., m. Benjamin Pearson; Salina, m. Mr. Stout; Henry W., m. Lula Benson, m. Agnes Mackey. Family home Salt Lake City.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p.832
Missionary to England. General overseer in woolen and velvet works; weaver. Died April 1877, at Salt Lake City.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Jesse Pierce HARMON and Anna BARNES.

Spouse: Rosaline CHANDLER. Children were: Anna Rose HARMON, Milo Ancil HARMON, Joseph Martin HARMON, Mary Sophronia HARMON, Lucy Elmeda HARMON, Emma Thressa HARMON, Jane Marinda HARMON, Zina Belle HARMON, Lily Orilla HARMON.

Spouse: William JUDD. Ann HARMON and William JUDD were married on 16 February 1731 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut.

Spouse: Aaron RISING. Anna HARMON and Aaron RISING were married on 5 September 1755 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut. Children were: Sarah RISING, Aaron RISING, Simeon RISING, Josiah RISING, Ruth RISING, Ruth RISING.

Records of Cheryl Harmon Bills
cherylbills@@gmail.com Parents: Appleton Milo HARMON and Elemeda STRINGHAM.

Spouse: William Jeremiah HEKI. Anna "Annie" HARMON and William Jeremiah HEKI were married on 23 May 1889 in Junction,Piute,Utah.

Spouse: George William CHERRINGTON. Anna "Annie" HARMON and George William CHERRINGTON were married on 20 July 1888 in Salt Lake City,Salt Lake,Utah.