Author Archives: Heather Hoyt

Ella Pack Journal   September 15th, 1896. (She was 17)   For the first time this year, as I was walking down the pasture to milk the cows (for I have been a milk-maid for some time) there came to my ears the sound of a threshing machine. This sound, though not unpleasant, brought with […]

Edward Doty From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Doty (c. 1598 – August 23, 1655) was a Mayflower passenger, a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a permanent settler at the Plymouth colony. His surname sometimes appears as Doten or Dotey. Doty’s ancestry is unknown. Statements that he was born in Shropshire, England, on May […]

HENSON WALKER Compiled by Heather Walker, 2007 You shall be blessed in the days of your probation notwithstanding your days of afflictions and in days of trial that are yet to come in your House. –Patriarchal Blessing given to Henson Walker Jr. by Hyrum Smith, 1844 HENSON’S CONVERSION AND YEARS IN NAUVOO Henson Walker Jr. […]

by Marlene Walker My name is Jilleen, Jill for short. It’s supposed to be a combination of Jim and Marlene, my parents’ names. When I was 6, I lived at 1200 Fox Run, Florissant, Missouri. It was on the front corner of a bunch of new houses. We planted and fixed up the yard and one […]

Life of John Pack by Frederick J. Pack (son through Mary Jane Walker) October 22, 1937 (taken from “Temple Record and Life of John Pack microfilm #0000027) JOHN PACK John Pack, son of George Pack and Phylotte Green, was born in the town of Saint John, New Brunswick, May 20, 1809. Both of his parents […]

February 20, 2009 So today I’m sitting with my grandma and she tells me a story. And I’ll relate it to you, probably somewhat inaccurately. She when she was young, she earned money by babysitting. She got a whole 25 cents an hour to babysit. And then she would take 10% of that money and […]

Elizabeth Donnelly (or Donley) married Ralph Maxwell in 1823. They were both born in Ireland, but they married in England and most of their children were born in Scotland. They had six. A son died either before or slightly after his first birthday. They moved around some: from a farm six miles outside of Lanark, […]

*Moved from East Greenwich to Saint John when she was young because her father, Rufus Green, was a Tory. *Married George Pack about 1790, in Saint John. *Children all born at Saint John (oldest to youngest) Margaret, George, Sarah, Nancy, Phoebe, Rufus, Mary, Harriet, John, Caleb, Eleanor, and James Benjamin. *After the birth of their […]

John Pack Born May 20, 1809 in Saint John, New Brunswick Born in Canada. Moved to United States later on. Ninth of twelve children. October 10, 1832, married Julia Ives at Watertown, New York. Purchased the homestead from his father in Hounsfield and assumed responsibility of caring for his parents. Baptized with his wife by […]

George Pack An orphan At about five years, was “bound out” to Stephen Kent. At the close of the Revolutionary War, Stephen Kent (a Tory) moved to the Loyalist colony at Saint John, New Burnswick, taking George, then 13, with him. Married Phylotte Green about 1790, in Saint John. Children all born at Saint John […]