Stephen Hadlock and Sally Alton
1790-1847 1796 - 1880
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The first of the Hadlock family left England to come live in the United States around 1638 - brothers Nathaniel and James (we come through James).
Stephen Hadlock was born on February 12, 1790 in New Hampshire. He was the tenth child for his parents, Jonathon Hadlock and Elizabeth (Betty) Pettee (or Pattee). His siblings names were: Abigail, Samuel, Hezekia, Jonathon, Joseph, Betsy, Peter, Mariam, Rhosa and Amos. His oldest sister, Abigail, died either at birth or shortly after. Just after the family relocated to Jay, Vermont, Stephen's father, Jonathon, died in 1801, when Stephen was just 11 years old.
In 1814, when Stephen was about twenty-four years old, he enlisted in the army to fight in the War of 1812. Soon after his enlistment the war ended in 1815 and Stephen found himself in New Hampshire. It is in New Hampshire that met a girl named Sally Alton and they were married on December 5, 1816.
Sally was born on 23 Nov 1796, to Abel Alton and Irene Sanger in Windham, Connecticut. Her siblings names were: Polly, Nancy, Orin, Abel and Irene. Sally gwas raised as a child in Conneticut but at some point must have moved with her family to the Vermont/New Hampshire area.
After Stephen and Sally were married, they settled in Jay, Vermont for a time - which was close to the birthplace of the Prophet Joseph Smith. In 1817, Stephen and Sally had their first child, a daughter they named Lucretia. After Lucretia was born, they had a new child about every two years until the last child who was born in 1843. Their childrens names were: Lucretia - 1817, Persine - 1819, Irene - 1822, Nathan - 1824, Orrin - 1826, Chastina - 1828, Rosina - 1831, Cecilia - 1836, Esther - 1841 and Henrietta in 1843. In total they had eight daughters and two sons.
An interesting note is that Irene, the third child, was born with mental disabilities. It is not know what kind she had, but on many census', Irene is listed as "Insane" or "Idiot." In the old OLD old days, those terms were used for people "with profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years." Sweet Irene lived with Sally until the end of Sally's life, then went on and lived with her siblings.
Soon after the establishment of the Mormon church, Sally and Stephen and some of their children were baptized into the faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the June of 1833.
The Hadlock family traveled along with the rest of the members as they looked for a place to settle. They lived in Nauvoo for the years the saints lived there, then left with in the first group to leave Nauvoo in 1846 when they were driven out of the state. They left with the same company as Brigham Young, but only made it as far as Winter Quarter's when Stephen got ill. They spent one winter at Winter Quarters, hoping to see if Stephen would get better.
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| Depiction of what Winter Quarters looked like |
They built a small house to live in as they prepared to go westward. Before Stephen got sick, he had built two wagons and had two yoke of oxen for each wagon along with all the necessary equipment ready to go when it was time. Sadly his health continued to deteriorate and he never got better and died on September 9, 1847 at age 57. A source says he died of the plague but after looking into the illnesses and diseases that had taken over Winter Quarters, I believe he may have died of something else. The main causes of death at Winter Quarters among the Pioneers were Malaria and Pnemonia, followed closely by Dysentary and Tuberculosis. He had suffered much due to the conditions and tribulations that came to them on their journey west, and he could not beat this illness.
After her husband's death, the rest of the family stayed at Winter Quarters for another year, and in the 1849 Sally continued on west with her family of two sons and eight daughters. Nathan and Orin - the sons of the family each drove a wagon. At one point in the trek westward, Orin became very ill and couldn't drive. Sally and her daughter Chastina took turns at driving in his place.
The family arrived in Utah towards the end of 1849 and settled in the Ogden territory. This is where most of her children married and lived with their children. Sally was the head of her own household until her death. She died on February 28, 1880 and is buried in the Ogden City Cemetary next to many of her children.
Sources:
- History written and submitted to Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Nov 1974 by Josie Hadlock
Seppich, great granddaughter.
Deaths in Early Nauvoo,1839–46, and Winter Quarters, 1846–48 byEvan L. Ivie and Douglas C. Heiner. The Religious Educator • Vol 10 No 3 • 2009. https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/RelEd/article/viewFile/2366/2203
