Stephen and Sally

               Stephen Hadlock      and         Sally Alton

     

                          1790-1847                                                          1796 - 1880

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They are the parents of Chastina Hadlock Allen

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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. 



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:

• http://www.theharmons.us/harmon_t/b807.htm#P82673
• History written and submitted to Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Nov 1974 by Josie Hadlock
  Seppich, great granddaughter.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_Quarters_by_C.C.A._Christensen.png
• 
  

  Deaths in Early Nauvoo,1839–46, and Winter Quarters, 1846–48 by

  Evan 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

Chastina Hadlock Allen

1828-1913

Wife of Alanson David Allen

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Mother of Emeline Clarissa Allen (wife to Erastus Perry Bingham)
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           Chastina Hadlock was born on April 2, 1828 in Jay, Vermont. She was the sixth child of ten children to Stephen Hadlock and Sally Alton.  The Hadlock ancestors had immigrated to America from England some time before the year 1650.

           In 1831, 3 year old Chastina and her family moved to Welsby County, Ohio. Her family learned of the gospel in 1833 and her parents were baptized that same year. Chastina was baptized on April 10, 1838.  In 1840, the family moved to Illinois to be with the rest of the saints. She heard the prophet Joseph Smith speak many times and remembered when he was killed in 1844.

Chastina's father, Stephen Hadlock, was a hard worker and had prepared to travel west to Zion. He had built two fine wagons and had two yoke of oxen for each wagon with  all the necessary equipment ready when he got sick and died. Cholera was spreading among the saints at that time, and that could have been what he died from.  He died at Council Bluffs on September 9, 1847.  

  Chastina’s mother, Sally, along with her two sons and six daughters were to make the trip alone. The wagon train left in 1849 and Chastina was 22 years old at the time. They started out with the two boys driving the oxen. They hadn't gone far when Chastina’s brother, Orin, fell ill – leaving Chastina to drive the one of the wagons. When Orin got better and was able to drive the oxen, Chastina rode horseback most of the time.  She was a very good horsewoman and no one but her was able to ride her horse.

They spent one winter at Winter Quarters. The saints settled here for a while before heading west. Chastina was helping her brothers build a small house for them to stay in, when one day when she was helping; a log fell and struck her in the head, knocking her unconscious. This caused her to be sick for a long time. While she was unconscious, her father came to her in a dream and told her she would get well and come to the valley in the mountains to live. This gave her courage and helped her heal.

Chastina talked of enjoying many of the evenings they had on the plains. She loved dancing and especially enjoyed the square dances. She was a happy sort of person and when there was a little deviation from hard work or other hardships, she took advantage of it.

They arrived in Utah in 1849. In the summer of 1850 she met Alanson David Allen. On a lovely moonlit night he asked her to go for a ride on horseback with him. She accepted willingly. When they had ridden for awhile out here on what they called the Sand Ridge, he asked her if she would marry him and she said yes. He said, "Why? you hardly know me." She told him, "Well my father had once said to me that Alanson Allen was such a fine, honest, trustworthy young man," and she had said, "Well father, someday I'll marry him."

Alanson and Chastina were married in September of 1850.  They lived in Ogden for the first year of their marriage when Brigham Young, the Prophet, called them to go to Willard, Utah to help settle the area. In 1860, they moved to Hyrum to help settle the community there and they remained there for 6 years and had a farm. They had cotton plants which Chastina would pick, and make them into clothing.  The house they lived in was a log cabin with dirt floors.

In 1866, they moved to Huntsville where they remained the rest of their lives. She was a member of the first relief society that was organized in Huntsville. The first house they had in Huntsville was a log cabin with a dirt roof and a dirt floor and later building a nice frame house.

Chastina seemed to be unusually strong. After her babies were born, she would usually be up and around on the third or fourth day cooking meals and caring for the rest of her family. When her ninth child, Samuel, was born,  her husband Alanson had been gone to the canyon for a load of wood and was not there for the birth. When he came home she was getting supper ready and told him to go look in the bed and see what they had. He was very much surprised to find a new son.

Chastina was known as being a hard worker. There was a big family to feed and care for and she helped Alanson shoulder to shoulder on the farm.  Alanson and Chastina usually had at least 20 head of sheep, she and her husband would shear them, wash the wool and make it into yarn so that clothing and socks could be made from it.  Many nights she would stay up until early morning working hard to get new stockings, a pair of jeans, a coat for one of the boys, or a dress for one of the girls, ready for them for Christmas.

Their dresses and jeans would be worn for best for a year, then, the second year they would take them for next best. They would only get one new pair of shoes a year and, if they wore them out, they had to go barefoot until the crops were ready in the fall. Then they could sell the crops and buy more. They were among the first people to get a nice new pump from which to get water. This was quite a luxury because they were used to getting water from the ditch or a spring and, just before the pump, a well.

Alanson and Chastina were good to people passing through the valley, and many times would give them a lodging, food and shelter and feed for their animals.

Chastina could handle her own. There is a story of a time, a man lodging at their home tried to kiss her. She disliked him very much so she just grabbed him and turned him over her knee and gave him a spanking. She could lift 100 pounds easier than her husband, who was not so strong physically.When she was about 50 years old, there was a man who had hurt his leg and couldn't put weight on it, Chastina picked him up and put him on the horse so that he could go home.

She loved to ride horseback and nearly always had her own horse. When she was 72 years old she had her picture taken on her horse, Old Bell. She rode winter and summer until she was very old.



Chastina on Old Bell



Alanson died on Mar 3, 1887. Chastina lived alone in the old home for many years until she finally decided to live with her then, she decided live with her daughter and her family.



4 generation picture
Chastina is on the left



 Chastina was always active and enjoyed life. Even to the last years of her life, she stayed active by making many quilts - most of them by hand.  She died on Mar 13, 1913 when she was 84. She is buried by her husband in the Ogden, Utah Cemetery.

 

Sources:

·          http://lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearchresults/1,15792,4017-1,00.html

·          http://suplibrary.org/stories/detail.asp?id=288

·          www.Ourfamilyroots.org

·          http://mvmoyes.blogspot.com/2010/01/history-of-alanson-david-allen.html

·          "History of Chastina Allen Hadlock” by granddaughter Mathel Allen Ridges Sept 26, 1946

·          Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah 2 vols, Esshom, Frank, (Salt Lake City: 1913), p 713.

·          http://www.mendonutah.net/history/cache_county/39.htm

·          LDS Biographical Encyclopedia by Andrew Jensen V 2, p 338