Elias James 1744-1789 (married to Ann Matson)

LOUDOUN COUNTY – WILL OF ELIAS JAMES ~ 1789  Transcribed and submitted by Jo Anne Momburg, JMomburg@aol.com
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 Will of Elias James  signed 29 May 1789  found in Loudoun Co., VA Will Book "D", pg. 102.    Regarding Elias James, Jo Anne writes, "Elias James was born in Upper Merion,  Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 11 Feb 1743/44. M. Anna MATSON. Served as  private in Revolutionary War and then moved to Loudoun County where he died  1789, Anna died 1827. Elias was the son of Thomas JAMES. Children of Elias and  Anna were Thomas, Hannah, Anne, Isaac, James and Elias. [This will was] copied  as written without any corrections as to spelling or punctuation. Items were  paragraphed to make for easier reading." - Jo Anne Momburg.   *********   I Elias James of the County of Loudan in the State of Virginniah Cooper being  some afflicted in body but of perfect Mind and memory thanks be given unto God  for the same and calling to mind the mortalyty of my body and that it is  appointed for all men once to die. I therefore commend my soul to him Who gave  it and do ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and form as  Followeth.  
First I imprimise I will that all my Just debts ???? and funeral charges be paid  and discharged by my Ex. hereafter named, 
2nd Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Anne one square walnut table  two chears, one fether bed bedsted and beding one chest of drawers one Iron pott  one duch oven one frying pan one buckat one wash Tub one flatiron one peuter  bason three peuter plates one peuter Dish three spoons one peuter Tea pott and  sugar bowl three tea Cups and sausers one tea kittle one tin pan two tin cups  two Erthen dishes two mich? pans one erthen pott two white plates two Knives and  forks these for her to enjoy while she remains my Widow or dureing her life  which ever first then she shall return To our children that may then survive  shere and shere alike. 
3 Item. I give and bequeth onto my son Thomas James all my Right and title of a  lott of leace land that I now live on containing one hundred acres with the  buildings and aperteneces thereonto belonging to him his Heirs and assigns he  yealding and paying his mother yearly and every Year dureing her natural life or  the Expiration of the above leace which ever first the sum of two pounds  virginnia currency. I also give and bequeath my said Son Thomas my little mare  and colt saddle and bridle one gun and Tackle. 
4th Item. I give and bequeath onto omy son, Isaac James all my Right and Title  of my other Lott of leace land containing One hundred and two acres with all the  Buildings and apertenances thereonto belonging to him his heir and assigs he  Yealding and paying his mother yearly and every year during her Natural life or  till the expiration of the leace which ever first The sum of two pounds  Virginnia Currency.  5th Item. I give and bequeath unto James Nichols married To my Daughter Ann she  being since decesed one dollar and one third. 
6th Item. I give and bequeath onto my Daughter Hannah James one fether bed  bedsted and beding one cherry bed bed sted and beding one wool wheel one flax  wheel one check Reell one large trunk one small walnut box one iron pott one  flatiron one pair wool cards the new velvet side sadle and a Bridle also all the  dresser furniture tea and coffee ware except Above excepted for her mother also  the bigg looking glass with all the drinking bowls and glasses. 
7th Item. I will that all My wareing aperell be equally divided between my two  sons Thomas and Isaac and all my books of devinity be equally Divided among all  my children and the younger ones then to Carefully presarved till the come of  age.
8th Item. I give and Bequeath onto my two youngest sons James James and Elias  James all that I shall hereafter in any wisesoever Posses equell shere and shere  alike only James to have three Pounds the most I also will that their legeces be  places out on Interest for their benefit till the come of age and the to be  Bound out to good Trads sufitiant schooling till the Age of twenty. 
9th. I also nominate constitue and apoint My son Thomas James and my trusty  friends Abner Osburn and Owen Thomas to be my whole and sole Exrs of this my  last Will and Testament and Revoak disannul? utterly make Void all former Wills  by me in aneywise made ????fying and Confirming this and no other to be my last  will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this  29th date of may 1789. Elias James Signed sealed published and Declared by the  said Elias James The testator as and for his last will and Testament in the  presence of us who have subscirbed our names And at the request of the said  Testator  James Currell Thomas Humphrey Junior Thomas Humphrey.  At a Court held for Loudoun County October the 12th 1789 This will was proved by  the Witnesses thereto and ordered to be Recorded and on the motion of Thomas  James one of the Executors therein named who made oath according to law the  other Executors Having refused to Qualify, Certificate is Granted him for  obtaining a probate thereof in due form giving security whereupon he with Abner  Osborne and Owen Thomas entred into acknowledged Their Bond in the penalty of  Five hundred pounds conditioned as the law Directs of Ann James widow and Relict  of this decedant. Personally appeared in Court and relinquished any benefit she  may Have in the said Will.  

Charles Ora Card - LDS church membership record - comments

Charles was president of the Alberta Stake of Zion. In 1843 Charles' parents received the gospel, and under the hands of Elder William Hyde he received his child's blessing. He accompanied his parents to Park Centre, St. Joseph county, Michigan, in the fall of 1846. There his grandfather, William F. Card, had lodged on his way to Nauvoo, but had sickened and died. After the family had been here one year, they were all taken sick with chills, fever, and ague, and three more of his grandfather's family died, one son and two daughters. His father being in poor health, concluded to go to his old home in Ossian, New York State, taking his mother and his own family with him. He took this step to regain his health and that of his family, also for the purpose of procuring means to gather with the Church. President Card writes: "On April, 1856 we were on our way by train to Great Salt Lake valley; we joined the migrating Saints at Iowa City, Iowa, where father procured two yoke of oxen and a wagon; with this outfit we accompanied the first two divisions of the hand-cart companies under the guidance of Elders Edmund Ellsworth and Daniel D. McArthur, and crossed the State of Iowa to Florence; at this point the company was divided, my father traveling with what is known as the first hand-cart company under Elder Edmund Ellsworth as captain. Although I was only sixteen years of age, I took my turn standing guard with the men. I was also chosen as one of the hunters to aid in securing meat from the vast herds of buffalo that were traversing the plains in those days. I also aided the hand-cart people in crossing the streams, after filling father's wagon with women and children, and then continued our labors by carrying the remainder across the streams on our backs. For several hundred miles my father and uncle were sick, and the care of two wagons and four yoke of oxen and other camp chores depended upon me. We landed in Salt Lake City in the latter part of September, and I assure the reader that the following October conference was a great treat to me, to behold Prophets and Apostles and sit under their teachings. Soon after this my father moved to Farmington, Davis county, where I was ordained a Seventy and became identified with the 56th quorum of Seventy. I spent my 20th birthday (Nov. 5, 1859) building a log cabin in Logan for my father, preparatory to moving there, which we did the following March, 1860, where I resided with my parents, taking an active part with the minute men under Colonel Thomas E. Ricks during the first four years. I attended school in Ogden from December, 1864, until April, 1866, under the kind tutoring of Elder Francis A. Brown and his accomplished wife, Hattie C. From the earliest introduction of the Sabbath Schools in Cache valley, I took an active part as teacher, Ward superintendent, and superintendent of the consolidated schools of Logan. After this I acted as first assistant Stake superintendent for about fifteen years. During the winter of 1871 I filled a winter's mission among friends and acquaintances; I also visited New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, with William Hyde of Logan as my companion. I was counselor to the president of the High Priest's quorum in the Cache Stake from 1877 to 1879, and second counselor to William B. Preston from 1879 to 1884, when I was made president of Cache Stake, which position I occupied until August, 1890. From 1873 to 1877 I superintended the erection of the Logan Tabernacle, and from 1877 to 1884 I superintended the construction of the Logan Temple. Thus, for eleven years I was engaged in supervising the erection of these two great edifices. About the 1st of September, 1886, I was requested by President John Taylor to explore the British possessions and to report the feasibility of establishing a colony on British soil, which I did and reported favorably to him in November, the same year. Early in the spring of 1887 I was requested by President John Taylor to permanently locate and take charge of a colony of Saints in southern Alberta, and with grip in hand, on the 21st of March, I took my journey by rail to Helena, Montana, where I was joined by President Thomas E. Ricks, of Rexburg, Idaho, Bishop Thomas X. Smith of the Fourth Ward, Logan, Utah, and Elder Niels Mouson, of Hyrum; the latter conveying us from there to Lees creek, Alberta. On the 27th of April we located the site of what is now known as the village of Cardston. June 3, 1887, we numbered forty souls; today there are ten Wards and two branches with about three thousand inhabitants in the Alberta Stake of Zion. During this period, my labors have been directed to various channels. I introduced the first steam thresher in Cardston, and directed the first saw mill; aided to establish the first dairy and grist mill, established the first store now known as the Cardston Co. Limited. I have also assisted in building four meeting houses in Cardston, and one large two story public school house. During the last two years almost my entire time has been given to the great canal built by our people. I turned the first furrow, and have traveled five thousand miles with my own team during its construction. A railroad is nearly completed which will connect us with the outside world. A word for the government: We have located on British soil, lived in Alberta nearly fourteen years and have always received from the government a just and impartial recognition."

Margaret Elizabeth Brower Pope 1849-1920

The following was published in a Lewiston, Utah paper when Margaret died in February 1920:.
Reviewing the Career of Margaret E. Pope of Lewiston.
"On February twenty-first of this year there passed away in Lewiston a lady whose life story accords her a conspicuous place in the history of the West in gneral and of California and Utah in particular. That lady was Mrs Margaret E. Pope of Lewiston whose portrat appears above..
The lady was the daughter of A.C. Brower and Margaret E. Brower, pioneers of Utah and the West. Attracted to California by the discovery of gold, her parents in 1848 made the long, toilsome overland journey to the state, settling in Sacramento, where for about two years they conducted a hotel. The little Margaret arrived on the scene August 19 in that era so famous in California's history--"the days of the god, the days of "49", and was the first white child born in the now populous city of Sacamento..
In 1852 the family returned to Utah and within the same year settled in Grantsville, where she with her parents was subjected to all the hardships of pioneer life during her early girlhood. Here too, she met and married Mr. oscar M. Pope..
Mr Pope was also numbered amongst early Utah pioneers. He was born in Nauvoo, Illinois August 19 upon the same day of the month as his wife, but three years earlier, or in 1846. His parents shared all the perils surrounding the Saints prior to the Propher Joseph, and also in their expulsion. Like the Brower family, they arrived in Utah in 1852, and also settled in Grantsville, where Mr. Pope lived until he was 19 years of age. When 18, he gained his first view of Cache Valley, walking here with a pack on his back hunting for work..
Mr. and Mrs. pope were united in marriage at the Endowment house in Salt Lake by Apostle George Q. Cannon on April 1, 1865, and a month later settle in Richmond Cache Co., where they lived for sixteen years, then moved to Lewiston. For many years in the pioneering stage of theis valley's history, their worldly lot was indeed a hard one, lightened thought by love and faith. their introduction to Lewiston was one bitter experience, their crops failing for three successive years and they then had to move back to Richmond, where Mr. Pope had to toil hard in the mountains for three years to supply his family of six with enough to make a new start in Lewiston, where they lived continuously until Mrs. Pope's death, and where Mr. Pope still resides..
The portrait of Mrs. Pope shown above ws taken upon the fiftieth or Golden anniversary of her marriage, or on April 1, 1915 the occasion being memorable by a big family gathering in the Lewiston opera house where a splendid program was rendered and one hundred and thirty person partook of the banquet prepared..
Mrs. pope was fully as active in serving her church as in meeting the requirements of her family. She was first counselor in the Relief Society in that subdivision of the Lewiston ward now known as Sugarton,and for a number of years as Relief Society teacher and was ever on hand to aid the poor and comfort the distressed. She was not less mindful of her duty to her ancestors, and she and her sister, amrs. Cassandra Whittle performed vicarious work in the Temple for approximatley 1000 deceased relatives and intimate friends of the family..
She was the mother of eleven children, seven of whom survive to bless the memory of a devoted mother. They are: Mrs. Mary Rawlins of Cornish; Mrs. Maggie Williams of Lewiston; O. M. Pope, Jr. of Blackie Albert, Canada; Mrs. Mabel Bergeson, of Boise, Idaho; Mrs. Leona Smith of Rexburg, Idaho; George E. Pope of Rigby, Idaho and Mrs. Luela P. Glover of Oxford, Idaho. her grandchildren number fifty-five and her great grandchildren nineteen..
Full of years, and honors, loved and respected by all who knew her, at the end of her arduous and successful labors, this esteemed lady on February 21st of this year passed into that dreamless sleep that knows, no awakening, and three days later ws laid in the tomb. On account of the prevalence of the influenza it was an open air funeral, yet the services were well attended and of a most inspiring nature as the speakers reviewed the evens of her long and most worthy and useful life. May she rest in peace."