Daughter of William "Billy" Greenlee Love(1785-1838) and Agatha (Haley)Love(1795-1838)
Married James Madison Flake(1815-1850)Married, 2 October 1838, Anson County, North Carolina
Mother of
William Jordan Flake(1839-1932)*
Thomas Flake(1841-1844)
Charles Love Flake(1842-1864)
Richmond Flake(1842-1845)
Samuel Flake(1845-1847)*
Frederick Flake(1846-1846)*
Sarah James Flake Levie Oakden(1847-1897)*
Arrived with the 1851 Mormon pioneers. Her husband had died on the way.She arrived with her last 3 children William, Charles and Sarah and a black slave they named Elizabeth Flake arrived in San Bernardino. Agnes died in 1855 leaving the 3 children to "Lizzie" the oldest 16 Lizzie raised them.
There is record that she is buried here but no record of a headstone. She is probably buried next to her slave and friend Lizzie.From the cemetery records "do not show anything for Agnes Haley Love Flake. Elizabeth Rowan is buried in block 3, lot 4, aisle 8, space 9N. Elizabeth appears to be in a family plot as all graves around her are Rowan's. There are what appear to be two empty graves at the beginning of this aisle"
....................
Agnes and her husband James Madison Flake were born in North Carolina and grew up the wealthy Southern Plantation way and were wealthy plantation owners. They moved to Mississippi soon after 1840 where they stayed until about 1844 on a plantation. In 1844 Mormon missionaries came to their plantation and after some soul searching they joined the Mormon church and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where the church headquarters were.
They immediately freed their slaves and gave them the option to continue to live with them. Nearly all the slaves chose to stay with James and Agnes and to continue to help them of their own free will and choice. One of them was a man named Green Flake who is identified as one of the first Black freed slaves in the Mormon church. According to history James was commanded by Joseph Smith to "'Break the shackles from the poor black man, and hire him to labor like other human beings, for an hour of virtuous liberty on earth is worth a whole eternity of human bondage."' All of his slaves he freed. Two of them had accepted the Gospel and been baptized into the Church by Elder Clapp—Allen and Green. Green Flake was a large, husky Negro who had been born on the old Carolina plantation. He refused to leave the family, as did Liz, who had been given when a child as a wedding present to Agnes by James' mother. Also wishing to go north with them was Edie, a young Negro mother of four."
In June 1844, Mormon founder and prophet Joseph Smith was murdered by mobs. The mobs continued to harass the Mormons and threaten them with death until they decided to move West under the direction of the new Prophet Brigham Young starting in 1846. They first moved to Winter Quarters, Nebraska where they stayed until ready to continue their journey West. Green Flake, the former slave, was the first Black man to enter the Salt Lake City, Utah Valley when he arrived there with Brigham Young acting as a servant. The Flakes eventually journeyed to Utah with the rest of the Mormons in 1848 by wagon train as exiles. James Madison Flake was appointed a captain and leader of one of the wagon trains that headed to the Salt Lake Valley and consisted of over 500 people.
They lived in the Salt Lake City Valley for two years. In 1850, Brigham Young asked James Madison Flake to be a part of colonizers of southern California. Along with Charles Coulsen Rich and George Q. Cannon, a noted leading early citizen of San Bernardino, he headed West in search of a suitable spot to colonize. According to historical accounts a miracle followed and I quote:
"On this trip they got into the country now known as Death Valley. When they had gone without water until neither man nor beast could go further, they unsaddled and lay down on the hot sand facing death.
C. C. Rich went out behind a sand knoll and like George Washington at Valley Forge, knelt down and told the Lord of their condition and of their dependence on Him. His pleadings were not unheeded. He returned, roused the men and told them help was in sight. They looked up at a bright clear sky. He told them to spread their canvas out prepared to catch water. They looked at him, and he pointed to the West. There, they saw a small cloud, so small it could hardly be seen. It grew rapidly, and they had no more than made their preparation than the rain fell, and they caught all the water they needed for themselves and horses.
They prepared a meal and went on their way rejoicing in the great blessing the lord had showered down upon them. The cloud had quickly disappeared, and the sun beat down on them as before. Only a few rods from their camp, there was no evidence of the life giving rain."
Not too long after that in 1850, while passing through the San Joaquin Valley, James Madison Flake was thrown from his mule and broke his neck. He soon passed away and was buried in a blanket beside the trail. When his wife Agnes learned what happened to James she took to her bed and did not recover for a long time.
Soon after San Bernardino was re-founded in 1850, Agnes moved to San Bernardino in 1851 with her three surviving children to the place her husband would have gone on to help settle and colonize had he survived. She lived as a widow in San Bernardino until her death on January 25, 1855. As I had said before, I did not know where she was buried, so I look forward to finding out.
As for her orphaned children, I know nothing about what happened to them except for William Jordan Flake (1839-1932), my Great-Great-Great Grandfather. William moved back to Utah in the 1850s as an orphan and was watched over by the Governor of Utah and Mormon President Brigham Young. In return William acted as Young's bodyguard for a time. He married in the 1858 in Utah and lived there for nearly 20 years before he went on to settle Arizona in the 1870s under the instruction of Brigham Young. William founded the town of Snowflake, Arizona (partially named after him and partially after a member of his church named Erastus Snow) in 1878. It is now a town of about 5,000 people. So just like his father, James Madison Flake, who was asked to settle San Bernardino (though he died before he completed that task due to a mule kick), William was a pioneer.
............................
Agnes Haley Love
in the Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
Name: Agnes Haley Love
[Hailey Love]
Gender: Female
Relationship to Primary Person: Self (Head)
Father: William Love
Mother: Agnes Hailey
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1819
Birth Place: Richmond County, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 5 Jan 1855
Death Place: San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, USA
Residences: Anson, North Carolina, USA; 1839-40 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, USA; 1845-48
LDS Church Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: October 23, 1843
LDS Temple Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: October 23, 1877 Baptism Date: January 7, 1928 Endowment Date: January 7, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Endowment Endowment Date: March 16, 1928 Sealed to Parents Date: November 27, 1935 Temple: St. George, Washington, UT, USA Sealed to Spouse Date: October 25, 1877 Temple: St. George, Washington, UT, USA
Household Members:
Name Relation
Agnes Haley Love Self (Head)
James Madison Flake Spouse
William Jordan Flake Child
Charles Love Flake Child
Thomas Flake Child
Richmond Flake Child
Samuel Flake Child
Frederick Flake Child
Sarah James Flake Child
..................................
Agnes Haley Love
in the Millennium File
Name: Agnes Haley Love
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1819
Birth Place: Richmond, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 5 Jan 1855
Death Place: San Bernardino, Sn-Brn, California, USA
Burial Place: San Bernardino, Sn-brn, California
Father: William Love
Mother: Anges Haley
Spouse: James Madison Flake
Children: Sarah James Flake
................................
Married James Madison Flake(1815-1850)Married, 2 October 1838, Anson County, North Carolina
Mother of
William Jordan Flake(1839-1932)*
Thomas Flake(1841-1844)
Charles Love Flake(1842-1864)
Richmond Flake(1842-1845)
Samuel Flake(1845-1847)*
Frederick Flake(1846-1846)*
Sarah James Flake Levie Oakden(1847-1897)*
Arrived with the 1851 Mormon pioneers. Her husband had died on the way.She arrived with her last 3 children William, Charles and Sarah and a black slave they named Elizabeth Flake arrived in San Bernardino. Agnes died in 1855 leaving the 3 children to "Lizzie" the oldest 16 Lizzie raised them.
There is record that she is buried here but no record of a headstone. She is probably buried next to her slave and friend Lizzie.From the cemetery records "do not show anything for Agnes Haley Love Flake. Elizabeth Rowan is buried in block 3, lot 4, aisle 8, space 9N. Elizabeth appears to be in a family plot as all graves around her are Rowan's. There are what appear to be two empty graves at the beginning of this aisle"
....................
Agnes and her husband James Madison Flake were born in North Carolina and grew up the wealthy Southern Plantation way and were wealthy plantation owners. They moved to Mississippi soon after 1840 where they stayed until about 1844 on a plantation. In 1844 Mormon missionaries came to their plantation and after some soul searching they joined the Mormon church and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where the church headquarters were.
They immediately freed their slaves and gave them the option to continue to live with them. Nearly all the slaves chose to stay with James and Agnes and to continue to help them of their own free will and choice. One of them was a man named Green Flake who is identified as one of the first Black freed slaves in the Mormon church. According to history James was commanded by Joseph Smith to "'Break the shackles from the poor black man, and hire him to labor like other human beings, for an hour of virtuous liberty on earth is worth a whole eternity of human bondage."' All of his slaves he freed. Two of them had accepted the Gospel and been baptized into the Church by Elder Clapp—Allen and Green. Green Flake was a large, husky Negro who had been born on the old Carolina plantation. He refused to leave the family, as did Liz, who had been given when a child as a wedding present to Agnes by James' mother. Also wishing to go north with them was Edie, a young Negro mother of four."
In June 1844, Mormon founder and prophet Joseph Smith was murdered by mobs. The mobs continued to harass the Mormons and threaten them with death until they decided to move West under the direction of the new Prophet Brigham Young starting in 1846. They first moved to Winter Quarters, Nebraska where they stayed until ready to continue their journey West. Green Flake, the former slave, was the first Black man to enter the Salt Lake City, Utah Valley when he arrived there with Brigham Young acting as a servant. The Flakes eventually journeyed to Utah with the rest of the Mormons in 1848 by wagon train as exiles. James Madison Flake was appointed a captain and leader of one of the wagon trains that headed to the Salt Lake Valley and consisted of over 500 people.
They lived in the Salt Lake City Valley for two years. In 1850, Brigham Young asked James Madison Flake to be a part of colonizers of southern California. Along with Charles Coulsen Rich and George Q. Cannon, a noted leading early citizen of San Bernardino, he headed West in search of a suitable spot to colonize. According to historical accounts a miracle followed and I quote:
"On this trip they got into the country now known as Death Valley. When they had gone without water until neither man nor beast could go further, they unsaddled and lay down on the hot sand facing death.
C. C. Rich went out behind a sand knoll and like George Washington at Valley Forge, knelt down and told the Lord of their condition and of their dependence on Him. His pleadings were not unheeded. He returned, roused the men and told them help was in sight. They looked up at a bright clear sky. He told them to spread their canvas out prepared to catch water. They looked at him, and he pointed to the West. There, they saw a small cloud, so small it could hardly be seen. It grew rapidly, and they had no more than made their preparation than the rain fell, and they caught all the water they needed for themselves and horses.
They prepared a meal and went on their way rejoicing in the great blessing the lord had showered down upon them. The cloud had quickly disappeared, and the sun beat down on them as before. Only a few rods from their camp, there was no evidence of the life giving rain."
Not too long after that in 1850, while passing through the San Joaquin Valley, James Madison Flake was thrown from his mule and broke his neck. He soon passed away and was buried in a blanket beside the trail. When his wife Agnes learned what happened to James she took to her bed and did not recover for a long time.
Soon after San Bernardino was re-founded in 1850, Agnes moved to San Bernardino in 1851 with her three surviving children to the place her husband would have gone on to help settle and colonize had he survived. She lived as a widow in San Bernardino until her death on January 25, 1855. As I had said before, I did not know where she was buried, so I look forward to finding out.
As for her orphaned children, I know nothing about what happened to them except for William Jordan Flake (1839-1932), my Great-Great-Great Grandfather. William moved back to Utah in the 1850s as an orphan and was watched over by the Governor of Utah and Mormon President Brigham Young. In return William acted as Young's bodyguard for a time. He married in the 1858 in Utah and lived there for nearly 20 years before he went on to settle Arizona in the 1870s under the instruction of Brigham Young. William founded the town of Snowflake, Arizona (partially named after him and partially after a member of his church named Erastus Snow) in 1878. It is now a town of about 5,000 people. So just like his father, James Madison Flake, who was asked to settle San Bernardino (though he died before he completed that task due to a mule kick), William was a pioneer.
............................
Agnes Haley Love
in the Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
Name: Agnes Haley Love
[Hailey Love]
Gender: Female
Relationship to Primary Person: Self (Head)
Father: William Love
Mother: Agnes Hailey
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1819
Birth Place: Richmond County, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 5 Jan 1855
Death Place: San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, USA
Residences: Anson, North Carolina, USA; 1839-40 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, USA; 1845-48
LDS Church Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: October 23, 1843
LDS Temple Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: October 23, 1877 Baptism Date: January 7, 1928 Endowment Date: January 7, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Endowment Endowment Date: March 16, 1928 Sealed to Parents Date: November 27, 1935 Temple: St. George, Washington, UT, USA Sealed to Spouse Date: October 25, 1877 Temple: St. George, Washington, UT, USA
Household Members:
Name Relation
Agnes Haley Love Self (Head)
James Madison Flake Spouse
William Jordan Flake Child
Charles Love Flake Child
Thomas Flake Child
Richmond Flake Child
Samuel Flake Child
Frederick Flake Child
Sarah James Flake Child
..................................
Agnes Haley Love
in the Millennium File
Name: Agnes Haley Love
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1819
Birth Place: Richmond, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 5 Jan 1855
Death Place: San Bernardino, Sn-Brn, California, USA
Burial Place: San Bernardino, Sn-brn, California
Father: William Love
Mother: Anges Haley
Spouse: James Madison Flake
Children: Sarah James Flake
................................
Daughter of William "Billy" Greenlee Love(1785-1838) and Agatha (Haley)Love(1795-1838)
Married James Madison Flake(1815-1850)Married, 2 October 1838, Anson County, North Carolina
Mother of
William Jordan Flake(1839-1932)*
Thomas Flake(1841-1844)
Charles Love Flake(1842-1864)
Richmond Flake(1842-1845)
Samuel Flake(1845-1847)*
Frederick Flake(1846-1846)*
Sarah James Flake Levie Oakden(1847-1897)*
Arrived with the 1851 Mormon pioneers. Her husband had died on the way.She arrived with her last 3 children William, Charles and Sarah and a black slave they named Elizabeth Flake arrived in San Bernardino. Agnes died in 1855 leaving the 3 children to "Lizzie" the oldest 16 Lizzie raised them.
There is record that she is buried here but no record of a headstone. She is probably buried next to her slave and friend Lizzie.From the cemetery records "do not show anything for Agnes Haley Love Flake. Elizabeth Rowan is buried in block 3, lot 4, aisle 8, space 9N. Elizabeth appears to be in a family plot as all graves around her are Rowan's. There are what appear to be two empty graves at the beginning of this aisle"
....................
Agnes and her husband James Madison Flake were born in North Carolina and grew up the wealthy Southern Plantation way and were wealthy plantation owners. They moved to Mississippi soon after 1840 where they stayed until about 1844 on a plantation. In 1844 Mormon missionaries came to their plantation and after some soul searching they joined the Mormon church and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where the church headquarters were.
They immediately freed their slaves and gave them the option to continue to live with them. Nearly all the slaves chose to stay with James and Agnes and to continue to help them of their own free will and choice. One of them was a man named Green Flake who is identified as one of the first Black freed slaves in the Mormon church. According to history James was commanded by Joseph Smith to "'Break the shackles from the poor black man, and hire him to labor like other human beings, for an hour of virtuous liberty on earth is worth a whole eternity of human bondage."' All of his slaves he freed. Two of them had accepted the Gospel and been baptized into the Church by Elder Clapp—Allen and Green. Green Flake was a large, husky Negro who had been born on the old Carolina plantation. He refused to leave the family, as did Liz, who had been given when a child as a wedding present to Agnes by James' mother. Also wishing to go north with them was Edie, a young Negro mother of four."
In June 1844, Mormon founder and prophet Joseph Smith was murdered by mobs. The mobs continued to harass the Mormons and threaten them with death until they decided to move West under the direction of the new Prophet Brigham Young starting in 1846. They first moved to Winter Quarters, Nebraska where they stayed until ready to continue their journey West. Green Flake, the former slave, was the first Black man to enter the Salt Lake City, Utah Valley when he arrived there with Brigham Young acting as a servant. The Flakes eventually journeyed to Utah with the rest of the Mormons in 1848 by wagon train as exiles. James Madison Flake was appointed a captain and leader of one of the wagon trains that headed to the Salt Lake Valley and consisted of over 500 people.
They lived in the Salt Lake City Valley for two years. In 1850, Brigham Young asked James Madison Flake to be a part of colonizers of southern California. Along with Charles Coulsen Rich and George Q. Cannon, a noted leading early citizen of San Bernardino, he headed West in search of a suitable spot to colonize. According to historical accounts a miracle followed and I quote:
"On this trip they got into the country now known as Death Valley. When they had gone without water until neither man nor beast could go further, they unsaddled and lay down on the hot sand facing death.
C. C. Rich went out behind a sand knoll and like George Washington at Valley Forge, knelt down and told the Lord of their condition and of their dependence on Him. His pleadings were not unheeded. He returned, roused the men and told them help was in sight. They looked up at a bright clear sky. He told them to spread their canvas out prepared to catch water. They looked at him, and he pointed to the West. There, they saw a small cloud, so small it could hardly be seen. It grew rapidly, and they had no more than made their preparation than the rain fell, and they caught all the water they needed for themselves and horses.
They prepared a meal and went on their way rejoicing in the great blessing the lord had showered down upon them. The cloud had quickly disappeared, and the sun beat down on them as before. Only a few rods from their camp, there was no evidence of the life giving rain."
Not too long after that in 1850, while passing through the San Joaquin Valley, James Madison Flake was thrown from his mule and broke his neck. He soon passed away and was buried in a blanket beside the trail. When his wife Agnes learned what happened to James she took to her bed and did not recover for a long time.
Soon after San Bernardino was re-founded in 1850, Agnes moved to San Bernardino in 1851 with her three surviving children to the place her husband would have gone on to help settle and colonize had he survived. She lived as a widow in San Bernardino until her death on January 25, 1855. As I had said before, I did not know where she was buried, so I look forward to finding out.
As for her orphaned children, I know nothing about what happened to them except for William Jordan Flake (1839-1932), my Great-Great-Great Grandfather. William moved back to Utah in the 1850s as an orphan and was watched over by the Governor of Utah and Mormon President Brigham Young. In return William acted as Young's bodyguard for a time. He married in the 1858 in Utah and lived there for nearly 20 years before he went on to settle Arizona in the 1870s under the instruction of Brigham Young. William founded the town of Snowflake, Arizona (partially named after him and partially after a member of his church named Erastus Snow) in 1878. It is now a town of about 5,000 people. So just like his father, James Madison Flake, who was asked to settle San Bernardino (though he died before he completed that task due to a mule kick), William was a pioneer.
............................
Agnes Haley Love
in the Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
Name: Agnes Haley Love
[Hailey Love]
Gender: Female
Relationship to Primary Person: Self (Head)
Father: William Love
Mother: Agnes Hailey
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1819
Birth Place: Richmond County, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 5 Jan 1855
Death Place: San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, USA
Residences: Anson, North Carolina, USA; 1839-40 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, USA; 1845-48
LDS Church Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: October 23, 1843
LDS Temple Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: October 23, 1877 Baptism Date: January 7, 1928 Endowment Date: January 7, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Endowment Endowment Date: March 16, 1928 Sealed to Parents Date: November 27, 1935 Temple: St. George, Washington, UT, USA Sealed to Spouse Date: October 25, 1877 Temple: St. George, Washington, UT, USA
Household Members:
Name Relation
Agnes Haley Love Self (Head)
James Madison Flake Spouse
William Jordan Flake Child
Charles Love Flake Child
Thomas Flake Child
Richmond Flake Child
Samuel Flake Child
Frederick Flake Child
Sarah James Flake Child
..................................
Agnes Haley Love
in the Millennium File
Name: Agnes Haley Love
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1819
Birth Place: Richmond, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 5 Jan 1855
Death Place: San Bernardino, Sn-Brn, California, USA
Burial Place: San Bernardino, Sn-brn, California
Father: William Love
Mother: Anges Haley
Spouse: James Madison Flake
Children: Sarah James Flake
................................
Married James Madison Flake(1815-1850)Married, 2 October 1838, Anson County, North Carolina
Mother of
William Jordan Flake(1839-1932)*
Thomas Flake(1841-1844)
Charles Love Flake(1842-1864)
Richmond Flake(1842-1845)
Samuel Flake(1845-1847)*
Frederick Flake(1846-1846)*
Sarah James Flake Levie Oakden(1847-1897)*
Arrived with the 1851 Mormon pioneers. Her husband had died on the way.She arrived with her last 3 children William, Charles and Sarah and a black slave they named Elizabeth Flake arrived in San Bernardino. Agnes died in 1855 leaving the 3 children to "Lizzie" the oldest 16 Lizzie raised them.
There is record that she is buried here but no record of a headstone. She is probably buried next to her slave and friend Lizzie.From the cemetery records "do not show anything for Agnes Haley Love Flake. Elizabeth Rowan is buried in block 3, lot 4, aisle 8, space 9N. Elizabeth appears to be in a family plot as all graves around her are Rowan's. There are what appear to be two empty graves at the beginning of this aisle"
....................
Agnes and her husband James Madison Flake were born in North Carolina and grew up the wealthy Southern Plantation way and were wealthy plantation owners. They moved to Mississippi soon after 1840 where they stayed until about 1844 on a plantation. In 1844 Mormon missionaries came to their plantation and after some soul searching they joined the Mormon church and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where the church headquarters were.
They immediately freed their slaves and gave them the option to continue to live with them. Nearly all the slaves chose to stay with James and Agnes and to continue to help them of their own free will and choice. One of them was a man named Green Flake who is identified as one of the first Black freed slaves in the Mormon church. According to history James was commanded by Joseph Smith to "'Break the shackles from the poor black man, and hire him to labor like other human beings, for an hour of virtuous liberty on earth is worth a whole eternity of human bondage."' All of his slaves he freed. Two of them had accepted the Gospel and been baptized into the Church by Elder Clapp—Allen and Green. Green Flake was a large, husky Negro who had been born on the old Carolina plantation. He refused to leave the family, as did Liz, who had been given when a child as a wedding present to Agnes by James' mother. Also wishing to go north with them was Edie, a young Negro mother of four."
In June 1844, Mormon founder and prophet Joseph Smith was murdered by mobs. The mobs continued to harass the Mormons and threaten them with death until they decided to move West under the direction of the new Prophet Brigham Young starting in 1846. They first moved to Winter Quarters, Nebraska where they stayed until ready to continue their journey West. Green Flake, the former slave, was the first Black man to enter the Salt Lake City, Utah Valley when he arrived there with Brigham Young acting as a servant. The Flakes eventually journeyed to Utah with the rest of the Mormons in 1848 by wagon train as exiles. James Madison Flake was appointed a captain and leader of one of the wagon trains that headed to the Salt Lake Valley and consisted of over 500 people.
They lived in the Salt Lake City Valley for two years. In 1850, Brigham Young asked James Madison Flake to be a part of colonizers of southern California. Along with Charles Coulsen Rich and George Q. Cannon, a noted leading early citizen of San Bernardino, he headed West in search of a suitable spot to colonize. According to historical accounts a miracle followed and I quote:
"On this trip they got into the country now known as Death Valley. When they had gone without water until neither man nor beast could go further, they unsaddled and lay down on the hot sand facing death.
C. C. Rich went out behind a sand knoll and like George Washington at Valley Forge, knelt down and told the Lord of their condition and of their dependence on Him. His pleadings were not unheeded. He returned, roused the men and told them help was in sight. They looked up at a bright clear sky. He told them to spread their canvas out prepared to catch water. They looked at him, and he pointed to the West. There, they saw a small cloud, so small it could hardly be seen. It grew rapidly, and they had no more than made their preparation than the rain fell, and they caught all the water they needed for themselves and horses.
They prepared a meal and went on their way rejoicing in the great blessing the lord had showered down upon them. The cloud had quickly disappeared, and the sun beat down on them as before. Only a few rods from their camp, there was no evidence of the life giving rain."
Not too long after that in 1850, while passing through the San Joaquin Valley, James Madison Flake was thrown from his mule and broke his neck. He soon passed away and was buried in a blanket beside the trail. When his wife Agnes learned what happened to James she took to her bed and did not recover for a long time.
Soon after San Bernardino was re-founded in 1850, Agnes moved to San Bernardino in 1851 with her three surviving children to the place her husband would have gone on to help settle and colonize had he survived. She lived as a widow in San Bernardino until her death on January 25, 1855. As I had said before, I did not know where she was buried, so I look forward to finding out.
As for her orphaned children, I know nothing about what happened to them except for William Jordan Flake (1839-1932), my Great-Great-Great Grandfather. William moved back to Utah in the 1850s as an orphan and was watched over by the Governor of Utah and Mormon President Brigham Young. In return William acted as Young's bodyguard for a time. He married in the 1858 in Utah and lived there for nearly 20 years before he went on to settle Arizona in the 1870s under the instruction of Brigham Young. William founded the town of Snowflake, Arizona (partially named after him and partially after a member of his church named Erastus Snow) in 1878. It is now a town of about 5,000 people. So just like his father, James Madison Flake, who was asked to settle San Bernardino (though he died before he completed that task due to a mule kick), William was a pioneer.
............................
Agnes Haley Love
in the Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
Name: Agnes Haley Love
[Hailey Love]
Gender: Female
Relationship to Primary Person: Self (Head)
Father: William Love
Mother: Agnes Hailey
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1819
Birth Place: Richmond County, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 5 Jan 1855
Death Place: San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, USA
Residences: Anson, North Carolina, USA; 1839-40 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, USA; 1845-48
LDS Church Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: October 23, 1843
LDS Temple Ordinance Data: Baptism Date: October 23, 1877 Baptism Date: January 7, 1928 Endowment Date: January 7, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA Endowment Endowment Date: March 16, 1928 Sealed to Parents Date: November 27, 1935 Temple: St. George, Washington, UT, USA Sealed to Spouse Date: October 25, 1877 Temple: St. George, Washington, UT, USA
Household Members:
Name Relation
Agnes Haley Love Self (Head)
James Madison Flake Spouse
William Jordan Flake Child
Charles Love Flake Child
Thomas Flake Child
Richmond Flake Child
Samuel Flake Child
Frederick Flake Child
Sarah James Flake Child
..................................
Agnes Haley Love
in the Millennium File
Name: Agnes Haley Love
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 6 Nov 1819
Birth Place: Richmond, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 5 Jan 1855
Death Place: San Bernardino, Sn-Brn, California, USA
Burial Place: San Bernardino, Sn-brn, California
Father: William Love
Mother: Anges Haley
Spouse: James Madison Flake
Children: Sarah James Flake
................................
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