At the age of twenty-five, in 1836, she was working for a family by spinning wool into yarn when she heard that two [Mormon] elders would be preaching that evening. She hurried home and asked her mother to go with her.
After the meeting her mother asked the Elders to come to their home. To her great surprise she found that one Elder, Solomon Hancock, was the man her mother's sister, Alta, had married twenty years previously.
Solomon told them that Alta had given birth to ten children, but only four had survived; then she died after the mobs continued casting them out of their home and burning it to the ground.
When Solomon was ready to return to his home he asked Phoebe to be his wife and mother to his children. She readily accepted. She was baptized June 18, 1836, and married to Solomon on June 28, 1836. Five children were born to them, whom she cared for along with Solomon's four surviving children.
Phoebe was called to part with her husband in December, 1847, near Winter Quarters... He being only fifty-four years of age. Two of her step-sons were called to join the Mormon Battalion.
Phoebe fortunately did not have to cross the plains alone with her children after her husband died, as her step-son, George Washington Hancock, had come back from the Mormon Battalion before they left. He had married and he and his wife and infant son accompanied Phoebe in crossing the plains in the Allen Taylor wagon train.(See Allen Taylor wagon train) She arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in September, 1849, and in 1851 they moved to Payson.
She was called "Aunt Phoebe," and a step-son said of her, "Her goodness, kindness and mothering was more than could be expected by any woman under the circumstances."
At the age of eighty-six she contracted pneumonia passing away at her daughter's home in February, 1897.
(Adapted from "A Short Sketch of the Hancock and Adams Families" by Charles Brent Hancock, approx 1880 photocopied from LDS microfische by Janet Cloward Roasio)
Special thanks to Carma Muir Golding for biographical corrections)
After the meeting her mother asked the Elders to come to their home. To her great surprise she found that one Elder, Solomon Hancock, was the man her mother's sister, Alta, had married twenty years previously.
Solomon told them that Alta had given birth to ten children, but only four had survived; then she died after the mobs continued casting them out of their home and burning it to the ground.
When Solomon was ready to return to his home he asked Phoebe to be his wife and mother to his children. She readily accepted. She was baptized June 18, 1836, and married to Solomon on June 28, 1836. Five children were born to them, whom she cared for along with Solomon's four surviving children.
Phoebe was called to part with her husband in December, 1847, near Winter Quarters... He being only fifty-four years of age. Two of her step-sons were called to join the Mormon Battalion.
Phoebe fortunately did not have to cross the plains alone with her children after her husband died, as her step-son, George Washington Hancock, had come back from the Mormon Battalion before they left. He had married and he and his wife and infant son accompanied Phoebe in crossing the plains in the Allen Taylor wagon train.(See Allen Taylor wagon train) She arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in September, 1849, and in 1851 they moved to Payson.
She was called "Aunt Phoebe," and a step-son said of her, "Her goodness, kindness and mothering was more than could be expected by any woman under the circumstances."
At the age of eighty-six she contracted pneumonia passing away at her daughter's home in February, 1897.
(Adapted from "A Short Sketch of the Hancock and Adams Families" by Charles Brent Hancock, approx 1880 photocopied from LDS microfische by Janet Cloward Roasio)
Special thanks to Carma Muir Golding for biographical corrections)
At the age of twenty-five, in 1836, she was working for a family by spinning wool into yarn when she heard that two [Mormon] elders would be preaching that evening. She hurried home and asked her mother to go with her.
After the meeting her mother asked the Elders to come to their home. To her great surprise she found that one Elder, Solomon Hancock, was the man her mother's sister, Alta, had married twenty years previously.
Solomon told them that Alta had given birth to ten children, but only four had survived; then she died after the mobs continued casting them out of their home and burning it to the ground.
When Solomon was ready to return to his home he asked Phoebe to be his wife and mother to his children. She readily accepted. She was baptized June 18, 1836, and married to Solomon on June 28, 1836. Five children were born to them, whom she cared for along with Solomon's four surviving children.
Phoebe was called to part with her husband in December, 1847, near Winter Quarters... He being only fifty-four years of age. Two of her step-sons were called to join the Mormon Battalion.
Phoebe fortunately did not have to cross the plains alone with her children after her husband died, as her step-son, George Washington Hancock, had come back from the Mormon Battalion before they left. He had married and he and his wife and infant son accompanied Phoebe in crossing the plains in the Allen Taylor wagon train.(See Allen Taylor wagon train) She arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in September, 1849, and in 1851 they moved to Payson.
She was called "Aunt Phoebe," and a step-son said of her, "Her goodness, kindness and mothering was more than could be expected by any woman under the circumstances."
At the age of eighty-six she contracted pneumonia passing away at her daughter's home in February, 1897.
(Adapted from "A Short Sketch of the Hancock and Adams Families" by Charles Brent Hancock, approx 1880 photocopied from LDS microfische by Janet Cloward Roasio)
Special thanks to Carma Muir Golding for biographical corrections)
After the meeting her mother asked the Elders to come to their home. To her great surprise she found that one Elder, Solomon Hancock, was the man her mother's sister, Alta, had married twenty years previously.
Solomon told them that Alta had given birth to ten children, but only four had survived; then she died after the mobs continued casting them out of their home and burning it to the ground.
When Solomon was ready to return to his home he asked Phoebe to be his wife and mother to his children. She readily accepted. She was baptized June 18, 1836, and married to Solomon on June 28, 1836. Five children were born to them, whom she cared for along with Solomon's four surviving children.
Phoebe was called to part with her husband in December, 1847, near Winter Quarters... He being only fifty-four years of age. Two of her step-sons were called to join the Mormon Battalion.
Phoebe fortunately did not have to cross the plains alone with her children after her husband died, as her step-son, George Washington Hancock, had come back from the Mormon Battalion before they left. He had married and he and his wife and infant son accompanied Phoebe in crossing the plains in the Allen Taylor wagon train.(See Allen Taylor wagon train) She arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in September, 1849, and in 1851 they moved to Payson.
She was called "Aunt Phoebe," and a step-son said of her, "Her goodness, kindness and mothering was more than could be expected by any woman under the circumstances."
At the age of eighty-six she contracted pneumonia passing away at her daughter's home in February, 1897.
(Adapted from "A Short Sketch of the Hancock and Adams Families" by Charles Brent Hancock, approx 1880 photocopied from LDS microfische by Janet Cloward Roasio)
Special thanks to Carma Muir Golding for biographical corrections)
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