Samuel Waltons daughters were in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, on October 7, 1863.

In Amy’s recent post here at The Ancestor Files she explained who the Josephites were.  She explored their relationship to the Reorganized Latter-day Saint (RLDS) Church, and the use of the term Brighamites. It is a very interesting account, and while she is following her own ancestors, I recommend you read the account, because there is much there to be learned. I followed one of the links in her post and discovered a history book that led me to more answers about Samuel Walton’s family.

The book is called The True Latter Day Saints’ Herald, a Semi Monthly Magazine, Published by The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [RLDS]., Vol. XV., 1969.

Samuel and Susan Walton traveled from Mexico, Maine in 1844, following their conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They’d intended to join the Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois, but following the Prophet Joseph’s Martyrdom, they were misplaced, and caught up in the confusion in the area.

Their surviving family members were over thirty years traveling west across the continent to get to Woodruff, Utah. I discovered that during the interim some were baptized into the RLDS Church as I posted here. Great Grandmother Elizabeth Walton Frazier always said she was a “Josephine.” And she and her sister Hester, both with the last name of Frazier, were baptized into the RLDS Church. They were easy to search for and I found them in Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A. pp. 133, 190.

In the history book Amy linked to in her post I found the minutes from the conference meeting Elizabeth was baptized in. Another family member was baptized the same day. I’d have never found her without the link. 

(To be continued.)

Susan Walton's daughters, Elizabeth and Hester Ann, married Frazier cousins. Part 9.

Elizabeth Walton and Stephen Vestal Frazier

On the occasion of their wedding.

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My parents could never find a definitive place for Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth's wedding. It was listed in 1860 in Henry County, Iowa, or Lawrence, Kansas. Recently I found them in

Marriage Records of Jackson County, Missouri

1827-1860

Volume 1

Name: Stephen V. Frazier

Location: Shawnee, Kansas

Spouse: Lizzie Walton

Marriage Date: 01 Mar 1860

History of Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier.

Part 1.

Part 2.

Records of Hester Ann and Elizabeth Frazier joining the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1862 and 1863, respectively, can be found in Part 2 of the history of Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier, linked above.

Hester Ann Walton
b. June 14, 1837, Mexico, Oxford, Maine
p. Samuel Walton and Susan Walton
m. Asa Frazier of Henry County, Iowa.
Hester Ann wasn’t yet a teenager, when the Walton family caravan left Mexico, Maine in 1845.
In the 1856 census she was living in Pleasant Ridge, Lee County, Iowa near her mother and siblings. Hester Ann and a child were boarding with David and Mary Barnes.
Asa fought in the Civil War as a private in the 25th Iowa Infantry, Company G. It was organized at Mount Pleasant, Iowa and mustered in September 27, 1862. They fought in the Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4.
Listed in a report by Iowa Adjutant General of Casualties among enlisted Men is Asa Frazier. He died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 25, 1863 of inflammation of the stomach.

In the 1870 census [H]Ester Frazier, with a child Benson F. Frazier, was living with Catharine Glesser, in the Lawrence Ward 3, Douglas, Kansas. Her mother, Susan Houghton, and Stephen Vestal and Elizabeth Walton Frazier and family, were living in Lawrence Ward 4, Douglas, Kansas. According to NFS, Hester died in 1872. I've yet to find a source, or her child.

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Marriage Records of Jackson County, Missouri. 977.841 V25j or FHL microfilm #1,421,672, item 12. Picture of the Fraziers on their wedding day copied from a daguerreotype tin picture in family collection. Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A. pp. 133, 190. Report by Iowa Adjutant Generals office, Hon. William S. Stone Governor of the State of Iowa, Approved Mar 30, 1866, January 1, 1867, Vol. II, Des Moines F. W. Palmer, State Printer, 1867. Iowa 25th Infantry marker at Vicksburg Military Park from Wikipedia.