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Show I TH' U'l!l HISTORY OF PlULl.I :P '.B SSOM LE 1 S (MY FATHER) He was the second red ent of the Hawaiian Mi sion. H was born January 16. 1804, at ia.rble Head Essex County. M .ssachusetts. He caine a conve:rt to "Momoni • ti at an en.rly day and presided over a branch of the Church in Massaehusettt. 'lb.en the f i ret Latter Day Saint Missionaries were called to the Society Islands in 1843. he donated liberally to pay their passage across the ocean. He gathered. with tho Sa.ints to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he boarded t1ith the Prophet Joseph Smith and. was ordained a. seventy •. After the m rtyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith he wa one of t hose trusted brethren who buried the remains of the martyrs when they ere removed f r om th~ir first burial la.ca, in the cellar of the Nauvoo hm1se. :Being o. tinner by trade he covered the l'Ta.u.voo 'l'eraple tower with tin. He pa,ssed through the persecutions of the l)P..ints in Il11.noif? and was among the exiles of 1846. fu-i le onca:m!,ed at Garden Grove, Iowa,, his wife , Maria Thresa :Bonney. died June 17, 1g46. She was born March 17. 1817 , at Uew :Bedforc.l, :Bristol Count y , Massachusetts. and was arried to Brother Lewis June 27, 1837• From Ga.rden Grove Drother Lewia continued the journoy westward, and while residin.g t Win er rters he married Jane Amanda Stevens who waa born June 8 , 1826. She bore her husbtmd. two chtldre-n, nnmely FhilUp Edmond and. Will i am Henry. Two days after hie mz.rriag to J . e da Stevens Brother LeW,:s and bis wife ot te from Winter Q.iarters for the nooky Mountains in eta I'ul sipher • s company. In December, 1$50, he.v s called to assist George • Smith in making a settlement in Iron C · ty and thu beca.In ·. on- of the founclore of l'a.rowa.n. In 1S51 he as called on a mi s sion t o Hawaii • together with l!'r t'l.ncis A. Hammond, John S. · oodbury and Wi lliam G. Forkins, takinr.,, his wife with him. On his arrival in Cali fornia. :Brother Lewis was apnointod President of |
