Person:Ellen Whittaker (3)

From the Whittaker family record in an Old Testament compiled by Ellen W. Lunt. Now owned by Hattie Thornton Snow. Born 10:00 P.M.  !Source of Information: Life of Henry Lunt and Family. Ellen had no children of her own so she adopted two Indian Children. Ammon and Ann. They both died in their early youth.

Ellen Whittaker: In the Bowery in 1851, a call for volunteers was made to go settle Iron County. Henry Lunt volunteered to go with George A. Smith and others. It was sometimes necessary for Henry to go to Church in broadcloth suit, silk hat, but barefooted. On the 25th of March, 1852, he drove to Parowan in a sleigh, taking Ellen Whittaker, where their marriage ceremony was performed. That same year he was called on a mission to Great Britain. By this time the clothes he had brought from England were worn out, but he was anxious for his relatives to learn more of Mormonism. His young wife took her blue serge underskirt and made him a coat. He started on his mission to England clad in this coat, a hickory shirt, buckskin trousers and Indian moccasins on his feet. He traveled across the plains with Erastus Snow and Orson Spencer with ox teams. When he arrived in Philadelphia, he met a good many Saints. A Brother Winters gave him a pair of boots and five dollars, a sister gave him two dollars and fifty cents, a Brother Walters gave him a trunk and he was invited to stay with the Saints without charge. He traveled on to New York; after spending two days there he left on the boat "Constitution," paying his fare and providing his own provisions. While on the ship one morning at 4 A. M. he heard a sailor whisper the following message to a companion, "The cholera has broken out on this boat." Henry hurriedly dressed and went up on deck, called upon the Lord in the name of Jesus Christ and in the power of the Priesthood that he held rebuked the destroyer. The one person that had the disease died, but no other people on that boat were afflicted. He arrived at the Conference House, England, October 15th. Brother Franklin D. Richards told Brother Henry Lunt that he would loan him some money to buy himself some clothes, which offer he gladly accepted, purchasing a complete outfit. The next thing he did was to go and find his mother, who was delighted to see him.