Person:Philip Lewis (3)

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 18471868

Source: Lewis, Phillip Bessom, Autobiographical sketch, in 12th Quorum, Biographies, 1844-1894, vol. 1, 1, in Seventies Quorum, Records, 1844-1975.

Full Text: . . . on the last day of Febry 1846 I crossed the Mississippi on the Ice in company with many others who had been driven from their homes & firesides by the Mob, for a place as then unknown to us and after traveling through Snow[,] deep mud & water for 3 months we arrived at a place named by our leaders Garden Grove, where my Wife Died on the 17th, of June having been sick over twelve months, soon after this I was taken sick with fever & ague which confined me to the house the remain[d]er of the year In June of the following year [1847] I left garden Grove for winter Quarters, where I remained until April of the following Spring [1848], when I married my second Wife Jane Amanda Stevens, daughter of Samuel C and Minerva Althea Field, and left for Great Salt Lake City where I arrived in September of the same year- - -

Philip B Lewis, president of the Hawaii mission 1852

1.   Compiler: Essex Institute, Peabody Essex Museum. Essex Institute Historical Collections. (Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1910)
   p. 63.
2.   Binney, C. J. F. (Charles James Fox). The History and Genealogy of the Prentice or Prentiss Family in New England, etc., from 1631 to 1883. (Boston, Mass.: C. J. F. Binney, 1883)
   pp. 88, 89.

   "104. Abigail Bigelow Prentiss, dau. of Lieut. Joshua and Grace; m. Capt. Edmund Lewis, of Marblehead, Mass., and d. in Medfield, Mass., Nov. 9, 1851. He was b. Feb. 11, 1772, and d. in New Orleans, Oct. 28, 1820.
   Children:...
   7. Philip Bessom. b. Jan. 5, 1804; m. 1st Maria Bonney, of New Bedford, Mass.

3. ↑ Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1903-08)
   p. 320.

   LEWIS, Philip, s. Edmund and Abigail, [born] Jan. 16, 1804.