MEMORIAL DAY..........WHAT WE DO....

WE REMEMBER

Memorial day is for remembering. Today I solved a mystery for me. My great-great grandfather Samuel Ferrin and my great-great grandmother Margaret McBride were joined together as a result of both of them needing someone to take care of their families. They had 14 children between them. and both had lost their spouses. Samuel was a widower who had lost 2 wives. Margaret lost her husband Robert at the "Platte River " as they were in the Martin Handcart company. So when Margaret got to Utah , she and her family were sent to live with Samuel where she cared for his children, and he clothed and fed hers. Eventually they married. Her daughter Janetta, married Samuel's son Jacob Samuel [from Samuels 1st wife Olive and moved to Arizona. This was my great grandfather Jacob and great grandmother Jenetta] After a few years, Samuel married another woman [Ann] in a polygamist marriage. Margaret was OK with this, but when he wanted to take another wife [Ann's daughter, Anna who was just 16] Margaret told him if he did, she would leave. He did, and she left. She went to live in Eden where her son Heber had settled. She is buried in the lower Eden Cemetery. She was Relief Society President for 13 years. It is recorded that Samuel was a kind husband and step father, but they separated anyway. I think that Margaret had suffered much on the trek and who knows how much one person can take. The mystery was that I wondered why Margaret left my great-great grandpa Samuel. Mystery solved..... My father is Clarence Samuel, whose father was Samuel S whose father was Jacob Samuel whose father was Samuel......Margaret's husband until she left.