Abigail (Howe) Young
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Abigail (Howe) Young (1765 - 1815)

Abigail "Nabby" Young formerly Howe
Born in Hopkinton, Middlesex, MAmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 31 Oct 1785 in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 50 in Aurelius, Cayuga, New York, USAmap
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Biography

Birth
Abigail 'Nabby' Howe was born 3 May 1766, Hopkinton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts to parents Phinehas (Phineas) Howe and Susannah (Goddard) Howe. [1] [2]

Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts is about 25 miles west of Boston, Suffolk county and 8 miles east of Grafton, Worcester county, Massachusetts.

Marriage and Children
Abigail married John Hayden Young, the 31st October 1785, at Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [3] [2] After the birth of their first two children the young couple moved several times but after the birth of their third child Rhoda they returned to Hopkinton where their next six children were born. Abigail Howe was John Hayden Young's first wife and they had the following known children [2] :

  1. Nancy Young, b. 6 Aug 1786, Hopkinton, MA.; m. Daniel Rent, 13 Jan 1803, Whitingham, VT; d. 19 Sep 1860, Salt Lake City, UT., USA
  2. Fanny Young, b. 8 Nov 1787, Hopkinton, MA.; m. Murray; m. Rosswell; d. 11 Jun 1859, Salt Lake City, UT.
  3. Rhoda Young, b. 10 Sep 1789, Durham, NY.; m. John Portineus Greene; d. 8 Jan 1841, Salt Lake City, UT.
  4. John M. Young, b. 27 May 1791, Hopkinton, MA.; m. Theodosia Kimball; d. 27 Apr 1870, Salt Lake City, UT.
  5. Abigail Young, b. 22 Apr 1793, Hopkinton, MA.
  6. Susannah Susan Young, b. 7 Jun 1795, Hopkinton, MA.; m. 1st James Little, 1815, Cayuga Co., NY; m. 2nd Richard Oliphant, Feb 1825, either Mendon, Monroe, NY. or Canandaigua, Ontario, NY; m. 3rd William Lacy Stilson, 1820, Mendon, Monroe, NY.; m. 4th Alonzo Pettingill, 1845, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois; d. 5 May 1852, Salt Lake City, UT.
  7. Joseph Young, 6 Apr 1797, Hopkinton, MA.; concurrent marriages: m. Jane Adeline Bicknell, m. Mary Ann Huntley; d. 1881, Salt Lake City, UT.
  8. Phinehas Howe Young, b. 16 Feb 1799, Hopkinton, MA.; concurrent marriages: m. Mariah James, (date?); Clarissa Hamilton, 28 Sep 1818; Lucy Pearce Cowdery, 28 Sep 1834; Constantia Elizabeth Clementine Langdon, 1846; d. 10 Oct 1879
  9. Brigham Young, (1801-1877) LDS Notable refer to his profile
  10. Louisa M. Young, B. 26 Sep 1804, Sherburne, Chenango, NY.; m. Joel L. Sanford, 6 Oct 1824; d. 1 Aug 1833 shortly after childbirth in Missouri
  11. Lorenzo Dow Young, b. 19 Oct 1807, Smyrna, Chenango, NY.; m. 1st Persis Goodall, 26 Jun 1826, Watertown, Jefferson, NY.; Concurrent marriages: Harriet Page; Hannah Ida Hewitt; Ellen Jones; Anna Larsen; he d. 21 Nov 1895, Salt Lake City, UT.; Lorenzo's diary kept during his life was later published. [4]

Death
Her youngest child, Lorenzo, wrote in his diary that "...he remember(ed) his mother as afflicted with consumption for many years...His pious, faithful friend and mother drooped and died on the 11th of June 1814 when Lorenzo was only six years and seven months old." [4]

Abigail (Howe) Young was buried on 12 June 1814 at Aurelius, Cayuga County, New York, United States.[5]

After her death husband John removed to Tyrone, Steuben County, New York. [2] in 1827 he relocated his family to Mendon, Monroe County, New York and in 1832 he joined Joseph Smith's following and the newly established Mormon faith. [2] They all quickly relocated to Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio.

Postscript
From her Find-A-Grave memorial which quotes a biography by Susan (Young) Gates, published in "The Juvenile Instructor, January 1924"

Abigail Howe was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, on the 3rd of May, 1766...She was but nineteen years of age when she married a Revolutionary soldier named John Young.
There were five Howe sisters, and all were said by pioneers who knew them to be pretty girls, vivacious, musical and very popular in their pioneer communities. Theodosia Kimball Young, wife of Brigham Young's oldest brother, John, and Maria Haven Burton, wife of Bishop Robert T. Burton, who lived in the same village and knew them well, bore testimony to the gentle vivacious, and attractive characters of those Howe girls. They were all singers and many social affairs were brightened by the duets and simple folk songs essayed by the Howe sisters. All were very devout and deeply concerned with Puritan religious life.
Abigail herself, though not as tall as some of her sisters, was a little above medium height. She had blue eyes, with yellowish brown hair, folded in natural waves and ringlets across her shapely brow. She was exceedingly methodical and orderly in her temperament. Neatness, as the old term was used, belonged to her as of inherited right. Not robust in her constitution, she burned up her fires of youth in impetuous toil while constantly on the move with her pioneering husband.
She was brought up in Shrewsbury, which is not far from Hopkinton. Those little New England towns fairly joined each other through their outstretched farms. Sleighing parties, quilting bees, picnics and religious revivals drew the young people together from contiguous settlements. Abigail, or Nabby, as she was nicknamed, was skilled in housewifely arts, knitting, hemstitching, a little embroidering, and a great deal of spinning and weaving, baking, scrubbing and household adjustment occupying her busy hours. She had unquestionably good schooling, such as was possible for prosperous farmers in those colonial days, and she helped her children over their primary pitfalls. She was intensely humorous in her tendencies and that sense of humor formed a balance which carried her over the frequent pilgrimages of her husband to settle up new countries, leaving her with the difficult burdens of childbearing under such circumstances, child-rearing and homemaking.
The family lived sixteen years in Hopkinton, Mass. Here the most of the children were born. Moving in January, 1801, in the violently cold season of New England weather, she accompanied her husband, John Young, into the remote hills of Vermont, settling in the little village of Whitingham, Windham County, living there long enough for Brigham Young to be born, June 1st, 1801, in a log cabin at the edge of the village. Then the family removed to Sherburn, Chenango County, New York, but did not remain there very long. In 1807 they removed to Smyrna, Chenango County, New York, where her younger son, Lorenzo was born. Moving again to Genoa County, New York, the mother died there the 11th of June, 1815. The mother's health was poor for a long time, and it was a family tradition that Fanny, the elder sister, "raised" Brigham. It is a remarkable thing that all but one of Abigail Howe's children, six daughters and five sons grew up, married and all joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with their families, all remaining faithful to the end...
Abigail Howe Young was a born reformer, so we are told. She was an invalid the last few years of her life, troubled with the frequent New England complaint of consumption, but she kept an active finger on the pulse of the neighborhood. Her sympathies were so broad, her vision was so clear, her grasp of human values so perfect that friends would come for her when their children married and take her in wagon or sleigh to spend a few days in counsel and assistance to young couples who were starting out in life. She was greatly beloved by her associates.

Sources

  1. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Hopkinton, Massachusetts Vital Records to the Year 1850; Hopkinton Births, pg.111; Reprinted ($ online db) Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018, Lehi, UT, USA. Accessed 25 May 2020.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Howe, Daniel Waite ; Howe, Gilman Bigelow, ed. "Howe Genealogies: The Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts" 3 Vols. (Boston, Mass., USA: NEHGS, 1929), Vol. 1, p. 80-81. Accessed 7 Mar 2023. https://archive.org/details/howegenealogiesb01howe/page/80/mode/1up
  3. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850. Reprinted image by FamilySearch; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0954365. Online db Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005, Provo, UT, USA. accessed 25 May 2020.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Biography of Lorenzo Dow Young" James Amasa Little. Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol.14 (No. 1-4. (1946) 101pp. pub. Utah State Historical Society. Online digital record in entirety. Accessed 7 Mar 2023. https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/volume_14_1946/s/69523
  5. Find A Grave Memorial for Abigail (Howe) Young https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19689529

See Also

  • Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, NEHGS, Boston, 1929, Vol. 1, pages 80-81

Acknowledgements

  • This person was created through the import of 104-B.ged on 12 September 2010.
  • Thank you to Barbara Corley for creating WikiTree profile Howe-2172 through the import of export-BloodTree.ged on May 12, 2013.
  • Howe-2874 was created by Chris Newcomb through the import of FarmerMcKnight.ged on Sep 19, 2014.
  • Contributions by direct descendant Leigh Anne (Johnson) Dear




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