Millen Atwood (1817 - 1890)

Born 24 May 1817 in Willington, Tolland, Connecticut, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Relief (Cram) Atwood — married 20 Apr 1848 in Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska

Descendants

Died 17 Dec 1890 at age 73 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

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Biography

Millen Atwood was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Burial

Burial:

Date: 21 Dec 1890

Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Note

Note: Colleen's exerpts from Millen Atwood journal in her keeping:

The time is November 16, 1840. Millen Atwood is twenty-three years old and the Book of Mormon has just been put in his hands. He had heard the Elders preach and believed the very first sermon he heard. Now he helped the Elders set up appointments and got as many as he could to the meetings. In the meantime, he received much persecution. Still he had not been baptized. Having learned that there was a Prophet, he desired to meet him. Therefore, on April 27, 1841, he left his home in Mansfield, Connecticut and headed for Nauvoo, Illinois. He arrived there on the 20th of May having traveled 1271 miles. On that same day he records:

"[We] stopped in old man Shirwood's house. This day for the first time in my life did my eyes behold a Prophet of God. I watched my body bow before the Lord in thankfulness for the preservation of my life and the sight I beheld. Saturday the 22nd spent in Nauvoo. Beheld the prophet again. Sunday 23rd Joseph Smith came up to see us. This was the first time I ever shook hands with a prophet. He was easy, free, and sociable, with all. He said that he rejoices to see us being Yankees. 'For,' said he, ' I was born in the State of Vermont.'

"Brother Robert Pierce was present and said to Brother Joseph, 'Why don't you hold your head up as I do?'

"Brother Joseph said to him, 'Haven't you passed by a field of wheat when it was ripe and seen some heads stand straight up as your does and others hang down as mine does?'

"'Yes sir,' says Brother Pierce.

"'Well,' says Brother Joseph, 'the full heads lop; the empty or blasted heads with not much in them stand straight up like yours does.'

"Joseph with all present had a good hearty laugh."

On the same day Millen Atwood heard Brother Joseph preach for the first time. To him it was powerful and good.

On the 25th of August, 1841 he says, "I having seen and heard the Prophet preach with many others, I became thoroughly convinced that it was the work of God and it became my duty to obey it." And so he was baptized in the Nauvoo River and confirmed at the water's edge

Sources

• https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/pioneers/341/millen-atwood
• https://history.lds.org/missionary/individual/millen-atwood-1817
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WY-48H : 3 December 2014), Millen Alwood, 24 May 1817; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH2W-BDY : 30 December 2015), Miln Attwood, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNSK-F46 : 24 December 2015), Millen Atwood, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; citing enumeration district ED 52, sheet 196A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1337; FHL microfilm 1,255,337.
• "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQHB-556 : 5 December 2014), Millen Atwood, 17 Dec 1890; citing Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Management and Archives, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 4,139,830.
• "Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F85M-75X : 5 December 2014), Millen Atwood, 17 Dec 1890; citing Salt Lake City, S.L. Utah, reference p12 dth. #472; FHL microfilm 26,554.
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26979381
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Church History, Early Mormon Missionaries, https://history.lds.org/missionary/individual/millen-atwood-1817?lang=eng