Angelina Avilda CHAMPLIN b. 8 Jan 1820 Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, United States d. 7 Jan 1893 Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

1820 - 1893 (72 years)

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Name	Angelina Avilda CHAMPLIN
Born	8 Jan 1820	Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, United States
Gender	Female
Initiatory (LDS)	29 Jan 1846
Immigration	1848	Utah, United States
Residence	1850	Great Salt Lake county, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory
Residence	1870	Utah, United States
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Died	7 Jan 1893	Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Buried	8 Jan 1893	Colonia Juarez Cemetery, Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Person ID	I90	pember-crandall
Last Modified	28 Jan 2017

Father	William Sisson CHAMPLIN, b. 16 Apr 1794, Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont, United States , d. 29 Jan 1861, Lehi, Utah, Utah Territory, United States (Age 66 years)
Mother	Mary (Polly) RING, b. 27 Jan 1794, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 3 Apr 1871, Brigham City, Utah, United States at the home of J.T. Packer (Age 77 years)
Married	28 Mar 1816	Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, United States
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Family ID	F134	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Jonathan Taylor PACKER, b. 26 Jul 1817, Perry Township, Richland, Ohio, United States , d. 26 Jan 1889, Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States (Age 71 years)

Married 1840 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA

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Children

	1. Alonzo Hamilton PACKER, b. 14 Apr 1841, Nauvoo, Hancock, IL , d. 23 Mar 1917, Safford, Graham, Az (Age 75 years)
	2. Lorenzo James PACKER, b. 27 Jul 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, IL , d. 1849, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (Age 5 years)
	3. Sarah Elizabeth PACKER, b. 19 Oct 1845, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois , d. 9 Dec 1846, , Hancock, Illinois, USA (Age 1 years)
	4. Caroline PACKER, b. 1845, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois , d. Bef 1860 (Age < 14 years)
	5. William Jefferson PACKER, b. 26 Oct 1848, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , d. 30 Sep 1905, Safford, Graham, Az (Age 56 years)
	6. Pleasant Deseret PACKER, b. 21 Feb 1851, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT , d. 27 Nov 1875, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah Territory, USA (Age 24 years)
	7. Mary Angeline PACKER, b. 9 Sep 1852, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States , d. 5 May 1906, Chesterfield, Bannock, Idaho, United States (Age 53 years)
	8. Avilda Verona PACKER, b. 25 Sep 1855, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT , d. 1858, Salem, Utah, Utah, USA (Age 2 years)
	9. LeVerna Sonora PACKER, b. 19 Apr 1858, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , d. 17 May 1926, Pima, Graham, AZ (Age 68 years)
	10. Eva Ellen PACKER, b. 30 Sep 1860, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , bur. Apr 1862, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah (Age ~ 1 years)
	11. Pleasant Deseret PACKER, b. 21 Feb 1851, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT , d. 31 Nov 1871, Brigham City, Box Elder, UT
	12. Eva Ellen PACKER, b. 30 Sep 1860, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT , d. 16 Apr 1862, Brigham City, Box Elder, UT (Age 1 years)

Last Modified 9 Nov 2017 17:05:48

Family ID F64 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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Notes

Millett Family Foundation- William Howard & Lillian Freestone Millett Rec ords;
Mesa, Arizona William Sission Champlin Book Volume 17-A
Story - "Angeline Avilda Champlin by Zitelle McClellan Snarr
Angeline Avilda Champlin, daughter of Wm. Sisson Champlin and Mary Ring w as born 9 Jan.,
1820 in Hartland, Windsor Co., Vermont, about 15 miles from the birth pla ce of the Prophet
Joseph Smith. Wm. S. Champlin was baptized a member of the Church of Jesu s Christ ( L.D.S.)
20 Sept. 1S32 and his wife, Mary Ring,,was bantized 11 Jan., 1833, makin g them the first of
our progenitors to become affiliated with the new Mormon church.
Jonathan Taylor Packer was born July 20, 1817 in Parry Township, Richl and County, Ohio.
The Packer home was about 25 miles from Kirtland, Ohio. Jonathan was 18 y ears old when he
joined the Church. In I836 he was living among the members in Kirtland, O Hio. In 1837 He
married Sarah Ewell and on the 27 of August 1838 their little son Nephi S well Packer was
born in Ray County, Missouri. Sarah died the 1st of June 1839 in Commerce , Hancock County,
Illinois. Jonathan built himself and little Nephi a red brick house, th e best Home
he ever owned, He declared.
There in Nauvoo in 1840 Jonathan married Angeline Avilda Champlin wh o mothered little Nephi.
Avilda, as she was known, and her parents were survivors of Hauns Mill Ma ssacre on Wed., Oct.
31, 1838. A musket fired at th fleeing Avilda, 18 years old, singed her s leeve and the skirt of
her dress. When the scooting began, Avilda's father ran into tHe blacksmi th shop. He was knocked
to the floor and another man fell across his body. Covered with blood, h e feigned death which
undoubtedly saved his life. Jonathan donated the labor of every tenth da y to help build tHe
Kirtland and Nauvoo Temples. He and Avilda were endowed in the Nauvoo Tem ple the 29th of January
1846. They were in Nauvoo when the Prophet and Hyrum were martyred...Avil da later told members
of Her family that she witnessed tHe Mantle of Joseph fall upon Brigham Y oung and heard the
voice of tHe Prophet come from the lips of Brigham Young. There was no do ubt in her mind that he
was the one to lead the Saints to the Rocky Mountains.
With all of their moves the family records were not quite perfect. The y didn't seem to have,
the date of Avilda's baptism, so, on March 30, 1964 baptism was performe d for her to complete
the record.
In the course of time, Avilda gave birth to nine children
Alonzo born in Nauvoo in 1841 died in 1917
Lorenzo James " 1843 died in 1849 in Salt Lake City
Sarah Elizabeth " 1845 died 9 Dec. 1845 at Winter Quarters
Wm. Jefferson born 26 Oct. 1848 in Pioneer Fort in Salt Lake City, U tah died 1905
Pleasant Deseret " 21 Feb. 1851 in Salt Lake City died in 1875 unmar ried
Mary Angeline born 1852 in Salt lake City Married Chester Call, died 1 906
Avilda Verona born 1855 in Salt Lake City, Died 1858 in Salem, Utah
Leverna Sonora born 1858 in Spanish Fork, Utah, married Lorenzo Wrigh t 12 Apr. 1875 in
Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. Died 12 May 1926 in Pima , Ariz.
Eve Ellen born 30 Sept I860 in Brigham City, Utah where she died 16 Ap ril 1862

Jonathan was 30 years old, Avilda 28, their three little boys, Nephi, Alo nzo and Lorenzo were
aged 9; 7; and 4; when they left Nauvoo May 26, 1848 to begin their tre k west. They would
travel with Willard Snow's hundred, being part of toward Egan's ten, wit h the rear company of
Brigham Young's Company. Avilda was three months pregnant. Nephi and Alon zo were old enough
to walk, and walk they did. Jonathan was driver of one of the first fou r wagons that entered
the Valley on August 31, 1848, again the first of our progenitors to com e to Utah.
On Dec 13, 1857 Jonathan took a third wife, Christina Petrena Sundby , a thirty two year
old Danish convert. She gave Jonathan four sons and one daughter:
Joseph Alma born at Fort Herriman, Utah 11 Jan. 1859
Felgar Jacob born 6 April 1861 at Brigham City, Utah
Amasa Lyman born 16 Feb 1864, died the same year at Brigham City, Utah
Amos Erastus bom 24 Dec. 1865 in Brigham City
Martha Marie born 30 Mar I869 in Brigham City
Avilda regarded the practice of poligamy as a law of God and she loved "A unt" Christina.
They moved to Brigham City in I860. Avilda managed a boarding House to he lp out with their
finances. Many spoke of her patience; her diligence. She made their soap , lye and their candles.
Avilda's life seemed to be one move after another. Aunt Christina seeme d to remain in Brigham
City. On Sept 2, 1872 Jonathan was sealed to his fourth wife, 29 year ol d Swedish born Helen
Lindquist. They went to Cannonville, Garfield County, Utah where Jonatha n served as Bishop of
the Ward and Helen died five years later. There were no children born o f this marriage.
In May of 1884 Jonathan and some of his sons and their daughter Sonor a Wright and her husband
were called to settle St. Johns, Arizona. Jonathan and Avilda went to Lay ton, Arizona
where he operated a butcher shop. In 1885 his son-in-law, Lorenzo Wrigh t was killed by Indians
in Solomonville, Arizona. Grandmother Avilda moved in with her daughter , Sonora, to help with
her four children. The youngest child, Cora, was born three weeks after t he father was killed.
Jonathan died the 29 of Jan 1889 and was burried in Layton or Safford , Arizona. The third
wife Christina died Dec. 17, 1892 in Brigham City. On the 25th, of Sept . 1889 Avilda's daughter
Sonora married Orville Morgan Allen in Poligamy and they immediately wen t to Old Mexico to live.
Avilda went with them. She had a great influence for good on the lives o f her grand-children,
especially my Mother, Mary Angeline Wright McClellan who always gave he r grandmother the credit
for her great faith and the courage to go on in the face of life's diffic ulties.
her great fait h and the courage t o go on i n the face of life's difficu lties.
This is the best likeness of Angelina Avilda that we have ever Had. I t has been an inspire-
ation to me this past year, so I decided I would provide a copy for my br other, sisters and
Gerald & Margaret. The facts reccorded have been gleaned from various ske tches of the Packer
Family. Avilda died in Colonia Juarez, Chuahua, Mexico January 7th, 189 3 and was burried there
the following day on her 73rd birthday .
Signed by Zitelle McClellan Snarr
great grand-daugHter of Angelina Avil da CHamplin Packer
Typed by Kathie Patrick Sept 09

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continued:
Millett Family Foundation- William Howard & Lillian Freestone Millett Rec ords;
Mesa, Arizona William Sission Champlin Book Volume 17-A

ANGELINA AVILDA (CHAMPLIN) PACKER
1820-1893

WILLIAM SISSON CHAMPLIN
1794 - 1861

JEFFREY CHAMPLIN
(Emigrant 1638)

JOHN HOWLAND THOMAS STANTON
(Mayflower 1620) KATHERINE WASHINGTON THOMAS LORD
ELIZABETH TILLER JAMES NOYES CAPT GEOR GE DENISON
JOHN GALLOP NATHANIEL CHEESEBROUGH ANN BORODELL
JOHN TILLIE
(Mayflower 1620)

God sifted Three Kingdoms to find pure seed to plant New England! M any connected
with the best families in the old world, in comfortable and wealthy circu mstances left
the land of birth and friends of their bosom, encountered persecution an d obstacles....
braved the perils of the ocean in frail diminutive vessels, encountered h ardships,
climate and still more savage foes... to found a government where they mi ght worship God
after the dictates of their conscience. It would be hard to describe thei r suffering by
cold, hunger and long winters, in miserable huts, sickness and death . . . intensified by
treachery and hostile aboregines found in the country!

Angelina Avilda Packer is a descendant of such stock, as we follo w the trail which
led her with her families from New England to Nauvoo, across the plains t o the west. We
could list many of her fathers who fought in the Revolutionary War. Amon g these would be
Col, Joseph Champlin, grandson of the Emigrant Jeffrey, who was sighted f or bravery, when
the ship which he commanded, prevented a British ship from landing at Sto nington Point,
His son Joseph Champlin, lost all his property at Westerly, Rhode Island , through the
continental money failure during the Revolution, He and his family migrat ed to Pomfret,
Vermont (1776), walking most of the way, carrying their meager possession s. This was the
birth place of her father, William Sisson Champlin.
Through Katherine Washington, one of Angelina's Grandmothers, we cl aim kinship to
our first president, George Washington; Nathaniel Gorham, whose name is a mong the signers
of the Constitution of U,S,, is numbered among her kin. She is descende d from Capt, George
Denison, and his two wives, Bridget Thompson and Ann Borodell, which sho w relationship to
three of their children, which makes our relationship tripled. Miss Caulk ins (historian)
says of them; âOur early history presents no character of bolder more C hivalous spirit and
enterprise. He reminds us of the border chieftains of Scotland.....â Th e famous Indian
interpreter and arbitrator with the Indians is Thomas Stanton, who arrive d in Virginia in
1635. He married Anna, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Lord, who became th e parents of Rev.
James Noyes, author and educator of many religious books, was a ministe r of the Famous
Road Church for 55 years. He was among the founders of Yale and Harvard u niversities. Many
such families, founding fathers and colonizers of this great country we c an claim kinship
because of ANGELINA AVILDA PACKER.

We find among her descendants missionaries who number into the thousands , bishops, stake
presidents, mission presidents. Her descendants could now people many war ds, stakes and
missions, throughout the world!
By Lillian F. Millett.

Descendents from John Howland (Mayflower)and Elizabeth Tilley
JOHN HOWLAND (b. 1592; md Elizabeth Tilley)
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DESIRE HOWLAND (b. abt Feb 1625-26; md John Gorham)
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MERCY GORHAM (b. 20 Jan 1658; md George Denison)
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ELIZABETH DENISON (b. 11 Sep 1689-90; md Christopher Champlin)
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JOSEPH CHAMPLIN (b. 4 Aug 1709; md (2) Mary Noyes)
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JOSEPH CHAMPLIN (b. abt 1765; md Mercy Sisson)
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WILLIAM SISSON CHAMPLIN (b. 16 Apr 1794; md Mary Ring)
Angeline Avilda Champlin
Margaret Emma Champlin

CORRECT_NAME: in the 1850-1860-1870 census she is listed as Angelina A or Angelina Avilda. Also in the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index