Carol Jean Spencer

Carol married Thomas Merthyr Miner [Group Sheet]

1. Gregory Thomas Miner
2. Christina Chantal Miner
3. Kimberlie Michelle Miner
4. Michael Wilford Miner
5. Deborah Suzanne Miner
6. Derek Merthyr Miner
7. Catherine Cheri Miner

Farrell married Bertha Farnsworth 17 Jun 1935, Colonia Dublán Cemetery, Colonia Dublán, Galeana Municipality, Chihuahua, México. Bertha (daughter of Wilford Martindale Farnsworth and Eleanor "Ella" Romney) was born 20 Jun 1912, Colonia Dublán, Galeana Municipality, Chihuahua, México; died 15 Oct 1988; was buried Aft 15 Oct 1988, Logan City Cemetery, Logan, Cache Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

Charles married Isabelle Kennedy Bef 1912. Isabelle died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Wilford married Eleanor "Ella" Romney 3 Jun 1909, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. Eleanor (daughter of MIles Park Romney and Annie Marie Woodbury) was born 28 Mar 1888, Colonia Juárez, Casa Grandes Municipality, Chihuahua, México; died 12 Mar 1956, Mesa, Maricopa Co., AZ; was buried Aft 12 Mar 1956, City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa Co., AZ. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: Jun 1955, Mesa, Maricopa Co., AZ

Albert married Mary Ann Johnson 1 Dec 1874, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. Mary was born 5 Aug 1858, Fairfield, Jefferson Co., IA; died 16 Apr 1942, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• 1850 Census: 1850, Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory
• Newspaper Article: 2008, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA; Boston Globe

Notes:

Newspaper Article:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7207/romney.htm
http://history.utah.gov/FindAids/C00238/C0238ff.XML

After Elder Miles P. Romney returned from his mission in England he built a home in the Seventeenth Ward in Salt Lake City, Utah. Scarcely had it been completed when he, at the request of President Brigham Young, was to take a second wife. The marriage occurred in March 23, 1867, and the bride was Carrie Lambourne, a very beautiful young woman.

It was common for church members to take plural wives when instructed to do so by their ecclesiastical superiors. If the prophet asked you to take a plural wife, it would be hard for a devout Mormon to disobey. This quote shows how the Utah saints viewed polygamy as a deeply religious commitment, and how they connected it with their first prophet, Joseph Smith.

Incidentally, the marriage with Carrie Lambourne did not endure; she later separated from Miles Park Romney, and married a man named Abraham Meackin in Salt Lake City.

1850 Census:
p. 50
Miles Romney     44  M  Joiner  $200   England
Elizabeth             43  F                            "
Elizabeth             17  F                            "
Sarah                  15  F                            "           school
Joseph                13  M                            "              "
Brigham               11  M                            "              "
Miles P.                  8  M                          Ill:              "
Heber                    7  M                           "               "
Hiram                     5  M                           "              
Mary Ann              3  F                           Mo
Jane                  5/12  F                          Des

Newspaper Article:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part2_main/?page=6

Addition to a marriage

It was then, in 1867, that Miles P. Romney had a fateful meeting with Young.

''Brother Miles P., I want you to take another wife,'' Young requested, according to Hannah's autobiography.

Miles faced the choice of obeying US law, under which polygamy was illegal, or the head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He chose the church.

Hannah was distraught.

''I felt that was more than I could endure, to have him divide his time and affections,'' Hannah wrote later. ''I used to walk the floor and shed tears of sorrow. If anything will make a woman's heart ache, it is for her husband to take another wife, but I put my trust in my Heavenly Father and prayed and pleaded with him to give me strength to bear this great trial.''

Then Hannah performed her duty: she prepared a room for her husband's new wife, Caroline Lambourne. Hannah wrote, ''I was able to live in the principle of polygamy and give my husband many wives.'' But her despair deepened when her younger daughter died at 10 months.

Soon, Young gave Miles and his two wives a new mission: sell your home, and move to the southern Utah town of St. George. The new settlement about 300 miles south of Salt Lake was in a vast desert, surrounded by red-toned ridges in a region where summer temperatures often topped 100 degrees.

Young prophesied that, ''There will yet be built between these volcanic ridges, a city, with spires and towers and steeples, with homes containing many inhabitants.'' The Romneys sold their Salt Lake City home and moved to St. George, where they lived ''in a little shanty, a small board room, and a wagon box,'' Hannah wrote.

From the shanty, the Romneys wrote themselves into church history as builders. Miles played a major role in the construction of St. George Temple. Then, Brigham Young hired Miles to build a two-story addition to his winter home in St. George. Miles took on the task with zeal, constructing one of the most lavish residences in Utah, a sandstone brick dwelling with an elaborate porch painted red and green. The restored home is visited today by Mormons from around the world, who are told of Miles's role in building the house. Pictures of Young and Romney hang in an adjoining building.

But while Miles was prospering as a builder, he had increasing trouble handling two wives. Hannah wrote that Caroline ''was very jealous of me. ..... She wanted all my husband's attention. When she couldn't get it there was always a fuss in the house. [Miles], being a just man, didn't give way to her tantrums.''

Miles and Caroline had two children, whom Hannah agreed to care for. But Caroline was not satisfied. She asked Young for permission to return to her parents in Salt Lake City. The separation was ''the severest trial ever experienced'' by Miles, according to ''Life Story of Miles Park Romney,'' written by his son, Thomas. Miles and Hannah ''made a special trip of three hundred miles by wagon to try to induce Carrie to return to her home in Saint George. But all their pleadings were in vain,'' and a divorce was granted, according to the biography.

For a brief time, with Caroline having left, Miles and Hannah were once again in a single-wife marriage. It was then, in 1871, that Hannah gave birth to Gaskell, the grandfather of Mitt Romney.

MIles married Annie Marie Woodbury 1 Aug 1877, Saint George, Washington Co., UT. Annie (daughter of Orin Nelson Woodbury and Ann Cannon) was born 14 Oct 1858, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; died 14 Jan 1930, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; was buried 17 Jan 1930, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Alice Marie Woodbury