1.) Silver—At her residence in Lamoni, Iowa, March 30th, of la grippe, Sister Emma T. Silver, aged 69 years, 1 month and 8 days.
She was born at Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England, February 22d, 1822; emigrated to Utah in the spring of 1864 in company with her husband, where she resided until May, 1881, when she removed to Lamoni, Iowa, where she has since lived, enjoying church privileges, having united with the Reorganized Church of Christ June 6th, 1870, in Salt Lake City, Utah, receiving baptism and confirmation under the ministration of Elder Thomas Liez.
Sister Silver was a woman of noble spirit and of genuine Christian worth. All who knew her loved her for her many excellent qualities, and in her dying hours she expressed profound gratitude in having so many and such devoted friends.
She exhibited unshaken confidence in the love and saving grace of Christ, and a few hours before her death she said she did not fear to die, for she felt prepared, and requested the Saints to pray that, if it was the Lord's will, she might die speedily and peacefully. This desire was granted; for as the summer sun sinks quietly down in the golden west, so passed away the gentle, trusting spirit of this beloved Saint, to the God and Father whom she loved and served. Her rest will surely be glorious.
Funeral sermon March 31st, by Elder W. W. Blair, after which the remains were interred in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
"Oh death! The poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest."
Source: THE SAINTS' HERALD. Lamoni, Iowa, April 11, 1891. Vol. 38. (Whole No. 933) No. 15, p. 238
2.) First Biography ~
Emma (Temple) Silver was born in 1822, Sunninghill, Berkshire, England, the daughter of Francis and Sarah (Jennings) Temple. Emma married Joseph E. Silver. Joseph was born in 1825, Sunninghill, England, the son of Joseph and Ann (Marchant) Silver. Emma and Joseph became the parents of four children: Ann, born 1845, England and Emily, born ca. 1851, England. Joseph was a grocer and Emma was a dressmaker.
The Silvers joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in May of 1848, baptized by J. Lewis. They attended the Southampton [England] Conference. Some time after the death of their daughter Ann, the Silvers came to America with the Mormon migration, leaving Liverpool on April 23, 1861, aboard The Underwriter, and arriving in New York City on May 21, 1861. The Silvers joined the Milo Andrus Mormon Handcart Company in 1861, headed for Utah.
SOURCE: Deseret Weekly News; Desert, Utah, January 01, 1862
3.) Second Biography:
Emma is listed as a dressmaker on the 1861 Census of England. After losing a daughter, she acted on her religious beliefs by sailing to the U.S. with her husband as part of the Mormon immigration. Crossing the American West as part of a handcart company was brutal for many reasons. One of which was that she was severely injured after being run over by a wagon.
Continuing her path of self-determination, she left her husband, friends and Mormonism by relocating with her *stepson to Lamoni, Iowa and joining the Reorganized Latter Day Saint movement. On the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, she listed herself as divorced.
Evidence shows that during her life Emma Temple Silver practiced integrity with her evolving beliefs despite their cost.
4.) Anna Emma (Hind) Silver is listed on the 1870 census as living with Emma (Temple) Silver along with Joseph, Jr. and his sister Ada. Anna Emma (Hind) Silver is listed on that census as the daughter of Emma Temple Silver. Joseph, Sr. is not on that census. Anna Emma Hind was NOT the daughter of Emma Temple.
Anna Emma Hind was the 2nd "plural" wife of Joseph Silver. His first wife, Emma Temple, couldn't abide by having a plural marriage and moved out of his home divorcing him. When Joseph took on a 3rd wife, Anna Emma Hind left him and moved with her children to the home of Emma Temple, thus the census.
The two women cared for the young children until Anna Emma Hind divorced Joseph Silver, Sr., and married another man. Young Joseph Jr. stayed with his stepmother and moved with her across the country to Lamoni, Iowa. He likely never saw his biological mother and father again.
5.) News Article: "Accident To and Detention Of an Emigrant"
Mr. Joseph Silver from England by last season's emigration, now residing at Cold Springs Mail Station, Nebraska Territory has written to President Brigham Young a statement of the causes which led to his detention on the plains, a brief synopsis of which we publish for the benefit of Mr. Silver's friends both in this Territory and in England.
While traveling in Capt. Andrus' company between Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluffs, an accident occurred which rendered his further progress on his journey imprudent if not impossible. Mrs. [Emma] Silver had the misfortune to be run over by a wagon and was so injured that her life was for some time despaired of. Believing however, that while there was life there was hope, Mr. [Joseph] Silver by the assistance of kind friends, had her wounds dressed and she was otherwise made as comfortable as the circumstances with which they were surrounded would permit, and she has been gradually recovering ever since. Mr. Silver entertains the hope that he will be able to continue his journey to this place in the Spring, and the pleasure of a happy meeting with his old friends and acquaintances.
SOURCE: Deseret News [Weekly], 1 Jan. 1862, 216. Trail Excerpt
RELATED COMPANIES: Milo Andrus Company (1861)
RELATED PERSONS:
Emma Temple Silver, Joseph Silver
SOURCE LOCATIONS:
Church History Library, Salt Lake City
MOTHER: Sarah Jennings
FATHER: Francis Temple
HUSBAND: Joseph E. Silver
m. Jul 1846 Southampton, Hampshire, England - divorced by 1880
CHILDREN:
Emily Silver, abt 1851 - listed as part of the Handcart Company
BIOGRAPHY NOTES:
a. Joseph Temple Silver's marriage record lists Joseph, Sr. as his father and "Emma Hind" as his mother.
b. Emma's Will of 1891 states Joseph T. Silver is her adopted son. NOTE: Emma's profile is linked to her adopted son, Joseph Temple Silver, as Joseph's biological mother's burial is currently unknown.
c. Emma and her [adopted] son Joseph Temple Silver left the LDS church in Utah and were baptized and confirmed members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on June 6, 1870, in Salt Lake City, by Thomas Liez. They moved to Lamoni in 1881.
d. Emma and Joseph divorced sometime prior to 1880. Joseph remained in Salt Lake City where he died.
e. IMMIGRATION: Sailed from Liverpool to New York on the Underwriter, 23 Apr 1861 - 21 May 1861
https://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/search
MORE SOURCES:
1. Sources: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890), BMR, Book #1047, pp. 17-44 (FHL #025,691); Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints database.
2. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Name: Emma Silver
Birth Date: Feb 1822
Birth Place: Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England
Death Date: Mar 1891
Death Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa
Burial Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa
Cemetery: Rose Hill Cemetery
Notes: Emma Silver joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 23 May 1848, being baptized by J. Lewis. She attended the Southampton, England Conference before immigrating to Utah in 1864. Emma was baptized and confirmed a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 6 June 1870 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, by Thomas Liez. In 1881 she moved to Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa.
Source: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A, p. 682/ Saints' Herald Obituaries, 1891, p. 238/ Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848, 39:368/ Margetts, Membership Card Index/ Early Reorganization Minutes, 1872-1905, Book C
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
3. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915
Name: Emma Temple
Registration Year: 1846
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Southampton
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 7; Page: 287; Records on Page:
Name
Joseph Silver
Emma Temple
4. Emma SILVER traveled from Liverpool to New York on the Underwriter (23 Apr 1861 - 21 May 1861).
Last Name: SILVER
First Name: Emma
Age: 34
Origin: England
Occupation: Wife
Standard Surname: Silver
Standard Given: Emma
Head Surname: SILVER
Database: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890)
Additional family members on this voyage:
Silver, Joseph (Age: 35)
Silver, Emily (Age: 10)
Ship Name: Underwriter
Departure 23 Apr 1861 from Liverpool
Arrival 21 May 1861 at New York
Source BMR, Book #1047, pp. 17-44 (FHL #025,691); Customs (FHL #175,567)
SOURCE:http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/
Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:passenger/id:65695
5. Source: http://iagenweb.org/decatur/bioDocs
/bio_S/bio_silveremmatemple.htm
She was born at Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England, February 22d, 1822; emigrated to Utah in the spring of 1864 in company with her husband, where she resided until May, 1881, when she removed to Lamoni, Iowa, where she has since lived, enjoying church privileges, having united with the Reorganized Church of Christ June 6th, 1870, in Salt Lake City, Utah, receiving baptism and confirmation under the ministration of Elder Thomas Liez.
Sister Silver was a woman of noble spirit and of genuine Christian worth. All who knew her loved her for her many excellent qualities, and in her dying hours she expressed profound gratitude in having so many and such devoted friends.
She exhibited unshaken confidence in the love and saving grace of Christ, and a few hours before her death she said she did not fear to die, for she felt prepared, and requested the Saints to pray that, if it was the Lord's will, she might die speedily and peacefully. This desire was granted; for as the summer sun sinks quietly down in the golden west, so passed away the gentle, trusting spirit of this beloved Saint, to the God and Father whom she loved and served. Her rest will surely be glorious.
Funeral sermon March 31st, by Elder W. W. Blair, after which the remains were interred in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
"Oh death! The poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest."
Source: THE SAINTS' HERALD. Lamoni, Iowa, April 11, 1891. Vol. 38. (Whole No. 933) No. 15, p. 238
2.) First Biography ~
Emma (Temple) Silver was born in 1822, Sunninghill, Berkshire, England, the daughter of Francis and Sarah (Jennings) Temple. Emma married Joseph E. Silver. Joseph was born in 1825, Sunninghill, England, the son of Joseph and Ann (Marchant) Silver. Emma and Joseph became the parents of four children: Ann, born 1845, England and Emily, born ca. 1851, England. Joseph was a grocer and Emma was a dressmaker.
The Silvers joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in May of 1848, baptized by J. Lewis. They attended the Southampton [England] Conference. Some time after the death of their daughter Ann, the Silvers came to America with the Mormon migration, leaving Liverpool on April 23, 1861, aboard The Underwriter, and arriving in New York City on May 21, 1861. The Silvers joined the Milo Andrus Mormon Handcart Company in 1861, headed for Utah.
SOURCE: Deseret Weekly News; Desert, Utah, January 01, 1862
3.) Second Biography:
Emma is listed as a dressmaker on the 1861 Census of England. After losing a daughter, she acted on her religious beliefs by sailing to the U.S. with her husband as part of the Mormon immigration. Crossing the American West as part of a handcart company was brutal for many reasons. One of which was that she was severely injured after being run over by a wagon.
Continuing her path of self-determination, she left her husband, friends and Mormonism by relocating with her *stepson to Lamoni, Iowa and joining the Reorganized Latter Day Saint movement. On the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, she listed herself as divorced.
Evidence shows that during her life Emma Temple Silver practiced integrity with her evolving beliefs despite their cost.
4.) Anna Emma (Hind) Silver is listed on the 1870 census as living with Emma (Temple) Silver along with Joseph, Jr. and his sister Ada. Anna Emma (Hind) Silver is listed on that census as the daughter of Emma Temple Silver. Joseph, Sr. is not on that census. Anna Emma Hind was NOT the daughter of Emma Temple.
Anna Emma Hind was the 2nd "plural" wife of Joseph Silver. His first wife, Emma Temple, couldn't abide by having a plural marriage and moved out of his home divorcing him. When Joseph took on a 3rd wife, Anna Emma Hind left him and moved with her children to the home of Emma Temple, thus the census.
The two women cared for the young children until Anna Emma Hind divorced Joseph Silver, Sr., and married another man. Young Joseph Jr. stayed with his stepmother and moved with her across the country to Lamoni, Iowa. He likely never saw his biological mother and father again.
5.) News Article: "Accident To and Detention Of an Emigrant"
Mr. Joseph Silver from England by last season's emigration, now residing at Cold Springs Mail Station, Nebraska Territory has written to President Brigham Young a statement of the causes which led to his detention on the plains, a brief synopsis of which we publish for the benefit of Mr. Silver's friends both in this Territory and in England.
While traveling in Capt. Andrus' company between Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluffs, an accident occurred which rendered his further progress on his journey imprudent if not impossible. Mrs. [Emma] Silver had the misfortune to be run over by a wagon and was so injured that her life was for some time despaired of. Believing however, that while there was life there was hope, Mr. [Joseph] Silver by the assistance of kind friends, had her wounds dressed and she was otherwise made as comfortable as the circumstances with which they were surrounded would permit, and she has been gradually recovering ever since. Mr. Silver entertains the hope that he will be able to continue his journey to this place in the Spring, and the pleasure of a happy meeting with his old friends and acquaintances.
SOURCE: Deseret News [Weekly], 1 Jan. 1862, 216. Trail Excerpt
RELATED COMPANIES: Milo Andrus Company (1861)
RELATED PERSONS:
Emma Temple Silver, Joseph Silver
SOURCE LOCATIONS:
Church History Library, Salt Lake City
MOTHER: Sarah Jennings
FATHER: Francis Temple
HUSBAND: Joseph E. Silver
m. Jul 1846 Southampton, Hampshire, England - divorced by 1880
CHILDREN:
Emily Silver, abt 1851 - listed as part of the Handcart Company
BIOGRAPHY NOTES:
a. Joseph Temple Silver's marriage record lists Joseph, Sr. as his father and "Emma Hind" as his mother.
b. Emma's Will of 1891 states Joseph T. Silver is her adopted son. NOTE: Emma's profile is linked to her adopted son, Joseph Temple Silver, as Joseph's biological mother's burial is currently unknown.
c. Emma and her [adopted] son Joseph Temple Silver left the LDS church in Utah and were baptized and confirmed members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on June 6, 1870, in Salt Lake City, by Thomas Liez. They moved to Lamoni in 1881.
d. Emma and Joseph divorced sometime prior to 1880. Joseph remained in Salt Lake City where he died.
e. IMMIGRATION: Sailed from Liverpool to New York on the Underwriter, 23 Apr 1861 - 21 May 1861
https://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/search
MORE SOURCES:
1. Sources: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890), BMR, Book #1047, pp. 17-44 (FHL #025,691); Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints database.
2. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Name: Emma Silver
Birth Date: Feb 1822
Birth Place: Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England
Death Date: Mar 1891
Death Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa
Burial Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa
Cemetery: Rose Hill Cemetery
Notes: Emma Silver joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 23 May 1848, being baptized by J. Lewis. She attended the Southampton, England Conference before immigrating to Utah in 1864. Emma was baptized and confirmed a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 6 June 1870 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, by Thomas Liez. In 1881 she moved to Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa.
Source: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A, p. 682/ Saints' Herald Obituaries, 1891, p. 238/ Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848, 39:368/ Margetts, Membership Card Index/ Early Reorganization Minutes, 1872-1905, Book C
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
3. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915
Name: Emma Temple
Registration Year: 1846
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Southampton
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 7; Page: 287; Records on Page:
Name
Joseph Silver
Emma Temple
4. Emma SILVER traveled from Liverpool to New York on the Underwriter (23 Apr 1861 - 21 May 1861).
Last Name: SILVER
First Name: Emma
Age: 34
Origin: England
Occupation: Wife
Standard Surname: Silver
Standard Given: Emma
Head Surname: SILVER
Database: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890)
Additional family members on this voyage:
Silver, Joseph (Age: 35)
Silver, Emily (Age: 10)
Ship Name: Underwriter
Departure 23 Apr 1861 from Liverpool
Arrival 21 May 1861 at New York
Source BMR, Book #1047, pp. 17-44 (FHL #025,691); Customs (FHL #175,567)
SOURCE:http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/
Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:passenger/id:65695
5. Source: http://iagenweb.org/decatur/bioDocs
/bio_S/bio_silveremmatemple.htm
1.) Silver—At her residence in Lamoni, Iowa, March 30th, of la grippe, Sister Emma T. Silver, aged 69 years, 1 month and 8 days.
She was born at Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England, February 22d, 1822; emigrated to Utah in the spring of 1864 in company with her husband, where she resided until May, 1881, when she removed to Lamoni, Iowa, where she has since lived, enjoying church privileges, having united with the Reorganized Church of Christ June 6th, 1870, in Salt Lake City, Utah, receiving baptism and confirmation under the ministration of Elder Thomas Liez.
Sister Silver was a woman of noble spirit and of genuine Christian worth. All who knew her loved her for her many excellent qualities, and in her dying hours she expressed profound gratitude in having so many and such devoted friends.
She exhibited unshaken confidence in the love and saving grace of Christ, and a few hours before her death she said she did not fear to die, for she felt prepared, and requested the Saints to pray that, if it was the Lord's will, she might die speedily and peacefully. This desire was granted; for as the summer sun sinks quietly down in the golden west, so passed away the gentle, trusting spirit of this beloved Saint, to the God and Father whom she loved and served. Her rest will surely be glorious.
Funeral sermon March 31st, by Elder W. W. Blair, after which the remains were interred in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
"Oh death! The poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest."
Source: THE SAINTS' HERALD. Lamoni, Iowa, April 11, 1891. Vol. 38. (Whole No. 933) No. 15, p. 238
2.) First Biography ~
Emma (Temple) Silver was born in 1822, Sunninghill, Berkshire, England, the daughter of Francis and Sarah (Jennings) Temple. Emma married Joseph E. Silver. Joseph was born in 1825, Sunninghill, England, the son of Joseph and Ann (Marchant) Silver. Emma and Joseph became the parents of four children: Ann, born 1845, England and Emily, born ca. 1851, England. Joseph was a grocer and Emma was a dressmaker.
The Silvers joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in May of 1848, baptized by J. Lewis. They attended the Southampton [England] Conference. Some time after the death of their daughter Ann, the Silvers came to America with the Mormon migration, leaving Liverpool on April 23, 1861, aboard The Underwriter, and arriving in New York City on May 21, 1861. The Silvers joined the Milo Andrus Mormon Handcart Company in 1861, headed for Utah.
SOURCE: Deseret Weekly News; Desert, Utah, January 01, 1862
3.) Second Biography:
Emma is listed as a dressmaker on the 1861 Census of England. After losing a daughter, she acted on her religious beliefs by sailing to the U.S. with her husband as part of the Mormon immigration. Crossing the American West as part of a handcart company was brutal for many reasons. One of which was that she was severely injured after being run over by a wagon.
Continuing her path of self-determination, she left her husband, friends and Mormonism by relocating with her *stepson to Lamoni, Iowa and joining the Reorganized Latter Day Saint movement. On the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, she listed herself as divorced.
Evidence shows that during her life Emma Temple Silver practiced integrity with her evolving beliefs despite their cost.
4.) Anna Emma (Hind) Silver is listed on the 1870 census as living with Emma (Temple) Silver along with Joseph, Jr. and his sister Ada. Anna Emma (Hind) Silver is listed on that census as the daughter of Emma Temple Silver. Joseph, Sr. is not on that census. Anna Emma Hind was NOT the daughter of Emma Temple.
Anna Emma Hind was the 2nd "plural" wife of Joseph Silver. His first wife, Emma Temple, couldn't abide by having a plural marriage and moved out of his home divorcing him. When Joseph took on a 3rd wife, Anna Emma Hind left him and moved with her children to the home of Emma Temple, thus the census.
The two women cared for the young children until Anna Emma Hind divorced Joseph Silver, Sr., and married another man. Young Joseph Jr. stayed with his stepmother and moved with her across the country to Lamoni, Iowa. He likely never saw his biological mother and father again.
5.) News Article: "Accident To and Detention Of an Emigrant"
Mr. Joseph Silver from England by last season's emigration, now residing at Cold Springs Mail Station, Nebraska Territory has written to President Brigham Young a statement of the causes which led to his detention on the plains, a brief synopsis of which we publish for the benefit of Mr. Silver's friends both in this Territory and in England.
While traveling in Capt. Andrus' company between Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluffs, an accident occurred which rendered his further progress on his journey imprudent if not impossible. Mrs. [Emma] Silver had the misfortune to be run over by a wagon and was so injured that her life was for some time despaired of. Believing however, that while there was life there was hope, Mr. [Joseph] Silver by the assistance of kind friends, had her wounds dressed and she was otherwise made as comfortable as the circumstances with which they were surrounded would permit, and she has been gradually recovering ever since. Mr. Silver entertains the hope that he will be able to continue his journey to this place in the Spring, and the pleasure of a happy meeting with his old friends and acquaintances.
SOURCE: Deseret News [Weekly], 1 Jan. 1862, 216. Trail Excerpt
RELATED COMPANIES: Milo Andrus Company (1861)
RELATED PERSONS:
Emma Temple Silver, Joseph Silver
SOURCE LOCATIONS:
Church History Library, Salt Lake City
MOTHER: Sarah Jennings
FATHER: Francis Temple
HUSBAND: Joseph E. Silver
m. Jul 1846 Southampton, Hampshire, England - divorced by 1880
CHILDREN:
Emily Silver, abt 1851 - listed as part of the Handcart Company
BIOGRAPHY NOTES:
a. Joseph Temple Silver's marriage record lists Joseph, Sr. as his father and "Emma Hind" as his mother.
b. Emma's Will of 1891 states Joseph T. Silver is her adopted son. NOTE: Emma's profile is linked to her adopted son, Joseph Temple Silver, as Joseph's biological mother's burial is currently unknown.
c. Emma and her [adopted] son Joseph Temple Silver left the LDS church in Utah and were baptized and confirmed members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on June 6, 1870, in Salt Lake City, by Thomas Liez. They moved to Lamoni in 1881.
d. Emma and Joseph divorced sometime prior to 1880. Joseph remained in Salt Lake City where he died.
e. IMMIGRATION: Sailed from Liverpool to New York on the Underwriter, 23 Apr 1861 - 21 May 1861
https://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/search
MORE SOURCES:
1. Sources: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890), BMR, Book #1047, pp. 17-44 (FHL #025,691); Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints database.
2. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Name: Emma Silver
Birth Date: Feb 1822
Birth Place: Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England
Death Date: Mar 1891
Death Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa
Burial Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa
Cemetery: Rose Hill Cemetery
Notes: Emma Silver joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 23 May 1848, being baptized by J. Lewis. She attended the Southampton, England Conference before immigrating to Utah in 1864. Emma was baptized and confirmed a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 6 June 1870 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, by Thomas Liez. In 1881 she moved to Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa.
Source: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A, p. 682/ Saints' Herald Obituaries, 1891, p. 238/ Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848, 39:368/ Margetts, Membership Card Index/ Early Reorganization Minutes, 1872-1905, Book C
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
3. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915
Name: Emma Temple
Registration Year: 1846
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Southampton
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 7; Page: 287; Records on Page:
Name
Joseph Silver
Emma Temple
4. Emma SILVER traveled from Liverpool to New York on the Underwriter (23 Apr 1861 - 21 May 1861).
Last Name: SILVER
First Name: Emma
Age: 34
Origin: England
Occupation: Wife
Standard Surname: Silver
Standard Given: Emma
Head Surname: SILVER
Database: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890)
Additional family members on this voyage:
Silver, Joseph (Age: 35)
Silver, Emily (Age: 10)
Ship Name: Underwriter
Departure 23 Apr 1861 from Liverpool
Arrival 21 May 1861 at New York
Source BMR, Book #1047, pp. 17-44 (FHL #025,691); Customs (FHL #175,567)
SOURCE:http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/
Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:passenger/id:65695
5. Source: http://iagenweb.org/decatur/bioDocs
/bio_S/bio_silveremmatemple.htm
She was born at Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England, February 22d, 1822; emigrated to Utah in the spring of 1864 in company with her husband, where she resided until May, 1881, when she removed to Lamoni, Iowa, where she has since lived, enjoying church privileges, having united with the Reorganized Church of Christ June 6th, 1870, in Salt Lake City, Utah, receiving baptism and confirmation under the ministration of Elder Thomas Liez.
Sister Silver was a woman of noble spirit and of genuine Christian worth. All who knew her loved her for her many excellent qualities, and in her dying hours she expressed profound gratitude in having so many and such devoted friends.
She exhibited unshaken confidence in the love and saving grace of Christ, and a few hours before her death she said she did not fear to die, for she felt prepared, and requested the Saints to pray that, if it was the Lord's will, she might die speedily and peacefully. This desire was granted; for as the summer sun sinks quietly down in the golden west, so passed away the gentle, trusting spirit of this beloved Saint, to the God and Father whom she loved and served. Her rest will surely be glorious.
Funeral sermon March 31st, by Elder W. W. Blair, after which the remains were interred in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
"Oh death! The poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest."
Source: THE SAINTS' HERALD. Lamoni, Iowa, April 11, 1891. Vol. 38. (Whole No. 933) No. 15, p. 238
2.) First Biography ~
Emma (Temple) Silver was born in 1822, Sunninghill, Berkshire, England, the daughter of Francis and Sarah (Jennings) Temple. Emma married Joseph E. Silver. Joseph was born in 1825, Sunninghill, England, the son of Joseph and Ann (Marchant) Silver. Emma and Joseph became the parents of four children: Ann, born 1845, England and Emily, born ca. 1851, England. Joseph was a grocer and Emma was a dressmaker.
The Silvers joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in May of 1848, baptized by J. Lewis. They attended the Southampton [England] Conference. Some time after the death of their daughter Ann, the Silvers came to America with the Mormon migration, leaving Liverpool on April 23, 1861, aboard The Underwriter, and arriving in New York City on May 21, 1861. The Silvers joined the Milo Andrus Mormon Handcart Company in 1861, headed for Utah.
SOURCE: Deseret Weekly News; Desert, Utah, January 01, 1862
3.) Second Biography:
Emma is listed as a dressmaker on the 1861 Census of England. After losing a daughter, she acted on her religious beliefs by sailing to the U.S. with her husband as part of the Mormon immigration. Crossing the American West as part of a handcart company was brutal for many reasons. One of which was that she was severely injured after being run over by a wagon.
Continuing her path of self-determination, she left her husband, friends and Mormonism by relocating with her *stepson to Lamoni, Iowa and joining the Reorganized Latter Day Saint movement. On the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, she listed herself as divorced.
Evidence shows that during her life Emma Temple Silver practiced integrity with her evolving beliefs despite their cost.
4.) Anna Emma (Hind) Silver is listed on the 1870 census as living with Emma (Temple) Silver along with Joseph, Jr. and his sister Ada. Anna Emma (Hind) Silver is listed on that census as the daughter of Emma Temple Silver. Joseph, Sr. is not on that census. Anna Emma Hind was NOT the daughter of Emma Temple.
Anna Emma Hind was the 2nd "plural" wife of Joseph Silver. His first wife, Emma Temple, couldn't abide by having a plural marriage and moved out of his home divorcing him. When Joseph took on a 3rd wife, Anna Emma Hind left him and moved with her children to the home of Emma Temple, thus the census.
The two women cared for the young children until Anna Emma Hind divorced Joseph Silver, Sr., and married another man. Young Joseph Jr. stayed with his stepmother and moved with her across the country to Lamoni, Iowa. He likely never saw his biological mother and father again.
5.) News Article: "Accident To and Detention Of an Emigrant"
Mr. Joseph Silver from England by last season's emigration, now residing at Cold Springs Mail Station, Nebraska Territory has written to President Brigham Young a statement of the causes which led to his detention on the plains, a brief synopsis of which we publish for the benefit of Mr. Silver's friends both in this Territory and in England.
While traveling in Capt. Andrus' company between Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluffs, an accident occurred which rendered his further progress on his journey imprudent if not impossible. Mrs. [Emma] Silver had the misfortune to be run over by a wagon and was so injured that her life was for some time despaired of. Believing however, that while there was life there was hope, Mr. [Joseph] Silver by the assistance of kind friends, had her wounds dressed and she was otherwise made as comfortable as the circumstances with which they were surrounded would permit, and she has been gradually recovering ever since. Mr. Silver entertains the hope that he will be able to continue his journey to this place in the Spring, and the pleasure of a happy meeting with his old friends and acquaintances.
SOURCE: Deseret News [Weekly], 1 Jan. 1862, 216. Trail Excerpt
RELATED COMPANIES: Milo Andrus Company (1861)
RELATED PERSONS:
Emma Temple Silver, Joseph Silver
SOURCE LOCATIONS:
Church History Library, Salt Lake City
MOTHER: Sarah Jennings
FATHER: Francis Temple
HUSBAND: Joseph E. Silver
m. Jul 1846 Southampton, Hampshire, England - divorced by 1880
CHILDREN:
Emily Silver, abt 1851 - listed as part of the Handcart Company
BIOGRAPHY NOTES:
a. Joseph Temple Silver's marriage record lists Joseph, Sr. as his father and "Emma Hind" as his mother.
b. Emma's Will of 1891 states Joseph T. Silver is her adopted son. NOTE: Emma's profile is linked to her adopted son, Joseph Temple Silver, as Joseph's biological mother's burial is currently unknown.
c. Emma and her [adopted] son Joseph Temple Silver left the LDS church in Utah and were baptized and confirmed members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on June 6, 1870, in Salt Lake City, by Thomas Liez. They moved to Lamoni in 1881.
d. Emma and Joseph divorced sometime prior to 1880. Joseph remained in Salt Lake City where he died.
e. IMMIGRATION: Sailed from Liverpool to New York on the Underwriter, 23 Apr 1861 - 21 May 1861
https://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/search
MORE SOURCES:
1. Sources: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890), BMR, Book #1047, pp. 17-44 (FHL #025,691); Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints database.
2. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Name: Emma Silver
Birth Date: Feb 1822
Birth Place: Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England
Death Date: Mar 1891
Death Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa
Burial Place: Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa
Cemetery: Rose Hill Cemetery
Notes: Emma Silver joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 23 May 1848, being baptized by J. Lewis. She attended the Southampton, England Conference before immigrating to Utah in 1864. Emma was baptized and confirmed a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 6 June 1870 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, by Thomas Liez. In 1881 she moved to Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa.
Source: Early Reorganization Minutes, 1852-1871, Book A, p. 682/ Saints' Herald Obituaries, 1891, p. 238/ Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848, 39:368/ Margetts, Membership Card Index/ Early Reorganization Minutes, 1872-1905, Book C
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
3. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915
Name: Emma Temple
Registration Year: 1846
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Southampton
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 7; Page: 287; Records on Page:
Name
Joseph Silver
Emma Temple
4. Emma SILVER traveled from Liverpool to New York on the Underwriter (23 Apr 1861 - 21 May 1861).
Last Name: SILVER
First Name: Emma
Age: 34
Origin: England
Occupation: Wife
Standard Surname: Silver
Standard Given: Emma
Head Surname: SILVER
Database: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890)
Additional family members on this voyage:
Silver, Joseph (Age: 35)
Silver, Emily (Age: 10)
Ship Name: Underwriter
Departure 23 Apr 1861 from Liverpool
Arrival 21 May 1861 at New York
Source BMR, Book #1047, pp. 17-44 (FHL #025,691); Customs (FHL #175,567)
SOURCE:http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/
Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:passenger/id:65695
5. Source: http://iagenweb.org/decatur/bioDocs
/bio_S/bio_silveremmatemple.htm
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