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Amos Pease Stone
Amos Pease Stone, father of Minerva Pease Stone (Shaw), was born March 18, 1815, in Canaan, Columbia County, New York, to Amos Sheldon Stone and Rachel Pease
Stone. Amos married Amelia Bishop, the daughter of Azeriah Bishop and
Content Blakeslee Bishop on March 30, 1838, in New Haven, Connecticut.
His wife died on December 28, 1845, leaving Amos with two little daughters,
Emily and Merab.
The little girls were given a new mother when Amos married Minerva Leontine Jones on February 1, 1846. She was the daughter of Merlin Jones
and Roxanna Ives Jones. Minerva and her parents joined The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints March 3, 1844.
Soon after the marriage of Amos and Minerva, they decided to move west
with the exodus of the Latter-day Saints. They bade farewell to their
parents on March 20, 1846, and left for the West, taking only one of his
daughters - Emily, Two years later, Amos returned to Connecticut from
Carterville, Iowa (west of Council Bluffs), to get his other daughter, Merah.
Two children were born to Amos and Minerva while they lived in
Council Bluffs: OliveAnn, April 1847, and Amos Ives Stone, September
1, 1849. The Stones and their four children left for Utah with the
William Snow / Joseph Young Company on June 21, 1850. They arrived
in the Salt Lake Valley in early October and made their home in
Bountiful, Utah.
Three more children were born while they lived in Bountiful
before they moved farther north to Ogden. They were Minerva
Pease Stone, November 29, 1851, and twins Merlin Jones Stone and
Cordelia Hotchkiss Stone, May 21, 1856. (Cordelia died February
15, 1858.) Their other three children were born in Ogden: Sylvia,
July 11, 1859; Friend Ives, January, 1862; and Vincy Rice, January
January 16th 1864.