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Read some of the stories about Elam's ancestors, his early life, time in Kirtland, time in Nauvoo, emigration to Utah, his life in Utah, and his life in Arizona.
Read some of the stories about Elam's ancestors, his early life, time in Kirtland, time in Nauvoo, emigration to Utah, his life in Utah, and his life in Arizona.
Mehitable Wells and Aaron Cheney (Elam's Parents)
Elam's Birth & Childhood
May 16, 1825 - Freedom, New York
Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio. Dedicated March 27, 1836.
Kirtland, Ohio
1835 - 1838
Nauvoo Temple - Nauvoo, Illinois. Dedicated May 1, 1846.
Nauvoo, Illinois
1838 - 1847
Mormon Pioneers entering the Salk Lake Valley through Emigration Canyon, July 24, 1847.
Utah
1847 - 1884
Arizona
1884 - 1912
Elam Cheney's Ancestors
Hannah Duston
1657 - 1736
Hannah Duston [Dustin] is Elam's great, great, great, great grandmother. Hannah's daughter Hannah, married Daniel Cheney II.
Hannah Emerson Duston is the first woman in US history to have a monument erected in her honor. Hannah Duston was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan woman who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her newborn daughter, during the 1697 raid on Haverhill, in which 27 colonists, 15 of them children, were killed. In her account she stated that the Abenakis killed her newborn baby soon after they were captured. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Abenaki family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives.
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