the continuing story... as told by John Johnson Thayne's son Ebenezer Hunt Thayn

While John and Sidney were living in Canada, four children were born to them, Mary Ann, Nephi, John Lehi, and Ellen Jane. They then came to the United States and Settled in the state of Iowa. I think four more children were born to them while living there; Emma, Fanny, Eliza Catherine, and Janet. In 1861 they came to Utah. They had believed the gospel, but had not been baptized. When they were ready to leave from Council Bluffs as an independent company there were two girls from England wanting to come. He was asked if he could take one of them with his company and was told he could take his pick,so he picked one. Her name was Elizabeth Hunt.

 When they arrived in Salt Lake, Elizabeth lived with the family for about one year and then John Johnson took her to be his second wife. They were married on the 25th of October 1862. To them were born five boys; Joseph, who died as a baby, William Alvin, Brigham, Edgar and Ebenezer. Elizabeth’s son Joseph, and Sidney’s son, Hyrum were born the same day, Nov. 8, 1863. Sidney gave birth to two more children while living in Salt Lake.

Rootstech Confrence 2012

I had such a great time participating in the Rootstech conference this year! It was so fun being around people who love Family History as much as I do. I volunteered to help during the early registration shift and couldn't believe the number of people who came from all over the world to be apart of this conference. Genealogy is so addicting! Here are some jokes I love about Genealogy...

Genealogy

Genealogy begins as an interest,

Becomes a hobby,

Continues as an avocation,

Takes over as an obsession and in its last stages

Is an incurable disease.

Old genealogist never die they just lose their census

Marriage of John Johnson Thayne and Sidney Boyer 1848

To continue the life story of John Johnson Thayne I wanted to share a resource I found about this family. It is a book written by Kathy Thayne Rasmussen which I discovered at the FHL in Salt Lake City. This book is a gold mine of information about the Ebenezer Thayne family, it's entitled, "Following the fading footprints of the Thayne, Thain or Thayn family : an account of a family from Scotland who migrated to the Canadian frontier, then on to Iowa, across the plains to Utah, up to Thayne, Wyoming and on to Snowflake, Arizona"
This is the story contained in Kathy Rasmussen's book about how John and his wife Sidney Boyer meet and married.

John made a very strong glue and went house to house selling it. He felt it might help his sale if he dressed in Scottish clothes, probably his fathers. While selling the glue he met Sidney Boyer. As a young girl Sidney dreamed of a  man dressed in kilts, knee pants, long heavy stockings, and high topped shoes or boots. She saw his face so plainly that she felt she would know him anywhere. She was told in her dream that this was the man she was to marry. The dream was given to her three times, so it was impressed forcibly on her mind.
In September 1848, John knocked at the door of Abraham Boyer and stood there in his Scottish clothes. When Sidney saw him she knew this was the face and clothing she had seen in her dream. In a short time he and Sidney were making plans to be married. They were married, in Canada, on the 23 of October 1848.