James GLEN

GLEN, Thomas
(About 1755-)

ANSLIE, Margaret
(About 1760-)

GLEN, James
(1783-1853)

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Spouses/Children:
1. MARSHELL, Agness

GLEN, James ¹ ²

Born: 18 May 1783, Linlithgow parish, West Lothian, Scotland
Baptised: 18 May 1783, Linlithgow, W. Lothian, Scotland ³
Marriage (1): MARSHELL, Agness on 24 October 1817 in Kirkliston parish, West Lothian, Scotland ¹
Died: 10 November 1853, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA ³

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Married on 24 October 1817
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CONC p align="center">By Marian Glen Condie</line><line>(granddaughter of Alexander Glenn, great granddaughter of James and Agn
CONC es Glenn)</line><line> </line><line>James Glenn was born in Linlithgo
CONC w (now West Lothian) Scotland on May 18, 1783, and baptized the same day. He was the son of Thomas Glenn, a tailor, and Margaret  Ainslie. </line><line>H
CONC e spent some years of his life in the British Army. In 1815 he was on his third day of march to the battle of Waterloo when word was received that the battle was over. On the 24 of October, 1817, he married Agnes Marshall in the Kirkliston Parish
CONC . She was also in Linlithgow on the 25 of March 1792, the daughter of John Marshall and Mary McFarlane.</line><line>To this couple were born nine children: James o
CONC n 26 August 1819, Walter on 6 October 1821, Margaret about 1823, Thomas on 2 April 1827 (Parish Register), Catherine on 16 March 1829, Adam about 1831 - and died October 1833, John on 23 November 1833 (10 October 1833 on Parish Register), Alexande
CONC r on 24 October 1836, Robina on 6 July 1838. All were born at Kirkliston.</line><line>James and his boys were hard working quarry men, leaving during the week to wo
CONC rk at the rock quarry where they had contracts to get out building stone. </line><line>The family belonged to the Orthodox Church and were regular attenders at Sund
CONC ay meetings. Agnes had a nice voice and sang in the choir.</line><line>She died about 1845, when severa
CONC l of the children were rather young. Margaret must have already married and </line><line>Catherine was left to care for her father and the children. She was oblige
CONC d to go into the fields with a scythe during the day to cut grain then return home at night to care for the family.</line><line>My father, John H. Glenn [James an
CONC d Agnes' grandson] relates an incident that his father, Alexander [James and Agnes' son] often spoke of. An accident came to one of the boys [James' sons] at the quarry. A rock crushed him so badly that he was crippled and madefast. When he realise
CONC d that he would not be able to move about again, he did not grow melancholy. One day after his father [James] had been home for a few days and was about to return to his work, the boy called him to his bedside and asked him to come home again a
CONC t a certain time, sooner than usual. His father asked why? His son told him that on a certain day at a certain time he was going to die. The father agreed to come to humor his son. On the designated day the father and son came home. They found th
CONC e sick boy about as usual. He called the family together, told them that he was about to leave them, spoke comforting words, sang a hymn and then quietly and peacefully crossed over to the other side. </line><line>&l
CONC t;p align="left">The name of the son was not given but I have found the burial date of James Glen on 17 June 1844 aged 23 yeas. I believe that he was their son James. </line>
CONC <line> </line><line>On 23 July 1848 Catherine was married to Daniel Stewart and on 13 August o
CONC f that same year Walter was married to Elizabeth Stewart. </line><line>About the year 1851, the Mormon Elders came to their home where they were received&a
CONC mp;nbsp;kindly. Several of the children accepted the gospel. According to the early Kirkliston Branch Records. Thomas was baptized on 23 November 1851 along with Catherine and Daniel Stewart. Walter and his wife, Elizabeth and Robina [James and Agn
CONC es' youngest child], were baptized 11 September 1852.</line><line> </line><line>The father [James] while being friendly was not easily converted. He was an active officer in the "Old Church" and all the time was being urged to drive out the Mormons from his home by the Minister of his church. </sp
CONC an></line><line> </line><line>[His daughter] Catherine and her husband D
CONC aniel had decided to emigrate to America and gather to Zion [a place of refuge from all that discriminated against them, in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory]. The father [James] came home for a few days before their leaving to bid them goodbye. Whil
CONC e waiting, something came over him, something that occurred in the night time of which he could not or would not speak. He sent at once for the Elders and was baptized in Kirkliston [in Scotland], on 5 February 1853 by John Russel.  </s
CONC pan></line><line>He joined Catherine and Daniel and their two daughters, Agnes and Marion, along with some of Daniel's parents, James and Marion Stewart and their two childre
CONC n, Thomas and Christiana.</line><line>Another child, James G. Stewart, was born to Catherine and Daniel while on board ship. </line><line><
CONC ;p align="left"> </line><line>They sailed the ship "International" [from Liverpool, England] on 28 February 185
CONC 3 to New Orleans with 425 Saints. They were two months crossing the ocean, landing at New Orleans in April 1853. They remained here only long enough to make preperations to cross the plai
CONC ns, coming in the Jacob Gates Co. They were five weeks going from New Orleans to Keokuk, Iowa. They left Iowa on June 3 with 262 persons. They endured many hardships, having to walk most of the wa
CONC y. Their ox team was used to haul their scanty furniture and what little food they possessed. </line><line>They arrived in Salt Lake City on 26 September 1853.</line><line>James' health was very poor all during the journey. He died a few weeks after their arrival on 10 November 1853 (or December) at the age of 70 years. He was buried in the Sa
CONC lt Lake Cemetery. </line><line> </line><line>After their arrival in Salt Lake, Daniel St
CONC ewart went to the marshy fields south of the city and dug up pieces of sod about the size of a brick and bringing them home he built a house with them in which they lived the first winter. The next summer he made adobes and built a two room house w
CONC hich was their home for five years. </line><line>They endured many hardships including the grasshopper war. Catherine often dreaded to have her children wake in the mor
CONC ning as their was no food to give to them. When Johnson's Army was coming to Salt Lake the Stewarts moved to Spanish Fork for a while. </line><line>In May 1860 they mov
CONC ed to Wellsville. They were three days making the journey by ox team. They first lived in a dugout and later in a log cabin. </line><line>Catherine learned to spin an
CONC d often went into the fields to work. She died when forty-six years of age, a faithful Latter-Day Saint. She was active in Relief Society and many other organizations of the church. She was the mother of eleven children, including two sets of twins
CONC . </line><line> </line><line>Going back to the other members of the family in Scotland
CONC , we find that Margaret married Alex Anderson and did not join the church [Mormon/Latter-Day Saints]. My father [John H. Glenn, James and Agnes' grandson] often spoke of his Aunt Maggie, but I do not know further of her. </
CONC p></line><line> </line><line>One brother, we are told, went to Australia. This was probably Thomas. In the sealing re
CONC cord in the Logan Temple his death is given about 1890.</line><line> </line><line>Walter and hi
CONC s wife, Elizabeth, with their two children James and Marion, sailed from Liverpool on 12 March 1854 on the ship "John M. Wood". Accompanying them were Alexander and Robinia [youngest of James and Agnes' children], and also James Stewart who latte
CONC r married Robinia. </line><line>They arrived in New Orleans on May 2, crossed the plains in the Wm. A. Empey Co. and reached Salt Lake on 24 October 1854. A son, John
CONC , was born to Walter and Elizabeth while crossing the plains. </line><line>They lived in Salt Lake until about 1860 when they moved to Wellsville. He was a rock cutte
CONC r and built many rock homes there. He cut rock and helped to build both the Salt Lake and Logan Temple and was a veteran of the Echo Canyon War. He was always active in the church. He passed away 27 September 1909 at the age of 78 years. He and Eli
CONC zabeth were the parents of twelve children. </line><line> </line><line>John remained i
CONC n Scotland longer than the other members of the family. He learned the rock mason trade and worked in Glasgow for a time as a stone cutter and mason. </line><line>Abou
CONC t 1856 or 57 he married Jane Morrison. Their first child was born 23 December 1858 in Kilsyth and died three days later. A Margaret Flemming had also had a baby boy, William, on 17 December 1858. She gave him to John and Jane and they raised him a
CONC s their own.</line><line>They joined the church in 1862 and sailed for America on 30 May 1863 on the ship "Cynosure", with William and two other sons, John and Thomas, who had b
CONC een born to them. Young John died while they were crossing the plains.</line><line>They also settled in Wellsville, where John helped to build churches, schools and homes. Two o
CONC ther sons and a daughter were born to them but the last boy and girl died while they were very young. On 30 October 1871 Jane passed away. The hardships had weakened her and she died of Typhoid Fever, leaving John and three small boys. <
CONC ;/span></line><line>He left the boys with Walter and Elizabeth and went to Salt Lake to find work. For several months he worked on the Salt Lake Temple. He met Sarah Ann Lund, who he marr
CONC ied in the Endowment House in 1873. </line><line>They made their home in Wellsville where seven children were born to them. John was active in civic and church affairs
CONC . He passed away on 4 November 1922 at the age of 89. </line><line> </line><line>Alexand
CONC er entered the Salt Lake Valley on his eighteenth birthday and settled in the Fourth Ward in Salt Lake City. He spent six months in the Black Hawk War in Sanpete Co. When Johnson's Army was about to enter the Valley and the Saints were advised to m
CONC ove south, he was amoung those designated by President Brigham Young to remain on guard in Salt Lake. When President Young died he was chosen as a guard at his graveside. </line><line>In 1861 he married Sarah Bond. They were the parents of seven children. Sarah passed away in 1874 soon after the seventh child was born. On 11 January 1875 he married Lavina Haigh in the Endowment House. To them were born fourteen c
CONC hildren. </line><line>Alexander established the Fourth Ward Store and for forty years freighted from Salt Lake City to points along the Weber River in Summit and Morga
CONC n Counties, where he was known as "Sandy Glenn".</line><line>He passed away on 31 March 1924 at the age of 88. </line><line> </line><line>Robinia married James Stewart soon after they came to the Valley. They were married in Salt Lake and lived there until the earl
CONC y sixties when they also moved to Wellsville. They were the parents of eight children. Robinia passed away 20 January 1872 a few days after the eighth child was born. </line><line> </line><line>The posterity of James and Agnes Marshall Glen, through these sons and daughters, now numbers hundreds, most of whom are active members of t
CONC he church.  </line><line> </line><line>Sources: <spa
CONC n style="font-size: medium;"> </line><line>I, Meliah Crow, have in my possession a Book of Rememberence that my great grandparents, Albert and Nancy Archibald, and f
CONC amily complied and put together before Nancy's passing in 1982, when she was 89. This particular story was written by James and Agnes' great granddaughter, Marian Glenn Condie. In Feb 2010 I had summarized this story and put it on ancestry.com. Aft
CONC er reviewing it, I see that I errored, as the original piece is a beautiful piece written by one of the closest living relatives at the time. I have since deleted my summary of this story, and replaced it with the original. &l
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James married Agness MARSHELL, daughter of John MARSHELL and Mary McFARLINE, on 24 October 1817 in Kirkliston parish, West Lothian, Scotland.¹ (Agness MARSHELL was born on 15 March 1792 in Linlithgow parish, West Lothian, Scotland ² and died on 28 March 1845 in Kirkliston, W. Lothian, Scottland, Scotland ³.)

Sources

1 Ancestry.com, Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2014 Place:Provo, UT, USA).

2 Ancestry.com, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2014 Place:Provo, UT, USA).

3 Heritage Consulting, Millennium File (Ancestry.com Operations Inc Date:2003 Place:Provo, UT, USA). Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.

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GLEN, James ¹ ²