Thursday, April 19, 2012

Anna Maria Hulet Perry 1817 - 1884


The following sketch of Ann Marie Hulet Perry was written by Ann Whitney Johnson as it was told to her by Aunt Colista Perry Boyer, Ann Marie Hulet was born 11 December 1817 at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio. She was a daughter of Charles Hulett and Margaret Noah. She had one brother, Sylvanus Hulet and three sisters, Catharine, Electra, and Elizabeth. She had one half-brother, and two half- sisters. Their mother's name was Anna Taylor Hulett. Anna Taylor's daughters' names were Margaret Hulett, Patrick, and Francis Hulett Roylance.

Anna Marie Hulett was married to Stephen Chadwick Perry 18 Jan. 1844, They had seven children.

Colista Perry said of her mother, "My mother was a very quiet unassuming woman, and was very good natured. She, of course, passed through many hardships in the early days of the Church. She told me that when her mother was sick, an old mobocrat (that is what she called him), rode into their house and ordered them to leave by a certain time, or they would shoot them down like rabbits. At one time, they broke a chair over Uncle Orin Hulett's back. The men had to hide, as it was them the mob were after. My grandfather Hulett hid for some time in a corn shock and my mother had to carry his food to him as she went to milk the cow."

"I have heard mother tell how awfully cold it was. At one time when they were driven from their homes, the wagon creaked on the snow as they moved along. Their trip to the Valley must have been tiresome and tedious, as they were three months on the way. It was summer time when they came together in company with the grandparents on both sides of the family and two small children. Also, Marie Perry Smith, Stephen's sister, and her husband William Smith came with them. Also Orin Hulett and families came with them. "In the summer time, I went with my father to the canyons to gather service berries, choke cherries, and thimble berries. We dried the service berries to be used during the winter. We also gathered and dried ground cherries." Father would also take us children to Provo River for fish. These we dressed, washed, salted, and dried in the sun for winter use. Some times we were very short of bread. We used potatoes in milk as bread substitute." "Our people built forts to live in for protection from the Indians. "

"My mother, Aunt Margaret Stewart Perry and Aunt Mary Boggs Perry, all worked very hard spinning, weaving, elating and braiding to make our clothing, hats and carpets.
Ann Marie Hulett Perry died in Springville, Utah 27 July 1884, and was buried in the Springville City Cemetery. [scanned from The Perry Family History Vol. I by SSS]

5.  On January 18, 1844, at Nauvoo, Illinois, Stephen Chadwick Perry and Anna Maria Hulet were married. She was the daughter of Charles Hulet and Margaret Noah. She was born at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio. She had one brother and three sisters, They made their home at Nauvoo, Illinois, where their first child Mahonri Mariancumar Perry was born in January 1845. They left Nauvoo with the saints when they were driven from Missouri and settled in Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. Here their first daughter was born, Tryphena Roseltha, 19 June 1847. In 1848, Stephen went back to New York on a mission. On December 31, 1849 a second son, Lewis Rosalvo, was born. In the spring of 1850, Stephen, his wife and two children and his father and mother started across the plains in Capt. Bennett's Company. The father and mother of Anna Maria Heulet Perry were also in this company. They arrived at Springville in October 1950, and at first lived in small forts in the northwest part of town on Hobble Creek. . Later a larger fort was built in the center of the townsite. In a very small house in this fort two mere children were born to Stephen Chadwick Perry and Ann Marie Hulet, John Sylvester and Colista Ann. They soon moved and built a home on their farming land south of the fort. Here Charles Asahel and one child, Sarah Elizabeth who died in infancy, were born.

Ann Marie Hulet Perry was a very quiet, unassuming woman of sterling truth and willing to do all she could to help anyone who needed any assistance. The trip across the plains must of necessity have been very hard for these saints who had very little to start out on such a trip, but being summer, it was pleasant weather for traveling. Stephen's sister, Polly Marie Smith, and her husband, William Smith, were in the same company, so they had a sort of family party all the way. Ann Marie Hulet Perry died at Springville, Utah on 27 July 1884.



Link to her husbands info: Stephen Perry


From Ancestry:
1. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register (chronologic order) page 154

1. Perry, Stephen C., Priesthood-Seventy, birthdate 22 Dec 1818, Town-Middleburg, County-Genesee, State-New York, Wahing and Annointing-20 Jan 1846, Endowment-20 Jan 1846, Comment-Stephen Chadwick Perry in slg record.

2. Perry, Anna Maria, female, birthdate-11 Dec 1817, town-Nelson, county-Portage, state-Ohio[unverified], Washing and Annionting-20 Jan 1846, Endowment-20 Jan 1846, Comment-Ann Maria Hulet in slg record.

2. Anna was a member of the Nauvoo First Ward.
Reference: Nauvoo: Early Mormon...Series1839-46. Platt, Lyman. 1980
3. Nauvoo Marriages page 36
HEWLETT, Anna Maria
Born: 11 December 1817 in Nelson, Portage, Ohio.
Daughter of Charles Hewlett and Margaret Ann Noah
Married: 18 January 1844 to Stephen Perry at Nauvoo by Hyrum Smith
Died: 27 July 1884 in Springville Utah

4. HISTORY OF ANN MARIE HULET PERRY

The following sketch of Ann Marie Hulet Perry was written by Ann Whitney Johnson as it was told to her by Aunt Colista Perry Boyer,

Ann Marie Hulet was born 11 December 1817 at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio. She was a daughter of Charles Hulett and Margaret Noah. She had one brother, Sylvanus Hulet and three sisters, Catharine, Electra, and Elizabeth. She had one half-brother, and two half-sisters. Their mother's name was Anna Taylor Hulett. Anna Taylor's daughters' names were Margaret Hulett, Patrick, and Francis Hulett Roylance.

Anna Marie Hulett was married to Stephen Chadwick Perry 18 Jan. 1844, They had seven children.

Colista Perry said of her mother, "My mother was a very quiet unassuming woman, and was very good natured. She, of course, passed through many hardships in the early days of the Church. She told me that when her mother was sick, an old mobocrat (that is what she called him), rode into their house and ordered them to leave by a certain time, or they would shoot them down like rabbits. At one time, they broke a chair over Uncle Orin Hulett's back. The men had to hide, as it was them the mob were after. My grandfather Hulett hid for some time in a corn shock and my mother had to carry his food to him as she went to milk the cow."

"I have heard mother tell how awfully cold it was. At one time when they were driven from their homes, the wagon creaked on the snow as they moved along. Their trip to the Valley must have been tiresome and tedious, as they were three months on the way. It was summer time when they came together in company with the grandparents on both sides of the family and two small children. Also, Marie Perry Smith, Stephen's sister, and her husband William Smith came with them. Also Orin Hulett and families came with them.

"In the summer time, I went with my father to the canyons to gather service berries, choke cherries, and thimble berries. We dried the service berries to be used during the winter. We also gathered and dried ground cherries." Father would also take us children to Provo River for fish. These we dressed, washed, salted, and dried in the sun for winter use. Some times we were very short of bread. We used potatoes in milk as bread substitute."

"Our people built forts to live in for protection from the Indians. "

"My mother, Aunt Margaret Stewart Perry and Aunt Mary Boggs Perry, all worked very hard spinning, weaving, elating and braiding to make our clothing, hats and carpets.

Ann Marie Hulett Perry died in Springville, Utah 27 July 1884, and was buried in the Springville City Cemetery.

[scanned from The Perry Family History Vol. I by SSS]

5. On January 18, 1844, at Nauvoo, Illinois, Stephen Chadwick Perry and Anna Maria Hulet were married. She was the daughter of Charles Hulet and Margaret Noah. She was born at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio. She had one brother and three sisters, They made their home at Nauvoo, Illinois, where their first child Mahonri Mariancumar Perry was born in January 1845. They left Nauvoo with the saints when they were driven from Missouri and settled in Mt. Pisgah, Iowa. Here their first daughter was born, Tryphena Roseltha, 19 June 1847. In 1848, Stephen went back to New York on a mission. On December 31, 1849 a second son, Lewis Rosalvo, was born.

In the spring of 1850, Stephen, his wife and two children and his father and mother started across the plains in Capt. Bennett's Company. The father and mother of Anna Maria Heulet Perry were also in this company. They arrived at Springville in October 1950, and at first lived in small forts in the northwest part of town on Hobble Creek. . Later a larger fort was built in the center of the townsite. In a very small house in this fort two mere children were born to Stephen Chadwick Perry and Ann Marie Hulet, John Sylvester and Colista Ann. They soon moved and built a home on their farming land south of the fort. Here Charles Asahel and one child, Sarah Elizabeth who died in infancy, were born.

Ann Marie Hulet Perry was a very quiet, unassuming woman of sterling truth and willing to do all she could to help anyone who needed any assistance. The trip across the plains must of necessity have been very hard for these saints who had very little to start out on such a trip, but being summer, it was pleasant weather for traveling. Stephen's sister, Polly Marie Smith, and her husband, William Smith, were in the same company, so they had a sort of family party all the way. Ann Marie Hulet Perry died at Springville, Utah on 27 July 1884.

6. Proxy Baptisms done in Nauvoo by Anna Marie Hulett.

Nauvoo Baptismal Records of the Dead; Family Search, Ancestral File; Black, Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848, 24:463-64: Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register.

1. Sarah Howe, born 1764, Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, married John Hulett, about 1797. She died 21 Jan 1797, Lee Berkshire, Massachusetts. Anne Hulett, the great grand Niece did the proxy baptism in 1841




Charles’ oldest daughter was Anna Marie Hulet.  She married Stephen Chadwick Perry and was married by Hyrum Smith on 14 Jan 1844 in Nauvoo, which was 5 months before the martyrdom.  This was Stephen’s second marriage as he was a widower when his first wife died in child birth in Nauvoo as she gave  birth to their first child.  She was buried with the baby who also died in her arms ,in the old folks cemetery in Nauvoo.  Stephen was a constable and participated in the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor newspaper that slandered Joseph Smith and was declared a public nuisance by the city council.  He therefore was the 5th name named on the arrest warrant to Carthage.  These two families became linked after the marriage.

Stephen Chadwick Perry’s father Asahel Perry was called as the Branch President in Mt. Pisgah.  This was one of two way stations meant to help the Saints across Iowa after they left Nauvoo in 1846.  They provided shelter and food to the saints on their way to Council Bluff. The Hulet’s were there until 1853 when they immigrated to Springville with the Perry’s.  Several other families’ destinies were linked including Isaac Morley family (counselor to Newell Whitney’s bishopric and later patriarch).  One of the Hulet girls had married into this family.  Also the Tuttle family was linked.  All these families stayed at Mt Pisgah till 1853 leaving Nauvoo in 1846 and crossed the plains together, ending up in Hobble Creek which later became Springville.

Asahel Perry was also a chair builder (like the Hulets) as this was his and Stephen Chadwick’s profession in Springville.  Obviously many interests were the same in these two families.  The families knew the Whitmer family well in Missouri and were very sad when they left the church but remained faithful.

The Hulet’s were baptized by Lyman Wight who later became an apostle.  He was well controlled by Joseph, but on his death was not well controlled and led a group of Saints to Lubbock Texas.  He was never excommunicated but disaffected. Sometime in the next 30 years representatives from Salt Lake were sent to this group and they came back into the fold.  This is why there is temple in Lubbock Texas today.

The family lived next to the John Johnson farm and personally knew the prophet. S.S (descendant of Anna Maria Hulet)