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Bradley
,
Betsy
Elizabeth
Kroll
Birth and Death Dates
1811-1893
Call Number
MSS
SC
872
Material Type
Biography
Biography
Betsy
Elizabeth
Kroll
Bradley
was
born
July
4
,
1811
in
Clarence
Hollow
,
Erie
,
New
York
to
Jacob
Kroll
and
Mary
Waltman
Kroll
.
Betsy
married
Thomas
Jefferson
Bradley
in
1828
. They were the
parents
of
four
children
:
Amanda
,
Jerome
Bonapart
,
Elizabeth
, and
Cynthia
Abiah
.
Thomas
died
on
April
13
,
1833
, and their
last
child
,
Cynthia
, was
born
five
months
later
.
Betsy
married
Thomas
'
younger
brother
,
George
Washington
Bradley
on
March
2
in
either
1834
or
1835
.
George
loved
his
brother's
children
and
raised
them as his
own
.
Betsy
and
George
had
ten
children
together
:
Betsy
Louise
,
Lydia
Mary
,
George
Henry
,
Melinda
Euphemia
,
Jacob
Joseph
,
Levina
,
Hyrum
Moroni
,
Amos
Alma
,
Zepheniah
, and
Sylvia
.
Betsy
and
George
were
taught
the
gospel
by
Elder
Zebedee
Coltren
in
Clarkson
,
New
York
,
where
George
was
working
as a
cooper
.
Betsy
and
George
were
baptized
members
of the
Church
of
Jesus
Christ
of
Latter-day
Saints
by
Elder
John
P
.
Greene
on
July
2
,
1843
and then
traveled
to
Nauvoo
,
Illinois
where
they
rented
and
ran
a
farm
owned
by the
Prophet
Joseph
Smith
. They
experienced
difficult
times
in
Nauvoo
with the
death
of their
son
Jacob
Joseph
,
persecution
, and the
martyrdom
of the
Prophet
Joseph
Smith
.
Later
, they
moved
to
Iowa
,
making
camp
at
Pottawattamee
,
where
their
daughter
Levina
died
,
before
traveling
on to
Winter
Quarters
. They
traveled
to
Utah
in
1848
in the
company
led
by
Lorenzo
Snow
. They were in the
group
of
wagons
led
by
Daniel
Russell
which
was
called
'The
Big
Company.
' In
Utah
, they
first
settled
in
Willow
Settlement
(now
South
Bountiful)
, and also
helped
to
establish
communities
in
San
Pete
County
,
Green
River
,
Manti
, and
Salt
Creek
(now
Nephi)
. In
1859
, they
moved
to
settle
Moroni
,
Utah
.
Betsy's
husband
George
entered
into
plural
marriage
with a
second
wife
,
Cynthia
Wagel
, and had
two
children
:
James
and
Lucy
.
Because
George
was
very
involved
in the
community
,
Betsy
often
had the
responsibility
of
serving
food
for
visitors
. In
later
years
, she had
trouble
with
pain
in her
feet
, and this
made
her
household
duties
difficult
.
However
,
Cynthia
refused
to
help
even
though
she was
much
younger
. This
caused
contention
between
Cynthia
and
George
, and
finally
George
took
the
serious
step
of
divorcing
Cynthia
. They
divided
custody
of their
children
between
them.
Lucy
remained
with
Cynthia
while
James
lived
with
George
and
Betsy
.
George
died
March
8
,
1891
and
Betsy
died
March
17
,
1893
.
Both
are
buried
in the
Moroni
City
Cemetery
.
Abstract
Betsy's
biography
is
an
18-page
typewritten
manuscript
which
was
complied
by her
great-great-granddaughter
Callie
O
.
Morley
.
It
is
entitled
'
Pioneer
History
of
Betsy
Elizabeth
Kroll
Bradley
:
Pioneer
of
1848.
' The
biography
begins
with
genealogical
information
on
Betsy's
family
lines
.
It
also
mentions
some
information
on her
husbands
'
family
. There
is
very
little
information
on
Betsy's
childhood
and on her
first
marriage
, but
beginning
with her
marriage
to
George
and their
conversion
, there
is
more
detail
given
on her
life
.
Morley
relates
several
stories
which
occurred
on the
trek
to
Utah
.
One
day
Betsy
found
that her
oldest
child
,
17-year-old
Amanda
, was
covered
in
black
canker
sores
. The
sores
got
worse
until
they were the
size
of
fifty
cent
pieces
. Then, an
old
woman
came
to their
wagon
and
gave
Betsy
some
canker
medicine
that
looked
like
catsup
. The
woman
told
her that this would
cure
Amanda's
illness
, and she
taught
Betsy
how to
make
the
medicine
.
Amanda
recovered
, and
Betsy
never
forgot
the
old
woman
who
had
helped
them;
Betsy
always
made
the
canker
medicine
for
others
. At the
point
in the
biography
where
the
family
reaches
Moroni
, there are
many
stories
and
insights
about
Betsy
and her
personality
. She was
known
as
being
a
good
mixer
,
laughing
often
, and
being
very
friendly
with
townspeople
and
neighbors
. She
always
made
a
point
of
telling
people
that her
family
was of
High
Dutch
descent
. At
times
Betsy
was
said
to have a
sharp
tongue
, and she was
accustomed
to
giving
orders
and
being
obeyed
. She
always
kept
a
hired
girl
to
help
her in the
house
.
One
of these
girls
was
used
to
rinsing
the
butter
before
salting
it
and
putting
it
in a
mold
, but
Betsy
never
rinsed
her
butter
.
One
of
Betsy's
sons
told
the
girl
to
rinse
the
butter
and
see
if
Betsy
could
tell
the
difference
.
When
the
girl
came
out
with the
butter
,
Betsy
tried
it
and
told
her
it
was a
good
thing
she had not
rinsed
it
because
it
wouldn't
have
turned
out
as
well
if she had.
Betsy
also
hired
an
Indian
girl
to
help
with the
wash
.
Once
,
when
the
girl
was at the
river
with their
wash
, an
Indian
boy
came
up
and
asked
her to
steal
vegetables
from the
Bradleys
'
garden
. The
girl
refused
, and the
boy
threw
the
wash
in the
river
.
Betsy
saw
this, and
came
after
him with her
pistol
.
George
was
coming
up
the
road
with
Brigham
Young
and
some
other
men
and
asked
the
boy
what was
wrong
.
All
he
could
say
was, '
mean
white
squaw
kill
with
pooch
gun.
'
Other
subjects
mentioned
in the
biography
are the
Black
Hawk
War
,
pioneer
medicine
,
epidemics
and
preparing
the
dead
for
burial
, and
Indian
missions
.
Other
settlements
mentioned
include
Wales
,
Fountain
Green
,
Fairview
, and
Chester
.
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