Alfred Boaz

OK, I know it has been three months...my bad.

The next several weeks I am going to report in detail on the lives of two of the children of Boaz Lambson, Alfred Boaz and James Farley.  They are brothers to Arba Lorenzo, who, for my children, was your great-great-great-great grandfather.  Both are from their own accounts.  I will start with Alfred Boaz, who, by the way, was the father of Julina, the wife of Joseph F Smith, and mother of Joseph Fielding Smith.  You can read this in your Lambson Family Histories beginning at page 206.

“The following items were related by him in a conversation at his home, shortly before his death, 26 February, 1905.

When I was five years of age my father went on the Fulton, the first boat propelled by steam.  It took the Lambson family up Lake Erie to Detroit where father bought a team and a wagon and moved into the interior of Michigan to the forest.  We settled where the city of Saline now stands; moving again, farther west, in 1832 and settled in the town of Kinderhook, Branch County, Michigan.

I had bought the land the old log schoolhouse was on and while framing a blacksmith shop in which to ply my trade, for I was a blacksmith as my father was before me, who should appear but two Mormon Elders, Joseph Kind and Elder Pendleton.  They first told me who they were and then asked to be directed to some family that would take them in.  I referred them to my mother.  They wanted a place to preach in.  I said I happened to own that school house and they could preach there.  My mother took care of them and I got them an audience.  All my neighbors came.  The Baptist Deacon

 carried his rocking chair as he always did...

Next Week...Alfred meets the Prophet Joseph Smith,