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Descendants of Joseph Bemis


      2697. Nancy Agusta8 Bemis (Alvin7, Samuel6, David5, Phillip4, Joseph3, Joseph2, Joseph1)11211 was born 14 Jun 1829 in Ellisburg, Jefferson, New York11212, and died 16 Jun 1908 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11212. She married Joseph Hancock11212 31 Aug 1848 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa11212, son of Solomon Hancock and Alta Adams. He was born 07 May 1822 in Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio11213, and died 19 Jul 1924 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11213.

Notes for Nancy Agusta Bemis:
[The Mormons in San Bernadino:469-70]

Nancy Agusta Bemis became the wife of Joseph Hancock, August 21, 1849 at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Two children were born to them while living there, Alvin B., January 13, 1850 and Elenorah, March 19, 1851. That same year they began the trek to Utah where Joseph's uncle, Joseph Hancock, Sr., resided, he having come in 1847.

The Hancocks arrived in Salt Lake Valley in the late fall of 1851 and went to Ogden, Utah, where on November 11, 1852, another son, Solomon, was born. On March 20, 1854 they journeyed to California arriving at San Bernadino June 5th. John Metcalf, who had previously settled in San Bernadino, offered the weary part a campsite in Metcalf pasture, on the banks of Lytle Creek. Here in this pioneer camp a second daughter was born, Jerusha Hancock, on August 30, 1854.

Joseph Hancock built a temporary cabin of lumber brought from the San Bernadino mountains. Later they located on Fifth Streen on an Island farm, surrounded by the east and west branches of Lytle Creek. Several families owned beautiful farms and orchards on the island which were later washed away in devastating floods. Three other children were born to them in San Bernadino, Harriet Lucina, April 2, 1856; Foster, October 21, 1857, and Joseph, November 25, 1866. Nancy Agusta died June 16, 1908 in San Bernadino, age 79 years. Joseph Hancock was born May 7, 1822, in Euclid, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He died July 19, 1924 in San Bernadino, age 102 years.
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Mollie Tyler Bright, "To The Memory of My Dear Mother, Jerusha Hancock Tyler", (Qualitee Duplicating Company, San Bernardino, California-1956):

"Nancy Augusta Bemis Hancock (wife of Joseph) died June 16, 1908 in San Bernardino, California, age 79 years. Buried - Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, California, beside her husband, and youngest son, Joseph N. Hancock, Jr."

More About Nancy Agusta Bemis:
Name 2: Nancy Augusta Bemis11214,11215
Died 2: 15 Jun 1908, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11216
Ancestral File Number: 1TP5-8011216
Burial: 22 Jan 1918, Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernadino, California11217

Notes for Joseph Hancock:
Elizabeth W. Richards, Guideposts to History-Concerning Origins of Place and Street Names in San Bernardino County, (Published as a public service by Santa Fe Federal Savings and Loan Association):

"Joseph Hancock was born in Ohio in 1822. He came to San Bernardino in 1854. He, together with John Garner and Joseph Thorn, became trustee of the Mount Vernon School District, and it was he who gave the name "Mt. Vernon" to the school in honor of the home and burial place of Washington. He was still active and in good health when Brown and Boyd published their family history in 1922 - and at that time he had attained the amazing age of 100. He was active for years in the Pioneer Society, and his portrait is prominent in many places on the walls of the Pioneer Society Log Cabin in Pioneer Park.

[Bright:2]: 3. Three years after Joseph Hancock and Nancy Bemis - Hancock were married, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, a start was made in 1851 to join the Uncle, Joseph Hancock, who had pioneered in Utah.

4. When Joseph knew the place, Kansas City, Missouri was a mere outfitting station, where Pioneers made ready for the long trip into the unknown West -- which was then Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska. The big City at the junction of the rivers there, was Wyandotte, now Kansas City, Kansas.

5. The party arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah in October or November, 1851.

6. The trip to San Bernardino was started on March 20, 1854, and the party arrived in San Bernardino June 5, 1854.

7. Mr. Metcalf, who had already settled in San Bernardino, offered the weary party a camp site in Metcalf's Pasture, on the Banks of Lytle Creek, west of Mt. Vernon Avenue.

8. Here, in Pioneer Camp, my mother, Jerusha Hancock - Tyler, was born on August 30, 1854.

9. (Jerusha Hancock - Tyler is the mother of Mollie Tyler - Bright and Don Charles Joseph Tyler).

10. Of the trip across the plains in a covered wagon, Mr. Joseph Hancock told a reporter for the "Sun" on the occasion of this one hundredth birthday on May 7, 1922:--

11. "Death came close to me in crossing the desert near Bitter Springs. I was ill, chills and fever shaking me. The train was nearly out of water. There was but a pint of water in the Hancock wagon, with the burning heat of early summer biting into the pores of all.

12. "Joseph Thorn came back to our wagon, asked if we had any water. One of the boys had gone ahead, looking for a spring. Mother (Nancy Bemis - Hancock) shared our pint with Joseph (Thorn).

13. "A sudden cloud came into the skies and there were a few drops of rain..... The oxen lifted their heads and stood with them in the air, while the rain fell.

14. "A short time later we saw Sam Bemis coming with water. He had gone ahead to Bitter Springs, and he came yelling, 'Water! Water!"

15. Joseph Hancock settled in San Bernardino, California, on a tract of land on West Fifth Street, across the Lytle Creek Wash. He then moved with his family to a 28 acre tract on West Ninth Street, a number of years later. (Sam Bemis above, was the son of Jerusha Gurnsey Bemis, who came to San Bernardino in the same wagon train). Joseph Hancock lived to celebrate his 102 birthday.

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[Bright:3]: March 20, 1854, the Bemis family, Joseph and Nancy Bemis Hancock with their three small children, Alvin, Elenorah and Solomon, started from Ogden for California, arriving in San Bernardino Valley June 5, 1854. In the same covered wagon train were the Borens, Lytles, Captain Bell and family, Joseph Thorn and family and others. Mr. Bell was Captain of the Wagon Train. Capt. Bell's young daughter was named Drusilla Bell. She and Harriet Bemis were about the same age, and became close friends.

More About Joseph Hancock:
Name 2: Joseph \Hancock\TWIN11218
Date born 2: 07 May 1820, Euclid, Cuyahoga, OH11218
Burial: 24 Feb 1925, Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernadino, California11219

More About Joseph Hancock and Nancy Bemis:
Marriage: 31 Aug 1848, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa11219
     
Children of Nancy Bemis and Joseph Hancock are:
  4309 i.   Alvin Bemis9 Hancock11219, born 13 Jan 1850 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa11219; died 24 Nov 1896 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11219. He married Elizabeth Penman Nish11219 30 Jun 1882 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11220; born 05 Jan 1857 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11220; died 25 Feb 1912 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11220.
  More About Alvin Bemis Hancock:
Burial: Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernadino, California11221

  More About Elizabeth Penman Nish:
Burial: Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernadino, California11222

  More About Alvin Hancock and Elizabeth Nish:
Marriage: 30 Jun 1882, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11222
  4310 ii.   Elenorah Hancock11223, born 19 Mar 1851 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa11223; died 26 Jan 1949 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11224. She married George Miller11224 31 Aug 187111224; born 11 Feb 1850 in that part of Indian Territory which is now Oklahoma11224; died 15 Mar 1943 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11224.
  Notes for George Miller:
[Received from Shanna Hobbs]

GEORGE MILLER, JR.

George Miller, Jr., son of George and Elizabeth (Boughton) Miller, was born 11 Feb. 1850 in that part of Indian Territory which is now Oklahoma. When his father died in 1856, he went to an uncle and came with him to California, driving an ox team and helping guard the stock, even though he was a small child. He came to San Bernardino county in 1862, where he resided on his ranch near Patton, raising fruit. He married 31 Aug. 1871 in San Bernardino to Elenorah Hancock, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy Agusta (Bemis) Hancock. She was born 19 Mar. 1851 at Council Bluffs, IA, and came with her parents to San Bernardino in 1854. George Miller died 15 Mar. 1943 and Elenorah died 26 Jan. 1949. Children; George Elijah Miller, Jr. single at death; Ida Ann Miller married James O. Lamb; Mary Catherine Miller married (1) Will Rogers, (2) I. S. Burgess; William Franklin Miller married Estella Josephine Edwards; Charles Boughton Miller married Edna Burgess.

Century Annals of San Bernardino County by L. A. Ingersoll, p. 879
History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties by Brown and Boyd, p. 280
Covered Wagon Families - THE SUN - 16 Nov. 1938, p. 11

Includes picture - Negative #167

[Century Annals of San Bernardino County by L. A. Ingersoll, p. 879]

GEORGE MILLER, of San Bernardino, was born in Indian Territory, February 11, 1850, the son of George Miller, a pioneer of Illinois and a millwright by trade. His father died in 1856 and the boy went to an uncle and accompanied him to California, driving an ox team and helping guard the stock, although he was a mere child. He reached San Bernardino county in 1862 and has resided in this county most of the time since. He has for many years resided on his ranch near Patton and has been engaged in raising fruit.

Mr. Miller married Miss Elenorah, daughter of Joseph Hancock. She was born in Iowa in 1851 and came to San Bernardino county with her parents in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had six children--George E.; Elenorah, now Mrs. Roswell Crandall; Ida Ann, Mary C., William T., Charles B. Mr. Miller is a member of the I. O. O. F. and in early days was noted as a hunter of large game.

  More About George Miller and Elenorah Hancock:
Marriage: 31 Aug 187111224
  4311 iii.   Solomon Hancock11225, born 11 Nov 1852 in Ogden, Weber, Utah11225; died in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11226. He married Eudora Imogene Hammack11226 04 Jul 188011226; born in Missouri11226.
  Notes for Solomon Hancock:
[Bright:8]: One record states that Solomon Hancock was born in Ogden; the second, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

  More About Solomon Hancock:
Burial: Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernadino, California11226

  More About Solomon Hancock and Eudora Hammack:
Marriage: 04 Jul 188011226
  4312 iv.   Jerusha Hancock11227, born 30 Aug 1854 in Pioneer Camp in Metcalf's Pasture on the Banks of Lytle Creek, west of Mt. Vernon Avenue, and south of the present Santa Fe Depot, San Bernardino, California11227; died 18 Nov 1953 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11228. She married Charles Hudson Tyler11228 06 Jun 187611228; born 21 Oct 1831 in Wading River, Long Island, New York11228; died 17 Jan 1908 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11228.
  Notes for Jerusha Hancock:
[Bright:3]: Jerusha Hancock, fourth of the Hancock children was born in Pioneer Camp, August 30, 1854, on the Metcalf farm, or pasture, in a grove of Cottonwood and Sycamore trees bordering Lytle Creek -- located west of Mt. Vernon Avenue and south of the present Santa Fe Depot. Joseph Hancock, Sr., had built a temporary cabin of lumber brought from the San Bernardino mountains. Later the Hancock family located on Fifth Street on an Island farm, surrounded by the east and west branches of Lytle Creek. Several families owned beautiful farms and orchards on the Island, which has been washed away in the heavy floods that have come to San Bernardino Valley at intervals during the past 95 years.

In 1872 Mr. and Mrs. Hancock and their family moved to the West Ninth Street home, and Charles H. Tyler helped to sink a well. They dug 60 feet, struck a rock and a good stream of water. Mr. Clark, known as "Windmill Clark", put up a windmill.

2. Charles H. Tyler was married to Jerusha Hancock July 4, 1880 at the Ninth Street Hancock home.


  More About Jerusha Hancock:
Name 2: Jurusha Hancock11229
Burial: Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernadino, California11230

  More About Charles Hudson Tyler:
Burial: Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernadino, California11230

  More About Charles Tyler and Jerusha Hancock:
Marriage 1: 06 Jun 187611230
Marriage 2: 04 Jul 1880, San Bernadino, San Bernadino, California11231
  4313 v.   Harriet Lucina Hancock11232, born 02 Apr 1856 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11233; died 22 Apr 1938 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11234. She married George L. Lord, Jr.11234 06 Jun 187611234; born 11 Dec 1853 in California11234; died 14 Dec 1891 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11234.
  More About Harriet Lucina Hancock:
Date born 2: 19 Apr 1856, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11235
Date born 3: 29 Apr 1856, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11236

  More About George Lord and Harriet Hancock:
Marriage: 06 Jun 187611237
  4314 vi.   Foster Hancock11238, born 21 Oct 1857 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11239; died 05 Jul 193411240. He married Catherine Mapstead11240 05 Nov 189211240.
  More About Foster Hancock and Catherine Mapstead:
Marriage: 05 Nov 189211240
  4315 vii.   Joseph Nephi Hancock11241, born 25 Nov 1866 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California11242; died 03 Mar 191711243. He married Emilie LeMeur11243 05 Nov 1892 in Poumillon, France11243; born 13 Oct 1875 in Ploumillon, France11243.
  More About Joseph Hancock and Emilie LeMeur:
Marriage: 05 Nov 1892, Poumillon, France11243

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