Painting of Cyrus Tolman and Margaret Eliza Utley Homestead in Rush Valley
(Contributed by the Thomas Tolman Family Organization. Excerpt from Judson Tolman: Pioneer, Lumberman, Patriarch by E. Dennis Tolman, Second Edition, 2004, pages 33-35). Carma Renee Allred Jenkins, great granddaughter of Cyrus Tolman (1820-1890) and Margaret Eliza...
History of Cyrus Tolman (1820-1890)
(Contributed by the Thomas Tolman Family Organization. Excerpts from Judson Tolman: Pioneer, Lumberman, Patriarch by E. Dennis Tolman, Second Edition, 2004, pages 12 to 50). BIRTH: Cyrus Tolman was born in Hope, Lincoln, Maine, April 6, 1820 to Nathan and Sarah Hewitt...
Benjamin Hewitt Tolman (1829-1857)
Honoring one of the first settlers of Tooele and Brigham City, who came to Utah in Brigham Young’s 1848 company.
A Short Sketch of the Life of Judson Tolman
Written by himself then hand written by Cerissa Sessions Thompson Judson Tolman son of Nathan and Sarah Hewitt Tolman was born July 14, 1826. Kennebeck, Maine. He married Sarah L Holbrook January 12, 1846. They came to Utah September 20, 1846 in Brigham Young’s...
Judson Tolman, the Lumberman
For anyone who has read the Journal of Joseph Holbrook, with particular focus on the period from December 1847 to April 1848, it will come as no surprise that Judson Tolman chose the life of a lumberman. In Missouri, Judson filled large orders for split rails, which...
Judson Tolman: Guard and Militiaman
(Picture: Salt Lake City in 1850) Given the periodic difficulties that the Mormon settlers were having with the Indians and the large numbers of gentile “forty-niners” who were traveling through the territory, Brigham Young called a company of thirty-one...
Brigham Young’s 1848 Company, Arriving in the Salt Lake Valley and Settling the Tooele Valley
What do we know of the company of which Judson and Sarah Lucretia Tolman were members during the late spring and summer of 1848? The “Journal History of the Church” records the following details: Judson and Sarah Lucretia Holbrook Tolman were members of...
Life Sketch for Sarah Lucretia Holbrook
Sarah Lucretia Holbrook was born January 21, 1832 in Wethersfield, Genesee (now Wyoming County), New York, to Joseph Holbrook and Nancy Lampson Holbrook. She was their first child and was named for her two grandmothers, Sarah Bliss and Hannah Lucretia Morton. Her...
The Miracle of the Peaches
(Picture: Margaret Eliza Utley and Maggie Belle Tolman) The following story is told by Maggie Belle Tolman Porter, daughter of Cyrus Tolman and Margaret Eliza Utley Tolman. I had miraculous answers to my childish prayers; through those answers my faith grew into...
Judson Tolman and the Crickets of 1850
The power of prayer and the gift of tongues.
Judson Isaac Tolman’s Temple Wedding Trip
This story is an excerpt from Judson Isaac Tolman’s own account of when he first met his wife in school in Tooele, and later their trip to the Logan Utah Temple to be married.