FULLER, Charity

1816 - 1886  (70 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	FULLER, Charity
  Birth	26 Jan 1816	Ridgebury, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	24 Nov 1886	Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
  Burial	Dec 1886	Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
  WAC	2 Jun 1904	LOGAN
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  Person ID	I20671	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	CAMPBELL, Jonathan Jr. ,   b. 26 Jan 1812, Ridgebury, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States Ridgebury, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United Statesd. 24 Nov 1886, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	Dec 1850
  Family ID	F10930	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  CHARITY FULLER 1815-1847 Compiled by Margaret S. Loosle, 2008 Charity Fuller was born January 25, 1815, in Ridgebury, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Abial and Rachel Campbell Fuller. The Fullers were a prominent family in the community as Charity’s grandfather had come to the area as one of the earliest settlers. They settled close to the New York line and acquired quite large land holdings over time. It is not clear by the records available how many sibling’s Charity had but two sisters and one brother can be identified. A study of birth dates show several gaps so it is possible that other children were born to Abial and Rachel but they did not live to adulthood. Charity was a middle child. Charity’s father, Abial, was an active member of The First Baptist Church of Wellsburg. He was a deacon and is mentioned in the minutes of their meetings a number of times. Rachel was also baptized into that church and it is likely that the entire family attended there often. Abial and Rachel are buried it the cemetery by the church. In September of 1833, Charity married Jonathan Campbell. The Campbells were also a well known family in Ridgebury Township. Jonathan’s grandfather had come with his family to Pennsylvania the same time as the Fullers. These folks all settled along Bentley Creek and were neighbors. It is not recorded where Charity and Jonathan were married but they may have been married in the First Baptist Church as it would have been close to their home. Charity and Jonathan moved to Catlin, New York, shortly after they were married. Their first child was born in July of 1834 but died the next month. They named the baby after Charity’s father, Abial. Just the next year, they had moved back to Ridgebury where their next child was born. They named this baby Abial, also. They lived in Ridgebury until at least 1842, having three more children, Nephi, Emma, and Alma. Sometime during this time, the Campbells came in contact with the Mormon Church. Jonathan was baptized by his older brother, Benajiah. No record was kept as to when Charity was baptized, but it may have been the same time or perhaps some time later since she was an active member of another church. In any case, they gathered with the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, sometime in the early 1840,s. They probably lived there until the first of the saints left the city in 1846. Another child, William, was born to the family while they lived in Nauvoo. Sadly he died as an infant. While living there, Jonathan and Charity would have been involved in subsistence farming as well as helping build the Temple. Along with thousands of other Saints, Jonathan and Charity left Nauvoo in the winter of 1846. They left some of their extended family behind because not everyone could outfit themselves for the journey west but a number of others accompanied them as they traveled through Iowa. We know that they traveled through Mt Pisgah as Jonathan’s older brother, Joel, died there. When they reached Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, a call came from Brigham Young for five hundred men to form a battalion and march to Mexico to engage in the Mexican War. Jonathan joined this group, leaving Charity and four children in care of the Church. That fall one of the boys, Alma, died. Sometime in December or January Charity gave birth to a baby she named Charity. Charity died on the 24th January, 1847, and the baby also died. They were both buried in the pioneer cemetery on the hill, Charity in lot 63 and the baby in lot 70. Their names are inscribed into the monument in the cemetery. The Winter Quarter’s Ward Record notebook of Bishop Joseph Lee Robinson reveals that Charity Campbell had charges on tithing during December and January including her burial charges and charges for burying the baby. The same record also includes a list of property found left by Charity when she died. This included a wagon, one yoke of oxen, and very meager household furnishings and goods. Charity did not live to see her children grown but she eventually had at least twenty grandchildren, thirteen of whom also had children. She is remembered for her sacrifice by many living descendants. Sources: 1. Photos of the graves of Abial and Rachel Fuller taken by Margaret S. Loosle in September of 2007. They are located next to the First Baptist Church in Wellsburg, New York. This is sometimes referred to as the Ashland Cemetery. 2.Transcriptions of the notebooks of Bishop Joseph Lee Robinson, accessed at the Winter Quarter’s Research Library. 3.Winter Quarter’s cemetery records are also accessed at the above mentioned library. 4.Birth and death dates found in the Phebe Ann Campbell Bible Record in possession of Margaret S. Loosle 5.Birth date of Charity is recorded in the Stugis-Fuller-Dewey Bible Record transcribed in the Tri-County Web Site. 6.Some birth dates are recorded in the No Ogden Ward Records. 7.Misc. information about the Fuller’s is found in the Diaries of Chattie Fuller Brown transcribed in the Tri-County Web Site by Lee Freeman. 8.Also in this web site are transcriptions of the minutes of the First Baptist Church of Wellsburg and several histories by local historians.