John Buchanan 111 comes through Grammpy Payne's line
Hey guys, With St. Patricks Day coming, I thought I would share our Irish Heritage. Although we do have many many ancestors from England, and a few from the Isle of Man (which is an island in between England and Ireland) the only pure Irish line I have found comes through the Buchanans. John Buchanan III is our closest relative born in Ireland and comes through Grammy Payne's line. You can research more about him here: This was composed by Jeff Sheppard
Happy St Patricks day!!!
These photos were taken from the town he was born in:
Here is a brief history about how he came to America and found the Gospel:
John Buchanan III (11 January 1786 – 1839)
Son of John Buchanan and Nellie Reid Spouse of Nancy Ann Bache John Buchanan researched and written by Golden R. Buchanan 1786 - 1839 It would seem the logical place to begin the history of the Utah Buchanans (Maybe we should say the Sevier County Buchanans)
would be to start with John Buchanan who was born 11 Jan. 1786 in Ramelton, Donegal County, Ireland. He was the first Buchanan of our line, at least, to come to the United States. He left Ireland and came to the bluegrass country of Kentucky and settled in
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. We do not have the date of this emigration but it was before 1812 because on 12 April, 1812 he married Nancy Ann Buche in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. (We find the name Bache is spelled three ways - Back, Bach and
Bache. We do not know which is correct although the original records seem to spell it Bache.) Much of the adult life of both John and Nancy was spent in Kentucky as most of their children were born there, including our grandfather Archibald. He was born 9
Feb. 1830 in Lexington, Kentucky and was the last child of the family to be born there. In the years between 1830 and 1833, the entire family moved from Kentucky to Illinois. They settled in the County of Tazewell, Illinois, where the tenth and last child
of the family was born. It is interesting to note the family names that have come down such as: Jane, Elizabeth, Lorenzo Dow, John, Mary Ann and Archibald. In going back over the history of the family even before they came to America, while they were still
in Ireland and earlier in Scotland, these and other names have been handed down for generations so that names like Lorenzo Dow, Mary Ann and Archibald are completely natural in the family line. Since most of the work in the future will be with Archibald Waller
Overton Buchanan and his descendants we note that he was born in the same year that the Church was organized, in fact only about two months before the organization of the Church. One does not have to use a great deal of imagination to picture this big family
living in the woods of Illinois in a log cabin, ekeing out an existence on a farm of their own making. The County of Tazewell is some eighty or ninety miles due east of the city of Nauvoo, which at that time had not been thought of. Picture in your minds if
you can, everybody working just to gain the necessary subsistence for life. In the years 1832-34, missionaries were sent from the Church Headquarters to preach the gospel. Some of them went west and finally came to Tazewell County, Illinois. There they found
the family of John Buchanan and taught them the gospel. Emmeline, the fourth child of the family was the first to join the Church. She was baptized in February of 1834. The Church was only four years old then, therefore she would have been among the very first
of the converts in the field. She was fourteen years old at the time of her baptism. That is the same age the Prophet was when he received his first vision. John Buchanan was baptized 23 March 1835 and his wife Nancy Ann Bache and his oldest daughter, Jane
Buchanan, were baptized 8 Sept. 1835. It is to be noted that some of the older children who were old enough were not baptized at that time, but did come into the Church later. In fact, every member of this big family did join the Church. Our Grandfather Archibald
was baptized on his ninth birthday, 9 Feb. 1839. The oldest daughter Jane was married in 1831 so she would have been married four years before she joined the Church. The record indicates that her husband Alexander B. Davis was baptized at that time. It is
doubtful that many families had joined this new religion at an earlier time than did our own people. There were families close to the Prophet in the eastern part of the United States, but here was a family living in the forest on the fringe of civilization
in Illinois who heard the gospel and became members as it was taught to them. History and their records are not plain as to the activities of the family for the next few years. They did go to Caldwell County in Missouri and joined the saints there. We find
that they were included in the mobbings and suffered the violence of being expelled from the state with the rest of the saints in 1838. The Buchanan family, with the sons-in-law, had stayed together closely and we find them in late 1838 and 1839 in Quincy
and Lima in Adams County, Illinois with the saints there. Elizabeth Coolidge and her husband had seven children born to them in and around Nauvoo from 1835 to 1847 - the year of the expulsion from Nauvoo. We quote these last dates to give an indication of
the unity of the family, and the fact that they went through all the difficulties of the early saints and their wanderings to Missouri and back into Illinois. We can trace them later to Council Bluffs. The Coolidge family did not come west with the rest of
the family but remained in Iowa. The father of the family, John, did not live long enough lo see all of this accomplished as he died in 1839 in Lima, Adams County, Illinois. Lima is just a short distance from Quincy so we know that the Buchanans were together
at that time. After his death, Nancy Ann took her big family, together with her sons-in-law, to Nauvoo where they were in close contact with the Prophet and the saints there.
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