Family/Spouse: Catherine Ann Cook. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Charles Merrill Squires, son of John and Susanna, was born in Monson, Massachusetts in 1793. He moved with his sister Polly and her family to Newbury, Geauga County, Ohio as a young man in about 1817 or 1818. He married Charlotte Smith. He owned a farm in Newbury, and was engaged in farming. Newbury, being only a few miles from Kirtland, he came in contact with the Mormon Church during its early years and he was our first Squire ancestor to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He and his family joined about 1840, but no definite date is known. He went to Illinois and bought a farm in Hancock County, but died before he could move his family there. Administration of his estate was granted to his wife, Charlotte, in Newbury, on the 26th of March 1844, so he no doubt died early that year. His family moved to the farm in Hancock County and with the exception of Charles Porter and Charlotte, they lived out their lives there.

Burgoyne, Charlotte Tillotson: "Squires Histories", 2002.

Of Puritan stock, they were pioneers of the mid 1820’s. Charles Merrill no doubt had heard stories of rolling, fertile plains in Ohio and then considered the far west frontier as the place he wanted to live. In sharp contrast to the difficult, heavily wooded land in Massachusetts, it beckoned Merrill and many of his family and friends westward. In Ohio they were caught in the “Gospel net” as they heard and accepted the Gospel and the fate and destiny of it’s people.

It was a time of great persecution for the Church of Latter-day Saints in Ohio and Missouri. In mid-winter of 1838-1839, our great grandfather assisted in removing 12,000 saints beyond the power of their persecutors and murderous mobs. In stormy weather they made a perilous journey of 300 miles to the hospitable shores of Illinois.

Great grandfather Squires owned a lot of property in Ohio and Illinois and also a lot of cattle, sheep, and horses. He was planning to take them to his home in Illinois when he died a martyr to the cause of Mormonism. Throughout the trials, he endured to the end as he remained true to his testimony.

Charlotte Smith Squires with six of her children stayed in Ohio until she moved to Illinois in 1850. She died there in the home that her husband had bought for her before he died. After she died, the children scattered as only the eldest daughter, Charlotte, and their eldest son, Charles Porter went west with the saints.

Burgoyne, Charlotte Tillotson: "Squires Histories", 2002.


! SOURCES;
1. Charles Porter Squires Family Records.
2. Records of Charlotte Squires Tillotson.
3. Lake and Geauga Co. Mar. Vol 2, pg. 19.
4. Geauga Probate Rec. Vol. F, pg. 117, at Chardon, Ohio.
5. History of Lorenzo Snow by Eliza R. Snow.

The 1850 census of Geauga County states #4 was age 11; family records
indicated born about 1830; 1860 cebsus of Hancock County lists his age as 30.

! SOURCES;
1. Charles Porter Squires Family Records.
2. Records of Charlotte Squires Tillotson.
3. Lake and Geauga Co. Mar. Vol 2, pg. 19.
4. Geauga Probate Rec. Vol. F, pg. 117, at Chardon, Ohio.
5. History of Lorenzo Snow by Eliza R. Snow.

The 1850 census of Geauga County states #4 was age 11; family records
indicated born about 1830; 1860 cebsus of Hancock County lists his age as 30.

Charles married Charlotte Smith on 4 Jul 1823 in Newbury, Geauga,Oh. Charlotte (daughter of Caleb Smith and Charlotte Sowles) was born on 23 Apr 1807 in Chester, Hampden, Massachusetts; died on 8 Aug 1869 in , Hancock,Il; was buried in , Hancock,Il. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See notes for Charles Merrill Squires.

See notes for Charles Merrill Squires.

Notes:

!This information was taken from the Squires Family Records; V.R. of Ashford &
Hartford, CT; Rev. War Pension File of John Squire in National Archives, Wash.
D.C.; Early Mass. Mar. submitted by Mrs. Ronella S. Magleby, 3685 Kimbary Way,
Salt Lake City, UT. 84109

!For the sealing date of John Squire, Jr. and Susanna Riddell, March 20, 1932
is found on the Gen. Soc. copy of "Sealed to Husband" while on Grandmother
Charlotte's original record she has May 20, 1932 as the date.

!This information was taken from the Squires Family Records; V.R. of Ashford &
Hartford, CT; Rev. War Pension File of John Squire in National Archives, Wash.
D.C.; Early Mass. Mar. submitted by Mrs. Ronella S. Magleby, 3685 Kimbary Way,
Salt Lake City, UT. 84109

!For the sealing date of John Squire, Jr. and Susanna Riddell, March 20, 1932
is found on the Gen. Soc. copy of "Sealed to Husband" while on Grandmother
Charlotte's original record she has May 20, 1932 as the date.

John married Susanna Riddell on 1 May 1783 in Monson, Hampden,Ma. Susanna (daughter of Rebecca Moulton) was born about 1768 in Monson, Hampden,Ma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Caleb Smith, son of John and Lydia, was born in Chester on the 27th of August 1782. He married, Charlotte Sowles, or Sowl, there in 1806. We do not as yet know her parents. Caleb and his family moved to Newbury, Geauga County, Ohio about the same time his father did, or perhaps a little later. He owned land there and is also listed in some places as a shoemaker. He died January the 1st, 1871, but where I haven’t learned.

Burgoyne, Charlotte Tillotson: "Squires Histories", 2002.

Caleb married Charlotte Sowles on 9 Jun 1806 in Chester, Hampden,Mass.. Charlotte was born on 4 May 1790 in Chester, Hampden,Ma; died on 8 Aug 1862. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Squires Fam Rec.; VR at Hartford & Asshford, Conn.; Munger, Stebbins, Greene
Gens. War Rec. of John Squire Cong'l. Church Rec. of Ashford.
From the records of Ronella S. Magleby, 3685 Kimbary Wy, Salt Lake City UT
84109.

John married Millicent Scott on 19 Dec 1751 in Ashford, Windham,Conn.. Millicent (daughter of Mary) was born on 14 Aug 1731 in Norwich, New London,Ct; died in 1806 in Monson, Hampden,Ma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Lydia\Mahitable Seward on 9 Apr 1781 in Chester, Hampden,Mass.. Lydia\Mahitable (daughter of Joel Seward and Laurene Seward) was born on 20 Mar 1762 in Granville, Hampden,Ma; died on 15 Apr 1812 in Chester, Hampden,Ma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]