James Lake (Junior) 1788-1874 Son of James Lake (Senior) - (1760-1839) - Father Son of Margaret Hegeman - Mother James was born 7 October 1788 at White Creek, Vanrencelor County, New York. The family had descended from England and New Jersey. He married Mary Lake who was his cousin, 15 April 1809. Her father John was a brother to his father James. They have four children, George who dies at the age of eleven, Dennis, Cyrus, and Mary who dies at birth as well as her mother Mary. James then marries Elizabeth Stover, 15 August 1816 after the death of his wife Mary. They have three children, Julia, Lawrence, and James Maden Lake. His wife Elizabeth dies giving birth to James. It was about this time that James cut his leg while cutting wood and it had to be amputated. He related a story of a man coming to them with some ointment that he was told to put on his wound that stopped the bleeding but gangrene set in and his leg needed to be amputated. After joining the church he always felt this man was one of the three Nephite apostles left on the earth. After his wife died he was left with six living children, so he gave two of his children to his sister Margaret Maden, whom lives in Ernestien Township, Canada, and they later adopted them. These children were Julia and James. Neither ever married nor joined the church. The Lake family had fled from their respective homes in New Jersey and New York area because of the rude encroachments of the Ethan Allen boys gang. James is the first of our Lake family to join the church. It was probably through Brigham Young that James met his third wife, Philomelia Smith. She was a widow with five children. They were married 8 September 1823. Philomelia husband Ira Smith had died in 1820. She brought to the marriage Lyman, James, Elizabeth, Josiah, and Esther. James and Philomelia had ten children, Sabra, William, Barnabus, Clarissa, Jane, Lydia, Moroni died at birth, Samantha, George Sr, and Sarah who only lived 2 years. James moves to Kirtland in 1833 in company with Brigham Young, a personal friend. It was in Kirtland where Moroni and Samantha were born. James worked on the Kirtland Temple. Because of his leg, he was unable to go on Zions camp, the march to help the saints in Missouri. James’ sons Dennis from his first marriage to Mary and Lyman from Philomelia’s first marriage did go on the Zions camp march. Dennis became disenchanted and upon his return to Kirtland sued the Prophet Joseph Smith because he didn’t get land in Missouri. Dennis left the church and returned to Canada where he lived until his death in 1883. After the saints left Kirtland, James and his family began the journey to be with the saints in Missouri but stopped near Carthage in Illinois where they were living when the Prophet Joseph was killed. After his death they moved into Nauvoo and worked on the Nauvoo Temple where they received their Temple Ordinances on 31 December 1845. On 24 February 1846 they crossed the Mississippi River on the ice to begin their journey to Winter Quarters, Iowa. James was called as Bishop of a ward to look after the wants of the widows and fatherless. In 1847 they moved south from winter quarters to Holt County, Missouri where they rented land and farmed to gain enough to allow them to go to Utah in the spring of 1850. It was while they were at winter quarters that their son Barnabas was called to join the Mormon Battalion. He returned in the fall of 1847 to help his family make the journey to Utah. James Lake and his family finally arrived in Utah 7 October 1850 and at the suggestion of Brigham Young they moved to Ogden Fort, later called Harrisville. Years later they removed to Oxford, Idaho where he and Philomela spent the rest of their lives. Both are buried at Oxford, Idaho.
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English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
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Possible Related NamesRELATED COMPANIES James Lake Company (1850) In the summer of 1850 we went forth again in the time to join a company of saints moving to the Valley. My father [James Lake] was chosen captain of fifty. …
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