Kindness Ann Haines

Personal and Family Information

Kindness was born on 12 JUN 1830 in Greene County, Tennessee USA, the daughter of Azariah Haines and Polly Ann Newman.

She died on 2 FEB 1929 in Salt Lake City, UT.

She had three marriages/partners. Her first husband was John Chamberlain Badger, who she married on 9 SEP 1854 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Their four known children were Electa (1855-1883), Kindness Ann (1856-1944), Lydia Ann (1862-1896) and Nathan Bradley (-?).

Her second husband was William Addington Martindale, who she married on 6 JUL 1867 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Their four known children were Rebecca Ann (1869-1959), William Clinton (1834-1911), Martha Jane (1837-1860) and Henrietta (1843-1889).

Her third husband was Thomas S Johnson, who she married on 4 FEB 1849. The place has not been found. They had no known children.

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Notes

Note 1

Kindness Ann traveled with the James C. Snow Company (1852), a wagon company. They departed from Kanesville, Iowa on 5 July 1852. Kindness Ann was 22 years old at departure and traveled for 96 days.

250 individuals and about 55 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs).

Members of the company arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 9-10 October 1852.

Note 2

2nd cousin, 3x removed

Daughter of Azariah Haines and Polly Ann Newman

Married Thomas S. Johnson, 4 Feb 1849, later divorced

Married John Chamberlain Badger, 9 Sep 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Married William Addington Martindale, 6 Jul 1867, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Biography - Kindness was born in Green County, Tennessee to Azariah Haines and Polly Ann Drain. Her family moved when she was age 3 months Sep 1830 to Centerville, South of Dayton, Ohio. Her two sisters helped fell timber and farmed in Ohio.

While there the LDS missionaries made their home with them while they labored there. They taught her family. Joseph T. Ball baptized her family sometime after Joseph Smith was killed in 1844.Her mother died in Ohio after getting baptized. Apparently her father went to Nauvoo, and then returned to Ohio, because she ran away from home in Nauvoo to go to Salt Lake City with the first pioneer company in 1847. She stopped at Winter Quarters and worked there until 1852.

She married a Mr Johnson, who left her in Nauvoo for 2 years, but she never stayed with him after seeing him in Salt Lake with another woman.

She married John C Badger but divorced, and later married William Addington Martindale. Lived in Duncan's Retreat where her daughter Kindness Badger met Joseph Alma Wright.

She outlived all her husbands, and lived with her son in Delta and her daughter in Salt Lake. She died of pneumonia at the age of 98, eight days after fracturing her leg, at a hospital in Salt Lake.