Hulda Dimeras Vaughn was born 11 February 1808 in Elizabethtown, Ontario. Her parents were Charles Vaughn (1775-1858) and Elizabeth Morgan. She married Alpheus Harmon (1798-1842), son of Martin Harmon and Tryphena Poole, in 1823 in Conneaut, Pennsylvania. They had nine children. She married Loren Elias Bassett in 1844 in Hancock County, Illinois. They had five children. She died in 1886 in Clarkston, Utah. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Utah and Wyoming.
Descendants lived in New England, New York, Utah and elsewhere. Direct descendant Dwight harding (1807-1871) was born in Massachusetts and married Phebe Holbrook in New York. They became Mormon converts and moved to Illinois and then to Utah.
In Contemporary Mormon Pageantry, theater scholar Megan Sanborn Jones looks at Mormon pageants, outdoor theatrical productions that celebrate church theology, reenact church history, and bring to life stories from the Book of Mormon. She examines four annual pageants in the United States-the Hill Cumorah Pageant in upstate New York, the Manti Pageant in Utah, the Nauvoo Pageant in Illinois, and the Mesa Easter Pageant in Arizona. The nature and extravagance of the pageants vary by location, with some live orchestras, dancing, and hundreds of costumed performers, mostly local church members. Based on deep historical research and enhanced by the author's interviews with pageant producers and cast members as well as the author's own experiences as a participant-observer, the book reveals the strategies by which these pageants resurrect the Mormon past on stage. Jones analyzes the place of the productions within the American theatrical landscape and draws connections between the Latter-day Saints theology of the redemption of the dead and Mormon pageantry in the three related sites of sacred space, participation, and spectatorship. Using a combination of religious and performance theory, Jones demonstrates that Mormon pageantry is a rich and complex site of engagement between theater, theology, and praxis that explores the saving power of performance.
Peter Shumway/Pierre Chamois/Chomway (1635-1695) immigrated from France about 1655. He was in Massachusetts by 1675. Charles Shumway (1806-1898) was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, married Julia Ann Hooker in 1832, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841 and migrated to Salt Lake Valley in 1847. He also married Louisa Minnerly, Henrietta Bird and Elizabeth Jardine. Descendants lived throughout the United States.
