He was married to ANNETJE (ANNA) SMITH. ABRAHAM AND ANNETJE'S FAMILY WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SOMERSET CO., NEW JERSEY, BUT BY THE TIME THE YOUNGEST WERE TEENAGERS, SOME OF THE GROUP, FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF ABRAHAM'S COUSIN pETER AND OTHERS OF THE FAMILY, HAD STARTED WESTWARD. AS EARLY AS 1756 HIS SONS WERE ENLISTING IN THE MILITIA OF PENNSYLVANIA, GOING THERE, NO DOUBT, FROM OLD WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND, WHICH WAS JUST OVER A STATE BORDER AND NOT YET PROTECTED BY MILITIAMEN.

WHETHER ABRAHAM AND HIS WIFE DIED IN PENNSYLVANIA OR MARYLAND IS NOT KNOWN. THE RECORDS OF THAT AREA HAVING BEEN LOST OR DESTROYED HAS MADE IT DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE THESE FACTS. FOR THIS REASON IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY ALL OF THE CHILDREN OF THE FAMILY WHICH WAS KNOWN TO BE QUITE LARGE. Children were: JACOB WORKMAN.

She was married to JOSEPH RICHARD MOORE on 14 Aug 1924 in CARDSTON, ALBERTA, CANADA. She was sealed to spouse on 28 Nov 1924 in the Alberta, Canada LDS temple. THEY WERE SEALED BY PRESIDENT E. J. WOOD Children were: ELENORA MARY MOORE, JOSEPH RICHARD MOORE, MAY MOORE, BLANCHE MOORE, ROSANNA MOORE, WILLIAM MOORE, ALVIN DOUGLAS MOORE, DEAN ALLEN MOORE.

She was married to ALBERT MCCURDY on 25 Dec 1895.

She was married to LESLIE COOMBS .

He was married to EMMA JANE REYNOLDS on 22 Feb 1868.

She was married to CORDON CASSON CAHOON on 27 Nov 1923.

She was married to OLIVER STRATTON JR. about 1873.

He was married to ANNA E. PARKENSON on 1 Jan 1909 in MAGRATH, ALBERTA, CANADA.

She was married to MILO WINDFRED SEEBECK on 11 Dec 1936.

He was married to SARAH MERINDA MERRILL .

He was married to MARY ELEANOR RICKS on 24 Jul 1891 in VERNAL, UINTA CO., UTAH. Children were: RILEY ISAAC WORKMAN, FERN WORKMAN, BLANCH WORKMAN, ADELIA BERNICE WORKMAN, PAULINE NANCY WORKMAN, ELVA WORKMAN, GEORGE CLYDE WORKMAN, IVAN EUGENE WORKMAN, HAZEL MELISSA WORKMAN, JOHN ALMA WORKMAN.

He was married to GLADYS HANNAH LEISHMAN.

He was married to ELIZABETH WYCKOFF in 1778. IN ABOUT THE YEAR 1812, JACOB WORKMAN SOLD HIS EXTENSIVE HOLDINGS IN MARYLAND AND MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO BOURBON CO., KENTUCKY. THERE HE SOON ACQUIRED A GREAT DEAL OF PROPERTY AND WAS WELL KNOWN ABOUT THE COUNTRYSIDE FOR HIS WISDOM AND DARING. IN HIS LATER YEARS A SEVERE AFFLICTION, THE SHAKING PALSY, CAUSED HIM A GREAT DEAL OF SUFFERING. HE DIED ON HIS HOME FARM SURROUNDED BY HIS FAMILY AND A HOST OF FRIENDS. HE WAS BURIED IN HIS OWN CEMETERY ON THE BANKS OF A BEAUTIFUL RIVER. IT WAS RECORDED IN THE BOURBNON COUNTY RECORDS THAT THE FUNERAL OF JACOB WORKMAN WAS THE LARGEST EVER HELD IN BOURBON COUNTY UP TO THAT TIME. HE BELONGED TO THE GERMAN BAPTIST CHURCH, MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE "TUNKERS OR DUNKARDS". Children were: JOHN WORKMAN.

He was married to NANCY READER on 15 Aug 1834 in OVERTON CO., TENNESSEE. He was sealed to spouse on 3 Jan 1852. DONE BY PROXY BY REBECCA W. TURNER AFTER JACOB AND NANCY WERE BAPTIZED INTO THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS ON 22 JULY 1840, THEY MOVED IN THE SPRING OF 1842 WITH HIS BROTHER ABRAHAM AND HIS FAMILY, TO NAUVOO. "HERE THEY OBTAINED TWO CITY LOTS ACROSS THE STREET EAST OF HEBER C. KIMBALL'S HOME WHERE THEY BUILT TWO BRICK HOUSES. THEY WERE TWO STORIES HIGH. THEY EVENTUALLY WERE DEMOLISHED AND THE BRICK FLOATED DOWN THE RIVER TO KEOKUK WHERE THEY WERE USED IN BUILDING A STORE.
THE TRIALS EDJURED BY JACOB AND NANCY DURING THE EXPULSION FROM NAUVOO WERE NO LESS HARD ON THEM THAN ON HIS FATHER'S FAMILY. THEIR CHILDREN WERE YOUNGER AND NANCY WAS FRAIL. BY THE TIME THEY HAD REACHED MT. PISGAH IN 1846 HER PHYSICAL STRENGTH FAILED. FOOD WAS HARD TO GET, HOUSING WAS INADEQUATE AGAINST THE WINTRY BLASTS AND SICKNESS WAS EVERYWHERE. IN OCTOBER THE SECOND SON SAMUEL DIED. IN NOVEMBER IT HAD BEEN NECESSARY TO BORROW FLOUR FROM A FARMER TO SUSTAIN THE EBBING STRENGTH OF THE LITTLE FAMILY. ON THE 23 OF THAT MONTH THE IRATE FARMER CAME TO THE DOOR DEMANDING THAT HE BE PAID OR THE FLOUR RETURNED. JACOB STEPPED OUTSIDE AND CLOSED THE DOOR TO SPARE HIS AILING WIFE THE WORRY AND TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT BECAUSE OF SICKNESS HE HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE DEBT. WHEN HE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE NANCY WAS DEAD. JACOB, WEAKENED BY HUNGER AND SORROW, WAS NOW UNDER THE NECESSITY OF PREPARING HIS WIFE'S BODY FOR BURIAL. THE CAMP WAS SO FILLED WITH SICKNESS THAT THERE WAS NO ONE TO HELP. KNEELING BY THE BED JACOB PRAYED FOR THE STRENGTH NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE DUTY, AND FOR HELP. AS HE STAGGERED ALONG WITH HIS SAD BURDEN A STRANGER CAME TO HIM AND ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYTHING HE COULD DO. TOGETHER THEY DUG A GRAVE AND BURIED THE GALLANT LITTLE MOTHER AND THE STRANGER LEFT.
THE MEMORY OF THE STRANGER, WHOSE NAME JACOB HAD NEGLECTED TO INQUIRE, AND THE HELP IN ANSWER TO HIS PRAYER REMAINED WITH JACOB AND HE WONDERED WHO THE MAN COULD HAVE BEEN. MANY YEARS LATER, AS THE MEMORY STILL TORTURED HIM, HE ASKED THE LORD TO MAKE KNOWN THE NAME OF HIS BENEFACTOR. ONE NIGHT SOON AFTER THAT A GROUP OF MEN SAT AROUND A CAMP FIRE TELLING THE MOST STRIKING EXPERIENCE OF THEIR LIVES. ONE MAN IN THE CIRCLE TOLD THE STORY OF HIS AID TO A MAN IN NEED AND JACOB RECOGNIZED HIM AS HIS BENEFACTOR. HE WAS OLIVER STRATTON WHOSE SON LATER MARRIED ONE OF JACOB L.'S DAUGHTERS.
WHILE LIVING IN NAUVOO IN 1846, HIS SECOND WIFE TO BE (FANNY HARRIS MORRISON) LOST HER HUSBAND. HE HAD DIED, LEAVING HER AND HER MOTHER (MRS. FANNY GROFT GRABIL HARRIS) TO MAKE THEIR OWN WAY. THAT FOLLOWING FEB. ON THE 19TH (1847), FANNY MARRIED JACOB LINDSAY WORKMAN.
JACOB L. WORKMAN HAD USED HIS WAGON BOX TO BUILD COFFINS FOR HIS WIFE AND SON. IT WAS NECESSARY, THEREFORE, TO RECOUP HIS FORTUNES SUFFICENTLY TO RESTORE THE EQUIPMENT BEFORE THE JOURNEY ACORSS THE PLAINS COULD BE MADE. ACCORDINGLY, IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE SUMMER OF 1848 THAT HE WAS ABLE TO MOVE HIS FAMILY ON TO UTAH. THEY JOINED LORENZO SNOW'S COMPANY THAT YEAR AND ARRIVED IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1848.
THEN ON 3 JANUARY 1852, JACOB L. WORKMAN WAS MARRIED TO HIS THIRD WIFE (REBECCA WILLARD TURNER). THE TURNER FAMILY, CONSISTED OF PARENTS, TWO SONS-- HENRY AND DAVID, AND REBECCA. THEY HAD JOINED THE CHURCH IN MAINE IN 1842. THAT FALL THEY MADE THE LONG JOURNEY TO NAUVOO, BUT THE RIGORS OF THE TREK CLAIMED THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER ON 22 JAN 1843 (AGE 33 YRS) AND TWO WEEKS LATER, 6 FEB 1843, THE FATHER DIED (AGE 39 YRS) LEAVING THE THREE CHILDREN ORPHANS IN A STRANGE LAND. THREE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS WERE MADE BY THE BARTER FAMILY TO TAKE THE CHILDREN BACK TO MAINE BUT FATE INTERVENED AND THEY REMAINED WITH THE SAINTS. REBECCA AND DAVID BECAME WARDS OF OTHER MORMON FAMILIES AND WERE BROUGHT TO UTAH, REBECCA WHO WAS THEN 9 YEARS OLD COMING INTHE FAMILY OF BENJAMIN COVEY; AND DAVID, A CHILD OF 7 YEARS, WAS BROUGHT BY ISRAEL BARLOW. THE OLDER BOY, HENRY, WAS A CRIPPLE HAVING BEEN LEFT SO BY INFANTILE PARALYSIS, AND NO ONE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE THE ARDUOUS JOURNEY. HE REMAINED IN WINTER QUARTERS, NEBRASKA, SUPPORTINIG HIMSELF BY DOING ODD JOBS AND HELPING OTHERS TO PREPARE FOR THE TREK. IT WAS REBECCA'S GREATEST DESIRE TO BRING HER BROTHER TO UTAH AND JACOB WORKMAN PROMISED THAT AS HER HUSBAND HE WOULD FULFILL THE DESIRE. IT WAS A NUMBER OF YEARS BEFORE HE WAS ABLE TO SEND A WAGON ONLY TO HAVE WORD RETURNED THAT HENRY HAD DIED.
JACOB L. WORKMAN AND HIS FAMILIES WERE CALLED BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG TO HELP COLONIZE THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE OF UTAH IN THE INTEREST OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COTTON INDUSTRY. JACOB HAD BEEN A MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS AND WAS ALWAYS ACTIVE IN MILITIA WORK IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE. IN THE SOUTH HE SUPPORTED HIS CHURCH AND COMMUNITY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT. Children were: JAMES THOMAS WORKMAN, SAMUEL WORKMAN, JACOB READER WORKMAN, JOHN ALMA WORKMAN, WILLIAM SMOOT WORKMAN, HYRUM PARLEY WORKMAN, JOSEPHINE WORKMAN.

He was married to FANNY HARRIS on 19 Feb 1847 in MT. PISGAH, IOWA. SHE WAS A WIDOW WHEN SHE MARRIED JACOB LINDSAY WORKMAN. Children were: DAVID HARRIS WORKMAN, LYDIA WORKMAN, ANDREW JACKSON WORKMAN, JOSEPH NIMROD WORKMAN , FANNY LOUISA WORKMAN.

He was married to REBECCA WILLARD TURNER on 3 Jan 1852 in SALT LAKE CITY, SALT LAKE CO., UTAH. He was sealed to spouse on 3 Jan 1852 in the Endowment House. Children were: ABRAH SMITH WORKMAN, ELIZABETH WORKMAN, MARY WORKMAN, HANNAH WORKMAN, MARY JANE WORKMAN, CORNELIUS WORKMAN, NANCY WORKMAN, ISAAC NATHANIEL WORKMAN, HENRY T. WORKMAN, ERASTUS SNOW WORKMAN, REBECCA ELLA WORKMAN, LUCY MERINDA WORKMAN, ADELIA MARIAH WORKMAN, NETTIE PERCENA WORKMAN, GEORGE ALBERT WORKMAN, LORENZO WORKMAN.

He was married to INEZ PEARL TAYLOR on 30 Mar 1893 in VERNAL, UINTA CO., UTAH.

He was married to MARIA AMITY JOHNSTON on 9 Dec 1864.

He was married to LUCY GRICE on 16 Jan 1864.

He was married to LYDIA BILYEU on 11 Mar 1809 in OVERTON CO., TENNESSEE. AS A YOUNG MAN OF 19, UNATTACHED, LEFT THE MARYLAND HOME OF HIS FATHER, GOING FIRST TO THE KENTUCKY COUNTRY BUT SOON CONTINUING ON TO OVERTON CO., TENNESSEE, WHERE HE BECAME ATTACHED TO THE BILYEU FAMILY. THAT HE HAD KNOWN THIS FAMILY BEFORE COMING TO TENNESSEE IS CERTAIN. THEY HAD GONE THROUGH THE SAME MIGRATORY STAGES AS HAD THE WORKMAN FAMILY AND SHORTLY BEFORE THIS JOHN'S ELDER BROTHER, BENJAMIN, HAD MARRIED HANNAH BILYEU. WHILE IN OVERTON CO., TENN., PETER BILYEU AND JOHN WORKMAN WERE AMONG THE SIGNERS OF A PETITION OF 27 SEPT. 1813 FOR A MILITIA TO PROTECT THE SETTLERS FROM THE INDIANS.
IN 1814, JOHN AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO KENTUCKY AND BOUGHT LAND IN NICHOLAS CO., JUST TEN MILES NORTH OF WHERE HIS FATHER, JACOB, HAD SETTLED IN BOURBON CO., TWO YEARS PREVIOUSLY. BY INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY THE WORKMANS SOON FOUND THEMSELVES IN GOOD CIRCUMSTANCES BOTH IN LAND AND MONEY. JOHN BUILT A FINE HOME IN CARLISLE. THE WORKMANS WERE VERY SINCERE IN THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS BELONGING TO THE TUNKERS OR GERMAN BAPTIST CHURCH (LIKE THEIR COUSINS WHO WERE SETTLING FURTHER UP THE OHIO RIVER IN BELMONT AND KNOX COUNTIES, OHIO).
JOHN HAD A VERY COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST. HE TRIED TO SHOW THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SCRIPTURES. THIS LED TO ARGUMENTS AND CONTENTION AMONG THEM, BRINGING THE HATRED AND ENVY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH UPON JOHN AND HIS FAMILY. FOR THIS REASON JOHN LEFT CARLISLE AND WENT BACK TO OVERTON COUNTY, TENN. BECAUSE OF THE BITTERNESS IN THE COMMUNITY TOWARDS THEM OVER RELIGIOUS DISPUTES IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR JOHN TO SELL HIS HOLDINGS IN CARLISLE SO HE ABANDONED THEM.
BACK IN OVERTON CO., TENN., AGAIN, JOHN BOUGHT MUCH LAND AND HAD SLAVES TO WORK IT. HE LAID HIS FARM OUT IN SECTIONS FOR THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF FARM CROPS; HAD HIS OWN GRIST MILL, GROCERY STORE AND FLOCKS AND HERDS. HE ATTENDED BUT COULD NOT ACCEPT THE POPULAR INTERPRETATION SO IN DUE TIME HE QUIT THE CHURCH ALTOGETHER. AFTER THAT HE CARRIED ON A DISTILLERY OF WHISKY AND BRANDY AND GOT TO DRINKING MODERATELY HIMSELF.
IN 1839 TWO MORMON ELDERS CAME TO OVERTON CO., TENN.. THEY HAD A HARD TIME FINDING LODGINGS. THEY CAME TO JOHN WORKMAN'S DOOR. AS JOHN HAD NEVER TURNED A TRAVELLER FROM HIS DOOR WITHOUT FOOD AND REST THESE ELDERS FOUND A WELCOME IN HIS HOME. THE MESSAGE THEY BROUGHT STRUCK A FAMILIAR CHORD IN THE HEART OF JOHN WORKMAN. HE BROUGHT OUT HIS COMPENDUIM AND FOUND HIS CLASSIFICATION OF SCRIPTURES TO BE SIMILAR TO THE ONE THE ELDERS USED. THEIR EXPLANATIONS WERE THOSE HE HAD TRIED TO CONVEY TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS AND FOR WHICH THEY HAD CAST HIM OUT AND ABUSED HIM AND HIS FAMILY. ON THE 22 JULY 1840 JOHN AND HIS WIFE LYDIA AND SEVERAL OF HIS CHILDREN WERE BAPTIZED BY ABRAM OWEN SMOOT AND JULIAN MOSES AND CONFIRMED 30 JULY THAT YEAR AS MEMBERS OF THE LDS CHURCH.
THIS STEP INCREASED THE HATRED AND PERSECUTIONS BY THE LOCAL CHURCH AND COMMUNITY. IN 1843 HE ABANDONED HIS VAST HOLDINGS IN TENNESSEE AND EMIGRATED TO NAUVOO, WHERE HE COULD ASSOCIATE WITH THOSE WHO HAD THE SAME RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS THAT HE CHERISHED. HERE HE BOUGHT A FARM FOUR MILES EAST OF NAUVOO WHERE HE LIVED MOST OF THE TIME. TWO OF HIS SONS HAD PREVIOUSLY LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NAUVOO.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1845 JOHN HAD HARVESTED A GOOD WHEAT CROP AND THRESHED SOME OF IT. ONE DAY IN EARLY EVENING HE SAW SOME OF THE FARM HOMES OF OTHER SAINTS IN FLAMES. HE KNEW AT ONCE THAT THIS WAS THE WORK OF MOBS WHOSE FURY HAD RAGED UNABATED SINCE THE NAUVOO CHARTER HAD BEEN REPEALED. HE HAD A WAGON THERE WITH BOARDS ACROSS THE RUNNING GEARS. JOHN PUT WHAT HE COULD OF THE SACKED WHEAT ON THIS WAGON AND HIS FAMILY ON TOP OF THE WHEAT AND DROVE TO NAUVOO FOR PROTECTION. THE SEVERE PERSECUTIONS THE SAINTS SUFFERED AT THIS TIME PROVED TOO MUCH FOR JOHN'S WIFE, LYDIA, AND SHE SUCCUMBED TO THE TRIALS, DYING IN NAUVOO AND WAS BURIED IN THE NAUVOO CEMETERY.
JOHN PASSED THROUGH THE TRIALS INCIDENT TO THE EXPULSION OF THE SAINTS FROM NAUVOO. THIS WAS THE THIRD TIME HE HAD ABANDONED HIS EARTHLY POSSESSIONS FOR HIS SPIRITUAL CONVICTIONS., HE REMAINED IN THE CITY OF NAUVOO UNTIL THE LATE SPRING OF 1846 WHEN HE WAS DRIVEN INTO THE WILDERNESS WITH THE SAINTS. HE JOINED HIS SON, JACOB L. AT MT. PISGAH, IOWA, WHERE HE HAD A TEMPORARY CABIN. JOHN REMAINED THERE UNTIL 1851 WHEN HE EMIGRATED TO THE GREAT SALT LAKE. IN SALT LAKE HE LIVED PART OF THE TIME WITH HIS CHILDREN AND PART OF THE TIME IN THE SMALL HOME THAT JACOB L. HAD BUILT FOR HIM ON THE LOT JACOB HAD DRAWN AT THE TIME THE CITY WAS LAID OUT. JOHN HAD LEFT SOME OF HIS FAMILY IN ILLINOIS, THEY HAVING ELECTED TO STAY THERE, BUT OTHERS HAD FOLLOWED THE COURSE OF THE CHURCH AND WERE WITH HIM IN HIS DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE HE HAD ESPOUSED. HE LABORED WITH HIS OWN HANDS FOR A LIVING AND BECAUSE OF HIS BEAUTIFUL PENMANSHIP HAD BEEN GIVEN THE ASSIGNMENT OF BEING SCRIBE TO THE CHURCH, SPENDING MOST OF HIS TIME TRANSCRIBING PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS AND FAMILY HISTORIES .........

HIS SON JACOB L. WORKMAN, WRITING OF HIS FATHER'S DEATH, SAID--

HE CONTINUED HIS LABOR OF TRANSCRIBING BLESSINGS AND FAMILY RECORDS UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1855 WHEN HIS HEALTH BECAME VERY POOR. HIS AFFLICTION INCREASING UPON HIM IN SPITE OF ALL OUR FAITH AND PRAYERS AND ALL WE COULD DO. ON THE 14TH OF APRIL, I COULD SEE THAT HIS DAYS WERE NUMBERED. I ASKED HIM IF HE WANTED TO DIE. HE SAID THAT HE WOULD RATHER LIVE, BUT IF IT WAS THE LORD'S WILL TO TAKE HIM HE WAS READY. WE HAD FREQUENT TALKS UPON THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION. HE REMAINED IN HIS RATIONAL MIND UNTIL THE EVENING OF APRIL 20TH, WHEN HE WENT TO SLEEP, BUT STILL CONTINUING TO BREATHE UNTIL 20 MINS. TO 5 A.M. THE MORNING OF APRIL 21 HE PASSED AWAY SURROUNDED BY HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. Children were: JACOB LINDSEY WORKMAN.

He was married to ADELIA DELILA PIERCE . He was divorced from ADELIA DELILA PIERCE. Children were: JOHN ALMA WORKMAN JR., ISAAC RILEY WORKMAN, MARY ADALINE WORKMAN, JACOB LINDSEY WORKMAN, ADELIA DELILA WORKMAN, JOSEPH PIERCE WORKMAN, GEORGE ELY WORKMAN.

He was married to SUSAN CATHERINE BARBEN on 23 Jul 1884. Children were: JOHN ALMA WORKMAN, JOSEPH WILLIAM WORKMAN, JACOB FRANKLIN WORKMAN, SUSAN LILLIAN WORKMAN , EDGAR RAY WORKMAN, FLORENCE ADELIA WORKMAN, BARBEN WORKMAN, RHUBEN QUINCY WORKMAN, EUGENE WORKMAN, JESSE WORKMAN.

He was married to SARAH ANN WRIGHT.

He was married to NONA PEARL SEVERSON on 17 Jan 1900 in VERNAL, UINTA CO., UTAH.

She was married to D. OVIATT on 24 Dec 1865.

She was married to LEWIS OVIATT on 31 Oct 1868.

She was married to WILLIAM HENRY GLINES on 24 Sep 1890 in LOGAN, CACHE CO., UTAH.

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