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Friday, February 27, 2015
Elizabeth Hardman and Joseph Morgan
Morgan/Gilbert/Smith/Hodgkinson.
Joseph Morgan was born in Preston, Lancashsire, England on 21 January 1808, the son of John Morgan and Mary Mitchell. Some researchers said that Joseph and Elizabeth knew each other during childhood. They married on 28 June 1828 in Preston, Lancashsire, England. Elizabeth was born 22 March 1810 in Salwick, Lancashire, England. She was the daughter of Richard Hardman and Elizabeth Hodgkinson Hardman. (Elizabeth is from the Smith side - but is a Hodgkinson - we have "Hodgkinson" blood from both sides.)
Joseph was 20 years and Elizabeth was 18 years of age when they married. They had five children, two of whom died in childhood. John (our ancestor) was second oldest, born 28 March 1820 in Preston, England. Joseph was the Grand Master of a Free Mason Lodge. The Mormon elders had arrived in Preston and had held a few meetings there. It happened that the Mormon meetings were held the same nights as the Lodge meetings, so he was not privileged to attend any of their meetings. One day while at work Joseph became seriously ill and was taken home to his wife. He grew rapidly worse and passed away within 24 hours in Preston, Lancashire, England on 13 March 1838.
Elizabeth was suddenly a widow with two young children to raise, the oldest, Mary, was 11 years old. John (our relative) was 8. Elizabeth was expecting a new baby when her husband died. About three months after his father's death, Edward was born on 20 October 1838. He was blessed by a Mormon Elder, Willard Richards (who would be ordained an apostle two years latter, serve as Church Historian and private secretary to Joseph Smith and as a counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency. ) Joseph was only 30 years old when he died and had been married not quite 11 years. Shortly after her husband's death two Mormon elders came to Elizabeth's door preaching the gospel. She became converted and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England, her native land**. She was baptized 18 December 1838 when Edward, her new baby, was about 2 months old. In the spring of 1841, Elizabeth and her three living children emigrated to America a sailing ship, the Shefield.* They landed in New Orleans on April 13, 1841. From there they traveled to Nauvooo, Illinois, arriving on 1 June 1841. Christopher Marley took Elizabeth, Edward and John to live with him. Hyrum Smith took Mary into his home to live. Mary, the oldest child in the family, died while she was living with Hyrum Smith's family in 1842. She was about 13 years old at the time of her death.
Elizabeth married a second time in 1842, probably in Nauvoo, Illinois. The man she married was named Francis Birch. Elizabeth and Francis Birch remained in Nauvoo until 1846 when they moved to Alton, Illinois, which is just outside of St. Louis. While in Alton the oldest son John, met and married Ann Gillett 5 April 1850 , who had just arrived from England with her family. After being in Alton for four years, the family left for the west on April 13, 1850 in Stephen Markham's Company (Note: This is just 8 days after John and Ann were married.) They traveled across the plains by ox team, arriving in Salt Lake City on 6 October 1850. It took them six months to cross the plains.
They moved into the Eleventh Ward in Salt Lake City until the spring of 1851 when they moved to Millcreek. Elizabeth spent much time with the sick and afflicted. She went through many hardships incident to pioneer life.Francis Birch died at his home in Mill Creek on 30 April 1875, leaving Elizabeth a widow for the second time in her life. Elizabeth, a faithful Latter-day Saint, died on 10 March 1882 in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah of pheumonia. John and Edward Morgan, loved and cared for their mother throughout her lifetime, and lived near her even after they married. Both sons served missions for the church, raised large families, and were well respected for their faithfulness and leadership in their communities. Their father, Joseph Morgan, would have been proud of the legacy he left--two righteous men who were raised by a woman who did not fear crossing the Atlantic Ocean to build a new life with her children. All three of these people were brave, strong, and faithful early pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley.
* For a passenger list and stories of the voyage of the Shefield CLICK HERE.
** Elizabeth was a convert of the first group of missionaries in Great Britain who arrived in Liverpool July, 1837 and focused their efforts on Preston. CLICK HERE.
Joseph Morgan was born in Preston, Lancashsire, England on 21 January 1808, the son of John Morgan and Mary Mitchell. Some researchers said that Joseph and Elizabeth knew each other during childhood. They married on 28 June 1828 in Preston, Lancashsire, England. Elizabeth was born 22 March 1810 in Salwick, Lancashire, England. She was the daughter of Richard Hardman and Elizabeth Hodgkinson Hardman. (Elizabeth is from the Smith side - but is a Hodgkinson - we have "Hodgkinson" blood from both sides.)
Joseph was 20 years and Elizabeth was 18 years of age when they married. They had five children, two of whom died in childhood. John (our ancestor) was second oldest, born 28 March 1820 in Preston, England. Joseph was the Grand Master of a Free Mason Lodge. The Mormon elders had arrived in Preston and had held a few meetings there. It happened that the Mormon meetings were held the same nights as the Lodge meetings, so he was not privileged to attend any of their meetings. One day while at work Joseph became seriously ill and was taken home to his wife. He grew rapidly worse and passed away within 24 hours in Preston, Lancashire, England on 13 March 1838.
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| Elizabeth Hardman Morgan |
Elizabeth married a second time in 1842, probably in Nauvoo, Illinois. The man she married was named Francis Birch. Elizabeth and Francis Birch remained in Nauvoo until 1846 when they moved to Alton, Illinois, which is just outside of St. Louis. While in Alton the oldest son John, met and married Ann Gillett 5 April 1850 , who had just arrived from England with her family. After being in Alton for four years, the family left for the west on April 13, 1850 in Stephen Markham's Company (Note: This is just 8 days after John and Ann were married.) They traveled across the plains by ox team, arriving in Salt Lake City on 6 October 1850. It took them six months to cross the plains.
They moved into the Eleventh Ward in Salt Lake City until the spring of 1851 when they moved to Millcreek. Elizabeth spent much time with the sick and afflicted. She went through many hardships incident to pioneer life.Francis Birch died at his home in Mill Creek on 30 April 1875, leaving Elizabeth a widow for the second time in her life. Elizabeth, a faithful Latter-day Saint, died on 10 March 1882 in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah of pheumonia. John and Edward Morgan, loved and cared for their mother throughout her lifetime, and lived near her even after they married. Both sons served missions for the church, raised large families, and were well respected for their faithfulness and leadership in their communities. Their father, Joseph Morgan, would have been proud of the legacy he left--two righteous men who were raised by a woman who did not fear crossing the Atlantic Ocean to build a new life with her children. All three of these people were brave, strong, and faithful early pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley.
* For a passenger list and stories of the voyage of the Shefield CLICK HERE.
** Elizabeth was a convert of the first group of missionaries in Great Britain who arrived in Liverpool July, 1837 and focused their efforts on Preston. CLICK HERE.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
A birthday cake!
You might notice Bennett's trying to sing like the minions did in Paisley's birthday video! Clearly your birthday videos are leaving their mark on our children! We love you! Happy Birthday!!
papa cornwalls bday from M Cornwall on Vimeo.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
EAGLE PRO' JAMES
Last Saturday cousin James Cornwall did his Eagle Scout project at the mall in Valencia. The local paper was there to cover his great project CLICK HERE. Dad went and assisted the fine team of boy scouts along with family members John, Shirley, Megan, Cody, Chris, Janell, Jannon. We look forward to hearing about his Eagle Court of Honor soon.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
What is SWEETER than ART?
Friday, February 20, 2015
Mary Butterley and Joshua Gillett
Gillett/Morgan/Gilbert/Smith/Hodgkinson.
Joshua Hague Gillett (or Gillette or Gillot) was born on July 8, 1807 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England to John and Ann Hague Gillett. Mary Butterley was born on August 15, 1815 in Ridgeway, Derbyshire, England to John and Milicent Charlesworth Butterley. Joshua and Mary were married at Rotherham, Yorkshire, England on July 15, 1832. They made their home in Handsworth which was close to Sheffield. Joshua's occupation was that of collier (a coal miner or a person who carries or sells coal). Joshua and Mary had eight children while at Handsworth: Ann (1832 - our ancestor), John (1835), Jane (1837), Samuel (1839), Thomas (1841), Elizabeth (1843), Mark (1846), and Maria Henrietta (1848). Thomas (3) and Elizabeth (1) both died in December of 1844.
Joshua and Mary and the family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in England in about 1847. Joshua and Mary and their six living children left England in 1849. They sailed aboard the "Zetland" from Liverpool on November 10, 1849*.
Mark (3) died on November 14, 1849, just four days after they left Liverpool. He was buried at sea. The "Zetland" arrived in New Orleans the day after Christmas. The Gillett family made their way to Alton, Illinois where they lived until 1852. While they lived in Illinois, their oldest daughter Ann (18) married John Morgan in St. Louis, on April 6, 1850. The Gillett's oldest son John (17) died on March 11, 1852. A daughter, Mary Ann, was born in Alton on May 15, 1852.
The Gillett family left Alton and went to Kanesville, Iowa (Council Bluffs) where they joined a wagon train company. They left Kanesville in early June of 1852 (with a one month old baby) and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on September 15, 1852. Between March and September of 1852 the Gillet's persevered through ---- the death of their eldest son, the birth of their 9th child, a move 400 miles from Illinois to Iowa and then a 1000 mile trek to Utah. Upon arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, they camped on "the square". The square was located where the Salt Lake City and County building now stands. They lived in the Salt Lake Valley for one year, and then moved to Tooele, Utah in 1853. The first winter was spent in a dugout at the mouth of Settlement Canyon. They had no floor or windows and only cedar bark to lay on the floor with an old buffalo robe to sleep on.
In 1853 the people living in the old settlement of Tooele drew lots and laid out the present town of Tooele. Joshua drew a lot which was on Main Street between Vine Street and First North. They built a one-room log cabin, and this was where their daughter Sarah was born. While living in Tooele, Joshua worked on the old mud wall which surrounded the town on three sides. They lived in their log cabin in Tooele for three years and then moved to Milton, Tooele County where the gristmill was located. Another son, Brigham, was born in 1856 at Milton. Joshua was active in church affairs and was the leader of the choir. He and his daughter Mary Ann would entertain with singing and dancing at all the social gatherings. Joshua was very particular about his morning prayers. All the children had to be up, washed and ready to kneel at the old bench for prayer.
In 1858 Johnson's army threatened to move into the area to dissemble the Mormons. The Gillett family along with the rest of the Saints left their homes and moved to Lehi. A daughter Emma was born in Lehi in 1858. When the problem with Johnson's army was resolved, they moved back to Milton where their last child, Ellen Rebecca, was born in 1860. Joshua died on April 15, 1865 at age 57 and was buried in the old Tooele Cemetery. His body was later moved to the current cemetery. Mary moved back to their home in Tooele on Main Street after Joshua died. She was only fifty years old and had six children at home; the oldest at home was sixteen and the youngest was only five years old. Mary was a nurse and also a midwife. She could go out in the field, catch a sheep, shear it, wash the wool, spin it into cloth and make clothes out of the material. She walked to Milton and E.T. City for confinement cases (maternity). Milton is about ten miles and E.T. City (Lakepoint) about twelve miles from Tooele. Mary raised her children and made her living nursing. Mary's youngest child, Ellen (11), died in 1871.
Mary had buried a husband and five children. Mary was of a gentle and kind disposition. She nursed until she was nearly seventy years old. She worked in the Temple a great deal doing work for the dead. She was a Relief Society worker up to the time of her death. She died on June 5, 1885 at Tooele at the age of seventy. She was buried next to her husband in the Tooele City Cemetery.
* The was the second Mormon immigration voyage the Zetland made in 1849. See accounts of the voyage, the ship's log and passenger list CLICK HERE. Note that the family name is recorded as "Gillot" and Ann is listed as "Mary Ann", which is the name give Ann's little sister born 2 years after they sailed to America and a year after Ann was married.
Joshua Hague Gillett (or Gillette or Gillot) was born on July 8, 1807 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England to John and Ann Hague Gillett. Mary Butterley was born on August 15, 1815 in Ridgeway, Derbyshire, England to John and Milicent Charlesworth Butterley. Joshua and Mary were married at Rotherham, Yorkshire, England on July 15, 1832. They made their home in Handsworth which was close to Sheffield. Joshua's occupation was that of collier (a coal miner or a person who carries or sells coal). Joshua and Mary had eight children while at Handsworth: Ann (1832 - our ancestor), John (1835), Jane (1837), Samuel (1839), Thomas (1841), Elizabeth (1843), Mark (1846), and Maria Henrietta (1848). Thomas (3) and Elizabeth (1) both died in December of 1844.
Joshua and Mary and the family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in England in about 1847. Joshua and Mary and their six living children left England in 1849. They sailed aboard the "Zetland" from Liverpool on November 10, 1849*.
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| The clipper ship Earl of Zetland |
The Gillett family left Alton and went to Kanesville, Iowa (Council Bluffs) where they joined a wagon train company. They left Kanesville in early June of 1852 (with a one month old baby) and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on September 15, 1852. Between March and September of 1852 the Gillet's persevered through ---- the death of their eldest son, the birth of their 9th child, a move 400 miles from Illinois to Iowa and then a 1000 mile trek to Utah. Upon arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, they camped on "the square". The square was located where the Salt Lake City and County building now stands. They lived in the Salt Lake Valley for one year, and then moved to Tooele, Utah in 1853. The first winter was spent in a dugout at the mouth of Settlement Canyon. They had no floor or windows and only cedar bark to lay on the floor with an old buffalo robe to sleep on.
In 1853 the people living in the old settlement of Tooele drew lots and laid out the present town of Tooele. Joshua drew a lot which was on Main Street between Vine Street and First North. They built a one-room log cabin, and this was where their daughter Sarah was born. While living in Tooele, Joshua worked on the old mud wall which surrounded the town on three sides. They lived in their log cabin in Tooele for three years and then moved to Milton, Tooele County where the gristmill was located. Another son, Brigham, was born in 1856 at Milton. Joshua was active in church affairs and was the leader of the choir. He and his daughter Mary Ann would entertain with singing and dancing at all the social gatherings. Joshua was very particular about his morning prayers. All the children had to be up, washed and ready to kneel at the old bench for prayer.
In 1858 Johnson's army threatened to move into the area to dissemble the Mormons. The Gillett family along with the rest of the Saints left their homes and moved to Lehi. A daughter Emma was born in Lehi in 1858. When the problem with Johnson's army was resolved, they moved back to Milton where their last child, Ellen Rebecca, was born in 1860. Joshua died on April 15, 1865 at age 57 and was buried in the old Tooele Cemetery. His body was later moved to the current cemetery. Mary moved back to their home in Tooele on Main Street after Joshua died. She was only fifty years old and had six children at home; the oldest at home was sixteen and the youngest was only five years old. Mary was a nurse and also a midwife. She could go out in the field, catch a sheep, shear it, wash the wool, spin it into cloth and make clothes out of the material. She walked to Milton and E.T. City for confinement cases (maternity). Milton is about ten miles and E.T. City (Lakepoint) about twelve miles from Tooele. Mary raised her children and made her living nursing. Mary's youngest child, Ellen (11), died in 1871.
Mary had buried a husband and five children. Mary was of a gentle and kind disposition. She nursed until she was nearly seventy years old. She worked in the Temple a great deal doing work for the dead. She was a Relief Society worker up to the time of her death. She died on June 5, 1885 at Tooele at the age of seventy. She was buried next to her husband in the Tooele City Cemetery.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
President's Day Trip to the Snow
Monday, February 16, 2015
Happy [Late] Valentine's Day
It's been a busy weekend but I wanted to share these photos even though they are a bit tardy. Wendy made a little photo series to give to Jeff for Valentine's Day that he can hang above his desk at work. As you can tell from the photos she loves putting everything into her mouth. She's also started doing this hilarious smile where she opens her mouth as wide as she can. We love our little Valentine!
Sunday, February 15, 2015
MEGAN & CODY WEDDING
On a spectacularly pleasant Thursday, February 12 Megan Cornwall married Cody Leslie. Everything was quite lovely at Descanso Gardens in La Canada, CA. It was sweetly chosen spot not far from Great Grandpa Cornwall's (former) home. Katie flew in from Utah to honor her cousin and brought little Hannah to spend a few days at 336.
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More snow?
Had to go this morning to brave the storm to clear off our gas line that was covered and caused our heat to not be working.
This is our back porch. He have not done anything to it so it has just accumulated some snow over the last few weeks
Here is Bennett from the inside it is hard to see the snow with the back light
But I will be snowed in any day when we have our own person In-N-Out crew
Friday, February 13, 2015
3 Sweet Years!
I can't believe our sweet Emary is 3 years old. Although she recently had a little growth spurt she is still so tiny and we absolutely love it! She is so much fun to be around and has more personality than any other little girl I have ever met. When Emary walks its like she is walking to a beat, a rhythm or song playing in her head. She always has a swing to her hips and a confidence about her that I hope she never loses!
She gives the greatest hugs. She puts all her heart into her hugs. They are tight and full. She still loves to hug you then look into your eyes and hug you again as she tilts her head to the side. It is seriously the most adorable thing I have ever seen in my life.
Emary is giggly. She will take any opportunity to make a joke or laugh at a joke. If no one is willing to do something funny to make her laugh she will figure something out on her own. She is so silly. Her laugh is still as sweet and unique as it has always been. It is so contagious!
We adore her big blue, curious eyes. She is always making the cutest facial expressions. She shows excitement about the simplest things. I wish I could see the world from Emarys eyes. Everything is so exciting and fun. It is so hard to describe but so perfectly sweet!
Emary lights up our house. I love her excitement and energy! She loves her brother and has recently referred to him solely as "Brother". It is so cute. "Brother did it" or "Brother wants to play with me" I love it! Emary says everything. She is a very shy but clear talker. Unless someone knows her well they won't hear her talk too much. She expresses herself mostly with her facial expressions, until she gets to know you- then she will talk your ear off. We love hearing her stories. We love the way she says her "l's" more like the letter y. Oh its so cute!! We love her so much and feel so so blessed that she is ours FOREVER! She lightens the mood in our home every day. She loves to sniggle and gives the best kisses. I have recently started to notice more and more that she looks like me- I mean I always knew she did but I am seeing more and more of my preschool pictures in her little face. Sometimes I wonder how can you look so much like me but be so stinkin cute! Words cannot express how blessed we feel to have this little girl. I thank Heavenly Father every day for her smile and presence!
Elizabeth Susan Burnett Brunt Takes Her Family To Zion
Burnett/Brunt/Groberg/Neeley/Cornwall
Elizabeth Susan Burnett was baptized in Kiaipoi, New Zealand in 1868 when she was 14 years old. Her family had immigrated to New Zealand in 1857. Her father, William, who had joined the Church in England received the first missionaries to New Zealand in 1867. The Burnetts were the mainstays of the first little unit of the Church in the Christchurch area. Elizabeth married in 1869 to recent convert, George Brunt. They had their first baby, Mary Eliza a year later. By 1878 the Brunts had 4 children. Elizabeth Susan Burnett Brunt had a strong desire to emigrate from New Zealand and join the saints and most of her family who had already heeded the call to 'Come to Zion'. George half believed she would not really go with 4 young children, Eliza, 9, Will, 6; George, 3; and Annie in her first year. She was determined to bring her children up surrounded by the Church
A tale of the trip was written by their son Little George. “We left from New Zealand on a small steamboat and went by way of Australia to a larger steamer, the City of Sidney. My mother now was just 26 years old, just being 15 when married. Changing from one small boat to another before reaching Australia in the excitement of changing children and baggage from one boat to the other, Will was left on the first boat. When Mother came to leave, they found Will missing. When they discovered this, Will was thrown across the water from one boat to the other.” They made a stop in the Hawaiian Islands where they encountered other saints including Zina Young, wife of Brigham Young who was there for her health". Little George continues “We were on the water for six weeks and it was a month by the time we reached Farmington. We landed in San Francisco, where we took an old-fashioned train to Farmington Utah. Here we were met by my uncle James Burnett.”
For the first year Elizabeth and her four children lived with Elizabeth's father and other family members and missionaries she knew from New Zealand. Eventually they moved into a one-room house. In the spring of 1880 Elizabeth was coming out a meeting of the Farmington Ward and was met by a tall, dark, handsome and lonesome stranger - her husband George. Their separation of about a year was over. George had ' Come to Zion' and the family was together. Later that year all the children and George, contacted measles. Three year old Annie died.
George moved from job to job offering his skills as an engineer and mechanic on mill equipment, in smelters, and molasses mills and the family moved from town to town. In 1881 their 5th child Maude Elizabeth (our ancestor) was born in Cottonwood, Utah. Elizabeth gave birth to two more children by 1886. All the moving convinced Elizabeth it was important to find a secure home where she could rear her children and teach them to work. Her idea was getting a farm where they could make a living. They spent some time in Salt Lake, putting together finances, an old wagon and provisions and headed to Idaho in the fall of 1885. The journey was miserable, in freezing rain and mud and uncertainty of exactly where they would end up. They bought a little farm in Sand Creek, near Eagle Rock, Idaho. Farming that first year was not successful and George needed to find work so the family would have some money as they could not even raise enough hay to feed their plow horses. His first job was cutting ice for the local saloons. Then hearing of good work in Butte, Montana he left the family in Idaho to work in the smelters. The family wondered of his condition until Elizabeth received a letter from the nurse attending him that he had died.
Elizabeth sold the farm and moved her and her 6 children, ages 16 to 5 months to a little rented home in town which was not far from where the Idaho Falls temple now stands. Elizabeth took in washing and did ironing to make money. The children helped by walking down the nearby railroad tracks picking up coal that had fallen from the trains. This coal was used to heat Elizabeth's wash water. Once a high school was built in town, she took in boarders.
Maude Elizabeth was baptized in the Snake River in 1889. As a bright, vivacious girl of "20 or 21" she met and married John Enoch Groberg, a school teacher visiting from Ogden. They were married in the Logan temple 24 Dec. 1902.
Maude Elizabeth died 11 days after giving birth to her third child Maude Elizabeth Groberg (Dad's maternal grandmother). A year later John Groberg passed away, some said of a broken heart. The two older Groberg boys went to Ogden to be raised by paternal relatives. Elizabeth/Grandma Brunt welcomed little Maudie and raised her as a daughter. (The eldest son, Delbert Groberg, would one day come back to serve as the Temple President of the Idaho Falls temple, his widowed sister Maude* as a temple worker in the shadow of the little house where their grandmother took in washing to provide for her family.)
Little Maudie accompanied her grandmother as she served in the Stake Relief Society Presidency or board for 34 years, traveling hundred of miles by carriage to visit the wards spread throughout the upper Snake River Valley. Maudie remembers her grandmother as a "refined lady, neatly combed who taught her grand daughter "the finer things of life.. using pretty dishes she brought with her from New Zealand."
Maude* with her husband Kenneth Neeley and 6 month old baby Lenore (dad's mother), visited Grandma Brunt on Christmas 1929 just 2 months before Grandma Brunt passed away at 76 years of age 14 Feb. 1929. Elizabeth Susan Burnett Brunt died in peace, her large family raised in Zion and true to the faith.
*Ironically, Maude became a widow at age 55, with 6 of her 8 children still at home when her beloved Ken passed away.
Elizabeth Susan Burnett was baptized in Kiaipoi, New Zealand in 1868 when she was 14 years old. Her family had immigrated to New Zealand in 1857. Her father, William, who had joined the Church in England received the first missionaries to New Zealand in 1867. The Burnetts were the mainstays of the first little unit of the Church in the Christchurch area. Elizabeth married in 1869 to recent convert, George Brunt. They had their first baby, Mary Eliza a year later. By 1878 the Brunts had 4 children. Elizabeth Susan Burnett Brunt had a strong desire to emigrate from New Zealand and join the saints and most of her family who had already heeded the call to 'Come to Zion'. George half believed she would not really go with 4 young children, Eliza, 9, Will, 6; George, 3; and Annie in her first year. She was determined to bring her children up surrounded by the Church
A tale of the trip was written by their son Little George. “We left from New Zealand on a small steamboat and went by way of Australia to a larger steamer, the City of Sidney. My mother now was just 26 years old, just being 15 when married. Changing from one small boat to another before reaching Australia in the excitement of changing children and baggage from one boat to the other, Will was left on the first boat. When Mother came to leave, they found Will missing. When they discovered this, Will was thrown across the water from one boat to the other.” They made a stop in the Hawaiian Islands where they encountered other saints including Zina Young, wife of Brigham Young who was there for her health". Little George continues “We were on the water for six weeks and it was a month by the time we reached Farmington. We landed in San Francisco, where we took an old-fashioned train to Farmington Utah. Here we were met by my uncle James Burnett.”
For the first year Elizabeth and her four children lived with Elizabeth's father and other family members and missionaries she knew from New Zealand. Eventually they moved into a one-room house. In the spring of 1880 Elizabeth was coming out a meeting of the Farmington Ward and was met by a tall, dark, handsome and lonesome stranger - her husband George. Their separation of about a year was over. George had ' Come to Zion' and the family was together. Later that year all the children and George, contacted measles. Three year old Annie died.
George moved from job to job offering his skills as an engineer and mechanic on mill equipment, in smelters, and molasses mills and the family moved from town to town. In 1881 their 5th child Maude Elizabeth (our ancestor) was born in Cottonwood, Utah. Elizabeth gave birth to two more children by 1886. All the moving convinced Elizabeth it was important to find a secure home where she could rear her children and teach them to work. Her idea was getting a farm where they could make a living. They spent some time in Salt Lake, putting together finances, an old wagon and provisions and headed to Idaho in the fall of 1885. The journey was miserable, in freezing rain and mud and uncertainty of exactly where they would end up. They bought a little farm in Sand Creek, near Eagle Rock, Idaho. Farming that first year was not successful and George needed to find work so the family would have some money as they could not even raise enough hay to feed their plow horses. His first job was cutting ice for the local saloons. Then hearing of good work in Butte, Montana he left the family in Idaho to work in the smelters. The family wondered of his condition until Elizabeth received a letter from the nurse attending him that he had died.
Elizabeth sold the farm and moved her and her 6 children, ages 16 to 5 months to a little rented home in town which was not far from where the Idaho Falls temple now stands. Elizabeth took in washing and did ironing to make money. The children helped by walking down the nearby railroad tracks picking up coal that had fallen from the trains. This coal was used to heat Elizabeth's wash water. Once a high school was built in town, she took in boarders.
Maude Elizabeth was baptized in the Snake River in 1889. As a bright, vivacious girl of "20 or 21" she met and married John Enoch Groberg, a school teacher visiting from Ogden. They were married in the Logan temple 24 Dec. 1902.
Little Maudie accompanied her grandmother as she served in the Stake Relief Society Presidency or board for 34 years, traveling hundred of miles by carriage to visit the wards spread throughout the upper Snake River Valley. Maudie remembers her grandmother as a "refined lady, neatly combed who taught her grand daughter "the finer things of life.. using pretty dishes she brought with her from New Zealand."
Maude* with her husband Kenneth Neeley and 6 month old baby Lenore (dad's mother), visited Grandma Brunt on Christmas 1929 just 2 months before Grandma Brunt passed away at 76 years of age 14 Feb. 1929. Elizabeth Susan Burnett Brunt died in peace, her large family raised in Zion and true to the faith.
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| Elizabeth Susan Burnett Brunt and her grand daughter Maude Elizabeth Groberg whom she raised |
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