Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Great Emigration to Utah 1861
John W Sharp and Ann Maria Bailey Sharp
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Ann Maria Easter Bailey Sharp Evans
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Ann Evans Sainsbury
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Mary Sainsbury Visser
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Steven Mathew Visser
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John W Sharp(B) and Ann Maria Bailey Sharp (B April 1, 1829) When they left England in 1861 Maria was 27 John was 25. After eight days at sea, Maria became sea sick. By the time they arrived in New York on May 22nd, Maria was very sick. (She was also just starting out a pregnancy.) A sister Mencech advised John to purchase some medicine at the drug store. He did, and after taking it, Maria improved a little, but was still sick. They traveled to Chicago by train. Traveling by train brought its own kind of hardship. Pioneers faced problems like over crowding-sometimes there were 84 people to each railroad car, poor sanitary facilities, bad ventilation, uncomfortable sleeping arrangements, lack of drinking water, and an abundance of soot, cinders, smoke, lice and dirt.
When they reached Chicago, John left to spend his last dollar on some more medicine. While he was gone, a young man by the name or Simmons came to see if any of the immigrants were people he knew from England. He recognized Maria, for he had served as a traveling elder in her home town. They reminisced together, and when John returned, he was introduced to Elder Simmons. The call came for them to board the train, and they bid the young man good-bye. They were pushing their way through the crowd when Elder Simmons appeared again. "Well, I suppose you are off now," he said, and he shook Mariah's hand and then John's hand and wishing him God's speed, left him a two and a half dollar gold piece. This was all the money they had to last them until they arrived in Salt Lake City.
John and Maria boarded the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. (CB&Q) This rail journey to Quincy was 288 miles long and lasted about fifteen hours. One Mormon traveler who made the same journey in 1862 reported: "arrived at Chicago, a fine place. Left there about twelve noon. A fine view of the lake, very many vessels in the sight. Illinois appears to one a flat, fertile country. Hundreds of cattle grazing on the prairies. stopped at a village and cleaned them out of bread."
At Quincy, the Sharps boarded a steamer ship and went sixteen miles downstream on the Mississipi River to Hannibal, and from there they went by train to Saint Joseph. This was 207 mile road trip across Missouri. One unhappy passenger dubbed the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad as the "Horrible and Slow-jogging Railroad." Once they reached St. Joseph, immigrants took river boats up the Missouri river some 160 miles to the area of Council Bluffs and Florence, Nebraska.
John and Maria Sharp became part of the great "Florence Fit out of 1861" Since the days of the Nauvoo exodus, Church leaders had labored to fulfill a promise that "We would not cease our operations until we gathered the poor Saints." In 1860 Brigham Young proposed a new plan to help get Saints to Zion. Various Utah ward of the church would provide wagons and teams for tithing credit. These wagons would be filled with bags of flour. Teamsters from Salt Lake would drive these wagons to Florence, stock piling the bags of the flour at specific points. The wagons would pick up the poor immigrants and bring them back to Salt Lake City. The flour (which was too expensive to buy in Florence) would provide food for the journey west. The immigrants would be charged a small fee, but it would be on credit. Brigham Young wanted each wagon to hold the bedding, groceries, meat, clothing and other requite articles for eight to ten persons. The pioneers, themselves, would have to walk.
On the evening of June 3, the 629 Saints from the ship Underwriter arrived in Florence. John and Maria Sharp were part of this group. William Blake, one of the new arrivals recorded in his journal that "A host were on shore prepared to greet old friends. Darkness came on quickly, so most luggage was left on the ground and guarded. Wagons conveyed the new arrivals to tents or to hotels, at least such they were called." Before sunrise, Blake began to sort baggage, when rains struck "Some newcomers stood under umbrells, some rushed to tents, and others pick through luggage piles unprotected."
In John's own words: "Mean while, we had to live in old lumber shanties and dugouts. We had to crowd in as best we could and at night spread our beds of blankets and quilts on the floor and we lay there like sardines in a can"
When they had been in Florence for about three weeks, John contracted with two Salt Lake merchants, Daniel Clift and Thomas Hawkins, to drive a team of ten oxen across the plains for them. He also helped them herd their cattle while they were getting ready for their trek westward. One of the men who was helping with the cattle fell asleep on duty and Hawkins and Sharp decided to wake him up. They drove the cattle around him several times and when that didn't disturb him they pulled off his boots, but he still slept on.
The church wagons arrived on July first. Maria became very sick, so John was unable to keep his engagement with Clift and Hawkins, and they decided to go with the church wagon train instead. maria suffered from what they called the "bloody flux" a form of dysentery that caused pain in the abdomen and frequently bloody stools. She suffered from this ailment almost eh entire journey across the plains.
First the immigrants received wagon assignments, six to eight people per wagon. Then the immigrants took their baggage to the bowery where it was weighed. Adults could take fifty pounds of baggage free. Twenty cents was charged for every extra pound. Fares to Utah were $41.00 for adults and $20.50 for children under eight. Most of the immigrants didn't have this money. it was just added to their perpetual immigration fund loan.
Following the weigh in, the baggage was loaded onto the wagons. Wilhelmina Bitter describes how her wagon was loaded. "Items not used daily were stacked up in the middle of the wagon as high as the bows. They made two compartments. Two families were assigned to the front of the wagon and two to the back. There was one tent for two wagons, and the necessary kettles were tied under the wagon."
John and Maria's wagon train, under the direction of Captain Ira Eldrege, was the first church train to load up and move to the out skirts of Florence. organized on July 2, with the usual officers- chaplains, clerk, sergeant of the guards, and captains over ten wagons each- the train stopped at Spring Creek, about a mile and a half from Florence. The next day it rolled eight miles west to Big Papillion Creek. Here the immigrants practiced the rudiments of camp life, such as getting water and fuel and cooking with camp fires. They also became accustomed to the forces of nature, for July heat and Missouri humidity generated three consecutive thunderstorms. John and Maria found out that tens were not waterproof.
For nine days the camp hardly moved. Captain Eldredge waited for the other three Church trains to outfit and also for needed cooking kettles to arrive. During the halt, diarrhea plagued some passengers, forcing Captain Eldredge to move camp one-quarter mile on July 7 to solve sanitation problems. The wagon train finally received it's twenty-seven kettles and started the "back" trip to Utah on July 12.
The second captain told Maria not to walk very much, but the teamster, William Hunter, often refused to let her ride. On one occasion, John and Maria were walking , but could not keep up with the train. They were about to be left behind, when an old gentleman who had joined the company with his own outfit, asked what the matter was. He saw that Maria could not walk, so he invited her to ride into camp in his wagon. John relates.
"Sometimes Maria was so feeble that she would have to hold on to the hind end of the wagon with one hand and I would hold her up on the other side and thus we would travel until we reached camp, all tired and worn out. This continued all the way across the plains until at last, Brother Park, who was in the next wagon to us went to the Captain and informed him as to the condition of Sister Sharp, for by this time she had become very sick with Bloody Flux. The Captain went to the teamster and gave him a good talking to after which the teamster came to me and apologized and let Sister Sharp ride, which she did until we reached Salt Lake City, on the 15th day of September, 1861. We were tired and weary of traveling through sandy deserts for over 1,000 miles by ox teams. There were only two decent stops on the way; one at Devils Gate and one at Sweet Waters. We made camp at those places and had a general clean up. Sometimes on the way we had no water, other times no wood, and we had to carry a sack pick up dried buffalo chips for making fire; but we always had a good supply of sand and dust.
" The 1861 emegration was unusual because it occured during the outbreak of the Civil War and because it initiated the "down and back" method for moving poor saints to the west. Close to 4,000 saints emigrated from Florence to Utah in the twelve 1861 companies. Most amazing was the fact, stated by Elder McAllister, that "Every Saint who reached Florence and desired to go home (To Utah) this season has had the privilege."
John and Maria were met at the Sugar House area by Charles Sharp and David Adams. Charles was John's brother who had arrived in Utah five years earlier. David Adams was a was an old friend of the Sharp family from Northampton, England. They were taken to the Adams home for dinner. John relates: "we enjoyed the dinner very much, it being the first decent meal we had sat down to for nearly six months. We were so tired and weary that their kind hospitality was appreciated beyond our power of expression."
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Ann Maria Easter Bailey Sharp Evans
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Ann Evans Sainsbury
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Mary Sainsbury Visser
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Steven Mathew Visser
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Me
John W Sharp(B) and Ann Maria Bailey Sharp (B April 1, 1829) When they left England in 1861 Maria was 27 John was 25. After eight days at sea, Maria became sea sick. By the time they arrived in New York on May 22nd, Maria was very sick. (She was also just starting out a pregnancy.) A sister Mencech advised John to purchase some medicine at the drug store. He did, and after taking it, Maria improved a little, but was still sick. They traveled to Chicago by train. Traveling by train brought its own kind of hardship. Pioneers faced problems like over crowding-sometimes there were 84 people to each railroad car, poor sanitary facilities, bad ventilation, uncomfortable sleeping arrangements, lack of drinking water, and an abundance of soot, cinders, smoke, lice and dirt.
When they reached Chicago, John left to spend his last dollar on some more medicine. While he was gone, a young man by the name or Simmons came to see if any of the immigrants were people he knew from England. He recognized Maria, for he had served as a traveling elder in her home town. They reminisced together, and when John returned, he was introduced to Elder Simmons. The call came for them to board the train, and they bid the young man good-bye. They were pushing their way through the crowd when Elder Simmons appeared again. "Well, I suppose you are off now," he said, and he shook Mariah's hand and then John's hand and wishing him God's speed, left him a two and a half dollar gold piece. This was all the money they had to last them until they arrived in Salt Lake City.
John and Maria boarded the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. (CB&Q) This rail journey to Quincy was 288 miles long and lasted about fifteen hours. One Mormon traveler who made the same journey in 1862 reported: "arrived at Chicago, a fine place. Left there about twelve noon. A fine view of the lake, very many vessels in the sight. Illinois appears to one a flat, fertile country. Hundreds of cattle grazing on the prairies. stopped at a village and cleaned them out of bread."
At Quincy, the Sharps boarded a steamer ship and went sixteen miles downstream on the Mississipi River to Hannibal, and from there they went by train to Saint Joseph. This was 207 mile road trip across Missouri. One unhappy passenger dubbed the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad as the "Horrible and Slow-jogging Railroad." Once they reached St. Joseph, immigrants took river boats up the Missouri river some 160 miles to the area of Council Bluffs and Florence, Nebraska.
John and Maria Sharp became part of the great "Florence Fit out of 1861" Since the days of the Nauvoo exodus, Church leaders had labored to fulfill a promise that "We would not cease our operations until we gathered the poor Saints." In 1860 Brigham Young proposed a new plan to help get Saints to Zion. Various Utah ward of the church would provide wagons and teams for tithing credit. These wagons would be filled with bags of flour. Teamsters from Salt Lake would drive these wagons to Florence, stock piling the bags of the flour at specific points. The wagons would pick up the poor immigrants and bring them back to Salt Lake City. The flour (which was too expensive to buy in Florence) would provide food for the journey west. The immigrants would be charged a small fee, but it would be on credit. Brigham Young wanted each wagon to hold the bedding, groceries, meat, clothing and other requite articles for eight to ten persons. The pioneers, themselves, would have to walk.
On the evening of June 3, the 629 Saints from the ship Underwriter arrived in Florence. John and Maria Sharp were part of this group. William Blake, one of the new arrivals recorded in his journal that "A host were on shore prepared to greet old friends. Darkness came on quickly, so most luggage was left on the ground and guarded. Wagons conveyed the new arrivals to tents or to hotels, at least such they were called." Before sunrise, Blake began to sort baggage, when rains struck "Some newcomers stood under umbrells, some rushed to tents, and others pick through luggage piles unprotected."
In John's own words: "Mean while, we had to live in old lumber shanties and dugouts. We had to crowd in as best we could and at night spread our beds of blankets and quilts on the floor and we lay there like sardines in a can"
When they had been in Florence for about three weeks, John contracted with two Salt Lake merchants, Daniel Clift and Thomas Hawkins, to drive a team of ten oxen across the plains for them. He also helped them herd their cattle while they were getting ready for their trek westward. One of the men who was helping with the cattle fell asleep on duty and Hawkins and Sharp decided to wake him up. They drove the cattle around him several times and when that didn't disturb him they pulled off his boots, but he still slept on.
The church wagons arrived on July first. Maria became very sick, so John was unable to keep his engagement with Clift and Hawkins, and they decided to go with the church wagon train instead. maria suffered from what they called the "bloody flux" a form of dysentery that caused pain in the abdomen and frequently bloody stools. She suffered from this ailment almost eh entire journey across the plains.
First the immigrants received wagon assignments, six to eight people per wagon. Then the immigrants took their baggage to the bowery where it was weighed. Adults could take fifty pounds of baggage free. Twenty cents was charged for every extra pound. Fares to Utah were $41.00 for adults and $20.50 for children under eight. Most of the immigrants didn't have this money. it was just added to their perpetual immigration fund loan.
Following the weigh in, the baggage was loaded onto the wagons. Wilhelmina Bitter describes how her wagon was loaded. "Items not used daily were stacked up in the middle of the wagon as high as the bows. They made two compartments. Two families were assigned to the front of the wagon and two to the back. There was one tent for two wagons, and the necessary kettles were tied under the wagon."
John and Maria's wagon train, under the direction of Captain Ira Eldrege, was the first church train to load up and move to the out skirts of Florence. organized on July 2, with the usual officers- chaplains, clerk, sergeant of the guards, and captains over ten wagons each- the train stopped at Spring Creek, about a mile and a half from Florence. The next day it rolled eight miles west to Big Papillion Creek. Here the immigrants practiced the rudiments of camp life, such as getting water and fuel and cooking with camp fires. They also became accustomed to the forces of nature, for July heat and Missouri humidity generated three consecutive thunderstorms. John and Maria found out that tens were not waterproof.
For nine days the camp hardly moved. Captain Eldredge waited for the other three Church trains to outfit and also for needed cooking kettles to arrive. During the halt, diarrhea plagued some passengers, forcing Captain Eldredge to move camp one-quarter mile on July 7 to solve sanitation problems. The wagon train finally received it's twenty-seven kettles and started the "back" trip to Utah on July 12.
The second captain told Maria not to walk very much, but the teamster, William Hunter, often refused to let her ride. On one occasion, John and Maria were walking , but could not keep up with the train. They were about to be left behind, when an old gentleman who had joined the company with his own outfit, asked what the matter was. He saw that Maria could not walk, so he invited her to ride into camp in his wagon. John relates.
"Sometimes Maria was so feeble that she would have to hold on to the hind end of the wagon with one hand and I would hold her up on the other side and thus we would travel until we reached camp, all tired and worn out. This continued all the way across the plains until at last, Brother Park, who was in the next wagon to us went to the Captain and informed him as to the condition of Sister Sharp, for by this time she had become very sick with Bloody Flux. The Captain went to the teamster and gave him a good talking to after which the teamster came to me and apologized and let Sister Sharp ride, which she did until we reached Salt Lake City, on the 15th day of September, 1861. We were tired and weary of traveling through sandy deserts for over 1,000 miles by ox teams. There were only two decent stops on the way; one at Devils Gate and one at Sweet Waters. We made camp at those places and had a general clean up. Sometimes on the way we had no water, other times no wood, and we had to carry a sack pick up dried buffalo chips for making fire; but we always had a good supply of sand and dust.
" The 1861 emegration was unusual because it occured during the outbreak of the Civil War and because it initiated the "down and back" method for moving poor saints to the west. Close to 4,000 saints emigrated from Florence to Utah in the twelve 1861 companies. Most amazing was the fact, stated by Elder McAllister, that "Every Saint who reached Florence and desired to go home (To Utah) this season has had the privilege."
John and Maria were met at the Sugar House area by Charles Sharp and David Adams. Charles was John's brother who had arrived in Utah five years earlier. David Adams was a was an old friend of the Sharp family from Northampton, England. They were taken to the Adams home for dinner. John relates: "we enjoyed the dinner very much, it being the first decent meal we had sat down to for nearly six months. We were so tired and weary that their kind hospitality was appreciated beyond our power of expression."
Ann Maria Bailey Sharp
Ann Maria Bailey Sharp (B April 1, 1829) in Shipdham in the county of Norfolk, Old England.
Her Father was a shoe maker, and her mother kept a sewing school for small children. Maria's father died on June 17, 1834. Maria was about five years old. her mother was left a widow with three children, Maria being the oldest of the three. The other two children died soon after the death of their father. (Information written by John W Sharp)
Actual records show different dates as listed below Ann Maria George Bailey had a child out of wedlock. The boy was born and Christened William Bailey on Nov 6, 1836. Evidently, Ann Maria George married again, a man by the name of Jesse or Joseph Thompson and they had four children. These children were all born in Shipdham. Maria's mother came to Utah in 1862, along with two children. She was fifty five years old. She died in Union, Utah, when she was eighty years old.
Maria's brothers and sisters: Hannah Matilda Bailey (B) 2 Sept 1831 (D) 15 Oct 1835 4yr Ann Maria Bailey (B)1 April 1832 (D) 23 Feb 1910 78yr Matilda Bailey (B) March died young (no dates) William Bailey (B)8 Oct 1836 ? (Father unknown) Phillip Thompson (B) 25 Dec 1839 ? Jesse Thompson (B) 31 May 1842 ? George Ury Thompson (B) 25 April 1847 (D) 15 Nov 1920 Georgeanna Thompson (B) 20 Aug 1849 (D) 27 Oct 1875
Mother Ann Maria George Bailey turned her attention to teaching the Sabbath school of the church of England for which she received a small pittance each week. She also kept a school for small children while their parents went out to work. She taught them the first rudiments of an education.
Maria,(Mariah) as she was familiarly called, was very apt at learning sewing and at a very early age became the leading seamstress of Shipdham. She also learned the millinery and dressmaking business and soon became the most expert sewer in the town of Shipdam and was sought after by most of the leading ladies of this place to do their work.
Ann Maria Bailey and her mother Ann Maria George Bailey, were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on the year 1850 or 1851 in Shipdham. They were baptized by John Everett. The Mormon elders were always made welcome at their home and were treated with the greatest of respect.
On the 10th day of January, 1858 Mariah first met John Sharp. He was a traveling elder sent to labor in the Shipdham district of the Norwich conference. Maria and her mother arranged for Elder Sharp to board at their home when he was in Shipdham. Since there was a branch of the church in Shipdham, he was there about every week. Maria was very kind to all the elders, often giving them money and other presents to help them. Of course, she was particularly kind to Elder Sharp and they became very fond of each other. When John left to labor in the New Castle Upon Tyne Pastorate, Maria often sent him a little money and other things to help him on his mission.
They became very fond of each other, and were married on March 19, 1861 in Norwich, England by Elder Elias Hicks Blackburn. (Blackburn was the first Bishop of Provo, and at the time of the marriage was the President of Norwich Conference.) After Maria's marriage she spent two weeks visiting her friends, then with her husband, Elder Sharp, they spent a short time with Elder Sharp's family and on the 21st day of April 1861 they left Northampton and went to Liverpool and on the 23rd went on board the clipper ship, Underwriter. They sailed for America with 624 saints, under the presidency of Milo Andrus, Homer Duncan and Charles W. Penrose. (End of John Sharp's writing)
Her Father was a shoe maker, and her mother kept a sewing school for small children. Maria's father died on June 17, 1834. Maria was about five years old. her mother was left a widow with three children, Maria being the oldest of the three. The other two children died soon after the death of their father. (Information written by John W Sharp)
Actual records show different dates as listed below Ann Maria George Bailey had a child out of wedlock. The boy was born and Christened William Bailey on Nov 6, 1836. Evidently, Ann Maria George married again, a man by the name of Jesse or Joseph Thompson and they had four children. These children were all born in Shipdham. Maria's mother came to Utah in 1862, along with two children. She was fifty five years old. She died in Union, Utah, when she was eighty years old.
Maria's brothers and sisters: Hannah Matilda Bailey (B) 2 Sept 1831 (D) 15 Oct 1835 4yr Ann Maria Bailey (B)1 April 1832 (D) 23 Feb 1910 78yr Matilda Bailey (B) March died young (no dates) William Bailey (B)8 Oct 1836 ? (Father unknown) Phillip Thompson (B) 25 Dec 1839 ? Jesse Thompson (B) 31 May 1842 ? George Ury Thompson (B) 25 April 1847 (D) 15 Nov 1920 Georgeanna Thompson (B) 20 Aug 1849 (D) 27 Oct 1875
Mother Ann Maria George Bailey turned her attention to teaching the Sabbath school of the church of England for which she received a small pittance each week. She also kept a school for small children while their parents went out to work. She taught them the first rudiments of an education.
Maria,(Mariah) as she was familiarly called, was very apt at learning sewing and at a very early age became the leading seamstress of Shipdham. She also learned the millinery and dressmaking business and soon became the most expert sewer in the town of Shipdam and was sought after by most of the leading ladies of this place to do their work.
Ann Maria Bailey and her mother Ann Maria George Bailey, were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on the year 1850 or 1851 in Shipdham. They were baptized by John Everett. The Mormon elders were always made welcome at their home and were treated with the greatest of respect.
On the 10th day of January, 1858 Mariah first met John Sharp. He was a traveling elder sent to labor in the Shipdham district of the Norwich conference. Maria and her mother arranged for Elder Sharp to board at their home when he was in Shipdham. Since there was a branch of the church in Shipdham, he was there about every week. Maria was very kind to all the elders, often giving them money and other presents to help them. Of course, she was particularly kind to Elder Sharp and they became very fond of each other. When John left to labor in the New Castle Upon Tyne Pastorate, Maria often sent him a little money and other things to help him on his mission.
They became very fond of each other, and were married on March 19, 1861 in Norwich, England by Elder Elias Hicks Blackburn. (Blackburn was the first Bishop of Provo, and at the time of the marriage was the President of Norwich Conference.) After Maria's marriage she spent two weeks visiting her friends, then with her husband, Elder Sharp, they spent a short time with Elder Sharp's family and on the 21st day of April 1861 they left Northampton and went to Liverpool and on the 23rd went on board the clipper ship, Underwriter. They sailed for America with 624 saints, under the presidency of Milo Andrus, Homer Duncan and Charles W. Penrose. (End of John Sharp's writing)
Sunday, April 21, 2013
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Thomas George Sainsbury 21 April, 1851 and Mary Barret 13 March, 1859 lived in a village near Manchester, England when George Thomas Sainsbury was born October 22, 1878 at the village named Audenshaw. The third of their nine children was born. The family would later have 6 boys and 3 girls in all. George Thomas started school at the age of five at a place called Denshaw. He walked two and half miles to school each day. He went to school there until he was about 10 years old. He then started taking odd jobs and going to school part time. The family later moved to a small town called Shaw and went to work in a coal mine. It was in the saloon his family owned and lived in he first saw the Mormon missionaries. His name was Dugdale; he was from Provo. I didn't know it at the time but they were sent to find us by my grandmother Pheobe Barrett. Grandmother was living in Provo at the time. The Elders (missionaries) came to see the family regularly. The family stared to go to church to a town called Oldham. It was here at this time that 3 Mormon families moved into the area and they began to have Sunday School in the Sainsbury home together. Mother was baptized first, not long after that Ed, Emily and I were baptized into the church. About that time a strike at the mine put most of the family out of work. He wrote: "We sure were up against it" The strike lasted 21 weeks, his mother had to sell everything in the house so we could live on pork fat and bread. But, spring came and times began to brighten up a little but it took time for us to get on our feet. Every Saturday morning I had to go down to the mine (about 3/4 mile from the house) with a wheel barrow to get a schilling's (24 cents) worth of coal- enough to last a week. While he was working at the mine he was nearly killed in an accident and he quit the mines. He said "I was cut up pretty bad." Later they moved to a town called Heywood. There were 4 or 5 families in the area and they didn't have to walk far to church. He said "The Lord was on our side, for it looked like work was opening up all around us." He and his father traveled back and forth by train to work at Casleton, building a boundary wall around the sewer filter bed. It was a long way around but we work there quite a while. They got on the train at 4:30am to be to work by 7am and would get home by train around 6:30. They later got a job working on the manchester ship Canal. It was built so that ships could unload up in Manchester instead of down in Liverpool and then shipping them by train. He notes that he saw Queen Victoria herself at the grand opening of the Canal. (he also was later baptized in America on Jan 4, 1910)
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Ann Maria Easter Bailey Sharp Evans
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Ann Maria Easter Bailey Sharp Evans
Was called to be the secretary of the Young Women's Improvement Association of the Union Ward on September 11, 1884-1889. She held this position until after she and Charles were married in 1889. She was asked to write many essays. She also wrote articles for the "Ladies Well Wisher" a publication that the LDS sisters could submit interesting and instructional information to. These items are available in the church history library.
She often wrote that she "desired to do her duty to the best she could and asked the Lord to bless her in all her doing"
She was married on Valentines Day 1889.
October 27th, 1885
Dear Sisters, I will endeavor to respond to the call. We are living in a peculiar time, a time when the whole world is arising against the Saints of God and are trying with all their power to punish and persecute them for living in obedience to his laws. It therefore behooves us as Latter-day Saints to be up and alive t our duty for I realize we have no time to spend in idleness. If we read and study the scriptures we can see for ourselves that we need to spend all the time we have in usefulness. For Jesus said that before his coming we should hear of wars and rumors of wars nation shall rise against nation there should be famines and pestilences and Earthquakes in different places, and do we not hear of these things now at the present time? I think we do. There are other things we will find by reading scriptures that Jesus has said would be as signs of his coming. And he has said by these signs ye shall know that the coming of the Son of man is near at your doors, but no man knoweth in what hour he may come. But blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he come th shall find watching. Now if there is any of us that are in habit of going to places for enjoyment where it is not right for us to go or if we have any habits of doing or saying anything that is evil, let us repent of it but let it be true repentance do not say we are sorry we have done such and such things and we know it was wrong and we are sorry we have done so and will try and do no more, when in our hearts we do not feel sorry for what we have done and will go and do the same things over again. This I do not call true repentance. I realize that there is not any of us so good, but what, there is plenty of room for us to improve. We all have our faults and failings but as an improvement association we should try and do away with our evil ways and strive to improve so as we can always have the Spirit of the Lord to be with us to lead and guide us in the ways of truth. I feel proud of our association and think we have done well since we have been organized. I pray that we may continue in well doing. For it is they that endureth to the end that shall be saved. Ann M. E. B. Sharp
Sunday, March 17, 2013
John W Sharp
John was appointed to look after the election of Sandy in August, 1874, when Robert N Baskin ran against George Q Cannon for delegate to Congress. The Liberals took the ballot box by force from Justice of the Peace, Isaac Harrison. A big fight ensued. John Sharp jumped into the midst of the crowd, secured the box, and returned it to the judge. He received a terrible beating from the mob.
This fight was caused by the earlier passage of the anti-Mormon "Poland Bill" in the US Congress. The excited "Gentile" population of Sandy had gathered for a demonstration and stopped in front of nearly every Mormon home where they gave three cheers for Robert Baskin, their candidate for Congress, and a supporter of the Poland Bill, and three groans for George Q. Cannon, the Mormon People's Party candidate. At the next August Election, hard feelings caused Mormons and Non-Mormons to come to blows outside the voting booths. This was where John Sharp was severely beaten. He might have been killed but for the intervention of William Hiskey. Hiskey, conductor on the Utah Central, had just arrived with the northbound train when he heard the rumpus, armed himself with two six-shooters, and dispersed the crowd in all directions. (Sandy City, The First 100 years, pg 37)
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Ann Maria Bailey Sharp
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Remembering Her Grandmother
by Ann Jane Evans Sainsbury
I would go through my Grandmother's door yard both going and coming from school each day. I would go to the Orchard and get apples and pears to eat on my way to school and on my way home I would stop nearly every day to see how she was feeling. She was getting a little feeble, and Oh, I did like a piece of bread and butter with some of her homemade jam. She was a good cook. I loved her very much. She taught me how to do many different things. She taught me how to darn my stockings, how to hem things by hand and a little knitting. When I was a small girl she made lots of my dresses and she did it all by hand. She didn't have a sewing machine...I remember the first butter I ever churned was for my Grandmother. We put the cream in a large crock jar. Then would beat the cream with a bunch of sticks. We would find some straight, thin sticks about the size of a lead pencil and about 18 inches long. We scraped all the green bark off of them, washed them good and clean, then tied them at the top with a strong string about fourinches down. Then we would let them get good and dry so they would spread apart at the bottom like a little brush. We would beat the cream with it and soon we would have butter.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Mary Barrett
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Mary and Martha Barrett
The two sisters were separated for almost 40 years because Martha had gone to listen to the mormon missionaries and joined the LDS church in England and then traveled to Utah and married there then she went down to the mormon colony in Mexico with her husband to live for many years. Her father and mother (William Barrett 1800-1883 & Phoebe Colbourne/Coleburn 1824-1900) and some brothers and sister came to Utah and lived there until Martha moved back after loosing her husband. This picture is said to be taken soon after they were reunited. People had a hard time telling them apart. They also were said to have beautiful auburn hair.
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