Ship Brooklyn Passengers

[Obituaries]

Written May 4, 1920

Edwin Nelson Austin died at home (864 Wilmington Ave, SLC) soon after midnight May 23, 1920. He was survived by his wife, Alnora, and the following children: Edwin A., Montpelier, Idaho; De La Fayette Head, Montpelier; Mrs Maud Moyle, New Castle, Utah; H. Lane, Montpelier; Mark, Paris, Idaho; Horace N., Sharon, Idaho; Arta C., Samuel H., Torrey L., and Mrs Nellie Mc Murray, all of Liberty, Idaho. There are also 22 grandchildren who survive. Funeral Services were held at the S. M. Taylor Parlors at 3 P.M. May 24, 1920. The body was brought to Liberty, Idaho for Funeral Services and interment. Aunt Nora died November 25, 1923, at the home in Salt Lake and was also brought to Liberty, Idaho for Funeral and burial.

(Written by his granddaughter, Ina McMurry)

From the Deseret News , Wednesday August 2, 1922 Section 2, page 1:

Utah Pioneer of 1848 Dies at Kila, Montana

Newton Frances Austin, pioneer of Utah, Idaho and California, died at the home of his son James B.   Austin at Kila, Mont., July 30 after a brief illness.   The body will be brought to Salt Lake for burial.

Mr.   Austin was born July 3, 1843, at Suffield, Hartford county, Connecticut.   He was the son of Julius Augustus Caesar Austin and Mrs.   Octavia Ann Layne Austin, who embraced the gospel the year of his birth.   He was a member of the company of Latter-day Saints numbering 230 persons organized by Orson Pratt, who went around Cape Horn in 1846 and anchored in San Francisco harbor July 31, 1846.   The company started the journey to Salt Lake valley in the late summer of 1848 and joined the Utah pioneers who had been here a little more than a year.   After living in Salt Lake a few years the Austin family moved to Centerville, Davis county, where Mr.   Austin's mother died.

In 1864 the family moved to Paris, Idaho, being among the first to go to that section.   It was at this place that Mr.   Austin married Sarah Jane Wilcox in 1866.   To them were born eight sons and one daughter.   He is survived by one sister, Louise Austin Cheeney, Laketown, Utah one brother, Philow Austin, Juniper, Ida., his widow and the following children: Augustus E., Theodore H., of Twin Falls, Ida.; James B., of Kila, Mont.; Leon B., of Salt Lake; Paul L.   of California and Quina A.   Wolf of Salt Lake.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in the Second ward chapel corner of Seventh South and Fifth East streets.   The body may be viewed at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John W.   Wolf, 744 South Fifth East streets from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the day of the funeral.

Elizabeth Bird Howell

The Salt Lake Tribune , Wednesday, March 24, 1943

Deaths - Elizabeth Bird Howell

Preston, Idaho - Mrs.   Elizabeth Bird Howell, 97, oldest resident of Franklin County, died Tuesday at 12:30 a.m. at the home of a daughter, Mrs.   Amelia Crockett in Preston, of causes incident to age.

She was born January 1, 1846, at Cambridge, Mass., a daughter of Edmund Fuller and Mary Montgomery Bird.   When she was three days old her mother died.   She was reared by Mr.   and Mrs.   Daniel Stark.

She lived in San Bernardino, Cal., until she was 14 years old.   The she moved to Payson, Utah, with her foster parents.   She was married December 16, 1861, to Henry Nelson Howell in the old Salt Lake Endowment House.

Survivors include five of her eleven sons and daughters.   Mrs.   Amelia H.   Crockett of Preston; Edmund S.   Howell, of Clifton; Mrs.   Clark Alston, of Salt Lake City; John E.   Howell, of Pocatello; Wallace B.   Howell, of McCammon; 40 grandchildren, 95 great-grandchildren, 28 great-great-grandchildren and one sister Mrs.   Mary Atwood of Salt Lake City.

Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in the Clifton LDS Ward chapel.

[Editors Note: Elizabeth is the person who lived the longest of all the Brooklyn passengers.]

The San Francisco Examiner , Tuesday, December 12, 1916

Widow of Sam Brannan, Dead at 93, Is Laid Away

Mrs. Ann Eliza Brannan, at one time the wife of the famous Sam Brannan, after whom Brannan street was named, was buried yesterday from St. James Episcopal Church in the presence of a few relatives and friends.   She died Thursday, 93 years old.

Sam Brannan and Mrs. Ann Eliza Brannan were divorced in 1868, at which time Brannan settled more than a half million dollars upon her.   She lived in Paris for many years, and their children were educated there.   Before her marriage she was Ann Eliza Cowan. [sic]

Sam Brannan's spectacular career in Utah, California and Mexico is still a topic of interest.   He came here before the gold rush and was one of the largest realty owners in early San Francisco.   He died about fifteen years ago in Escondido, San Diego county.

Mrs. Brannan leaves a son, Sam Brannan, who is now in Mexico, and a daughter, Mrs. L. A. Gjessing, with whom she lived at 257 Seventh avenue.

Son of Sam Brannan, Noted California Pioneer,

Dies in This City Where Father Was Buried.

Californian's who as babes or children came around the Horn in the early days of the gold strike in 1849 rapidly fading from year to year.

The ranks were thinned by one Thursday night with the passing of Samuel L. Brannan, 86, who died at the home of Mrs. J. E. Cassin, 3595 Texas Street.   He had lived in the Cassin home as one of the family for four years.

Brannan was the son of Samuel L. [sic] Brannan, whose name is conspicuous with others in the founding of Sacramento and in the fabric of early days in political San Francisco.   He served on the first San Francisco city council and at one time was publisher of the California Star.

Made Voyage at Age of Two.

The younger Brannan came around the Horn with his father and mother when he was only two years old.   He was born in New York.   It was soon after the family arrival in California that the elder Brannan became a power in the two northern cities.

When he was nine years old, young Brannan and his three sisters were taken to Europe by their mother.   Brannan was educated at Geneva where he specialized in mineralogy.   After completing his education abroad he returned to America and for forty years was engaged in mining operations in Mexico.   He lost a fortune, according to friends, in the silver slump of 1898.

The variance of their fortunes was similar in the cases of both father and son.   At one time the elder Brannan owned much of what is now Napa County.   He owned nearly every lot on Market Street in San Francisco, 2,000,000 acres in Mexico and 160,000 acres in Los Angeles County.   He poured most of his wealth into Calistoga Springs, Napa County, lost it and retired to dwell in San Diego County, near the Mexican border, where he died in 1889.

Had Father's Bad Luck

The younger Brannan's fortune, which he reported not to have been so large as his father's were equally of a vanishing nature.   He ended his years in San Diego in moderate circumstances.

For many years after his body lay unclaimed in a vault until a pioneer saw to it's burial in Mt. Hope.  

A bachelor, Mr. Brannan is survived by a nephew, Philip Schuyler of San Francisco and a brother-in-law, Hugo Vischer of Berkeley.   Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and the chapel of Bradley and Woolman.

LDS 86-145-4k

Son of California's First Millionaire and

Founder of Sacramento, Dies Here.

The eldest son of Sam Brannan, California's first millionaire and empire builder, was dead here today, at 87.

Named after his father, one of the leading figures of the state's early history, he is the late Samuel L. Brannan, who died Thursday at the home of Mrs. J. E. Cassin, 3595 Texas Street, where he had lived for the past four years.

Mr. Brannan will be buried by the side of his father in Mount Hope cemetery here.

The varying fortunes of the Brannan family provide one of the most interesting tales of early California history. Mr. Brannan, born November 17, 1844, in New York, came around the Horn with his father and mother when less than two years old.   His father immediately became a power in San Francisco and in Sacramento, of which town he was one of the founders.

The elder Brannan organized and was first leader of the San Francisco vigilantes and served on San Francisco's city council.

He was first publisher of the California Star, and its editor, one day ran into Portsmouth Square waving a "gold extra" and a bottle of gold nuggets, the first news of the great discovery.

At nine years of age, young Brannan and his three sisters were taken to Europe by their mother, and he was educated at Geneva as a mineralogist.   He spent forty years of his life in Mexican mining operations and lost a fortune in the silver decline of 1898.   For the past nine years he has lived in San Diego, ending his years in moderate circumstances, like his father before him.

Brannan Senior, at one time owned nearly the whole of Napa County, virtually every lot on Market Street, San Francisco, 2,000,000 acres in Mexico and 160,000 acres in Los Angeles County.   He poured most of his wealth into Calistoga Springs, Napa County, lost it and retired to dwell in San Diego County, near the Mexican border, where he died in 1889.   For many years his body lay unclaimed in a vault until a pioneer saw to its burial in Mt. Hope.

A bachelor, Mr. Brannan is survived by a nephew, Philip Schuyler of San Francisco, and a brother-in-law, Hugo Vischer of Berkeley.   Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Bradley-Woolman parlors.   3 December 1931.

Deseret Evening News , 9 May 1889.

Sam Brannan, the California pioneer is dead.   He breathed his last in Sonora [Escondido], on the 6th inst., having suffered agonies for two weeks from inflammation of the bowels.   His name and career are familiar to the people of Utah.   He was once a Mormon and obtained some prominence in early times, as he took a company by water from New York to San Francisco and wanted our people to settle on the coast.   His course and habits were not consistent with the life of a Latter-day Saint, and so he was disconnected with the Church and plunged into the speculations and excitements of pioneer Californian experience.   He was at one time quite wealthy but finally drifted into poverty.   He hoped to recuperate by the sale of land which he acquired by a Mexican [land] grant in Sonora, but never realized his expectations.   He had some redeeming qualities and it is to be hoped that these will outweigh the faults which were manifested in the adventurous and eventful life.   Poor Sam! Will be the general expression over the news of his departure to another sphere.

Deseret Evening News , Monday, June 27, 1910

Sudden Death of Herschel Bullen

Richmond, Cache Co.   June 27 Herschel Bullen, one of the pioneers of Cache county and father of State Senator H.   Bullen Jr., died suddenly at his home here at 2:20 o'clock this morning.   Rheumatism of the heart was the cause of death.

In accordance with the wishes of the deceased, his funeral will be held at his residence, and will take place at 2 o'clock Wednesday.

Mr.   Bullen was born in Mercer county, ME., Jan.   10, 1840.   With his parents he went around Cape Horn in the ship Brooklyn in 1847 [1846] to come to Utah via San Francisco, Cal.   He arrived in Utah in 1848 and came to Cache county in 1860 and was one of the founders of Richmond.   For many years he was a railroad contractor.   He has been active in the up-building of the county since his arrival here and was held in high esteem by all who knew him.   He is survived by his wife six sons and three daughters.

Desert Evening News , 8 April 1903

Charles C. Burr Dead

Veteran and Pioneer of 86 leaves 80 Descendants

Burrville, Sevier Co.   April 1. - This community mourns another veteran called from an active useful life to the reward of the just.   Charles C. Burr departed this life March 31 after an illness of three weeks.   He was born Jan.   30, 1817 in Leyden, Lewis County, New York.   On Dec. 28, 1843, he married Sarah Sloat and they together with his father and mother, having been converted to the Gospel, sailed for San Francisco by way of Cape Horn, in the ship Brooklin [Brooklyn ], the company being in charge of Capt.   Samuel Brannan.   He remained in San Francisco for two years being there at the time of the discovery of gold and its attendant excitement.   He came to Salt Lake City with a company of the Battalion boys and settled in the first ward.   He took part in the echo canyon campaign and at the time of the "move," went to Payson where he took an active part in the building of that place.

He helped to build and operate the first sawmill in Peteteneet [Payson] canyon and took part in the Indian wars, being Capt.   of the Silver Grays in Payson.

In 1877 he moved to Grass Valley, where in connection with his sons, he founded the place which bears his name.

He lived to the good old age of 86 years and 2 months, filling a life of great usefulness.   Besides his wife he is survived by five children, 50 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held April 1, in the ward meetinghouse conducted by Bishop L. A. Hill.   Remarks were made by the following named brethren, bearing on the useful life and labors of [the] deceased: Norman Tillmore, Joseph S. Whitehead and J. H. Curtis of Burrville, and Bishop E. A. Bagley, George Hatch and Peter E. Olsen, of our adjoining ward, Koosharem.

The deceased subscribed for the Deseret News when first published in 1850, and has been a subscriber ever since.   He has been "News" agent here for many years past up to the time of his death.

This past winter has been very severe with plenty of snow in the mountains which bespeaks a bountiful harvest.

Deseret Evening News, 2 July 1910:

Obituary

Burr, Sarah - At   Burrville, Sevier County, Utah, Sarah Burr, better known as Grandma Burr, widow of Charles C. Burr, died June 18, 1910.   She was born in Schoharie, Schoharie county, New York, June 6, 1827.   Her parents were John and Catherine Sloat, of German descent.   In 1834 she married Charles C. Burr and they, with his father Nathan, cast their lot with the Mormons and joined the famous Sam Brannan Company and sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco, where they lived until the spring of 1848, when, in company with some of the Mormon Battalion boys, they came to Salt Lake City, and settled in the First Ward, sharing all the hardships and privations of pioneer life.   In the spring of 1858 while her husband was in Echo canyon, she moved to Payson and was joined later by her husband.   Again the hardships of pioneering were endured.   They lived in Payson until the autumn of 1874 when the family moved to Grass Valley in Sevier county where again pioneer life was taken up and the hardships lived over.   She resided in this place since that time.   She was a stanch Latter-day Saint and filled the office of Relief Society president for several years, was a mother and kind friend to all, being noted for her hospitality to friend and stranger.   She was the mother of nine children, five of whom survive her, also 50 grandchildren and 102 great-grandchildren.   Hew husband died in 1903 - Utah and New York papers please copy.

Deseret Evening News , Saturday, April 25, 1908

Death of Sophia King

After Spending Her Life in Useful Work Demise Comes in California

A telegram was received yesterday from Alameda, Cal., announcing the death in that city of Mrs. Sophia P. King.   Mrs. King died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Guion, who will accompany the remains to this city for burial.   The funeral services will be held at the chapel of Joseph E. Taylor at a time to be announced later.

Mrs.   King has a host of friends in Salt Lake City and other parts of Utah, especially among the older inhabitants, with whom she was associated in the early days.   Her life was a particularly interesting one.   She was born in Springfield, Mass., Jan.   8, 1826.   When 11 years old she went through curiosity to hear the Mormon elders preach.   They quoted from the Bible and proved heir doctrines, but she believed they had quoted falsely and sat up all night reading the scriptures, to learn whether they had done so or not.   Finding the passages genuine, she went again to hear the elders and left the meeting converted to the gospel.

At this time Mrs.   King was the youngest member of the Baptist congregation to which she belonged and was looked upon with much favor by her minister and the older members.   When it was learned that she had been converted to Mormonism, a most zealous effort was made to turn her away, but finding that she stood firm in her new faith, her relatives planned to keep her coffined in her home.   She escaped, however, went to Brooklyn and worked in a factory until she had obtained means to emigrate.   Then she took passage on the ship Brooklyn and sailed around the Horn to California.   There she met Capt.   Edward King, whom she later married.   Mrs.   King came to Utah with her children in 1857 and took part in "the move."   Her husband followed the next year, but died soon after.   Left a widow, she endured all the hardships of the early days.   Her later years have been spent mostly in California.

Deseret Evening News , Thursday, April 30, 1908

Funeral of Sophia King

Impressive funeral services were held over the remains of the late Sophia King at the undertaking parlors of Joseph E.   Taylor, April 28, 1908, at 2 p.m.   The speakers were Elders Joseph J.   Cannon, Patriarch Angus M.   Cannon, Henry S.   Tanner, Joseph E.   Taylor, and John Q.   Cannon.   All spoke in the highest terms of her gentle nature and kindly disposition.   Sweet music was furnished by Elders Charles J.   Thomas, Frank Platt, and Edith and Mary Grant.   Benediction by Bishop Lewis M.   Cannon.   Patriarch A.   M.   Cannon dedicated the grave.

The Evening Sentinel ,   Monday April 28, 1913

Death Called Chas. M. Combs

Charles M. Combs died quite suddenly about 9:15 Sunday evening, at the family home on Jefferson Street.   He had been down town about 5 o'clock in the afternoon and was arranging the kindling for lighting a fire in the stove the next morning, when he fell to the floor and passed away instantly.

Deceased would have been 73 years old next September and had lived in Tehama County since 1878.   He leaves a wife and three sons, O. C. And A. M. Comb of this place and Claude Combs of Willeta; also two daughters, Miss Ora Combs and Mrs. Charles Grier of Sacramento, California.

The funeral will be held at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon from the family residence.

Deseret Evening News , Saturday, October 13, 1917

Mrs. A. M. Cheney, Aged Widow, Passes Away

Centerville, Oct.   13. - Amanda M. Cheney of Centerville, who was born Oct. 21, 1838, in Chester county, Pa., died at her home October 12 at 9:30 p.m. of general debility.   She was the widow of Zacheus Cheney of the Mormon Battalion.   She is survived by the following children: Mrs. Ezra Shurtliff of Ogden; Miss Frances A.   Cheney, Mrs. J. H. Ford, Zacheus E. Cheney, William E. Cheney and J. L. Cheney, all of Centerville, and Mrs.   A. B. Margetts of Salt Lake City.   She buried her daughter, Mrs. Emma R. Rowland, six years ago.   She is also survived by 21 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren, and her sister, Mrs. Jeanette Decker.

The funeral will be held at the Centerville meetinghouse Sunday, Oct. 14, at 2 p.m.   The body may be viewed at the family residence from 11 until 1:30 o'clock the day of the funeral.

Apparent copy of Catherine Glover Rigby's obituary:

ONE OF LAST 'SAINT' SHIP SURVIVORS DIES -----

Mrs. Catherine Glover Rigby, 83, one of three known survivors of the famous ship 'Brooklyn' company, which left New York in 1846 for Utah, died Tuesday night at her home, 144 West Fourth South street, where she had resided for 64 years.

She was active in Church affairs during her entire life, and has been associated in the presidency of the sixth-seventh Ward Relief Society for the past 20 years.

She has reared a family of five children who survive, as follows: W S Rigby, Salt Lake; Mrs. David Lane, Frederick G. And Vinnie Rigby of Salt Lake; and Catherine Elizabeth Rigby of Salt Lake.

The following brothers and sisters also survive: William Glover, Lewiston, Utah; Brigham Glover, Lewiston, Utah; David Glover, Farmington, Utah; Seth Glover, Burley, Idaho; George Glover, Robin, Idaho; Mrs. Mary A. Pincock, Salt Lake, Utah; Mrs. Marion G. Dopp, Lewiston, Utah; Mrs. Margaret Jane Jenkins, Malad, Idaho; Mrs. Nora Smith, Twin Falls, Idaho; also 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mrs. Rigby was born in Pottsville, Pa., Feb. 10, 1842 the daughter of William and Jane Cowan Glover.   With her parents she left Pottsville when four years old for New York, there to sail in the ship 'Brooklyn ,' for Utah, via Cape Horn.   The company, under the captaincy of Samuel Branning [Brannan] and composed of the first Latter-day Saints to sail from that port for Utah, was six months on the water, reaching San Francisco in the fall of 1846.   Mrs. Rigby with other Saints was present when gold was discovered at Sutter's Fort in 1849 [1848] and came to Utah the same year.

In 1859 she was married to William Rigby and they made their home in the old Seventh Ward.   Mr. Rigby died Dec. 24, 1903.

Funeral services will be held in the Pioneer Stake Hall Friday at 2 p.m.   The body may be viewed at the residence, 144 West Fourth South Street, from 12 to 1:30 on the day of the funeral. Interment will be in the City Cemetery. [The transcriber failed to note the date 19 May 1925 with the burial date of 22 May 1925]

Deseret Evening News , Thursday, March 12, 1896

Died

GLOVER - At Lewiston, Cache county, March 11 1896, of general debility, Jane Cowan Glover, wife of the late Wm. Glover of Farmington; born December 9, 1816, in Cleylon Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Funeral notice later.

Deseret Evening News , Saturday, March 23, 1918

Death Calls Survivor of Good Ship Brooklyn

Marysville - March 20 - Joseph S. Glover, who as a child of two years was on the good ship Brooklyn when it rounded the Horn in 1846, died here March 9.   As a child also he was a Utah pioneer in 1847 and had all his life braved trials and hardships with the dauntless spirit that was part of his nature.

Mr. Glover was born July 8, 1844 in Pennsylvania.   In 1867 he married Ellen M. Rice.   He helped settle Cache Valley in early days and nine years ago he came here to live.   He is survived by eight children as follows: Joseph H., Orval, Delilah, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. N. Thompson, Mrs. C. O. Cherry, Mrs. Sadie Pernell, Mrs. D. E. Doris.   Two sisters were also on the Brooklyn , Mrs. Katherine Rigby and Mrs. Jane Rigby.

Deseret Evening News , Thursday, April 7, 1892

GLOVER. - In Farmington, Davis County, Utah, at 9:45 p.m. March 31, 1892, of Brights disease, William Glover, son of William and Catharine Owen Glover; born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, August 19, 1813.   He with his parents emigrated to America when a child.   In 1842 he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.   With his wife and three children he went to California in 1846 with the Samuel Brannan Company, in the ship Brooklyn, and came to Salt Lake in 1849.   From 1852 to 1853 he performed an important and faithful mission to England.   Since 1855 he has resided in Farmington.   He is the father of twenty-seven children, seventy-three grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.   He was a faithful Church member, an affectionate husband and father, and was held in high esteem by all his acquaintances.   The funeral was held in the Farmington meeting house on Saturday morning.   The coffin was beautifully decorated with floral tributes, and the remains were followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of relatives and friends.

Deseret News, 31 July 1902

Mr. Edwin Goodwin, one of Lehi's old and most respected citizens,   passed away Wednesday at 2:40 p.m.   Several months ago Mr. Goodwin and his family moved from here to Idaho where they intended to make their home in the future.   A few weeks ago Mr. Goodwin took sick, his condition grew worse and his son, S. I. Goodwin of Lehi paid him a visit and thinking his condition serious, was impressed to bring his father back with him.   Since arriving he has continued to grow worse until he passed away.

Deseret News. 2 August 1902

Edwin A. Goodwin, Pioneer & Black Hawk War Veteran. Lehi, Utah Co.

August 2 - Edwin A. Goodwin, who died last Wednesday, was born in New Haven, Conn., 62 years ago.   On Feb. 4, 1846, Brother Goodwin and his parents were among the 235 Saints who left New York on the ship Brooklyn for California by way of Cape Horn for the purpose of establishing a new settlement.   The company was six months in making the trip from New York to San Francisco and while making the long and dreary voyage the mother of the deceased died and was buried on the Island Juan Fernandez, at the age of 32 years.   In the early fifties Bro. Goodwin with his father moved to Utah where he married Miss Annie Harwood, who died leaving him six children.   In 1876 he married Hannah Peterson, with whom he was living at the time of his death, and she had seven children, three of whom are now living.   The deceased was a veteran of the Blackhawk War and was a man extremely loved by those who knew him, one of his main characteristics was charity, being ever ready to lend a helping hand or speak words of encouragement to those in need."

Provo Herald ,

Died

GOODWIN, - at Lehi, Utah County, April 25th, 1879, Isaac Goodwin Sen., aged 68 years.

Elder Goodwin was born in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut.   He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1844; was one of the pioneers who sailed on the ship Brooklyn for California in 1846; and labored with the company for six years in the United Order until word came to move.   He came with his brethren to Utah, since which time he has always been ready and on hand to help build the up the kingdom of God.

He suffered intensely for fourteen weeks from disintegration of the kidneys, but passed away in peace.

Deseret Evening News , Tuesday, April 28, 1891

Deaths

Goodwin - At Thurber, Piute County, Utah, April 6, 1891, after an illness of nine days of la grippe-pneumonia, Isaac Hotchkiss Goodwin; born at Bethany, Connecticut, August 25, 1834.   He was the eldest son of Isaac Richards Goodwin and Laura Hotchkiss Goodwin.   He leaves a wife, five sons and one grandson and numerous relatives.   He died as he had lived in full faith and hope of a glorious resurrection.

Deseret News , Friday, December 14, 1906

Mrs. Lucinda Ladelia Bushman Buried

Went to California in Ship "Brooklyn"

Lehi, Utah Co., Dec. 12. - Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Lucinda Ladelia Bushman, who died Sunday last, were held from the First ward meeting house today.   The speakers were Elders Wm.   Bone, Edw.   Southwick and President A. J. Evans, who spoke of the noble life of the deceased, and of a future meeting.

Mrs. Bushman was the daughter of Isaac and Laura Goodwin; was born April 4, 1843, at New Haven, Conn.   Her parents joined the Church the same year of her birth.   In 1846 the family sailed from New York in the ship Brooklyn for San Francisco, around South America, a voyage of six months.   While on the way her mother died on the voyage, and was buried on an island of the Pacific.   The father, with seven children lived in San Francisco and San Bernardino until 1857 when they moved to southern Utah.   They lived there one year and then came to Lehi.   In 1863 deceased married Martin B.   Bushman.   She was the mother of 10 children, three of whom are now living, also her husband.

Mrs. Bushman was a true, kind and affectionate wife, mother and friend, and she will be greatly missed by those who knew her.   She died a true and faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, Thursday, May 16, 1907 and Hawaiian Gazette , Friday, May 17, 1907:

DEATH OF J. M. HORNER

Hon. John M. Horner, the veteran capitalist and sugar planter died at his home Kukaiau, on Tuesday night at 11 o'clock.   He was in the eighty-sixth year of his age and leaves four sons and two daughters.   Mrs. Horner died several years ago.   Of the sons, Albert Horner is manager of Kukaiau Plantation Co. Ltd., and Kukaiau Stock Ranch; Robert Horner, is assistant manager of the ranch; Joseph J. Horner, a capitalist of Kukaiau, and William Horner, a business man and postmaster at Kukuihaele.   One daughter is the wife of Dr. Taylor of Kukaiau and another the wife of Charles R. Blacow, at present in charge of the tobacco department of in Hamakua of the U. S. Agricultural Experiment Station.   Another daughter died many years ago. J. Lewis Horner, a stenographer of the First Circuit Court, is a grandson of the deceased.

John Meirs Horner was a prolific writer for the Honolulu press for many years until quite lately.   He was also a vigorous pamphleteer and he appended a thirty page autobiographical sketch of himself to a treatise of 246 pages, printed by the Hawaiian Gazette Co., In 1898, on the plural theme: "National Finance and Public Money; Settling the Money Question; Government Ownership of Railroads and Telegraphs."   From his "Personal History of the Author," above referred to, the following facts are condensed, the first three paragraphs after the preface being given in full:

"I was born on a New Jersey farm in Monmouth county, June 15, 1821 where I continued to live until the end of my 21st year, when I was expected to shift for myself without money and with but little business experience.   I had good health, was industrious, which impelled me to strive to be the best workman on the farm, to run faster, jump further, be the best ball-player and always strove to be at the head of my class at school (did not always succeed, but was awarded a premium by my teacher for 'trying harder to learn than any scholar in school.")

"My star of hope arose early and promised me many things and time to acquire them.   My early hopes have been more than realized; I never thought myself a pauper, but I fully realized that I must rely upon myself and the Great Father for success, that I must take my chances among thirty million others, and await my opportunity.

"Industry, honesty and good judgement was to be my guide star for success.   I found them always in demand wherever I went, as I had never thought of success coming to me from any other source, it never did.   After becoming my own boss, which all young men were supposed to be in New Jersey at the age of 21, and looking around and nothing better presenting itself, I hired to a farmer to work during the summer and fall, for nine dollars per month and board and washing.   In the winter I taught a district school.   Thus passed my twenty-second year, as happy a year as ever fallen to my lot to enjoy.   I was just as content working for thirty-five cents per day as I was in after years, when my time for overseeing my business netted me thirty dollars per day, or when my net income exceeded thirty thousand dollars per year."

For two successive years after that young Horner went west as far as Iowa in the spring, returning in the autumn to teach school, and having no inclination to settle west on his second return east he married a neighbor's daughter in January, 1846.

War between Mexico and the United States was raging in California when they arrived, the upper part of the territory being them in the possession of the United States forces and the lower part soon following.   Some of Horner's ship's company volunteered with Col. Fremont to go down and help finish up the work, and all the male members took turns in standing guard for about one month in what is now San Francisco.   The number of inhabitants of Yerba Buena (now S. F.) When they arrived there was said to be forty, and the autobiographer says their 168 persons made an increase of about 400 percent to the population.

Horner goes on to tell of contracting, along with a companion named James Light, to put in a crop of wheat for Dr. John Marsh on shares.   In March, 1847, Horner moved over to the Mission de San Jose, where he planted and sowed wheat, barley, peas and potatoes, together with various truck filling a nice garden, only to have all the crops destroyed by grasshoppers, an affliction from which he never after suffered in the thirty odd years he farmed in that district.   Later in the season he planted potatoes, but they were destroyed by cattle.   When he and Light called on Dr. Marsh for their share of the wheat stored in his granary, he "gravely" informed them that their share was destroyed by elk, antelope, and other wild animals, and that only his own share was harvested.   Though he got no dollars for his first year's farming in California, he did get experience in soils, products, and seasons, which he profited by in after years.   He early discovered that fencing was essential and in March, 1849, he went to the Redwoods with three Indians, four yoke of oxen, and a wagon and tools to get rails and posts.   What with the fences he erected and herding of cattle at night with a gun, which he fired to scare and not hit them, he saved his crop.   The first realization he had of his initial three years farming was two dollars paid him for watermelons in September of 1849.

Gold hunters had now swarmed into the country and on arrival nothing seemed to be craved by their appetites so much as vegetables.   Many of them either had scurvy or were threatened by it.   "They would eat a raw onion or potato with as great and apparent relish as though it was a nice-flavored apple."   His crop was worth $8000, but he lost half his potatoes by a flood.   Yet what he did gather he considered a partial compensation for his long struggle.   In January, 1850, his brother William, then about 21 and bred to farming like himself, came to him by way of Panama.   "By the blessing of heaven he escaped cholera on the Isthmus, while his shipmates died by the dozens.   And he escaped starvation and perhaps a violent death by a fair wind sprinting up and wafting them safely into Acapulco, at the critical moment when the ships company were about to turn cannibals and cast lots to decide who should be first eaten.   My brother afterwards heard that, as he was more fleshy than others of the company, they were going to make the lot fall on him.   (This refers to William Y. Horner, who died a few years ago in these islands, after a prosperous career as a planter, having, like his brother, also served his adopted country as a wise legislator.)

"I received his as partner in my business," John M. Horner writes, "we worked and flourished together the next four years perhaps as no other farmers have ever flourished before in America in so short a time."

The Horner's bought a steamer in 1851 to carry their produce to market.   Their gross sales that year approximated $270,000.   In the fall Professor Shelton, botanist, held the first agricultural fair ever held in California, and some months afterward John M. Horner received a silver goblet, the largest premium offered, from the professor accompanied by a letter in which he assured him the title of pioneer in that branch of public industry.

In 1852 Mr. Horner sent his brother William east on business and he brought out with him their father and mother and all their other children and children's children, together with two of John M's wife's sisters and a brother and others, making a company of 22 altogether.   They kept on buying lands, letting some out to tenants, and in 1853 their potato crop reached the enormous quantity of 22,000,000 pounds and they had 1500 acres of wheat and barley, besides great crops of cabbage, tomatoes and onions.   They built a flour mill at a cost of $85,000, the first in California.   That year they were awarded a silver cup for the best exhibit among eight of California made flour.   The Horner's started a stage line to San Jose and opened 16 miles a public road which have never since been changed except to reduce the width to 66 feet from the 100 feet the pioneer builders had fenced them.

So the Horner's grew largely wealthy for those days but having little confidence in commercial banks, they placed their money in land and commercial investments.   In connection with others they bought 2100 acres, the tract known as the Potrero, and soon after paid $200,000 for a confirmed grant just above it.   The names they gave the streets in the portions just plotted are still retained in San Francisco, and the property is assessed as situated in "Horner's Addition" and in a separate set of books from other city property.

Mr. Horner could not remember having ever refused, at this time, to give a loan or an endorsement to any of the large number seeking such favors from him.   This was up to 1853, of which period Mr. Horner writes:

"Our prospects at this time were bright, and our property ample to grant every wish, and yearly increasing, and as I nor my brother neither ever drank, smoked, gambled or dissipated in any way, no cloud of doubt ever crossed our mental visions that our property should not always continue to increase, as we attended strictly to business.".

From that he tells a tale of disaster coming "when the first wave of money panic struck California and swept over America with such disastrous results from 1853 to 1859."   Space will not permit details, but a single item is that it cost the Horner's $280,000 in gold to pay a $40,000 endorsement.   Mr. Horner was left by the financial storm where he had started seven years before.   Dauntlessly, however, the Horner's went to work again taking contracts and farming, but from various malefic causes their crops failed and their progress the last few years in California was slow.

Mr. Horner states in his autobiography that he served as a member of the Board of Supervisors in Alameda county, California, and two sessions as Noble in the Hawaiian Legislature.   For many years he was one of the most powerful minds in the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association.   As already stated he was a frequent contributor to the local press and his views were always held in highest public esteem.   Only on currency questions was he esteemed an extreme radical by a majority of the business element of the Islands.   No doubt it was largely the influence of his financial ruin in California which led him utterly to discredit the national currency system of the United States, including the banking laws.   He believed in a thoroughly elastic currency to the extent of an ample, if not unlimited, supply of paper currency though on a gold basis.   In 1890 he made a strenuous but unavailing fight to establish his views in a banking law for the Hawaiian Islands.

John M. Horner was a strong character who has left his impress on the State of California and the Territory of Hawaii.   With his strength was combined goodness of character and example in highest degree.

Deseret News , Tuesday, January 2, 1912

One More Pioneer of 1847 Has Gone

Parowan, December 29, 00 On Christmas morning at 8 o'clock John S. Hyatt, one of the Pioneers of 1847 died at his home here surrounded by his family.

Mr.   Hyatt was born at Hudson, New York in 1832, when 13 years old he sailed with his father and mother on the ship Brooklyn and went around Cape Horn landing at Monterey and later at San Francisco.   At the age of 15 years he came to Utah with members of the Mormon Battalion, arriving in Salt Lake City in September, 1847, where he resided for a short time when he went to Sanpete county and later came to Parowan in 1854 where he married Martha Newberry who still survives him.   Later he married Martha Hawd.   He has resided in Parowan since his arrival here with the exception of four years that he resided at Panaca, Nevada.

Mr.   Hyatt leaves a large number of descendants, 17 children, 116 grandchildren and 49 great-grandchildren; he shared the toils and hardships incident to the settlement of this country, and for some years past drew a pension from the government for service rendered in the Indian wars of the early days.

The funeral services were held on Dec.28.   The music was appropriate and impressive.   Prof. George H. Durham and Ada McGregor sang, "I Know that my Redeemer Lives."   The speakers were Bishop Morgan Richards, Walter C. Mitchell and Counselor John Stevens all of whom spoke in praise of the integrity of the deceased.

Deseret Evening News , Thursday, March 18, 1915

Death of Noble Woman, Augusta J. Crocheron

Mrs. Augusta Joyce Crocheron, well known as an author, a poetess and a prominent Relief Society worker, died yesterday morning at 9:05 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Zina C. Walker, 39 East Fifth North.   Death was due to general debility.  

Mrs. Crocheron was born in Boston, Mass., October 9, 1844.   She came to Utah in 1869 and soon became known as a talented poetess and writer of historical sketches.   Among her best known works are 'Representative Women of Deseret,' 'Wild Flowers of Deseret,' and 'The Children's Book.'   She was one of the group of notable women of whom Eliza R. Snow, Hannah T. King, Emmeline B. Wells, Emily Hill Woodmansee and others were conspicuous members.

Mrs. Crocheron is survived by three children: Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Caroline Bates of Alpine, and Volney J. Crocheron of Erda, Utah.   There are also 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild living."

Deseret Evening News , Saturday, March 20, 1915

Tender Tributes to Augusta J. Crocheron, Gifted Utah Poetess.  

Eloquent tributes to this nobility of character and high talents of Mrs. Augusta Joyce Crocheron, who died Wednesday, were paid at the funeral services for her held yesterday afternoon in the Twenty-Fourth Ward chapel.   Her fame as a writer and poet and her devotion to the interests of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were feelingly extolled by all the speakers.  

Bishop William Wood, Jr. presided and was one of the speakers.   President Charles W. Penrose of the First Presidency delivered an impressive discourse, in which he praised the qualities of the deceased and offered words of consolation to the bereaved.   He pointed out as Mrs. Crocheron's two chief traits her patience and her humility and expressed great admiration for her literary work.   He then dwelt upon the doctrine of the resurrection and the various degrees of glory in eternity of those who have lived upon the earth.   All will be rewarded according to their merits and he said in conclusion, there was little doubt that Mrs. Crocheron's reward would be of the highest because of her unquestioned faithfulness.  

Mrs. Crocheron was born in Boston, Mass., 9 October 1844.   She was the daughter of John and Caroline Perkins Joyce, who were of English descent.   Her Uncle, Oliver Joyce, planted the English flag on the Chinese Wall during the war between China and England in 1840.  

A short time before her birth her parents became members of the Church and in 1846 went with Samuel Brannan's famed expedition in the ship Brooklyn around Cape Horn to California.   They there resided until 1847 when they removed to Utah.   The following year Mrs. Crocheron was appointed secretary of the Relief Society in St. George.   In 1870 the family moved to Salt Lake where Mrs. Crocheron had lived for the greater part of the time since.   She was prominently identified with Mutual Improvement and Relief Society work and was known for her readiness to answer any call the authorities made upon her.   In 1870 she married George Crocheron of Salt Lake.   She was the mother of five children, three whom are living.   They are Zina C. Walker of Salt Lake whom Mrs. Crocheron made her home during the latter part of her life; Mrs. Caroline A. Bates of Alpine and Volney J. Crocheron of Erda, Utah.   She is also survived by 13 grandchildren and one Great-grandchild.  

Mrs. Crocheron was well educated and a talented singer, but it is as a writer and poetess that she is best known.   She was the author of several books among them, 'Wild Flowers of the Deseret,' which is a series of biographical sketches based on a collection of portraits of prominent Utah women, which she made, and which is now in the possession of the Relief Society general board, and 'The Children's Book."   She likewise contributed historical sketches and poems to the' Women's Exponent,.' Tullidge's Church publications.   She had two unpublished manuscripts almost completed at the time of her death.  

Even during her last illness, which endured over eight months, she showed a characteristic patience and good cheer.   She spent most of her life in an eager effort to finish her last two works which were devoted to the interests of the Church.   One pertained to the Book of Mormon and the other was entitled 'Exodus and Jubilee.'   Service to the cause of truth was her watchword event to the end.

The Deseret News, Wednesday, December 20, 1876

Obituary

The many friends of Sister CAROLINE AUGUSTA JACKSON, of St. George, will be pained to learn of her death, which occurred at half-past seven o'clock this morning, December 7 th , in that city, of pneumonia.

Sister Jackson was born at Hampton, NH, and was aged 50 years 4 months and 23 days.   She embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ at the age of 17 years, leaving her father's house as the cost, and in February, 1846, embarked upon the ship Brooklyn , with her husband and infant daughter, arriving in California six months later, to endure the terrors of war and famine for many months.   Enriched by the gold discovery, she gave liberally to the poor, and kept for twenty years open house for the traveling elders of the Church.   She collected sixty children, made orphans by cholera, and bore their entire expenses for six months, meanwhile exerting her influence successfully toward the foundation of the still existing Protestant Orphan Asylum in San Francisco, and was one of the first board of managers.   Circumstances beyond her control prevented her joining the Saints in Utah until ten years ago, when she made St. George her home, bearing, in loving spirit, many privations incident to a pioneer life, and cheerfully responding to any call of the Church.   Only one month and a week ago her husband Col. Alden A. M. Jackson, passed before her to his rest and reward.   Two daughters remain to love and honor her memory.   Beloved mostly by those who knew her best, she will be remembered as having been faithful life long to the end, which end is sleep, and the awaking life eternal.

A.   J.   C.

[Augusta Joyce Crocheron]

Deseret News Weekly , Wednesday, April 27, 1881

Died

At his residence in Washington Corners, Alameda county, Cal., April 1, 1881, JOHN JOYCE.

He was born in Maine, October 16, 1822, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Boston, 1842.   In 1843 was married by Elder Erastus Snow to Caroline A.   Perkins of Hampton, N.H.   They went to California on the ship Brooklyn , with a company of Saints, under the care of Samuel Brannan.   Their daughters are Mrs.   Augusta Joyce Crocheron, of this city, and Mrs.   Helen F.   Judd, of St.   George.   In 1866, Mr.   Joyce removed from San Francisco to Washington Corners, making there a beautiful home.   A large number of friends attended his burial at the Washington Cemetery.   He leaves a wife and grown up children in California.   Thus has gone one more of the California pioneers of 1846.--  

The New York Times," Thursday, February 11, 1886 appears the death notice of:

COL. E. C. KEMBLE.

Col. E. C. Kemble, a well known journalist, and for some years past the representative in this city of the California Press Association, died at his residence, in Mott Haven, last night, after a two weeks' illness, from pleuro-pneumonia. He was born in Troy, N. Y. where his father was a State Senator and editor of the Troy Budget.   Young   Kemble went to California at tho age of 18 in the Brooklyn colony to take charge of the first printing office established in San Francisco, arriving on July 31. 1846. Upon the call of American settlers to arms, issued by Fremont in September, he volunteered. He was in the action on Salinas Plains in November and was a Sergeant in Fremont's rifle battalion during   the march to Los Angeles in December and January. He returned to Yerba Buena on the disbanding of   the battalion in March and engaged in the publication of the California Star, the first paper issued in San Francisco. He was compelled to suspend his paper on account of his printers leaving for the mines, and then be joined John Bidwell and, with two others, made the first gold discoveries on Feather River, opening   the famous diggings on Bidwell's Bar. Returning to San Francisco in October, 1848, he began publishing a paper under the name of the Star and Californian, and then he published for five years the Alta California.

In 1855 he organized a committee on Pacific coast emigration, composed chiefly of California merchants and shippers resident in New York. The organization of this committee was the pioneer movement in organizing   emigration to the far West. Mr. Kemble was Secretary of the committee, and printed in New York a paper called the Californian for the purpose of dis­seminating In the East intelligence of the resources of California. He also lectured, upon California in St. Louis and other cities. Returning to California in 1856 he edited the Chronicle, the first Republican paper printed in San Francisco. In the Fall of that year, and in the Spring of 1857 joined the Sacramento Union as associate editor.

On the breaking out of the civil war in 1861, Col. Kemble went East as war correspondent for the Sacramento Union. He was subsequently offered a Paymastership, and served n that   capacity throughout the war, and was brevetted   Lieutenant-Colonel for meritorious services. He resigned in 1866 and returned to his family in the East. He held the office of   Inspector of Indian Affairs under President Grant, and for a few years past had been agent and telegraphic correspondent of the San Francisco Call and Bulletin In New-York.

Deseret News , December 23, 1885

KITTLEMAN - In Centerville, Davis County, November 5 th , 1885, of old age and general debility, Eliza Kittleman, aged 74 years; born Chester county Pennsylvania; went to California in the ship Brooklyn in 1846; came to Salt Lake City in 1849; moved to Centerville in the fall of 1851; where she remained until her death.   She was a kind and affectionate parent, and a good friend, and died in full fellowship in the Church.

Deseret Evening News, Friday Dec. 14, 1917

Mrs. Elizabeth Dalton, Aged Pioneer Dies

Centerville - Dec. 14 - Mrs. Elizabeth Dalton, widow of H. S. Dalton, died Thursday at her home here, where she has lived since 1850.   The funeral will take place in the Centerville Chapel Monday, Dec. 17 at 2 p.m.

From the Deseret News , Saturday, Dec. 15, 1917

Died

Mrs. Elizabeth K. Dalton - At the age of 86, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Dalton, widow of Henry S. Dalton, died at her home.   The funeral service will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Centerville ward chapel.

Deseret News , Monday, June 9, 1919

CALLED BY DEATH

Hannah Kittleman: At the residence of her niece, Mary E. Jackson, 38 Mortensen Court, Hannah Kittleman, 74 years old, died Sunday.

Funeral service will be held at the Centerville ward chapel at 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Deseret News , Saturday, May 20, 1893

Death of Major Ladd - Heavy Rains

St. Joseph, May 14, 1893. - Our village has been called to mourn the death of its oldest citizen, Samuel G. Ladd.   He was born April 13, 1818, at Hallowell, Maine, died April 7, 1893 at the age of 75.   He received the Gospel in New York in 1843, afterward embarked in the ship Brooklyn for San Francisco via Cape Horn with a company of Saints, thence overland to Salt Lake Valley where he met the pioneers in August 1847.

He resided in Salt Lake City until 1873.   While there he was major of the artillery, by which title he was familiarly known.   In 1873 he was called to Arizona, came as far as the Little Colorado river, and returned the same summer in company with Lorenzo Roundy.   He was again called in 1876 in company with 250 men to settle on the Little Colorado.   He settled here with a company of fifty and has lived here ever after.   He was elected county surveyor and served two terms, has been Justice of the Peace for the last twelve years, and had rendered valuable service to the country by laying off townsites, canals, etc.   He was much interested in establishing permanent settlements in this arid region.   He had the esteem and respect of all who knew him, and though he leaves no family a large circle of friends mourn his loss.   He was a good, reliable citizen and a faithful Latter-day Saint.

This part of Arizona has suffered severely for the past two years from drouth.   It is estimated that at least fifty percent of the cattle have died within the past four months and many more will succumb before the grass grows.   On the 12 th and 13 th inst.   we had the heaviest rainfall we ever had at this season of the year, which gives hope to the stockman and courage to the farmer.   The late rain brought a freshet down the river, the largest we have ever had without taking a dam out for us.   Our present dam, constructed at a cost of about $6000, stands all right, consequently the prospect of making this a permanent settlement is good, after having spent over $60,000 in controlling the water.

The health of the people is good, all is peace and quiet.    John Bushman  

Trenton evening Times , Thursday, August 4, 1910:

Isaac Leigh Is Dead At Age Of 91 Years

Special to the Times.

Princeton, Aug. 4 - Isaac Leigh, who lived with his daughter and son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Rodman P. Henderson, near here, died yesterday at the age of 91 years.   His death was due to the infirmities of age.

His wife and three children survive.   They are Mrs, C. H. Lawrence, Mrs. Henderson, and Samuel V. Leigh.   He was a prominent farmer until a few years ago when he retired.

The funeral will be held from the home of R. P. Henderson Saturday Morning at 9 o'clock, with services in the Old School Baptist Church at Hopewell at 11 o'clock.   Undertaker Lawrence is in charge.

LEIGH - Near Princeton, N.J. on the 3 rd inst., Isaac Leigh, in the 92nd year of his age.

The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his son-in-law Rodman P. Henderson, Mountain Avenue, Princeton, N.J. on Saturday August 6, at 9 o'clock.   Services at the Old School Baptist Church, Hopewell, at 11 o'clock.   Internment at Old School Baptist Church Cemetery at convenience of the family.

The Alta California , May 20, 1875, page 1:

Deaths:

Mrs. J. M. Light, wife of James Light, died at Arcata, Humboldt county, on the 7 th .   She was a pioneer, having come to California in 1846, on the same vessel with Stevenson's Regiment.

[This is incorrect as she came with her husband and daughter in the ship Brooklyn ]

The Saints Herald , Reorganized Latter-day Saints, 1890, page 783:

DIED -- Bro. Moses A. Meder died at one o'clock Monday morning, October 13, 1890, at his residence on the corner of Lincoln and Washington streets, Santa Cruz, California.   His death was not unexpected, as he had been in feeble health for many months.   He quietly went to sleep, and so passed peacefully and triumphantly over "the silent river," and on the 15th Inst. His mortal remains were reverently laid to rest.   Funeral services were conducted by a minister of the Congregational Church at the family residence.   The deceased was born in Ellsworth, Grafton county, New Hampshire.   His parents were farmers of English descent, and Bro. Meder followed the same business.   Himself and family went to California with Elder Samuel Brannan and others in 1846, arriving at Yerba Buena (now San Francisco), Aug. 1st, of that year, and in February, 1847, he located in Santa Cruz, where his wife and child soon after joined him.   Possessed of vigorous health united with clear, practical business sense and untiring energy, he soon won friends and wealth and proved to be a prominent and most useful citizen.   November 11th, 1868 he (also his first wife Sarah D. Meder, and their three grand-daughters), was baptized and confirmed by Elder W. W. Blair and has always been found a faithful, consistent follower of Christ.   He was a man a few words, but his worthy deeds were many.   His generous aid to the church treasury, his liberal assistance of the missionaries, and his numerous and cheerful almsgiving to all whose needs came to his notice were the tribute of a "doer of the word" of God, such as are sure of being "blessed in their deeds."

"The saints who die of Christ possessed,

Enter into immediate rest;

For them no further test remains.

Who trusting in their Lord depart,

Cleansed from all sin and pure in heart,

The bliss unmixed, the glorious prize,

They find with Christ in Paradise.

Close followed by their works they go,

Their Master's purchased joy to know;

Their works enhance the bliss prepared,

And each hath its distinct reward."

From the RLDS Library, Independence, MO.   "True L. D. Saints' Herald," Volume 19, 1872. Page 573:

Died.

In the city of San Francisco, August 3rd, 1872, of old age, Sister Sarah D. Meader, aged 68 years.

Our aged sister was born in the State of New York, October 2, 1804; became associated with the Latter Day Work in 1842.   After the rejection of the church, and when all eyes became obscured with darkness, she, in connection with her worthy companion in life, saw it only in the Brighamite faction; and when its leaders sought isolation upon the Pacific shores, they were found among the first emigrants, who by the ship, Brooklyn , via Cape Horn, arrived upon the shores of the golden land in 1846, and fully shared in the troubles and anxieties of that eventful time.   Although greatly disappointed in their expectations, they remained steadfast and true in the hope of Christ as revealed to them in the Latter Day Work, satisfied of errors existing they withdrew from that faction, became steady watchers for the day of God's mercy towards his people, and saw joyfully it dawn, and embraced the Reorganization under the administration of Wm. W. Blair, November 11th, 1868.   Her sudden demise, after an illness of but a few days, awakened marked sympathy for the bereaved ones amongst the very large circle of friends, in and out of the church, who in large numbers attended the obsequies t pay the last rites of respect to the honored dead.   When consigning to casket containing the remains to the tomb, hymn 859 was sung by the vast concourse, creating profound solemnity in weeping hearts.   We mourn her absence only, believing that she died in the glorious hope of a better resurrection, to reign with Christ for evermore.   Funeral services of Elder J. C. Clapp.

Deseret News , 23 August 1926

Mrs. Cannon Rites Tuesday.   Funeral services for Mrs. Clara C. Cannon, 87 widow of President Angus M. Cannon of the old Salt Lake Stake, who died shortly before Saturday midnight at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J L Cheney of Centerville, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the North Centerville ward chapel.   The body may be viewed at the home of Mrs. Cheney, North Centerville, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. the day of the funeral.   Mrs. Cannon was born at Westfield, Mass., April 21, 1839, the daughter of Ambrose Todd Moses and Lydia Ensign Moses.   With her parents she emigrated to California in 1846, sailing around Cape Horn.   In 1859 she married William H. Mason, who died nine years later, leaving her with two children.   Two other children had died.   Following the death of her husband Mrs. Cannon came to Utah with her two children.   She married Angus M. Cannon, June 16, 1875, and three children were born to them.   For 14 years she was a counselor in the Salt Lake stake Primary association presidency.   Previously she had served as the first president of the Fourteenth ward Primary.   She was also a Relief society worker and for some years held the position of counselor to Pres. M. I. Horne of the Salt Lake stake Relief society before division of the stake.   She was called as a temple worker at the dedication of the Salt Lake temple and served for many years.   She was also active in relief nursing and brought comfort to hundreds of homes.   Surviving are a son by her first marriage, Ambrose T. Mason of this city, and two daughters, Mrs. Cheney and Mrs. Camilla E. Cannon of St. George; 17 grandchildren and 36 great-grandchildren.

Deseret Evening News , 8 January 1895

Lucy Ferguson

Mrs. Lucy Ferguson whose death was recorded in yesterdays NEWS, was born in Hatfield, Mass., October 1 1825. When at the age of 21, while unmarried, she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was the only one of her family that ever embraced the Gospel.   She had been working in the factory and had laid up sufficient money to pay her passage from New York to San Francisco.   All her folks shunned her after having joined the Church.   She sailed from New York on the ship Brooklyn in Brannan's Company, was on the water six months , and landed at San Francisco when the place was a village of about 200 or 300 people.   She there met and became acquainted with General James Ferguson, who came to California as one of the Mormon Battalion.   They were married at San Francisco and then started for Utah.   She rode from California to Utah on horseback, landing here in the spring of 1848.

She lived in Salt Lake City with her husband James Ferguson until 1861, when she with her family of five children moved to the town of Lehi, Utah county, where she lived until 1890; then she moved to Salt Lake City and has since resided with her son Attorney Barlow Ferguson.   She was a faithful Latter-day Saint up to the time of her death.   She leaves a large circle of friends and acquaintances to mourn her loss.

She had suffered with a cough for about six years, which with organic heart trouble took her off.   She did not suffer a great deal of pain during her last illness.   She was surrounded by all her children at the time of her death.

The funeral takes place tomorrow, the 9 th , at 11 o'clock, in the Fifteenth ward meeting house.   Bishop Orson F. Whitney will deliver the funeral sermon."

Deseret News Vol.   33, page 640, Oct.   22, 1884

PHILLIPS - At Beaver City, Oct. 13, 1884 of structure of the bowels, John Phillips, aged 73 years and five months.   Deceased was born at Toms River, New Jersey, May 9 th , 1811, sailed on the ship Brooklyn to San Francisco, Feb.   4, 1846, arriving at his destination July 30 th of the same year; remained in San Francisco until 1852, when he moved to San Bernardino, and from thence in the year 1857 to Washington, Utah, leaving there in 1860 for Beaver where he resided until his death.   Bro. Phillips was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and departed this life in the hope of a glorious resurrection with the righteous.    -- COM

Deseret News , February 2, 1881

DIED

At Franklin, Oneida County, Idaho, January 23rd, 1881, of inflamation of the bowels, MARY POOL, aged 90 years, two months and two days.

Sister Pool was born at Windsor, State of Maine, November 21st , 1790.   Moved when young to Prince Edward's Island, British North America.   Embraced the Gospel in the year 1846.   In 1846 she was one of the members that sailed in the ship Brooklyn , around Cape Horn to California; while there, many of the battalion boys found a home with her and her son.   Moved to Salt Lake City in the year 1856' lived in the Seventh Ward until 1860, when she moved, with her son, to Franklin, Cache Valley, where she lived until her death.   Sister Pool lived the life of a Latter-day Saint as near as she knew how.   Her faith was very strong in the ordinances of the Gospel.   She believed and embraced every principle that has been revealed.   She was a quiet, inoffensive woman, and was beloved by all that knew her.   She died firm in the faith, with a hope of a glorious resurrection. - [Com.]

Deseret News , October 12, 1887

DEATHS

POOL - At Dayton, Oneida County, Idaho, September 21 1887, Peter John Pool, aged 64 years, 2 months and 10 days.   Brother Pool embraced the Gospel at Prince Edward Island, British America, in the year 1844.   Was one of the members that sailed in the ship Brooklyn , with his mother and sister, under the leadership of Elder Samuel Brannan, in the year 1846, to California.   He lived there until the year 1856, when he moved to Franklin, Cache Valley.   He was one of the first settlers of Franklin.   There he labored faithfully to build up that place.   In 1874 he moved from Franklin to Dayton, where he lived until his death.

Brother Pool was a man that was greatly respected by all who knew him.   He was a faithful and true Latter-day Saint.    Utah Journal

The Journal of History reports on 10 November 1905

"Death of C.B. Robbins, one of the original settlers of Cache County, died today in Logan.   He was 71 years of age, and came to Utah in 1848."

Deseret News, Thursday, April 11, 1929

Mrs. Barrett Taken by Death

With the death April 10 of Mrs. Georgeanna Robbins Barrett the community loses another pioneer woman who has participated actively in much of the historic romance of the great west.   She was born June 16, 1846, on the ship Brooklyn in the Pacific ocean one week before the historic vessel touched at the Hawaiian Islands.   John and Phoebe Ann Robbins, her parents, had joined the Church in New Jersey in 1839 and after facing some of the trials at Nauvoo with the Saints had been advised by the Prophet Joseph Smith, because of ill health to return to their home in New Jersey.

In 1846 it was understood that the Saints were migrating overland to California.   A company of 300 members of the Church living in the eastern states was organized.   They chartered the ship Brooklyn to take them around Cape Horn to California.   On this trip her parents lost two sons and she was born.

Shortly after landing in San Francisco a member of this expedition accidentally discovered gold in California.   After four years there the family decided to return east and later to go to Salt Lake.   In returning to New York they crossed the Isthmus of Panama.   She was carried on the back of a native, and her mother with an infant (Emma) rode in a hammock suspended from poles and carried by natives.

In 1853 her family started from West Port, Kansas, with a carriage, seven wagons and 12 horses and mules.   They joined a large caravan and reached Salt Lake in August 1853.   After residing in Salt Lake a short time, Miss Georgeanna returned to New Jersey where she attended school until 1860 when she again crossed the plains by team and settled in the family home on City Creek in the Seventeenth Ward.   She continued school, then taught music and with her sister Emma, conducted a private school in the sixties.

In 1870 she married Dr. Clarence Barrett.   She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. C. E. Summerhays and Mrs.   Parley White; two grandchildren, Dr. V. P. White and Dr. L. B. White; four great-grandchildren and a niece, Mrs.   David O. McKay.

Funeral services will be held in the Seventeenth wad chapel Saturday at 12 noon.   The body may be viewed from 9 to 11 a.m. on the day of the funeral.

Deseret News , Saturday, June 14, 1924

Last Survivor of Brannan Company Dies

Woman in famous 'Round Horn Vessel and Then to Utah

[Editors Note: The Headline Statement is Incorrect - the Last Passenger died in 1943]

Spanish Fork, June 14 - Mrs. Margaret Robbins Beck, Utah pioneer of 1848 and last survivor of the historical Brannan company of saints, died at her home here Wednesday after two weeks' illness of ailments incident to old age.   Mrs. Beck was born was born at Chesterfield, New Jersey, Oct. 5 1843, the daughter of Isaac H. and Ann Burtis Robbins.   With them she sailed in the ship Brooklyn , Feb. 4, 1846, for the western coast of America, where it was understood the members of the Church were to gather.   The historical voyage lasted five months.   The company landed on what is the present site of San Francisco, in July iof 1846.   There Brannan left his company and traveled eastward to meet the pioneers and urge them to continue to California to make their homes.   In this he failed and when the news finally reached the company on the west coast, they came on to Utah, arriving in this state June of 1848.

Mrs. Beck spent her girlhood in Provo.   She married Joseph E. Beck in her young womanhood and came to Spanish Fork.   Seven of her eleven children survive: Taylor, Isaac, John and Nephi Beck; Mrs. Margaret Bean and Mrs. Mary Davis, Spanish Fork; ms. Ann Halvorson, Chinook, Mont.

Deseret Evening News" of July 19, 1893

Mrs. Susan E. Angell, of this City, passes away.

At 7'oclock this morning, Sister Susan E. Angell, widow of the late Truman O.   Angell, Church architect for the Salt Lake Temple, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.   Serge Ballif, in Logan.   The lady was a resident of this city, and ten days ago went to Logan to visit her daughter.   She was then in the enjoyment of unusually good health.   About a week ago she took ill, with the result stated, the cause of her demise being dropsy of the heart.   Her funeral will take place on Friday.

Sister Angell had an interesting history, and in her life experienced many sever trials for the Gospel's sake.   She was a native of Skowhegan, Maine, and was sixty-eight years of age on the first of last January.   When about eighteen years of age she heard the Gospel and received it.   Her family were very much averse to the position she had taken, and as a consequence she had to leave home.   She had been reared in comparative affluence, and given such advantages of education as the time afforded, so when she left home and had to engage as a factory girl in Lowell the experience in that portion was very severe.   She saved up money enough to take passage in the ship Brooklyn, and was one who made the famous voyage on that vessel to California in 1846.   She was in the Golden State at the time of the discovery of gold there.   In 1849 she came to Utah, having traveled most of the way from California on foot.   In 1851 she became the wife of Elder T. O. Angell.   She was a woman of most excellent qualities and attainments.   She leaves six living children, three sons, and three daughters

Deseret News , 3 December 1885

"December 2, 1885, this city, Amelia Smith, beloved wife of Joseph Woodmansee, and daughter of Orin and Wealthy Smith.   Born in Painesville, Ohio Sept. 29, 1836.   She went to California with her fathers family on the Ship Brooklyn, which sailed from New York in 1846.   Came to Utah in 1856 and was married to Joseph Woodmansee July 24, 1858.   She was the mother of five children, four of whom survive her."

Deseret News , 28 October 1868

Frank Smith died yesterday afternoon from injuries received last Saturday week on the evening of that day.   He was trying to go from one story to another in the store of Woodmansee Brothers by a rope, when his foot slipped and he fell down into the cellar, the trap door leading to it being open.   His back was broken by the concussion and his spine was severely injured.   He was taken home and the best medical and surgical skill of the city was in attendance during the prolongation of his suffering, which were very acute most of the time up to his death.   Deceased was the son of Orrin and Wealthy Smith and was in his 27 th year, having passed his 26 th year on the third of March last.   He was unobtrusive and of amiable disposition making warm friends of those who learned to know his good qualities.   He leaves a young widow, to whim he was married less than a year ago and a number of relatives to mourn his loss.   The funeral took place today at two p.m..

The Friend , Honolulu, Hawaii, July 15, 1846:

Died

In Honolulu, July 15th , Orren Hopkins, infant son of Mr. Orren and Mrs. Ann Smith, aged 11 months and 4 days. The family belongs to the company of emigrants bound to California but remained behind when the Brooklyn left, on account of sickness.

San Bernardino Weekly Times Index , Friday, 1 August 1891:

Judge Quartus S. Sparks is at the County Hospital dangerously ill.   His daughter, Mrs. Van Slyke, who is now living at Oceanside, has been telegraphed for and was expected to arrive here today.

San Francisco Call , August 14, 1891, page 8 col.   7:

Q. S. Sparks

The death of Quartus S. Sparks of San Bernardino County is announced without particulars.   He was one of the pioneers of the States and as early as 1852 took an active part in the formation of the American Party in California.   In 1856 he organized the proceedings for the first Fourth of July celebration ever held in San Bernardino County, upon which occasion he delivered the first Fourth of July oration ever delivered in the county.   The press of that county and Southern California speak of him in the highest terms of eulogy as one who helped to create the county and the State.

The Weekly Times Index , Friday, August 7, 1891.

Fall of one of California's Big Trees

At 5:30 this morning Quartus S. Sparks, aged 91 years, died at the County Hospital.   He was for many years a resident of this city, and renowned as an unsurpassed jury and criminal lawyer.

In the days of his prosperity his generosity and help made happy many of his kind to the reproach of their later stint and indifference in the time of his adversity.

He came to California in 1848 [1846], amassed a fortune by trade and speculation in the gold mines, the liberal dispensation of which now forms the formation of the ease and comfort of many persons.   His powerful intellect while a practicing lawyer was ever a hope and rescue of the weak and destitute.   His many noble and generous qualities and deeds make his name fragrant ever in death.

His Friend

The Saints Herald ,   1891, pp 659:

The Saints Herald," 1891, pp 578:

SPARKS -- At the county hospital in San Bernardino, August 5th, 1891, Q. S. Sparks, aged 91 years.   Q. S. Sparks was one of the old pioneers who made California, a man the history of whose life reads like a romance, and who has gone through an experience so varied as to be of deep interest.   At the age of sixteen years he was called the boy preacher of Connecticut, belonging to the Methodist denomination.   In 1846 he came to California, joining the Mormons.   For two years he remained in San Francisco, speculating and investing.   He at one time owned the Spark's ferry in the San Joaquin valley, and ran a large trading post.   In the early 50's he came to San Bernardino, where he at once began the practice of law, in which profession he ranked among the most eminent lawyers, until about 1878, when he removed to Los Angeles in feeble health where he has remained ever since.   Some two weeks ago he came here and was admitted to the hospital in a very weak condition, until last Wednesday morning, when he died.   He was widely known and his charitable nature will be revered by those whom he assisted in dark hours.   He died in extreme poverty, but on the eve of receiving a fortune of $25,000, which only for the law's delay would have helped him to pass the last dark hours in comparative luxury.   His death is deeply mourned by the old pioneers who knew and loved him so well.   The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at four o'clock from McDonald & Son's undertaking parlors.   --- San Bernardino Kaleidoscope .

Deseret Evening News of May 4 th 1907

"Daniel Stark, son of John Stark and Sarah Mann, was born at Windsor, Nova Scotia, June 29, 1820.

In his youth he went to Boston, Mass., where he served as an apprentice at the joiner's trade; while there he first heard the gospel and united himself with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on December 15, 1843.

He was married to Ann Cook, at Boston, December 1, 1844, from which union four children, two sons and two daughters were born.

In 1846 removed to New York and set sail on ship ' Brooklyn ' with 233 saints and 40 non-members of the Church, bound for California by way of Cape Horn, expecting the meet the pioneers under President Brigham Young, who the same year had left Nauvoo on their perilous, though now famous trip to the west.

Removed to Utah about 1857, locating in Parowan, bringing with him a threshing machine and other farm machinery; about the first of the kind to be brought to Utah.

In 1858, removed to Payson; in 1861 made a trip to the states. To bring a load of farm machinery; on the return trip assisted a company of Saints on their journey from England to Zion; among those assisted was Elizabeth Baldwin, with whom he was afterwards married, March 22, 1862; from this union eleven children, five sons and six daughters were born, of which three sons and four daughters are still living; married Ann Priscilla Birkenhead, March 16, 1867, and to them were born seven children, four sons and three daughters, all of whom are living.   He was ordained a High Priest by Apostle C. C. Rich.

He went on a mission to the 'Muddy' in Nevada, where he was ordained a bishop and presided over the St. Joseph ward until the breaking up of the 'Muddy' mission under the council of President Young, when he removed to Long Valley, Utah in 1871, where he continued to act as bishop until about 1873-74, when he returned to Payson, where he has made his home until the time of his death, April 23, 1907.   He was a man of indomitable will and iron constitution owing largely to his strict obedience to the Word of Wisdom and has been prominently identified in building up the city and county in his many lines of labor.   He has filled many positions of trust in the Church and civil capacity; was for several years county surveyor and acted as county assessor; was an active member of the Payson city council; was actively identified with the High Priest quorum of Payson, and for a time acted as an alternate High Councilor of the Utah Stake of Zion.   In connection with his work of surveying he followed that of carpentering for many years and has built and assisted in building many of the homes and public buildings of this city and county.   He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, sixteen children, eighty-six grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren."

Deseret Evening News , Wednesday, April 24, 1907, page 3:

Death of Daniel Stark

One of Payson's Early Settlers Lays Down Life's Burdens at 86

Payson, Utah Co., April 24. - Daniel Stark, one of Payson's oldest and most respected citizens, died at his home yesterday afternoon.   He came here in the pioneer days, was 86 years of age and had been ill three years.   His funeral will be held in the Second Ward meetinghouse tomorrow, Thursday, April 25, at 2 p.m.

Deseret Evening News , Thursday, August 14, 1919

Brooklyn Survivor Dies at Baker, Ore.

BAKER, Ore., Aug.   12, - John D. Stark, for many years a resident of Payson, Utah, and one of the first 16 telegraph operators employed on the old Deseret Telegraph line, died here on the morning of the ninth instant.   Mr. Stark had been suffering for some months past, the immediate cause of his death being cancer of the stomach.

Mr. Stark was born Sept. 8, 1845, in Boston.   He went to Payson in 1858, having come west to California via Cape Horn on the ship Brooklyn .   He was with the Joseph Mathews company.   He at one time held the office of city recorder in Payson for three years.   In 1904 he moved to Baker to accept a position with the Oregon Lumber company as book-keeper, retiring after a service of eight years on account of his health.   A faithful and active member of the Church.   Mr. Stark acted as ward clerk for the Baker ward for the past eight years.   He is survived by his wife, Amelia Webb, to whom he was married in 1868 at Salt Lake City, and nine children.

Funeral services held in the Baker ward meetinghouse Sunday last were largely attended by friends and relatives.   The services were under direction of Bishop Wm. A. Roundy, the speakers being Jas. W. Eardley, Wm. J. Wade and John H. Eccles.

The Pioneer , Saturday, March 16th, 1878, San Jose, Calif.            

Pioneer Obituaries

Jesse A. Stringfellow

Jesse A. Stringfellow, who died in this city on the 3rd inst. was an old pioneer. He was born in Westchester, Chester County, Penn. Nov. 17, 1823. He left his home for California in 1845 with only one copper cent in a sailing vessel, came around Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco in 1846 with only one copper cent, without friends or money. He had to go to work the first day he landed. San Francisco was then composed of less than half a dozen houses. He immediately went to work at carpentering having learned the trade before he left home. He succeeded well, at one time owning considerable land, but lost all by bad luck. He worked at building until the Mexican war broke out when he enlisted under Fremont, served until the war closed, then went to mining, doing very well. He built the first flouring mill in California near Napa. From there he came to San Jose, where he built some of the first houses that San Jose had in those early days.   He married in San Jose a lady by the name of S.A. Roberts, June 5 1850, she having crossed the plains in 1849. Still remaining in San Jose he went to farming, keeping to that so long as his health permitted, which was til about four years ago, when a cancer broke out on his face. He had it operated upon in San Francisco by sone of the best surgeons there. It was no cure, it only came back and what he suffered no one can tell. He often prayed for death to release him from this world of pain. He was a just, true and. an upright man, respected by all, who knew him.   A kinder husband and father never lived.   He leaves a wife and three grown children, two daughters and one son, to mourn his loss.

The Pioneer Saturday March 16, 1878

Filed for Probate. The last will and testament of Jesse A. Stringfellow, deceased, has been filed for probate. The bequests are as follows: To the widow, Semphinomia, the premises on which she resides, on fourteenth street corner of Taylor, together with all the improvements and appurtenances. One half of the remainder of the estate goes to the widow, and the other half to be divided, share and. share alike, between his children, Mary Elizabeth Gorsuch, William A., and Lovely Vane Stringfellow Chaleour. The widow is named as executor without bonds. The estate is va1ued at $53,500.

From San Bernardino , The Sun , dated October 1897:

In Memoriam

To the editor of The Sun - The largely attended funeral of Mrs. Amanda R. Garner, held on Saturday afternoon last, attested to her popularity among the large circle of her acquaintances, and the obituary notice of her death, already published, was too brief for one who has resided in this valley so many years and enjoyed the love of all who knew her, and yielding to a general desire to have gathered more detailed statement of her history, and now furnish the same to her family and numerous friends.

Mrs. Amanda R. Garner was born in Steuben county, New York, on the 17 th day of November, 1840, and in 1846 started with her parents Thomas Tompkins and Jane Elizabeth Tompkins, for California on the famous steamer [sailing vessel] Brooklyn .   When rounding Cape Horn, encountering a severe storm, the captain ordered all passengers below decks, where two anxious days and nights were passed among ice bergs and angry waves, which threatened to crush the vessel every moment.   Favored by good fortune the passengers reached San Francisco without further trouble.

In 1850 Miss Amanda Tompkins went to Salt Lake with her parents, traveling by team all the way.   Returning to San Jose, California soon thereafter.   In 1852 they came overland to San Bernardino, where she continued to reside up to the time of her death.

On November 15 th , 1857, she married Benjamin Franklin Garner, a son of that well known citizen and pioneer Uncle George Garner, who crossed the plains from Illinois to Salt Lake, using rafts to cross the Missouri and Platte rivers, and overcoming all obstacles, continuing their way through Southern Utah and across the Mohave desert, being captain of one of the pioneer wagon trains, until he reached San Bernardino through the Cajon Pass, and was thus one of the first settlers of the valley.

Frank Garner and Amanda Tompkins appeared before Samuel Hoffman, Justice of the Peace at Agua Mansa, and were joined in marriage.

About five years ago B. F. Garner died, leaving his widow to care for eight children, Frank Garner, Jane Evans, Lovina Hagan, Charles Garner, Addison Garner, Lewis Garner, Jessie Garner and Irene Garner, five of whom are married, and all residents of San Bernardino, except Frank, whose home is in Arizona.

In July last Mrs. Garner was taken ill, and suffered more or less from that time till her death.   The best medical skill was procured, a specialist from Los Angeles being in consultation, but without success.   On October 21st , 1897, at her home on Mt. Vernon Avenue, in the presence of all her children, she passed away from the journey of this life to join those who have gone before to a brighter world, where pain and sorrow are unknown.

"Oh, you have a mother dear

Let not a word or act give pain,

But cherish, love her, with your life,

You ne'er can have her like again.

A FRIEND

Obituary

Jane Elizabeth Tompkins Hunter

Jane was born 11 January 1843 in Steuben county, New York.   She was about three years old when her parents took their family on the ship Brooklyn .   She must have heard these tales of the voyage many times for she was the historian of the family.   She came to San Bernardino 17 December 1852.   The family made plans to join the "Recall" of 1857 but Jane was reluctant to go.   To avoid this she married Joseph Milam.   When her parents found this out, they compelled her to leave Joseph and accompany them.   Later she was wooed by Jesse Hunter and married him in Los Angeles on 3 July 1862.   Jesse and Jane made their home in Los Angeles.   Jane ran a boarding house located at 327 S.   Broadway in Los Angeles.   Unhappy with Jesse she filed for divorce in 1882 and hired as her attorney Judge Waldo York.   York was able to obtain her property for her and as she had no money to pay him, he agreed to wait and take the property in settlement.   He no doubt made her will out.   Jane died 5 May 1920 and was buried in Mt.   View Cemetery in San Bernardino.   Her property was valued at $100,000.   Judge Waldo York was to receive it all.   It is unfortunate as her sister Amanda's children really needed it.

From San Bernardino.   The Sun , May 7, 1920:

Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Hunter

Sorrow again visited the ranks of the Pioneers when they heard yesterday that Mrs.   Jane Elizabeth Hunter, for so long one of their number, had passed away in Los Angeles.   She had been in ailing health for the past few years, and then after she was stricken with the influenza never fully recovered.   The end came at her home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, she having reached her seventy-seventh birthday on January 11 of this year.

Jane Elizabeth Hunter was born in 1843 in Steuben County, New York.   She was the daughter of Mr.   And Mrs.   Thomas Tompkins, with her parents and another sister, came west to San Francisco in the summer of 1846.   The family went to Salt Lake two years afterward, and then in 1850, the father was sent as a missionary for the Mormon Church to the Society Islands, his wife and two daughters accompanying him.   A year later they returned to the San Jose Valley, and in 1852 came to San Bernardino, living here until the death of Mr. Tompkins in 1885.

Jane Elizabeth Tompkins married Jesse Hunter 3 July 1862, and soon afterward went to Los Angeles to live.   Mrs. Hunter made many visits to San Bernardino, and was a member of the Pioneer Society, greatly beloved by all.   She was a woman of unfailing cheerfulness and kindly hospitality, and her passing will bring sorrow to many friends.

Surviving her are four nieces.   Mrs. George Evans, Mrs. Harry Hagan, Mrs. Frank Proost, and Mrs. Sanford Reese, all of this city, and two nephews, Frank Garner of Dodge City, Kansas, and A. A. Garner of San Bernardino.

Remains will be shipped to this city, funeral service to be held on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the chapel of the Mark B. Shaw Company.   Interment will be in Mountain View.

[ Two Unknown Newspaper articles]

Former Judge Gets Big Estate by Will

By the will of Jane Elizabeth Hunter, which was on file in the probate court today, real estate on Broadway, valued at $100,000, was left to Waldo M. York, former judge of the superior court, as his fee for conducting Mrs.   Hunter's divorce case nearly twenty years ago.   Mrs.   Hunter was granted a divorce from Jesse Hunter and the property was transferred to Judge York, Mrs.   Hunter retaining a life interest in the property.   Mrs.   Hunter died May 5 [1920].   A small amount of property in addition to the Broadway real estate was bequeathed to relatives.

Death of Former Resident Who Was Also a Missionary

Mrs. Jane Hunter, until a few years ago a resident of San Bernardino and for several years a well known missionary in the Society Islands, and a daughter of Thomas Tompkins, whose whole family for years carried on missionary work in the South Sea Islands, passed away Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Mrs. Hunter was born in New York in 1843 and was 77 years of age at the time of her death.   She came to San Francisco in 1846 with her parents and moved with them to Salt Lake City in 1848.   With her parents she went to the Society Islands in 1851.   She came to San Bernardino for the first time in 1852.

At the death of her father in this city a good many years ago, she went to Los Angeles where she lived until the time of her death.   Funeral service will be in charge of the Mark B. Shaw Company and funeral service will be held from their funeral parlor at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.   Interment will be in Mountain View.

From San Bernardino source unknown.

Obituary of Thomas Tompkins:

Died - Tompkins - at his residence Mt. Vernon,

January 14 of pneumonia Thomas Tompkins, aged 66 years.

The news of the death of Mr.   Tompkins will be received with feeling of the deepest regret by his many friends.   Mr.   Tompkins was one of the pioneers of the coast, and one of the earliest settlers in this valley.   He came to the coast in the summer of 1846, coming by way of Cape Horn and was six months on the voyage.   He spent some time after his arrival in San Joaquin Valley and up and down the Sacramento.   At the time of discovery of gold by Marshall, Mr.   Tompkins was engaged in hauling provisions for General Sutter from Sutter's Fort on the Sacramento river to the mill at Coloma.   After the discovery of gold he made three trips across the plains, bringing back with him each time large parties of immigrants who were coming to make homes and fortunes in the new El Dorado.   Mr.   Tompkins came to this valley in 1852, where he has resided continuously up to the time of his death.   On his arrival here Mr.   Tompkins embarked in farming and stock raising, out of which he acquired considerable of this world's goods, at the time of his death being the possessor of a model farm in the beautiful suburb of Mt. Vernon.   Mr.   Tompkins leaves a wife and sons and daughters to mourn his death, besides innumerable friends scattered all over our broad land.

Uncle Tommy as he was familiarly called, was one of Nature's noble men; generous to a fault, always ready to assist the worthy; with kind and cheery words for every one he will be truly mourned.   Thus every day are the Old Pioneers who gave to us this Grand Empire of the Pacific leaving to pioneer the Great Beyond.   Each time we chronicle the departure of one we are lead to exclaim "Who will be next?"

Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser , December 15, 1857 as supplied by Kerry Petersen of Anchorage, Alaska October 2001:

"Local Items.

A Shocking Murder. -- The Washington Star of yesterday evening, gives the following particulars of a most shocking murder, committed upon the body of the wife of Bazil Hall, residing in Alexandria County, Va., about five miles from Washington. [Alexandria County was re-named Arlington County in 1920]

According to her deposition, her husband was walking over his farm, and the rest of the whites of the family were at church, when a slave woman named Jenny, the property of Hall, put an armful of dry plank on the fire, which Mrs. Hall ordered her to take off.   She did so, but quickly put it on again.   Mrs. Hall again ordered her to take it off.   The Negress then seized her, and forcing her head down between her (the assailant's) legs, backed her into the fire.   Three times, according to Mrs. Hall's deposition, she managed to break loose from the fiend, who as often seized her and placed her back on the fire.   On the last occasion, her screams brought other of the family Negroes and her husband to her rescue.

Mrs. Hall died last night at midnight.   Drs. Wunder and Locke did all they could to alleviate her sufferings, but in vain.

The murderess, before committing her dreadful crime, took the precaution to send a small Negro girl, who was in the room, to the spring for water.   The Negress, who has, of course, been committed to jail, denies the crime, alleging that her mistress fell into the fire.   It is most fortunate for the ends of justice that Mrs. Hall survived sufficiently long to make an ante-mortem deposition.

Hall tried to shoot the woman ere she was conveyed to prison, but was prevented from accomplishing his object.   He and his family were considered by respectable persons in the neighborhood as being hard on servants; and not very long since he had a portion of his farm buildings burned by some of his own servants."

San Mateo County Times Gazette , September 22, 1877

Obituary, Winner died at La Honda Sep. 15, 1877.

George K. Winner aged 70 years and 1 month.

"News Article: 'Capt. Winner who died near La Honda on the 15 th inst., was an old citizen who came to this coast on the ship Brooklyn in 1846 in company with Sam Brannan, and was the first man to pilot a vessel to Sacramento.   His was in 1848, the vessel being a bark belonging to Cross Co., now of San Francisco.   Capt. Winner was a respected member of the Masons and the Pioneers and was the father-in-law of William Armstrong of La Honda at whose residence he died.   During the Civil War the Captain served in the Second California Cavalry.'