HISTORY OF MARY ANN FLETCHER JOHNSTON Born: Dec 18, 1852 Arker Lodge, Bridge Church Parish Cumberland So, England Died April 1, 1927 Coalville, Utah Arrived in Utah, Year 1863 Believed to be in Joseoh A. Young's Company Husband's name: James Johnston HISTORY WRITTEN BY A DAUGHTER JANETTA (JESSIE) MILDRED JOHNSTON CREAGER. SUBMITTED BY SAME. WRITTEN MAY 16, 1962 MOUNT JOY CAMP — MORGAN COUNTY, UTAH Jessie Creager - Historian Morgan County Daughters of Utah Pioneers HISTORY OF MARY ANN FLETCHER JOHNSTON summit co. Mary Ann Fletcher, daughter of Adam and Ann Clarke Fletcher was born December 18, 1852 at Arker Lodge Bridge Church Parish, Cumberland County England. On May 31, 1854 she with her father mother and six other children set sail from Liverpool for America, landing in Quebec July 7. Leaving Quebec, they went to Mount Nebo, Mohoning County, Ohio, by way of Montreal and Buffalo, arriving at Mount Nebo one week later. Here her parents decided to make a temporary home for their family and try to find work for himself and the boys and also to acquaint themselves with the customs of the new country. The first work they found to do was helping a neighbor to haul hay. The weather was dry and hot, not the humid cool air of their former home, and on the second day about 5 o'clock Adam became ill, and went home. He had arrived hone only a short time when he became unconscious and died before six o'clock. The last words he ever uttered were, "Come to me, Mary Ann." He died with his 13 month old daughter in his arms. This left ny Grand other in a new country with seven children to look after. Mount Kebo proved to be a very unhealthy place to live, and the smaller children were sick most of the time. Grandmother would put my mother, Mary Ann, on the bed to play to keep her off the damp dirt floor. One of the neighbors brought my mother a figurene to play with and I have it in my possession now and prize it very highly. We children always called it "Mother's doll". Although it was not like a regular doll, it was a image of a man and woman sitting on a bench. The family lived at Mount Nebo, Ohio until the autumn of 1855, then they moved to Mason City, Mason County, Virginia. When the Civil War broke out, one of the boys, Adam, inlisted and when ever there was a camp close enough Ann Fletcher, my grandmother would take her washtub and board and wash for the soldiers. (2) History of Mary Ann Fletcher Johnston Another of the sons, Samuel, Joined the Latter-Day-Saint Church in 1859 and cane to Utah, crossing the plains in one of the church wagon trains, arriving in Salt Lake City, September 1, 1859, and in 1863 his mother and four sisters came in one of Joseph A. Young's companies. In November 1864 they moved to coalville, Summit County, where Samuel was sent by Brigham Young to locate coal. He opened a mine in the Grass Creek area, known as the church mine. Here mary Ann met James Johnston and they were married November 22, 1868 in the Endowment house, Salt Lake City, Utah. Seven children were born to them and all lived to adult age - they were: Born Died William Andrew Johnston Sept 17, 1869 April 4, 1935 Adam " Nov 10, 1871 Jan 9, 1939 Margaret Ann " July 3, 1874 April 22, 1922 Mary Jane " April 3, 1878 July 9, 1925 James Albert " March 3, 1887 April 23,1931 Ella Lee Belva " April 27, 1890 Sept 30, 1948 Janetta Mildred " Jan 21, 1895 James was a farmer and live stock raiser. He owned a number of places in Summit County. He sold his Bear river ranch and after living in Upton a year or so moved back to Coalville, November 1900, so the three younrest children could go to school there. Mary Ann - my mother, was a good cook, not fancy dishes but good plain nutritious food. The kind that remains in ones memory. She had hobbies, the sane as most of the pioneer women had. She made hair pieces called switches, made from the hair women combed out while combing their hair. They saved these combings, as they were called, until they had enough to make a switch, then they would bring them to mother and she would comb it all out straight and weave a small strand at a time on a little home made loom which she held on her knees. After the weaving was finished it was sewed around a cord into shape either in one strand or three so it (3) History of Mary Ann Fletcher Johnston could be braided. These were worked in with their natural hair to make it look as if they had more hair. She also made beautiful quilts, and loved flowers. Every window in the house was filled with many varieties of potted plants, and her out door flower gardens were beautiful. Toward the end of her busy life her health began to fail and on march 29, 1927 she suffered a stroke which caused pneumonia and on April lf 1927 at the age of 74 years, 3 months and 14 days, she passed away, funeral was held in the Summit Stake Tabernacle at Coalville, April 5, 1927. Interment in Coalville City Cemetery. written by a daughter and last surviving child of James and Mary Ann Johnston, Janetta Mildred Johnston Creager (better known as Jessie) May 1962.