TITLE PAGE PIONEER (full name) Elizabeth Lythgoe Dearden BIRTH (date and place) 19th March 1844 DEATH (date and place) May 17th 1908 Henepher, Utah PARENTS Thomas Lythgoe and Easter Welcock MARRIED (who and date) Thomas Dearden March 12 1866 ARRIVAL IN UTAH (date) 1864 (Company arrived with) Joseph S Rollins HISTORY (who wrote) Eden D. Carter (date written) Jan 10, 1986 (who submitted) (address) 208 N. 250 E, Morgan Utah 84050 CAMP & COUNTY SUBMITTING Mt. Joy D.U.P. Camp Morgan County (Camp Historian & address) Larine Preece RFD Box 100, Morgan, Utah 84050 County Historian & address) Dena C. Rich 1266 n Morgan Valley Dr., Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF INFORMATION & PAGE NUMBERS: ELIZABETH LYTHGOE DEARDEN Elisabeth Lythgoe Dearden was born at Pendleburg, Lnacashire, England on the 19th of March, 1844. She was the daughter of Thomas Lythgoe and Ester Wilcock. She was the eighth child in a family of nive children: Lucy, Joseph, Betty, John, Ama, Ellen, James, Elizabeth and Rachel. She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Aaron Smithers on May 16, 1853, and confirmed by Daniel Walsork on May 19, 1853. Elizabeth left England on the "Monarch of the Sea" April 27, 1864 in a sailing vessel. Due to the fact that the Civil War was in progress in the United States, it was necessary to sail 300 miles off course to the north. They landed in New York about June 12th, 1864. She was accompanied by her mother and most of her family except her father who refused to leave England. They then traveled by rail and up rivers by boat for a period of 12 days until they arrived in Wyoming, They camped in Wyoming for three weeks awaiting ox and mule teams to be sent from Utah to bring the immigrants on to Utah. When they reached the area now Evanston, Wyoming, they traveled a new road down Chalk Creek and camped near Upton. The next day they drove on to Coalville, Utah where Elizabeth met her sister Ann and her husband John Booth. While she was in Coalville she worked for people there. A tiny "new arrival" came to town. She was a lover of new born babies, would cuddle them to her heart and always thought they were so wonderful. From these experiences she soon became desired by all, as she took to nursing and midwifery very well. She left Coalville and moved to Richville where she met Thomas Dearden. It was at a dance in Richville that Thomas ask her to be his bride and they were married after that dance March 12, 1866, by Bishop Warrineer Porter, bishop of the Porterville Hard. The remainder of the year 1866 was spent in Porterville where Thomas taught school for a short time. Their first child John William Dearden was born January 29, 1867 in Porterville. The family moved to Henefer, Utah (known as Heneferville at that time) that same year. Their first home in Heneferville was a dug out in the bank or hill a few yards from the church. This was inside the "fort". They lived here for about two years. Two children, Henry and Joseph, were born here. Their next home was a log house built on the lot farthest south and east of the town sight. (The lot or block is now occupied by Bernard Jones, Everett Ovard and Richard Fawcett.) This whole block was purchased from Bishop Charles Richins for twelve bushels of wheat. Several children were born in the log house. The road bed for the Union Pacific Railroad was being built in the years 1868 and 1869. Labor was in demand and good wages were being paid. Thomas was employed as a "powder man". The railroad was completed in 1869. Thomas earned their living by following the trade he knew best, that of coal mining. He would walk from home on Sunday afternoon to the mines in Grass Creek, a distance of about nine miles. Here he would work for six to ten hours a day. Most of the time he lived in a shack and cooked his own meals, then on Saturday after his shift to get candy and goodies for the children then walk home. This left Elizabeth with the children to raise. One Sunday morning she said, "Tom, these boys have been very bad and I want you to give them a good thrashing." He obliged by trouncing the boys then he said, "That is the last time I will be whipping the children. I'm not going to be away from them all week, then come and have them expecting a whipping. If you have trouble with them, have it straightened out before I come home." She never again ask him to punish them. The first sorrow came to the Dearden family on September 7, 1878 when a scarlet fever epidemic hit the town and nearly every family lost a child with this dread disease. Their first born, John, contacted the disease and died. He was eleven years old. On May 25, 1879 3 year old Emma Jane died suddenly. The opportunity to own some land came to them, the boys were growing up and they felt they needed something to do so they bought 160 acres at the mouth of the main canyon, they decided to move to grass creek for a year or two until they could pay for the land. Sarah Ann was born at grass creek on the 5th of february 1881 and died the following year February 10, 1882. The three years the family lived in grass creek they did all sorts of jobs to get enough money to make payments on the land, Henry, Joseph and Hyrum went to work in the mine, they moved back about 1883 and built a small log house on the hill side close to the creek. Here Stephen was born March 4, 1884. Later they moved to the other side of the field and built their largest and permanent home. The boys went over the hills to franklin canyon and caught several trout, they put them into buckets of water and carried them back and put them in the creek, later the family enjoyed many meals of fish caught in their own creek. They were a happy family, they were blessed with beautiful singing voices and played the organ and violin, they sang together and went to church together. Elizabeth used to tell her children, if the church is not worth all you have and your life thrown in, it isn't worth a nickle. She was not very tall being about five feet, and was rather heavy, she had very dark hair, and keen grey eyes, as a young mother she was happy bringing up her young family, she was a good gardener and in her lot she grew strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and several varieties of currents, all kinds of vegetables that were adapted to the climate, many kinds of herbs apple plums and pear trees. She taught her children the ways of nature, of the stars and of god. Look up she would say lift your eyes to the light and see the beauty of the world. One day she ask the boys to get her some wood to get dinner as, as boys were they went on playing, she called them into dinner, they all washed up and satdown to the table, they found everything on the table was raw, she said "I done my part", if you want it cooked you will have to do yours. James Sythgoe (her brother) lost his first wife while there last "baby was still small, so (Aunt Betty and Uncle Tom as they were called by young and old alike) took the child. and kept her for several years, after James married again, he wanted his daughter to come back home to live. He said Betty how can I take her away from people she has learned to love as her own parents, Betty said leave it to me I will manage it, soon the child was staying with her father for a day or so, she was always permitted to come back to the Dearden home at any time, soon she was staying with her father permently. Betty was a dress maker and made all the clothing her family wore, she loved to read and preach politics, she could hold her own with anyone when it came to politics, she was an experienced midwife and brought many of the babies into Henefer, she delivered a baby girl to the Beard home, took care of the mother and baby, than walked home (which was about a mile or more) to care for her son who was ill. Two days later Stephens passed away in the afternoon of the same day after laying out her dead son, she came to the Beard's home to take care of the mother, surprised Mrs Beard said "Oh Betty" why did you come today, and Betty answered I have done all I can for the dead now I must take care of the living. Death again visited the home February 4, 1896, when there daughter Elizabeth Ellen Harris (Selbie) past away soon after the birth of a daughter. Mary Eliza Dearden Bunot was the next to be called home on November 21, 1903 leaving 2 small children. On February 13, 1905 Annie Elizabeth Shill who was the wife of Henry Dearden, died from pneumonia leaving three small children, which Thomas and Elizabeth took into their home and raised until her death. Thomas and Elizabeth accompanied their youngest daughter Rachel and Edwin Earl Bush to the Salt Lake Temple where they were married on October 5, 1905. Rachel and Edwin Bush left immediately for a mission to the Hawaiian Island which lasted three and one half years. Elizabeth words to her daughter as she left was, fill a good mission and don't come home until it is completed. Soon after she started her slow, painful desent in health. With her great understanding of ills of the human body and the understanding she had of the constant care she gave to others, working with the sick alone and also assisting doctors, it is sure that she knew she had, the dreaded killing disease "Cancer" she became tired and worn, the quick steps she was famous for, slowed down and her kitchen was left to others to take care of. When she died she weighted only 90 lbs,, her face showed all the suffering she had gone through. If her beliefs are fully true, she is now in her glory with all her children, and probably singing her praises with her glorious voice to the lord Jesus, whom she loved so well. "Her death was the 17th May 1908. She was the mother of 13 children.