TITLE PAGE PIONEER (full name) BIR TH (date and place) DEA TH (date and place) PARENTS . MARRIED (who and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH (date) (Company arrived with) HISTORY (who wrote ) (date written) (who submitted) (address ) Fanny Hannah Paskett 4 Oct 1842 - Newent, Glouchest er, England 24 Dec 1925 - Henefer, Summit, Utah • James Pope Paskett Charlotte Buckingham Charles Henry Robinson Stevens 26 Aug u st 18 6 4 26 Au gust 18 6 4 Lawrence Charles Stevens (grandson) LaRue Richins Waldron Mor gan, Utah 84050 CAMP & COUNTY SUBMITTING _s_o_u_t_h_M_o_r_g_a_n ________ Camp _M_o_r_g_a_n ___________ County (Camp Historian & address} ---------------------- Lola Dawson Peterson P.O. Box 13, Morgan, Utah 84050 County Historian & address )_ ___v_ e_l_o_y_T_o_n_k_s_D_ic_k_s_o_n_ ________ P.O. Box 203, Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF INFORMATION & PAGE NUMBERS: As told to her grandson, Lawrence Charles Stevens. FANNY HANNAH PASKETT Fanny Hannah Paskett, daughter of James Pope and Charlotte Buckingham Paskett, was born 4 October 1842 at Newent , Glouchester, England. Because she was a sister to my Grandmother Jane J udd, I thought I would t ell a litt le about her. She is the grandmother of Lawrence Charles Stevens who used to live in Morgan. There were eight children in her mother's family. All were members oi the Church except one, named Annie, who mar ried a minister and moved to r Australia. When Fanny was thirteen, she was forced to go to work. She was a chamber maid for a Lord Bulloui. She ha d some early schooling, so she could read and write, although her writing was difficult to read. Fanny went home one week-end to visit her family and when she arrived there, her sister, Sarah, who was also working out, reprimanded her for going home without taking sufficient food for her needs. This chastisement from her sister so hurt Fanny that she never did go to see her parents or brothers and sisters again. While in the Old Country, her sister, Annie, was adopted out because of their poor cir cumstances. Fanny decided to come to Utah and found space on a ship. Traveling third class was the best she could afford. During the six weeks of sailing she was very ill but found some real friends. A M rs. Orton and her daughter, Nora, who took her under their wing. They arrived in New York in 1864 and proceeded to pursue their journey toward Zion. Ox teams met this company of converts when they had traveled as far as the trains of the day could take them. It was at this time that Fanny met Charles Henry 4-D -2- Robinson Stevens, who with his parents, had come to Utah as converts in the year 18 56 and settled in Henefer, Utah. The journey was hard and the majority of them walked beside the wagons. Fanny1 s feet became so bad she was put in the wagon. She was also weak from dysenter y , a very common ailment because of the water along the way. Charles • took good care of her, making a broth of boil ed sage, but it helped in g etting her health back. When they reached Henefer, Char l es took Fanny to the Stevens 1 homestead, r which was a small tract of land where the sagebrush had been cleared. There was a haystack in the center and a heap of stones with an iron grate on for them to u se to cook their meals. Charles had already ask Fanny to marry him, and they were married in Henefer on the 2 6 August 1864. The very day of her arrival. Charles and his father, Thomas, b u ilt a small one - room log cabin with a willow and dirt roof, where the two families spent the fir st year. Several thousand indians camped on the river (Weber) bottom and became q u ite a problem to the few settlers there. Fanny had a small baby daughter, and one day a band of indians came to their cabin. One burl y indian demanded something to eat. All they had was a little bread, but it wasn't enough for this savage so he picked up the baby and demanded more. The situation was saved when one of the squaws in the party scolded h i m and sai d she woul d tell Chief Washaki i f he didn't put the baby back. The surpris e d indian put the baby down on the g r ound and disappeared i n the brush, l eaving the young mother shaken but thankful. __ _.. 4-1 -3- Fanny and Char l es and family suffered considerably from hunger and cold. Often they boiled the dried leaves of willows to make tea. She told of young Nephi Alma Bond leaving blood stains in the snow. He had no shoes and wore burlap on his feet for some protection. Fanny was the mother of eleven children, most of them born in a dugout or log cabin. She was a very good seamstress and a good cook. Charles was a short, fiesty man, getting in trouble sometimes because of it. But Fanny made up for r it because she was a good neighbor, known everywhere as Aunt Fanny. She died 24 December 1925, four years after her husband. This history was told to her grandson, Lawrence Stevens.