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Show TITLE PAGE PIONEER (full name) --Th-om-a-s J-ud-d ----------- BIRTH {date and place) 30 June 1821 - Woodmill Lane, Hamps., Eng DEA TH (date and place) 15 Dec 1891 - Hoytsville, Summit, Utah • PARENTS Geor ge Judd . MARRIED (who and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH {dat e) (Company arrived with) HISTORY {who wrote) (date written) (who submitted) (address) CAMP & COUNTY SUBMITTING ------------------- Ann Smith Ann Redding (or Reading) 21 May 1841 1 7 October 1862 Captain Henry W. Miller (Ox Train) Max ine Richins Wright and Ruth Gregor y (great-granddaughters) 196 2 Lola Dawson Peterson (gr - g r - granddaughter) P.O. Box 13, Morgan, Utah 84050 _s_o_u_t_h_M_o_r_g_a_n ___ _____ Camp _M_o_rg_a_n_ ___________ County ( Camp Historian & address )_ ___L_ o_l_a_D_a_w_s_o_n_P_e_t_e_r_s_o_n_ ______ _ P . 0. Box 13, Morgan, Utah 84050 County Hist~rian & address )_ ___v _e_lo_y_T_o_n_k_s_D_i_c_k_s_o_n_ ________ P . 0. Box 203, Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF INFORMATION & PAGE NUMBERS: From the Life History of T h omas and Ann Redding Judd. Information was t aken from Emigration Records in the Chu rch Historian Office. J. H. of 17 Oct 196 2 Deseret N ews, Vol. 12, Lewis Topog raphi cal Dictory of England. and memories of Judd descendants, I I . 71 THOMAS JUDD AND ANN REDDING JUDD My Judd ancestors were born and reared mostly around Southhampton, England. Thomas was the son of George and Ann Smi th Judd. His father , George Judd, was born about 1 792, and his mother, Ann Smith, was born in 1 786. Both wer e of South Stoneham, a parish which forms a suburb of the Southampton and contains hamlets of Allington, Bitterne, Barton, Eastlery Pollick, Portswood, Shambleburst and Swathling. Thomas Judd, my great-great - grandfather, was the third son in a family,. of three boys. His brothers were George and William. He was married to Ann Redding of Bitterne, So. Stoneham, England on 21 May 1841, in the Southam Parish. They became parents of seven children (George, James, Charles , Henry, John, Selena, and Thomas Fredrick). Two of their children died at an early age- - Henry at six years and Selena at six months. Both were buried in England. Hampshire, England, was noted for its agriculture, so it was natural that Thomas learned a trade in the farming industry. He was employed by a wealthy landowner as a laborer on his large farm. Thomas was an honest, conscientious worker and soon was trusted to do all the butchering that was neces s a r y. As a special favor, he was allowed to take the 11 cbittlings11 or 11tripe11 home for his family to eat. His wife, Ann, learned how to care for and how to prepare them so that they- were a flavorful and whol esome meat food. On ver y r are occasi ons, such as, Christmas, Thomas was given a choice cut ·of meat, which was a wonderful treat for his famil y. Thomas worked hard and l ong, and taught his sons to do the same. A ll of the boys went out to work when they were very young. Thomas and Ann were converted to the Church of Jesus Chr ist of Latter - day e 72 -2- Saints by missionaries who were preaching in England. At first, Thomas thought it was a shame that those young men were forced to come so far from their homee and teach doctrines that were not true, so he to ok his bible to prove to them that they were wrong. It was not long before the young missionaries proved to him and his family that they were teaching the truth. Tho'm as and Ann were baptized by Willet S. Harder in the summer of 1848. The boys were baptized as they became of age. It wasn't long before they began making plans to emigrat e to Utah. Thomas (then 40 year s of age) and Ann (41 years of age) with their five sons-- r George (18 years), James (16 years), Charles (14 years), John (6 year s), and Thomas Fredrick (6 months) --cleared the Port of Liverpool, England,on the packet ship " Manchester, 11 on 15 April 1861. They sailed on the morning of the 16th for New York, having on board the vessel 3 79 souls of emigrating S a ints under the Presidency of Claudius V. Spencer with E. Edward Hanham and William Jefferies as assistants. President Spencer had labored for sometime in the Southampton dis tric t , but his failing health compelled him to return to Zion. The crossing was dangerous a t t imes, becauee of the storms at sea, but they arrived safely, after spending 28 days on the water. After a successful voyage, they arrived the 14 May 1861 at New York, where they·were met and visited by Apostle Erastus Snow and Thomas Williams. Thomas and Ann arrived in New York in very poor circumstances, and so Tm mas started at once to find work. They lived in New York about 15 months, this was about the time of the Civil War, so Thomas hastily gathered his belongings together and started across the plains for the West. Thomas and family travel ed with Captain Henry W. Miller's ox t r ain to Utah, arriving on 17 October 1862. This was the fifth church train and consisted of 60 wagons and 665 emigrating Saints . The train l eft -3- Florence, Nebraska, on 8 August l862. The majority of this company was from the British Isles. Twenty-eight deaths ·occurred on the journey, chiefly among 73 children under 5 year!5 of age. Nine children were born while crossing the plains and four couples were married. The t rip was long and wearisome because they had very little to live on. Thomas, being a farmer by trade, was interested in settling on a piece of ground for farming in Utah, so he "took up" some land in Upton, Utah, in Summit County, which is located about five miles east of Coalville, Utah. They began r immediately to build a place of shelter. Their little home was built of pine logs which Thomas and sons cut and hauled from nearby canyons. Oxen were used to drag the fallen trees from the mountains and to transport them to the homesite. The logs were hued flat on two sides so they would fit together, then they were put on top of another and held together by wooden pegs or hand made nails . When the house was finished it had two rooms and a lean-to. The roof was of dirt on top of willows, then straw or weeds. The one window was a small opening with four tiny panes of glass, or no glass at all. A fine rock fireplace w as built. After searching over the mountains, they found a huge piece of flat flagstone rock, which was placed in front of the fireplace hearth. Ann did all the cooking for her family in a large black iron kettle over the fireplace. The few pieces of furniture they had were all handmade. Bedsteads were fashioned from rough lumber and straw filled ticks were p ut on the wooden slats. Cupboards were made by simply nailing boards across one corner of the room, making shelves for dishes, then over all was hung a gathered curtain. Thomas built two rocking chairs from twisted willows, a large one for himself and a smaller one for his wife. -4- The grandchildren remembered how she would sit and rock and hum a tune, never would ising but hum, for hou rs at a time. The' men folk d ug a well near the house. It wae operated by a windlass and an iron bucket on a rope. So they were able to g et a good fres h supply of water. The well was u sed as a sort of refri gerator • • The milk and butter which Ann made from the cream she skimmed from the milk, was put in the bucket and was let part way down the well to keep it cool and sweet. The land they acquired was surrounded by a wormwood fence, which is not_h ing more or less than rows of small logs laid upon each other in a zig-zag fashion. f These were held in place by more logs placed and fastened in an up right p osition. Near the little home g rew a grove of beautiful pine tre es. I n the fall of the year, enough pine nuts and pine gum were gathered to last the year around. I n 1869, Mary Chalk Redding, the widowed mother of Ann, came to the United States. She sailed from Liverpool, England, on 25 August, of that year on the ship 11 Minnesota. 11 Upon reaching Utah, she went to liv e in Upton with he r daughter Ann and family. As she g rew in yea.rs, her eye sight became impaired and she was finally blind. Grandmother Mary paissed away at the Judd family home on 29 April 1878, at the age of 87 yea.rs. In due time, Thomas and family purchased a farm in the settlement of Hoyts-ville, Utah, and spent the remainder of their lives in the Hoytsville valley. The town, first called Unionville, was settled by Mr. Thomas Bradbury and his family in 1859. In 1876; because there wae another town of the same name in Utah, Unionville was renamed Hoytsville in honor of Samuel P . Hoyt, an early settler who contributed much to its development. In Hoyteville, they buil~ another little home, this time of cottonwood logs which they chopped from the Weber River bottoms . It was erected by Thomas and his -5- sons on the east side of the river. They made their living from the soil. They also kept cows and other farm animals. Grandfather Thomas was a kindly, quiet man, small in stature and medium heavy in build. He had a mild disposition, was always kind and patient with the children. His boys loved him dearly. The same was true of his grandsons, and they were never happier than when in the company of their grandfather; whether it was doing farm work, going to the canyons for firewood, or just sitting and listening to his stories. r Grandmother Ann Judd was a "fuissy'' little lady, always neat and tidy in appearance and in her home as well. She wore her hair in a large roll around 75 her head and tied it with a ribbon on top of her head. She was always very modest, never appearing from her bedroom in the morning until she was fully clothed, including a clean front apron and her hair combed and tied with the accustomed ribbon. The grandchildren well remember the little willow switch she kept over the doorway to convince the family cat she wais not welcome indoors. The Judds were a closely knit family and united in all things. Charles and Thoma is and their families made their homes in Hoytsville. John remained unmarried and lived with his mother and father until his death at the age of 23. James married and moved to Upton, Utah. George made his home in Henefer, Utah, after his marriage to Jane Belbin Pasket. Thomas Fredrick and family later moved to Magrath, Alberta, Canada. On 7 November 1865, three years after arriving in Utah, Tm mas and Ann Redding Judd received their endowments and were sealed to each other in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. They made a special trip to Logan when the Temple there was finished and had their children all sealed to them on • -6- 9 June 1886. While there they did other temple work for their family. Thomas Judd died in Hoytsville, Utah on 15 December 1891, and was buried in the Hoyt1Sville Cemetery. His wife, Ann Redding Judd, died 13 January 1899, and was buried beside him in Hoytsville, Utah. As of 1962, exactly one hundred years since ' they came to Utah, their posterity numbered 1, 510. George Judd - 442 James Judd - 468 Charles Judd - 369 Thomas Judd - 231 r |