TITLE PAGE PIONEER (full name) BIRTH (date and place) DEATH (date and place) PARENTS MARRIED (who and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH (date) (Company arrived with) HISTORY (who wrote) (date written) (who submitted) (address) Eliza Matilda Bennett Horspool 2 June 1824 - London, Kent, England 17 February 1902 - Ogden, Weber, Utah Richard Bennett Elizabeth Sloman John Horspool 1850 2 October 1862 James Brown - Captain Melba Martin Lars en November 1966 Melba Martin Larsen Rt. 1, Morgan, Utah 84050 CAMP h COUNTY SUBMITTING Weber River (Camp Historian & address^ County Historian & address)^ Morgan Jean Bigler Camp County Rt. 1 Box 250, Morgan, Utah 84050 Veloy Tonks Dickson PO Box 203, Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF INFORMATION & PAGE NUMBERS: Material gathered from genealogical records and in talking with relatives. ELIZA MATILDA BENNETT HORSPOOL Eliza Matilda Bennett was born 2 June 1824, in London, Kent, England, the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Sloman Bennett. Eliza was an expert seamstress, learning this trade in England. Early in church history when some of the first missionaries went to England, Eliza embraced the L, D. S. faith and was baptized in November 1848. She met a baker, John Horspool, who was a widower, and after a short courtship they were married in the year 1850. He had four living children by his first wife, Martha Moore, who died in December 1849- Her first baby, John Wallace Horspool, was born in 1851 in London and died in 1853. The second child, George Alma, was born 21 September 1852 and the third child, John Jessie, was born 1854 and died very young. They moved to Middlesex, Kent, England, where John Richard was born on the 26 September 1856. Then they went back to London where her first daughter, Martha Jane, was born 21 June i860. They were much ridiculed and persecuted because of their membership in the Church and it was with great hope and expectations and planning that they joined a group of Saints on their way to Zion and the land of America across the waters where they could enjoy their new religious convictions. The family, seven in number, sailed from Liverpool, England, on the ship MWm. Tapscott," arriving in Castle Gardens (now Ellis Island) 14 May 1862. The Company of emigrants was under the direction of Wm. Gibson, John Clark and Francis Marion Lyman. They joined a wagon train at Florence, Nebraska, on 26 July 1862 and left for the Great Salt Lake Valley Captain James Brown was the leader of -2- the wagon train. John had purchased two yoke of oxen and two wagons for their transportation to Utah. The older children walked all the way. The cattle were stampeded by a herd of buffalo which delayed them but they didn't lose many cattle. After nearly two months of a long, hard journey, they arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley on 2 October 1862, and then they went to Ogden, Weber County, Utah, where they made their home. They lived in a two room log cabin on the south side of 24th Street between Adams and Jefferson Avenue. In later years this was added on with adobe until they had a very comfortable home. Eliza gave birth to my grandmother on the 14 July 1863, she named this baby Eliza Matilda, after herself. Two years later on 14 July 1865, she had another daughter, Amy Eveline, who died when she was five years of age. Eliza was a hard worker and worked for a tailor named Thomas Jones, who owned a shop on the north side of 24th Street just below Adams Avenue. She sewed rren's trousers out of jeans cloth manufactured at Farr's Woolen Mills. She made all the clothes for her family. She made candles by pouring tallow into molds which she had placed wicks in. In the early pioneer days they ate pig weeds and young mustard greens and gathered sego bulbs which they ate raw. When they first came to Ogden there were remnants of the Old Spanish Wall which ran from Adams Avenue down 21st Street and along Wall Avenue. In order for the children to attend school, Eliza did all she could (sewing) to raise money to pay the tuition which was $8. 00 for each quarter term. The school textbooks were McGuffey's Readers and a blue bound Elementary Speller and Ray's arithmetic. -3- In those days, mule cars ran down 25th Street to the depot and the street cars didn't come to Ogden until May 1883. They attended a big celebration on 8 May 1869, when the first train came to Ogden over the Union Pacific R. R. The children loved to go up Ogden Canyon, but at that time they had to pay a toll, as there was a toll gate at'the entrance of the Canyon, The reason they loved to go to the canyon was to see the deer, antelope and bear and to watch the Indians dance. They raised their own garden produce and had lots of chickens and butchered their own meat. They used plows and harrows to take care of their garden plots; these implements they brought with them across the plains. They used lots of molasses which they got from Peter Boyle's mill on the south side of 28th Street between Washington Boulevard and Grant Avenue. The fuel used to heat and cook with was wood and there was a wood pile in the backyard where all the young people gathered. Here they sat on logs and visited and played games. In May 1881, a large tower was erected at the intersection of 24th Street and Adams Avenue, and on the top was the first incandescent light in the city of Ogden. Eliza and her family attended Sunday School under the direction of Richard Ballantyne. Celebrations on the 4th and 24th of July were held at Jones Grove, located just west of Lorin Farr Park and there was a large dance hall here. The smaller children went to Farr's Grove, now Lorin Farr Park, where they played. Her husband, John, followed his trade upon his arrival in Utah and was a baker for the railroad men who were laying tracks. He worked from Laramie, Wyoming to Promontory, Utah. Eli7a(s husband died on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1886, and she lived twelve years longer. She died on the 17 February 1902 and was buried on the 20 February 1902 in the Ogden City Cemetery. She lived a rich full life in the service of others, A wonderful L. D. S. wife and mother. Written by Melba Martin Lars en November 1966 (Material gathered from genealogical records and in talking with relatives. )