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) John Horspool 11 March 1821, Harlington, Bedfordshire, Eng. 24 December buried Ogden, Weber, Utah William Hor spool Charlotte Savage Martha Moore - 19 March 1840 Eliza Bennett 6 October 1862 James Brown Company Dorothy H. Martin(gr. granddaughter-in-law) Jean Bigler - 1981 Rt. 1 Morgan, Utah 84050 CAMP & COUNTY SUBMITTING Weber River Morgan Camp County (Camp Historian & address)^ Jean Bigler Rt. 1, Morgan, Utah 84050 County Historian address)^ Veloy Tonks Dickson PO Box 203, Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF INFORMATION & PAGE NUMBERS: /f<7 BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HORSPOOL John Horspool was born 11 March 1821 in Harlington, Bedfordshire, England, the son of William and Charlotte Savage Horspool. On the 19 March 1840 he married Martha Moore of Little Houghton, Northampton, England. He was a baker by trade. He was a medium sized build man, very good natured but strict with his children. John and Martha were the parents of the following children: Elizabeth Charlotte Horspool - born 21 April 1841 in London, Kent, Eng. Mary Emma Horspool - born 18 November 1843 in London, Kent, England William Francis Horspool - born 12 March 1845 in London, Kent, England Harriet Marie Horspool - born 6 February 1847 in London, Kent, England Sarah Moore Horspool - born (died an infant) in London, Kent, England Baby Horspool - born in London, Kent, England At Martha's death he married Eliza Bennett. This marriage was performed by Samuel Purdy, a member of Popular Branch of London Conference. To this union were born: John Wallace Horspool - born 1851 in London, Kent, Eng. (died 1853) George Alma Horspool - born 21 September 1852 in London, Kent, Eng. John Jessi Horspool - born 1854 in London, Kent, England (died young) John Richard Horspool - born 26 September 1856 in Middlesex, England Martha Jane Horspool - born 21 June i860 in London, Kent, England He came to America ahead of his family and purchased two yoke of oxen and two wagons at Florence, Nebraska to come to Utah. He arrived in Salt Lake City 6 October 1862 in the James Brown Company. Then he came to Ogden, Utah, where he made his permanent home. 120 -2- He built a two room log house with a dirt roof, this was very small to his wife Eliza, for in England she had lived in a ten room home. After coming to America she sold many of her fine clothes and got plain ones. In July a daughter was born and two years later another daughter came to grace their home: Eliza Matilda Horspool (my grandmother) born 14 July 1863 in Ogden, Weber, Utah Amy Eveline Horspool - born 14 July 1865 in Ogden, Weber, Utah Amy only lived to age eight so Eliza and John lost three of their seven child¬ren. She helped raise the children by his first wife, Martha. John worked for the railroad. He had to pay tuition for his children's school¬ing which cost $8. 00 for each quarter term. He raised his own produce, and chickens, the farm implements were plows and harrows. The first industry in Ogden was molasses and Peter Boyle had a mill on the south side of 28th Street between Washington and Grave Ave. Farr's woolen mills were located where the Old Mill Inn is today. On the east side of Washington about 14th Street was Farr's flour mill. When they came to Ogden there were remnants of the Old Spanish Wall which ran from Adams Avenue down 21st Street along Wall Avenue. Mule cars ran down 25th Street to the depot and the street cars didn't come until 1883. The early day theatricals were held in the building located where the Berthana is now and they saw the famous play, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Many times before seeds could be purchased, pig weeds and young mustard greens were used for a green vege¬table. They also ate sego bulbs raw. ,2.1 -3- The family loved to go up Ogden Canyon, but they had to pay a toll for there was a toll gate at the entrance of the Canyon. They would see deer, antelope, and bear and the Indians oftentimes would dance for them. There was a spring by Brown Ice Cream Company between 25th and 26th Streets on Grant Avenue and the families would gather and get water to take home to drink. This was a popular meeting place for friends. Lights were furnished from candles their mothers made by pouring tallow into molds. One time Eliza had put the wicks in the molds and her daughter Martha took all the wicks out and tied them together to use to fly kites. When Eliza found them gone she made Martha untie them and place them all back in the molds. The fuel used was wood. Their home was located on 28th Street. John died Christmas Eve of what we nowadays would call a ruptured appendix, but he told his children and grandchildren to go home and make Christmas for their families. He always expected his children and grandchildren to have good table manners and to always put their best side forward. He embraced the gospel in England and it was his desire to be with the Saints in Zion. He was the father of thirteen children and his posterity today would be very numerous. He was buried in the Ogden City Cemetery. The material in this history was given by his granddaughters, Bertha H# Wheelwright and Pearl H. Garneraed and was compiled and written by Dorothy H# Martin, great-granddaughter-in-law.