TITLE PIONEER (full name) BIR TH (dat e and pla ce) DEA TH (dat e and p l ac e) PARENTS . MARRIED (who and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH (dat e) (Company arrived with) HISTORY (who wrote) (date written) (who submitted) (address ) PAGE Fanny Hannah PasKett 4 Oct 1842 - Newent, Glouchester, England 24 Dec 192 5 - Henefer, Summit , Utah • James Pope Paskett Charl otte B uckingham Charles Henry Robinson Stevens 2 6 August 18 6 4 26 August 1"864 Lawrence Charles Stevens (grandson) LaRue Richins Waldron Morgan, 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 & addres 6 ) ____ L_o_l_a_Da_w_s_on P_ete_rs _o_n ______ _ P.O. Box 13, Morgan, Utah 8 4050 County Historian & address )_ ___v_ e_l_o_y_T_o_n_k_s_D_i_ck_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 Judd, I thought I would tell a little 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 of the Church except one, named Anni e, who married a minister and moved to r A u stralia. When Fanny was thirteen, she was forced to go to work. She was a chamber maid for a Lord Bulloui. She had 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 ther e, her sister, Sarah, who was also working out, reprimanded her for going home without taking sufficient food for her needs. This chastisement from her sis t er so hurt Fanny that she n ever 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 circumstances. Fanny decided to come to Utah and found space on a ship. T r aveling third class was the best she could afford. During the six weeks of sailing she was very ill but found some real friends. A Mrs. 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 Charle s Henry ' • • -2- Robinson Stevens, who with his parents, had come to Utah as converts in the year 1856 and settled in Henefer. Utah. The journey was hard and the majority of them walked beside the wagons. Fanny's feet became so bad she was put in the wagon. S h e was also weak from dysentery, a very common ailment because of the water along the way. Charles took good care of her, making a broth of boiled sage, but it helped in getting her health back. When they reached Henefer, Charles took Fanny to the St evens' 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 use to cook their meals. Charles had already ask Fanny to marry him, and they were married in Henefer on the 26 A ugust 1864. The v er y day of her arrival. Charles and his father, Thomas, built 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 quite a problem to the few settlers there. Fanny had a small baby daught er, and one day a band of indians came to their cabin. One burly 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 him and said she would tell Chief Washaki if he didn't put the baby back. The surprised indian put the baby down on the ground and disappeared in the brush, leaving the young mother shaken but thankful. e • • -3- Fanny and Charles and family suffered considerably from hunger and cold. Often they boiled the dried leaves of w illows to make tea. She told of young Nephi A l ma Bond leaving b l ood stains in the snow. He had no shoes and wore burlap on h is feet fo r some protection. Fanny was the mother of eleven children, most of them born in a d ugout or l og cabin. She was a very good seamstress a nd a good cook. Charles was a short, fiesty man, getting in trouble sometimes becaus e of i t. But Fanny made up for r it because she was a good neighbor , k nown everywhere as Aunt Fanny. She died 24 December 1925, four years after her husband. This history was told to her grandson, Lawrence Stevens •