e TITLE PAGE PIONEER (full name) BIRTH (date and place) DEA TH (date and place) PARENTS . MARRIED (who and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH (date) (Company arrived with) HIS:fORY (who wrote) (date written) . (who submitted) (address) Emma Staples Hutchinson Stuart Eng. 3 Feb 1844 - Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, 26 July 1924 • Rich~rd Stapleton Louisa Field William Hutchinson James Rutherford Stuart - 1878 r 24 September 1868 Captain Edward Benton Lana Stuart Preece May 1983 Geneva Robison Preece Morgan, Utah 84050 CAMP- It COUNTY .SUBMITTING _M_t_. J_o..ay,_ _________ Camp _M_o_r....;g;;..a_n ___________ County ·' . . (Camp Historian It addresa)_ ___c h_lo_e_H_._H_e_i_n_e_r_ __________ 1440 Old Hwy Road, Morgan, Utah 84050 County Historian &t addreas)._ ___v_ e_l_o_y_T_o_n_k_e_D_i_c_k_s_o_n_ _______ P.O. Box 203, Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF- INFORMATION .&c PAGE NUMBERS: Emma Staples Hutchinson Stuart She was born 3 Feb 1844, a daughter of Louisa Field and Richard Stapleton. She married William Hutchinson and they had one daughter, Louisa Isabell Hutchinson who married Arthur Washington Francis. William Hutchinson died 9 August 1871. Emma, then married James Rutherford Stuart in 1878. James had lost his first wife Fanny, who was a sister to Emma. Emma and James had two sons, Charles William Stuart (Lana's grandfather) and Oliver Hichardson Stuart. (Emma Smith and Betty Rollins Father. Emma's life is merely representative of the pioneers of that period who were sanctified through a f fliction and suffering. She en-dured trouble, pain and misery from earliest childhood. The Parish Records show her birthplace as Leckhampton, Glouces-tershire. That is in Southwest England on the Severn River 35 miles Northeast of Bristol. - She was the fourth child of her father's second marriage. He had a total of fourteen children, part of them born at Cheltenham, Leckhampton, and Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire. · Emma was born into a period of Industrial transition in which the people of England suffered deeply and the seeds of discontent and revolt were widely sown. At the age of eight she was placed as an apprentice in the kitchens of Queen Victoria, a school to learn the culinary art, undoubtedly a part of the Queen's progra~ to improve the position of the poor and working-classes. In the school she became a product of careful training and dedication to the art of cooking, canning, preserving in an era that needed badly an introduction into what makes up fine dining. Her life, like many lives of the time, became a mixture of tragedy and deep devotion, poverty and hard labor, all of which revolved almost ex-clusively around her family, her sister's family, and her famous kitchen arts. She was taught how to prepare all the different types of meat, how to cut them and dress them, from the kil l ing right through to the intricate preparation for the table. She iearned to make her own colorings for her cooking; flavorings and gelatin; fancy cake and pastry making. Years later, as a young woman, when she opened the Morgan Hotel she was the first person to know how to decorate a cake with icing. ~be knowledge of theae fine things ehe had learned as a etudent proved invaluable in the early da,.a of food preparation and preservation in Utah, for ahe had been taught and trained by the best authorities available in Kurope. Emma with her job in the kitchen, and ~llen and ranny and Harriet all worked and saved aa a faail7, pooling their aonies to make a dream come true-to go to America and escape the poverty of their lives. Bmaa and Kllen caae to America in 1866 on the ahip John Bright. Paan7, who had aether hueband-to-~e, ~aaes Rutherford ~tuart, followed in 1868 on the packet ship Kaer&ld lale. ~hey arrived in Bew Tork City August 11, 1868, ~d proceeded by Union Pacific Mailroad to ~ort Benton, 600 ailea west of Omaha. They were joined to Captain Edward / •ulford's aule train and arrived in Salt Lake City ~epteaber 24, 18b8. Before leaving England Emma had been baptized in the Biver Thames in London. w0ne cold winter night a hole was cut in the ice and under cover of darkness the ceremony was performed,u she said. This secrecy was necessary because of hostility toward the Kormons at the time. ~e •isters were received on their arrival in Utah by the Ostler family, later tAe famous candy asking family, who were from their home in England. It is not known how J5111ma met William Hutchinson. Be was a widower with a large family, some of them grown, and a miner in Coalville; but it is possible that she met him in ~alt Lake City and then they were married and moved to Coalville, Utah. Emma's first child, Louisa Isab elle, was born at Upton ·in ~ummit County, Utah. Emma had opened the first bakery in ~oalville on main street and operated this for a short time, until the death of her husband. '!'hat tragedy struck when Louisa was about four years old. ~a was apparently deeply in love with her husband and at the time of his death she was badly shaken. A strong minded and realistic person, she realised that she could not expect support from his family, that she had to find means to support her daughter and herself. lier husband's first family by this time were living in Sal, Lake City. ~be buried her husband in Coalville. 1he grave was later moved because the high school was built on that ground. Several persons thought they knew the position of th e grave cite, but in the re-sulting confussion the grave was lost and to date has not been found. William Jennings of Devereau Bouse, a hostelry in ~alt Lake, had approached her about cooking for them. ~mma made a decision to close her bakery in Coalville and move to Salt Lake City. She began several y~ar~ of work preparing dinners for such as Brigham Young, political notables of the day and many more men and women of importance. Jennings was so appreciative of her talents that he paid in advance schooling for her daughter, Louisa. Emma was making a very fine s alary, meeting famous people, and developing the talents she had ~een trained to use at the Vevereau Bouse. But it developed that she had yet another difficult work to do, for early in 1877, her sister, Fanny, who had already lost one child, was lying on her deathbed in a dugout in Morgan. She called for Emma to come from Salt Lake. Then Fanny gave her baby daughter to .l!il'nllla, saying, '1 You raise my daughter and my family." It was the custom in those days-just as in Biblical days-that the widower marry the widowed sister. So the family sat down in council to determine the future. There was Jim, Dick, and Fanny May, who would have been very smal l children. A baby Mag gie bad died. So it was decided in the family council that Emma and Louisa would come to Morgan. As for marrying James Rutherford Stuart , Emma's black eyes flashed and she stomped her feet and said, "I will not live in a dugout.• Ber years at the Devereau house had given her some savings and some independence. But bound by her sisters desires, she gave the aoney to James to build a two-room house, setting up forms and pouring a powdered lime cement to form walls. But things did not go so well in this new atmosphere, with a ready-made family to care for, and a new husband, James, a shoemaker by trade, who barely made enough money to exist. Emma soon saw her savings vanish with the construction of the new home and the needs of the increased family. ~he, too, like her sister Yanny, had been re-duced to extreme poverty. ~he had only one pair of shoes for her and Louisa. Louisa would wear them to Sunday School and Emma would wear them to ~acrament meeting. They were polished to a glistening shine. But this organizer with trained talents from the kitchen of Queen Victoria would not be put down. She was determined to raise herself out of this state of poverty, and it did not take her long to begin. She acquired a cow and a pig. Jamee, ·a trained shoemaker, knew nothing about farm things. He was willing to leave to Emma the responsibility \ -}- to gather about them the things they needed for the family. Then when Louisa was sixteen, another turn of events took place. Emma bad brought with her from Salt Lake City, some of the tools of her trade. So, when she was asked to take over the Morgan Hotel, a three story building on main street which had been built by Van Heiner, she was prepared. · it was the first real hotel in Morgan and badly needed to accomodate the men working on the railroad tracks. ~he immediately set up the whole bottom floor as a dining room, kitchen, and office. There were eighteen rooms upstairs. Why she worked s o hard in the aorgan Hotel is now clear. She wanted t o have her own hotel. James had a little shoe shop and made shoes for the major portion of the people i~ town. He was a very honest and forthright individual with a terrible temper at times. One time to got an order for a pair of sho~s from Brother 'l'oone of Croyden who wanted the shoes completed for conference. When Brother Toone dropped by the shop on Friday to pick them up, James said, "Brother Toone, your shoes are not yet ready. But you shall have them for conference. Whereupon James sat up late ~aturday night until the shoes were completed. 'l'hen he walked to Croyden down. the raiiroad tracks and delivered the shoes. •1 t was often said of him because of such action that ,His word was a good as a bond." But Emma was sometimes extremely distressed because of his bad temper and was prompted to do anything to avoid a row. When Charles W. was born, Jim and Dick were quarreling one night about who would milk the cow. Emma was in bed, the third day after the birth. When James scolded the boys for not milking the cow, Emma called Louisa to her side and told her to get the milk pail and put it out by the back door. Then Emma got out of her sick bed, crawled through the window, milked the cow, put the bucket of milk on the back step and returned to bed. Her husband never knew that she bad milked the cow instead of one of the boys. As her savings from her labors in the Morgan Hotel grew, the thought of buildin g her own hotel persisted in her mind. However, every time she brough t the subject up with her husband, James, he went into a rage, dead set against it. After years of poverty, the family income was adequate, there was plenty to eat, and Emma was saving from her earnings at the Morgan Hotel. However, Emma knew that James, too, had a dream. He wanted to go back to bis homeland, Scotland, and do genealogy work. Emma was not above ·a little ekullduggery, especially if it would mean that her own dream would come true. So she went to the Church authorities and told them what Jamee wanted to do. Within a very short time he re-ceived his call for hie first mission to Scotland. Immediately upon his departure, Emma began erecting the now famous Stuart Hotel. At first she designed a small edifice of four rooms up-stairs, an office, dinning room and kitchen downstairs. The hotel was not quite complete before she bad it in operation. But James became ill in Scotland and his search for genealogical records cut short. When he returned he got the surprise of his life, but after the initial shock Emma and James decedided to enlarge the hotel. As a peace offering to James, Emma constructe·d a small shoe shop next door. It was during this period of her life that Emma Stuart gained her greatest recognition as a cook and hotel keeper and earned the title of •Mother ~tuart•. Emma and the·~tuart Hotel became quite a source of income for many people in •organ. She continued to prepare delicious vegetable soup, roast beef dinners and delicately sweet cakes and tarts almost up until her death, July :l6, 19:.!4,