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Show • • • JPEG-Bk13 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) HISTORY (who wrote) (date written) (who submitted) (address) ·. · James Lythgoe & Hannah S. Peterson Johnson March 15, l842 IeaNCASHTRE,Eogland March 17, 1929 -- Henefer Thomas Lythgoe Hannahs. Peterson Johnson Lythgoe Ester Lythgoe Robinson Grace L. Johanson CAMP & COUNTY SU EMITTING ...,S..,.,ou.u._..t. .h.. .. .....M. :.u..o. .r ...:g~..a. .o "---------- Camp .M... "'"'o;..;;;r;;....g"'"'a=n~----------- County (Camp Historian & address }_ __M inw&.A'E~,"&~R... .....I.J .J,IUJJC ...:...L..i. .1..J. .LJ. i:::e~OL..---1Wci..1.1..·. i...J. J..J~ i ..aa..um1..;si___ __ County Historian & address )_ ___B _a_r_b_a_r_a_c_._P_o_r_t_e_r_ ________ SOURCE OF INFORMATION & PAGE NUMBERS: -· e .e JPEG-Bk13 THIS LITTLE OOOKLET is AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED to OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS JAMES LYTHGOE and HANNAH S. PETERSON JOHNSON LYTHGOE They came to America by sail boat from England and f\orway in the early days of the Church of J esus Christ of Latter-Day saints. Their parents and other relatives were converts and many of them emigrated to Zion . James L::thpoe, my father, died at Henefer, Utah March 17, 1929. He was 37 years of age. Hannah S. Lythgoe, m.v mother, died at Henefer, Utah .Januar y 3, 1932. She was 70 years of age. By - - - Esther Lytbgoe Robinson g/ _.p n - ....... -. • n·r A·R Y of JAMES LYTHGOt UTAH PIONEER 1864 I, JAMES L YTHOOE, wa~ born in Pendle bury, Lancashire, England, on the 15th day of March, 1842. My father, Thomas Lythgoe, was the youngest of 14 children born to Joseph Lythgoe ~nd his wife Betty, who were my grandfather and grandmother. They were born in 1753 or about that time. Grandmother Betty outlived grandfather a good many years. I was the means of having grandfather and grandmother and also father and mother sealed husband and wife in the Temple . My mother and father were of the first to embrace the Gospel in Pendlebury Branch in the year 1 340 and were convinced of its truths by the preaching of Apostle Parley P. Pratt. They were acquainted with Apostles Brigham Young, John Taylor, Orson Hyde and many others in the early days , and often heard preaching in Carpenters Hall, Manchester, England. I have often heard i n my boyhood, father and others tell incidents of Apostle Orson H:,de going and returning from his Mission to Jerusalem. I can remember in my youth when Peter Sharples was president of Pendlebury Branch. Aaron Smethurst and my father also became presidents in their time. Thomas Pitts was president when I was groWing up into a young man. My fat her was very eenerous to the Elders on missions. At one time he hauled and don-ated to Parle~, P. Pratt a cart load of coal. When Brother Pratt was in very poor circum-stances he lived in a cellar with his wife and one child in Oldham Road, Manchester. srother f ratt was at that time first commencing the publication of the "Mill star" and hymn book, and I can well remember when I was quite little and father continued to tell me as I grew up, how that Brother Pratt was in frightful circumstances for want of money to continue his publications, and that father encouraged him by loans and otherwise. At one time the wife of Parley P. Pratt and young Farley sta:·ed at fathers while Brother Pratt went preaching to other places. At another time the young boy was left for my mother to take care of for a time, and during this stay he rambled off some distance and was late• coming home, making mother somewhat anxious concerning his whereabouts, but then he return-ed and I have heard her tell she took him over her lap and· spanked him soundly. He cried and promised to do better. When the Apostle returned he praised mother for thus correcting his son. My parents always kept open house for the elders on missions and gave freely to the calls made upon them. I can well remember the meeting house in Pendlebury Branch ~ng in mourn-ing for the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith. Their pictures were also upon the wall and under them was this inscription, "In memory of our departed hut deepl~, lamented Brethern, who died martyrs for the cause of Christ on the 27th day of June, · 1844 . n My sister Lucy and John Collier courted for seven years. About two weeks after their marr-i age on a Sunday around two 0 1 clock in the morning, Lucy returned and kicked at the door for admittance. Father said No, she must go home and live with her ·husband. Mother opened the door and at breakfast John appeared and explained everything all right. Both lived with the old folks for a litt le while and then returned to housekeeping ever after living in peace. ''"·i !, incident shows that father would not tolerate a separation of man and wife. Luc;tr lived to 'be 50 ~.1ears of age. John Collier married again and came to Utah. He returned to En~l ,~ n<: wb.ere he died Februar:v 4, 1831. ~~ brother Joseph was a good young man. He had considerable trouble over his first court- ; e ,hip, hut finally married Margaret Evans and they had two children. Work was scarce and he l moved to Lydsley ?.anks where he was employed in the coal mines. One saturday morning an explosion occured and Joseph with 26 others were suffocated. That same evening there was to JPEG-Bk13 • DIARY OF JAMES LYTHOOE - - - - - - - UTAH PIONEER of 1864 Page 2 be a social party in our meeting house but it was abandoned. Father left inmediately for the scene of the accident and Joseph was brought at last to the surface of the mine. This hanpened on the 8th da~, o f December 1858, and he was buried in Street Gate Churchyard • .. My brother John ·was a very plain spoken and strictly virtuous young man. He was the first of our family to leave England for America and I was about 13 years of age. He lived for a while in Missouri and journeyed across the plains in company With Brother Reyoolds family of Wanship, Utah. He came to Utah from thence to California and Nevada. He sent money from time to time to the family at home which was the means of helping the rest of the family ( excepting Father) to immigrate to Utah, Zion. He left Virginia and met our family in Coal-ville, Utah where he was married to Catherine Harrop, where he lived until killed in the coal mine on the 23rd of Septemb er, 1867 leaving his wife a widow with two children, John and Rachel. I will here rel.ate a little incident concernir:g the forethought of my brother John as re-lated b;' himself. The same evening he had drawn his pay in Virginia, after being in his cabin a while, two masked men came to rob him. He heard them coming and had an idea what was up, so he slipped the roll of green backs inside his undershorts. The men stripped him of all his clothing but his shorts and no money could they find. The tore up the fireplace and searched the cabin through and gave it up as a bad j ob. He got supper and made them welcome generally until they departed. He mislead them by stating he had just shipped the money to England, which he did the next day. This money was the means of :©nigrating the family . He soon left for Utah. I Will state here that the o nly objection father had against coming to Utah was ffi:S dread of the sea. My sister Ann was now JD9..rried to John Booth. He left her for the purpose of gathering to Zi on and was in company with my brother John in his journeyings from place to place . John Booth .ioined in sending means to emigrate his family and other s. He met hi s wife and two children in Coalville at the same time as my brother John. e My sister Ellen was left in Preswich and died in 1871. M_v sister Elizabeth (Betty) emigrated single. She lived at Richville · until one evening War ner Porter , Bishop of Porterville, after the dance was about over, married her to Thomas F. Deardon without bed or board, since which time she has had 1 2 chil dren and has been blessed with good bed and board ever since. My sister Rachel lived at Hoytsville until she became the wife of James Fowler by whom she had 11 children. They l ocated in Henefer, Summit County, where she died on the 9th of March 1887. The second child Mother had was ?')3.med Betty. She was born 1829 and died in 1833 . My Father was a green grocer. When I was quite young I went with him t o ne.rket on purpose to see that everything was all right with the horse and cart and the purchases. A man came along and told me that father wanted me. I went, looked around and saw the. .m an lift a baskeof butter out of the cart and run away. I turned back but could not overtake him. It was a long ti.me before I h~ard the last of that butter and it was the last thing that I ever missed from my care. 1 At last I became dissatisfied with any j ob of peddling so I was sent to work in the mine with John and Joseph. I worked there one day which taught me a lesson. I did not go to school after I was eleven years of age. ; I received a good many lessons in writing , reading etc., f..r0m Thomas Rnshton about this time. We ~ere close and true until his departure for Africa v:··e n he r:-rew to be a young man. He returned, went again and returned and died at the age of 2? . He sent for the Elders to administer to hiJY!.-., · ~nd requested them to ask me to do e for him what I could in the Temple • .T he Brethern .vui Joq. Openshaw, James Shape and John Ramsden . F.)3.ch one told me his message in separate places and at different times. I was baptized for him in Salt Lake Ci t y and received endowments for him in the Logan Temple. JPE<f~! baptized by George Rushton on the 10th day of May, 1852. He carried me into the river where it was deep eoough, and would have carried me out but I said I would walk out. • 1JIARY 01'' JAMES LYTHOOE - - - - - - - UTAH PIONEER of 1864 Page 3 On our way home I beat Thomas Rushton in a foot race Which I never had done before but he could not overtake me that time, although he was the best r unner. I attended meeting and waf confirmed by Samuel Harmer. I acted as deacon as I got older, and was ordained a teacher .. when r was fifteen. , At twelve I was put an apprentice to James C. Barker to learn clog and . shoe making. He joined the church in an early day but got weary and fell by the way. During m-v seven vears with him and his family I heard him always defend "~rmonism11 • I have done his templ~ labor as my record shows . Pendlebury Branch fell ·in numbers through the emigra-tion and other causes until only Thomas Pitts and I were left with a few others to carry on The branch about this time was composed mostl~ of sisters. The branch increased again in numbers. When I was about 18 years of age Brother Pitts who was now Branch President ord-ained me an Elder. I stayed with James Barker until my time was up and about this time I co!T':llenced to court Martha Heelis. I had seen her when I was on a visit to -Breghtmet some four r ears before . Her Aunt Martha who was present predicted after I left, "That boy will be Martha's husband 11 • I said to Brother Pitts, "Let us go out and preach in the streets to the people". Very many times we did so. I preached in many of the str eets in Pendlebury to very large congrega.tiom When I had stayed my time for Brother Barker Jacob Lindley of Newtown sent for me. I worked for him for more than a year. He had a large family. I saved up seven pounds in the P .E. Fut and three pounds in the penny savings bank kept at the Post Ofrice. About this time I was called into the ministry. John McKay was district president and William H. Dame was confer-ence president. On leaving my friend Jacob Lindly, who was a sincere Lwedenbourgen, I pres-ented him my Book of Mormon which he had been pursuing for a few months back. I gave my father the three pounds I had deposited in the savings bank. My letter of appointment reads as follows: 42 Islington, Liverpool e March 26, 1862. Letter of Appointment. Elder James Lythgoe Beloved Brother , This certifies that you are appointed to labor in the Manchester ConferencE of the Cnurch of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, under the direction of Elder William H. Dame. It is your duty to preach the Gospel and administer the ordinances thereof whicn pertains to the office of an Elder and assist yo~ President in discharging any duties whict he may r equir~ of you for the welfare of' the cause where you are appointed to labor. Dear Brother, keep your covenants with God also his conunandments and the council of those who ar€ over )·ou in the Lord. Be humble and prayerful and the Holy Spirit will accompany your admin-istration. The power of the Priesthood will increase upon you, the hearts of the people be open to . s~pply your wants and you will save many from their sins. Amasa M. Lyman Charles C. Rush George Q. Cannon ) ) ) Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles & Adjacent Countrys Hy first traveling was in company with John McKay. We walked to Oldham on the Sunday mornine a distanc~of 8 miles. My journals tells of my labors in Manchester Conference . There were 32 branches and I was soon left to do most of the traveling alone as the Civil War was just conmencing between the North and the South and many Elders were consequently called home to " tah, America . I soo n concluded that it would be to my advantage to have Martha's picture. I had one taken and mad e it a J)Oint to let t he yo unf people generally see the likeness through the Branches of the conferences. Brother Dame was aft er a while released home and President Kay was re-a rr.oved to !:1irmi nfham. I was alone until Thomas Taylor came and presided in Brother Kay.' s ,ai, r lace. In a bout two years more elders were sent from Utah. I had them for my traveling com- J:'8,nions alternately-- George Brown from Provo, Eba.than Eldredge, Miles P. Romney, Joseph H. JP~ ~U.13 Georpe D. Grant, Joseph Machin, William Crosby and ~ilford Woodruff, Jr. These brether . a a~never traveled in the ministry until appointed to labor with me. I spent much time in •• ~ DIARY OF JAMES LYTHOOE - - - - - - - - UTAH PIONEER OF 1864 Page 4 visitin~ people who had left the Church. During the time I was laboring alone in the conference I took it upon myself and notified in a very kind way all of the branch presidents , 32 in all, to dis~o.ntinue cutting members from the Church until cases first had been investiE?ated by a conferen~e president. All agreed with me and it saved a great many from being cut off. I will mention that one a~ernoon in Clayton I struck out to find a certain man. I knew only his name never having seen him, his having been cut off. ·r was led by the Spirit and I arrived at Newton-Heath. I saw a man standing by a gate. I stopped and inquired hi~ name and he was the man I wanted. I had supper with him and invited him to meeting, introduced him to Brother Taylor and he joined the Church and soon became the President of the Manchester Branch. His name was Brother Scott. After a meeting in Bolton in the evening Sister Horrock asked me to call in the morning and administer to her son William, age about 18 and who had been sick about 3 months and still under the Doctor's care. She lived in Haliwell. I stayed the night at Esther's folks and in the morning I called on Sister Horrock . Her son was sick and looked more like dying than anythinf else. The little kitchen was full of little and big bottles, some f ull and some empty. I said I would administer on condition that she would do as I said which was to continue the services of the Doctor but when the time came for him to swallow the medicine just feed it to the sink instead and the Doctor was surprised at his patients recovery. He and his family came to Utah. He returned on a Mission to England and is livin~ in Lever County. July 15, 1894 e I often visited Martha Heelis , 22 Darcy Lever, Bolton . Her father Thomas Heelis, and her mother, Elizabeth Heelis never failed to make me welcome. Their family at this time con-sisted of father, mother, Jane and Joseph Warburton, Mary and James Warburton and Thomas B. and ~artr.a. James Heelis and EdWard were married and keeping house for themselves and Jane and family lived home . Thomas B. emigrated and married May Benson on the plains on their way to Utah . It is now July 15, 1894. Father and mother Heelis, James, Joseph Warburton, Mary Warburton and Martha (my wife) are all dead . Thomas 9. located at santa-quin, Utah, where he now resides, and raised a large family. Mary died at 18 and Martha at 40 years of age. They were an excellent family. I have given to Thomas B. all I had of their genealogy as he was anxious and willing to do their Temple work. About the latter part of my being in the ministry, Martha• s mother took it into her head to visit my parents one Sunday. The same day three of my uncles came to s~e my father and mother . The reason for their visit was they had seen published in a newspaper at Leigh my father ' s name, he having been fined 3 JX)unds by the officers for ,having an old four- JX)und wei~ht in his shop that did not have the stamp properly on. These men had come and pa.id the fine for him. ,John Moburn Kay was a very faithful and p:ood District President . He was president of the.. Manchester, Preston and LiverJX>ol Conferences. It came to pass that he was called ·upon to preside over Birminpham District. He was born at Moorside, Bury, Lancashire, England on October 6, 1817, baptized May 29, 1841 and he died on the plains September 26 , 1864. His wife Ellen was present when he died, she having left Utah on a business trip while he was on his last Mission. He was a great man to bea~ testimony of the Divine Mi_ssion of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and not a bit less did he fail to emphasize that President Brigham Young was his legal successor. John Mo burn Kay was a man that weighed nearly JOO pounds. He did all the walking he could on purpcse to keep down his wei[!ht. He was a very rooo. man . · William H. Dame was president of Manche.~ter.· Conference. He and Brother Kay was the means ~ of my being called into the ministry. He wa~ .a very wise traveling companion and a good ~ president. At length he was called to return home. He had a number of wives but no chil- 1 dren, and was Bishop of Parowan. The last time I saw him was near the Utah Pepitentiary, JPEJJad ~ing a trust:.· prisoner. "Madam Rumor" said he was concerned in the Mom1tain Meadows "Murders. He told me he was as innocent as a child and I believed him, for I had heard Apostle George A. Smith say the massacre was committed by the Indians, because the pass-ing emigrants had JX>iSoned t heir spring of water. John D. Lee was convi r.t.l"!ci :t m Pv_,.,.,,_ DIARY OF JAMES LYTHGOE - - - - - - - - UTAH PIO NEER OF 1864 Page 5 and he died soon after his release from the troubles . One day before I was in the.minis-t and while I was world.ng for Jacob Lindley, Brother Dame called and stayed a little w~ile. After he left ¥r . Lindley made the remark that if ever he saw a good man Mr. Dame • was o~e. He felt such a good feelinp: during his sta;v. e Thomas Ta~'l or was now apnointed District President . He and I traveled .togeth~r for about six months. The first thinp. he done was to get me a new suit of clothes . We had a very iood time in our travels. He was good loold.ng and all around a very nice man. I remember when we arrived at Leigh Mrs . Walsh said he had an honest face , and Brother Wal sh offered him their adopted firl for a wife after a while, but it passed off as a joke. About Christmas time President Carmons called a council of the ministry of the Mission. I attended a six day meeting at Birmingham. Brother ca.rrnons first remark was if he might be permitted and it would be proper he felt he would like to go in a corner and sit down and cry like a little boy, not for any guilt but because of the humility of his feel-ings . During the ending of the six days council all were invited to bear testimony. I was about the last one who done so . I think it was the most enjoyable time . Before the meet-ings were ended I received word of Thomas Pitts son Joseph, about 14, being killed in the coal mine . I told Brother Taylor of the sad o·ccurence and interceded that Brother Pitts and family be helped to Utah which was listened to very favor~bly for he and family jour-neyed across the sea in the same vessel as I. At Birmingham Brother Taylor told me I would be released in the spring to gather to Zion . I returned to my field of labor and my releasE was soon published in the ·~n Star . I now commenced to arrange for getting married as well as gathering to Utah. Brother G.D . Grant was now conference president. There being a conference to be held on the 17th of April in Grovenor Street, Temperance Hall , Manchester, and President Cannon was expected to be nresent. I asked Brother Grant when he wrote to Brother Tayl or if he would ask him to ask '!:3rother Cannon if he would mar~· me when he would be present to our conference. He said, "Yes, I will with the greatest of pleasure". The conference convened on the 17th of April, 1864. I asked Brother Cannon if he would marry us and he said "Yes, follow me where-ever I go today" and he would get a chance to perform the ceremony. Hy three sisters, Betty, Ann and Rachel were with us . We all had dinner with Brother Armstrong. Brother Cannon could not marr y us now as ther e was a stranger present. Well the stranger was pre-sent again at tea time so coming to the meeting for the evening we all slipped into the basement of the building and he (Brother Cannon) performed the ceremony. The stranger was still present. Also present besides Martha and myself were Brother Cannon,Thomas Taylor, John W. Young, Brigham Young, Jr . , and my sisters. I attended to my labors in the ministry and Martha went to world.ng in the factory until the time arrived to start to Zion. Thomas Taylor himself collected for me I think about 19 shillings from the Manchester Branch . The rest of our family sail ed on the "Monarch of the Sean, a sailing vessel, about 3 weeks before we did, and me and my wife Martha set sail on "General McClellan" on the 22nd day of May, 1864 from Liverpool. Martha ' s father and mother was very sorrowful at parting and so were the others . My father came to see me a few days before and I accom-panied him to the Bolton Station and gave him half sovereign 10 shillings as I parted with him. My mother held means for his emigration until the l ast but he would not go . Now on board ship I was sick all the way.Martha was well after only a day or two of sea-sickness .I was president of the District ~Q . J on board but could not attend it on acc-ount of i,he sea sj ckness.We 1anded in New York July Jrd,1864. Our captain Trask sailed north s"-::e JC'O miles off l·is course to avoid the southern warships, and he took in the sign fror. the ves~el 1 s side w!iile un north .We fot amonp: the great ice bergs and ran ag- A ainst one in the nipht and we expected we were .l!Oin? down but we turned out all right. • io/e were l,ecalmed for about three days and did not move but a little flopping from side to side and at last we were met by a pilot (boat) a bout 300 miles from New York and he took us safel? to port.All passed the emi~ration and we traveled for 9 days on railway cars JPEG.i:~1=s days up rivers until we arrived at Wyoming . On the Missouri river it was very dark and when we landed I could hardly walk on shore from being sick so long on the sea. • e DIARY OF JAMES L YTHOOE UTAH PIONEER OF 1864 i7 Page 6 My mother and sisters had come down from their camp and I could hear mother in the dar kr.ess hollering at the top of her voice, 11JAMIDUS". We were soon up the hill and camp fires were burning brightly all around. The Church had sent Ox and MuJ:e t eams for the e:nifrants and we stayed a nd camped in Wyoming .for nearly three weeks. We received supplies from the Commissar y owned by the Church. I t stormed and was very unpleasant some times but we got along very well and at last the teams were well rested. Joseph Young preached a sermon and we were soon ready to start on our journey to Salt Lake City, Utah . I wa s hired by Levy Openshaw and started with four yoke of oxen hitched to a new wagon loaded with stoves . He would pay me a cow for the job. We gave our mtes to the Church to pay for our pa ssage across the plains. By hiring to Levy Openshaw left me only owi ng for m:-~ wife Martha for crossing the plains in the church wagons and if I don 't pay it I want m~- descendents to see that it is paid out of my property. Sixty dollars is the amour.t . Captai~ Joseph S . Rawlins of Draperville, Salt Lake County, was our Captain and a rood man . We jo·1rneyed up the Platte River for hundreds of miles and in passing through the Indian countrr I first saw an Indian Chief and lots of naked Indians. It was a testimony to me of the t r uths of the "Book of Monnon" . The Chief was copper - colored and seemed to me to be pocked marked. I thouP,ht he had had the small pox. He was a ver y fine ·l ooking man. He ordered all the other Indians away from camp . At l ast we had to ford the Platt river. I understood they were charging too much toll to cross the bridge. The river was low-ei ght and ten oxen on a waf!on with emigrants wading the stream. My wife Martha would neither ride nor walk through the river so when we got all the wagons over we took a good many yokes of oxen back for those who were left to hold to their tails and thus be pulled over . We all got over safely and camped . The river rose in one hour so that it would have been impossible to cross over again . It was nearly a mile wiqe and the water was very warm and shallow when we crossed. I will sa y here that Rachel Harrop Sharples died on Sunday mor ning August 28, 1864 and the following Sunday P~ter Shar ples her hus-band died , age 42. He used to be President of Pendlebury Branch. We were now coming into the Bl ack Hills . One young man went to the top of the mountain . When he ret urned I asked him what he could see on the other side and he said, " Nothing but amther big mountain" . All went well and we were crossing Wyoming . Thomas Pitts took sick of mountain fever and it was all he could do to arise but he did so. He s ettled in Iron County where he died of old age in Faragonah. We were soon coming through where Evanston now is and from there we traveled a new road down Chalk Creek and camped near Upton, Utah ~etting into camp rather later than usual. The teamster just behind me comin~ down the d~~ay had his wago n tip over and Mrs. Dan-i els yelled out but no one was hurt. Next day there was lots of fun over Tommy' s wagon ~oinF. over. It was the only tip-over on the road from Missouri to Salt Lake. Next day we came into Coalville, Utah where my sister Ann met her husband John Booth . All my folks stayed there and me and Martha continued on to the City where we met Aunt Alice and Brother Shaw of the 19th Ward on September 22, 1864 . We were soon on our way to San-taquin where we met Mar tha's brother Thomas and his wife. After a while we obtained a lot upon which I built a dug-out in which we lived for several months . Puring the wi nt er we moved to Salt Lake City and sold my l ot to Brother John Greenhalgh . We stayed now with Brother Shaw. I paid a visit to Coalville to see my folks and my brother John who had ar-rived fro~ Vir ginia . John and I concluded to visit Porterville and take up a farm each . ;'/hile ! ·.-::) s in salt .L~ke City my wife Martha and I went to se·e Brother Heber C. Kimball as we He. :~t ed to f:et our endowments . Aunt Alice was with us • . It was about the 24th of Januar~: 13c5 and it was snowing . I knocked at Brother Heber C. Kimball's door . He was ~ alone at the t i me but. ~ave me a .good scolding for wanting my endowments having only W latel~· arrived from England and my recommend was only a renewal. He said to me, "Where is ~·our wife?". I said , "She is just outside the door". Brother Kimball said: "You are JPEG.Beic1t~ne man leaving yo ur Wife outside". He soon invited them in and told me to be at the Endo~·rme nt House the next 100rning at 7 O I Clock. He said, "How do you know but you will be an Arostle in less than five years?". • • DIARY OF JAMES LYTHOOE - - - - - - - UTAH PIONEER OF 1864 Page 7 ·we were t here the next morninp: at the appointed time and received our endowments and was sealed husband and wife for time and all eternity by Apostle George Q. Cannon. I will state that the following Sunday after arriving in santaquin I handed in our certificate of mem~ership and we was baptized the same day by Brother William Greenhalgh • In t~e 'bednning of 1B65 my brother John and I started from Coalville, sta~;ed at Brother Shaws in Salt Lake and then started for Porterville. We got to Farmington the same eveni~ and sta~,ed at Thorntons. He wanted to hire John next morning as he made himself so useful Next day we arrived at Richville and the next day at Brother Aaron Smethurst 1 s at Porter-ville, Utah . It was winter. Everybody soon knew my brother John and with his horse we dragged out of the bottoms enough green cotto11Wood logs to put up one room of a house. He left for Coalville and I stayed with Brother Smethurst until spring until Wirtha arrived from the City. She had walked most of the way. We stayed with Brother Smethurst during bad weather then we moved into our new green cottorft{ood house. The chimney was made of new green sticks. There was no window and no floor in and j ust sticks, straw and dirt for a roof. We lived in ·this until fall. Joseph, my first born, was born here on September 22, 1365. Martha was three days before she could be confined and it was through the assis-tance of Warner Porter and his good wives that she was saved. We moved into our log house on the bench and moved across the creek and lived among the Porters for about three years. Our son Thomas was born there on the bench and Heelis was born in East Porterville. The Porters were good people to live amon,e:st and we lived there until 1872. I turned my house and lot over to Sanford Porter for him to pay in for my tithing the sum of $50.00 and we moved to Eenefer, Summit County, Utah . · We lived in the Fort by the meetin~ house in Henefer. We bought a lot from Bishop Richins and built the log house now owned by Nephi Bond. Mary Jane and Edward were born in Henefer In 1876 we moved to santaquin, Utah County for a couple of years. Our son John was born there J•1l:,:- 13, 1877 . I presided over District No. l while we were there and learned a ereat deal from the wise council of Bishop George Halliday. I made shoes for the store and clo~~s for the people and had a very good time. At length we concluded to ioove back to Henefer in 1878. I built on my 5 acres the same fall and owned in all nearly 100 acres of grazing and farm lands. Soon after leaving Santaquin I homesteaded 160 acres of land near Park City, Utah. I obtained my p:i.tent for the same during President Harrison's admin-istration. Our youngest child, a daughter named Elizabeth was born January 14, 18SO. On the 14th of August,1881, my wife Martha died. The way her death occured I will now describe. My whea~vas being harvested by John Paskett and seven of us was to bind after the drop machine. After breakfast Martha concluded to go to Stevens'· "t?utcher and slaugh-ter house and get some meat for dinner for all hands. It had rained during the night.Her shoes were good but thin. When she arrived in the lane before Fifes place there was a pool of water so she thought she would get over the fence. In dropping on the other side from three p:>les from the grpund she suffered internally and knew the circtn'Ilstances would be fatal. She managed to get to Stevens• meat sryop and back to Sister Stevens house where she laid until Fowlers could come and she was conveyed home by George· Fowler, laid on her back in the bottom of the wagon box. That happened on August 11th and she expired on Sunday nx>rning the 14th of. August, 1881. Before she died she called the boys to her and encourafed them to attend Sunday School and meeting as she said she was going to leave them. She blessed her baby, Elizabeth. It was about 5 O' clock in the morning and she was buried the following Tuesday. March 15, 1395 On Aur-us t 16, 1~92 I was married to Hannah Sophia Peterson Johnson in the Lo~n Temple at Logan, ·r· ?.:- . Today, March 15th, is my birthday and I am now 53 years of age. I lack 30 . ?ear s of ~ein.!7 as old as my father when he died. At home today is my wife Hannah our , fi:rst bao·· y;artha, Hannah's four children by her first husband and my Lizzie and' John·. . . • ,John came •.:p here from Kaysville, ·Utah. While there he lost the little finger on his left hand throuf."h trying to take out the cartridge from a gun. It is now getting nearly healed over. The Doctor charp.es him twenty dollars for tending it. Our family has lived on pies JPEG~X\~13cake~ tod~y by way of celebration of my birthday. All is well and the boys and 1!'irls ai"e growing fine, fat and good-natured and are all doing well. e DIARY OF JAMES LYTHGOE - - - - - - - - UTAH PIONEE,R._OF 1864 Page 8 I see from this book I have not wri t~en any more since the 15th of March, 1895. Since then my wife Hannah has had two more children. Our first named Martha Heelis was born August 16, 1893 and blessed by myself. Our second named Neils Peterson lx>rn July 2, 1895. Our third named Brigham born August 3, 1897 and blessed by myself October 3, 1897. This little boy lived one year, 7 months and 4 days. He was in every way bright and possessed all his faculties but was attacked by pneumonia. February and the beginning of March was very cold, stormy, boisterous \,feather. He was sick about ten days and row is resting by the right side of my first wife Martha in the Henefer Graveyard . He died March 6, 1899 at 3:15 A.M. _ I was ordained a Teacher in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-saints when fifteen years of a~e •. Thomas Pitts ordained me an Elder . I -was ordained a sevP.nty by Thomas Pitts at Coalville, Utah. I was ordained a High Priest by President Andrew Peterson on Sunday, Aurust 26, 1884 at Coalville, Utah. President Cluff, Thomas Balls Edmund Eldredge also officiated. ' l\DTE : This Diary of James Lythgoe was copied from his original writings which have been in the • possession of the famil y for the past thirty years. James and Hannah S. Lythgoe were t he parents of seven children. Besides Martha, Neil and Brigham which he mentioned there were Beletta, Otto, Sophia and Esther. Histories of James Lyth~oe and Hannah S. Lythgoe have been f~led in the.nau~hters qf Utah Pioneers Building in Salt Lake City, Utah . They were written and filed by their youngest daughter Esther Lythgoe Robinson. A picture of James Lythgoe and also his genealo~ may be found in ~he.large book entitled "Pioneers and .Prominent Men of Utah" published in 1913. This book is 1n 100st Utah Lib- , raries. Also pictures of James and Hannah S. Lythgoe and short histories of t hem 11)3.y be found in the book "Henefer, Our Valley Home", published in 1958. • L,:rge photographs of them are hanging in the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Building in s ·.lt Lake City, Utah. They are hung 6n the wall of the basement staircase. Small F .ctures of them are also hanging in the DUP Building in Henefer, Utah. * * * * * * * ~· ~· * ~... .;~- i~· * * JPEG-Bk13 e NAMES AND DA TFS COPIED FROM THE TEMPLE RECORD BOOK OF JAMES LYTHGOE Great-Gra ndparents of JAMES LYTHGOE on his Mother ' s side: WILLIAM WILCOCK, born abo ut 1750 at Leigh, Lancashire, England AN N \t.JILCOCK, born about 1 7 50 at Leip.h, Lancashire, England Grandparents of JAMES LYTHGOE on his Mother's side: JAMES v\fILCOCK, born about 1775 a t Wigan, Lancashire, England ANN RAI.-SDEN, born about 1772 at Wip-an, Lancashire, England O'o record of Great- Grandparents on his Father I s side) Grandparents of JAMES LYTHGOE on his Father ' s side: JOSEPH LYTHGOE, born about 1 753 at Leigh, Lancashire, En~l.and BETTY LYTHOOE, born about 1753 at Leigh, Lancashire, England Parents of JAMES LYTHGOE: 90 died about died about died about died about died about died about THOMAS LYTHGOE, born July 12, 1804 at Leigh, La.ncashire,England ESTHER WILCOCK LYTHOOE, born April, 1806, Hindley ,Lancashire ,Eng. died Sept. JO, 1887 ( En . died ~uJ.y 23,1885,Henefer JAME:§ LYTHGOE, born March 15, 1342 Pendlebury,Lancashire,Eng. died March 17, 1929,Henefer MARTHA HEELIS LYTHGOE,born Dec.12,11340 ~alt Fields,Lancashire,died Aug. 14, 1881, Henefer (Married April 17, 1864, Manchester, England) ·. Treir c hi ldren: ... JOSEPH LYTHGOE, born Sept. 22, 1q65 Porterville, Utah, died Feb. ~; tO.q.o Ogden, Utah THOMAS LYTHGOE, born October 5, 1867 Porterville, Utah,died December 19,1955 Lovell,Wyo. JAHFS HEELIS L YTHGOE, born Jan. 24, 1870 Porterville, Ut. died Kaysville, Utah MARY JANE LYTHliOE BURTON, born April 5, 1872 Henefer, Utah - EDWARD L YTHOOE, born December 18, 1874 Henefer, Utah JOHN LYTHGOE, born July 13, 1877 Santaquin, Utah ELIZAB.1:!,'TH SI NGLETON LYTHGOE KEITHLEY, born Jan. 14, 1880 Henefer, Utah,died Ogden ESTHER HOWARTH, born March 1827,Chewmoo~,Lancashire,Eng . died Aug. 11, 1889, Henef~r,Ut. ELIZABETH A.BIRKS, .born January 22, 1859 Stockport, Lancashire, England · · Her children: Ernest, (by previous marriage) born 1881,PB.yson,Utah William Birks Lythgoe,born Jan. 22, 1883,Henefer,Utah Herbert Howarth Lythgoe,born ~ov. 7, 1886, Henefer,Utah HANNAH SOPHIA PE'J.'ERSON JOHNSON LYTHOOE.., born March 21, 1861 Sheberson, N:,rway,died: Jan . 3,1932 Henefer ' Her children by marriage to JOHN JOHNSON,(1879): ,- MARY JOHNSON LYTHGOE, born Feb . 17, 1880 Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, Utah : HYRUM JOHNSON, born Dec. 24, 1882 at Mill Creek, salt Lake County, Utah j ~:~IM JOHNSON, born Feb. 18, 1884 at Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, Utah ~EPH JOHNSON, born Sept . 21, 1336 Mill Creek, Salt Lake Co .Utah died Aug. - ·- Her children hy marriage to JAMES LYTHGOE on Aug. 16, 1892: MARTHA ' L"..:THGO:t; WHITE, born AuR. 1 6, 1893 at Henefer, Utah NEIL PETERSO N L YTHGOE, born July 2, 1895 at Henefer, Utah . BRI GHAI<I LYTHGOE, born Auf!. 3, 1 397 at Henefer, Utah • • • • • • died .March 9,1956 Henefer 6,1899 Henefer .•: · OOLETIA i'l . LYTHGOE CLARK, born Sept. 21, 1899 at Henefer, Utah OTTO LYTIIGOE, born January 8, 1902 at Henefer, Utah SOPHIA LYTHGOE SPENDLOVE, born December 5, 1904 at Henefer, Utah JPEG ~ 1 ijER LYTHOOE ROBINSON, born March 1, 1907 at Henefer, Utah e HISTORY of HANNAH SOPHIA PETERSON JOHNSON LYTHGOE by Esther Lythgoe Robinso UTAH f'IONfil:R - - 1865 HANNAH S. LfrHOO.~ was horn in the town of Sheberson, Norway on March 21, 1861. She was a · daugntter ·oheils and Annie Bollite Borsen Peterson. Her father was born in Shabersanp, ~~rway in 1825, and he died in l'Jorway September 21, 1870. Her mother was born in Moss , Rega.sang, Norway on October 21, 1835 and she died April. 21, 1910 here in Ameri ca. They were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints by so~e of the early Missionaries. HANNAHS. LYTHGOE had. ttree sisters and one brother. Their names are Agnes, Elizabeth, Clara and Otto Peterson. She also had a half sister named E}nma I. Englebrason, and other half sisters and half brothers. A!ter jo~ning the Latter Day Saint C~urch Hannah's mother left her and her sister Agnes with their Grandmother in Norway and came to America bringing With her the three other c~ildren . A family in Norway wanted· to adopt my mother (Hannah) and .Agn~~- .so !,h~y lived with them for a while. Then later my Great-grandmother brought them to America. They · came on a sail boat which was the means of ocean travel at that time. Their boat was on the ocean for over three months as the winds kept .blowing it back to l>brway instead of toward America. Mother told me the ship also carried a c~w to provide them with fresr. milk. She also told me how she used to wander all over the ship and would climb up the mast and look out over the ocean. Everyone was afraid to tr~, to get her down · for fear she would drop in the water so they always let her come down by her self. When they firally arrive? in America they were met in Chicago by my grandmother. Then they beran the long trek across • the plains by wagon and on foot. This was in the year 1865 . The greater part of the surface of the country of IDRii'lAY consists of extensive pine forests and desolate moorland. The mountains rise abrupt~y from the ¢oast and there are many lakes and waterfalls and fields of ice. During pa.rt of the year some of the people ma.de holes in the ice a!1d in that way got some of their water supply. One day when my mother was a small child she and other children w~re playing on the ice and my mother slipped a r,d fell into one of the holes. The other · children quickly ran to her father Neils Peter-son and he fot his long tongs (which he used in tanninf hides) and put them down in the hole in the ice, grasping my mother by the head and pulled her up out of the hole . It was a miracle she was 1 nt drowned. After arriving in sa1 t Lake my Mother was ·again adopted as her Mother had remarri~d and had several more chi ldren . At one time mother herded cows ·in the Mill Creek area and was sittinp on a .1arpe rock one day resi.ing when she decidedto look under the rock and there curled up was a larre ~ke. When she was a young woman of seventeen or eighteen she m3.rried John Johnson and became the mother o f .foar ch i ldren: Mary, Hyrum, Ephraim and Joseph . The home where she lived then is still occupied and is j11st off 20th East Street here in salt Lake City. The Indians used to make frequent visits to the homes to beg something to eat. They used to come to the door anc say: "Biscuit, Biscuit". One day my m:>ther became quite frightened so· she took a lonr butcher knife and cut a big loaf ~f bread in three pieces and handed it to each of tr.e three indians. T~:en she stood and held t~e kr.ife in front of her, and the biP,gest Indi.an sai.d, "Heap hrave Wom3.n". She was left a wid~w. when her eldest child Mary was just eightyears old so she had to make a living for her family. This she did by taking . in .a..a~hi~g w~ich she did 0n a washboard. ~he also had a cow and a small orchard, .from ~ hicb she dried most of the fruit. . . JPLEGiv-Bikn1r3 · near hf'r was a brother of ..T ames Lythroe. His name was John Lythgoe and his wife was (Aunt) Catherine. Jam~s Lyth~oe was visiting the~ from his r.ome in Henefer, • filS'IDRY OF HANNAH SOPHIA PETERSON JOHNSON LYTHGOE Page 2 Utah and Aunt catherine told him about Hannah (My mother) and what a fine woman she was workint: so hard to keep her fa~ly. Aunt Catherine invited Hannah over to her '.-:ome and James pla~,ed his violin for her . My mother used to say she did not know if she fell in love with him or if it was his beautiful violin music. When they decided to ret married they traveled by horse and buggy to Logan, Utah where they were married in the Logan Temple August 16, 1~92. When they moved out to my Father's farm in Henefer, Utah they also moved by horses and wa~on taking all my mother's belongin~s and her four children. He also had a family wai tinp. to meet their "new mother". He had seven children the youn,zest of which was twelve years of age . Mother had been a widow for four years so her oldest was twelve als"' . Father's c"'ildren WPre Josenh, Thomas, James 1-teelis, Mary Jane, EdWard, John and Elizaheth. 'l\-10 or three of them were already married but it was still a large family to start a newly married life. Mot!·er was nineteen years younger than m;v father and they had seven '":ore chi 1-dren : Martha , Neil Peterson, Bri,zham ( died at nineteen months) Boletta, Ott.o, Sonhia and Esther (myself). We were born in a doby rouse overlooking the valley of Henefer, Utah. Above the house was nothinp but sagebrush (and later dry farm). Across the road was the farm and cow pasture. With s·tch a large family to provide for everyone had to do their s hare of work. Besides raisine hay for the cows and horses we also had a very fine garden . We had crab apple and plum trees; several kinds of C'..!rrant bushes ,including gooseberry; a nice patch of strawberries; rhubarb and horseradish and all kinds of veP-etables ~nd what used t-0 seem like a whole field of potatoes. We also raised grain for the pigs and chickens and wheat which my fat her hauled to the Mill in Ec ho , Utah to be ground into our flour. Ever yone agreed father was very fortunate to find such a wonderful woman as my m:>ther to help with r is famil? and farm and to raise a~ot,h,r family t,o help in. his old age . Both were very sincere in their Church work, and in t11e conducting of faJlll.ly prayers. A Mother was r.ever idle for a moment. When she was 1nt workinf in the garden or cooking for ~ twelve or fifteen people she was busy sewing, or knitting our sweaters and hose (the wool for which she spun on her spinninp. wheel.) She also made carpets for our floors on the loom, and feather beds and pillows a"11d quilts . She made beautiful braided rugs as well. Besides this a ne-w baby was born every two or three years, and none were "bottle-babies ". Doct.ors we-re few ar.d far between at that ti·11e so my Aunt Betty (Father's sister) delivered five of Mother's children. Aunt Betty was a Midwife in Henefer for man:.r years. Seeing as thE're werP So · few Doctors my pa.r ents learned all they could about herbs, medicines and cures for various ailments. F.ach snring we all had to qrink Js.age tea, ~r.~ow, or sulnhur and molasses; also finger tea, Lobelia, sweet nitre and littie pink pills for other troubles. Then a canker remedy m:Lde out of bayberry and f-o lden seal, and a terrible tastine medicine called "Bitter Alice". S0meti"1es it seemed it would be easier to stay well than to have to t-e doctored U!", but all our good fresh vegetables and canned fruit really helped too . My father also raised our meat for the winter and cured most of the !X)rk . Quite often Father had to ~o into t~wn to play his Violin for dances and to ,ti.ve ~usic lessons. He was also J ustice of the Peace for t~o terms and was the . first Chorister of the Henefer Ward. The roads were very poor and at times even a wapon couldn•t get throURh the mud. Tn the winter we would nse a bobsleigh. The older children had to ride horses to school so m.v parents decided to move nearer to~n so we could get to school and our Church meetlnμs. Tr.ey _ bouRhta t wo-story house which was badly in need of repairs but which they fixed nr: · very well, two of my half brothers being carpenters. We had wall- to-wall home made carretinr o n some of t he floors and four stoves in the downstairs rooms. Our barn and stables was across the road but each day dur ing the Sl.DTIITler some one would have to take . he co\'fs back i o the farm 1,- miles away to the pasture. :4t that time we were troubled by Chicken Hawks, Coyotes and JX>rcupines. I remember our J~CeP?i~oner taving a battle w; th a badger in the nearby creek. There was a bounty for various skins so m~· brothers were kept bus~: hunting coyotes and muskrats and after a time ri.d our nlace of th£>'TI. .. e e HIS'IDRY OF HANNAH f:OPHIA PE1'EHSON JOHNSON LYTHGOE Page 3 Besi.ff"s always ha'.rinr a fi.ne team of horses we also had a pair of mules to do the heavy nullinr- 0 n the- farm.· They were called Kit APd Pet. Whenever one of my brothers would ~et married my parent· s ·. nresented them with a. fine team of horses whic h they had raised. We also had ridinr hors es which were a real necessity. Mother never c0uld stand the ani~als to miss a meal s0 even our milch cows knew her and whenever she would fO by t hem to feed her chickens they would moo until she gaye them some hay. She always loved workinP. with her fann anirna ls . After we children p.ot a little bigrer father and a Mr. Wright built us a Store in t own. He had a sign :p3,inted on the front called the "Hanna~ S. Lythfoe Confectionary", for m.v mother. It was right next to the Amusement Hall and Whenever there would be a dance or basketb3. ll game my p:i.rents would stay open until everyone had gone home. Mother used to serve Oyster suppers to the b3.ll players when they requested it. We also sold bakery goods , ice cream and some canned goods besides all kinds of candies and soft drinks. We were always encouraged to sing and play the piano and other instruments. Mother liked to sing and play or chord for her own accompaniment on the piano. Some of her favorite sonps were: Gentle Annie; Oh, Father, Please Father come Home with Me Now; many of Stephen C. Foster's songs and L. D.S. Hymns. As my mother w.as such a fine coo k and enjoyed baking pies and cakes so much no one ever went away hunpry who visited our home . Almost every day during good weather we would have one or mo~e "hoboes" stop by for something to eat. Mother also liked to have several of thr- neip.hbors in for dinner -and to help her finish up a quilt. We all enjoyed these carties very much as there would be so much good food around. We also had Gypsies camp quite often in the river bottoms near our home. That was rot surorisinJ? to my parents who had had to learn to £"et along with the Indians man.v years oefore. The Gypsies were in tribes and were a very colorfui and entertainin~ people . They always came to our well for some good cold water to drink and would trade or barter with my pa.rents for our chickens. My mother• s oldest son Hyrum was called on a Mission to the Southern States when they traveled and preached the Gospel without purse or script. If someone gave mother, little money to help him she would save most of it so that when he ca.me home he could have it. My parents also used up quite a lot of their savinJ?S to send my sister on a mission to the Western States. They always believed in paying their tithing and in doing all they could for the Church. They thought everyone should keep their names on the books by paying Some of the Norwegian customs my Mother never forgot. Usually on Christmas Eve we would have "Norwegian Mush". It was nade of thickened hot milk and was served with lots of cream, suRar, butter and cinnamon. We always used a Separator and had home made butter . Wm. Jefferies, Who later became president of the Union Pacific Railroad used to come to our house to drink the good rich buttennilk. :t,~::,ther was always active in the Relief Society. She did her visiting teaching either by walki.nf? qui. te a lonp ways or m,v father would take ·her with the horse and buggy and wait for hf.'r at each hl)me. She enjo:,·ed ,readi.np. the Bible, Book of Mormon, Testament and Psalms and U u::. P.elief S0ciet.y Ma!?azine . My narents neyer. qri.ssed attending their .Sacrament Meetir.gf a~d never forr-ot what. trey came to A111erica for. They·were both ver~.1 staunch in their belie1 and had stronf characters. ' .. . ·\:· . A P..ANNAH S . LYTHGOE (my mother) died at her h~rhe. in Henefer, Utah, January Jrd, 1932 of • pheumonia. All ten of her children s~ved }:)er; .21. gra~dchildren and 8 great-grand- , children. She was seventy years old •. Even tho~~h sh~ had a hard time while growing up she JPEG~d life and was missed by all wjlo knew her. -li***k*if*~-***** |