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Show Oeorge and Helen Thackeray. " George Thackeray was born in Yor£, Yorkshire, England April IB, 1836. He was the youngest member of a family of seven, and the only member who joined the church and came to this country. He was baptized Jan. 16, 1851 by .Slder Hougsen and two years later, emigrated to America. tie arrived in Utah Sept. 20, 1055. He had some experience as a b icer in the old country, and when the railroad was being built he round ready employment as a cook for the men. .lay 12, 1865 he married gelen Condie. ?&*$ lived in a little adobe house in what was then called the ''big field" now x„nown. a* 4th Ward, Salt La.:e City; they lived there ten years, then pres. B. Young called them to go and settle new sections on the iaoar Elver. They settled near a stream called "Uost Cre*fcH ana for a time the little settlement was called "Lost Greece", Summit Co., but was afterward called Croydon, Morgan Co. Helen Condie Thackeray ia* born in clacmaunan, ocotiand July 24, 1857. She with her father, mother brothers, una oisters left ocotland in 1848, her being out a child. They crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, and was on the water nine wee Its. They went directly to Council Bluff, living there and in ot. Louis. ile there the cholera was raging, people dying all around, ohe lost a brother ana a sister with the disease. faey lived in the last four years. She crossoa the plains in Jos. Busaa^s1 Co, go brought the first Sugar plant to Utah, oho was fortunate enough to drive a buggy nearly ail the way. Father and mother were always active in chUECh and civic affairs. They rearea 10 children to manhood and womanhood and suffered all the trials and hardships of frontier Ufa. ither only lived until he waa 52 years, but mother was 8b. They left a posterity of 8 ohildres, 35 grand children, 55 great ?rinti children and 5 great* grafct grind children. other studied medicine under Dr. ;:ohler ind in 1392 she successfully passed the 3oard of Medleal jxaminers in Obstetrics and Medicine after which she was .apt very busy for twenty years . She was the first President of the Hellef .society of Croydon and held the office for about oO years. 3he spent a numoer of „ ears working in the Salt i, a.-:ey Temple ana performea ordinances for hand- reds of people. a^A JLr-^*^* oy •••••••••••* irpraret Ti paradise |
