Joel Silverwood Woodhouse

Other Events and Attributes:

• Initiatory (LDS): Not Needed
• FamilySearch ID: K4Z5-MR1

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: LLQ6-PH4
• Initiatory (LDS): 11 Sep 1889, MANTI

Charles married Ann Long on 6 Oct 1829 in Bawtry, Yorkshire, England. Ann was born on 23 Oct 1806 in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England; was christened on 7 Dec 1806 in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England; died on 26 Apr 1887 in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States; was buried on 28 Apr 1887 in Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KWJW-TWM
• Initiatory (LDS): 11 Sep 1855

Notes:

ANN LONG WOODHOUSE
History prepared by
Thelma Farnsworth Priday, gggranddaughter

Ann Long was born to John Long and Hannah Shaw, 6 October 1806 or (180 7 ) in the little village of Mexborough, Yorkshire, England. Little is kn ow n of her life until 6 October 1829 when she married Charles Woodhous e o f a nearby village, Adwick Le Street, Yorkshire. Charles was a tailo r b y trade. They made their home in Adwick le Street, a parish of 382 me mber s, four miles northwest of Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. The Woodho use f amily had lived on the same street for many years.

Ann became the mother of eight children, four sons, John, Charles, Joe l , and Norman; and four daughters, Amelia, Ann, Sarah, and Mary Ellen. S in ce Ann was a very good cook, she cooked in many of the better class ho me s and was often called on to cook and serve meals to royalty.

Ann and her eldest son, John, were members of the Methodist faith, bu t i n 1849 Missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sai nt s came to preach in their town. John was baptized in May 1849, Ann i n th e following June, her husband, Charles and their son Charles, both i n Sep tember, and a little later, daughter Amelia. All in the family wh o were t hen of age were baptized. The Woodhouse family soon learned ho w unpopula r they had become as members of the Mormon Church, so they mad e up thei r minds to move to America. Leaving their deceased year-old so n in Englan d, they sold their belongings and moved to Liverpool from whi ch they join ed a company of 464 Saints to sail 8 January 1851 on the shi p Ellen. In a ddition to the usual problems, small quarters, poor food, a nd rough seas , measles broke out among the Saints the day they left th e dock, and near ly every child on board had them, besides several adults , making about se venty cases. (Elder Cummings, J. W., Latter-day Saints ’ Millennial Star 1 3:10 [May 15, 1851] p. 158-159.) The Saints arrived s afely in New Orlean s 14 March 1851, and in St. Louis one week later. The y spent more tha n a year in St. Louis preparing for their trip across th e plains. The boy s worked on farms, Ann and the older girls found work i n homes, and her h usband, Charles, followed his trade of tailoring. He w as also a very goo d violin player, playing for parties and dances. He go t a job across th e River where he was accidentally drowned. He was burie d in St. Louis i n July 1851. Just a few weeks later Ann’s six-year-old s on Norman died o f cholera. Concerning these events, John wrote in his jo urnal, “Sicknes s and deaths were very frequent. So much so that in man y cases regular fu nerals could not be had. On the death of our little br other we had to giv e notice to the City Office. A conveyance came alon g with a load of coffi ns (about a dozen), they went from house to hous e getting a corpse in eac h one, and when loaded went to the cemetery an d there put them in graves . My brother Charles and myself followed alon g and saw our brother place d in his grave.” So the widow Ann Long Woodho use and her six remaining ch ildren had to continue their journey alone , sailing up the Missouri Rive r to Council Bluffs, Iowa to join the las t company of Saints to depart fo r Utah that year, 1852. They crossed th e plains in three months, arrivin g safely September 10th in Salt Lake, a s John said, “in good health and c ondition”.

The family found a two room log cabin in which to make their first hom e . Ann, her two sons and two eldest daughters soon found employment, bu t S arah age nine and Mary Ellen age 5 years were left at home as they we re t oo young to go out to work. Ann, because of her ability to cook an d sew , found employment in some of the better homes such as “Aunt Rache l Grant ’s”, Squire Wells’ and others.

Before spring came, another tragedy struck Ann’s family in the death fr o m pneumonia of her little ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, in January 185 3 . She was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. Two months later, in M ar ch, Amelia, Ann’s eldest daughter, married Arza Erastus Hinckley and e ven tually went to Fillmore to live; the next month, in April 1853, John , he r eldest child, left to make his home in Cedar City, Utah. Charles w ent t o live in Beaver; and Annie soon married and went to Sanpete to liv e. An n and her young daughter Mary Ellen were alone.

Ann is described as being “very interested in her religion”, so she mu s t have desired to be sealed to a righteous man. At that time, there wa s n o temple, and sealings were not done for the deceased. There was no p ossi bility for Ann to be sealed to her deceased husband, Charles Woodhou se, a nd she may not have known that it would ever be possible. (The endo wmen t was first administered to the dead 11 Jan. 1877 in the St. Georg e Templ e.) Perhaps that explains why Ann in 1855 was sealed to Levi Sava ge. (Fam ily History Library Film # 183,380 records that on 18 February 1 855 a t 2 PM Ann Long born March 1807 at Yorkshire, England and Levi Sava ge bor n 25 Aug 1790 at Hebron, Washington, New Jersey were sealed by B . Young a t the President’s Office. Witnesses were J. V. Vernon and D. Ma ckintosh.)

Something happened in the ensuing years, because five years later Ann w a s sealed to another husband, Chandler Holbrook. (Family History Librar y f ilm # 1,149,514, page 388; Couple 2609 records, “Holbrook, Chandler b or n 16 Sep 1807 at Florence, Oneida, New York; Long, Ann born Oct 1806 a t M exbro, Yorkshire, England; sealed 3 Dec 1859 by B. Young at President ’s H ouse; Witnesses B. Young, D. O. Calder”.) Chandler Holbrook had bee n prev iously married to Eunice Dunning in 1831 in New York, and sealed t o her J anuary 27, 1846 in the Nauvoo Temple, so Ann’s marriage to him wo uld hav e been in polygamy.

We learn that Chandler Holbrook and his wife Eunice were 1851 pioneer s o f Fillmore. “They had a two-story adobe house adequate to care for tr avel ers .... The stagecoach would stop here for the night to rest the pa sseng ers and horses.” (Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 16, p. 138.) The 186 0 Censu s for Utah, Millard County, Fillmore, lists “The name of every pe rson who se place of abode on the first day of June, 1860 was in this fam ily” as “ Chancella Holbrook, 52 born in NY; Ann, 54 born in Eng”, and th at they we re “Married within the year”. Also listed within the househol d were “Orso n C, 18 born in Ill., and Joseph H, 15 born in Ill.” Orso n C and Josep h H Holbrook are sons of Chandler Holbrook and his wife Eun ice who was no t deceased until 30 Dec. 1890. This must indicate that Cha ncellor and An n were living in the same household at that time.

Ann’s daughter Mary Ellen said that “When Cove Fort was built [mother ] w as called by President Young to go there to teach the Indian women ho w t o prepare food, keep clean and learn to sew. The venture did not prov e t o be of much worth, so [we] were sent on to help St. George County. T her e [we] lived in a dugout and helped to get things started in that sec tion .” (“Life of Mary Ellen Woodhouse White” by her daughter Alice Whit e Farn sworth.)

After a few years, Ann and Mary Ellen went to live in Lehi, getting wh a t work they could to support themselves. While William J. Flake and hi s w ife Lucy of Beaver were visiting relatives in Lehi, they became acqua inte d with Ann and her daughter Mary Ellen and invited them to go with t hem t o Beaver to live. From the Autobiography of .Lucy Hannah White Flak e we r ead: “There was a widow and her daughter who had no home so we too k the m into ours. Mary Ellen was about sixteen. She spun the yarn, I wov e an d Mrs. Woodhouse did the cooking and most of the housework. ‘Many ha nds m ake light work’, and we all worked together congenially. . . . Mrs . Woodh ouse remained with us several months. The daughter became engage d to my e ldest brother [Orson] and stayed at our home until they were ma rried [5 O ctober 1867].”

Perhaps after the marriage of Mary Ellen and Orson, Ann made her home w i th them. The Census of 1880 lists, in the household of Samuel O. Whit e an d Mary E. White, their six children, and Ann HOLBROOK, Mother in Law . App arently Ann was continuing to use the name of her third husband, Ch andle r Holbrook.

Ann had many heartaches, losing her year-old son Joel Silverwood Woodho u se in England; her husband, Charles and six-year-old son Norman in St . Lo uis; her 10-year-old daughter in Salt Lake City; her daughter Ameli a whe n just a young mother in Utah.

Ann passed away 26 April, 1887 in Beaver, Utah, and was buried in the C e metery there. She was survived by her children John, Charles, and Mar y El len.

Engraved on her headstone are these words:
Sacred to the Memory of ANN LONG
Born Oct 6, 1807 Adwick Le Street
Mexborough Yorkshire England
Beloved wife of Charles Woodhouse
who is buried at St Louis Missouri
(Their children are also listed.)

On 6 Jan. 1926, in the Salt Lake Temple, family members performed the o r dinances vicariously sealing Ann and Charles to each other, and all o f th eir children to them.



The above was scanned by Paul Jacobs Farnsworth on December 7, 2010, fr o m a copy of Thelma Farnsworth Priday’s history which she’d given to him .