 1852 - 1926 (74 years) Submit Photo / Document
Has 17 ancestors and 90 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Fanny Hirst |
| Birth |
10 May 1852 |
Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
1 Feb 1869 |
EHOUS |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWNV-YML |
| Death |
28 Aug 1926 |
Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
31 Aug 1926 |
Pleasant Green Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Person ID |
I125 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
John Hirst, b. 7 Jan 1816, Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, England d. 7 Sep 1878, Brighton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 62 years) |
| Mother |
Charlotte Brook, b. 20 Feb 1819, Salendine Nook, Yorkshire, England d. 20 Jun 1880, Brighton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 61 years) |
| Marriage |
5 Nov 1837 |
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England |
| Family ID |
F102 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
William Jenkins, b. 7 Oct 1848, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales d. 5 Feb 1920, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 71 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Dec 1860 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| + | 1. John William Jenkin, b. 13 Dec 1870, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 25 Aug 1946, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 75 years) |
| | 2. Hannah Elizabeth Jenkins, b. 1 Jan 1873, Brighton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 30 Oct 1878, Brighton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 5 years) |
| + | 3. Sarah Jane Jenkins, b. 1 Apr 1875, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 20 Jun 1929, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 54 years) |
| | 4. Fanny Grace Jenkins, b. 26 Aug 1877, Brighton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 29 Oct 1878, Brighton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 1 year) |
| + | 5. James Hirst Jenkins, b. 30 Jun 1880, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 31 Dec 1973, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 93 years) |
| | 6. Annetta Eve Jenkins, b. 5 Dec 1882, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 14 May 1972, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 89 years) |
| + | 7. Mary Charlotte Jenkins, b. 9 Jul 1885, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 13 Sep 1965, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 80 years) |
| + | 8. Henry Alonzo Jenkins, b. 23 Aug 1887, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 6 Aug 1953, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 65 years) |
| + | 9. Amos Brook Jenkins, b. 16 Nov 1889, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 30 Sep 1959, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 69 years) |
| | 10. Thaddeus Jenkins, b. 25 Dec 1892, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 20 Sep 1893, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 0 years) |
| | 11. Annie Jenkins, b. 18 Jul 1894, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 22 Jul 1894, Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 0 years) |
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| Family ID |
F125 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
3 Sep 2024 |
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 | Birth - 10 May 1852 - Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, England |
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 | Marriage - 20 Dec 1860 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 1 Feb 1869 - EHOUS |
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 | Death - 28 Aug 1926 - Pleasant Green, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Burial - 31 Aug 1926 - Pleasant Green Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- Pioneer
John G. Holman Company (1868) Age at departure: 16
About 650 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it beg a n i t s journey from the outfitting post at Benton, Wyoming.
William JENKINS & Fanny HI R ST
Pioneers
Based on an essay by daughter Mary Charlotte Jenki n s Smith 1952
Revised by Julie Robinson Smi t h 2009
William Jenkins was born 7 October 1848 in Cavencaiau, Llanel l y, Wales, the third child of James JENKINS and Elizabeth DAVIS. Faithf u l missionaries brought the restored gospel message to William’s parent s w ho received the invitation to be baptized and accept membership in th e Ch urch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Jenkins family stron gly d esired to gather with other Saints in America so they made preparat ions t o emigrate. William set out, with his brother John and Sister Mar y, unde r the protection of their parents on board the ship “Golconda” fr om Liver pool England. Williams’s mother was very ill during the entir e long, dif ficult trip which would have made traveling very much more pe rilous fo r a little child of six year-old. The Jenkins arrived in New O rleans an d then joined the Dorr P Curtis Company* in order to cross th e plains, sh aring a wagon with the Morgan Richards family. All arrive d safely at Gre at Salt Lake Valley in the fall of 1854.
The first winter in this new place, the Jenkins family liv e d in a one-room cabin with another family until they could build thei r ow n cabin west of the Jordan River. William witnessed the crickets de stroy ing their crops and the miracle of the seagulls that came to devou r the c rickets-a sight which greatly stirred his soul and etched itsel f on his v ery impressionable young mind-never to be forgotten.
William married seventeen year-old Fanny HIRST, the ninth daug h ter of John HIRST and Charlotte BROOK born in Slarthwaite,Yorkshire, En gl and 10 May 1852. The couple exchanged the sacred vows of matrimony i n th e Salt Lake Endowment House on 20 December 1869. Apostle Daniel H . Well s performed the ceremony.
Fanny had been taught the gospel by her parents who had joined the Chur c h of Jesus Christ in England before Fanny was born. Fanny had thirtee n s iblings and since the entire family wished to emigrate to Zion togeth er , it took sixteen years to save enough money for the journey. Durin g tha t time of saving and dreaming, Fanny experienced persecution from s choo l associates and neighbors. The mistreatment and resentment was int ensif ied by the fact that Fanny’s father was also the Branch President a nd a m issionary working in England. To try to pacify the antagonistic s pirit o f her community for a season, (as the family continued to work an d save d for escape from the hands of those that would mistreat them), Fa nny an d her sisters attended the Baptist Church at the same time worshi p servic es were held in her home. She also worked in the cotton mills i n order t o contribute to the Hirst's travel fund. Finally at the tende r age of fo urteen her family had made preparations sufficient such tha t she and the y boarded the ship “Emerald Isle” in Liverpool, bound for A merica on 20 J une 1868!
The voyage to America was incredibly difficult. The tain t ed drinking water, (which was shared by eight-hundred seventy-six passe ng ers), coupled with terrific storms resulted in disease and misery spre adi ng rampantly throughout the entire ship causing at least one death al mos t every other day during the journey, totally thirty-seven by voyage’ s en d! Fanny drank water only after her mother boiled it and this extr a prec aution likely saved her life. Miraculously no one in her family b ecame i ll and her older married sister Nancy gave birth to an adorable l ittle gi rl while mid-ocean named “Emerald”! They arrived in New York Ha rbor 11 A ugust 1868. Fanny’s family joined the Holman Company in Fort Bo nton afte r traveling there by train 25 August 1868 and then crossed th e wide plain s in ox-drawn wagons arriving at the long sought after desti nation of th e Salt Lake Valley in October. Many died along the trail, b ut again th e Hirst family was spared tragedy however Sarah (Fanny’s youn ger sister ) did break her leg when she fell from their wagon and was ru n over.
Fanny married William only twenty-two months after leavin g E ngland. Her new life in the new world would now include a devoted a nd f aithful husband. William brought his lovely bride home to a farm i n Nort h Point (what is now Centerville) and in their little adode hous e the hap py couple welcomed their first child John William, christened f or his fat her and grandfather. In 1871 William homesteaded at Pleasan t Green alon g with Fanny’s Father and other siblings. In their home in P leasant Green , Fanny and William were blessed with ten more children: Ha nnah Elizabet h 1 January 1873, Sarah Jane 1 April 1875, Fanny Grace 26 A ug 1877, Jame s Hirst 30 June 1880, Annette Eva 5 December 1882, Mary Cha rlotte 9 Jul y 1885, Amos Brook 16 November 1889, Thaddeus 25 December 18 92, and Anni e 18 July 1894.
The Jenkins family met the many obstacles they encountere d w hile pioneering Pleasant Green with patience and faith. The land wa s fil led with rocks, endless sagebrush, and many rattlesnakes; additiona ll y a scarcity of water created great hardships and ultimately forced Wi lli am to leave his farm in order to survive. He began a circuit of labo r t o support his family-to start William would take a wagon to Coons Can yon , where with a hand-axe he would chop down trees and haul a load of t he m to Salt Lake with his ox-team. There he sold his load of wood for t h e small sum and $3.00. It took three or four days for the rough trip a n d was back-breaking labor. William next worked at the Jeremy and Ree d Sa lt Works. He took his pay in salt, hauled it to Provo and sold it t here . He finally fished in the Utah Lake and would haul back a wagon loa d o f Bass and Trout to sell at home in Pleasant Green to the settlers th ere , again putting in days of labor and travel for a mere subsistence-ty pe l iving.
When water was finally brought through the Valley t h e Jenkins family could then resort to general farming as a means of pro vi ding for their needs. They raised vegetables and grains as well as ot he r cash crops that sustained the farmers and all in that vicinity. The i r seventh child reminisced, “I remember the farm only when I think it w a s beautiful, with flowers, all kinds of berries and fruit trees.” Th e Je nkins lived in a cozy adobe house and in 1894 William and his brothe r Joh n partnered with Sam Spencer and the three together bought a molass es mil l and began operating it to continue their prosperity. Daughter M ary rec alls, “There was a large vat to boil it (the molasses) in. The y wanted s age brush burned under the vat. They said it gave the molasse s a much be tter flavor. I remember the children around bringing brass b uckets to ge t the skimmings to make candy, a rare treat for us in thos e days.”
Fanny raised seven of her children to adulthood and experience great j o y through them. She also drank deeply of the bitter cup of extreme gr ie f at the loss of her beloved little ones. Young Hannah died durin g a who pping cough epidemic at the age of six along with her tiny one-ye ar old s ister Fanny. Thaddeus and Annie also were prematurely buried be fore th e age of eight and were missed sorely. The knowledge that thes e beautifu l darlings would be restored to Fanny at a bright and gloriou s future da y brought incredible comfort to all the family, especially Fa nny .
Fanny worked the farm with the support of her children while William ser v ed a mission in Indiana during the years of 1896 and 1897. William al s o was a member of the eighth Quorum of Seventy, an ordained High Pries t , a block teacher, and President of the Youth Organization called the Y ou ng Men’s Mutual Improvement Association (YMMIA). He additionally serv e d for many years as an ordained Temple Worker in the Salt Lake City Tem pl e.
William and Fanny moved to Salt Lake City settling in th e F ifteenth Ward. They stayed there four years. Then the couple purchas e d a home (just across the street from the Harold B Lee Hall Gymnasium ) i n the Twenty-fifth Ward of the Pioneer State in the Poplar Grove are a o n the Westside of the city just within walking distance of the Temple ; wh ere they spent the remaining years of their lives .
After months of anxiously waiting and looking forward wi t h anticipation to the milestone of their Golden Wedding Anniversary, Wi ll iam and Fanny were invited into the home of their daughter Mary Charlo tt e for a gala party! Mary lived within an easy stroll-just a few house s a way-from her parents and there on 20 December 1919, family and friend s ga thered to honor William and Fanny celebrating with them the honorabl e lif e the two enjoyed together. This affair was a bright event for al l invol ved and thereafter, just six weeks later, William died from compl ication s due to pneumonia on 6 February 1920. Fanny moved in with fami ly in Pl easant Green and peacefully passed away there six years after Wi lliam. B oth found their final resting places side-by-side in the old Pl easant Gre en Cemetery, in Magna, Utah.
(Note: The volume Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude pg 45 states th a t the Jenkins family crossed the plains in the William Empey Company . Co ntrarily the volume Pioneers & Prominent Men records that the Jame s Jenki ns family came to Utah with the Dorr P. Curtis Company in Octobe r 1854, a s does daughter Mary’s article written for the Daughters of th e Utah Pion eers 1952.)
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