 1849 - 1920 (70 years) Has 2 ancestors and 8 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Dorothy Howarth |
| Birth |
7 Apr 1849 |
Manchester, Lancashire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
14 Dec 1868 |
EHOUS |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWNQ-HPT |
| Death |
28 Mar 1920 |
Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
3 Apr 1920 |
Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I173413 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Benjamin Howarth, b. 1 Jul 1820, Accrington, Lancashire, England d. 5 Jan 1887, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States (Age 66 years) |
| Mother |
Ellen Gregory, b. 11 Feb 1825, Manchester, Lancashire, England d. 27 Jul 1895, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States (Age 70 years) |
| Marriage |
21 May 1843 |
Prestwich, Lancashire, England |
| Family ID |
F43094 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
John Charles Ostler, b. 5 Jun 1838, Bridport, Dorsetshire, England d. 17 Aug 1913, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States (Age 75 years) |
| Marriage |
9 Jun 1873 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Earl Howarth Ostler, b. 8 Sep 1873, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 10 Mar 1935, Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 61 years) |
| | 2. Willard Howarth Ostler, b. 1 Feb 1876, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States d. 5 Mar 1920 (Age 44 years) |
| | 3. Fredrick Howarth Ostler, b. 5 Aug 1878, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States d. 15 Mar 1943, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 64 years) |
| | 4. Mary Ellen Ostler, b. 2 Sep 1880, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States d. 17 Feb 1952, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 71 years) |
| | 5. Moroni Howarth Ostler, b. 9 Jun 1883, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States d. 7 Apr 1957, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States (Age 73 years) |
| | 6. Elizabeth Ann Ostler, b. 18 Jan 1886, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States d. 5 Dec 1938 (Age 52 years) |
| | 7. Alice Ostler, b. 1 Jan 1889, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States d. 16 Jun 1924, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 35 years) |
| | 8. Ephraim Howarth Ostler, b. 14 Dec 1891, Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States d. 7 Nov 1918, Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States (Age 26 years) |
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| Family ID |
F41678 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 7 Apr 1849 - Manchester, Lancashire, England |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 14 Dec 1868 - EHOUS |
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 | Marriage - 9 Jun 1873 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Death - 28 Mar 1920 - Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States |
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 | Burial - 3 Apr 1920 - Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- DOROTHY HOWARTH OSTLER
My mother was born April 7, 1849, in Manchester, Lancaster, England. A d a ughter of
Benjamin Howarth, born July 1, 1820, in Accrington, Lancashire, Englan d , and Ellen Gregory,
born January 11, 1825, in Manchester, Lancashire, England. Benjamin's f a ther was George
Howarth, born November 6, 1794, in Rosendale, Lancashire, England, and h i s mother, Nanny
Cuthbert, born June 13, 1795, in Forehill Bank, Lancashire, England.
Mother went to work in the woolen mills at the age of six years. Someti m e during her very
tender years she was caught in the belt of some machinery and cut open f r om hip to hip. Her
family had joined the LDS Church before this time, but it was the la w o f England at that time
that a doctor must be called in case of sickness, so he came and sai d m y mother could not live,
taped her body together and left. Mother said there never were any stit c hes taken, but through
the power of the priesthood she was healed.
Later on, a sickness broke out among all the children of the community a n d a great many died.
Grandfather took the medicine left there by the doctor and instead of gi v ing it to his children he
emptied it and gave them consecrated oil instead.
Grandfather Howarth left England with the two oldest children before Gra n dma and the younger
ones came to America.
One day as Grandma was tending her younger children, a man appeared in t h e doorway and said,
"Sister Howarth, how soon are you leaving for America?” She answered t h e stranger and said,
“I do not know." He spoke to her again and said, "Make haste, for in thr e e weeks you will be
sailing for America." She turned to wait on one of the children and wh e n she looked back he was
gone. But she worked as best she should to be prepared and in three wee k s she was sailing with
the children for America. Mother was ten years old when she I left Engla n d.
When the family crossed the plains, they buried a girl six years ol d o n a place called the Muddy.
They came on to Salt Lake City. The first night there they spent campe d i n the tithing yard with
the rest of the immigrants. The folowing morning some man with the runni n g gears on his wagon
took Grandmother to the cemetery to bury another child.
After a few days, Grandfather joined his family. He had worked his wa y t o Utah by driving sheep
from the East for Brigham Young. Shorty after they moved and settled i n N ephi, my mother
married one of the teamsters who had driven them across the plains. He r f irst house was a
dugout and her first cupboard was a box with a curtain made from one o f h er skirts. Her first
baby was a little girl who died soon after birth. (The first baby was n a med Mary Ellen, born
October 10, 1869, Nephi, Juab, Utah and died December 1, 1869, Nephi Jua b , Utah.) The next
child, a son, John William Beagley, was born November 14, 1870, in Neph i , Juab, Utah. He lived
to raise a large family.
Polygamy was the rule of the church then and after consenting for her hu s band to take another
wife, Mother and the other lady being very much different, she divorce d h er husband and after
some time, married by father. He had one wife by the name of Mary Ann Pr i nce. Mother was his
second wife and she lived to raise a family of ten children.
Mother's life was hard with little to get on with, but she very seldom c o mplained. She sang the
lovely church hymns as she plodded along from day to day.
After my father had filled a three-year mission to England, mother had t a ken in washings in Nephi
most every day of the week, he bought the home where Chris and Carolin e L arsen now live. (This
home in Fountain Green was purchased in 1954 by Fred Edmonds.) Father m o ved mother’s
family to Fountain Green. My half brother, John William Beagley was rais e d by my mother’s
parents. Mother never washed for people in Fountain Green and we manag e d to live and grow.
Mother was sustained as a counselor to Mary B. Buymon in the Relief Soci e ty on July 9, 1901,
and was released in August 1908.
Mother died in Tooele, Tooele County, Utah on March 28, 1920, at the ho m e of my brother,
Moroni Ostler. She was laid to rest April 3, 1920, in Nephi, Juab, Ut a h by my father’s side.
This history of my dear mother is as plain and unpolished as her beautif u l life was to me. She was
one of those faithful saints that spent their lives for the blessings wh i ch God would keep in store
for the faithful. Her aim was to reach and be worthy of a place in the C e lestial Kingdom of God,
and she taught her nine children who lived to manhood and womanhood to s t rive for that grand
reward and be worthy to receive it when Christ says, "Ye good and faithf u l servants enter into the
joy of your Lord.
Mother left this life sealed for time and eternity to two husbands.
Mary Ellen Aagard
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