I will begin this history with my grandfather, Charles Scott Hall, who was born in Addington, Buckinghamshire, England, on the 10th of November 1845. He was the son of Ann Neal and Walter Scott. (Walter Scott was a close kin of Sir Walter Scott, the noted poet and novelist.) We don’t know much more of Walter Scott. It …
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Contributed by Miss Anne Clark It was the year 1875, that my Great-grandma, Jane Hale Hall, and Grandpa David Hall started from Council Bluffs, Iowa, for Salt Lake. They left in February, equipped with only a team of horses and a covered wagon. They had a family of six children, the youngest being my Grandmother …
The following is a brief narrative of the life of Brother Miles Hall, written at his request by Robert C Harris in the year 1905, when Miles Hall was 80 years old, and now copied by the same writer at the request of Amelia D. Everett, 892 Laurel Street, Alameda, Calif. Near the village of Danvillion River, …
Joseph Hyrum Hancock was born 27 April 1849 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He was the eldest son of James and Ann Melsome Hughes Hancock. In the year 1852, when Joseph was three years of age, his parents and grandparents left their home and went to Liverpool, England. Here they bought tickets for America, leaving on a sailing …
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This is just a little of my life being Maude G. Hancock at 80 years of age. I was born at Mendon, Cache County, Utah, April 1, 1881. My parents were Alfred Gardner and Mary Elizabeth Coon Gardner. I have 5 brothers and 6 sisters. My brothers were John, Irvin, Arthur, Arnold, Hugh. My sisters …
By His Sister – Chloe Nelson My recollection of my brother, Orson Hancock, fifth child of Joseph Hyrum Hancock and Mary Annah Glover Hancock. He was born in Mendon, Cache County, Utah, February 14, 1882. A lovely Valentine gift for his parents, two brothers and two sisters at that time. Another boy and girl were …
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Autobiography This short autobiography of Mary Ann Nicholas Hansen was transcribed from a tape made just a few weeks before her death in October 1974. I was born in Elkhorn, Idaho, a little place in the mountains. It’s a very beautiful place with streams of water and lots of alfalfa fields and lots of wild roses and all …
6 February 1961 I, Mary Hansen was born April 27, 1896, at Elkhorn, Idaho, a little valley near the mountains. I was born in a little two room log cabin, in a field near a running stream of water, which was covered with willows and wild rose bushes, also wild fruit such as yellow currants, …
By Her Grandson, Dennis I have wanted to include a tribute or my own mom, along with the others here, but have felt overwhelmed at the thought. Anything that I can say is very insignificant. The beauty that was hers and the love I feel for her far exceed my language skills. I find myself …
By Neva Tippetts What made Mary Hansen, my mother, an inspiration to her five children, as well as her orphaned grandson whom she raised from infancy, and the children and people she associated with? Her real test of character came when she got a divorce after twenty years of marriage. I was enrolled in my sophomore …
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