8. Daniel Gross BRIAN was born 05 Mar 1835 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pa. He died 25 Dec 1890 in Fremont, Wayne, Utah. Daniel married Martha Elizabeth ASHWORTH on 31 Dec 1860 in East Millcreek, Utah. [Parents]
9. Martha Elizabeth ASHWORTH was born 23 May 1843 in Eccles Hill, England. She died 13 Jun 1919 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. [Parents]
Martha was the third child of Benjamin Ashworth and Eliza Dorcy. She was born May 23, 1843, at Eccles Hill, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Her parents had accepted the gospel when she was very young, being converted by Parley P Pratt. Her parents were kind to the missionaries, feeding them and helping m every way possible.
In 1849, when Martha was six years of age, her family left England for America. In the English Channel severe storms arose and nearly wrecked the ship. It took six weeks to make the voyage across the Atlantic. Martha was ill but made a good recovery.
The family settled in St. Louis, Missouri. While there, Martha was offered a position on the stage, as she showed outstanding theatrical ability, but her parents would not allow her to accept the position because she was only a child.
May 23, 1851, Martha was baptized in the Missouri River and immediately after was confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the summer of 1854, the Ashworths, with other converts, crossed the Plains by oxteam. She was then eleven years old. Traveling as they did by ox team and wagon, they were able to take only bare necessities. Martha called her friends and playmates to her home before she left and gave them her doll and other treasured belongings. During the time they were traveling, her mother gave birth to a baby boy at Indian Hollow. The company laid over one day, then continued on their way.
Martha's sister Sarah was about fifteen years of age and had such lovely, long, golden hair that when the Indians saw her they wanted to buy her. They offered a band of horses, but her parents refused to consider such an offer. The Indians followed the pioneer group for two or three days and were told the girl was not there. Up in front with the guards was a slender "youth" (Sarah) carrying a gun.
After reaching the Salt Lake Valley, the family cleared the land and built a home, but in 1857 it was abandoned as they moved south in fear of Johnston's Army. They stopped in Springville, Utah, and camped at Hobble Creek. Upon returning to Salt Lake, they moved to East Mill Creek Canyon where Benjamin kept a toll gate, maintaining the roads and bridges in that section for many years.
Eliza Ashworth was a very frail woman, so Martha helped lighten her mother's load by being a loving and helpful daughter. She would crochet lace and walk many miles to trade it for a few pounds of flour to make bread for her mother, who was too sick to eat the roots and greens the others were obliged to eat. Her unselfish disposition was demonstrated when she was invited to stay to dinner at a friend's home. When biscuits were served, Martha asked permission to take hers home to her mother.
This lovely girl was called upon in her early life to endure the hardships of pioneer life, but displayed great courage and patience. Being a person of refined, gentle temperament made the hardships all the more difficult to bear, but she never wavered in carrying her portion of the burden. She well remembered the grasshopper scourge and experienced all the hardships of those early days.
Martha was seventeen years old when she married Daniel Gross Brian. He was a young man from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who had come to Utah to teach school. They lived in Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah, where he taught a group of students. While living there, their first child, Thomas, was born on January 16, 1862. Later, they moved to East Mill Creek and rented a small one-room house near her mother. Here, at the early age of eighteen, Martha gained her first experience as a nurse. When her mother had a baby, it was necessary for Martha to deliver the child and take full responsibility for caring for mother and baby.
It was while living here that her brother Charles—five years of age—was drowned in the Mill Creek stream. His body was not recovered for nine days. Search parties had been out day and night and were about to give up when Daniel came home one morning, tired and weary, and lay down to sleep while Martha prepared his breakfast. Suddenly, after a few moments' sleep, he bounded out into the middle of the floor. "Martha," he said, "I know where that boy is!" He walked straight to the spot where the body was lying near the bank of the stream, hidden under the willows, the spot Daniel had seen in a dream. Just five years earlier another small brother, Benny, age three, had been drowned in the same stream.Twelve children were born to Daniel and Martha Brian—Thomas Benjamin, Sarah Europha, Eliza Dorcy, Daniel Gross, Jr., Bertha Adolpha, John Fred, Louis Monroe, Daisy Grace, Albert Henry, William Joshua, Frank Leslie and a newborn infant. All of these children grew to maturity except Grace, Fred, and the infant.
The Brians moved to Salt Lake and bought a home on the corner of Seventh South and Seventh East streets. Daniel at one time was a police officer.
In 1864, Martha gave consent for her husband to take another wife. October 15 they went through the Endowment House, where Daniel married Ellen Barnes and Martha was sealed to him as his first wife. Sometime later, he married a third wife, Kate Fisher, a young widow with one child. This marriage lasted only a few short years and they separated. To this union was born two sons, but only one grew to maturity.
It was at this time that Martha became acquainted with Asenath Adams Kiskadden. It was Martha who made the first little clothes and took care of Mrs. Kiskadden when Maude Adams, the great American actress, was ushered into the world. Maude Adams became her stage name, Adams being her mother's maiden name. Martha gave this child her first bath. She was present when the infant was carried on stage in the Salt Lake Theatre in a one-act play, and often related how the baby raised her little hands as a token to the audience that she had arrived and had entered upon her great career. Later, when Maude became an actress, Martha designed and made her costumes for several years. She was a fine seamstress and had great ability in designing and creating dresses and costumes. She sewed for the Salt Lake Costume House for quite some time.
In 1870, Daniel traded their home in Salt Lake to Martha's father for his property in East Mill Creek; there were two homes on the property. One home became the home for Martha, the other for Ellen. Daniel ran a sawmill there, furnishing lumber for many early homes and buildings in Salt Lake. They planted a large orchard and raised choice fruits which they made a business of selling.
In April 1884, Martha's oldest son, Thomas Benjamin, died. This was one of her greatest trials, for he had been an ideal son in every respect. Soon after this, the family moved back to Salt Lake to seek employment for family members, and Martha lived in part of her mother's house.
In August of 1885 the family moved to Lewisville, Idaho, leaving behind their eldest daughter, Europha, who had married. They settled on the banks of the Snake River, later known as Beam's Flat. Daniel had taken up land about nine miles west of Lewisville and was working for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. His work called him away from home a great deal, leaving Martha to look after the family alone.
High water in the springtime made this land of little value. Martha, unhappy at the isolation, let the land go and bought a lot in Lewisville where she had a log room built, which was added to later.
Daniel moved his second wife, Ellen, and family to Loa, Wayne County, Utah, in the summer of 1877, where he resided most of the time until his death.
It was at this time that Martha devoted herself to caring for the sick. She studied nursing under Dr. Ellis Shipp and Hannah C. Sorenson, qualifying herself for the great responsibilities of that work. She served as midwife and nurse in and around Lewisville because there was no doctor or nurse there in early days.
Her compassionate sympathy was felt when she witnessed sickness and pain. Her willingness to serve, her thorough methods of cleanliness, her patience, and above all, her faithfulness to duty, made her a nurse of the finest type. Though she was proud and sensitive, she went into the homes of the poor and lowly and performed her work to the best of her ability. She brought girl babies into the world, saw them grow to womanhood, and then delivered their children. In 1897 she delivered nineteen babies, this being the record for one year. No night was too dark or stormy for her to go among the sick or needy when the call came. People for miles around would come for her in wagon, buggy, or sled at any hour of the day or night, and she would willingly go to ease a soul in distress. Her grandchildren, as well as others, recall the old grey shawl she would throw over her head and wear whenever she had to make those long trips in the cold.
Because Martha was so occupied with the sick, and laying out the dead and making burial clothes for the dead, she held no special office in the Church, but was always ready to help in any way possible. Hers was a life of service to her fellowman.
Because she was the sole support of her family, at times their living was very meager, but it was her habit to serve her meals daintily and appetizingly. Her own table manners were as studied and as perfect at a little lunch with her family as if she were seated at a banquet with distinguished men and women.
Martha and her husband were musically talented, and their family have all been lovers of music, some of them having exceptional musical ability. Some of her grandchildren have gained prominence in music, on the stage, and in radio and television.
When Martha's health began to fail, she sold her home in Lewisville and moved to Rexburg. Her son William built a nice little home for her, which she enjoyed for several years, but a great misfortune came to her at this time. She became ill with smallpox and soon discovered that her eyesight was failing. She had been the eyes for so many people, had seen life and interpreted it for others, had visualized beauty and wrought it in beautiful gowns and costumes, and had given her untiring service to the living and the dead, but now she must be led about and guided by others. She spent her last days with her children who, remembering the long years of service she had given to them and her many sacrifices for them, tried to sweeten her last years.
While with her daughter Europha Leffler in Provo during the First World War, even though totally blind, she knitted twelve pairs of sox, one sweater, folded bandages, pieced a quilt and accomplished numerous things to round out a life full of service.
Martha had been promised in her patriarchal blessing that she would have riches and jewels in her latter days. She often said this promise had been fulfilled, for she considered herself rich in experience, blessed exceedingly with friends and loved ones, and her little grandchildren, whom she loved dearly, were the jewels. Interestingly, some received names such as Ruby, Opal, Diamond, and Pearl.
While visiting with her son Daniel G. Brian in Ogden, she became ill and died June 13, 1919. It was her desire to be buried beside her eldest son, Thomas, whose memory she had cherished throughout the years. June 15, 1919, services were held and interment took place in the Elysian Gardens Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah. —Lola Taylor Wells, DUP Files
Rebecca E. Moore was born November 13, 1844, in Monticello, Hancock County, Illinois. Her father was John Harvey Moore and her mother was Clarissa Jane Drollinger. Rebecca married David Dan Tanner, January 10, 1861. She passed away January 20, 1929, in Provo, Utah.
The following is taken from a history titled Biography of David Dan Tanner and Rebecca E. Moore Tanner, compiled by Annie C. Tanner Fotland, DUP Camp One, Provo, Utah. It was dictated to Annie C. Fotland by her mother, Rebecca Estella Moore Tanner.
10. William Norton, Jr. MARLER was born 02 Sep 1857 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. He died 21 Jul 1908 in Lewisville, Jefferson, Idaho. William married May Lilian HICKS on 14 Feb 1877 in Clifton, Oneida, Id. [Parents]
11. May Lilian HICKS was born 03 Oct 1856 in White Oak, California. She died 30 Aug 1930 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. [Parents]
12. Ebenezer FARNES was born 04 Feb 1843 in Dagenham, Essex, Eng. He died 13 Feb 1920 in Logan, Cache, Utah and was buried 16 Feb 1920 in Logan, Cache, Utah. Ebenezer married Josephine Margaret LARSEN. [Parents]
At the age of nineteen, Ebenezer was an "Out and Back" teamster, with the
Benjamin Hampton Freight Train. In the fall of 1863, he was asked to go back
out onto the plains with supplies and meet the other companies coming to Utah.
Hoping to see his family on the way, he met men on horseback who informed him
that his father had passed away the night before. As the wagon train passed,
he weeped unable to face his family at that time. He then turned the wagon
around and met the wagon train as they were setting up camp. He continued east
to complete his duties then returned to Utah.MARRIAGE: Ebenezer Farnes and Mary Catherine haad five children.
Ebenezer Farnes and Veta Josephine had nine children.BIOGRAPHY: Ebenezer Farnes spent most of his life in Logan, Cache County, Utah
where he was a butcher. His grandson was Harold Silver, an important inventor
of agricultural and mining machinery used throughout the world.At the age of nineteen, Ebenezer was an "Out and Back" teamster, with the
Benjamin Hampton Freight Train. In the fall of 1863, he was asked to go back
out onto the plains with supplies and meet the other companies coming to Utah.
Hoping to see his family on the way, he met men on horseback who informed him
that his father had passed away the night before. As the wagon train passed,
he weeped unable to face his family at that time. He then turned the wagon
around and met the wagon train as they were setting up camp. He continued east
to complete his duties then returned to Utah.MARRIAGE: Ebenezer Farnes and Mary Catherine haad five children.
Ebenezer Farnes and Veta Josephine had nine children.BIOGRAPHY: Ebenezer Farnes spent most of his life in Logan, Cache County, Utah
where he was a butcher. His grandson was Harold Silver, an important inventor
of agricultural and mining machinery used throughout the world.
13. Josephine Margaret LARSEN was born 10 Apr 1844 in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. She died 05 Aug 1929 in Logan, Utah.
14. Robert BROWN was born 14 Apr 1834 in (Witch House) St, Ayr, Scotland. He died 03 Aug 1886 in Farmington, Davis, Utah and was buried 06 Aug 1886 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Robert married Ann AIRD on 25 Dec 1865 in Govan, Lanark, Scotland.
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15. Ann AIRD was born 03 Oct 1837 in Kilmarnock, Ayr, Scotland. She died 12 Sep 1899 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. [Parents]