Hezekiah Mitchell (1810 - 1872)

Born 31 May 1810 in Simondsley Glossop, Derbyshire, England

Husband of Sarah (Mallinson) Mitchell — married 7 Oct 1832 in Manchester, Lancashire, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Bowers) Mitchell — married 31 Dec 1856 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Descendants

Died 25 Sep 1872 at age 62 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Hezekiah Mitchell was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

Son of Thomas Mitchell and Martha (Haigh) Mitchell Husband of Sarah (Mallinson) Mitchell and Elizabeth (Bowers) Mitchell Father of Priscilla Victoria (Mitchell) Christensen; Lavinia Mitchell Brown Horrocks; Frederick Augustus Herman Mitchell; Maria Horrocks; Sarah Ann Farr

Recollections of Edgar B. Mitchell, grandson of Hezekiah Mitchell (1967): "Hezekiah Mitchell had been a student at Oxford. While there he learned stenography. Later when he came to Utah, he was the only man in the Territory that could take shorthand. He became Clerk of the Territorial Court because of his ability to take shorthand. Hezekiah was a minister of the Methodist Church. He met and heard the first Mormon missionaries that came to Great Britain. He was a student of the Bible. His major had been religion, and he believed that the missionaries were preaching the truth. When the governing board of the church found out about his beliefs, they came to see him. He told them, "Gentlemen, this religion the Mormons are teaching is the truth." He said, "I am a student of the Bible and I know we are not preaching the truth, but we are trying to improve people. What we should do is incorporate the Mormon religion into ours." They said, "Well, brother, you're off the beam and if you don't quit it you know what will happen." He told them that if that is true then to issue their ultimatum. I don't know how long it took for them to turn him out onto the street, but that's what they did. They had just paid him enough to live from month to month and they provided his home. So, he was destitute and penniless. Some of the people that had joined the church were well-to-do people and they took the family in, gave them shelter until Hezekiah could get a job. It wasn't long until he found a job. He moved his family to Sheffield and there learned the machinist's trade. He worked there long enough to earn steerage passage to America on a sailing vessel. It took him five years to earn enough money."

He married Sarah Mallinson on October 7, 1832 at the Cathedral in Manchester, England. ^[1]

He appeared in the 1850 US census in St. Louis, Missouri. ^[2] He was an engineer. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJR6-DPT : 10 December 2014), Hezckiah Mitchell and Sarah Mallinson, 07 Oct 1832; citing Cathedral,Manchester,Lancashire,England, reference ; FHL microfilm 438,196, 438,197.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZG-YVJ : 9 November 2014), Hezekiah Mitchell, St. Louis, ward 5, St. Louis, Missouri, United States; citing family 2111, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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