John A Smith (1818 - 1871)

Born 23 Sep 1818 in Bidston, Cheshire, England.

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Heathman) Smith — married 29 Apr 1840 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England.

Descendants

Died 28 Feb 1871 at age 52 in Huntsville, Weber, Utah Territory, USA.

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Biography

John was born in 1818. He was the son of John Smith and Jane Jones. He passed away in 1871.^[1]

John Smith was born in Bidston, Cheshire, England, on September 23, 1818. He was the third of seven children born to John and Jane Smith. His sister and brothers are:

Ann 24 May 1812 William 8 Oct 1829 Thomas 28 May 1814 Sarah 13 Aug 1827 Richard 9 Jun 1817 Robert 10 Jan 1830 John A. * 23 Sep1818

John was a commoner and a stonecutter and mason by trade. He met Mary Heathman in Oxten, Cheshire, England. Mary and John were married on April 29, 1840, in a little church called “Wood Church”. It was part of the Protestant Church, the official Church of England. Mary and John had ten children, five boys and five girls all of whom were born in Oxten, England. Their children are:

Julia 3 Sept 1842 Mary Ann 4 Jan 1853 Mary Ann 1843-1847 Joseph Heathman 4 Jan 1855 Isaac 17 Sept 1845 Elizabeth Jane* 2 Feb 1857 Thomas 27 Oct 1848 John Henry 27 Feb 1859 William George 28 Oct 1850 Matilda Ann 27 May 1860

Their second daughter died in infancy and was buried in Wood Church Parish, Oxten England. Mary and John joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1850, the year their fifth child was born.

In 1861 John immigrated to America and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah in September of that year. He went ahead to prepare a home for Mary and the children. Mary worked as a nurse in England helping to earn money for her and the children’s voyage to join John in Utah.

John’s skills as a stone-cutter lead him to be a worker on the building of the Salt Lake City Latter-day Saint Temple. It took John and Mary a year of hard work to earn enough money for Mary and the children to come to America. They left England in May of 1862 and arrived in Salt Lake City in October of 1862 after five months of travel over the Atlantic Ocean, and the plains and deserts of the west.

John had started to build a house and had the basement finished so Mary and the children had a place to live once they arrived in the Utah Territory. The house was on South Temple near where the Lion House is located. They lived in this house until the spring of 1864 when they moved to Huntsville, Utah. They were assigned by President Brigham Young to help settle the valley.

After settling in Huntsville, John did mason work. He helped construct the first schoolhouse in Huntsville, the walls were made of sand stone and the lumber was from the local sawmill. John made several of the old head stones in the Huntsville cemetery. He also did stone cutting and mason work on some of the early buildings in Ogden, Utah. He had the foresight to secure a couple of farms while they were cheap. He framed and milked a small herd of cows. Mary started her practice as nurse and midwife.

One time John was out in the field when a bear attacked him. He had a large chuck of flesh torn from his tight. They feared he would bleed to death. Mary took needle and thread and sewed the flesh back on. It healed without infection.

In the latter part of the eighteen sixties something took place to upset the family of John A. Smith and his wife Mary. John made known his desire to take a second wife. This made Mary was so unhappy she told her husband in no uncertain terms she would not she consent to have this happen. Not only did she blame her husband, but she also blamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She discontinued her support of the church and stopped having her children baptized. The last five children of the family were not baptized in their childhood.

John A. Smith died February 29, 1871, at the age of fifty-three just ten years after leaving England. It was thought his trade on stonemason contributed to his death. Possibly the rock dust from chiseling and pounding rock over the years damaged his lungs. He is buried in the Huntsville cemetery. Mary lived for another twenty-four years with out her beloved husband. She was seventy-seven years old when she died on December 16, 1895. One of her last request was to follow an old English custom where the wife and husband were buried in the same grave spot. This request was granted and Mary was buried in the same grave as her husband John.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #23349849

• John Smith

England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000 Name: John Smith Event Type: Christening Event Date: 01 Nov 1818 Event Place: , Bidstone, Cheshire, England Sex: Male Father's Name: John Smith Mother's Name: / GS Film number 2103920 Digital Folder Number 004019662 Image Number 00699 Collection Information England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000 Cite this Record "England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQRN-N4L : 12 February 2018), John Smith, 01 Nov 1818, Christening; citing p 19, , Bidstone, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 2,103,920.

Name John Smith Sex Male Christening Date 01 Nov 1818 Christening Place , Bidstone, Cheshire, England Father's Name John Smith Mother's Name / John Smith's Parents and Siblings John Smith Father M

/ Mother F

John Smith England, Cheshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1598-1900 Name: John Smith Event Type: Christening Event Date: 01 Nov 1818 Event Place: Bidstone, Cheshire, England Sex: Male Father's Name: John Smith Record Number: 23

Reference ID item 2 GS Film Number 1655397 Digital Folder Number 004008463 Image Number 00306 Indexing Project (Batch) Number I04138-8 Collection Information England, Cheshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1598-1900 Cite this Record "England, Cheshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1598-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NH9J-XRF : 10 December 2017), John Smith, 01 Nov 1818, Christening; citing item 2, Bidstone, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 1,655,397.

Name John Smith Sex Male Christening Date 01 Nov 1818 Christening Place Bidstone, Cheshire, England Father's Name John Smith Record Number 23 John Smith's Parents and Siblings John Smith Father M

John Smith England Marriages, 1538–1973 Name: John Smith Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 29 Apr 1840 Event Place: Liverpool St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Event Place (Original): Saint Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England Sex: Male Spouse's Name: Mary Heathman Spouse's Sex: Female

Digital Folder Number 005122244 Microfilm Number 93844 Originating System ODM Indexing Batch M00599-3 Collection Information England Marriages, 1538–1973 Cite this Record "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKT8-BXX : 13 March 2020), John Smith, 1840.

Name John Smith Sex Male Spouse's Name Mary Heathman Spouse's Sex Female Marriage Date 29 Apr 1840 Marriage Place Liverpool St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Marriage Place (Original) Saint Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England John Smith's Spouses and Children Mary Heathman Wife F

John Smith England and Wales Census, 1841 Name: John Smith Event Type: Census Event Date: 1841 Event Place: Woodchurch, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom Event Place (Original): Woodchurch, Cheshire, England County: Cheshire Parish: Woodchurch Residence Note: Oxton Sex: Male Age: 20 Age (Original): 20 Birth Year (Estimated): 1821 Birthplace: Cheshire Page Number: 9 Registration Number: HO107 Piece/Folio: 128/7 Affiliate Record Type: Household Affiliate Image Identifier: GBC/1841/0128/0256&parentid=GBC/1841/0008612975 Household Role Sex Age Birthplace John Smith Male 20 Cheshire Mary Smith Female 20 John Smith England and Wales Census, 1851 Name: John Smith Event Type: Census Event Date: 1851 Event Place: Oxton, Cheshire, England Registration District: Wirral Residence Note: So Oxton Sex: Male Age: 32 Marital Status: Married Occupation: Labourer Birth Year (Estimated): 1819 Birthplace: Bidston, Cheshire Relationship to Head of Household: Head Page Number: 32 Registration Number: HO107 Piece/Folio: 2174 / 69 Affiliate Record Type: Household Affiliate Image Identifier: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC/1851/4307776/00136&parentid=GBC/1851/0013900112 Household Role Sex Age Birthplace John Smith Head Male 32 Bidston, Cheshire Mary Smith Wife Female 31 Winkleigh, Devonshire Judeth Smith Daughter Female 9 Oxton, Cheshire Isaae Smith Son Male 5 Oxton, Cheshire Thomas Smith Son Male 2 Oxton, Cheshire William Smith Son Male 0 Oxton, Cheshire Household ID 2785245 Line Number 1 Digital Folder Number 101796490 Microfilm Number 101796490 Image Number 00136 Collection Information England and Wales Census, 1851 Cite this Record "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SG2X-LKH : 9 November 2019), John Smith, Oxton, Cheshire, England; citing Oxton, Cheshire, England, p. 32, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

Event Type Census Name John Smith Sex Male Age 32 Event Date 1851 Event Place Oxton, Cheshire, England Registration District Wirral Birth Year (Estimated) 1819 Birthplace Bidston, Cheshire Marital Status Married Occupation Labourer Relationship to Head of Household Head Page Number 32 Piece/Folio 2174 / 69 Registration Number HO107 John Smith's Spouses and Children Mary Smith Wife F 31 Winkleigh, Devonshire

Judeth Smith Daughter F 9 Oxton, Cheshire

Isaae Smith Son M 5 Oxton, Cheshire

Thomas Smith Son M 2 Oxton, Cheshire

William Smith Son M 0 Oxton, Cheshire

John Smith England and Wales Census, 1861 Name: John Smith Event Type: Census Event Date: 1861 Event Place: Woodchurch, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom Event Place (Original): Woodchurch Oxton, Cheshire, England County: Cheshire Parish: Woodchurch Oxton Ecclesiastical Parish: St Saviours Registration District: Birkenhead Residence Note: Salem View Sex: Male Age: 42 Marital Status: Married Occupation: Stone Quarrier Birth Year (Estimated): 1819 Birthplace: Bidston, Cheshire Relationship to Head of Household: Head Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head Page Number: 56 Registration Number: RG09 Piece/Folio: 2647 / 80 Affiliate Record Type: Household Affiliate Image Identifier: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC/1861/2647/00404A&parentid=GBC/1861/0013988175 Household Role Sex Age Birthplace John Smith Head Male 42 Bidston, Cheshire Mary Smith Wife Female 41 Winckly Julia Smith Daughter Female 19 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire Isaac Smith Son Male 15 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire Thomas Smith Son Male 12 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire William Smith Son Male 10 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire Mary A Smith Daughter Female 8 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire Joseph Smith Son Male 6 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire Elizabeth J Smith Daughter Female 4 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire Matilda A Smith Daughter Female 0 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire John Henry Smith Son Male 2 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

Digital Folder Number 101818409 Microfilm Number 101818409 Image Number 00161 Collection Information England and Wales Census, 1861 Cite this Record "England and Wales Census, 1861," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7GC-N37 : 3 March 2021), John Smith, Woodchurch, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1861 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 9, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

Event Type Census Name John Smith Sex Male Age 42 Event Date 1861 Event Place Woodchurch, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom Event Place (Original) Woodchurch Oxton, Cheshire, England Registration District Birkenhead Birth Year (Estimated) 1819 Birthplace Bidston, Cheshire Marital Status Married Occupation Stone Quarrier Relationship to Head of Household Head Household ID 3038644 Line Number 13 Page Number 56 Piece/Folio 2647 / 80 Registration Number RG09 Other People on This Record Mary Smith F 41 Winckly

Julia Smith F 19 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

Isaac Smith M 15 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

Thomas Smith M 12 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

William Smith M 10 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

Mary A Smith F 8 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

Joseph Smith M 6 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

Elizabeth J Smith F 4 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

Matilda A Smith F 0 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

John Henry Smith M 2 Oxton Woodchurch, Cheshire

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John Smith Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868 Name: John Smith Event Type: Immigration Event Date: 1861 Event Place: Deseret, United States Sex: Male Birth Date: 23 Sep 1818 Departure Date: 1861 Death Date: 28 Feb 1871 Company Name: Company Unknown

Collection Information Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868 Cite this Record "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9B-ZCMK : 10 February 2018), John Smith, 1861; from "Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel: 1847-1868," database, > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/ : 2004-).

Name John Smith Sex Male Immigration Date 1861 Immigration Place Deseret, United States Departure Date 1861 Death Date 28 Feb 1871 Birth Date 23 Sep 1818 Company Name Company Unknown Note KWJ7-FX8,93HL-7GF,KZRJ-6D5,KZ8J-Z9R,9WV8-5SP,934W-XK2,9QPS-6DX,M8RR-TS6,L62N-1SD,L6QF-SVL,L6Q6-2QR,LDF6-SH4,LHQK-LTB,KNSN-DVR John A Smith United States Census, 1870 Name: John A Smith • Event Type: Census Event Date: 1870 • Event Place: Ogden, Weber, Utah Territory, United States • Event Place (Original): Ogden Valley, Weber, Utah Territory, United States Sex: Male Age: 51 Race: White Birth Year (Estimated): 1819 Birthplace: England • Page Number: 17 Household Role Sex Age Birthplace John A Smith Male 51 England Mary Smith Female 52 England Thomas Smith Male 21 England Maryann Smith Female 17 England Joseph Smith Male 15 England E Jane Smith Female 13 England Matilda Smith Female 10 England

John A Smith United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969 Name: John A Smith • Event Type: Death Event Date: 28 Feb 1871 • Event Place: Huntsville, Weber, Utah Territory, United States • Event Place (Original): Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States Birth Date: 23 Sep 1818 • Cemetery: Huntsville (Sexton Records) Digital Folder Number 007897014 Image Number 00361 Collection Information United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969 Cite this Record "United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPTW-NZWS : 13 November 2020), John A Smith, 28 Feb 1871; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; FHL microfilm 007897014.

Event Type Death Cemetery Huntsville (Sexton Records) Name John A Smith Death Date 28 Feb 1871 Death Place Huntsville, Weber, Utah Territory, United States Death Place (Original) Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States Birth Date 23 Sep 1818 This information is available because a volunteer indexed it for you.

John A Smith Find A Grave Index Name: John A Smith Event Type: Burial Event Date: 1871 Event Place: Huntsville, Weber, Utah, United States of America Age (Estimated): 53 Photograph Included: Y Birth Date: 23 Sep 1818 Death Date: 28 Feb 1871 Cemetery: Huntsville Cemetery Affiliate Record Identifier: 23349849 Affiliate Image Identifier: 23349849