Hannah (Carter) York (1809 - 1894)

Born 28 Jun 1809 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Aaron Mereon York Sr — married 2 Dec 1829 in Bethel, Oxford, Maine

Descendants

Died 18 Sep 1894 at age 85 in Provo, Utah, Utah

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Hannah (Carter) York was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

Hannah (Carter) York was involved in the westward expansion of the USA. See Westward Ho!.

Hannah was born in 1809 in the state of Maine. She married Aaron Mereon York on December 03, 1830 in Newry, Oxford County, Maine. Their first several children were born in that county.

In 1837, Hannah and Aaron joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Kirtland, Ohio. They then went to Missouri with the Kirtland Camp in 1839, and were driven from there by a mob. They settled in Sugarbush, Missouri where Hannah provided for her family while her husband was on a mission to the Eastern States for fourteen months. They were surrounded by "gentiles" but were treated very kindly.

When Aaron retuned from his mission, he was ill and Hannah continued to provide for their family and also took care of her sick husband. When he returned to health, the family was able to move to Lima, Hancock County, Illinois, closer to the main body of the Saints.

John William, their fifth child, was born in Lima, but he lived just about eight months only. Hannah supported her family by weaving when her husband left on his second mission to the Eastern states. Eight months after her husband left, she gave birth to her sixth child. Another son was born May of 1845.

That fall, the family was driven from Lima into Nauvoo. Everything they owned was burned, and their horse was shot. Their food had either been destroyed or stolen.

In January, 1846, Hannah and Aaron went through the Nauvoo Temple to take out their endowments. They left Nauvoo that spring and traveled as far as Mt. Pisgah, Iowa where they stayed for the next four years. While there they took into their home three orphaned children of the Hallet family after their parents died.

Mary Elizabeth Hallett Snow 1845-1927 findagrave # 70350202 Thatcher Clark Hallett, Jr 1836-1908 Findagrave 75957042 Hyrum Hallett 1841-1920 findagrave 31021291

So in the spring of 1850, this family, of eleven persons, left Mt. Pisgah for the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived on October 22, 1850. Hannah's daughter, Julia Ann, was married sometime after their arrival in Salt Lake.

Hannah lived in Salt Lake until the Spring of 1852 when the family moved to Provo. Their son Levi, age fifteen years, died in 1860. This loss was felt by all the family.

Hannah's husband, Aaron, Passed away on November 27, 1881 in Santaquin, Utah. Hannah passed away on September 18, 1894 at the age of eighty-five years, she died in Provo, Utah, and was buried there.

She was truly a brave pioneer woman of faith and fortitude, who survived the mobbings, and persecutions along with the other Saints. She had done an excellent job of caring for her family even during the times her husband served the Lord on missions. Hannah's posterity honor her for her great examples of love, faith, and endurance.

Source Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude Daughters of the Utah Pioneers

Children: Asa Bartlett York (1832 - 1920)* Julia Ann York Reidhead (1833 - 1931)* Zenos Willis York (1835 - 1837)* James Chauncy Snow York (1837 - 1898)* John William York (1841 - 1842)* Aaron Mereon York (1844 - 1901)* Levi Sawyer York (1845 - 1869)* Martha Eliza York Roberts (1849 - 1931)*

Sources

• Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel
• Biography from Find A Grave Memorial #33945433: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=York&GSfn=hannah&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=47&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=33945433&df=all&

Acknowledgements

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Notes

BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH:

• John Carter Family Record; taken by William F. Carter in 1853; in possession of Robert E. Givens Town Records; Newry, ME;

• Carter Pioneers of Provo, UT; by Arthur D. Coleman; pub. 1966

• BIRTH: LDS IGI, 1994 edition (ME), shows bapt. date of 5 Mar 1932 in SLAKE.

MARRIAGE: IGI, shows a date for sealing of 22 May ___ in ATLAN.