Matilda Zimmerman (Jinkinson) Stolworthy (1827 - 1918)

Born 13 Aug 1827 in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 28 Nov 1918 at age 91 in Orderville, Kane, Utah, United States

Biography

Matilda (Jinkinson) Stolworthy was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Matilda Jinkinson (also found as Mathilda Jenkerson/Jinkeson) was born in 1827 in England, United Kingdom. ^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

She was the daughter of Thomas Jenkerson and Christiana Lovock (also found as Louvick). ^[6][7]

She married Thomas Stolworthy (also found as Stalworthy) 13 May 1852, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (1900 census gives marriage year as 1850). ^[8][9][10]

She traveled overland to the Salt Lake Valley with Thomas Stolworthy (Age: 26). ^[11]

Biographical Sketch (excerpts) published on Find A Grave Memorial, source: Treasures of Pioneer History, Vol. 4, p. 59): ^[12]

Thomas Stolworthy and Matilda Jinkinson Stolworthy, came to America and on to the Salt Lake Valley in 1854. Thomas was born in Great Yarmouth, England on December 8, 1828, the youngest of a family of ten children. His father, Henry Stolworthy, was a miller by trade, but as a young boy, Thomas learned the trade of moulding or casting of metals. He worked as a foundryman during the early days of Utah, making buckets and different utensils. Grandmother Stolworthy used a stove most of her life that her husband had made. Matilda Jinkinson was born August 13, 1827 in Alton, England, she, also, being the youngest in a family of ten children. Thomas and Matilda called themselves "tithing children" after they had heard the gospel and were baptized. Their conversion came after they were married in 1849. Their fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters all turned against them for joining the Mormons and forbade them ever to come home. In 1853, the young husband and wife, in company with another young married couple, decided to gather with the saints in Utah. They sailed for America on board the ship Clara Wheeler, in November. The young strangers spent New Year's Day in New Orleans and from there went on to St. Louis where Thomas secured work in his trade as an iron worker and earned enough money to buy a team and wagon and provisions for the trip to Utah. They traveled on to Salt Lake Valley in Captain James Allred's company. Somewhere on that trek a little daughter was born to them whom they named Matilda. She died soon after birth and was buried along the trail. In the Fall of 1855, Thomas Stolworthy was called to go to Cache Valley with other men to take cattle to winter in this valley as feed was scarce around the Salt Lake region. The men took their wives with them and it proved to be a winter of extreme hardship. Winter set in early and it was impossible to get provisions into the valley. They barely existed on the rations they could procure and cattle starved or were frozen to death. On July 19, 1856, the first white child to be born in Cache Valley came to the Stolworthy home. Thomas and Matilda named her Eliza Cache. She was very delicate and soon another little grave marked the trail of the faithful young couple from England. In 1858, another baby girl came to them which they named Elizabeth Jinkinson. When but a baby, she, too, was taken ill and it seemed probable that she would join her sisters and brothers who had passed away. Later the Stolworthy's were sent to the Muddy Mission and again endured great hardships. They next settled in St. George, then in Orderville where they lived the United Order until it was broken up.

She passed away in 1918 in Utah, United States. ^[13][14][15]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S1
2. ↑ Source: #S5
3. ↑ Source: #S8
4. ↑ Source: #S12
5. ↑ Source: #S22
6. ↑ Source: #S8
7. ↑ Source: #S22
8. ↑ Source: #S1
9. ↑ Source: #S5
10. ↑ Source: #S22
11. ↑ Source: #S12
12. ↑ Source: #S22
13. ↑ Source: #S8
14. ↑ Source: #S12
15. ↑ Source: #S22

• Source: S1 1880 United States Federal Census, Orderville, Kane, Utah; Roll: 1336; Page: 451B; Enumeration District: 029.
• Source: S5 1900 United States Federal Census, Tropic, Garfield, Utah; Page: 21; Enumeration District: 0095.
• Source: S8 Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961, Ancestry.com. Original data: Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics. Death Certificates, 1904-1961. Series 81448. Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah (an image of the death certificate is included with this source).
• Source: S12 LDS Pioneer Overland Travel 1847-1868 database: https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/16086/matilda-stolworthy
• Source: S22 Find A Grave Memorial ID 70353: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70353/mathilda-stolworthy

See also:

• Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=5111977&pid=5161

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