Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Schooners Ohio, Harwich, Courier - Captained by William Greenwood Russell
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Annie Eliza Russell - McIntosh
Annie Eliza Russell McIntosh
Born 23 Oct 1867 in St. John, Tooele, Utah
Died 10 July 1938 in Barstow, San Bernadino, California
Buried in St. John, Tooele, Utah
A very beautiful woman. Dark complexioned with large dark eyes. Beautiful coal black hair that came well below her waist. She was somewhat small and well proportioned, walked well and always had a smile for everyone.
As a girl she was an excellent horse woman and rode horse back very much. My Father, Joseph Albert McIntosh, and she Annie Eliza Russell, did much of their courting on horse back. However after her children began arriving she never rode again although she always provided a pony for us children.
Mother was always active in the church and held many positions in the auxillaries.
As a child I remember her as the grandest person alive and I still think there could have been no one more wonderful.
She was very concerned about the development of her children. She taught us more than we learned at school.
Dad and Mother really loved each other and showed it by their affection for one another and for their children.
It was through Mother's insistence that the family moved to Provo, Utah in 1905 in order to allow better educational opportunities for the children.
Dad was away from home much of the time attending to his contract hauling business so it was Mother who did most of the training of the children. She was patient and loving but not without some stern corrections when necessary.
She had many unhappy incidents in her life such as the death of an infant daughter, Alta Grace, and much later the death of her oldest daughter, Emily, age 27, during the flu epidemic in 1918.
Her faith was supreme and I have felt that she was more certain of her religious beliefs than any person I have ever known. Her knowledge was absolute.
When three of her younger boys went to California to work, she also moved there to continue her care of them. It was on a return visit to Utah to meet us, who were there on a vacation from the East, that she was killed in an automobile accident near Barstow, California on July 10, 1938.
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Written by Donald H. McIntosh her son and contributed by Faye Florence McIntosh Jarvis her grand daughter who I thank very much.
(Another life sketh written by her daughter will follow shorty)
History & Obituary of Eliza Ann Russell Caldwell
Eliza Ann Russell Caldwell
Is Laid at Final Rest
Deseret Evening News Saturday April 19, 1919
Eliza Ann Russell Caldwell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Feb 11, 1840, and died in Salt Lake City April 8, 1919. Her father, William Russell was English by birth, but was for many years captain of vessels sailing the Great Lakes. Her mother, Louisa Russell, was a French woman, who shortly after her graduation from a Canadian convent for girls, was married to William Russell in Ohio.
Eliza was the older of two children, being two years older than her brother George. When she was six years old her mother died, and sometime later her father married again. It was with her father and her step-mother and their family that Eliza crossed the plains when she was twelve years old. She experienced all the adventures attendant upon traveling by ox-team and walking over many miles of the old pioneer trail. She reached Salt Lake when the city was only five years old.
With her father's family, she was one of the first settlers of Taylorsville, but within a year or two moved to St. John, Tooele County. Being in the very outskirts of a pioneer land she knew what it was to card and spin and color wool to make clothes for her father's large family and later for her own. She had all the experience of sewing by the glare of the great open fire, and later by the light of the home-made tallow dip and tallow candle. She owned the first "oil lamp" and also the first organ that ever came into Rush Valley. Her experiences with the Indians were both amusing and exciting. It was one of her chief delights in her late life to entertain her family with Indian stories and old pioneer songs.
She was married on Feb. 16, 1858 to Isaac James Caldwell. They had 10 children, five of whom passed into the "Great Beyond" before her time. For many years she, with her husband and family, lived in Tooele city, but in 1891 moved to Salt Lake City. A few months after she came to Salt Lake City, her husband died at the age of 59 years.
Up to the time of her living in Salt Lake City, Mrs. Caldwell was an active worker in the various organizations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She gave her longest service to the children in Primary work. Always she and her husband took great pleasure in throwing their home open for the entertainment of visitors to their home town. In their old home they were known as "Aunt Eliza" and "Uncle Jim" to young and old. It is not unusual today to meet even Indians whom they have known and fed, and who refer to them as "Aunt Eliza" and "Uncle Jim."
Mrs. Caldwell passed through the hardships of the grasshopper war and was one of those who participated in "the move south" at the time of Johnson's army.
The body was taken to Tooele for interment.
Funeral Services.
Simple but impressive funeral services for Mrs. Eliza A. Russell Caldwell, who died Tuesday, were held Wednesday at the family residence, 453 Fourth Avenue. Bishop C.C. Nelson of the Twentieth ward officiated and was one of the speakers. A.J. Stookey of the Tooele stake presidency spoke of the noble attributes of the deceased and her late husband Isaac James Caldwell. Pres. Nephi L. Morris of Salt Lake stake discoursed eloquently on the promises of the gospel and the reality of the resurrection.
Music was furnished by Miss Margaret Summerhays and the Twentieth ward quartet, accompanied by Jennie Romney Crawford, the selections being "Tho' Deep'ning Trails," "What Voice Salutes the Startled Ear," "Who Are These Arrayed in White?" (solo), and "Rest on the Hillside, Rest." C.C. Cornwall offered the opening prayer and George F. Gibbs pronounced the benediction. The casket and floral offerings were beautiful.
Mrs. Caldwell was born Feb 11, 1840 in Cleveland Ohio, and crossed the plains when 12 years of age locating in Tooele, where for many years she was an active worker in the Primary association and Relief Society. She was the mother of 10 children and is survived by the following: George, Richard Elmer, Emily Caldwell Adams, Elizabeth and Margaret; also 23 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
The body was taken to Tooele for interment, with brief serviced to be held at the grave.
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The article and photograph were contributed by John Caldwell of Tooele, Utah, her great grandson & I thank him ever so greatly.
Friday, October 19, 2007
The Russell Family
In upcoming postings I will feature each of the child and their families with facts, stories and photographs. If you have a history or story I would love to post them.
Mother - Louisa Jones
1. Eliza Ann Russell Born 11 Feb 1840
2. Still Born unnamed Child (Twin)
Born 25 Apr 1842 , Buried Sec 9 Lot 5 Grave 9
3. Child unnamed 1 month of age (Twin to child #2)
Born 25 Apr 1842 Died 31 May 1843 Buried Sec 9 Lot 5 Grave 9
4. Still Born unnamed Child (Twin to John - below)
Born 24 Apr 1843, Buried Sec 9, Lot 8, Grave 10
5. John Russell (Twin to child #4)
Born 24 Apr 1843 Died 20 Dec 1843, Buried Sec 9, Lot 8, Grave 10
6. George Washington Russell
7. Infant child unnamed
20 Feb 1947
Mother and child died during child birth. There is no burial record for this child so it might not have been born. But Louisa's cause of death is listed as child birth.
Mother - Elizabeth Vickery
Thursday, October 18, 2007
The Greenwood Name & Coat of Arms
This coat of arms was used by the descendants of Wymoarus Greenwode about 1154.
The coat of arms is describe thus: Sable, a chevron ermines between three saltiers argent.
Evidently this coat of arms has been found in most of the branches of the Greenwood family and in some churches near Heptonstall, England where Greenwood names have been recorded.
Heptonstall is also the town from which the Drapers of America hail. In that town exists today a Draper Lane. The Drapers were given land there after aiding William the Conquerer quell the rebellions. 700 plus years after the date above the Greenwoods and Drapers came together with the 1909 Marriage of my grandparents in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ona America Draper 1886-1979 and Heber Clyde Russell 1886-1946 (Heber Clyde Russell is the grandson of William Greenwood Russell who added Russell as a surname but was born a Greenwood, which was discussed in a prior posting.