Smith, Eliza Jane

1852 - 1933 INDEX PEDIGREE

Jackson Osborne Smith

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SPOUSE: MARY MARIE OWENS
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Birth Date: 26 May 1852
Birth Place: Council Bluffs, Pott., Iowa
Death Date: 29 July 1933
Burial: Daniels Creek, Wasatch, Utah

CHILDREN
Margaret Angeline Smith
Hannah Marie Smith
John James Smith
Elizabeth Lucretia Smith
Isaac Smith
Clarence Smith
Ruth Ann Smith
Elvira Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Eliza Jane Smith
Jackson Smith
Julia Levet Smith
Rachel Isabel Smith
Joseph Alvin Smith

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SIBLINGS

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Jackson and Mary owens recieved the gospel from Elders of the LDS Church and moved from Iowa to Nebraska. In April 1866 they started for Utah with one ox team and few supplies and clothes and food they could take. At night the company would make an encampment and after supper stories were told. Singing and dancing were also part of the entertainment.

Sometimes white persons were seen that had been scalped by the Indians. Eliza Jane said that it made her blood run cold to see those sights. Many times they wondered if it was really worth while. They would then kneel down and pray to Heavenly Father to guide them right and help them to reach Utah safely.

When they reached Fort Laramie they camped there for awhile. During this time the Indians opened fire on the fort. The soldiers returned the fire and after many weary hours drove the Indians away. After things had quieted down, some of the girls went out and took the moccasins from the dead Indian's feet and put on their own shoeless feet. Eliza said her feet would be sore and bleeding at night.

The men would go out early in the morning to kill animals for meat for their families and the women and girls would gather berries. John and Mary and their 11 children arrived in Utah in September 1866. The parents had brought cows along so had milk and bytter to use with their flour and meal.

They had a one-room log house with a fireplace in one end, dirt floor and a rough lumber table and corn stalks for a mattress. But anything was good for shelter.

She (Eliza) came with her parents, the Jackson Smiths, (Jackson Smith's mother was a cousin to the Prophet Joseph Smith) to Midway (Utah) and stayed two years and then moved to Scipio (Utah).

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