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Above: Isaac John Wardle photo from book Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah
Isaac John Wardle married and had children with Martha Ann Egbert; Mary Ann Ashton; and Sophia Myers
Above: Coal-miners in England, UK
ISAAC JOHN WARDLE
Isaac John Wardle grew up working in the coal mines ten or twelve hours a day in Leicestershire, England. He would be so tired when he came home that he would fall to sleep while eating supper. He therefore didn't get to go to school and didn't learn how to read until he was older. He was the first member of his family to join the church, and was 20 and traveling alone with the Martin Handcart Company. He and John Bailey, 15, helped pull another young man, an invalid, Langley Bailey, 18, in their cart. These three young men were great friends. Isaac helped with the many burials and helped to gather wood for fires. It was through descriptions in his histories that we found the stumps in Martin's Cove where they had cut down trees for wood. He said he fell to the ground one time and wouldn't have gotten up if someone hadn't helped him. He made it to Utah and later became a Sunday School Superintendent and always treasured learning because of being deprived of it as a child.
Above: Edward Martin is center row far right in an 1855
photo of missionaries in England. They arranged the 1856 migration.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Isaac John Wardle wrote: "We arrived safe in Boston Saturday at 10 A.M. after five (5) weeks sea voyage. After 2 days proceeded by train to Iowa City, arriving there July 8, 1856 and went on to Council Bluffs. I left Council Bluffs in "Captain Martin's" handcart company. Being a stron[g] man and having no relatives in the company I took a sick young man (eighteen years old) in my cart. His name was "Langl[e]y A. Bailey", besides the sick boy I had 100 lbs. flour, a tent, and camp equipment for seven persons which I pulled for 1130 miles to Pacific Springs, Wyoming. John Bailey helped me pull some of the way. We crossed the Missouri River at Florence. when we left Florence there were about 740 souls in our company. With Edward Martin as our Captain we did not have much difficuilty on the road except a few visits from the Indians until we encountered a sever[e] snow storm at Platt[e] Bridge this was early in October. Then our old men and women and some of the younger children began to give out and to get sick and many of them died which I helped bury, but we kept moving on a little every day in spite of the cold and hardships. At one time I became so weary and over come with cold that I fell down and was forced to lay there for some time. About this time one day while we were stopped for noon two men rode into our camp, they were "Joseph Young" and Ephraim Hanks who had come to tell us that men where coming to meet us with teams and wagons from Salt Lake City. We met the first team at Pacific Springs, Wyoming who had provisions for us with them. By this time our company was much smaller than when we left Council Bluffs, as so many had died some had stopped at different places along the way. We proceeded on to Salt Lake City with the teams leaving our handcarts behind. We arrived there Nov. 30, 1856 having taken us Six (6) months and five (5) days to come from Liverpool England to Salt Lake City, U.S.A.
President Brigham Young along with many of the other Brethern and Women came to welcome us and took us into their homes, fed and warmed us and gave us warm clean beds to rest our weary bodies."
Wardle, Isaac John, Autobiographical sketch [n.d.], [2].
Above: Top left and right are 1877 photos US Passenger ships, above is 1856 U.S. Train
ISAAC JOHN WARDLE was the second oldest son of John Wardle and Mary Kinston Morton
John WARDLE was born 19 AUG 1811 in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England, was christened 13 OCT 1811 in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England, and died 1875 (buried) in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah. He married Mary Kinston MORTON 12 NOV 1832 in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England, daughter of Edward MORTON and Mary KINGSTON. Mary Kinston MORTON was born 1 JUN 1806 in Shakerstone, Leicestershire, England, and died 2 JAN 1875 (buried) in South Jordan, Utah.
Above: Martin's Cove and on right statue of handcart pioneers
Above: Church were Isaac John Wardle's parents were christened and married (John Wardle and Mary Kinston Morton) Ravestone, England.
Children of John WARDLE and Mary Kinston MORTON are:
1. William WARDLE was born 26 JAN 1833 in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England, was christened 3 JUN 1833 in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England, and died 3 OCT 1898 in South Jordan, Utah.
2. Isaac John WARDLE was born 14 JUN 1835 in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England, was christened 25 JUN 1835 in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England, and died 30 OCT 1917 in Parker, Fremont, Idaho.
3. Joseph WARDLE was born 1837 in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England.
4. Hannah WARDLE was born 22 JUL 1839 in Whitwick, Leicestershire, England, and died 12 DEC 1919.
5.. James WARDLE was born 16 OCT 1841 in Ravenstone or Whitwick, Leicestershire, England, and died 12 DEC 1917 in Midvale, Utah. He married Mary DIXON 3 FEB 1866 in Salt Lake City UT.
Above: Left is a photo of a Guesthoust in Ravenstone, Leicestershire, England a watercolor of it on the right.
Above: Map of Mormon trails and on right painting of Martin Handcart company
ISAAC JOHN WARDLE MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN
Marriage #1: Martha Ann EGBERT b: 1 MAR 1844 in Nauvoo, (Hancock), IL
Married: 17 APR 1859 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Children:
Isaac John WARDLE b: 31 OCT 1861 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Samuel WARDLE b: 4 FEB 1864 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Crilla Marie WARDLE b: 15 OCT 1865 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Araminta WARDELL (WARDLE) b: 26 APR 1868 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Joseph Smith WARDLE b: 13 SEP 1870 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Isaac John WARDLE b: <1872> in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Hyrum Smith WARDLE b: 26 MAY 1873 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Silas De Roy WARDLE b: 16 JUL 1876 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Junius F. WARDLE b: 9 JUN 1879 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Etna (Edna) May WARDLE b: 15 MAY 1882 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Edgar Ray WARDLE b: 15 MAY 1882 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, UT
Marriage #2: Mary Ann ASHTON b: 13 JUL 1851 in Stockport, Cheshire, England
Married: 14/23 SEP 1867 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT
Children:
William Haston WARDLE b: 5 APR 1869 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah
Marriage #3 Sophia MYERS b: 11 SEP 1849 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Married: 26 JUL 1869 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT
Children:
Charles W. WARDLE b: 18 DEC 1870 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah
Hannah M. WARDLE b: 13 MAR 1873 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah
Altheamer M. WARDLE b: 3 SEP 1881 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah
Wilford Woodruff WARDLE b: 6 OCT 1883 in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah
Online Source: (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1479150&id=I23)
Above: Mormon pioneer families migrated the Western states and on right Ute Indians on horseback
MARY ANN ASHTON (2nd Wife of Isaac John Wardle and mother of William Hasten Wardle)
Mary Ann Ashton Remembered
Mary Ann Ashton, age 4, of England. Martin Company. [Out of their family of two parents and four daughters, Mary Ann and one sister are the only ones who made it safely to the Valley. Her sister Sarah Ellen lost the sight in one eye because of experiences of the handcart trek.
Online Source: (http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:cPZuXUOsB2QJ:www.oldjuniper.com/trek/female%2520pioneers.rtf+
mary+ann+ashton+martin+handcart+pioneer&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari)
My Handcart Memories I had an experience this summer that I can’t explain. I was with a handcart company for several months. Like I said, I can’t explain it, but it was real and it was powerful. My biggest fear now is that I’ll forget those I met and came to love. I also worry that I’ll forget what they taught me. In this notebook I plan to write all I can remember and learn about them. I don’t know if it will ever matter to anyone else. But to me, they matter. I won’t forget them. -Jake
Betsy, Sarah Ellen, and Mary Ashton
What I Remember: The three little girls that joined my tent at Ft.Laramie. Their father left the company and joined the army.
What Happened to Dad? Sarah Ellen’s Granddaughter wrote:
A man by the name of Clark came to grandmother’s door with a copy of the Millenial Star which contained an inquiry concerning anyone who might know of relatives of William Ashton, pauper, in England, who had emigrated to America previously and left his children on the plains. Grandmother recognized this man as her father who had left when she was seven…Now she was the only one of the children living. She…got in touch with the authorities where her father lived, sending passage money for him. He arrived withsome missionaries from England and spent the rest of his years with [his daughter Sarah Ellen].
What I’ve Learned:
- Daughters of William and Sarah Ann Ashton
- Their sister, one year old Elizabeth, died while the Company was in Boston
- Their mother, Sarah Ann died while giving birth to another daughter one day out of Florence. “She was buried in an old wagon box, wearing a dark red cashmere dress and wrapped in a white bedspread.”
- The new baby died two weeks later.
- Father was so sad he left the Company in Ft. Laramie and enlisted in the army. He later returned to England.
- The girls were taken in by other members of the Company. Betsy, the oldest at 11, died someplace in Wyoming.
- Sarah married Thomas Beckstead in 1864 they had 10 children, 4 died as babies.
- Mary married Isaac Wardle in 1867. She died two years later while giving birth to her only child.
- Sarah lived to the age of 62.
Online Source: Olsen,
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http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch/1,15773,3966-1,00.html
Online Source: (http://www.journeyoftheheartbook.com/files/JakeNotes.pdf)
Sarah Ellen Ashton Remembered (Mary Ann Ashton's Sister)
Above: Sarah Ellen Ashton (Mary Ann Ashton's older sister)
Sarah Ellen Ashton
Born: July 8, 1846 in England
Age: 10
Martin Handcart Company
Sarah Ellen's family was converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and they made plans to sail for American. Sarah's parents, William (33 or 34) and Betsy Barlow Ashton (33), their children Betsy (11), Sarah Ellen (10), Mary (4), and Elizabeth Ann (1 or 2), left Liverpool, England in may 1856 on the ship "Horizon".
While at sea (or in Boston), Sarah's sister, Elizabeth, died. The family arrived in America and traveled to Iowa City, Iowa. They had to wait there nearly a month for their handcarts to be finished. they then joined with the Martin Company.
They traveled several weeks and on August 4, 1856, a baby girl, Sarah Ann, was born on the plains in Nebraska. A short time later on August 26, 1856, Sarah Ellen's mother, Betsy, died. Two weeks later on September 11, 1856, the new baby, Sarah Ann, also died.
After this sad tragedy, Sarah's father became discouraged, left his three little girls with the company, returned to New York, and later went back to England. The Saints cared for the little girls as well as they could. They all suffered greatly from food shortages and the lack of warm clothing. Sarah Ellen's oldest sister, Betsy, froze to death. This left Sarah and her sister, Mary, to continue walking on to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived on November 30, 1856.
They were met by a group of Saints who took them in and cared for them. Later, they found a home with the Hatfield family in Farmington, Utah. They remained there until Sarah married Thomas W. Beckstead when she was 15. Sarah and Thomas had 10 children, four of whom died as infants.
Sarah devoted her life to her children, her husband, and her church. In 1887, the Beckstead family moved to Idaho. Sarah read in the paper where her father was advertising for his family. Sarah Ellen sent to England for him to come and join her family. Sarah's father accepted her invitation and Sarah cared for her father until his death.
Sarah Ellen lived a good life helping the sick and needy. Surely, she learned to trust in God and be forgiving. She lived to be 92.
Online Source: (http://alpine10trek.com/Stories/sarah_ellen_ashton.html)
Above: South Jordan, looking East to Wasatch Mountain range.
History of South Jordan, Utah
Alexander Beckstead and his family were among the original few who commenced homesteads "over Jordan" in 1849. It is interesting to note that several of the early pioneers to the area of South Jordan lived initially in earthen dugouts fashioned "under the hill" just above the Jordan River. Beckstead, along with seven of his sons and their adjoining neighbors, brought water from the Jordan River in 1859. They diverted the water by constructing a ditch using picks and shovels, with a bucket of water used as a level. The ditch was still utilized for irrigation in contemporary South Jordan.
Other early settlers of South Jordan included Isaac John Wardle, as well as his brother and father, John and William Wardle. Isaac had been a member of the ill-fated Martin Handcart Company of 1856.
The original South Jordan meetinghouse was constructed of adobe in 1864, and it served as a schoolhouse. A larger building was erected in the 1870s to meet the needs of the growing hamlet. It was made of granite rock and adobe and measured 30 feet by 14 feet. Today, many chapels of three LDS stakes dot the landscape in South Jordan.
Raising livestock and growing grain and alfalfa were the chief means of livelihood for early residents of South Jordan. During the greater part of the twentieth century, the major crop in South Jordan was sugar beets. Today, the remaining agriculture consists of small plots of land where grain and hay are grown to feed horses and a few cattle.
Isaac John Wardle - From the book "Church Chronology" (published 1898)
"Sun. 20. (March 1887) - At a meeting held at South Jordan, the Seventies residing in Riverton, Bluff Dale and Herriman were separated from the 33rd quorum of Seventy...On the same occasion the 95th quorum was organized with Edwin D. Holt, James Oliver, Issac J. Wardle, Albert Holt, Andrew Amundsen, Henry B. Beckstead and Alexander Bills as presidents. The members of this quorum resided in South Jordan Ward."
"April. Fri. 1. (1887). - Herriman, Salt Lake Co., was raided by U.S. deputy marshals; nearly every house in the village was searched, but no arrests were made. Sat. 2. (April 1887) - South Jordan, Salt Lake Co., was raided by U.S. deputy marshals, who arrested Alexander Bills and Henry Beckstead for u.c. (unlawful cohabitation). Mon. 4. (April 1887) Ole Hansen, of Logan, was arrested for u.c. and placed under $1,500 bonds. Tues. 5. (April 1887) - Karl G. Maeser, of Provo, was arrest on a charge of u.c. Lars Nielsen and John Felt, of Huntsville, Weber Co., were arrested on the same charge, taken to Ogden and placed under bonds."
"Mon. 26. (Sep. 1887) In the Third District Court Henry Beckstead, of South Jordan was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and $100 fine; and Joseph H. Ridges, of Salt Lake City, to six months' imprisonment and $25 fine. for u.c."
"Wed. 4. (June 1890) - Isaac J. Wardle, of South Jordan, Salt Lake Co., was arrested for u.c. (unlawful cohabitation)"
Online Source: http://books.google.com/books?ei=nwSYS5ycBoSyswO0nczBAQ&ct=result&output=text&id=-VIoAAAAYAAJ&dq=isaac+john+wardle+south+jordan&ots=AfGHeXEk8I&q=wardle#v=snippet&q=wardle&f=false
Above: Teton Valley Idaho on the right is a map of St. Anthony and Teton Valley Idaho.
Isaac John Wardle - History of Idaho Vol. III 1920 (page 507, Joseph S. Wardle)
Joseph S. Wardle, a ranchman who resides on the Boise bench two miles southwest of Boise...His father was Isaac John Wardle, of St. Anthony, Idaho, who passed away in October, 1917, at the age of eighty-two years. He was born in Lincolnchire, (Leicestershire) England, June 13, (14th) 1835, and came to the United States in 1852 (1856) as a convert to the Mormon church. He at once proceeded across the plains to Utah, making the trip on foot with a handcard company, being then a lad of eighteen (twenty) years. He came to the new world unaccompanied by relatives, but after he had been in Utah a few years he sent to England for his parents, who joined him in Utah, he paying their passage to the United States. Twenty-two years ago (1898) Isaac John Wardle removed from Utah to Idaho and resided at St. Anthony throughout his remaining days. He was a sheep raiser and the excellent opportunities for carrying on the industry in Idaho caused him to locate in this state. He was very active in the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving as superintendent of a Sunday school in Salt Lake City for eighteen years. He was married three times and by his first wife, Martha Ann Egbert, had ten children...The mother died December 9, 1916. By his second wife Isaac J. Wardle had one child, a son, William H. Wardle, now living in Teton county, Idaho. By his third marriage he had four children, of whom three are living. His family numbered fifteen children together, of whom ten yet survive (1920).
Online Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=-t8UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA507&lpg=PA507&dq=history+idaho+joesph+s+wardle&source=bl&ots=A-VtrudVIH&sig=aZxB6RkqrTInKnGGju7NrWXhweY&hl=en&ei=7_-XS8ilCIaqsgOZ_rjCAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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