In March 2012, the RBFO obtained a copy of the birth certificate of "Martha Jane Brough" from England, which stated that she was born on 21 July 1853 in Furnace Road, Longton, Staffordshire, and that her father was Thomas Brough, a Collier, and that her mother was "Jane Brough formerly Peterson".
In March 2012, the RBFO obtained a copy of the birth certificate of "William George Brough" from England, which stated that he was born on 2 July 1855 in Furnace Road, Longton, Staffordshire, and that his father was Thomas Brough, a Collier, and that his mother was "Ann Jane Brough formerly Peterson".
History of George Marshall Sr.
Compiled and edited from various sources by Helen Metta Brough Rode in 1966.
George Marshall was born on July 26, 1826, in Ballyvenox, Macosquin, Londondery, Ireland. Eventually he moved to Scotland, where he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1849, he married Agnes McIntyre. Afterwards, they sailed from Liverpool, England, to America, arriving on 1 November 1850 in New Orleans, Louisiana. They then spent two years in St. Louis, Missouri, before traveling westward to Utah.
When George Marshall reached Utah, he initially settled in Pine Canyon, near Tooele, and began farming and raising livestock. Unfortunately, Agnes and their two children became ill and died in the early 1850’s. In 1854, George Marshall married a widower, Elizabeth Walmsley. Two fine boys were born to this union. George Jr. was born on January 5, 1855, and Ephraim was born on June 5, 1857. These boys lived full rich, successful and righteous lives. When George Marshall decided to enter Plural Marriage, Elizabeth Walmsley didn’t approve of it, so she eventually took the two boys and moved to Santa Clara Valley in southern Utah. In 1854, George married Esther Elizabeth Steel in Tooele, and they eventually had eight children.
George Marshall was one of the first settlers in Tooele County, Utah. He had one of the largest and best farms in the locality. He worked and planned his farm and other interests until he was prosperous and had accumulated considerable wealth. His farm was new and well equipped, and stocked with the best grade of livestock to be had at that time. After working hard for sixteen years, and feeling like maybe the struggles and hardships of life would be lighter, in the year 1869, he was called by President Brigham Young to go and help settle a new place called Panaca.
He had just bought a new thrashing machine, which had been a blessing to all the farmers of that county, and this same machine was taken to Panaca. He also took his teams and wagons and cattle. He wasn’t there long until he was at work hauling oar to Pioche. With the cows that he had brought with him from Tooele, he was soon able to build up quite an extensive dairy business with the Pioche people.
When he and his family had lived in Panaca six years it was discovered that Panaca was in Nevada and not in Utah. They were all then released from their mission and were told by President Young that they could go where they choose to make their future homes.
It was just at that time that Panquitch was being settled so he with some other people from the group came over to Panquitch to look over the country and its prospects for raising cattle and dairying. It looked very favorable so he purchased two city lots--the one where the old Marshall home stood for many years and the one across the street south.
George spent the entire year of 1873 building and farming in the Panquitch valley. As his buildings were being finished, he decided to return to Panaca and bring the remainder of his family and household items back to Panquitch. Unfortunately, in January 1874, while enroute to Panaca, his wagon tipped over in Bear Valley Creek, pinning him in ice under the wagon, where he died before help could arrive.
Elizabeth Walmsley had all of her children by three husbands sealed to James Corbridge on 19 December 1878.
History of Elizabeth Walmsley
History of Elizabeth Walmsley. Written by Alvaretta C. Robinson; Edited by Helen Metta Brough Rode in 1966.
Elizabeth Walmsley, daughter of William and Mary Slater Walmsley, was born on December 7, 1816, in Lancashire, England. She married James Corbridge in England in 1835. Having affiliated themselves with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they, with their three children, Mary Ann, William and James, set sail for America in the year 1840. Crossing the ocean James Jr., died, and was buried at sea.
The family was among the first Mormons to leave England. They came to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they were poor and food was so scarce they lived mostly on corn bread. While living in Nauvoo, Illinois, James Corbridge and their son, William, became very ill with cholera. The Prophet Joseph Smith administered to them. He promised the boy life, but not the father. James died in 1843 and was buried in Nauvoo. After the death of her husband, Elizabeth worked for the Prophet Joseph Smith assisting in the duties of his home.
In about 1846, Elizabeth married John Walker. To this union three boys were born to them: Solomon who was born at Winter Quarters, Hyrum Alonzo, who was born in Pottawattamie, Iowa, and Edward who died as an infant. In the early 1850’s, John Walker took a plural wife and crossed the plains to Utah, leaving Elizabeth and her family at Pottawattamie, Iowa. Putting all her earthly possessions into a wagon, she joined a company of Saints going west in 1852.
Mary Ann had journeyed to Utah a year before her Mother in the Bishop Edward Hunter Company. Although very young she drove an ox-team all the way. Enroute she had a serious accident, being run over by one of the wagons, and those who witnessed it marveled at her miraculous escape from death.
William, being the eldest, helped Elizabeth with the children as much as he could. He walked across the plains, driving loose cattle belonging to other members of the company, and for which service he received 25 cents a day. The company averaged about ten miles each day. After her arrival in the valley.
Elizabeth could not reconcile herself to living in polygamy, so when she heard of a company going to Tooele, she and her children went with them. In 1853, she met and married a widower, George Marshall. Of this union two sons, George (b. 1855) and Ephraim (b.1857), were born.
In 1860, George Marshall entered into plural marriage (marrying Esther Elizabeth Steel, by whom he eventually had eight children). Elizabeth did not approve of this action, so she sent Solomon to Salt Lake City to see his sister Mary Ann, who had married Oscar Hamblin, seeking information as to the date of their departure for the Santa Clara Valley (in southern Utah) where they had been called on a mission by Church authorities. When they were ready to leave Elizabeth and her children went with them.
When the two families reached Santa Clara in the autumn of 1855 a townsite was chosen and shelters built. William erected a log cabin and took up a small amount of land. They boys did their best to support their Mother and the younger members of the family. Since money was a novelty in this part of the territory they worked for produce, wool, or anything, that could be used for food and clothing. In the spring of 1862, the Santa Clara River, swollen by the spring thaw and rains, lashed its fury against the town and washed most of it away. The people camped on a hillside, but after several weeks were able to return and salvage what they could from the wreckage. A twenty foot gully had washed through the town. As soon as possible homes were rebuilt on the bench. They, with other settlers, struggled on eking out a meager livelihood, but conditions proved so unsatisfactory both families decided to move again, and Minersville was the place selected.
Elizabeth’s family and the Hamblin family lived in a one room log cabin for a time. This crude home served also as the first school house in Minersville. Long benches were moved in during the daytime and Elizabeth conducted the classes. William built the first brick home in Minersville. Hyrum often told about the scarcity of clothing during those first years, and how his Mother had made him a hat of blue denim which she washed, starched and ironed Saturday night so that it would be ready for Sunday School. Again, there was little food, and the children’s lunch, as they worked in the fields, often consisted of no more than bread spread with lard.
William was called three times to go back to the eastern states to help bring emigrants to Utah. He was very young when he received his first call to aid in bringing in one of the first handcart companies. Eliza Jane Zabriskie became his wife. She died at the age of 29 years, leaving William with eight small children. Elizabeth lived with him to help care for the children until he married Hannah Alice Conford, a convert from England.
Elizabeth Walmsley died in Minersville on April 13, 1896. However, it is interesting to note that eighteen years prior to her death, Elizabeth had all of her children by her three husbands (James Corbridge, John Walker, and George Marshall Sr.) sealed to her first husband, James Corbridge, on 19 December 1878.
William Lazarus Hardiman Dotson
William Dotson and Henrietta Landrum were baptised (into the LDS Church) in the Weber River, at Coalville, Utah, by Bishop Herry Wilde and confirmed by W.W. Cluff.
History of William Lazarus Hardiman Dotson
History of William L. H. Dotson and Henrietta Landrum. Compiled by Chaundelle Hill Brough in July 2004.
William Lazarus Hardiman Dotson was born to Reuben Dotson and Nancy Hogan McConnico on February 13, 1833, in Pickens County, Alabama. At his birth he weighed 12 lbs. and was a robust resolute boy. William was the 14th child in a family of 19 children, all which grew to manhood or womanhood. He had a leading spirit among boys his age, and even those older, throughout his childhood and adolescence.
Throughout his juvenile life not much could discourage him. Whatever he set his mind to do he accomplished, if within the range of possibilities. When he grew to manhood he had a voice almost like the deep tones of an organ. It was said of him that if a loose board was anywhere about the building in which he was singing it would rattle as if in a current of wind. As a young man he wooed and won the heart of Miss Henrietta Landrum. Henrietta was born on October 1, 1832 in Jefferson County, Alabama. She was a beautiful and accomplished young lady whose father (Isham Landrum) lived near Bear Creek Church; in Attala County, Mississippi. His wife (Jemina Tannehill) had the same indomitable will and perseverance as he had. They agreed in everything that conduced to make life pleasant; perhaps no couple in all the varied walks of life were more perfectly united in all the noble purposes of life than they were.
W.L.H. Dotson was bold, fearless, and had a commanding appearance that challenged the respect of all wherever he went. During the time of the Civil War he could come and go almost when and where he pleased and was seldom questioned by the sentinels on duty; who almost always permitted him to pass. After the war had waged along almost to its close, and all hope on the final success of the south had disappeared, he determined to go west. He was honorably discharged from the army.
William set out with the intent to go to California. He barely had enough means to pay his expenses. He took a steamboat at Whitworths Landing on the Mississippi River to the Missouri River and on to St. Joe. Here he arrived with a nearly invalid wife, and five small children; Reuben William (Nov. 29, 1854), Violet Ann Yerisha (Nov. 1, 1856), Ada (Jan. 1, 1859), Ida (July 22, 1861), and Henrietta Willia (Dec. 8, 1863). William found an emigration company ready to head west over the almost trackless plains. He acquired an outfit consisting of a wagon, yoke of oxen, and a yoke of cows, and started west with the company. One of the cows furnished a scant supply of milk for the children, which was a prairie delicacy. The family mainly survived on “big white gravy” bread and water. Big white gravy bread was made of water and flour mixed and boiled, the flour being made of wheat ground in a coffee mill.
At the time (1864) the western plains were infested with hostile Indians. If a company was not strong enough for self-protection, the Indians would murder them, burn their wagons, and take their stock. At one place a number of wagons had been burned, the stock run off, and the members of the company murdered. At another the wagons were left standing, the stock gone and the owners killed. At one or two different places Indians were seen in the distance, but the number of immigrants (about 100 wagons) must have made them afraid to tackle. At any rate William and his company were never harmed. However, he had many times to go ahead of his team and break ice before they would cross a stream. This was only necessary when the ice was not sufficient to hold the weight of the wagon and team.
When William arrived in Coalville, Utah, he sold his traveling outfit for supplies to live on as he had only $.50 in money. He secured a home there and hauled wood during the winter with another man’s wagon and team. He was able to secure a load of wood for his family every other day. Except for what he needed in his own fireplace he sold wood for $6.00 a load, the same price as a bushel of wheat. In the evening he worked late into the night by the light of burning cedar bark to make chairs with a drawing knife and an inch auger. These he was able to sell for $5.00 in trade.
During the winter his wife Henrietta taught a small school. In the spring he took a trip to Virginia City, Montana, 600 miles away and returned in 6 months with a wagon and team of his own. With this outfit he hauled coal to Salt Lake City. From Coalville he moved to Cove Creek. Here his sixth child Nancy Jemima (Nov. 19, 1868) was born. From Cove Creek he moved to Pine Creek and then on to Minersville, his final destination, where his seventh child Henry Petty (Aug. 26, 1871) was born. After a few years in Minersville he engaged in the mercantile business. He matured every enterprise he ever engaged in and all of them were successes.
In William’s own words he never failed to ask God for guidance in all he undertook to do and met without failure in anything. He was a Democrat and was elected to the legislature in 1898, over his Republican opponent, not withstanding his county being largely Republican. He was a member of the county court as a long as he was able. Few men have similar successes under such adverse circumstances. William told his son H.P., that at no time was he the least discouraged, or even regretted the steps he had taken. His wife never grumbled, or reproached him with “I told you so,” or something of the kind, during all their hardships to “keep the wolf from the door.”
William died March 5, 1920 in Minersville, Beaver County, Utah. His lovely wife Henrietta died 18 years prior on September 11, 1902, also in Minersville. They are both buried there.
History of Henrietta Landrum
History of William L. H. Dotson and Henrietta Landrum. Compiled by Chaundelle Hill Brough in July 2004.
William Lazarus Hardiman Dotson was born to Reuben Dotson and Nancy Hogan McConnico on February 13, 1833, in Pickens County, Alabama. At his birth he weighed 12 lbs. and was a robust resolute boy. William was the 14th child in a family of 19 children, all which grew to manhood or womanhood. He had a leading spirit among boys his age, and even those older, throughout his childhood and adolescence.
Throughout his juvenile life not much could discourage him. Whatever he set his mind to do he accomplished, if within the range of possibilities. When he grew to manhood he had a voice almost like the deep tones of an organ. It was said of him that if a loose board was anywhere about the building in which he was singing it would rattle as if in a current of wind. As a young man he wooed and won the heart of Miss Henrietta Landrum. Henrietta was born on October 1, 1832 in Jefferson County, Alabama. She was a beautiful and accomplished young lady whose father (Isham Landrum) lived near Bear Creek Church; in Attala County, Mississippi. His wife (Jemina Tannehill) had the same indomitable will and perseverance as he had. They agreed in everything that conduced to make life pleasant; perhaps no couple in all the varied walks of life were more perfectly united in all the noble purposes of life than they were.
W.L.H. Dotson was bold, fearless, and had a commanding appearance that challenged the respect of all wherever he went. During the time of the Civil War he could come and go almost when and where he pleased and was seldom questioned by the sentinels on duty; who almost always permitted him to pass. After the war had waged along almost to its close, and all hope on the final success of the south had disappeared, he determined to go west. He was honorably discharged from the army.
William set out with the intent to go to California. He barely had enough means to pay his expenses. He took a steamboat at Whitworths Landing on the Mississippi River to the Missouri River and on to St. Joe. Here he arrived with a nearly invalid wife, and five small children; Reuben William (Nov. 29, 1854), Violet Ann Yerisha (Nov. 1, 1856), Ada (Jan. 1, 1859), Ida (July 22, 1861), and Henrietta Willia (Dec. 8, 1863). William found an emigration company ready to head west over the almost trackless plains. He acquired an outfit consisting of a wagon, yoke of oxen, and a yoke of cows, and started west with the company. One of the cows furnished a scant supply of milk for the children, which was a prairie delicacy. The family mainly survived on “big white gravy” bread and water. Big white gravy bread was made of water and flour mixed and boiled, the flour being made of wheat ground in a coffee mill.
At the time (1864) the western plains were infested with hostile Indians. If a company was not strong enough for self-protection, the Indians would murder them, burn their wagons, and take their stock. At one place a number of wagons had been burned, the stock run off, and the members of the company murdered. At another the wagons were left standing, the stock gone and the owners killed. At one or two different places Indians were seen in the distance, but the number of immigrants (about 100 wagons) must have made them afraid to tackle. At any rate William and his company were never harmed. However, he had many times to go ahead of his team and break ice before they would cross a stream. This was only necessary when the ice was not sufficient to hold the weight of the wagon and team.
When William arrived in Coalville, Utah, he sold his traveling outfit for supplies to live on as he had only $.50 in money. He secured a home there and hauled wood during the winter with another man’s wagon and team. He was able to secure a load of wood for his family every other day. Except for what he needed in his own fireplace he sold wood for $6.00 a load, the same price as a bushel of wheat. In the evening he worked late into the night by the light of burning cedar bark to make chairs with a drawing knife and an inch auger. These he was able to sell for $5.00 in trade.
During the winter his wife Henrietta taught a small school. In the spring he took a trip to Virginia City, Montana, 600 miles away and returned in 6 months with a wagon and team of his own. With this outfit he hauled coal to Salt Lake City. From Coalville he moved to Cove Creek. Here his sixth child Nancy Jemima (Nov. 19, 1868) was born. From Cove Creek he moved to Pine Creek and then on to Minersville, his final destination, where his seventh child Henry Petty (Aug. 26, 1871) was born. After a few years in Minersville he engaged in the mercantile business. He matured every enterprise he ever engaged in and all of them were successes.
In William’s own words he never failed to ask God for guidance in all he undertook to do and met without failure in anything. He was a Democrat and was elected to the legislature in 1898, over his Republican opponent, not withstanding his county being largely Republican. He was a member of the county court as a long as he was able. Few men have similar successes under such adverse circumstances. William told his son H.P., that at no time was he the least discouraged, or even regretted the steps he had taken. His wife never grumbled, or reproached him with “I told you so,” or something of the kind, during all their hardships to “keep the wolf from the door.”
William died March 5, 1920 in Minersville, Beaver County, Utah. His lovely wife Henrietta died 18 years prior on September 11, 1902, also in Minersville. They are both buried there.