JOHN BONE was born September 2, 1839, at Caldecote, Bedfordshire, England. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the year 1854, and received the priesthood shortly after, in the Caldecote branch.
He left England in 1858, on the ship "Empire," traveling with the missionaries who came home that year, the year in which the army came to Utah. He stayed in New York and worked until the year following, when he went to Florence, Nebraska, and volunteered his services to drive a team for the Church across the plains. He arrived in Salt Lake City in the fall of 1859, and came to Lehi in the year 1860, where he resided until his death, January 16, 1893. He joined the Sixty-eighth Quorum of Seventies December 2, 1862.
His occupation was that of farming. The first year sugar beets were raised in Lehi for the sugar factory, he took the prize for raising the most beets to the acre.
He was a good citizen, a faithful Latter-day Saint, a kind father, and an affectionate husband.
HANNAH S. BONE, daughter of James and Hannah Pratt Slater, was born October 5, 1839, at Clifton, Bedfordshire, England. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints November 5, 1854.
She crossed the ocean on the ship ''Underwriter" leaving Liverpool on the 1st of April, and landed in New York on the 1st of May. She came across the plains with the hand cart company under the direction of Captain Daniel Robinson, leaving Florence, Nebraska, on June 2, 1860, and arriving in Salt Lake City on August 27, the same year. She came to Lehi two days later, residing here until the present time.
She was married August 28, 1860, to John Bone, son of William and Mary Wagstaff Bone. They were blessed with eight children; seven are now living, and reside in the following places: John Bone of Lehi; James Bone, Garland, Utah; Mrs. Jane Mason, Lehi; George Bone, Magrath, Canada; Mrs. H. J. Stewart, Lehi; Mrs. Charles Edwards, Garland, Utah; and Eugene Bone, Lehi. Thirty-two grandchildren are living, and ten are dead, while twelve great grandchildren are living and three are dead. Sister Bone has been a worker in the Primary and also the Relief Society of Lehi.
WILLIAM BONE, SR., son of Thomas Bone and Elizabeth Ollengos Bone, was born November 8, 1812, at Beeston, Bedfordshire, England. He left England for America in 1861, arriving at Salt Lake City in September of the same year, and moved to Lehi soon afterwards. He was married to Mary Wagstaff, from which union were born seven children.
As a builder of Lehi, he was noted as one of its most liberal philanthropists; in all worthy causes his name was written near the head of the list.
He served Lehi as general water master for several years; also acted as a director of the People's Co-operative Institution for a term of years. He was one of Lehi's foremost farmers, and above all true to himself and honest with all his fellows. He died October 2, 1902, at Lehi, Utah.
WILLIAM BONE, JR., was born November 6, 1841, in Upper Caldicote, Bedfordshire, England, his parents being William and Mary Wagstaff Bone. In April, 1861, he sailed from Liverpool for America, on the sailing vessel "Underwriter" with his parents. They crossed the plains from the Missouri River with an ox team, arriving in Salt Lake City in September, 1861, and moving to Lehi soon after.
In 1863 he returned to the Missouri River with an ox-team for immigrants, bringing also on his journey a part of the famous Salt Lake Tabernacle organ.
In 1866-1867 he went to Sanpete and Sevier counties to help quell the Indian trouble, participating in what is known as the Black Hawk War.
In July, 1867, he married Fanny Wagstaff, from which union there were eleven children.
He served Lehi six years in the capacity of city councilor, being elected for the two-year, and later for the four-year term.
He was rated as a leading farmer, and served a number of years in the board of directors of the Lehi Irrigation company. acting as its president several terms, and holding this position at the time of his death. He died November 19, 1912, at Lehi, Utah.
SAMUEL BRIGGS, son of William Briggs and Jane Hays Briggs, was born at South Clifton, Nottinghamshire, England, on the 20th day of June, 1826. As was the custom in that period, he received a parochial school education, working with his father on a farm until he was 13 years of age, when he hired out by the year to a farmer, at Olme, Nottinghamshire, working for a year, after which he went to work in the coal mines of that district. While living at Bolesover, five miles from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, he heard the principles of the gospel as taught by the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and embraced that faith, being baptized in the year 1849.
He emigrated to the United States of America, together with his wife Hannah Dean, in the year 1850, arriving at New Orleans on Christmas Eve, on the ship "Zetland," after a five weeks and two days' journey over the ocean.
In January, 1850, he moved up the river to St. Louis, Missouri, staying there 15 weeks, when he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, from which place he again moved to Springville, three miles from Kanesville,-where he spent the winter. He migrated to the upper crossing of Keg Creek in the spring of 1851. In the summer of 1851 he cut the lumber and made the outfit with which he crossed the plains. After the wood work was all completed, it was discovered that there was no blacksmith in that region who could iron the wagons.
About this time Apostle Ezra T. Benson visited the colony and bade them be of good cheer, for all who so desired would be able to make the journey to Utah that season. This promise was fulfilled, for in a short time a blacksmith arrived, bringing the necessary tools and iron to complete the wagons, as a result of which the journey to Utah was made in safety. Briggs, together with his wife and son Samuel, arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 7th day of October, 1852, moving to Lehi during the same month. He was engaged at once by John R. Murdock to work on his farm for a short period, after which he engaged in farming for himself, following that avocation principally until his death.
Samuel Briggs had five sons by his first wife, four of whom survived him. In the fall of 1868 he married Emma Thomas, by whom he had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters, nine of whom survived him. He was a good, industrious, enterprising, and thrifty citizen, being identified with such commercial enterprises as the Z. C. M. I. of Salt Lake City, the Provo Woolen Mills, and the Peoples' Co-operative Institution of Lehi. He held successively the offices of teacher, elder, seventy, and high priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He died at Lehi City on October 22, 1898.
JOSEPH BROADBENT. son of John Broadbent and Betty Lees, was born August 26, 1836, in Mill Bottom, Oldham, Lancashire, England. For many generations his forefathers worked in the cotton mills and to this life he was very early assigned. After going to school about one year, he commenced to work in the mills at the age of nine years, working half time, as the law would not permit children under 14 years to work full time. Being the oldest child of the family, which was very poor, he was not permitted any leisure time for further education, except a little at the Sabbath School, where reading and writing were taught.
At the age of 19 years, he married Sarah Dixon, whom he had met at the meetings of the Mormon Church, to which organization he had allied himself about a year previous. When the Mormon elders began preaching in the neighborhood, considerable opposition was manifested by various members of the family, but eventually the father, mother, and children were all converted to the doctrines set forth by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
April 11,1859, Mr. Broadbent and wife set sail for America on the sailing vessel "Wm. Tapscott," in company with 725 emigrating Saints. They arrived in New York May 14th, and at Florence, Nebraska, on the 25th of the month. On the 9th of June they started across the plains in George Rowley's hand cart company, arriving in Salt Lake City September 4, 1859. The latter part of the journey across the plains was very severe, for after being on rations for some time, the food supply was entirely exhausted and the company camped for several days near Devil's Gate waiting for help from the valley, which arrived in time to save them from actual starvation.
Being acquainted with James Taylor of Lehi, who had been one of the missionaries laboring in Oldham, Mr. Broadbent and wife came direct to Lehi, where they have lived ever since. For twenty-eight years he followed the occupation of farming and mending clocks as a side line. In 1883 with his oldest son, Joseph S., he went into the mercantile business, founding the firm of Broadbent and Son, which has continued with steady growth to the present.
Mr. Broadbent has been an active Church worker, filling a number of positions with honor. He was a member of the first Old Folks Committee; for many years an active member of the Missionary Fund Committee; and a Sunday School worker for over forty-five years. He is still active in the Sunday School and although he is now in his 77th year, he is seldom absent from his post. Being of a musical turn of mind, he has always been connected with some musical organization. Thus he has been a member of choirs and bands both in this country and in England. In the early days he was a member of the Utah Militia, serving as bugler of cavalry under Captain Joseph A. Thomas.
His wife dying in 1888, he married Elizabeth Greenwood, June 26, 1889, a daughter of James and Hannah Turner Greenwood, born October 29, 1843, in Haywood, Lancashire, England. For seven years they lived happily together, but on August 14, 1896, he was again left a widower. On April 8, 1897, he married Sarah Lee Fowler, a widow of the late Henry C. Fowler of Salt Lake City, a daughter of George and Sarah Peaker Lee, born December 25, 1852, in Sheffield, England. She had four daughters living from her former marriage: Lilly Lee (Mrs. John J. McAfee), Jennie V. (Mrs. Charles W. Earl), Henrietta (Mrs. Henry C. Allen), and Ruth Pearl (Mrs. John F. Cutler).
SARAH DIXON BROADBENT was born in Saddleworth. Yorkshire, England, April 8, 1832, being a daughter of Samuel Dixon and Hannah Percival. When she was twelve years old. her father, who was a stone mason, was killed while working on a bridge, by a large stone falling on him as it was being raised into position by a derrick. Her mother having died some time previous, the duties of keeping house for her three brothers and caring for a baby sister now rested on her. She never went to school, but in addition to keeping house she commenced to work in the cotton mills when quite young.
In 1855 she became converted to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and while in attendance at these meetings she met her future husband, Joseph Broadbent, whom she soon after married.
With her husband and a large company of Saints she emigrated to Utah in 1859, crossing the plains in George Rowley's hand cart company. Some time before reaching Devil's Slide the provisions ran so low that rations of 4 ounces of flour a day were issued, which also were exhausted. The travelers finally got so weak for lack of food that it was impossible to proceed farther and some distance this side of Devil's Slide the company halted, waiting for help to come from the valley, as the captain had dispatched a messenger on horseback to Brigham Young, telling of their condition. After waiting a few days, the captain was in the act of negotiating with some traders for a small quantity of flour on Brigham Young's credit, when to their great joy the relief train from the valley was in sight. From this time until they reached the valley they had all they wanted to eat. At the mouth of Emigration Canyon the company was met by a brass band and escorted to Pioneer Square. At the mouth of the canyon the women were invited to ride in the wagons which had come out to meet them, but Mrs. Broadbent replied that she had walked every step of the way thus far and she would finish the journey as she had begun.
Mrs. Broadbent is the mother of eight children, three of whom are now living: Joseph Samuel, Eliza Ann (Mrs. Andrew Fjeld), and Geneva Rebecca (Mrs. Benjamin C. Lott). After a lingering illness of seven years, she died September 13, 1888.
MARTIN BUSHMAN was born April 1, 1802, in Lancaster Couny, Pennsylvania. he was the son of Abraham and Esther Bushman, who were of German descent. Martin received a common school education, spending his boyhood days on the farm. He soon acquired a knowledge of farming and became a skilful hand at sowing grain and using the sickle to harvest grain and the scythe to cut grass for hay. The winter months he usually spent threshing grain with a flail, that being the method used then. He also took an especial pride in caring for his cows and horses. In physique he was very strong and healthy, standing six feet high and weighing 175 pounds. He had light brown hair and blue eyes.
At the age of twenty-five he married Elizabeth Degen of his native state. She was born in Switzerland, September 12, 1802. She was a woman of good character and strong will power. She had learned all the branches of household work and was an expert with the spinning wheel and the needle. Undoubtedly the training both husband and wife had received in their childhood days qualified them to become successful pioneers later.
Thirteen years after their marriage, the couple joined the Mormon Church and moved to Illinois, a journey of one thousand miles by wagon. By this time they had four children.
After four years of prosperity and happiness in Nauvoo. They fell victims, with their co-religionists, of mob violence, and were compelled to flee into Iowa, leaving their crops standing. Making this journey in the middle of winter, they suffered intense hardships and two of the children died from exposure. In the western part of Iowa they made themselves still another home where they remained for four years. At the end of that time they had acquired sufficient means to bring them to Utah, so they set out for the West. Their conveyance was a wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen and four cows. They arrived in Salt Lake in September, 1851, after a journey of five months. After a rest of one week there, they came on to Lehi, where they remained until their death.
They arrived at their new home without any provisions, having eaten their last morsel of bread on the way. The few settlers of Lehi helped them, however, by furnishing Martin employment in the harvesting of the crops. Shortly afterwards, he obtained some land and built a home. Henceforth he was actively engaged in helping to build up Lehi, participating in all the joys and sorrows incident to the settlement of the city.
He proved true to his country and his religion, considerate of his wife and kind to his children. He never turned a stranger away hungry. He died in 1870. aged 68. His wife survived him eight years, finally passing the 76th milestone.
Much of her time she spent with the sick and her memory will ever live in the hearts of many of on account of kindnesses bestowed upon them. The five children the Bushman's brought to Lehi are still alive, the oldest being 83 years old. All have been as their parents-true pioneers; for they; have assisted in building Up towns from Canada on the north to Arizona on the south, being always known as workers.
MARTIN BENJAMIN BUSHMAN, the son of Martin and Elizabeth Bushman, was born Feb. 5, 1841, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The first noted event of his life was the journey of over one thousand miles by team from Pennsylvania to Illinois, taken by his parents when he was fifteen months old. Of times the ground was his bed while his mother cooked their scanty meals. His next journey was through Iowa in the winter of 1843. when two of his sisters died for want of food and shelter. They stayed at Council Bluffs for three years to get an outfit to come to Utah. Here at the age of eight, he took care of the team and chopped wood for the family, so his father and elder brother could go off to work to get something for them to eat and wear. Then came their journey to Utah in 1851 which took four months of arduous toil.
Following this was their struggle in Lehi to make a home; fence land; make water ditches; plow the land; build houses; stand guard against the Indians; and many other labors and hardships they had to endure.
At the age of twenty he returned to Florence, driving an ox team. The journey took five months, covered two thousand miles, and was to bring the poor Saints, who had no teams, to Utah.
He has now lived in Lehi sixty-two years and helped in all its growth and development from a barren waste to a thriving city; he has taken part in making roads, building bridges, making canals, building school houses, and houses for worship. He has held offices in state and church, and has traveled in the United States and Canada.
He has taken great interest in the threshing of grain; his first experience in Utah was pounding it out with a flail, cleaning it in the wind. Then he was interested in the threshing machines. He has owned in part and helped to run every thing from the most primitive machine of early days to the latest improved steam thresher. His main occupation has been farming and he has taken pride in tilling the soil. The present season, at the age of seventy-two, he has done most all the work on ten acres of land and raised two hundred and forty bushels of wheat, four hundred bushels of potatoes, eighty tons of sugar beets, and some hay.
He is the father of twenty children and has .schooled and provided for them and their mothers. He has been exposed much, in camping out. with cold and has likewise been short of food and clothing in early days, yet for all this he is healthy in his old age, and can read and write without glasses. He helped compile this little book, the History of Lehi.
JOHN BUSHMAN, son of Martin and Elizabeth Degen Bushman, was born June 7, 1843, at Nauvoo, Illinois. At this time the Church was passing through trying scenes. His parents were driven with the Saints from Nauvoo, and after several years of trials and poverty arrived in Salt Lake City in 1851. One week later they went to Lehi City. There he spent his boyhood days, always willing to do his full share for the town. Often he was very scantily clothed, and lacking for food, especially during the grasshopper years. With the rest he had very little schooling.
In 1865 he married Lois A. Smith. In the summer of 1866 and 1867 he was in the Black Hawk war. In 1876 he was called to Arizona, and located at St. Joseph. In 1877, he came back to Lehi and married Mary A. Peterson, who shared with his family all the privations incident to settling a desert country. She named her first son Lehi, in honor of her former home.
After many years of toil they are comfortably situated, surrounded by a large family, who are all faithful members of the Church. Five of their sons have filled honorable missions. Mr. Bushman has held many positions of trust, having been bishop 25 years, a member of the Board of Education 21 years, Justice of the Peace 14 years, chairman of the Irrigation Company many years, and director of the Bank of Northern Arizona. He and his wife have passed the 70th milestone, and bid fair to enjoy many more years.
JAMES PERRY CARTER was the son of Josiah Carter and Rebecca Perry, and was born February 23, 1827, in Clutton, Somersetshire, England. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 17, 1848, by Edward Roberts. He was ordained an elder in 1852 by James T. Powell.
On February 12. 1853. he married Harriett Wood, a daughter of John Wood and Mary Parry, who was born June 6, 1830, in Michael Church, Herefordshire, England, and who had joined the same church as Mr. Carter in 1844.
In 1861 this family emigrated to Utah, crossing the ocean on the ship Manchester, and the plains in Captain Daniel Jones' company. They came direct to Lehi, where they have since resided except for six years they lived in Salt Lake City.
Carter was ordained an elder November 28, 1862, and a high priest April 1, 1894. For twenty years he was leader of the Lehi choir. He also took a great interest in education and for thirteen years was identified with the public schools in the capacity of school trustee.
Eight children came to bless this family, four of whom grew up to maturity. They are: Catherine Ester (Mrs. Mosiah Evans), Mary Ann Rosalee (Mrs. Charles Woodhouse, deceased) James, and Clara (Mrs.Ed. Mowry).
The Carter family were among the early settlers "over the creek" and have been active in all social, political, and religions work in that neighborhood and were esteemed as highly respectable citizens. On April 11. 1894. the mother, who was a most estimable woman, died, and about two years later Mr. Carter married Amy Smith, late of England, with whom he lived to the time of his death which occurred October 11, 1898.
JOHN J. CHILD came to Lehi with his family in 1875 and has continuously made it his home since that time.
He was born in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, in 1831. When seven years old he moved with his parents to Belleville, Illinois, where he lived a free life in the woods and grew up accustomed to hard work on the farm.
The death of his mother when he was but nine years old left him one of four motherless children, two boys and two girls. The family was held together by each sharing the burden of providing and caring for home.
In 1853 Mr. Child became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and, with his father's entire family, came to Utah. he lived at Taylorsville for three years and then moved to St. John, Tooele County, where he lived until he came to Lehi,
Mr. Child married Elizabeth de St. Jeor January 8, 1861. He is the father of twelve children, six boys and six girls.
During most of his married life he has been engaged in farming and stock raising. Among his working associates he was ever a favorite, and among the Indians with whom he had much to do in the early settlement of Tooele County, he was known as a "heap good man." He often served in settling disputes between the whites and Indians, and sometimes among Indians themselves.
ELIZABETH A. CHILD, wife of John J. Child, is the daughter of Francis de and Elizabeth Jane St. Jeor. She was born September 4, 1844, on the Island of Jersey.
In 1855 the family emigrated to this country, and having become members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came to Utah. They located near St. John (now Clover Creek), where as a girl Mrs. Child lived a life full of hardships due to poverty and dangers from Indians.
Besides being the mother of twelve children and attending the duties of home incident to the rearing of a large family, she has always been interested in public and church movements planned for the general good. She has acted for many years as a block teacher in the Relief Society, and at seventy years of age is still active in that capacity.
DAVID CLARK was the son of William and Margaret Clark, and was born May 28, 1816, at Lincolnshire, England. Being of a very ambitious turn of mind and desiring to better his condition, he left his mother country in 1841, and sailed for America. He engaged in the stonecutting business, at which he had remarkable success.
One year after he arrived in this country, he was convinced of the truths contained in the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was baptized into the Church by the Prophet Joseph Smith.
He lost his first wife and two children in St. Louis by cholera. He was married to Miss Myra Williams, November 26, 1849, and as years rolled on they were blessed with six children, namely, James, David, Myra, Rachel, Annie, and Nelson.
Shortly after his marriage, he and his wife prepared for their journey to Utah. On April 7, 1850, they started with a wagon, two yoke of oxen, a cow, and provisions. They joined an independent company of a dozen wagons. The buffalo were so numerous upon the prairie that they caused many delays. They traveled over the old emigrant trail, reaching Salt Lake City August 26, coming to Lehi September 10. 1850. Mr. Clark and his family suffered all the hardships of the pioneer life in the early days. In 1862 he was assigned to missionary work on the Rio Virgin river in southern Utah.
He died March 1. 1889, having borne throughout his whole life a reputation for sterling integrity, and honesty of purpose in all his dealings. Mr. Clark organized and led the first choir in Lehi.
MYRA WILLIAMS CLARK. Mrs. Clark was born at Staffordshire, England, March 2, 1821. She was the only one of a family of fourteen to embrace the gospel. She came to America in 1849.
At St. Louis she met David Clark, whom she afterwards married. While crossing the plains in 1850 she gave birth to her first son. They arrived in Lehi September 10. 1850. She was one of the first white women to come to Lehi.
During the early .lays of Lehi, she took a very active part in the social features, and was loved and honored for the great work she did in nursing the sick and helping those in need.
Mrs. Clark died May 28. 1912, at the age of 91. She was survived by three children: Mrs. Rachel Gaddie, James W. and Annie Clark. Three children preceded her to the great beyond: Mrs. Myra Thomas (wife of John J. Thomas), David Clark, and Nelson Clark.
