BIRTHDATE: 9 Oct 1786

Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine

DEATH: Nov 1867

Provo, Utah Co., Utah

PARENTS: Zebulon Libby

Lydia Andrews

PIONEER: 20 Jun 1851

Captain Homer's Wagon Train

SPOUSE: John Carter

MARRIED: 2 Mar 1805

Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine

DEATH SP: 13 Aug 1852

Hancock Co., Illinois

CHILDREN:

Dominicus, 21 Jun 1806

Almira, 3 Jan 1808

Hannah, 28 Jun 1809

William Furisbury, 1 May 1811

Philip Libby, 17 Jan 1813

John Harrison, 13 Jan 1815 (died in infancy)

John Harrison, 6 Oct 1816

Eliza Ann, 28 Sep 1818

Richard, 8 Aug 1820

Mary Jane, 13 Mar 1823

Rufus, 9 Oct 1825

Hannah was named after her great grandmother whose name was Hannah Knight. Hannah married John Carter in Scarborough. They became the parents of eleven children.

Hannah was very ill at the time she heard the gospel, from the missionaries, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They told her if she had faith, she could be healed. They blessed her. She was made whole, arose, and asked to be baptized and confirmed that same day.

Her husband and three of her children did not join the Church. Her family moved with the Church from place to place; Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa.

Hannah worked hard to raise a large family in a time of many hardships and religious persecution. Six of her children shared her beliefs and followed her example.

In 1842, Hannah and John signed a deed in Hancock County, purchasing land at Morley's Settlement. They helped to develop this new community only to be driven from it in 1846.

Her son, Dominicus, was an expert blacksmith who was asked to remain at Council Bluffs, to help prepare the emigrant trains for the long journey West. Another son enlisted in the Mormon Battalion and died in service on the march to California.

Hannah left her husband and crossed the Plains with Dominicus and his family in 1851. Shortly after their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, June 20, 1851, they went on to make their home in Provo. She continued to live with Dominicus during her later years.

Before she died, she made a detailed list of relatives for whom Temple work was to be done.