BIRTHDATE: 24 Feb 1800

Hamsterley, England

PARENTS: William Hemsley

Frances Dawson

DEATH: 11 May 1868

Slaterville, Weber Co., Utah

PIONEER: 1 Sep 1855

Jacob F. Secrist Wagon Train

SPOUSE: John Etherington

MARRIED: 29 Mar 1818

DEATH SP: 13 Jan 1874

Ogden, Weber Co., Utah

CHILDREN:

John, 23 Aug 1818

Jane (Mudd), 29 Nov 1820

James, 5 Dec 1822

Frances (Bulmer), 16 Mar 1825

Pugh, 31 Jul 1827

Elizabeth (Pugh), 31 Jul 1827

Ann (Helsop Neweyh 24 Jan 1830

William, 10 Mar 1832 (died as an infant)

Mary (Stanger), 12 Aug 1834

Thomas Ethan, 1 Nov 1836

George, 13 Jul 1839 (died at age 8)

Elizabeth was born in 1800 in England, the oldest child of William Hemsley and Frances Dawson. At the age of eighteen, she married John Etherington, a yeoman fanner, They acquired an estate of 119 acres in Faceby, Yorkshire. and a large comfortable home.

In 1851, Elizabeth and her husband heard the message of the restored gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from a missionary and were converted.

They sailed from Liverpool on February 27, 1855, on the ship "Siddons" with their three youngest married daughters and son, Thomas.

After traveling by rail to Pittsburgh, by boat via St. Louis to a fitting outplace near Atchison, Kansas, and then by covered wagon, they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in September, 1855. They went north to Bingham's Fort in Weber County for a time, then settled in Slaterville.

She raised a granddaughter, Ann Pugh, whose mother had died of Mountain Fever a few days after their arrival in the Valley.

Elizabeth lived only twelve years in this country, dying after a lingering illness in Slaterville, Weber County, 1868. Both she and her husband are buried in the Ogden City Cemetery.