BIRTHDATE: Nov 1844

LaHarpe, Hancock Co., Illinois

DEATH: 3 Oct 1886

Nine Mile Creek, Idaho

PARENTS: Daniel Newell Drake

Cynthia Parker Johnson

PIONEER: 4 Sep 1848

William Perkins Wagon Train

SPOUSE: Charles Aldous

MARRIED: 26 Nov 1860

Ogden, Weber Co., Utah

DEATH SP: 10 Aug 1924

Parker, Fremont Co., Idaho

CHILDREN:

Charles Newell, 27 Dec 1861

Robert Fredrick, 17 Sep 1863

John Jefferson, 21 Mar 1865

William Henry, 31 Jan 1867

George Edward, 12 Sep (or 21 Nov) 1869

Lucy Ann, 5 Jul 1871

David Louis, 18 Apr 1873

Alma Warner, 4 Sep 1874

Cynthia Mariah,

Georgeanna Thensha, 8 Mar 1878

Mary Ann, 8 Sep 1880

Augustas Theodore. 5 Aug (or 10 Aug)1882

Sarah Alice, 20 Aug 1884

Born in Hancock County, Illinois, during a period of mob violence and persecution against the Saints. Lucy Drake Aldous was just eighteen months old when her family left Hancock County, and traveled westward to join the Saints at Winter Quarters. They became a part of an advance company hoping to complete their journey the year of 1846. However, a message from Brigham Young caused them to stop.

When Lucy's mother had her second child, she passed away while Lucy was still very small. Lucy, motherless before she reached two years of age, was cared for by her Aunt Sarah Drake Paine.

After coming to Utah in 1848, Lucy remained with the Paines in Salt Lake City until 1851, when they moved to Farr's Fort in Ogden. Being among the first settlers, they moved that fall onto a farm that later became part of Bingham's Fort. Lucy helped to clear that farm and then got to see the work that went into making a fort with its thick walls of mud, reinforced with willows and poles.

Lucy met her future husband, Charles Aldous, a convert from England, when his family settled in Bingham's Fort in 1853. They were married in Ogden and started married life in Lynne, an area that had included Bingham's Fort. During their married life they brought thirteen children into the world, and were living successively in Lynne, Huntsville, Wilson, and Nine Mile Creek, Idaho.

During her life Lucy had been an industrious homemaker, keeping a clean, orderly home, and an excellent cook. She made butter and traded it at the general store in Oneida for groceries and yardage. Some butter was sent by train overnight to be sold in Ogden the next day.

Lucy brought up her children by taking them to church regularly, walking about a mile each way to their meeting place, the community school.

As the arrival of their last child approached, Lucy went into labor. The midwives were summoned and arrived, but problems developed. Lucy began to hemorrhage. Charlie raced by horseback for a doctor at Malad, twenty miles away. When he returned, Lucy was dead and the child was

She truly exemplifies a pioneer woman of faith and fortitude in her short forty-two years.