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Virtue Ann Bowthorpe Colebrook Lewis

BIRTHDATE: 28 Feb 1837

Norwich, Norfolkshire, England

DEATH: 8 Jan 1926

Holladay, Salt Lake Co., Utah

PARENTS: William Bowthorpe

Mary Ann Tuttle

PIONEER: 16 Oct 1853

Cyrus H. Wheelock Wagon Train

SPOUSE 1: Cbarles Colebrook

MARRIED: 7 Jan 1854

Sell Lake Endowment House

DEATH SP:

 

CHILDREN:

Charles C. Colebrook, 20 Dec 1854

 

SPOUSE II: Preston King Lewis

MARRIED: 4 Jan 1856/7

sealed 7 Aug 1857

Salt Lake Endowment House

DEATH SP: 21 Jan 1913

Heber, Wasatch Co, Utah

 

CHILDREN:

David William, 4 Feb 1858

Preston King Jr, 21 Dec 1859

George Siney 17 Feb 1862

Virtue Ann (Kent) 4 Feb t864

Marion Tuttle 10 Nov 1867

Mahallia (Mahaley) Arminta (Knaw), 9 Jan 1870

Franklin Trail, 22 Feb 1872

Emeretta, 23 Jul 1874

Ira Allen, 22 Mar 1877

Virtue Ann was born in England, 1837. She left England at age sixteen with parents, three sisters and one brother, sailing on the ship "Ellen Marie" 17 Jan 1853. They arrived in New Orleans 16 Mar 1853. They traveled to St. Louis, Mo. 18 March and from there to Kanesville, Iowa, joining with the Cyrus H. Wheelock Wagon Train, leaving 3 Jun and arriving in Salt Lake City 16 Oct 1853. Moses Clawson was the missionary who brought the Gospel to Virtue Ann and her family. He traveled from England and across the plains with them. Virtue Ann was in Salt Lake City a short time when she married Charles Colebrook 4/7 Jan 1854. They had one son, Charles. This marriage ended in divorce. Virtue Ann was baptized 26 Mar 1854. Probably a rebaptism in Salt Lake City, Utah. She married Preston King Lewis on 4 Jan 1857. On 7 Aug 1857 they were sealed in the Salt Lake City

Endowment House. They made their home in Holladay, Utah and became parents of nine. She was asked to live the law of polygamy when Preston married Sarah Coleman 13 Sep 1869. They had thirteen children.

When her son, Preston King Jr.'s, wife died of complications due to childbirth, he brought his family of four children to Holladay. Virtue helped all she could with the children. She made flannel shirts for the grandsons to wear to school. She taught the children how to darn their stockings. She cut a "Red Ridinghood" leather cloak up and made the uppers for twenty pairs of shoes. These were mostly childrens' shoes. They were taken to a shoemaker and sold for $0.75 a pair Virtue took in boarders for a time and took care of her mother-in-law, Duritha Trail Lewis until she died about 1878.

Preston passed away 21 Jan 1913 in Heber City, Utah. Virtue was a widow for thirteen years, passing away at her home in Holladay 28 Jan 1926 at the age of ninety years. She is buried in the Holladay Cemetery.

Source: Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, page 1787, Daughters of Utah Pioneers

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