Robert Howarth, James Howarth, Adam Howarth

John Howarth, John Howarth, John Howarth, of

OverHulton, Rumworth, West Houghton, England

to our 1866 Mormon Pioneer

John Howarth Jr from Lostock, Lancashire, England to Heber City Utah

by Ship Arkwright and Captain Daniel Thompson Company

 

 

The Howarth ancestry begins with Robert Howarth , 1643 & his wife Dorothea Odcroft, 1647  from Over Hulton, Parish Lanes, England. They had 8 children: Robert, Anna, *James (our direct ancestor), Nathaniel, John, Richard, Maria and Samuel. Dorothea died 10 Dec 1701, Middle Hulton, Dean, Lancashire, England.

James born 13 June 1675, married Ellenor (Ellen) Morris 13 Jan 1699/1700 in Dean, Lancashire, England. Ellenor was born 20 Oct 1670, daughter to Henricus and Margaret Kearsley Howarth. They had 13 children: *Adam (our direct ancestor), Sarah, Margaret, Alice, Margaret, James, Henry, John, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Johannah and William. James died 1 Oct 1778, in Rumworth, Lancashire England and was buried there.

Adam was christened 16 Feb 1699/1700 in West Hulton, Lancashire, England married Ellen (Ellenor) Halliwell 6 May 1725. Ellen was born 7 May 1704 in Rumworth, Lancashire, England, daughter to Robert & Elizabeth Shaw Halliwell.They had 11 children: Elizabeth, James, William, Alicia, Maria, *John (our direct ancestor), Sarah, Boy Child, William, Esther and Adam. Adam died 30 Nov 1764, England.

John christened 24 Nov 1734 in Rumworth, Lancashire, England married Hannah Saxton 11 Feb 1755 in Dean, Lancashire, England. They had 6 children: Adam, John, Alice, *John (our direct ancestor), James and Ellen. Hannah was buried 15 Apr 1808 in England.

John born 22 Aug 1767 in Rumworth, Dean of Bulton, England married Ann Bullough 24 Feb 1784 in Dean, Lancashire, England. Ann is daughter to William and Ann Hough Bullough. They had 10 children: William, *John, Thomas, Mary, Ann, Ann, Esther, Alice, Elizabeth, and Ester. Ann died 1817, England. John died 1852 in Rumworth, Dean, Lancashire, England.

John born 30 Apr 1792 in Rumworth, Lancashire, England married Ann Miller 23 Apr 1810 in Lostock, Bolton Le Moors, Lancashire, England. Ann is daughter of Thomas and Ann Cowburn Miller. She was born 12 Aug 1789 in Hulton, Deane, Lancashire, England. They had 10 children: Thomas, Ann, Ann, Elizabeth Ann or Ann, Betty, Mary, Esther, *John Jr (our direct ancestor), Alice. John died 20 Sep 1855 in England, Ann died 25 Apr 1865 in Bolton, Lancashire, England.

 John (our direct ancestor) pictured below at left was born 28 Feb 1829 in Lostock, Lancashire, England, married Elizabeth Kay 27 Feb 1853 in Bolton, LeMoor, Lancashire, England. Elizabeth is daughter of James and Hannah Burroughs Kay. Elizabeth was born 15 Jan 1830 in Lostock, Lancashire, England. They had 10 children: Ann, Mary, Peter, Esther, Thomas, George, Elizabeth, Sarah, John Joseph and William.

John, Elizabeth and son Peter immigrated to America on the Ship Arkwright in May 1866 and was seven weeks in crossing the ocean. They crossed the plains with Captain Thomas Todds ox team and had all the trials of pioneer life.  When they were crossing the plains, he caught a pole cat (skunk), which he thought would be a nice pet for them, but before he reached camp, ho had to let it go, as the perfume was so strong.  He had to wear his sister Alice's clothes for days and buried his own clothes in the ground until the perfume was gone.

John and his family were Methodists before they joined the Latter-day Saint Church.  When he came to Utah on Sept 29,1866 arriving in Salt Lake City with his sister Alice and her husband, Richard Barnes. They were a devoted family. They left seven buried children in the Old Country.

After they had been in Utah three years, a son was born, John Joseph. Then when John was five William was born, but Elizabeth and William died the same day Jan 23, 1875 and were buried in the same grave in the Heber City cemetery. That left John with two sons, Peter, twenty years old and Joseph being 5 years.

They lived in the back room of John Crook's home, the first yyear they were in Heber City, Wasatch, UT, then John built a one room log house on the corner of second north and fourth west.  The roof was mud and the floor was dirt.

Before John came to this country, he had worked in the mines and after he got to Heber City, Wasatch, UT, he went to Alma, Wyoming, and worked in the coalmines there, and also at Coalville, Summit, Utah.  He took some farming land in the valley and hauled rock for the Wasatch Stake Tabernacle, from Crook's rock quarry. He was a Black Hawk Indian War Veteran, he being the guard over the fort. He played the flute under Captain Thomas Todd's infantry.  He herded cows and went out on picket duty, many a night, and guarded the Fort from the Indians.  He also played the fife in the band.  He was a good singer and went out caroling on Christmas and New Year's Eve.

.John was a widower ten months when he married second Ann Kirkman Click here to see a Biography of Ann Kirkman Howarth, my ancestor, on 4 Oct 1875 in the Salt Lake City Endowment House.  Ann, a daughter to James Kirkman and Mary Haslam was born 9 Oct 1850 at Darcy. Leaver, England. John was a good bread maker and taught Ann to make bread.

To John and Ann were born eight children:

• James
• Mary
• Emily
• Sarah
• Frederick
  Click here to see Frederick Howarth's Family
• Thomas
• Wilford
• Clara

 

John still only had the one room house when he married Ann, but he immediately built on a lean-to and made a room upstairs.  He dug a well on the southeast corner of the house.  It was good, clear, pure water.  He struck a spring and put a large sandstone rock over it, in the bottom of the well, and you could see the water boilinng up around it when it was a clear day.  It has never been filled up.  They put a large rock over the top of  it.

John belonged to the choir and taught a Sunday school class and was a ward teacher and belonged to the Prayer Circle for a great many years in the West Ward of Heber.  He and his two sisters, Ann Mayho and Alice Barnnes, used to go to Salt Lake Temple and do work for their dead relatives.  They would be gone two or three weeks at a time.  They could not do as many names those days as we can do now.  They would be baptized one day and do the endowments the next.  It took all day to do one endowment.

 He was faithful in paying his tithes and offerings.  He was a man who would not go into debt, and when he died at the age of seventy-five years, he owned land, a home and cattle and owed no man a cent.  He was a hard working, industrious man and attended to his own business.  He provided a good living for his family.  He was not wealthy or extravagant.  He would dig wells and wall them up for people, to help with the feeding and clothing of his family.  He went to the canyons to cut wood and oak for the winter, as they could not buy coal as we can now.

John was sick for nine months and the last seven weeks he lived, he never wanted anything to ear, just a drink of water. Ann would ask him if he would like something, but he would say he was not hungry. He laid on the bed and would sing till he would have no strength to sing any more. There were two songs he would sing every day, one was “Let Thy Loving Mercy Come unto Me, Even Thy Salvation” and God Moves in a Mysteriosus Way.”

John died 25 May 1904 in Heber City, Wasatch, UT and is buried in the Heber City Cemetery, by Elizabeth and William.

 

Ann immigrated to America on Sept 2, 1874, being the first member of her family to come to America. It required two weeks at this time to cross the ocean.

After crossing the plains and arriving in Utah, Ann went to Provo, where she obtained work in the woolen mills. There she taught Reed Smoot how to weave.

After Ann married John, their life was devoted to farming, raising hay, grain, potatoes, peas and sugar beets, They each worked in the different organizations of the church.

Ann died 29 Apr 1927 in Heber City, Wasatch, UT and is also buried in the Heber City Cemetery by John, Elizabeth and William.

This history was written by Sarah Jane Howarth, daughter to John and Ann Kirkman Howarth. I revised some of it to put in order of events, and also added some from the Book "How Beautiful Upon The Mountains", Heber Biography of Pioneers.

 

 

The headstone on the left is for John & Elizabeth Kay Howarth, from the family history we are also told that William, their son was buried here with his mother, but there  are no markings to show that he is there.

 

The headstone on the right is for Ann Kirkman Howarth

 

These headstones also show that family has put the Utah Pioneer plaque on them, Celebrating John, Elizabeth & Ann being Utah Pioneers.

 

 

The 2 headstones below are for John Howarth & Ann Kirkman Howarth. Family has put in New headstones for them.

 

All these headstones are in the same Plot area in the Heber City Cemetery