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• Hij is geboren op 15 juni 1851 in Tring, Dacorum Borough, Hertfordshire, England.Bron 1
• Geïmmigreerd in het jaar 1853.
• Geïmmigreerd Bet. 22–30-09-1853 vanuit Utah, United States.
• Geïmmigreerd op 20 april 1853 vanuit New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
• Geïmmigreerd op 30 september 1853.
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1851: St Lawrence, Shropshire, England.
• in het jaar 1860: Goshen, Cedar, Utah Territory, United States.
• in het jaar 1870: Utah, United States.
• in het jaar 1880: Goshen, Utah, Utah, United States.
• in het jaar 1900: Goshen, Mt. Nebo, Santaquin Precincts Santaquin town, Utah, Utah, United States.
• in het jaar 1910: Goshen, Utah, Utah, United States.
• (FamilySearch ID) : KWZ8-J3X.
• Hij is overleden op 28 mei 1914 in Goshen, Utah County, Utah, United States of America, hij was toen 62 jaar oud.Bron 1
• Hij is begraven op 30 mei 1914 in Goshen Cemetery, Goshen, Utah, Utah, United States.Bron 1
• Een kind van William T Finch en Margaret Ann Edwards

Gezin van Hyrum Finch

Notities over Hyrum Finch

Birth: Jun. 15, 1851
Tring, EnglandDeath: May 28, 1914
Goshen
Utah County
Utah, USA
HYRUM FINCH (1851-1914)

My father was born June 15, 1851 at Lempster Herefordshire, England. He was the third son and fourth child of William and Margaret Edward Finch, who were born in Wilburn, England. He came with his parents to America in a sailing vessel. They spent seven weeks crossing the ocean. The crossed the plains with the Shirtliff Company by ox team, arriving in Salt Lake City in the fall of 1853.
I have heard Father tell of many hardships they endured from hunger and cold, but I am leaving those things out as he always tried to look on the bright side of life and make everyone as happy as possible.
They moved from Salt Lake City to Battle Creek, which is now called Pleasant Grove.
The Indians were very bad at that time. I have heard my father tell of having many encounters with them but said they always fed them and got along fine with them.
They moved from Pleasant Grove to Gerlen Valley, where some of the pioneers had commenced to settle down by the Utah Lake. They lived in a dugout with a spring in one corner. One of father's sisters was born there. But soon the high waters from the lake came up and crowded them out. They then went to Goshen Bend, broke up the land and made farms and orchards. After some time, his father had a chance to trade for a farm on the creek about two miles south of Goshen. It was stocked with cattle but they had a very hard winter that year and most of them died.
The Union Pacific Railroad just commenced being built that time and my father, Hyrum Finch, went to work on it to help his father. He worked in the different organizations of the church. He was the President of the Young Men's Mutual and was a ward teacher for many years and performed many other duties in the church.
Father never was a very eloquent speaker, but he sang very well. Many times instead of bearing his testimony on Fast Sunday, he would sing a beautiful hymn which always touched the soul of his listeners. In the latter part of July 1875, my mother, Mary Ann Garbett, left her home in England and loved ones, for the gospel. She was only 15 years of age.
She had been working in Salt Lake at the home of Bishop Jenkins for four years. With very poor health, she came to Goshen to visit a brother that she had sent money for them to come to Zion. My father met her and their friendship soon ripened into love. Early fall was approaching and she was preparing to return to Salt Lake. With thoughts of the lovely days that would be spent with her whom he had learned to love, he quickly and courageously prevailed on her to allow him to accompany her back to the city and get married. The journey would be made in a covered wagon, the only mode of travel in those days.
Consenting to the plan, they drove to Salt Lake and were married in the old Endowment House October 4, 1875. They stayed at Bishop Jenkins and with his blessing and $5.00 he gave them, they returned to Goshen homesteading 160 acres of sage brush land, two miles south of Goshen on the creek.
Our first home, as I remember, consisted of one large room, with a fireplace in one corner and a small stove in the other. The furniture consisted of a cupboard, table, beds, and benches which father had made. There was a small room where we kept everything in general and a very few dishes or cooking utensils.
To this union there were born 15 children, nine daughters and six sons rearing 13 to man and womanhood. It is hard to understand how they did manage, but we may be sure it was not without great sacrifice.
Father hauled and delivered wood as far north as Payson and Spanish Fork. Many times while in the canyon after Indians came upon him - sometimes he feared for his life. But he had learned their language and could talk to them. He would give them some of his lunch and they never harmed him.
As time went by, father built a six-room brick house as it stands now with a fine yard, a wheat elevator, lights, water and is very dear to my heart. It was our family's gathering place on holidays and reunions for a great many years. Father played the violin and loved to dance so that was part of our recreation when we met together from childhood and along through the years.
Father was always kind and courteous to his family. I recall when he would come in at night after a hard day's work, he would take one of the babies on his knee and sing hymns, then call us to family prayer. We children took our turn praying, as well. He was always kind to the orphans, widows and those that were ill or in need. He always did the little things for them. He took them wood, fruit, vegetables and meat and always sent them shoes.
I never remember Father breaking the Sabbath Day or word of wisdom. And no matter how badly they needed money, they always paid their tithing. They always bore testimony of receiving the blessings promised for keeping that commandment.
I never saw him provoked or speak lightly of anyone in or out of the church. Patience with others and consideration for their rights was what he taught his children.
An apostle who lived in Goshen said if there was such a place as heaven, "Hyrum Finch would surely go there." This man was wealthy and one hard winter when all the cattle were dying, he gave Father hay to save his milk cows.
He and mother went through many hardships and trials but struggled side by side with all their problems always devoted and true to each other - love, patience, kindness, and a mutual concern. These qualities brought to them, after forty years, a refined and mature affection almost divine.
In December 1913 Father and Mother came to my home in Eureka for Christmas. Father became ill and was bedfast for five months. Everything possible was done for him but he did not recover. He passed from the life May 28, 1914 at the age of 68. He was laid to rest in the cemetery just over the hill from our old home where he spent most of his life.

"It matters not how long we live,
What counteth most is what we give
To the stream of life.
And if we prove true, to Good,
Ourselves and others too."

Written by his daughter
Elizabeth Boswell
154 N. 5 West
Provo, Utah

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Parents:
William T Finch (1819 - 1895)
Margaret Ann Edwards Finch (1820 - 1888)

Spouse:
Mary Ann Garbett Finch (1856 - 1944)

Children:
Mary Ellen Finch (1876 - 1876)*
Rosella Finch Steele (1877 - 1959)*
Hyrum Finch (1879 - 1879)*
Francis Garbett Finch Davis (1880 - 1911)*
Emily Jenevieve Finch Gagon (1882 - 1912)*
Sarah Ann Finch May Robinson Healy (1884 - 1961)*
Margarett May Finch Carter (1886 - 1938)*
Elizabeth Finch Boswell (1887 - 1948)*
Joseph William Finch (1889 - 1938)*
George N. Finch (1891 - 1939)*
Mary Ann Finch Thomas (1894 - 1995)*
Charlotte Finch White (1896 - 1983)*
John Samuel Finch (1898 - 1967)*

Siblings:
Hyrum Finch (1851 - 1914)
Jane Elizabeth Finch Williams (1860 - 1907)*
Mary Matilda Finch Ostler (1864 - 1943)**
Eliza Jane Finch Conder (1875 - 1936)**
Minnie Rose Finch Gourley (1875 - 1963)**

*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling Burial:
Goshen City Cemetery
Goshen
Utah County
Utah, USA
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