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• Zij is geboren op 25 december 1839 in Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States of America.Bron 1

  Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (??-??-1854) lag beneden de 16 jaar (15).

• Zij is overleden op 9 februari 1924 in Morgan, Morgan County, Utah, United States of America, zij was toen 84 jaar oud.Bron 1
• Zij is begraven in Morgan, Morgan County, Utah, United States of America.Bron 1
• Een kind van Charles Shreeve Peterson en Ann Bunting Dennis

Gezin van Mary Ann Peterson

Zij is getrouwd met Roswell Stevens.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1854, zij was toen 14 jaar oud.

Notities over Mary Ann Peterson

HISTORY OF MARY ANN PETERSON STEVENS
Daughter of Charles Screeve Peterson and Ann E. Dennis
Written by Mrs. Jane Stevens Foote

Mary Ann Peterson Stevens was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, 25 December 1839. Her mother died when she was four years old. There were two brothers, George, who was older than Mary Ann, and Andrew, younger.

In the autumn of 1849, they came to Utah with their father and step-mother, walking most of the way across the plains. In January of 1853 her father settled in Mountainville, (Alpine) Utah County. In 1854 she was married to Roswell Stevens, Jr. and in 1855 they and her father's family moved to Weber Valley. She endured all the hardships of pioneering in a new country, including the grasshopper plague.

On 14 December 1855 she gave birth to first child, it being the first white girl born in Weber Valley (now Morgan County.)

About 1860 they moved to Centerville; she then had three children. A wind storm blew off the roof of the house they were living in and she and her children ran to a stable with a straw roof. This was the only house they had until the storm was over and the roof was put back on their house.

At the time they started to build the railroad, my parents moved to Echo. They were moved out of their hut, in a rain storm, in order for the Railroad Company to set a pole where the hut stood. The only place for them to get shelter was in a dugout in the side of the hill. The dugout was my birthplace on 18 October 1866. Two years later they moved to Echo Canyon, where my father had taken up some land. Before he could build a house to move into, my mother gave birth to her seventh child. This was on20 September 1869, and the only home they had was under a ledge of rock.

A few years later father sold his land in Echo Canyon to Heiner Brothers, and we moved to Upton, Summit County, Utah. They had a few sheep and mother carded her own wool and spun it into yarn and knit socks and stockings for her family.

When the diphtheria epidemic broke out in Summit County and so many people died, my father was the only carpenter there and he made the coffins. My mother covered them with black calico and padded the inside with cotton, lined them with bleach and trimmed them with lace.

She gave birth to eleven children and never had a doctor when any of them were born. She raised all but her youngest child to maturity and they all married and had large families. The youngest child died when only six weeks old.

She was a widow for fury-four years and made a living by nursing. She spent eleven years of her life with me in my home in Morgan. During the World War she knitted socks for the soldiers. She lived a good useful life and was never idle.

She died 9 February 1924 at the age of 84 years.

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