She is married to William Wooton.
They got married on November 30, 1862 at Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, she was 44 years old.
Elizabeth George
[1818-1908]
[Written by: family records handed down. Submitted to Daughters of Utah Pioneers by: Bonnie A Snyder]
Elizabeth George was born in a little village of Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England on the 4th of May 1818. She was the 4th child and the second daughter of Thomas and Sarah Dickins George.
Mursley is an interesting small town about 25 miles north and west of London. It's history dating from early Norman times. It had a market on Thursdays granted to the Prior of Snelshall in the year 1230. King Henry IV gave Mursley to his second son John Duke of Bedford and when John died the King sold it to Cardinal Beaufort and thus the town changed owners many times during its long history. It became a market town because the direct road from Buckingham to Dunstable and on to London lay thru this place, and Mursley and Leighton divided the distance into easy days traveling time.
Elizabeth's father was quite well to do financially for those times. The census in 1851 says he occupied 60 acres and hired 2 employees, but his daughters were not allowed to be idle. Elizabeth learned lace-making and strawplaiting and these skills were very useful to her during her life.
On the 12th of November 1837 she married Thomas Labrum and to this union was born 7 children, two of whom died in infancy. They lived in Mursley until after their first child was born and they moved to Stewkley, a few miles away where Thomas was from and where his family lived. Thomas listed his occupations and agricultural labor and perhaps he worked for Elizabeth's father while they lived in Mursley.
Thomas father Henry was a shoemaker in Stewkley and one wonders why Thomas didn't learn the trade. Perhaps the village was too small to support more than one family with this occupation.
After their 4th child was born, they moved to Simpson near Fenny Stratford, where they lived when they became acquainted with the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the “Mormons”. Elizabeth and her eldest daughter Mary, were the first of the family to join this new church and she was baptized the 27th of May 1849.
The small village of Simpson is located about 30 miles northwest of London in a beautiful green hollow at the intersection of County Roads and on the Grand Junction Canal. The canal banks are built up to form a levy on the west and the canal was used to haul freight by boat to London. The Ousel River winds it's way through the farm lands to the east of the village. The homes are of brick and stone, some of which are white washed. Slate or thatched roofs turn the wet English rains. Near the center of town where the roads intersect into the old Saint Thomas Church, which used to be by Weslayan Faith. It is many hundreds of years old.
In February of 1851, mostly by Elizabeth’s prompting, it was decided that Thomas, though not yet converted, should immigrate to Utah and try to make a new home for the family. On the 4th of March 1851 the ship Olympus set sail from Liverpool bound for New Orleans and on the passenger list is Thomas Labrum and William luck who were traveling together. This voyage encountered the usual storms and Thomas was among the 50 or so immigrants that were baptized during this voyage.
After disembarking at New Orleans they boarded the steamer “Atlantic” for the trip upriver to St. Louis. The paper which was printed the St. Louis, on May 9, 1851, reported that part of those who arrived on the steamer Atlantic were held in quarantine on account of a man being sick of what was supposed to be Cholera. Luck took possession of his [Thomas’] money and his trunk and brought them on to Utah with him.
It was about 6 months later that Elizabeth was informed of his [Thomas] death and thus found herself a widow with 5 children to support. Her eldest being 13, and the youngest just 18 months. She went to the poor farm for a while and then she moved to Billington, Bedfordshire. There they worked at straw plaiting (braiding), and any jobs they could get. Henry was about 13 and he got a job as ploughboy for a farmer in the area. In those days, the horses were hooked in tandem, one in front of the other, in single file, as many as it took to pull the plow, and the plowboy walked and the lead horse all day. They couldn't afford shoes for him so Henry wore whatever was given to him or that he could find, and they seldom fit, so he suffered with foot troubles all his life.
Through all this, Elizabeth’s father assured her that if she would just give up this foolish idea of going to America, and drop the strange religion, he would take care of her and see that her children were educated.
In 1853, while living in Billington, she met and married Thomas James and had one son by him whom they named Joseph Hyrum. Thomas James died in 1855 leaving her a widow again and now with a sixth child. They moved to the larger town of Lutton, Bedfordshire, where they went into the business of plaiting and sewing straw hats which they sold door to door and on the city streets. They saved all the could toward their immigration fund. In May of 1862, Elizabeth, along with her sons, Thomas (18), John (13), Hyrum (8) and her grandson Harry Cowley (2) along with the son of Mary and Richard Cowley all of whom boarded the ship of the XXXXXX William Tapscott” in Liverpool. From the “Church Immigration” 1862, we read, “on Tuesday May 13, 1862, the packed ship Wm. Tapscott, with Capt. J.B. Bell, cleared from the port of Liverpool, England, with 807 emigrating saints on board.” This record is in the Church Historians office in the church building in Salt Lake City, Utah.
After they had boarded the ship, Elizabeth decided they needed more supplies, so she took Thomas with her to go get them. While they were gone, the ship started off without them. This must have been a very frightening experience for the 3 little boys left on board, however, a tugboat soon brought the people who were left on shore out to the ship and of course their mother and brother were with him. They were 6 weeks in crossing then landing in New York on June 25th, 1862. Just over 11 years from the time her first husband had started for Utah.
From New York, they traveled by train to Florence, Nebraska. This was during the Civil War times so they saw many thousands of soldiers and saw the woods on cattle cars. After waiting in Florence about 3 weeks for teams to come get them, they started for Salt Lake about July 25th and arrived October 1st, 1862.
Elizabeth walked all the way and carried little Harry most of the time. He was not very well and he died soon after they got to Salt Lake so therefore, his mother never saw him again.
After arriving in Salt Lake, they start on the square where the city County building now stands. Then the next place they went was to William Luck’s (Luck’s Land), 3340 South Hyland Drive. He [William] gave her [Elizabeth] ten acres of land, for the money and things Thomas had had when he died. They [Elizabeth and her children] built a dugout on the side of the hill on their land, in which to live.
Later in 1862 or 1863, Elizabeth married William Wooten, whom she had known as their branch president in Lutton, England, and was a widower. They then moved to Hensley’s place on 27th South between 9th East and Hyland drive. He [William] had a dugout there that was much better. Before they moved, their dugout caught fire and burned, destroying everything they had.
William and Elizabeth George Labrum James Wooten, moved to 5709 South 9th East, buying this place from James Maxwell. There was an adobe house and a good orchard, flowers and a flowing well. When William Wooten died in 1891, Elizabeth built a town room house in Butlerville, now called Cottonwood Heights, next to her daughter Jane and Bishop Butler. Jane died sometime after and Elizabeth moved back to the little adobe house on 9th East. She married William Cornwall, from Butlerville and then moved back to their house in Butlerville, where she lived the rest of her life, except at times when she visited with her son John, who took care of her when she was sick. She died in Butlerville, September 12, 1908 at the age of 90 years, 4 months, and 8 days. She is buried in the Murray city Cemetery, 750 Vine street.
The following is her obituary that was printed in the Millennial Star:
Sister Elizabeth George Labrum who died at Butlerville, Utah, on September 10, 1908, was in her ninetieth year, having been born in Mursley, Buckinghamshire, England, 4 May 1818. She was baptized at Simpson, England in 1849 by Elder Reed. Married to Thomas Labrum about 1837, by whom she had seven children. In Feb. 1851, her husband, though not a Mormon emigrated to America at her suggestion with the intention of preparing the way for his family. He left Liverpool on March 4, 1851 on the ship Olympus, the company being under the direction of William Howell. Thomas Labrum was one of 50 non-Mormon passengers who were converted and baptized enroute. He reached St. Louis, Mo., where he died in May of the same year.
Sister Labrum now left a widow with five children was compelled to go to the poor house where she remained about a month. In 1853, she was married to Thomas James, and in about two years he passed away, leaving her with one more boy, Hyrum.
She came to Utah in 1862, traveling with Joseph Hornes ox team company, walking nearly all the way from the Missouri River. Later she married William Wooten who also died, 11 March 1891. In the year 1895 she married William Cornwall who survives her.
In England, her home was always open to the Elders and though she passed through hardships and trials, incident to pioneer life, she was a true Latter Day Saint and maintained her integrity to the end.
She is survived by her husband, four sons, Henry G. Labrum of Meadow, Millard Co, Utah; Thomas G Labrum of Sandy; John G. Labrum of South Cottonwood, and Joseph Hurum of Idaho Falls, Idaho and 57 grandchildren and one hundred sixteen great grandchildren.
England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915
England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915
1880 United States Federal Census
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Elizabeth George (Labrum James Wooten Cornwall)
1818-1908
England, and, Utah, USA
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