FATHER: Timothy GARRARD
MOTHER: Susannah Evered QUANTRILLE
SPOUSE: Mary Ann Calls 1832-1896
Marriage: 24 November 1865
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Source: Familysearch-Cemetery records.∼William Joseph Garrard
Birth: Aug. 22, 1836
Diss, South Norfolk District, Norfolk, England
Death: Oct. 26, 1918
Pleasant View, Weber County, Utah, USA
William Joseph Garrard History: by Norman Lee Garrard
On Aug. 22, 1836 William Joseph Garrard was born in the ancient market town of Diss in South Norfolk, England to Timothy Barzilla Garrard III and Susan Evered Quanterell. He was their 5th and last child of 5 children. Children in order were: Carolina Eliza 1827, Timothy Barzilla IV 1829, Sarah Susannah 1832, John Benjamin 1834, and William Joseph 1836.
The Garrard family lived in the area of Diss. They raised a large family in the small village of Palgrave on the other side of the River Waveny from Diss. Not being satisfied with the Church of England they joined the Presbyterian Church and were termed dissenters or non-conformist as they broke with the state church.
The Garrard's leased and ran a Inn which was located by a beautiful park called the Fair Green. And her father John Quantrille lived next door to them and he was a weaver. The family lived on Cock Street.
His father Timothy Garrard III died of consumption in 1839 when William was only 3.
With a family to support his mother Susannah went to work as a chore woman and later took in laundry. William was raised by his Grand Parents on his mother’s side. William was taught to be a Weaver by his Grand Father John Quanterell. As each of Susannah’s Children grew older and were able to work they each helped out, often not in the most pleasant jobs.
The family was not poor but it was a struggle to make a living. Even though she worked hard. William was taught by his mother Susannah also known as Susan, to learned to read and write. This was an enormous accomplishment for the family as many of the people at that time were illiterate.
In 1850 his Sister, Caroline Eliza Garrard went to London to live. It was here that she married George Kerrison, a coach maker. While in London, Caroline heard the LDS Gospel and was baptized, a year later George also joined the LDS Church. They brought the message of the LDS Gospel back to the family in Diss, who accepted it.
William and his family were taught by the LDS missionaries in England that they should "flee unto Zion" as soon as arrangement could be made. It was not difficult to leave England as being a Mormon made them subject to taunts, being pelted with rocks, and having their home damaged. Going to Zion also meant an opportunity to make a better life instead of struggling for a meager existence in England.
Plans were made to sail with other LDS saints on a chartered ship.
They went to London for a short time and stayed with Caroline and George Kerrison where they became members of the Finsbury Branch of the London LDS Church. They read in the Millennial Star newspaper about the announcement of Mormon Church Chartered ships. So, they also forwarded their applications to Liverpool which included their names, ages, occupations, and nativity.
They were accepted and became part of what was called a "Ten Pound Company" in that they had to pay ten English Pounds for each of them to travel to the Utah Valley. Word came to them in January 1853 that they were to sail on the ship "International" in February. On the trip they had to provide their own bedding, cooking utensils, and other basic articles.
Information about the Trip to America on the International along with ship manifest listing the Garrard's can be found here;
http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:voyage/id:180/keywords:international%23.URfqE2jn87v#.URfq0Wjn87s
On February 28, 1853, the Garrard family boarded the Sailing Ship "International" which was scheduled to take 477 LDS Saints to New Orleans. The traveling family consisted of Susannah (Susan) Evered Quantrille Garrard, age 54, Timothy Barzilla Garrard, age 14, John Benjamin Garrard, 19, William Joseph Garrard, age 17, Sarah Susannah Garrard, age 21 and her sons out of wedlock: Walter age 6 month and Horace Garrard age 2 years (Their father per Williams Journal was a man by the name of Martin Cook, a man who worked for his Grand Father John Quanterell at the Cloth Shop.) Also on the Ship was Caroline Eliza Garrard Kerrison, 25 and her husband George Kerrison, age 27.
A tug boat pulled the International out of the harbor in Liverpool and into the Irish Sea. This was the last that the family ever saw of England, except for William who would return as an old man.
The journey on the ocean was a combination of many new experiences. They had to live in cramped quarters. Fast and Testimony meetings were held. Twice violent storms came upon one of them was such that the Captain (Captain John Brown) said that if they had been anything but a shipload of Saints that they would be at the bottom of the ocean. They held a meeting because of the violence of one storm, and while they were fasting and praying the storm stopped.
Towards the end of April the ship sailed into the Gulf of Mexico and to Louisiana. Upon reaching land small tug boats came and pulled the ship over the sand bars up the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The Elder in charge of the Saints on board recorded in his journal that, "Never since the days of old Captain Noah had a more righteous group of Saints ever sailed upon the water to escape Babylon."
The example of the Garrard family, along with the other Saints, was such that during the journey 48 crew members and non-Mormon persons were baptized which included Captain Brown.
On April 23, 1853 they stepped off the ship and entered New Orleans.
After a few days in colorful New Orleans they boarded a steamboat with the other Saints and went up the Mississippi to a pioneer camp at Keokuk, Iowa, a short way away from Nauvoo.
On June 3 1853 they started in Jacob Gates Company which consisted of 262 persons, 33 wagons, 147 oxen, 47 cows, 2 mares, 1 bull, 3 lambs and five dogs. They loaded their wagon with provisions and with a few mementoes from England which included books.
About a month after their trek started they reached the Missouri River and it took almost a week to get the whole company across. At times they had to throw away bedding and boxes to lighten the load. Many times they went thirsty as there was no water. One time they had to buy their way past the Indians with Flour and a few horses.
On September 26, 1853 they arrived in Salt Lake City. The only ones of the family that died during the journey were Walter and Horace Garrard, Sarah's two sons.
They camped at Pioneer Square and sold their teams at an auction. Two weeks later they were sent on to North Ogden to build up the settlement there.
After arriving in North Ogden, Williams mother Susannah decided to marry a man by the man of John Riddle from Tennessee. Susannah had remained a widow since her husband's death. John Riddle was a polygamist. They went to Salt Lake City where they were sealed for time and eternity in President Brigham Young's office. This marriage would not last and Susannah was granted a divorce by the church. This is explained below.
Also it was at this time that Susannah Garrard had her patriarchal blessing and she was told that her lineage was from Judah.
Times were very trying for them. In the summer came the flying grasshoppers, coming in countless numbers destroying the crops. They drove them like herds of sheep into the ditches and caught them in sacks which they then tossed into a fire.
Indians were a constant menace. They camped in groups of three to ten wigwams up and down the water courses in North Ogden where there was forage for their horses. They were persistent beggars and the squaws kept going from place to place trying to get food. The Indian men pilfered anything they wanted.
William and his mother who married John Riddle when they arrived in Salt Lake City. Lived for a time with John Riddle and his other wives and children. According to Susannah’s journals and Williams Journal, this was not a happy time. Both William and his mother Susannah were treated like work slaves and abused by John Riddle and his wives. They could do nothing as they had no money nor any other place to go. In 1864, Susannah went to her other son John Benjamin Garrard and requested money so that she could send William back to England to sell the family’s holding and return with money so that she could find a way to leave John Riddle.
William went to England and did return with a sum of 480 pounds sterling, of which he paid back his brother 40 pounds sterling for his expense of the trip. William and his brother John built a house in Pleasant View, North Ogden, Utah, and then both boys went to get their mother Susannah from John Riddle. There was a fight but the boys did get their mother out of the house of John Riddle and brought her to her new home in Pleasant View, North Ogden.
John Riddle went to the Church and filed a complaint against the two boy and demanded that Susannah return to him at his farm immediately. Susannah, and two of her sons (John and William) went to see Brigham Young. Brigham Young listen to her story and had some of his wives take Susannah into another room and look at the scars on her body to verify her story.
Susannah was granted a divorce through the LDS church in 1865. She asked never to be sealed to John Riddle. After her divorce from John Riddle she assumed back the name of Garrard and considered herself a widow.
In November of 1865, William married Mary Ann Calls and brought her to his home in Pleasant View to live with him and his Mother Susannah. William Refused to be a Polygamist and refused to marry any other wives. Mary Ann Calls and William did not have any children, however, their house was always filled with Susannah’s Grand Children from her other children Caroline, John, Timothy and Sarah.
In 1887 Susannah died in Pleasant View at the home of her son William. She spent the rest of her life living with William and his wife Mary Ann. The last few years of her life she was an invalid and when her grandchildren came she would have them sit on her bed. She was loved by her grandchildren and died a member of the LDS church.
In 1896 his wife Mary Ann died of a lingering fever. William was devastated, yet refused to remarry and remained alone in his home until his death in 1918 at the age of 82. Cause was listed and Old Age.
Parents:
Timothy Barzilla Garrard III (1800 - 1839)
Susannah Evered Quanterell (1799-1887)
Spouses:
Mary Ann Calls (1832-1896)
MOTHER: Susannah Evered QUANTRILLE
SPOUSE: Mary Ann Calls 1832-1896
Marriage: 24 November 1865
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Source: Familysearch-Cemetery records.∼William Joseph Garrard
Birth: Aug. 22, 1836
Diss, South Norfolk District, Norfolk, England
Death: Oct. 26, 1918
Pleasant View, Weber County, Utah, USA
William Joseph Garrard History: by Norman Lee Garrard
On Aug. 22, 1836 William Joseph Garrard was born in the ancient market town of Diss in South Norfolk, England to Timothy Barzilla Garrard III and Susan Evered Quanterell. He was their 5th and last child of 5 children. Children in order were: Carolina Eliza 1827, Timothy Barzilla IV 1829, Sarah Susannah 1832, John Benjamin 1834, and William Joseph 1836.
The Garrard family lived in the area of Diss. They raised a large family in the small village of Palgrave on the other side of the River Waveny from Diss. Not being satisfied with the Church of England they joined the Presbyterian Church and were termed dissenters or non-conformist as they broke with the state church.
The Garrard's leased and ran a Inn which was located by a beautiful park called the Fair Green. And her father John Quantrille lived next door to them and he was a weaver. The family lived on Cock Street.
His father Timothy Garrard III died of consumption in 1839 when William was only 3.
With a family to support his mother Susannah went to work as a chore woman and later took in laundry. William was raised by his Grand Parents on his mother’s side. William was taught to be a Weaver by his Grand Father John Quanterell. As each of Susannah’s Children grew older and were able to work they each helped out, often not in the most pleasant jobs.
The family was not poor but it was a struggle to make a living. Even though she worked hard. William was taught by his mother Susannah also known as Susan, to learned to read and write. This was an enormous accomplishment for the family as many of the people at that time were illiterate.
In 1850 his Sister, Caroline Eliza Garrard went to London to live. It was here that she married George Kerrison, a coach maker. While in London, Caroline heard the LDS Gospel and was baptized, a year later George also joined the LDS Church. They brought the message of the LDS Gospel back to the family in Diss, who accepted it.
William and his family were taught by the LDS missionaries in England that they should "flee unto Zion" as soon as arrangement could be made. It was not difficult to leave England as being a Mormon made them subject to taunts, being pelted with rocks, and having their home damaged. Going to Zion also meant an opportunity to make a better life instead of struggling for a meager existence in England.
Plans were made to sail with other LDS saints on a chartered ship.
They went to London for a short time and stayed with Caroline and George Kerrison where they became members of the Finsbury Branch of the London LDS Church. They read in the Millennial Star newspaper about the announcement of Mormon Church Chartered ships. So, they also forwarded their applications to Liverpool which included their names, ages, occupations, and nativity.
They were accepted and became part of what was called a "Ten Pound Company" in that they had to pay ten English Pounds for each of them to travel to the Utah Valley. Word came to them in January 1853 that they were to sail on the ship "International" in February. On the trip they had to provide their own bedding, cooking utensils, and other basic articles.
Information about the Trip to America on the International along with ship manifest listing the Garrard's can be found here;
http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:voyage/id:180/keywords:international%23.URfqE2jn87v#.URfq0Wjn87s
On February 28, 1853, the Garrard family boarded the Sailing Ship "International" which was scheduled to take 477 LDS Saints to New Orleans. The traveling family consisted of Susannah (Susan) Evered Quantrille Garrard, age 54, Timothy Barzilla Garrard, age 14, John Benjamin Garrard, 19, William Joseph Garrard, age 17, Sarah Susannah Garrard, age 21 and her sons out of wedlock: Walter age 6 month and Horace Garrard age 2 years (Their father per Williams Journal was a man by the name of Martin Cook, a man who worked for his Grand Father John Quanterell at the Cloth Shop.) Also on the Ship was Caroline Eliza Garrard Kerrison, 25 and her husband George Kerrison, age 27.
A tug boat pulled the International out of the harbor in Liverpool and into the Irish Sea. This was the last that the family ever saw of England, except for William who would return as an old man.
The journey on the ocean was a combination of many new experiences. They had to live in cramped quarters. Fast and Testimony meetings were held. Twice violent storms came upon one of them was such that the Captain (Captain John Brown) said that if they had been anything but a shipload of Saints that they would be at the bottom of the ocean. They held a meeting because of the violence of one storm, and while they were fasting and praying the storm stopped.
Towards the end of April the ship sailed into the Gulf of Mexico and to Louisiana. Upon reaching land small tug boats came and pulled the ship over the sand bars up the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The Elder in charge of the Saints on board recorded in his journal that, "Never since the days of old Captain Noah had a more righteous group of Saints ever sailed upon the water to escape Babylon."
The example of the Garrard family, along with the other Saints, was such that during the journey 48 crew members and non-Mormon persons were baptized which included Captain Brown.
On April 23, 1853 they stepped off the ship and entered New Orleans.
After a few days in colorful New Orleans they boarded a steamboat with the other Saints and went up the Mississippi to a pioneer camp at Keokuk, Iowa, a short way away from Nauvoo.
On June 3 1853 they started in Jacob Gates Company which consisted of 262 persons, 33 wagons, 147 oxen, 47 cows, 2 mares, 1 bull, 3 lambs and five dogs. They loaded their wagon with provisions and with a few mementoes from England which included books.
About a month after their trek started they reached the Missouri River and it took almost a week to get the whole company across. At times they had to throw away bedding and boxes to lighten the load. Many times they went thirsty as there was no water. One time they had to buy their way past the Indians with Flour and a few horses.
On September 26, 1853 they arrived in Salt Lake City. The only ones of the family that died during the journey were Walter and Horace Garrard, Sarah's two sons.
They camped at Pioneer Square and sold their teams at an auction. Two weeks later they were sent on to North Ogden to build up the settlement there.
After arriving in North Ogden, Williams mother Susannah decided to marry a man by the man of John Riddle from Tennessee. Susannah had remained a widow since her husband's death. John Riddle was a polygamist. They went to Salt Lake City where they were sealed for time and eternity in President Brigham Young's office. This marriage would not last and Susannah was granted a divorce by the church. This is explained below.
Also it was at this time that Susannah Garrard had her patriarchal blessing and she was told that her lineage was from Judah.
Times were very trying for them. In the summer came the flying grasshoppers, coming in countless numbers destroying the crops. They drove them like herds of sheep into the ditches and caught them in sacks which they then tossed into a fire.
Indians were a constant menace. They camped in groups of three to ten wigwams up and down the water courses in North Ogden where there was forage for their horses. They were persistent beggars and the squaws kept going from place to place trying to get food. The Indian men pilfered anything they wanted.
William and his mother who married John Riddle when they arrived in Salt Lake City. Lived for a time with John Riddle and his other wives and children. According to Susannah’s journals and Williams Journal, this was not a happy time. Both William and his mother Susannah were treated like work slaves and abused by John Riddle and his wives. They could do nothing as they had no money nor any other place to go. In 1864, Susannah went to her other son John Benjamin Garrard and requested money so that she could send William back to England to sell the family’s holding and return with money so that she could find a way to leave John Riddle.
William went to England and did return with a sum of 480 pounds sterling, of which he paid back his brother 40 pounds sterling for his expense of the trip. William and his brother John built a house in Pleasant View, North Ogden, Utah, and then both boys went to get their mother Susannah from John Riddle. There was a fight but the boys did get their mother out of the house of John Riddle and brought her to her new home in Pleasant View, North Ogden.
John Riddle went to the Church and filed a complaint against the two boy and demanded that Susannah return to him at his farm immediately. Susannah, and two of her sons (John and William) went to see Brigham Young. Brigham Young listen to her story and had some of his wives take Susannah into another room and look at the scars on her body to verify her story.
Susannah was granted a divorce through the LDS church in 1865. She asked never to be sealed to John Riddle. After her divorce from John Riddle she assumed back the name of Garrard and considered herself a widow.
In November of 1865, William married Mary Ann Calls and brought her to his home in Pleasant View to live with him and his Mother Susannah. William Refused to be a Polygamist and refused to marry any other wives. Mary Ann Calls and William did not have any children, however, their house was always filled with Susannah’s Grand Children from her other children Caroline, John, Timothy and Sarah.
In 1887 Susannah died in Pleasant View at the home of her son William. She spent the rest of her life living with William and his wife Mary Ann. The last few years of her life she was an invalid and when her grandchildren came she would have them sit on her bed. She was loved by her grandchildren and died a member of the LDS church.
In 1896 his wife Mary Ann died of a lingering fever. William was devastated, yet refused to remarry and remained alone in his home until his death in 1918 at the age of 82. Cause was listed and Old Age.
Parents:
Timothy Barzilla Garrard III (1800 - 1839)
Susannah Evered Quanterell (1799-1887)
Spouses:
Mary Ann Calls (1832-1896)
FATHER: Timothy GARRARD
MOTHER: Susannah Evered QUANTRILLE
SPOUSE: Mary Ann Calls 1832-1896
Marriage: 24 November 1865
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Source: Familysearch-Cemetery records.∼William Joseph Garrard
Birth: Aug. 22, 1836
Diss, South Norfolk District, Norfolk, England
Death: Oct. 26, 1918
Pleasant View, Weber County, Utah, USA
William Joseph Garrard History: by Norman Lee Garrard
On Aug. 22, 1836 William Joseph Garrard was born in the ancient market town of Diss in South Norfolk, England to Timothy Barzilla Garrard III and Susan Evered Quanterell. He was their 5th and last child of 5 children. Children in order were: Carolina Eliza 1827, Timothy Barzilla IV 1829, Sarah Susannah 1832, John Benjamin 1834, and William Joseph 1836.
The Garrard family lived in the area of Diss. They raised a large family in the small village of Palgrave on the other side of the River Waveny from Diss. Not being satisfied with the Church of England they joined the Presbyterian Church and were termed dissenters or non-conformist as they broke with the state church.
The Garrard's leased and ran a Inn which was located by a beautiful park called the Fair Green. And her father John Quantrille lived next door to them and he was a weaver. The family lived on Cock Street.
His father Timothy Garrard III died of consumption in 1839 when William was only 3.
With a family to support his mother Susannah went to work as a chore woman and later took in laundry. William was raised by his Grand Parents on his mother’s side. William was taught to be a Weaver by his Grand Father John Quanterell. As each of Susannah’s Children grew older and were able to work they each helped out, often not in the most pleasant jobs.
The family was not poor but it was a struggle to make a living. Even though she worked hard. William was taught by his mother Susannah also known as Susan, to learned to read and write. This was an enormous accomplishment for the family as many of the people at that time were illiterate.
In 1850 his Sister, Caroline Eliza Garrard went to London to live. It was here that she married George Kerrison, a coach maker. While in London, Caroline heard the LDS Gospel and was baptized, a year later George also joined the LDS Church. They brought the message of the LDS Gospel back to the family in Diss, who accepted it.
William and his family were taught by the LDS missionaries in England that they should "flee unto Zion" as soon as arrangement could be made. It was not difficult to leave England as being a Mormon made them subject to taunts, being pelted with rocks, and having their home damaged. Going to Zion also meant an opportunity to make a better life instead of struggling for a meager existence in England.
Plans were made to sail with other LDS saints on a chartered ship.
They went to London for a short time and stayed with Caroline and George Kerrison where they became members of the Finsbury Branch of the London LDS Church. They read in the Millennial Star newspaper about the announcement of Mormon Church Chartered ships. So, they also forwarded their applications to Liverpool which included their names, ages, occupations, and nativity.
They were accepted and became part of what was called a "Ten Pound Company" in that they had to pay ten English Pounds for each of them to travel to the Utah Valley. Word came to them in January 1853 that they were to sail on the ship "International" in February. On the trip they had to provide their own bedding, cooking utensils, and other basic articles.
Information about the Trip to America on the International along with ship manifest listing the Garrard's can be found here;
http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:voyage/id:180/keywords:international%23.URfqE2jn87v#.URfq0Wjn87s
On February 28, 1853, the Garrard family boarded the Sailing Ship "International" which was scheduled to take 477 LDS Saints to New Orleans. The traveling family consisted of Susannah (Susan) Evered Quantrille Garrard, age 54, Timothy Barzilla Garrard, age 14, John Benjamin Garrard, 19, William Joseph Garrard, age 17, Sarah Susannah Garrard, age 21 and her sons out of wedlock: Walter age 6 month and Horace Garrard age 2 years (Their father per Williams Journal was a man by the name of Martin Cook, a man who worked for his Grand Father John Quanterell at the Cloth Shop.) Also on the Ship was Caroline Eliza Garrard Kerrison, 25 and her husband George Kerrison, age 27.
A tug boat pulled the International out of the harbor in Liverpool and into the Irish Sea. This was the last that the family ever saw of England, except for William who would return as an old man.
The journey on the ocean was a combination of many new experiences. They had to live in cramped quarters. Fast and Testimony meetings were held. Twice violent storms came upon one of them was such that the Captain (Captain John Brown) said that if they had been anything but a shipload of Saints that they would be at the bottom of the ocean. They held a meeting because of the violence of one storm, and while they were fasting and praying the storm stopped.
Towards the end of April the ship sailed into the Gulf of Mexico and to Louisiana. Upon reaching land small tug boats came and pulled the ship over the sand bars up the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The Elder in charge of the Saints on board recorded in his journal that, "Never since the days of old Captain Noah had a more righteous group of Saints ever sailed upon the water to escape Babylon."
The example of the Garrard family, along with the other Saints, was such that during the journey 48 crew members and non-Mormon persons were baptized which included Captain Brown.
On April 23, 1853 they stepped off the ship and entered New Orleans.
After a few days in colorful New Orleans they boarded a steamboat with the other Saints and went up the Mississippi to a pioneer camp at Keokuk, Iowa, a short way away from Nauvoo.
On June 3 1853 they started in Jacob Gates Company which consisted of 262 persons, 33 wagons, 147 oxen, 47 cows, 2 mares, 1 bull, 3 lambs and five dogs. They loaded their wagon with provisions and with a few mementoes from England which included books.
About a month after their trek started they reached the Missouri River and it took almost a week to get the whole company across. At times they had to throw away bedding and boxes to lighten the load. Many times they went thirsty as there was no water. One time they had to buy their way past the Indians with Flour and a few horses.
On September 26, 1853 they arrived in Salt Lake City. The only ones of the family that died during the journey were Walter and Horace Garrard, Sarah's two sons.
They camped at Pioneer Square and sold their teams at an auction. Two weeks later they were sent on to North Ogden to build up the settlement there.
After arriving in North Ogden, Williams mother Susannah decided to marry a man by the man of John Riddle from Tennessee. Susannah had remained a widow since her husband's death. John Riddle was a polygamist. They went to Salt Lake City where they were sealed for time and eternity in President Brigham Young's office. This marriage would not last and Susannah was granted a divorce by the church. This is explained below.
Also it was at this time that Susannah Garrard had her patriarchal blessing and she was told that her lineage was from Judah.
Times were very trying for them. In the summer came the flying grasshoppers, coming in countless numbers destroying the crops. They drove them like herds of sheep into the ditches and caught them in sacks which they then tossed into a fire.
Indians were a constant menace. They camped in groups of three to ten wigwams up and down the water courses in North Ogden where there was forage for their horses. They were persistent beggars and the squaws kept going from place to place trying to get food. The Indian men pilfered anything they wanted.
William and his mother who married John Riddle when they arrived in Salt Lake City. Lived for a time with John Riddle and his other wives and children. According to Susannah’s journals and Williams Journal, this was not a happy time. Both William and his mother Susannah were treated like work slaves and abused by John Riddle and his wives. They could do nothing as they had no money nor any other place to go. In 1864, Susannah went to her other son John Benjamin Garrard and requested money so that she could send William back to England to sell the family’s holding and return with money so that she could find a way to leave John Riddle.
William went to England and did return with a sum of 480 pounds sterling, of which he paid back his brother 40 pounds sterling for his expense of the trip. William and his brother John built a house in Pleasant View, North Ogden, Utah, and then both boys went to get their mother Susannah from John Riddle. There was a fight but the boys did get their mother out of the house of John Riddle and brought her to her new home in Pleasant View, North Ogden.
John Riddle went to the Church and filed a complaint against the two boy and demanded that Susannah return to him at his farm immediately. Susannah, and two of her sons (John and William) went to see Brigham Young. Brigham Young listen to her story and had some of his wives take Susannah into another room and look at the scars on her body to verify her story.
Susannah was granted a divorce through the LDS church in 1865. She asked never to be sealed to John Riddle. After her divorce from John Riddle she assumed back the name of Garrard and considered herself a widow.
In November of 1865, William married Mary Ann Calls and brought her to his home in Pleasant View to live with him and his Mother Susannah. William Refused to be a Polygamist and refused to marry any other wives. Mary Ann Calls and William did not have any children, however, their house was always filled with Susannah’s Grand Children from her other children Caroline, John, Timothy and Sarah.
In 1887 Susannah died in Pleasant View at the home of her son William. She spent the rest of her life living with William and his wife Mary Ann. The last few years of her life she was an invalid and when her grandchildren came she would have them sit on her bed. She was loved by her grandchildren and died a member of the LDS church.
In 1896 his wife Mary Ann died of a lingering fever. William was devastated, yet refused to remarry and remained alone in his home until his death in 1918 at the age of 82. Cause was listed and Old Age.
Parents:
Timothy Barzilla Garrard III (1800 - 1839)
Susannah Evered Quanterell (1799-1887)
Spouses:
Mary Ann Calls (1832-1896)
MOTHER: Susannah Evered QUANTRILLE
SPOUSE: Mary Ann Calls 1832-1896
Marriage: 24 November 1865
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Source: Familysearch-Cemetery records.∼William Joseph Garrard
Birth: Aug. 22, 1836
Diss, South Norfolk District, Norfolk, England
Death: Oct. 26, 1918
Pleasant View, Weber County, Utah, USA
William Joseph Garrard History: by Norman Lee Garrard
On Aug. 22, 1836 William Joseph Garrard was born in the ancient market town of Diss in South Norfolk, England to Timothy Barzilla Garrard III and Susan Evered Quanterell. He was their 5th and last child of 5 children. Children in order were: Carolina Eliza 1827, Timothy Barzilla IV 1829, Sarah Susannah 1832, John Benjamin 1834, and William Joseph 1836.
The Garrard family lived in the area of Diss. They raised a large family in the small village of Palgrave on the other side of the River Waveny from Diss. Not being satisfied with the Church of England they joined the Presbyterian Church and were termed dissenters or non-conformist as they broke with the state church.
The Garrard's leased and ran a Inn which was located by a beautiful park called the Fair Green. And her father John Quantrille lived next door to them and he was a weaver. The family lived on Cock Street.
His father Timothy Garrard III died of consumption in 1839 when William was only 3.
With a family to support his mother Susannah went to work as a chore woman and later took in laundry. William was raised by his Grand Parents on his mother’s side. William was taught to be a Weaver by his Grand Father John Quanterell. As each of Susannah’s Children grew older and were able to work they each helped out, often not in the most pleasant jobs.
The family was not poor but it was a struggle to make a living. Even though she worked hard. William was taught by his mother Susannah also known as Susan, to learned to read and write. This was an enormous accomplishment for the family as many of the people at that time were illiterate.
In 1850 his Sister, Caroline Eliza Garrard went to London to live. It was here that she married George Kerrison, a coach maker. While in London, Caroline heard the LDS Gospel and was baptized, a year later George also joined the LDS Church. They brought the message of the LDS Gospel back to the family in Diss, who accepted it.
William and his family were taught by the LDS missionaries in England that they should "flee unto Zion" as soon as arrangement could be made. It was not difficult to leave England as being a Mormon made them subject to taunts, being pelted with rocks, and having their home damaged. Going to Zion also meant an opportunity to make a better life instead of struggling for a meager existence in England.
Plans were made to sail with other LDS saints on a chartered ship.
They went to London for a short time and stayed with Caroline and George Kerrison where they became members of the Finsbury Branch of the London LDS Church. They read in the Millennial Star newspaper about the announcement of Mormon Church Chartered ships. So, they also forwarded their applications to Liverpool which included their names, ages, occupations, and nativity.
They were accepted and became part of what was called a "Ten Pound Company" in that they had to pay ten English Pounds for each of them to travel to the Utah Valley. Word came to them in January 1853 that they were to sail on the ship "International" in February. On the trip they had to provide their own bedding, cooking utensils, and other basic articles.
Information about the Trip to America on the International along with ship manifest listing the Garrard's can be found here;
http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:voyage/id:180/keywords:international%23.URfqE2jn87v#.URfq0Wjn87s
On February 28, 1853, the Garrard family boarded the Sailing Ship "International" which was scheduled to take 477 LDS Saints to New Orleans. The traveling family consisted of Susannah (Susan) Evered Quantrille Garrard, age 54, Timothy Barzilla Garrard, age 14, John Benjamin Garrard, 19, William Joseph Garrard, age 17, Sarah Susannah Garrard, age 21 and her sons out of wedlock: Walter age 6 month and Horace Garrard age 2 years (Their father per Williams Journal was a man by the name of Martin Cook, a man who worked for his Grand Father John Quanterell at the Cloth Shop.) Also on the Ship was Caroline Eliza Garrard Kerrison, 25 and her husband George Kerrison, age 27.
A tug boat pulled the International out of the harbor in Liverpool and into the Irish Sea. This was the last that the family ever saw of England, except for William who would return as an old man.
The journey on the ocean was a combination of many new experiences. They had to live in cramped quarters. Fast and Testimony meetings were held. Twice violent storms came upon one of them was such that the Captain (Captain John Brown) said that if they had been anything but a shipload of Saints that they would be at the bottom of the ocean. They held a meeting because of the violence of one storm, and while they were fasting and praying the storm stopped.
Towards the end of April the ship sailed into the Gulf of Mexico and to Louisiana. Upon reaching land small tug boats came and pulled the ship over the sand bars up the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The Elder in charge of the Saints on board recorded in his journal that, "Never since the days of old Captain Noah had a more righteous group of Saints ever sailed upon the water to escape Babylon."
The example of the Garrard family, along with the other Saints, was such that during the journey 48 crew members and non-Mormon persons were baptized which included Captain Brown.
On April 23, 1853 they stepped off the ship and entered New Orleans.
After a few days in colorful New Orleans they boarded a steamboat with the other Saints and went up the Mississippi to a pioneer camp at Keokuk, Iowa, a short way away from Nauvoo.
On June 3 1853 they started in Jacob Gates Company which consisted of 262 persons, 33 wagons, 147 oxen, 47 cows, 2 mares, 1 bull, 3 lambs and five dogs. They loaded their wagon with provisions and with a few mementoes from England which included books.
About a month after their trek started they reached the Missouri River and it took almost a week to get the whole company across. At times they had to throw away bedding and boxes to lighten the load. Many times they went thirsty as there was no water. One time they had to buy their way past the Indians with Flour and a few horses.
On September 26, 1853 they arrived in Salt Lake City. The only ones of the family that died during the journey were Walter and Horace Garrard, Sarah's two sons.
They camped at Pioneer Square and sold their teams at an auction. Two weeks later they were sent on to North Ogden to build up the settlement there.
After arriving in North Ogden, Williams mother Susannah decided to marry a man by the man of John Riddle from Tennessee. Susannah had remained a widow since her husband's death. John Riddle was a polygamist. They went to Salt Lake City where they were sealed for time and eternity in President Brigham Young's office. This marriage would not last and Susannah was granted a divorce by the church. This is explained below.
Also it was at this time that Susannah Garrard had her patriarchal blessing and she was told that her lineage was from Judah.
Times were very trying for them. In the summer came the flying grasshoppers, coming in countless numbers destroying the crops. They drove them like herds of sheep into the ditches and caught them in sacks which they then tossed into a fire.
Indians were a constant menace. They camped in groups of three to ten wigwams up and down the water courses in North Ogden where there was forage for their horses. They were persistent beggars and the squaws kept going from place to place trying to get food. The Indian men pilfered anything they wanted.
William and his mother who married John Riddle when they arrived in Salt Lake City. Lived for a time with John Riddle and his other wives and children. According to Susannah’s journals and Williams Journal, this was not a happy time. Both William and his mother Susannah were treated like work slaves and abused by John Riddle and his wives. They could do nothing as they had no money nor any other place to go. In 1864, Susannah went to her other son John Benjamin Garrard and requested money so that she could send William back to England to sell the family’s holding and return with money so that she could find a way to leave John Riddle.
William went to England and did return with a sum of 480 pounds sterling, of which he paid back his brother 40 pounds sterling for his expense of the trip. William and his brother John built a house in Pleasant View, North Ogden, Utah, and then both boys went to get their mother Susannah from John Riddle. There was a fight but the boys did get their mother out of the house of John Riddle and brought her to her new home in Pleasant View, North Ogden.
John Riddle went to the Church and filed a complaint against the two boy and demanded that Susannah return to him at his farm immediately. Susannah, and two of her sons (John and William) went to see Brigham Young. Brigham Young listen to her story and had some of his wives take Susannah into another room and look at the scars on her body to verify her story.
Susannah was granted a divorce through the LDS church in 1865. She asked never to be sealed to John Riddle. After her divorce from John Riddle she assumed back the name of Garrard and considered herself a widow.
In November of 1865, William married Mary Ann Calls and brought her to his home in Pleasant View to live with him and his Mother Susannah. William Refused to be a Polygamist and refused to marry any other wives. Mary Ann Calls and William did not have any children, however, their house was always filled with Susannah’s Grand Children from her other children Caroline, John, Timothy and Sarah.
In 1887 Susannah died in Pleasant View at the home of her son William. She spent the rest of her life living with William and his wife Mary Ann. The last few years of her life she was an invalid and when her grandchildren came she would have them sit on her bed. She was loved by her grandchildren and died a member of the LDS church.
In 1896 his wife Mary Ann died of a lingering fever. William was devastated, yet refused to remarry and remained alone in his home until his death in 1918 at the age of 82. Cause was listed and Old Age.
Parents:
Timothy Barzilla Garrard III (1800 - 1839)
Susannah Evered Quanterell (1799-1887)
Spouses:
Mary Ann Calls (1832-1896)
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