Moscow, Ida., Nov. 28, Another pioneer woman who crossed the plains in 1847 en route to Utah has passed away in the person of JANE R. GUSTIN HOLDEN of this place, wife of William Holden. After an illness of three months duration she passed away Nov. 16, 1905.
The deceased passed through all the privations and dangers that marked early life here, having come to Utah in Parley P. Pratt's hundred and Perry Green Sessions fifty. She arrived in Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1847, and was the owner of the first hand loom that was turned out in the state. She also turned out the first yard of cloth that was woven by hand in Utah. On March 25, 1849, she married William R. Holden. She was the mother of 12 children, nine girls and three boys. Of this family six girls and one son and her husband survive her. She had 50 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren, 32 of whom are still living.
Together with her husband she moved to Salt Lake to Sanpete Valley and helped to build up the city of Manti. It was in this city that she lost her first two children from accidental burning. Then she moved to Nephi, where the rest of the family was born subsequent to moving to Moscow in 1876.
Deseret Evening New
2 December 1905
Moscow, Ida., Nov. 28, Another pioneer woman who crossed the plains in 1847 en route to Utah has passed away in the person of JANE R. GUSTIN HOLDEN of this place, wife of William Holden. After an illness of three months duration she passed away Nov. 16, 1905.
The deceased passed through all the privations and dangers that marked early life here, having come to Utah in Parley P. Pratt's hundred and Perry Green Sessions fifty. She arrived in Salt Lake City Sept. 10, 1847, and was the owner of the first hand loom that was turned out in the state. She also turned out the first yard of cloth that was woven by hand in Utah. On March 25, 1849, she married William R. Holden. She was the mother of 12 children, nine girls and three boys. Of this family six girls and one son and her husband survive her. She had 50 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren, 32 of whom are still living.
Together with her husband she moved to Salt Lake to Sanpete Valley and helped to build up the city of Manti. It was in this city that she lost her first two children from accidental burning. Then she moved to Nephi, where the rest of the family was born subsequent to moving to Moscow in 1876.
Deseret Evening New
2 December 1905
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William Gustin
1823–1823
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Amos C Gustin
1824–1898
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Elizabeth Gustin Holden McConnell
1826–1856
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John Peterson Gustin
1828–1838
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1832–1919
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Martha Gustin
1834–1838
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Thomas Jefferson Gustin Jr
1838–1879
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Mary Gustin Martin
1840–1865
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1842–1926
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1845–1852
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1848–1891
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