Elizabeth Simms was born 8 Jan 1816 in Heage, Derbyshire, England to Samuel Sims and Martha Oliver. She married William Thorpe 25 Dec 1835.
She bore William Thorpe 13 children. Three of her children did not live to adulthood, including William, her firstborn, who died at age 16. Each of the birth certificates we have for the children indicates a different place of residence for the family. Sadly, Elizabeth lost her son Nephi at age 8 months to a cause listed as inflammation of the lungs. Mary Ann Thorpe, her third daughter, died at 2 years of age. It must have been with great sorrow that Elizabeth left her homeland and the burial place of three of her children to emigrate to the United States.
She left England with her husband and seven of their children, a task that must have taken considerable work and sacrifice to finance in the year 1862. The family left Liverpool, England on May 14, 1862 on the ship William Tapscott. (See Heart Throbs, Vol. 12, a DUP publication). With the parents came Thomas, Amelia, Ephraim, Joseph, Jane, Alma and Emma.
They crossed the plains with an ox train company, with Captain Horton D. Haight and arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley October 19, 1862. Elizabeth and William and the children were sent to Brigham City, Box Elder County, to help settle that new area. Their life was a pioneer experience, building homes of logs from the nearby mountains. Quite a different experience than urban living in England.
William Thorpe obtained work taking care of the charcoal pits in the canyons east of Brigham City near Mantua on the road leading to Paradise Valley. He was attacked by Indians with bow and arrows and beaten with their leather whips, then when he fell to the ground was stabbed in the throat with a dirk (dagger) and stripped of all his clothing. The Church Chronology in Salt Lake City, Utah, page 69, states the following: "On Friday May 8,in the year 1863, a small band of Indians made a raid on Box Elder Valley, four miles above Brigham City, killing William Thorpe and driving off several head of horses."
After the death of her husband... Elizabeth Thorpe moved on to the Malad Valley, near Samaria, Idaho in the fall of 1868. Her home was on a little mound near the Samaria Spring. She and her family planted vegetables and sold them and she also went about nursing the sick and helping as a mid-wife when there was need of her services. She was later remembered as having a large trunk that she had brought from England filled with herbs to make "teas" that were especially good in curing headaches and other ailments.
Elizabeth Simms Thorpe died 19 Oct 1889 in Samaria, Oneida, Idaho and in buried in the graveyard in Samaria.
(This Bio contains excerpts from "Box Elder County, Utah Biographies").
She bore William Thorpe 13 children. Three of her children did not live to adulthood, including William, her firstborn, who died at age 16. Each of the birth certificates we have for the children indicates a different place of residence for the family. Sadly, Elizabeth lost her son Nephi at age 8 months to a cause listed as inflammation of the lungs. Mary Ann Thorpe, her third daughter, died at 2 years of age. It must have been with great sorrow that Elizabeth left her homeland and the burial place of three of her children to emigrate to the United States.
She left England with her husband and seven of their children, a task that must have taken considerable work and sacrifice to finance in the year 1862. The family left Liverpool, England on May 14, 1862 on the ship William Tapscott. (See Heart Throbs, Vol. 12, a DUP publication). With the parents came Thomas, Amelia, Ephraim, Joseph, Jane, Alma and Emma.
They crossed the plains with an ox train company, with Captain Horton D. Haight and arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley October 19, 1862. Elizabeth and William and the children were sent to Brigham City, Box Elder County, to help settle that new area. Their life was a pioneer experience, building homes of logs from the nearby mountains. Quite a different experience than urban living in England.
William Thorpe obtained work taking care of the charcoal pits in the canyons east of Brigham City near Mantua on the road leading to Paradise Valley. He was attacked by Indians with bow and arrows and beaten with their leather whips, then when he fell to the ground was stabbed in the throat with a dirk (dagger) and stripped of all his clothing. The Church Chronology in Salt Lake City, Utah, page 69, states the following: "On Friday May 8,in the year 1863, a small band of Indians made a raid on Box Elder Valley, four miles above Brigham City, killing William Thorpe and driving off several head of horses."
After the death of her husband... Elizabeth Thorpe moved on to the Malad Valley, near Samaria, Idaho in the fall of 1868. Her home was on a little mound near the Samaria Spring. She and her family planted vegetables and sold them and she also went about nursing the sick and helping as a mid-wife when there was need of her services. She was later remembered as having a large trunk that she had brought from England filled with herbs to make "teas" that were especially good in curing headaches and other ailments.
Elizabeth Simms Thorpe died 19 Oct 1889 in Samaria, Oneida, Idaho and in buried in the graveyard in Samaria.
(This Bio contains excerpts from "Box Elder County, Utah Biographies").
Elizabeth Simms was born 8 Jan 1816 in Heage, Derbyshire, England to Samuel Sims and Martha Oliver. She married William Thorpe 25 Dec 1835.
She bore William Thorpe 13 children. Three of her children did not live to adulthood, including William, her firstborn, who died at age 16. Each of the birth certificates we have for the children indicates a different place of residence for the family. Sadly, Elizabeth lost her son Nephi at age 8 months to a cause listed as inflammation of the lungs. Mary Ann Thorpe, her third daughter, died at 2 years of age. It must have been with great sorrow that Elizabeth left her homeland and the burial place of three of her children to emigrate to the United States.
She left England with her husband and seven of their children, a task that must have taken considerable work and sacrifice to finance in the year 1862. The family left Liverpool, England on May 14, 1862 on the ship William Tapscott. (See Heart Throbs, Vol. 12, a DUP publication). With the parents came Thomas, Amelia, Ephraim, Joseph, Jane, Alma and Emma.
They crossed the plains with an ox train company, with Captain Horton D. Haight and arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley October 19, 1862. Elizabeth and William and the children were sent to Brigham City, Box Elder County, to help settle that new area. Their life was a pioneer experience, building homes of logs from the nearby mountains. Quite a different experience than urban living in England.
William Thorpe obtained work taking care of the charcoal pits in the canyons east of Brigham City near Mantua on the road leading to Paradise Valley. He was attacked by Indians with bow and arrows and beaten with their leather whips, then when he fell to the ground was stabbed in the throat with a dirk (dagger) and stripped of all his clothing. The Church Chronology in Salt Lake City, Utah, page 69, states the following: "On Friday May 8,in the year 1863, a small band of Indians made a raid on Box Elder Valley, four miles above Brigham City, killing William Thorpe and driving off several head of horses."
After the death of her husband... Elizabeth Thorpe moved on to the Malad Valley, near Samaria, Idaho in the fall of 1868. Her home was on a little mound near the Samaria Spring. She and her family planted vegetables and sold them and she also went about nursing the sick and helping as a mid-wife when there was need of her services. She was later remembered as having a large trunk that she had brought from England filled with herbs to make "teas" that were especially good in curing headaches and other ailments.
Elizabeth Simms Thorpe died 19 Oct 1889 in Samaria, Oneida, Idaho and in buried in the graveyard in Samaria.
(This Bio contains excerpts from "Box Elder County, Utah Biographies").
She bore William Thorpe 13 children. Three of her children did not live to adulthood, including William, her firstborn, who died at age 16. Each of the birth certificates we have for the children indicates a different place of residence for the family. Sadly, Elizabeth lost her son Nephi at age 8 months to a cause listed as inflammation of the lungs. Mary Ann Thorpe, her third daughter, died at 2 years of age. It must have been with great sorrow that Elizabeth left her homeland and the burial place of three of her children to emigrate to the United States.
She left England with her husband and seven of their children, a task that must have taken considerable work and sacrifice to finance in the year 1862. The family left Liverpool, England on May 14, 1862 on the ship William Tapscott. (See Heart Throbs, Vol. 12, a DUP publication). With the parents came Thomas, Amelia, Ephraim, Joseph, Jane, Alma and Emma.
They crossed the plains with an ox train company, with Captain Horton D. Haight and arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley October 19, 1862. Elizabeth and William and the children were sent to Brigham City, Box Elder County, to help settle that new area. Their life was a pioneer experience, building homes of logs from the nearby mountains. Quite a different experience than urban living in England.
William Thorpe obtained work taking care of the charcoal pits in the canyons east of Brigham City near Mantua on the road leading to Paradise Valley. He was attacked by Indians with bow and arrows and beaten with their leather whips, then when he fell to the ground was stabbed in the throat with a dirk (dagger) and stripped of all his clothing. The Church Chronology in Salt Lake City, Utah, page 69, states the following: "On Friday May 8,in the year 1863, a small band of Indians made a raid on Box Elder Valley, four miles above Brigham City, killing William Thorpe and driving off several head of horses."
After the death of her husband... Elizabeth Thorpe moved on to the Malad Valley, near Samaria, Idaho in the fall of 1868. Her home was on a little mound near the Samaria Spring. She and her family planted vegetables and sold them and she also went about nursing the sick and helping as a mid-wife when there was need of her services. She was later remembered as having a large trunk that she had brought from England filled with herbs to make "teas" that were especially good in curing headaches and other ailments.
Elizabeth Simms Thorpe died 19 Oct 1889 in Samaria, Oneida, Idaho and in buried in the graveyard in Samaria.
(This Bio contains excerpts from "Box Elder County, Utah Biographies").
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