Cleopatra Burgess was born Aug. 4, 1858 in Cottonwood in the Springville area UT to her parents Samuel I. Burgess and Marinda Hartwell. She was just a baby, under a year old when her mother, Marinda Hartwell left her and her 4 other siblings and her husband. It is said she married a soldier named John Hughes, Jr. She was never heard from again.
Sometime after Marinda and Samuel separated, Samuel I. moved his family of 4 very young children first to Washington, UT on a cotton mission and when that failed, they moved on to Pine Valley, UT. She was raised without a mother and is reported her father's mother, Mary Ann Nullis Burgess, or grandmother Burgess, passed away in St. George, UT when Cleopartra was only 4 years old and had helped to raise her the first 4 years of her life. Then her 10 year old sister, Laura, stepped in to help raise her. It must have been a hard and sad life not to have the love and nurturing of a mother. She was baptized 8 May 1870.
Not much is know of her life in Pine Valley until she married William Augustus Keele on 25 May 1876.
They had 8 children. Her first child, Cleopatra died at 7 months old. Lois Keele Williams relates a story: "In an effort to save Cleopatra's last baby from miscarriage, in those days they would pack a mother with the hot entrails from a freshly killed chicken..that's just what they did to Cleopatra. However, she did loose her last baby, Ellen in 1892." Cleopatra died the following year. She left behind 5 young children. She died May 1, 1893 in Bicknell, Wayne County, Utah and is buried in the Bicknell Cemetery.
Sometime after Marinda and Samuel separated, Samuel I. moved his family of 4 very young children first to Washington, UT on a cotton mission and when that failed, they moved on to Pine Valley, UT. She was raised without a mother and is reported her father's mother, Mary Ann Nullis Burgess, or grandmother Burgess, passed away in St. George, UT when Cleopartra was only 4 years old and had helped to raise her the first 4 years of her life. Then her 10 year old sister, Laura, stepped in to help raise her. It must have been a hard and sad life not to have the love and nurturing of a mother. She was baptized 8 May 1870.
Not much is know of her life in Pine Valley until she married William Augustus Keele on 25 May 1876.
They had 8 children. Her first child, Cleopatra died at 7 months old. Lois Keele Williams relates a story: "In an effort to save Cleopatra's last baby from miscarriage, in those days they would pack a mother with the hot entrails from a freshly killed chicken..that's just what they did to Cleopatra. However, she did loose her last baby, Ellen in 1892." Cleopatra died the following year. She left behind 5 young children. She died May 1, 1893 in Bicknell, Wayne County, Utah and is buried in the Bicknell Cemetery.
Cleopatra Burgess was born Aug. 4, 1858 in Cottonwood in the Springville area UT to her parents Samuel I. Burgess and Marinda Hartwell. She was just a baby, under a year old when her mother, Marinda Hartwell left her and her 4 other siblings and her husband. It is said she married a soldier named John Hughes, Jr. She was never heard from again.
Sometime after Marinda and Samuel separated, Samuel I. moved his family of 4 very young children first to Washington, UT on a cotton mission and when that failed, they moved on to Pine Valley, UT. She was raised without a mother and is reported her father's mother, Mary Ann Nullis Burgess, or grandmother Burgess, passed away in St. George, UT when Cleopartra was only 4 years old and had helped to raise her the first 4 years of her life. Then her 10 year old sister, Laura, stepped in to help raise her. It must have been a hard and sad life not to have the love and nurturing of a mother. She was baptized 8 May 1870.
Not much is know of her life in Pine Valley until she married William Augustus Keele on 25 May 1876.
They had 8 children. Her first child, Cleopatra died at 7 months old. Lois Keele Williams relates a story: "In an effort to save Cleopatra's last baby from miscarriage, in those days they would pack a mother with the hot entrails from a freshly killed chicken..that's just what they did to Cleopatra. However, she did loose her last baby, Ellen in 1892." Cleopatra died the following year. She left behind 5 young children. She died May 1, 1893 in Bicknell, Wayne County, Utah and is buried in the Bicknell Cemetery.
Sometime after Marinda and Samuel separated, Samuel I. moved his family of 4 very young children first to Washington, UT on a cotton mission and when that failed, they moved on to Pine Valley, UT. She was raised without a mother and is reported her father's mother, Mary Ann Nullis Burgess, or grandmother Burgess, passed away in St. George, UT when Cleopartra was only 4 years old and had helped to raise her the first 4 years of her life. Then her 10 year old sister, Laura, stepped in to help raise her. It must have been a hard and sad life not to have the love and nurturing of a mother. She was baptized 8 May 1870.
Not much is know of her life in Pine Valley until she married William Augustus Keele on 25 May 1876.
They had 8 children. Her first child, Cleopatra died at 7 months old. Lois Keele Williams relates a story: "In an effort to save Cleopatra's last baby from miscarriage, in those days they would pack a mother with the hot entrails from a freshly killed chicken..that's just what they did to Cleopatra. However, she did loose her last baby, Ellen in 1892." Cleopatra died the following year. She left behind 5 young children. She died May 1, 1893 in Bicknell, Wayne County, Utah and is buried in the Bicknell Cemetery.
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