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Mary Standing

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Mary Standing

Birth
Preston, City of Preston, Lancashire, England
Death
4 May 1894 (aged 68)
Collinston, Box Elder County, Utah, USA
Burial
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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F-5-6-2
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Mary Standing was born 10 October 1825 in Cleveleys, England. Mary’s birth date is confirmed by “Sons of Utah Pioneers Memorial Gallery Index Cards”. After arriving in the United States of America in March 1841 she lived with her parents James and Alice Bee Standing in Pike County, Illinois. After her father death in 1844 Mary moved to St Louis with her mother, Alice Bee Standing. In St Louis Mary met James H. Standing who was to become her husband on 27 Jul 1847. James H. Standing was Mary’s second cousin. To this union there were 10 children born, 6 males and 4 females. Soon after her marriage, they went to Nashville, Tennessee where James worked as a stonecutter and assisted in building the State House there. In this manner he earned means to buy an outfit for going west. They crossed the plains with Reddick N. Allred's Group of Fifty of Allen Taylor's Hundred. After his arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in October 1849, LDS Church President Brigham Young assigned them a lot in the 12th Ward, Salt Lake City and gave James a special mission to work on the Salt Lake Temple construction. In 1876 they moved to Box Elder County, but James returned afterwards to resume his work on the Temple. James also worked for a time on the Logan Temple, in Logan Utah. In 1879 James and Mary’s son Joseph was killed by a mob in Georgia, while laboring there as a missionary. Mary Standing dies on 4 May 1894.

Written by: James W. Standing
Mary Standing was born 10 October 1825 in Cleveleys, England. Mary’s birth date is confirmed by “Sons of Utah Pioneers Memorial Gallery Index Cards”. After arriving in the United States of America in March 1841 she lived with her parents James and Alice Bee Standing in Pike County, Illinois. After her father death in 1844 Mary moved to St Louis with her mother, Alice Bee Standing. In St Louis Mary met James H. Standing who was to become her husband on 27 Jul 1847. James H. Standing was Mary’s second cousin. To this union there were 10 children born, 6 males and 4 females. Soon after her marriage, they went to Nashville, Tennessee where James worked as a stonecutter and assisted in building the State House there. In this manner he earned means to buy an outfit for going west. They crossed the plains with Reddick N. Allred's Group of Fifty of Allen Taylor's Hundred. After his arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in October 1849, LDS Church President Brigham Young assigned them a lot in the 12th Ward, Salt Lake City and gave James a special mission to work on the Salt Lake Temple construction. In 1876 they moved to Box Elder County, but James returned afterwards to resume his work on the Temple. James also worked for a time on the Logan Temple, in Logan Utah. In 1879 James and Mary’s son Joseph was killed by a mob in Georgia, while laboring there as a missionary. Mary Standing dies on 4 May 1894.

Written by: James W. Standing

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