Eliza Ann Lamborn was born in 1858 in the Claremont Building in Bath, England to John Lamborn and Ellen Bailey Lamborn. She was the last of five children and the only daughter. Her older brothers were: William, Edwin, James and Joseph.
Eliza's mother Ellen was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her grandmother Ann Bailey, and her mother's surviving siblings, Elizabeth, George and Reuben also joined the church. (It is unclear if or when her father John joined the church.)
In 1855, three years before Eliza was born, her grandmother Ann, aunt Elizabeth, uncle Reuben and oldest brother, William Lamborn left for America, with the intention of settling with the main body of the LDS church in the Utah Territory. Her parents and her remaining older brothers stayed behind.
By June of 1864, her brother James and father had both died, and her mother Ellen earned her credentials to sail for America. Ellen, Eliza, and her two brothers (Joseph and Edwin) boarded the ship "Hudson." Eliza wrote of their journey on the ocean: "We spent seven long weeks on the ocean, and several times the water was so rough that the dishes were scattered about the vessel. The ship was overloaded, and mother was forced to throw many of her belongings that she was bringing with her overboard." They arrived in America during the Civil War, which made their journey from New York City to eastern Nebraska difficult.
In Nebraska, the Lamborns joined the Warren S. Snow wagon train company. The wagon train departed in August, 1864.
Eliza later wrote of their journey: "Our first serious mishap occurred to us while we were on a boat on the Missouri River. It was on a Sunday morning, and mother and I were attending Sabbath School, when the word came to us that my youngest brother Joseph, who was then eight years old, had gone to the kitchen on the boat and had fallen into a barrel of hot water. He was so seriously burned that when the ox team and covered wagon train left Omaha, Nebraska a few days later, mother [Ellen Jane Bailey Lamborn] had to walk and carry him on her back because he could not stand the pain incurred by the jolting wagons. Thus we crossed the plains—with mother carrying her eight-year old child, and I walking by her side the greater part of the way. My second brother, Edwin, although just a small boy, drove two yoke of oxen to pay his fare. When we arrived in Salt Lake City, in October, mother's shoes were worn out and her feet were sore and bleeding from the endless days of walking." ("Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Source of Trail Excerpt:Murphy, Eliza Ann Lamborn, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 20:193-94) They arrived in Great Salt Lake City in November, 1864.
William Lamborn, Eliza's oldest brother, met her and the rest of the Lamborn family in the Salt Lake Valley, and drove them down to Spanish Fork, where the rest of the family was living at the time. (In 1858, the threat of Johnston's Army had forced the Bailey and Reed families to move South to the Goshen and Spanish Fork areas of what is now Utah County.)
Eliza later wrote about their home in Spanish Fork, where there were many conflicts between settlers and the Native Americans. She said: "We spent one night in a willow patch down in the fields after we had heard screams of the red men and figured they were ready to raid us, but they only attempted to stampede our hired man's mules, and he soon scared them off by firing his gun in the air." She also said, "One day "Tabby" the Ute Indian Chief, who was a dear friend of grandmother's [Ann Smith Bailey] came to her and told her that there was going to be trouble with the Indians, so we traded our farm for a small house in Spanish Fork. Here we lived for some time. ...During this time, the Indians continued to wage war upon the settlers and I remember clearly the day Brothers Peterson and Larson were killed while they were herding stock near Spanish Fork. I saw the men bring Brother Peterson's body to town on a willow stretcher and the Indians' arrows were still protruding from his body."
In 1866, while in Spanish Fork, her mother Ellen met and married William Taylor, a fellow British Mormon convert and immigrant. That same year, Eliza's uncle, Luther Reed was called by church leader, Charles C. Rich to help settle the Bear Lake Valley and build a mill there. By 1868, Eliza's brothers were called to the area as well, and the Lamborn/Taylors, the Reed family and grandmother Ann Bailey all moved to the Laketown and Round Valley areas of the Bear Lake Valley. There, they experienced more hardships of pioneer life including starvation due to crickets and grasshoppers destroying their crops, and further conflicts with Native Americans.
Eliza's uncle George Bailey and his family moved from Spanish Fork back to Millcreek, and Ellen and Eliza visited him every fall. Eliza said, "Each fall we would go to my uncle's place in Salt Lake City, and pick fruit and dry it on shares. It was on one of those trips that I met the man that later became my husband."
Emanuel Bird Murphy (also known as E.B. Murphy) and Eliza were married in October of 1876 in Salt Lake City in the Endowment House (the building in which the early pioneers used to perform marriages and other ceremonies while the Salt Lake Temple was being completed.) They were married by Daniel H. Wells, an apostle of the church.
Eliza and Emanuel lived with his widowed mother Nancy Murphy for a time in Millcreek where he ran a farm. In 1898 they moved to Woodland, Summit, Utah but ultimately they settled in Duchesne County, Utah in 1917. They lived in Upton, Duchesne, Utah for the remainder of their lives.
Together, Emanuel and Eliza had 13 children: Nancy, Eliza, Emily, Josephine, Emanuel, Edwin, Ada, Paul, Beatrice, George, Rhoda, Agnes, and Geneva Pearl. Emanuel died in 1943 and then Eliza died in 1949. They are buried together in the Upalco Cemetery.
Eliza's mother Ellen was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her grandmother Ann Bailey, and her mother's surviving siblings, Elizabeth, George and Reuben also joined the church. (It is unclear if or when her father John joined the church.)
In 1855, three years before Eliza was born, her grandmother Ann, aunt Elizabeth, uncle Reuben and oldest brother, William Lamborn left for America, with the intention of settling with the main body of the LDS church in the Utah Territory. Her parents and her remaining older brothers stayed behind.
By June of 1864, her brother James and father had both died, and her mother Ellen earned her credentials to sail for America. Ellen, Eliza, and her two brothers (Joseph and Edwin) boarded the ship "Hudson." Eliza wrote of their journey on the ocean: "We spent seven long weeks on the ocean, and several times the water was so rough that the dishes were scattered about the vessel. The ship was overloaded, and mother was forced to throw many of her belongings that she was bringing with her overboard." They arrived in America during the Civil War, which made their journey from New York City to eastern Nebraska difficult.
In Nebraska, the Lamborns joined the Warren S. Snow wagon train company. The wagon train departed in August, 1864.
Eliza later wrote of their journey: "Our first serious mishap occurred to us while we were on a boat on the Missouri River. It was on a Sunday morning, and mother and I were attending Sabbath School, when the word came to us that my youngest brother Joseph, who was then eight years old, had gone to the kitchen on the boat and had fallen into a barrel of hot water. He was so seriously burned that when the ox team and covered wagon train left Omaha, Nebraska a few days later, mother [Ellen Jane Bailey Lamborn] had to walk and carry him on her back because he could not stand the pain incurred by the jolting wagons. Thus we crossed the plains—with mother carrying her eight-year old child, and I walking by her side the greater part of the way. My second brother, Edwin, although just a small boy, drove two yoke of oxen to pay his fare. When we arrived in Salt Lake City, in October, mother's shoes were worn out and her feet were sore and bleeding from the endless days of walking." ("Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Source of Trail Excerpt:Murphy, Eliza Ann Lamborn, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 20:193-94) They arrived in Great Salt Lake City in November, 1864.
William Lamborn, Eliza's oldest brother, met her and the rest of the Lamborn family in the Salt Lake Valley, and drove them down to Spanish Fork, where the rest of the family was living at the time. (In 1858, the threat of Johnston's Army had forced the Bailey and Reed families to move South to the Goshen and Spanish Fork areas of what is now Utah County.)
Eliza later wrote about their home in Spanish Fork, where there were many conflicts between settlers and the Native Americans. She said: "We spent one night in a willow patch down in the fields after we had heard screams of the red men and figured they were ready to raid us, but they only attempted to stampede our hired man's mules, and he soon scared them off by firing his gun in the air." She also said, "One day "Tabby" the Ute Indian Chief, who was a dear friend of grandmother's [Ann Smith Bailey] came to her and told her that there was going to be trouble with the Indians, so we traded our farm for a small house in Spanish Fork. Here we lived for some time. ...During this time, the Indians continued to wage war upon the settlers and I remember clearly the day Brothers Peterson and Larson were killed while they were herding stock near Spanish Fork. I saw the men bring Brother Peterson's body to town on a willow stretcher and the Indians' arrows were still protruding from his body."
In 1866, while in Spanish Fork, her mother Ellen met and married William Taylor, a fellow British Mormon convert and immigrant. That same year, Eliza's uncle, Luther Reed was called by church leader, Charles C. Rich to help settle the Bear Lake Valley and build a mill there. By 1868, Eliza's brothers were called to the area as well, and the Lamborn/Taylors, the Reed family and grandmother Ann Bailey all moved to the Laketown and Round Valley areas of the Bear Lake Valley. There, they experienced more hardships of pioneer life including starvation due to crickets and grasshoppers destroying their crops, and further conflicts with Native Americans.
Eliza's uncle George Bailey and his family moved from Spanish Fork back to Millcreek, and Ellen and Eliza visited him every fall. Eliza said, "Each fall we would go to my uncle's place in Salt Lake City, and pick fruit and dry it on shares. It was on one of those trips that I met the man that later became my husband."
Emanuel Bird Murphy (also known as E.B. Murphy) and Eliza were married in October of 1876 in Salt Lake City in the Endowment House (the building in which the early pioneers used to perform marriages and other ceremonies while the Salt Lake Temple was being completed.) They were married by Daniel H. Wells, an apostle of the church.
Eliza and Emanuel lived with his widowed mother Nancy Murphy for a time in Millcreek where he ran a farm. In 1898 they moved to Woodland, Summit, Utah but ultimately they settled in Duchesne County, Utah in 1917. They lived in Upton, Duchesne, Utah for the remainder of their lives.
Together, Emanuel and Eliza had 13 children: Nancy, Eliza, Emily, Josephine, Emanuel, Edwin, Ada, Paul, Beatrice, George, Rhoda, Agnes, and Geneva Pearl. Emanuel died in 1943 and then Eliza died in 1949. They are buried together in the Upalco Cemetery.
Eliza Ann Lamborn was born in 1858 in the Claremont Building in Bath, England to John Lamborn and Ellen Bailey Lamborn. She was the last of five children and the only daughter. Her older brothers were: William, Edwin, James and Joseph.
Eliza's mother Ellen was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her grandmother Ann Bailey, and her mother's surviving siblings, Elizabeth, George and Reuben also joined the church. (It is unclear if or when her father John joined the church.)
In 1855, three years before Eliza was born, her grandmother Ann, aunt Elizabeth, uncle Reuben and oldest brother, William Lamborn left for America, with the intention of settling with the main body of the LDS church in the Utah Territory. Her parents and her remaining older brothers stayed behind.
By June of 1864, her brother James and father had both died, and her mother Ellen earned her credentials to sail for America. Ellen, Eliza, and her two brothers (Joseph and Edwin) boarded the ship "Hudson." Eliza wrote of their journey on the ocean: "We spent seven long weeks on the ocean, and several times the water was so rough that the dishes were scattered about the vessel. The ship was overloaded, and mother was forced to throw many of her belongings that she was bringing with her overboard." They arrived in America during the Civil War, which made their journey from New York City to eastern Nebraska difficult.
In Nebraska, the Lamborns joined the Warren S. Snow wagon train company. The wagon train departed in August, 1864.
Eliza later wrote of their journey: "Our first serious mishap occurred to us while we were on a boat on the Missouri River. It was on a Sunday morning, and mother and I were attending Sabbath School, when the word came to us that my youngest brother Joseph, who was then eight years old, had gone to the kitchen on the boat and had fallen into a barrel of hot water. He was so seriously burned that when the ox team and covered wagon train left Omaha, Nebraska a few days later, mother [Ellen Jane Bailey Lamborn] had to walk and carry him on her back because he could not stand the pain incurred by the jolting wagons. Thus we crossed the plains—with mother carrying her eight-year old child, and I walking by her side the greater part of the way. My second brother, Edwin, although just a small boy, drove two yoke of oxen to pay his fare. When we arrived in Salt Lake City, in October, mother's shoes were worn out and her feet were sore and bleeding from the endless days of walking." ("Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Source of Trail Excerpt:Murphy, Eliza Ann Lamborn, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 20:193-94) They arrived in Great Salt Lake City in November, 1864.
William Lamborn, Eliza's oldest brother, met her and the rest of the Lamborn family in the Salt Lake Valley, and drove them down to Spanish Fork, where the rest of the family was living at the time. (In 1858, the threat of Johnston's Army had forced the Bailey and Reed families to move South to the Goshen and Spanish Fork areas of what is now Utah County.)
Eliza later wrote about their home in Spanish Fork, where there were many conflicts between settlers and the Native Americans. She said: "We spent one night in a willow patch down in the fields after we had heard screams of the red men and figured they were ready to raid us, but they only attempted to stampede our hired man's mules, and he soon scared them off by firing his gun in the air." She also said, "One day "Tabby" the Ute Indian Chief, who was a dear friend of grandmother's [Ann Smith Bailey] came to her and told her that there was going to be trouble with the Indians, so we traded our farm for a small house in Spanish Fork. Here we lived for some time. ...During this time, the Indians continued to wage war upon the settlers and I remember clearly the day Brothers Peterson and Larson were killed while they were herding stock near Spanish Fork. I saw the men bring Brother Peterson's body to town on a willow stretcher and the Indians' arrows were still protruding from his body."
In 1866, while in Spanish Fork, her mother Ellen met and married William Taylor, a fellow British Mormon convert and immigrant. That same year, Eliza's uncle, Luther Reed was called by church leader, Charles C. Rich to help settle the Bear Lake Valley and build a mill there. By 1868, Eliza's brothers were called to the area as well, and the Lamborn/Taylors, the Reed family and grandmother Ann Bailey all moved to the Laketown and Round Valley areas of the Bear Lake Valley. There, they experienced more hardships of pioneer life including starvation due to crickets and grasshoppers destroying their crops, and further conflicts with Native Americans.
Eliza's uncle George Bailey and his family moved from Spanish Fork back to Millcreek, and Ellen and Eliza visited him every fall. Eliza said, "Each fall we would go to my uncle's place in Salt Lake City, and pick fruit and dry it on shares. It was on one of those trips that I met the man that later became my husband."
Emanuel Bird Murphy (also known as E.B. Murphy) and Eliza were married in October of 1876 in Salt Lake City in the Endowment House (the building in which the early pioneers used to perform marriages and other ceremonies while the Salt Lake Temple was being completed.) They were married by Daniel H. Wells, an apostle of the church.
Eliza and Emanuel lived with his widowed mother Nancy Murphy for a time in Millcreek where he ran a farm. In 1898 they moved to Woodland, Summit, Utah but ultimately they settled in Duchesne County, Utah in 1917. They lived in Upton, Duchesne, Utah for the remainder of their lives.
Together, Emanuel and Eliza had 13 children: Nancy, Eliza, Emily, Josephine, Emanuel, Edwin, Ada, Paul, Beatrice, George, Rhoda, Agnes, and Geneva Pearl. Emanuel died in 1943 and then Eliza died in 1949. They are buried together in the Upalco Cemetery.
Eliza's mother Ellen was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her grandmother Ann Bailey, and her mother's surviving siblings, Elizabeth, George and Reuben also joined the church. (It is unclear if or when her father John joined the church.)
In 1855, three years before Eliza was born, her grandmother Ann, aunt Elizabeth, uncle Reuben and oldest brother, William Lamborn left for America, with the intention of settling with the main body of the LDS church in the Utah Territory. Her parents and her remaining older brothers stayed behind.
By June of 1864, her brother James and father had both died, and her mother Ellen earned her credentials to sail for America. Ellen, Eliza, and her two brothers (Joseph and Edwin) boarded the ship "Hudson." Eliza wrote of their journey on the ocean: "We spent seven long weeks on the ocean, and several times the water was so rough that the dishes were scattered about the vessel. The ship was overloaded, and mother was forced to throw many of her belongings that she was bringing with her overboard." They arrived in America during the Civil War, which made their journey from New York City to eastern Nebraska difficult.
In Nebraska, the Lamborns joined the Warren S. Snow wagon train company. The wagon train departed in August, 1864.
Eliza later wrote of their journey: "Our first serious mishap occurred to us while we were on a boat on the Missouri River. It was on a Sunday morning, and mother and I were attending Sabbath School, when the word came to us that my youngest brother Joseph, who was then eight years old, had gone to the kitchen on the boat and had fallen into a barrel of hot water. He was so seriously burned that when the ox team and covered wagon train left Omaha, Nebraska a few days later, mother [Ellen Jane Bailey Lamborn] had to walk and carry him on her back because he could not stand the pain incurred by the jolting wagons. Thus we crossed the plains—with mother carrying her eight-year old child, and I walking by her side the greater part of the way. My second brother, Edwin, although just a small boy, drove two yoke of oxen to pay his fare. When we arrived in Salt Lake City, in October, mother's shoes were worn out and her feet were sore and bleeding from the endless days of walking." ("Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Source of Trail Excerpt:Murphy, Eliza Ann Lamborn, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 20:193-94) They arrived in Great Salt Lake City in November, 1864.
William Lamborn, Eliza's oldest brother, met her and the rest of the Lamborn family in the Salt Lake Valley, and drove them down to Spanish Fork, where the rest of the family was living at the time. (In 1858, the threat of Johnston's Army had forced the Bailey and Reed families to move South to the Goshen and Spanish Fork areas of what is now Utah County.)
Eliza later wrote about their home in Spanish Fork, where there were many conflicts between settlers and the Native Americans. She said: "We spent one night in a willow patch down in the fields after we had heard screams of the red men and figured they were ready to raid us, but they only attempted to stampede our hired man's mules, and he soon scared them off by firing his gun in the air." She also said, "One day "Tabby" the Ute Indian Chief, who was a dear friend of grandmother's [Ann Smith Bailey] came to her and told her that there was going to be trouble with the Indians, so we traded our farm for a small house in Spanish Fork. Here we lived for some time. ...During this time, the Indians continued to wage war upon the settlers and I remember clearly the day Brothers Peterson and Larson were killed while they were herding stock near Spanish Fork. I saw the men bring Brother Peterson's body to town on a willow stretcher and the Indians' arrows were still protruding from his body."
In 1866, while in Spanish Fork, her mother Ellen met and married William Taylor, a fellow British Mormon convert and immigrant. That same year, Eliza's uncle, Luther Reed was called by church leader, Charles C. Rich to help settle the Bear Lake Valley and build a mill there. By 1868, Eliza's brothers were called to the area as well, and the Lamborn/Taylors, the Reed family and grandmother Ann Bailey all moved to the Laketown and Round Valley areas of the Bear Lake Valley. There, they experienced more hardships of pioneer life including starvation due to crickets and grasshoppers destroying their crops, and further conflicts with Native Americans.
Eliza's uncle George Bailey and his family moved from Spanish Fork back to Millcreek, and Ellen and Eliza visited him every fall. Eliza said, "Each fall we would go to my uncle's place in Salt Lake City, and pick fruit and dry it on shares. It was on one of those trips that I met the man that later became my husband."
Emanuel Bird Murphy (also known as E.B. Murphy) and Eliza were married in October of 1876 in Salt Lake City in the Endowment House (the building in which the early pioneers used to perform marriages and other ceremonies while the Salt Lake Temple was being completed.) They were married by Daniel H. Wells, an apostle of the church.
Eliza and Emanuel lived with his widowed mother Nancy Murphy for a time in Millcreek where he ran a farm. In 1898 they moved to Woodland, Summit, Utah but ultimately they settled in Duchesne County, Utah in 1917. They lived in Upton, Duchesne, Utah for the remainder of their lives.
Together, Emanuel and Eliza had 13 children: Nancy, Eliza, Emily, Josephine, Emanuel, Edwin, Ada, Paul, Beatrice, George, Rhoda, Agnes, and Geneva Pearl. Emanuel died in 1943 and then Eliza died in 1949. They are buried together in the Upalco Cemetery.
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