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Born Mar 1799 or 1800
On old family group sheets her baptism date is 17 Jun 1890 and Endowment 18 Jun 1890.
Elizabeth Ann Jackson Schofield came to Utah from Droylsden in the year 1873. She came in the company of her granddaughter Amelia Schofield, the daughter of her son John Schofield who lived with his wife and family in Droylsden. Amelia had come to Utah to marry George Reynolds who had previously been a missionary in Manchester, England. Elizabeth's son, Thomas, had been notified that his mother would be coming with Amelia and for him to meet the train which would bring his mother to Salt Lake City. When Thomas arrived at the railroad station, the train from New York had just arrived, and he looked for his mother. He had left England in 1853, so it had been twenty years since he had last seen her. There was a group of young people laughing and talking in the station. As Thomas walked up and down the station platform, he could not see or recognize his mother nor she him. He finally noticed an old disheveled woman sitting on her suitcase. He stopped in front of this untidy woman, and after gazing at her for some time, he realized that she was his mother. She did not seem to recognize her first born son. When Thomas reached home in Nephi and was telling his wife and children of this experience, he broke down and cried. This was the only time that his children had ever seen their father so affected. Elizabeth Ann was not too well, and her memory and mind were somewhat vague. She was a timid person and loved to sit by the warm fire. Thomas and his family were kind to her and missed her very much when she died one short year after her arrival. She died on September 29, 1874 at the age of 74. She was buried in the Nephi City Cemetery. Jonah, her husband, had died on July 22, 1858 at the age of 66. Her third son, James, had died on May 3, 1867 at the age of 33, so John had sent her to Utah. (Information from a child of Thomas Jackson Schofield) |