Elizabeth (twin) Howard

Elizabeth Howard was born in Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, the ninth child of Joseph Howard and Ann Shelton Howard. She had a twin sister Matilda. The family were English converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and came to America in 1864. They left London, England with 863 saints on the ship Hudson. They arrived in New York July 19, 1864. They crossed the plains in the William Hyde Company. Elizabeth was five years old.

Elizabeth's twin sister, Matilda, and little three year old sister Tamar, died in August and were buried along the North Platte River. Two months later October 8, 1864, her mother, Ann Shelton Howard, died and was buried at Bitter Creek, Sweetwater, Wyoming. Joseph Howard with a family of nine living children settled in Utah on the W. S. Muir farm. He later married again and established a home in Bountiful, Davis, Utah.

Elizabeth learned the pioneer life, as she faced it's hardships, eating its meager supply of food. Barefoot she plodded along the rows of sugar cane or grapes caring for them until her shoulders ached. She husked corn, shelled nuts, washed the wool and put it on the shed to dry, later spun it into yarn which she would knit. Her body was taxed, but she grew strong. Through all her tasks she felt and saw rapture in the sunset, the beauty in autumn leaves or joy in the song of a bird. She loved to sing. When she was 18 years old she married John Cope Dean.

In 1877 she moved with her husband to Woodruff. There was no trees, no babbling brook and she was among strangers. That winter they built their first home -- a one room log house with a dirt roof. T he door had leather hinges and a leather string for a door knob. Her first four children were born there. John later made adobe and built a two story home, two rooms down and the upstairs was one large room with a south window, but no ceiling. This was their home until the children went to college, then John built a brick room in the back of the old home. They moved to Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho in 1905. Here Elizabeth spent most of her time caring for her husband and working in her flowers.

She died June 8, 1940, in Blackfoot, and is buried in the Groveland Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho.

Life History of Elizabeth Howard Dean, written by her daughter, Lucy Caroline Dean Wilson.

SOURCE: Find A Grave.com

Obituary - Funeral for Mrs. Dean Held at Groveland -- Funeral services for Elizabeth Howard Dean, age 81, were held Monday at 2:30 p.m. from the Groveland LDS Chapel with Bishop Joseph F. Jensen officiating. The Relief Society chorus of singing mothers sang "Jesus Lover of My Soul." Patriarch James Dockworth offered the invocation. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Manwaring sang "In a Garden." Speakers were Bishop Peter J. Williams of Wapello, Elmo Bergeson of the Groveland Bishopric, George R. Bailey and Bishop Jensen. Dean Hale, a grandson, sang "I Shall Not Pass Again This Way," and "in the Garden of Tomorrow." The closing number, "After Life's Sunset," was sung by the chorus. William H. Snyder pronounced the benediction.

Pall bearers were Dean Hale, Richard Yancey, Gerald Sorensen, Donald Taylor, LaWayne Chapman and Orson Cox, all grandsons of the deceased. The many floral tributes were under the direction of Nettie Belnap. Elizabeth Olson and Mary E. George of the Relief Society, assisted by Pitra Bingham, Edith Jacklin, Mae Bergeson, Amanda Seasons, Ellen Murdock, Edith Belnap, Katie Elison, Cecil Hansen and Mary R. Hale.

Burial was in the Groveland Memorial Park. Parley P. Black of Logan, Utah, dedicated the grave. The services were under the direction of the Sandberg Funeral Home in Blackfoot.

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