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About Esther Alice Jackson
CENSUS:
1860 U.S. census population schedule, Great Salt Lake City Ward 7, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, p. 115, dwelling 648, family 20, family of Frederick Andrew; digital images (accessed 9 Sep 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653, roll 1313; Name: Esther Fisher; Age in 1860: 3; Birth Year: abt 1857; Birthplace: Utah; Home in 1860: Great Salt Lake City Ward 7, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory; Gender: Female; Post Office: Great Salt Lake City.
DEATH:
Utah Department of Health, death certificate 1886 (1923), entry for Esther Alice Andrew Jackson; digital image, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Utah Death Cirtificates (www.familysearch.labs.org); Name : Esther Alice Andrew Jackson; Titles :; Death date : 19 Dec 1923; Death place : Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; Birth date :; Estimated birth year : 1857; Birth place :; Age at death : 66 years 7 months 21 days; Gender : Female; Marital status : Married; Race or color :; Spouse name : Samuel B. Jackson; Father name : Frederick Andrew; Father titles :; Mother name : Mary Ann Fisher; Mother titles :; GSU film number : 2259291; Digital GS number : 4121326; Image number : 1492; Certificate number : 1886.
BURIAL:
"findagrave," database, findagrave (findagrave.com : accessed 16 Sep 2009), memorial for Esther Alice Andrew Jackson; Find A Grave Memorial# 25828877.
HISTORY:
A biographical sketch by her daughter Mary Ann J. Coulam, written October 15, 1959.
Esther Alice Andrew was the second child and first daughter of Frederick Chadwick Andrew and Mary Ann Fisher, born April 28, 1857.
The Andrew home was built of adobe and was located on Fourth South Street between Main and West Temple Streets. The family were members of the original Seventh Ward. Their early activities in the Church are not know, as a fire destroyed the records of the ward years ago. At this home Esther Alice lived until she married. On part of this Andrew lot the first blacksmith shop in Salt Lake City was built and operated by her father Frederick Chadwick Andrew. The two families lived in the same house (Elizabeth Whittaker being the first wife, and Mary Ann Fisher the second).
The Andrew boys operated the blacksmith shop for many years. It fell to Esther's lot to help "Mother Andrew, " (as she was affectionately called) with her sewing and housework. When she was in the fourth grade at school, her mother told her to hurry home after school to help her with some washing. At that time the teacher would each day ask one of the girls to remain after school and clean up the room, ready for the next day. Esther was a dutiful daughter, but imagine her predicament when the teacher asked her to stay and help that same day. During the afternoon she pondered over her problem and decided to march out with the other children. Her teacher always removed her shoes while teaching, and Esther knew she could not catch her. Finding her gone, the teacher raised the window, calling frantically for her to return. The louder she called the faster Esther ran. That was the last of her scholastic education.
The family was religious and Sunday School was now the only means of learning. She was given a book of Eliza R. Snows poems for her faithful attendance. She was fond of outdoor sports with the girls and boys. She enjoyed bob-sleighing and skating, these being about the only winter recreation. She loved to dance, and later in life tried to teach her granddaughters some of the pioneer dances.
The Openshaw family, who were dear friends of the family, lived at the mouth of City Creek Canyon. Mary and Elizabeth Openshaw, sisters, and Mary and Esther visited each other quite frequently. The activates around the old blacksmith shop brought many children in the neighborhood and also the Openshaw girls to play, and the Andrew girls would go up to visit the Openshaws. Many happy hours were spent in the old wheat mill, sliding down the hills of wheat stored in the mill. At the time of one of these visits, three young boys had gone into the canyon with shot guns and seeing the powder magazine on Arsenal Hi11, proceeded to shoot at the door for a target. A terrific explosion followed, blowing the boys to atoms and hurling rocks and debris around. Windows were broken on Main Street and the whole community became panic stricken. Imagine the feelings of these girls when they ran in terror from the mill, to encountered runaway horses and people running in all directions. (The historian records this event as follows:) "1876. April 5, Wednesday. Forty tons of powder in magazines on Arsenal Hi11, north of Salt Lake City, exploded, resulting in the loss of four lives and great destruction of property. The shock was felt for miles around. -Jenson."
At the age of twenty, Esther married Samuel Shelmerdine, and he decided this was the proper time to be known by his proper name of Samuel Beswick Jackson. (His father had deserted the family soon after arriving in America and his mother had married Mr. Shelmerdine.) Samuel and Esther were married July 9, 1877. Their married life was a happy one, although poverty sometimes lurked at their door. With a congenial attitude they were always able to make ends meet.
Mother was a good seamstress and she helped with the finances by dress making being very moderate in her charges for her work. She also made a home for several young men, among which were Dr. David Andrew and a James Martin (who was an expert key and lock smith). She was to them as a mother.
In 1880 Samuel and Esther and a baby girl Mary (May) moved to the of the house of Isaac Sears. Their second daughter Ella was born in this home. Sometime later he bought a piece of property at 643 East Third South. This was a two-room brick house. Here they lived for over thirty years. The following children blessed their home: Mary Ann Jackson (May), born 3 February 1879; Ella Jackson, born 8 November 1880; Edna Jackson, born 15 July 1883; Samuel Andrew Jackson, born 6 February 1885; and Irvin Jackson, born 29 April 1887.
I, (May,) well remember the time when Edna was born. A big circus had come to town and the tents were pitched on what was known as the Eighth Ward Square; later known as the City and County block. There was a parade that morning and father took me along to see it. We sat in father's big grain wagon with a large umbrella, at the corner of Fourth South and Main Streets; just one-half block from grandma's. When the parade was over they went to the square to perform and father took me to grandma's to spend the rest of the day. A blacksmith shop and apple orchard were on the west of the lot, where I was sent to play. Uncle Orson was sawing logs to my amusement. I went in the house to find grandma and she was not there. She had gone to a little bakery shop with a small bucket of flour to exchange for some homemade yeast to mix bread with, I was so upset I started running for home. I went straight up Fourth South and ran into the circus. An intoxicated woman had jumped in the watering trough, where some horses were trying to drink, and oh, the excitement! I was so frightened I started running for home, where I found mother in bed with a new baby. When grandma returned, she was upset and started searching for me, and found me at home.
Mother was a regular attendant at church, especially Relief Society, and always went to Fast Meeting, which was the first Thursday of the month. She was a visiting teacher for the Eleventh and LeGrand Ward Relief Societies. Also a faithful member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Her kindly disposition and desire to help where help was needed, endeared her to many and she was blessed with a host of friends. Lillie T. Freeze wrote a beautiful poem to her memory in August 1933.
Mother loved to have her family at home for Sunday and holiday dinners. She was a good cook; her luscious mince pies, plum puddings, and other dainties were always a treat. Nobody could make soup like my mother made!
At the time of the war in the Philippines mother took a little girl, four years of age, into our home. Her name was Christopena Caroline Louise Progel. The child's mother had died. Her father was lonely and discouraged with life, being now out of work and times were bad. Her father brought her to mother and asked if she could care for her for a short while. That night he boarded a train loaded with American soldiers going to war. We never heard from him again. We had her for over four years and then some of her relatives heard of her whereabouts and took her to their home in Morgan.
Father's hea1th began to fail rapidly. He was stricken with typhoid at Christmas time, while visiting at my home. A kidney disorder following caused him to lose the sight in both eyes. The doctors told him he would never see again. Through faith and prayer his eyesight was restored, but while recovering, he fell and broke his arm. He also caught his hand in an accident while operating a buzz saw, crippling three fingers, which he was never able to use again. Creeping paralysis followed and he was an invalid for fifteen years. The home on Third South was broken up and father and mother made their home with one or the other of us children.
On October 18, 1922, father passed away while sitting at our dinner table. A friend called in to see him and asked how he was feeling. He answered, "not so well", dropped his head and passed on to that eternal resting place, Mother was always on hand to make him feel as comfortable as possible. She never let him down and never let the humdrum of life discourage her, no matter what came up. She was called to be an ordinance worker in the Salt Lake Temple, but on account of her failing health she was not able to accept the call. She died one year later than father's death, December 18, 1923, at the age of sixty-six years. She taught us principles of honesty, virtue, and service to humanity; that riches of the spirit are far greater than riches of the world. Her beautiful philosophy of life will always live in the memory of her children.
SOURCE: The Ancestors and Descendants of Frederick Chadwick Andrew." Pages 251-252.
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Esther Alice Jackson's Timeline
| 1857 |
April 28, 1857
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, United States
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| 1879 |
February 3, 1879
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
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| 1880 |
November 8, 1880
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
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| 1883 |
July 15, 1883
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
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| 1885 |
February 6, 1885
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
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| 1887 |
April 29, 1887
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, United States
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| 1923 |
December 19, 1923
Age 66
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, United States
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December 23, 1923
Age 66
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, United States
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