Henry Fielding Parkinson

Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers, Volume 1

HENRY FIELDING PARKINSON

Page 1931 - 1932

Born: 21 Mar 1841, Tottington, Lancs, England

Parents: Timothy Graham and Ann Fielding Parkinson

Died: 29 Jan 1923, Wellsville, Cache, Utah

Arrived in Valley: 12 Oct 1853, Cyrus Wheelock Co.

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Married: Betsy Barnes Woodward

Date: 2 Feb 1860, Salt Lake City, Utah

Born: 3 May 1841, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois

Died: 15 Dec 1898, Wellsville, Cache, Utah

Henry was a farmer and also carried freight. He was one of those stalwarts who was asked to drive an ox team back to Winter Quarters to help bring some of the pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley.

He was a fashionable dresser and always wore a bearskin coat in the winter. He loved to ride horses and was a skilled rider. He fought the Indians in the war and skirmishes.

Sold kitchen cabinets when he was young, bought a 60-acre farm, started a drayage business (cart transport). In winters he worked at the Fremont-Idaho Sugar company. One year, he worked construction on a road from flagg ranch to Lander, Wyoming.

In the summer of 1925, a representative from the International Harvester Company in Chicago asked Henry if they could place an experimental harvester on his farm to see how it would perform. Henry agreed and executives from the International Harvester Company came out to see the harvester operate. The Vice President of the company thought Henry's wheat was some of the best he'd ever seen and asked Henry if he'd be willing to move to western Kansas to operate a large experimental "Tractor Ranch" there. The family moved in 1926.

Children:

HENRY, b. 16 Dec 1861, Wellsville, Utah. D. Nov 1862. Child.

MARGARET ANN, b. 29 Nov 1864, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 28 Jan 1886, Daniel James Jones. D. 9 Mar 1947.

ROSE, b. 29 Aug 1865, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 7 Apr 1883, Charles Bailey Brown. D. 1945, Wellsville, Utah.

JULIA WOODWARD, b. 6 Nov 1867, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 18 Dec 1888, Robert A. Grant. D. 1949, Murphy, Idaho.

MARTHA WOODWARD, b. 14 Feb 1871, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 26 Apr 1893, Andrew Johnson. D. 19 Feb 1945, Vale, Malheur, Oregon.

JOSEPH WOODWARD, b. 6 Dec 1873, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 7 Jan 1898, Rachel Williamson. d. 27 Feb 1947, Wellsville, Utah.

TIMOTHY WOODWARD, b. 17 Mar 1876, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 6 Dec 1899, Hannah Walters Thomas. D. 20 Oct 1907, Logan Utah.

CHAUNCEY WOODWARD, b. 16 Mar 1879, Wellsville, Utah. Md. Ivene Maud Brown. D. 19 Oct 1947, Payette, Idaho.

LEROY WOODWARD, b. 14 Jun 1882, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 2 Dec 1908, Violet Cooper Parker. D. 12 Sep 1932, Wellsville, Utah.

SYLVIA PEARL, b. 21 Jun 1882, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 6 Aug 1908, Charles Darley. D. 2 Jan 1977, Salem, Marion, Oregon.

ROSS WOODWARD, b. 21 Aug 1887, Wellsville, Utah. Md. 17 May 1909, Minnie Emma Jarvis. D. 5 Mar 1951, Martinez, California.

BESSIE, b. 30 Jun 1890, Wellsville, Utah. D. 1891, Wellsville, Utah. Child.

Submitted by: Lowell Parkinson