Jane Pack

Jane Robison was born in New York to William Henry Robison and Elizabeth Squires. The family moved to Nauvoo shortly after they joined the Mormon Church. They lived across the river in Montrose, Iowa among other of William Henry's siblings. Jane had previously married John Ackerly and a daughter was born to them in 1846 who they named Emily. It is unknown what happened to Mr. Ackerly, but Jane and her daughter went to Winter Quarters with her parents when they were expelled from Nauvoo in 1846. The following year, at age nineteen, Jane married Rufus Pack. They settled about 30 miles down stream from Winter Quarters at Bartlett, Mills County, Iowa. Jane bore 7 children all in Bartlett or nearby Egypt, Lyons Township.

Rufus' brother John Pack was among the vanguard group of pioneers under Brigham Young to go to the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847. He returned to Winter Quarters that Fall intending to take a year to prepare his families for the trek. However, in the spring of 1848, John's two youngest wives received invitations to go West with other people, so John decided to go then also. He hurried down river to find Rufus and asked him to help get the family outfitted and ready to go. The mother of John and Rufus was Phylotte Green Pack. She was 74 years old. Phylotte and John's families left Winter Quarters April 1, 1848 in Heber C. Kimball's Company of 662 souls and 226 wagons. They arrived September 24, 1848 and were assigned a lot at the Southwest corner of West Temple and 1st North in the 17th ward. John served a mission to France October 1849 to August 1852.

Rufus and Jane stayed in Iowa and became affiliated with the Nephi Branch of the Reorganized LDS Church in Mills, Iowa. Rufus was quite active in the RLDS Church in the early 1860's. Rufus was killed in a farm accident in 1868. His Brother John went back to Iowa in 1870 and brought Jane and her four youngest children back to utah. John then married Jane July 20, 1870. Jane was John's eighth wife. Jane and her children moved to John's home in Kamas with two of his other wives where they managed a dairy farm. In 1876, jane and her children moved down to Millard County by the Sevier River. The town of Deseret had been settled there in 1860 only to be washed out by the river. Deseret#2 was rebuilt and the settlers dammed the River and built a bridge. In 1868 another flood came and wiped out the settlement again. In 1874 the town was resurrected again when miners came in and rebuilt the dam and began a large faming operation. West of the river in the northwest section is where Jane moved with her children and became the first settler in Deseret#3. The area was later known as Bloomington, then Hinckley.

Jane and Rufus, Jr.,age 14, took up some land one mile south of where the post office stands. Here they built the first house in Hinckley. It was a one-room log cabin which stood until about 1989 when it was destroyed by fire. They hauled the logs 30 miles from Oak Creek Canyon and had them split at the saw mill. They made a roof out of willows and mud and used chalk and sand to fill in the cracks. While building the home they lived in a dugout. Jane and Rufus, Jr. harvested 800 Bushels of grain. The second family in Hinckley was Jane's daughter, Amanda Jane and her husband Erastus F. Pack, son of John Pack. These two families walked or rode in buggies the 3 miles to Deseret each Sunday to attend church. Another early settler in Hinckley was Hyrum Peter Robison, who had married another of Jane's daughters, Candace Ann Pack. They are the parents of Chloe Robison Abbott.

Jane lived 22 years after settling in Hinckley. She died at the age of 70 in Hinckley and was buried March 5, 1898 in the Kanosh Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

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