John Howarth

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel 1847–1868 Daniel Thompson Company (1866) Age at Departure: 37 Head of Household

Travelled With

• Elizabeth Kay Howarth
• Peter Howarth
• Ann Kay

Perpetual Emigrating Fund

The Howarth family arrived in New York on 6 July 1866 via the ship Arkwright. John's niece, Ann Kay, accompanied the Howarth family. The overland company records only list John as head of household. However, the notation that shows that John purchased 3 1/2 adult food rations indicates that the others were with him on this portion of the journey as well. The PEF record also confirms they all made the overland trip.

Sources

• Findagrave.com, John Howarth

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Find a Grave

Birth: Feb. 28, 1829
Lostock Lancashire, England

Death: May 25, 1904 Heber City Wasatch County Utah, USA

Family links:

Parents:

• John Howarth (1792 - 1855)
• Ann Miller Howarth (1789 - 1865)

Spouses: Elisabeth Kay Howarth (1830 - 1873)

*Ann Kirkman Howarth (1850 - 1927)*

Children:

*Peter Howarth (1856 - 1915)*

• Emily Howarth McNaughtan (1880 - 1930)*
• Sarah Jane Howarth Luke (1882 - 1958)*
• Frederick Howarth (1884 - 1929)*
• Clara Howarth Epperson (1893 - 1986)*

Siblings:

*Ann Howarth Mayoh (1816 - 1903)*

• Mary Howarth Kay (1824 - 1889)*
• Esther Howarth Lythgoe (1826 - 1889)*
• John Howarth (1829 - 1904)
• Alice Howarth Barnes (1833 - 1911)*
• Calculated relationship

Burial: Heber City Cemetery Heber City Wasatch County Utah, USA Plot: a_369_4

Created by: GraverGuy Record added: Jul 28, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 55559287

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JOHN HOWARTH is thought to have been born on the 1st March 1829 according to his record on Morman Pioneer Overland Travel but on 28th February 1829 according to the date on his gravestone. Neither date is compatible with his baptismal record which would have been made near the time of baptism so closest to the actual date of his birth. This cites 27th February 1829 .

On Line Parish Clerks Lancashire : Bolton .

Baptism : 27th March 1829 , Bridge Street Wesleyan Chapel , Bolton , Lancashire , England . JOHN HOWARTH - son of John Howarth and Anne ,

Born : 27th February 1829 , Abode : Chew Moor , Lostock ,

Notes : m6 , Baptised by : George Marsden ,

Register : Baptisms 1814 - 1837 , Page 78 , Entry 621 , Source : LDS Film 560877 .

John and his family appear to have been Methodists before they joined the LDS Church .

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On line Parish Clerks Lancashire : The District of Lostock in the County of Lancaster .

8th June 1841 Census - Enumerator's figures for all the ages .

Census for Lostock , Lancashire , HO107/537 , Book 13 , Township of Lostock , Parish of Bolton , Folio 4 , Enumerator Ra ( Ralph?) Shaw , Enumerator , Enumeration District 7 , Registrar : Thomas Hunt .

All that part of the Township of Lostock Bounded on the north by Horwick and part of the south by the Middle Brook and Westhaughton .

Address : Chew Moor .

First Name : John , Surname  :  Howarth , Age : 50 , Occupation : Collier , Born : Lancashire . First Name : Ann , Surname   :  Howarth , Age : 45 , Born : Lancashire ,

First Name : Ann , Surname   :  Howarth , Age : 35 , Occupation : Silk Weaver , Born : Lancashire , First Name : Betty , Surname  ; Howarth , Age : 20 , Occupation : Works in Cot Mill , Born : Lancashire ,

First Name : Mary , Surname  : Howarth , Age : 15 , Occupation : Works in Cot Mill , Born : Lancashire , First Name : Esther, Surname : Howarth , Age : 14 , Occupation : Works in Cot mill , Born Lancashire ,

First Name : Jeffrey, Surname : Howarth , Age : 23 , Occupation : Collier , Born : Lancashire . First Name : JOHN, Surname : HOWARTH , Age : 12 , Occupation : Collier , Born : Lancashire ,

First Name : Alice , Surname  : Howarth , Age : 7 , Born : Lancashire .

There are 6 other Howarth families who appear in this record of the Census and one Mayoh family .

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On Line Parish Clerks Lancashire :

Marriage : 27th February 1853 , St. Peter , Bolton , Lancashire , England . JOHN HOWARTH , Full , Collier , Bachelor , Little Bolton ,

Elisabeth Kay , Full , Spinster , Little Bolton , Groom's Father : John Howarth , Collier ,

Bride's Father : James Kay , Crofter , Witness : Joseph Kay , James Liptrot ,

Married by Banns : by C.R. Pilling , Curate , Source : Microfilm of the Register at Manchester Library .

John and Elisabeth's children were : Ann , Mary , Peter , Esther , Thomas , George , Elisabeth , Sarah , John Joseph and William .

It is said that John and Elisabeth had buried 7 children in England . (Check the Records for deaths comparing the 1841 census. Those in Methodist Church records in Bolton are not possible) ,

Lostock was a hamlet covering 1364 acres of land four and a half miles west of Bolton.

Chew Moor to the south west was the principal settlement of the Township . It was a cluster of cottages housing the landless labourers and tenant farmers . 

Wikipedia contains a demographic chart of the population from 1801 to 1891 , then 1901 to 1971 .  It was in the ancient Parish of Bolton-le-Moors . Rumworth measured about two and a half miles from east to west and average breadth was little over a mile, its area was 1224 acres .  Rumworth was joined with Lostock in 1212. Rumworth Township was the centre of the ancient Parish of Deane . 

The population in the area increased in the nineteenth century as a result of coal mining and the erection of a cotton mill and of weaving sheds .

In 1872 Rumworth was divided into two parts . The eastern portion was added to the Borough of Bolton : Rumworth Ward.  

In 1894 the western portion was added to Bolton Rural District  and its name was changed to Deane .  In 1898 the Rural District was abolished and it became Deane-cum-Lostock Ward . 

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John Howarth, age 37, travelled from Liverpool in 1866 on the "Arkwright" with his wife Ann Kay Howarth , their son Peter Howarth and their niece Ann Kay, age 8 , daughter of Joseph Kay and Mary Howarth Kay, who on the Manifest is named as Howarth. The journey took 7 weeks . Also with them were John's sister Alice Howarth Barnes, age 32 , her husband Richard , age 23 , and Richard's younger brother William Henry Barnes , age 13 .

The Morman Pioneer Overland Travel Record cites :

JOHN HOWARTH - (Birth Date : 1 March 1829 , Death Date : 25 May 1904) . Was said to be aged 37 when he was part of The Daniel Thompson Company in 1866 .

There were about 500 individuals and 85 wagons in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming , Nebraska - about 40 miles south of Omaha on the west bank of the Missouri River , on the 25th of July . Progress of the journey was tracked by a series of telegrams from the Semi Weekly Telegraph sent to the Office of President B. Young :

2nd and 9th August 1866 :

"Nebraska City 28th July 1866 - Captain Thompson left with about 500 immigrants on the 35th inst. W.W.Riter."

10th and 12th September 1866 -

"Casper September 1866 : We are passing here , all well , getting along finely . Daniel Thompson."

"Sweetwater 9 We are all well passed here today . D.S. Thompson."

"3rd October 1866 TRAINS GOT IN . Captain D. Thompson's train of 84 wagons and about 500 passengers got into the city on Saturday morning . They had made excellent time all the way , circumstances considered . There was a rapid disappearance of the passengers , shortly after the trains arrived , their friends looking them up and taking them home . "

Autobiographical Information Trail Excerpt : by Ann Street , born Kay -

" My uncle John Howarth lost his pocket book before we started on the plains. My uncle sold his violin and other things to buy food. We crossed the plains with ox teams . Our Captain's name was Thompson . There were fifteen people for our wagon , me being the youngest got to ride all the way. We were 9 weeks 2 days crossing the plains. When we got to Echo Canyon John Crook , Noah Mayoh and George M. Giles met us and took us to Heber City."

There is a history of the journey given in "How Beautiful upon the Mountains" .

When the family were crossing the plains it is alleged that John caught a pole cat, (skunk), which he thought would be a nice pet for them, but before he reached camp John had to let it go because the smell was so strong. He had to wear his sister, Alice's, clothes for days and buried his own clothes in the ground until the smell was gone.

After John and Elisabeth had been in Utah for 3 years their son John Joseph was born. When John Joseph was 5 their son William was born. Elisabeth and William died the same day : 23rd January 1875. Elisabeth and William were buried in the same grave in Heber City Cemetery, Wasatch, Utah.

This left John Howarth with 2 sons : Peter age 20 and Joseph age 5. They lived in the back room of a John Crook's home for the first year they were in Heber City. John Howarth then built a one room log house on the corner of Second North and Fourth West. The roof was mud and the floor was dirt.

John was a widower 10 months before he married Ann Kirkman on the 4th October 1875 in the Salt Lake City Endowment House.

There is a biography of Ann Kirkman Howarth in the text at : www.oocities.org/iluv_familyhistory/johnhowarthhist2.htm or google Robert Howarth James Howarth Adam Howarth

John still had the one room house when he married Ann Kirkman on 4th October 1875. She had emigrated to America on the 2nd of September 1874 , being the first of her family to do so .Immediately he built a lean-to and upstairs room. He dug a well on the south east corner of the house which had good , clear , pure water. He struck a spring and put a large sandstone rock over it in the bottom of the well, which could be seen boiling up around it on a clear day. It has never been filled up. A large rock was put over the top of it.

John and Ann had 8 children : James , Mary , Emily , Sarah , Frederick (for whom there is a biographical link on the site) , Thomas , Wilford , Clara .

Before John came to the U.S. he had worked as a miner .

After he got to Heber City he went to Alma , Wyoming and Coalville , Summit , Utah , and worked  in both coal mines .  John took some farming land in the valley and hauled rock for the Wasatch Stake Tabernacle from Crook's rock quarry . 

He was a Black Hawk Indian War Veteran , as a guard over the fort . He played the flute under Captain Thomas Todd's infantry . He herded cows . Many nights he went out on picket duty to guard the fort from Indians . He played the fife in the band . 

He was a good singer and went out carolling at Christmas and New Year's Eve . John belonged to the choir and taught a Sunday School Class as a ward teacher . For many years he belonged to the Prayer Circle in the West Ward of Heber .   John was a good bread maker and taught his wife , Ann , to make bread .

John and his two sisters : Ann Mayho and ALICE BARNES , used to go for 2 or 3 weeks at a time to Salt Lake Temple and do work , in the practice of baptism for their dead relatives , in the belief that they could then enter the Kingdom of Heaven . It was not possible then to do vicarious or proxy baptism for as many dead names as it was later . They would baptise one day and then do endowments the next . It took all day to do one endowment . The practice started in about 1840 and is described very fully in Wikipedia .

John was faithful in paying his tithes and offerings . When he died , age 75 ,  he owned land , a home , cattle and had no debts . He was a hard working industrious man who attended to his own business . He provided a good living for his family . He was not wealthy or extravagant .  He would dig wells and wall them up for people to help with the feeding and clothing of his family .  He went to the canyons to cut wood and oak for the winter as they could not buy coal .  At the end of his life John was sick for nine months . In the last 7 weeks he wanted nothing to eat only a drink of water . His wife , Ann , would ask him if he wanted something , but he would say he was not hungry . He laid on the bed and would sing until he had not the strength to sing any more . Every day he sang " Let Thy Loving Mercy Come Unto Me. Even Thy Salvation. " and " God Moves in a Mysterious Way ".

 He died on the 25th May 1904 in Heber City , Wasatch , Utah and was buried in Heber Cemetery next to Elisabeth and William .

The story of John and Ann Kirkham Howarth was written by Sarah Jane Howarth , their daughter , with additions from the Heber Biography of Pioneers " How Beautiful upon the Mountains ."

All the family are buried in the same plot area in Heber City Cemetery , mostly with headstones and some with plaques of their status as Pioneers . Photographs from graveyard sites may be available .

His daughter by Ann Kirkham - Sarah Jane Howarth wrote a history of the family , which has been later revised and added to , from " How Beautiful Upon the Mountains " a Heber Biography of Pioneers .

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United States Census 1880 - source familysearch.org...

District 90 , Sheet Number and Letter 313A , GS Film Number 1255339 , Digital Folder Number 004244811 , Image Number 00066 , Affiliate Name : The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA ) Washington D.C. , Affiliate Publication Number T9 , Affiliate Film 1339 .

Name : JOHN HOWARTH , Event Type : Census , Event Year : 1880 , Event Place : Heber , Wasatch , Utah , U.S. , Gender : Male , Age : 51 , Marital Status : Married , Race : White , Race ( Original ) : White , Realationship to Head of Household : Self , Relationship to Head of Household ( Original ) : Head , Birth Year ( Estimated ) ; 1829 , Birth Place : England , Father's Birth Place : England , Mother's Birth Place : England .

Household :

Head : JOHN HOWARTH , Male , Age 51 , Born : England .

Wife : Ann Howarth , Female , Age : 29 , Born : England , Son : John J. Howarth , Male , Age : 10 , Born : Utah , U.S.A.  ,

Son : James A. Howarth , Male , Age : 3 , Born : Utah , U.S.A. , Daughter : Mary E. Female , Age : 2 , Born : Utah , U.S.A.

Records for the 1890 United States Census for Utah were destroyed in a fire in 1921 .

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Twelfth United States 1900

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Gravestone on billiongraves.com in Heber Cemetery :

Marked as a Mormon Pioneer .

Born February 28th 1829 , Died May 25th 1904 ,

Shares the stone with Elisabeth K Howarth , Born January 15th 1830 , 

Died Jauary 23rd 1878 , Epitaph and description ,

" FAITH IN EVERY FOOTSTEP PIONEERS 1847 - 1997 "

• Residence: Heber, Wasatch, Utah, United States - 1880
• Residence: ED 171 Heber Precinct Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States - 1900
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 16 2017, 1:31:58 UTC