Mary Matilda Haslam

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Seal to Parents: @I151@

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Daughter of John Baugh and Rachel Bailey
Mary Baugh Haslam was born in the small mining town named Old Park located in view of the mountain “Wrekin.” She was born March 20, 1825 and was christened on April 25, 1825 in Dawley-Magna, Shropshire, England. Her parents are John Baugh and Rachel Bailey. Mary was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on November 15, 1841
The John Baugh and Rachel Bailey family immigrated to America. At that time thousands of people immigrated to St. Louis City, St. Louis, Missouri. The Baugh family was in St. Louis during the 1840s. Some of the boats coming there had passengers who were ill. There was an outbreak of cholera, the bacterial abdominal infection spread mainly through water contaminated by human waste. Hundreds of people died from the infection. Mary’s mother, Rachel, died on November 13, 1846.
Mary Baugh married James Holt Haslam on April 10, 1847 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Their first child was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States on June 4, 1848 They named her Mary Alice. She was blessed by Thomas Hall. She died in Cincinnati June 17, 1848 when she was thirteen days old.
There was a cholera epidemic in St. Louis in 1849. At least, 4,317 people died of cholera that year in St. Louis. There were so many deaths some had to be buried in ditches. Mary’s father, John, died on June 16, 1849. James Holt Haslam’s mother, Alice Young, and his sisters, Alice and Elizabeth, died in June 1849 in St. Louis, also. The same year of the cholera epidemic, a large fire broke out on a steamboat and spread to other boats, then destroyed a large portion of the center city. People were left homeless and in slums.
Martha Ann was their next baby. She was born August 14, 1849 in St. Louis. She was blessed by John Sutton. Her life was only seven weeks. She died on October 2, 1849. The next year their third baby girl, Sarah Jane, was born December 17, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was blessed by John Sutton. More sorrow came when she died that same day.
James and Mary along with James’ father, John Haslam, and Mary’s brothers, Briar Baugh, John Baugh, and Samuel Baugh and her sister, Hannah Baugh traveled to Council Bluff, Iowa where they joined other members of the Church who were going to Utah. They departed from Iowa with the Morris Phelps Company June 9, 1851. On August 18th the wagons of James Haslam, John Haslam and John Baugh left the Morris Phelps company. They arrived in Utah the fall of that year.
James and Mary were sealed as husband and wife July 25, 1852 in the Endowment House.
They were blessed with their first baby born in Utah on November 19, 1852. Rachel Baugh Haslam was born at Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, United States. She was blessed by John Sutton. They were so happy this baby lived.
James, Mary and Rachel moved to Cedar City where Rachel’s sister was born. Lucy Elizabeth was born on March 23, 1855 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah Territory, United States. She was blessed by Henry Lunt.
The Haslam family was living in Cedar City in September 1857. There was a company of emigrants, who had passed through Cedar City, going south. Word came up to up to Mr. Haight that the Indians had got the emigrants corralled on the Mountain Meadows. Mr. Haight asked James Holt Haslam to take a written message to Brigham Young the governor of Utah Territory to see what should be done. James rode horseback for many hours to take the message to Salt Lake City.
Mary was eight months pregnant with their sixth child. She knew James was in danger. For many hours she waited for his return back to Cedar City.
James delivered the message and returned with a message from Brigham Young. Brigham Young said the Indians must be kept from the emigrants at all cost, if it took all of Iron county to protect them. James rode back to Cedar City as fast as he could. The massacre was all over before he got home.
Ellen Eliza was born on October 20. 1857 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah Territory, United States.
James, Mary, Rachel, Lucy Elizabeth, and Ellen Eliza moved to Wellsville, Utah. Wellsville is a very beautiful place nestled at the base of the Wellsville mountain in the southwest corner of Cache Valley. The Haslam family was received into the Wellsville, Utah Ward on March 25, 1860. They helped to establish the town which is Cache County’s oldest permanent settlement.
Roselie was welcomed to the family on January 23, 1861. She was their first child born in Wellsville. Their eighth child was their first son. They named him James Holt Haslam Jr. He was born March 15, 1863 in Wellsville, Cache, Utah Territory, United States.
On January 31, 1865, their little four year old daughter, Roselie died and is buried in the Wellsville cemetery. That same year they were blessed with another daughter. when Hannah M C was born September 23, 1865.
John Haslam was born June 15, 1868. He was the tenth and last child born to James and Mary Mary was 43 years old at the time of his birth.
Hannah M C died March 9, 1875 when she was ten years old. She was the fifth child of James and Mary who didn’t live to adulthood.
James married Ann Redford a plural wife in 1869.
Rachel Haslam Bankhead was proxy for Mary Alice Haslam, Martha Ann Haslam, and Sarah Jane Haslam on December 18, 1885 as they were sealed to their parents in the Logan Temple
Mary lived in Wellsville, Utah with their combined families until she died May 2, 1887. She was 62 years old at the time of her death. She was buried in the Wellsville, Utah cemetery on May 4, 1887

Written by Alta Stoker great granddaughter of James Holt Haslam and Mary Baugh Haslam and granddaughter of John Baugh Haslam
Sources:
1. British History online--Dawley/ A History of the County of Shropshire
2. Look Back 250 Cholera epidemic, afflict St. Louis in 1849 By Tim O’Neil
3. G.S. Film #0027410 Membership Records Records of Members Early to 1896 Libr. No.8875
4. History of James Holt Haslam by Pearl H. Redford
5. Mormon Overland Travel 1847-1851 Morris Phelps Company (1851) list of individuals
6. Morris Phelps Emigrating Company, Journal entries (1851) Aug.
7. Wiki Utah History
8. Court Testimony of James Holt Haslam taken at Wellsvile, Cache, County, Utah December 4, 1884
9. History of Wellsville, Utah Utah History Encyclopedia
10. Wellsville sexton records and headstone information.
11. familysearch.org.
12. Temple records and IGI