Mark and Hannah Beazer
Family of Mark Beazer & Hannah Hodges & Harriett Ellen Nichols, 1849 (1822-1894)
Residence: West Midlands, England; Davis County, Utah
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Parents' Childhood
Mark Beazer was born in 1825 to George and Elizabeth Beazer in Marshfield, England, the eighth of twelve children.
Hannah Hodges was born in 1821 to John and Ann Hodges in Leigh, England, the second of six children.
Mark and Hannah Beazer in England
| 1849 | Married in Birmingham, England |
| c. 1849 | Conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| 1852 | Ellen Ann born |
Life in Utah
In 1854, Mark, Hannah, and Ellen migrated to Utah.
| 1854 | Immigration to United States |
| 1854 | Mark Ephraim born |
| 1854 | Settled in Kaysville, Utah |
| 1856 | William Henry born |
| 1858 | Sarah Hannah born |
| 1860 | Clara May born |
| 1862 | Albert born |
| 1865 | Fanny Maria born |
| 1870 | Ellen married Peter Barton |
| 1875 | Sarah married John Alma Green |
| 1877 | William married Catherine Ellen Walker |
| 1879 | Clara married Fredrick W Burton |
| 1880 | Mark Ephraim married Ellen Burton |
| 1880 | Mark served in the British Mission |
| 1882 | Mark returned from the British Mission |
| 1882 | Clara died in childbirth, age 21 |
| 1887 | Fanny married David Cook |
| 1888 | Albert married Martha Maria Holyoak |
| 1893 | Hannah died, age 72 |
The Beazers traveled by ship from Liverpool to New Orleans. They probably then traveled up the Mississippi River to Missouri and there joined a pioneer company to Utah. Hannah was pregnant, and a son, Mark Ephraim, was born on the trail in Nebraska.
The family settled on a farm in Kaysville, where 5 more children were born over the next 11 years.
In 1857, during the Utah War, Mark joined the Nauvoo Legion in Echo Canyon, working to prevent the U.S. Army from reaching the Salt Lake Valley. The next spring, Kaysville and other northern Utah cities were evacuated, and the Beazers moved temporarily to Utah County.
Mark and Ellen Beazer
| 1884 | Married in the Salt Lake Temple |
| 1886 | George Franklin born |
| 1887 | Lily May born |
| 1889 | Minnie born |
| 1892 | Ethel Joyce born |
| 1894 | Myrtle Rosetta born |
| 1894 | Mark died, age 69 |
Descendants
- Ellen and Sarah raised their families in Kaysville.
- Mark Ephraim spent about 10 years with his family in Kaysville, and then around 1890 relocated to Cardston, Alberta.
- William, Fanny, and their families settled nearby in Syracuse, Utah.
- After Clara and her second child died in childbirth, Fredrick Burton remarried and eventually migrated to Caribou County, Idaho.
- Albert and his family lived in Kaysville, and then around 1905 migrated to Jefferson County, Idaho.
References
- Saints by Sea immigration record
- Church History Biographical Database entries for Mark Beazer, Hannah Hodges, Ellen Ann Beazer, Mark Ephraim Beazer, and William H. Beazer
