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, Gloucestershire, England, the eighth of twelve children.
Hannah Hodges was born in 1821 to John and Ann Hodges in Leigh, Worcestershire, England, the second of six children.
Harriet Ellen Nichols was born in 1856 to William and Mary Nichols in Crewkerne, Somerset, England.
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 baby Ellen migrated to Utah.
| 1854 | Immigration to United States |
| 1854 | Mark Ephraim born on the Mormon Trail |
| 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
Ellen Nichols immigrated to Utah with her parents and some siblings in 1881 at age 24. In 1884, she married Mark, age 59, as his polygamous wife.
| 1884 | Mark married Harriet Ellen Nichols 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 |
The family seems to have lived in both Salt Lake County, Utah and Davis County, Utah. They had five children.
In 1894, after Hannah had died, Mark and Ellen were legally married. Mark died a few months later. Ellen's five children were ages 8 to newborn.
Ellen's Later Life
Ellen remarried twice before her death in 1939.
| 1897 | George died, age 11 |
| 1902 | Ellen married Bergen Demott, Jr. |
| 1904 | Ethan Don Bergen born |
| 1905 | Ethel died, age 12 |
| 1906 | Lily married John Thomas Green |
| 1910 | Myrtle married Albert Orson Doman |
| 1911 | Minnie married William Port Player |
| 1926 | Ethan married Myra Ardella Patterson |
| 1932 | Bergen died |
| 1936 | Ellen married David McMillan |
| 1939 | Ellen died, age 82 |
Descendants
Mark and Hannah's children:
- Ellen Ann 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.
Mark and Ellen's children:
- Lily divorced and remarried, with children from both marriages. She settled in Weber County, Utah.
- Minnie settled with her family in Salt Lake County, Utah.
- Myrtle divorced and remarried. She lived in Cassia County, Idaho and Reno, Nevada.
- Ethan divorced and had children with his second wife. They settled in Logan, Utah.
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
