Mary Hepworth ask for $20,000 for Death of Her Husband (Thomas Hepworth)

     Mary does file suit in the death of her husband Thomas two years and five months after his death.  According to this article in the The Dailey Tribune it will be trial by jury.  At this writing I have not been able to find any more information on the matter.

     Again and again life is getting in the way of my keeping up in posting on this genealogy blog on a weekly basis. It will be a couple more weeks before I will be back for another post.
     Thank You for stopping by..


Renée

Thomas Hepworth Falls Down Elevator Shaft.

     Second Great Grandfather Thomas Hepworth at age sixty eight is still working and in very good health when dies from an accident at the Lambert Paper Company.  I would assume he was at the paper company to  purchase  'butcher paper' for his butcher shop.  I wonder if he was carrying the roll or rolls of paper and didn't notice that someone left the door of the elevator open.  How awful.  In the Newspaper it  reports he fell ten or twelve feet.   What a jolt.  Did he have internal injury?  Or die of shock?  A death certificate is not found for Thomas which is unusual because I have found many digital images of a death certificate for Hepworth's on theUtah Gov. Archive.

Business Stationary used in the Butcher Shop located on 62 W First South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The only good picture of Thomas in Renee Petersen's possession.
Two articles in the Deseret News

Two more articles appeared in the Salt Lake Newspapers concerning Thomas. 

Deseret Evening News  ---  20 June 1895

Thomas Hepworth's Accident

     As noted in the NEWS the death of

Thomas Hepworth was due to his hav-

ing fallen into the shaft of the elevator

in the rear of the Lambert Paper Com-

pany's office  It is but fair to the

company, however, to say that the

responsibility does not rest upon them.

They are not the only users of the elevator, 

and other parties had opened it

for use at the time the accident happened.  

______________________________________________________________________

Salt Lake Tribune  21 June 1895

DIED

_________________________________________________________

HEPWORTH ------In Salt Lake, June 19, 1895,

Thomas Hepworth, a native

 of Yorkshire, England, aged 68 years, 

Mr. Hepworth came to Salt Lake 

in 1852, and lived here or in this immediate

 locality ever since.  He has always

 been an active, strong man until the accident

 came which took his life.  He has 

been a true citizen, an earnest, honest

 man, and  his death is deplored by hundreds

 of friends who have know him 

and who appreciated his honest life.

    The funeral will be from the family

 residence 725 West First North street, 

on Sunday at 3 p.m.. Friends are invited.

______________________________________________________________________

     GGGrandfather Thomas was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.  Thomas and Mary were married for forty seven years.  I can just imagine the sadness of this untimely death.   Mary Hepworth does file a lawsuit against the Lambert Paper Company which I will write about in the next post.

Renée

1907 Salt Lake City; Nana filed suit for $15,00

     Did Nana (Great-Grandmother Sadie Hepworth) receive this $15,000 settlement?  I have not been able to find any more information on this law suit filed by Nana.   Even if she got half that amount, that was a lot of money in 1907.  

     This article was in the Salt Lake Telegram on 14 Nov 1907.  It reads:

     
     
    

      Sadie Hepworth filed suit in the district court this morning asking $15,000 damages from the Utah Light and Railway Company for injuries alleged to have been received August 27.  According to the complaint, she was about to step on a car at Third West and North Temple streets when it was suddenly started and she was knocked down.  Her hip, she declares, was injured and the

 Fall has resulted in curvature of the spine.  

Renée

Nana belonged to the Utah Genealogical Society.

Sarah Ann Kidgell Hepworth joined the Genealogical Society of Utah on
7 May 1917 - I'm convinced she spent many hours in the room pictured above.
Genealogy Room in Salt Lake City - founded in 1894. 

     On Sunday it will already be a week since I arrived home from attending the Roots Tech Conference in Salt Lake City.   Really, I just don't know where the time goes.  
     I enjoyed the conference and the company I was with so much that I'm ready to go next year. (6,7, 8 Feb 2014) Attending this conference has reinforced the importance for me to keep on blogging about my ancestors; to share the pictures and stories I have with all of my family.   A bonus is when distant cousin's find me and share pictures with me.  YEAH! 
      Discovering the certificate (above) in Nana's 'stuff' was a wonderful surprise.  
     'Nana' (Sarah Ann Kidgell Hepworth) my great-grandmother was a member of the Genealogical Society of Utah dated 7 May 1917 and signed by Joseph F. Smith Jr.   Her mother Sarah Ann Cashmore Kidgell also  did genealogy.  I know this because I have the old forms of genealogy sheets, that are twenty inches wide, and eleven inches long all typed by GGGrandmother Sarah with the title across the top  TEMPLE ORDINANCES PERFORMED AT THE INSTANCE OF..... with the submitter name of Sarah Ann Cashmore Kidgell.  After several pages you see where the author's name  changes to Sarah Ann Kidgell Hepworth; Nana continued on with the work, all beautifully typed by her.  Priceless***

Renée

Wordless Wednesday - SNOW April 25 1976

Surprise Snow - 25 April 1976
VT Tomlinson's backyard
Pocatello, Idaho

Cari Petersen tribute 2013 .

25 March 2009 last day on earth, always in my heart and thoughts.  

MoM

Grandmother Ethel b 9 May 1887

     Such a soft lovely picture of my grandmother Ethel Hepworth Tomlinson. Even her expression is soft.       She was the third child and only daughter born to James Fletcher Hepworth and Sarah Ann Kidgell.  The home you see is a currant picture of  the home Sarah and James lived in since their marriage in 1882.  I have a very poor copy of this house back in the day the Hepworth's lived there and I am trying to get in contact with the owner of the original picture but, with no success to date.
     The address has changed through the years, it was 757 West 100 North but, today there is no longer a 100 block North.  Now the address is 757 West 200 North.  This house is about four houses west of the main large two story Hepworth house built by James's parents Thomas and Mary Hepworth.   Several of the Hepworth children built houses on this block.     
 Renee