Hepworth House Porch Restored

Thomas and Mary Hepworth built this house in the 1870's.  It is being restored today. 

November 2017
Over six years of hard work and beautiful craftsmanship the restoration of the porch
by the owner of the Hepworth house is finished.  Makes me very grateful for the love,
the patience by Alan Barnett in restoring great great grandfather
Thomas Hepworth and Mary Fletcher's home.



My Thanksgiving thoughts today comes from a post on my facebook page very recently of the restoration of THE PORCH
of my Great Great GrandParents.   Really, when I saw the post  I became very teary eyed and posted my comments as such, and stating that it is such an honor to my gg grandparents that their house is coming alive again.
Alan Barnett purchased this home in Salt Lake City a number of years ago.  Bit by bit he is restoring it.
His answer to my post was this "Renée, I couldn't have done this without the photo you provided showing Mary Hepworth and some of the family standing in front of the house It was absolutely invaluable in recreating the details on the porch."
(Referring to the top picture of this post)

My Thoughts:  Everyone!  SHARE what you have.  It  may be pictures, stories,  or documents; share them by uploading them on Familysearch or Ancestry Tree, family reunions.   It will bless someone's life that you never thought it would.

I am grateful to  everyone that shows me support in doing FamilySearch of my family lines.
I give Gratitude to all my family that has gone before me and to family and friends that are with me today.

"Live in Thanksgiving Daily"             Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

ALICE/ The last of the Hepworths

 This picture of was found on Ancestry.com posted from someone identified as 'gigistill'.  I am very grateful that this person is so willing to share pictures by having an  'open tree' on Ancestry opposed to a Private Tree.  However, I have found some information errors.  It was posted as 1937; Alice died in 1935.  I did some research on the car and what I came up with is it's a 1925 Model T Ford.  Am I right?  The driver was identified as Harry their oldest son and the passenger Clifford but, Robert would have been 25 years old.  I think the driver is the second son Clifford Frank, he would be about eighteen and the passenger next to him is the youngest son Robert Malcom who would be about seven years old.  In the back is Frank and Alice. Really a cool picture.  I wonder if the house in the background is their own home? I would guess 'Yes.'  Frank was a Construction Engineer and did very well to provide for his family.

In the Salt Lake Telegram,1935-05-01 Deaths 

Alice Hepworth Bletzacker

Mrs. Alice Hepworth Bletzacker, 63 died at the family home, 1409 Thirteenth East Street.  Tuesday at 8:12 p.m., following a lingering illness. 

She was born April 9, 1872, in Salt Lake City, and. with the exception of a five-year residence in Mexico and another five years in Los Angeles, had resided here all her life.  Her parents were Thomas and Mary Hepworth. 

Besides her husband she is survived by three sons, Harry, Clifford F. and Robert M. Bletzacker, all of Salt Lake City and one grandchild. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. 

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This has been a long time in between continued posts and it's not going to get any better with summer coming and a long list of 'TO DO' things to get done at home.  I do appreciate everyone who LOOKS in for the latest news on an Ancestor.  I will do my best to post something at least every two weeks.
I've taken on painting the stucco of our townhouse and believe me  it's something I can't do in a couple of days and I blame my advancing age for that realizing I have to pace myself and it's a SLOW pace.   Also, I'm trying to learn a new digital scrapbooking program another thing that doesn't come easy for me to learn quickly and do a good job.   The first 'book' project is about the life of Earl's parents.  Earl and I will be doing a bit of traveling and I am looking forward to get away for a time or two.   Thanks to everyone for stopping by.

Renee

Fremont Cobb aka "Mont" accused of Murder.

This book is a collection of over fifty different stories and remembrances of
 people and events at happened in and around Overton, Clark County Nevada.

The Thomas Hepworth family continues to surprise me with stories I find on Ancestry.com..  What is more fun is connecting with (in this case) a third cousin. This cousin lives in California and Fremont Cobb is his Great Grandfather.
Fremont was born in 1856 in Michigan; his older brother by three years Charles Isaac Cobb was born in 1852 in New York.  Fremont and Charles married sisters; 'Mont' (aka) married Emma Hepworth the sixth child of Thomas and Mary. Charles married Jane Elizabeth the eighth child of Thomas and Mary.  Emma and Jennie (aka) are my great aunts. 

Both couples were married in the same month and year only two days apart.  It is unclear the place of marriage for Mont and Emma.They were married on the 16 January 1883 possibly in Salt Lake City (I have yet to find the source other than on a family group sheet); Charles and 'Jennie' were married two days later on 18 January 1883 in Burley, Cassia, Idaho.  (Source of marriage record was found on Ancestry.com) 

Oh how I would love to know the story of how these two couples met.  

At one time both families lived in Albion, Idaho.  

This story about Mont happened in 1906 in Copper City, Nevada.  This is what was written by the grandson of Fremont Cobb: "In Copper City Nevada, a mining camp located below Lincoln mine about two miles northwest of Gold Butte, two men, Jack Ward and Fremont Cobb held claims there.  A conflict developed between them, ending when Cobb fatally shot Ward in 1906.  Cobb was held on a charge of murder but found he shot in self defense when it appeared that Ward tried to shoot Cobb while he was sleeping in his tent. 

This story is reported in the book I have posted above and at present is not available:  (Hookey beans and willows: True Short Stories of Yesteryear. by Oeville Perkins )


Without infringing on a copyright (if it still exists) this is what is reported about the incident in  my own way. 
A) Cooper City is highly remembered for the Shoot-out between Jack Ward and Mont Cobb. 

B) Cooper City was a tent city. 

C) The City ran out of supplies; little food and no drinks. 

D) Men would not leave for fear of losing what they had acquired from mining so waited for supplies to arrive but were very impatient. 

E) A shooting took place and Jack Ward died.  His body was taken to St. Thomas for burial.

F) Mont Cobb was taken into custody; a trial would be held in Overton, Nevada.

G) There was no jail in Overton so Cobb was locked up at night in the local deputy's (Andrew Jones) younger brother's bedroom.

H) Both slept in the same room but, Wallace protested sleeping in the same room with a murderer. 

I) Top legal minds were sent to prosecute Cobb.  Charles Lee Harsey, Prosecuting Attorney, and William E. Ore, Clerk of the Court of Lincoln County, Pioche.

J) Evidence pointed strongly to self-defense.

All the Cobb's ended up living in the Los Angeles, California area.  Even the Parents of Fremont and Charles; all are buried in California.  One thing I have come to realize in researching the surname COBB; it is quite a common name.  

I will post more stories and information on FamilySearch.org about this family.  

Memory Refresher of the Two Hepworth Families.

On Left: John and Frances Amelia Fletcher Hepworth lived two and three tenths miles from my second great grandparents Thomas and Mary Fletcher Hepworth in Salt Lake City. John and Thomas are brothers and Amelia and Mary are sisters; all were born in England and migrated together to ZION entering the 

Salt Lake Territory in September of 1852.
http://honorancestors.blogspot.com/2012/03/hepworth-brothers-marries-fletcher.html

  

    It's been three months since I last posted on this Genealogy Blog.  Not a good thing and I want to get back to sharing what I have. 

   I have blogged a lot about Thomas and Mary's family and have barely scratched the surface of the information I have on the children.  I have decided to blog a bit about the the other Hepworth family of Second Great Uncle John and Great Aunt Frances Amelia.  So following this post will be information I have on the Hepworth double cousins.

  To refresh your memory; In 1852 Thomas and Mary with Sarah Julia age one and John and Frances Amelia started their journey together from England to Zion.  John and Frances had a son Samuel who at the age of seven months died of  pneumonia and is buried in England.  After 'crossing the pond' and one day before starting on the trek across the plains Frances gave birth to another son John Fletcher - 4 June 1852 Council Point Iowa.   One month later while on the trail, sister Mary gave birth to a son Samuel - 3 July 1852.  Hepworth's Families Cross the Plains  This link tells all about Crossing the plains and how they got the nickname  "Snapping Turtles."

     The pictures above are after settling in Salt Lake City abt 1867-1871 John and Frances built a large home at 571 South Main where today stands the Grand America Hotel.  John had a butcher shop a few blocks from his home.  John and Mary owned property on Main Street as well as several buildings.  John and Frances had twelve children; eight lived to full maturity; seven girls and one boy.  

     Second Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother Thomas and Mary built their house around 1871 across town, two and three tenths miles away on 725 West 1st North (today it is 2nd North).  Thomas and Mary owned a whole block of property  where a big barn with many horses were housed.  Thomas and Mary had thirteen children with eleven living to maturity.  Eight girls and three boys.  

   I have gone from knowing nothing about John and Frances Amelia to information that fills a two inch binder with articles from the local newspapers of their day.  I have made a contact with a descendant of John and Frances.  We are fourth double cousins and she has supplied me with wonderful pictures and a journal written by a granddaughter of John and Frances.  This is the link to her story.
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        What I don't have is any reference of the relationship between the two families.  Did they attend school together or were in the same class? I'm sure they were.
Did the girls have a crush on the same boy?  Did the girls give wedding showers or baby showers for each other?  Did they support one another during sad times or happy times?  At this writing I don't have any stories that refers to Hepworth cousins.                 
 
  Next post will be about Mary Ann or Mollie and her untimely death .   

 

Renée

     

     

Hepworth Brother's Marries Fletcher Sisters

     Great Grandfather James Fletcher Hepworth's parents are Thomas Hepworth and Mary Fletcher from England.  This is a copy of their Marriage Certificate married on 27 Aug. 1848 at the Church of  St. Nicholas  in Liverpool, Lancaster, England.  The witnesses's are John Hepworth, Thomas's older brother by four years and Frances A. Fletcher, Mary's older sister by four years.  Thomas's father is Samuel Hepworth a Butcher by occupation (this is very important when researching this family) and Mary's father is James Fletcher, his occupation is Painter even though it looks like, Printer on this copy.
Thomas is twenty one years of age and Mary is sixteen.
Thomas's occupation is also a Butcher; an occupation he is for the rest of his life.

     Two years later his brother John Hepworth married Frances Amelia Fletcher on 26 Jan 1850 in the same Church of St. Nicholas in Liverpool.  John is twenty eight years old and Frances Amelia is twenty one.  I don't have a copy of their certificate of marriage. I found their marriage information on FamilySearch.org. This is a picture I found on the internet of St. Nicholas Church located in Liverpool, Lancaster, England, Est. in 1360 still in operation today.  Could this be the very Church the Hepworth Brothers married the Fletcher Sisters?  I think I am safe to say, Yes.
     Thomas and Mary along with John and Francis migrate to Zion in 1852.
   
     It has only been the last two years that I know anything about John and Francis.  I spent all of the year 2010 doing newspaper research and went from nothing to a 2 inch binder filled with interesting news.
 
Stay Tuned to the life histories of the HEPWORTH's.