Sarah Ann Marries Herman - A German

Herman was born in Rastatt, Germany 

               Sometime after Sarah Ann’s divorce from Thomas Mills in August of 1877 and before June, 1880 she marries Herman Vogel aka August Phillipp Herman Vogel.  He was born

 24 October 1844 in Rastatt, Baden, Germany.                                                   

  His parents were Joseph and Mariah Vogel.  (Research by Lily Jane)


In the Salt Lake Directory 1875-1878 - lists; Vogel, Herman, brewer, res 5th E. bet 5th & 6th S.  A familiar address?  Yes, Sarah Ann's.  This evidence indicates Herman is a boarder.  How many boarders Sarah Ann has in this time frame is not known, Yet.  It is in the Utah 1880 Census that states Herman and Sarah Ann are married.  Herman is in the Census in two locations.  On the Census record taken on 22 June - Location: Sugar House, Salt Lake, Utah - 
Occupation: Works at Wagners Brewery - Marital Status: Married.
The other Utah Census taken earlier on 2 June 1880 - 
Location: Ninth Ward (5th E. bet 5th and 6th S.)
Occupation: Brewer at Brewery - Marital Status: Married. Listed on this Census is Sarah Ann and her son Fred, age eight.  
No marriage record has been found, Yet!
How I want to find the exact marriage date.
Herman is ten years younger than Sarah Ann.  OOOh, to know the whole story!
I did some checking on breweries in Salt Lake in the eighteen hundreds. I was surprised to fine an Internet site 'A History of Beer in Utah'  and I quote "Very few people realize that Utah was once home to some of [the] biggest and best breweries in the Western United States."  Miners in the West were numerous and were known to burn around 4,000 calories per day, "and beer was their liquid nourishment."                   

http://www.utahstories.com/2011/03/14/history-beer-utah/

   Sometime between 1884 and 1886 Herman and Sarah Ann move to Logan, Utah

 and Herman operates his own Brewery.

   

Great Uncle Fred Cashmore Kidgell & Friends

Hammond Hall - Catholic Boarding School
Salt Lake City, Utah

Taken from the Kidgell and Cashmore Histories about, Uncle Fred, “When he was about eight years old his mother married again and entered him in a Catholic Boarding School called ‘Hammond Hall’, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

So, in 1880 Fred is in a boarding school and Sadie is living somewhere other than with her mother.  Where or where shall I look for Sadie?   I know where she is by the thirtieth of  November 1882 because,

 she marries James Hepworth. 

Friend Albert and Fred Cashmore Kidgell
Fred and Dick Bithell

After Sadie's marriage in 1882 Great Uncle Fred lived with her and James and worked in the 'Hepworth & Sons' butcher shop and slaughter yard.   Evidence of this is from the top picture with friend Albert.  Notice the white tee shirts with buttons part way down the front and a skull cap on Albert.  Fred's hat does have a small bill.             Both have 

                  knee high boots. Then there is the

knife sharpening hone,held in Albert's hand and knife in the other hand. Fred has his hone on a clip with several knives in a holster on his right hip.  I love Fred's serious 'I know what I'm doing'face while Albert's face is more 'I'm not so sure how this done?'

Again, my guess of Fred's age is a big question. He may be the same age in both pictures.  The other boy in the bottom picture is 'Dick Bithell.'

Fred's older sister Ellen Maria married a Bithell but, I don't know how 'Dick' fits into the Bithell line.  

I might mention here that activity in the LDS church had gone by the wayside[at this time] for Fred and                                    his mother Sarah Ann.  

Fred was not baptized when he turned eight years old like Sadie when she turned eight.   He did join the LDS church as an adult which I will write about at a later date. 

Sarah Ann daughter of Sarah Ann goes by Sadie

Sadie Kidgell - b 1 March 1864

In a perfect world; on the back of every ancestral picture would have the name and a date of when the

 picture was taken.

This is my Great-Grandmother Sarah Ann named after her mother Sarah Ann Cashmore Kidgell.  She was given the nickname Sadie, so whenever I write about a young Sarah Ann she will be Sadie.   I knew her as Nana.

At first glance at this lovely picture I thought Sadie was about sixteen years old.  But, after ‘cropping out’ her face and enlarging it I can see she is much younger, maybe fourteen or even twelve.  What do you think?

In 1880 Sadie would be sixteen years old and I have not been able to locate where she is living because she is not listed in the 1880 Utah census as living with her mother and step-father Herman Vogel, nor is she living  with  her sister Ellen Maria Bithell or her Aunt Caroline Higson.   In the Kidgell and Cashmore Histories  it states Sadie attended St. Marks High School; was she a boarder at the school and didn’t get counted in the census?  And, I am wondering how  Sadie felt about  her mother’s next marriage to Herman Vogel  who was ten years younger than her mother and that he worked  at the Brewery in Sugar House?   
 Sadie is a beautiful girl with beautiful eyes!

Gratitude For Help From The Living.

          Rarely will I blog about the living however, I feel it is important to again say how grateful I am to Lily Jane who lives in Manti, Utah for all information she found on the Kidgell's years ago when it was difficult to do research; hours of eye strain viewing micro-films at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, visiting cemetery's and other time consuming procedures.  Lily Jane has been very generous in sharing all her research with me and others which has 'laid the ground work' for   me to expand on the information about the Kidgell's.  I'm sad to say that  Lily Jane  has Macular Degeneration and to read my blog has been difficult if not impossible.  I was so excited to find and add the 'Listen Now' feature on my blog that Lily Jane can easily use. Now she can hear what I have written and can let me know if I’m ‘keeping the facts straight’.   

     Has it been ten years since Gail who is from Warrington, England, visited the States?  Hard to believe!  It was ten years ago today, 7 April 2001, that Gail, her husband Alan and children visited with Lily Jane.   Gail is a CASHMORE, and our (Lily Jane, Gail and me) common ancestor is a fourth Great Grandfather Isaac Cashmore and Grandmother Sarah Painter who were married in 1781 in England.  Isaac and Sarah were the parents of Edward who is the father of Sarah Ann Cashmore Kidgell.   We are third cousins, of course Gail is younger than Lily Jane and me so she is a third cousin once removed.  Gail has shared with us many copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates on the Cashmore line which I will be posting information on at a later date.   Thank You Gail !

  I decided this is a good time to post this poem of my feeling's about my Ancestors.  

by Sandra L. Creekmore     1 February 2000

Echoes of a distant past

can be heard throughout these pages. 

And each reflect a life that was lived 

not forgotten through the ages. 

It's more than just a name or date

found on a document in a cold and drafty place. 

It's a link of our past - tied to our future

of our lives intertwined - of our history interlaced. 

We cannot live our future

without first looking at our past.  

For written upon the pages of time

are stories of our forefathers that forever will last. 

What lies between the moments of 

our first breath and when we perish.

Treasured memories of a life that is lived 

that should be recorded, shared and cherished. 

Every joy and sorrow, every triumph and loss

each and every day.

Bears witness to a struggle that each of us has 

to find meaning and purpose - to find a better way.

Not for the ancestors passed on long ago

but for all the descendants to come. 

Our life will never be lived in vain

if it lives on in the heart of someone. 

1874 Marriage for Sarah Ann? Must be a mistake!

  Those of you who are familiar with the workings of New Family Search internet site; https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/unsec/welcome (It's now open to EVERYONE)
will understand my astonishment when a few months ago while accessing the records of the Kidgell's I found that a new marriage record had been added to Sarah Ann.  Someone had pulled in the name Thomas Mills; married Sarah Ann Kidgell on 21 September 1874 in the Endowment House.  I was sure it was a mistake and the way to 'make it go away' was to 'uncombine' (a nFS term) the record.  So, off to our Family History Center (which is less than a half mile from my home) to get help in doing this course of action.  Just as I was ready to 'hit the computer key' to take this record out (uncombine) I was asked this question by the volunteer at the FHC  Wm. Parker, "Look carefully at the date Renée - does it fit in with the information you know about your ancestor?"  
Me "Well..... yes, it is after her husband's death in 1872 and before a marriage to Herman Vogel around 1879-80." 
Bill "by 'uncombining' this record is not a permanent fix, the person who put this marriage record in can and likely will enter it again.  And, think about it, maybe this submitter knows something  you don't know"  
Me  "mmmm, so you think I should research this first?" 


   Well of course, I acted hastily, after-all just because it's not found in the family history (written or orally) doesn't  mean it didn't happen.
     I went to my favorite Utah site;  http://archives.utah.gov/research/indexes/index.html

and typed in Mills.  I found a Salt Lake County (Utah) Probate Court record for Sarah Ann Mills and a record for Thomas Mills with the same Series number and the 'Case Type' was recorded as DIVORCE.    I sent for the document and within ten days I got my verification!  

The divorce papers were filed on  
8 Jan. 1877 and the divorce was granted on 9 Aug 1877.
There were two handwritten records, one for the Plaintiff, Sarah Ann Mills written in good legible penmanship and one for the Defendant in very poor penmanship; very hard to read. 
Below I have transcribed the Plaintiff's record word for word.  
The Defendant's (hard to read document) say's Yes, they were married and Yes, he has not lived with Sarah Ann for over a year and Yes, they cannot live together in harmony and yes, she can be granted her married name of Kidgell.  




To the Hon. Probate Court of Salt Lake County, your petitioner Sarah Ann Mills a resident of Salt Lake City in said County respectfully represents that on the Twenty first day of September A. D. 1874 in said City she was joined in marriage with the Defendant Thomas Mills by Prest. Daniel H. Wells, that at and before her said marriage she was the Widow of Charles Kidgell deceased, and that since her said marriage with Defendant she has been and now is, his lawful wife, that after she had lived with said Defendant, in the marital relations about seven months she became fully satisfied in consequence of the cause pursued by said Defendant, his idle habits and neglect to provide for Plaintiff his said Wife, that support and maintainence which was his duty to do that she could not live with him in peace and union.  And Plaintiff informed Defendant that unless he intended to provide for her support and maintainence, he had better leave her, as she could not provide for her non support and that of Defendant and three of his children who were living with him by her own labor and  exertions and thereupon Defendant left Plaintiff and went to Utah County in his Territory to live or dwell with some of is children, that Plaintiff and Defendant have not lived together as husband and wife for nearly one and a half years, and as that she cannot live happily with the said Defendant her welfare requires that the bonds of matrimony thus existing between Plaintiff and Defendant should be dissolved and declared void which she prayes judgement of this Honorable Court.  Plaintiff further ask's that she may be restored to all the rights and privileges of a  femme-sole ((Law) a woman whose marriage has been annulled or is otherwise independent of her husband, as by owning her own property) with the right to resume her former name of Sarah Ann Kidgell and that such further and other relief may be extended to her in the premises as may be in accordance with equity and good conscience, upon the final determination of the case by the Court. And as in duty bound your petitions will ever pray.

This is Sarah Ann's (very own) signature

Sworn and Subscribed to 
before me this eighth (8th)
day of January A. D. 1877
E. Smith 
Probate Judge 




Thomas was fifty eight years old when he married Sarah Ann who was forty two.  There is mention of a Thomas Mills in the Kidgell and Cashmore Histories (pg.44) of when Caroline Kidgell Higson (sister to Charles Jr.) ".......was baptised by Elder Kelly and her confirmation was 21 May 1854 by Thomas Mills into the Leigh, Bedford Branch Lancaster, England."  This might be the connection of Sarah Ann knowing Thomas.  Thomas's first wife died in England in December 1873 and I am assuming he came to Utah with his large family after her death 1873 and before September 1894?   

    

1873 - Ellen Maria Kidgell marries!

Ellen Maria Kidgell first child of Charles and Sarah Ann. Remember she was born three weeks after arriving in the Salt Lake Territory under unpleasant circumstances, raining - leaking roof, bed on tree stumps to keep it out of the water, which I found out was a common Mormon Tale of this period.  But, part of the title of my Blog is - (family) TALES  Told!  
Ellen turned eighteen on 19 October and married Joseph Bithell on 30 December 1873.  He was twenty seven.  I don't have information of where they were married or by whom.  But, I do believe this picture was taken at the time of their marriage.  
Joseph was born 10 July 1846 in Birkenhead Cheshire, England however, his parents were born in Wales.  He came into the Utah Territory with his father Thomas, and six siblings in 1860.  Apparently, his mother died in England. 
Joseph and Ellen lived the first seven years in Ophir, Tooele, Utah a mining town where four of their seven children are born.  By 1882 they live in Salt Lake City.  Of the seven children only three live to be adults, Joseph James b 12 Oct 1875, Cora Mae b 17 May 1877, Charles Kidgel b 26 Jul 1878.  
Joseph dies in 1902 from a violent mining accident.  More information at a later time. 

Today Ophir is a 'ghost town'.

Have you ever heard of Ophir, Utah? 

Over ten years ago I purchased the  software program LDS Family History Suite 2  where I found this  picture with the 'Folklore' explanation of how Ophir got it's  name. 

Hilarious !!  I'm so glad I saved it because after searching the internet the top picture is no where to be found.

If only Ellen Maria kept a

 journal on;  

My Life Living in Ophir, Utah.
Information and Pictures about Ophir

Wordless Wednesday/Cari Lyn

24 Jan 1967 - 25 Mar 2009