The larger Ad appeared in the Utah Journal 2 Jun 1886 which is the clue of when Herman and Sarah Ann moved to Logan. It seems Herman did some remolding as the smaller Ad reads:
Utah Journal 11 April 1886
"THE LOGAN CITY Brewery has reopened at the usual style. We shall be pleased to see all our old and new customer. H. VOGEL. "
I have been trying my best to blog the life of Charles and Sarah Ann Kidgell chronologically but, I feel it is time to post the demise of Herman which takes place in 1898, exactly one hundred and thirteen years ago this month. (30 March to 4 April) Then I will go back and fill in the gaps.
Sarah Ann chose to marry a man who is totally opposite from her beloved Charles. Remember how Charles would tell Sarah Ann over and over 'Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and these things shall be added unto you." I was reading about Emma Smith; about her choices after her beloved Joseph was martyred. She also married again, ironically a German man who was totally opposite her beloved Joseph.
From the Kidgell and Cashmore Histories pg 72:
"Sarah Ann Kidgell Vogel was re-baptized and confirmed on 8 March 1892 in the Logan 1st Ward by William Sanders." She did recommit herself to her LDS faith. Her favorite thing to do; Genealogy!
There will be several postings the rest of the week telling of the bazaar death of Herman.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sure enough - It is Sarah Ann Cashmore Kidgell
Ten Years ago Lily Jane sent me a copy of this picture with a question mark behind the name Sarah Ann Cashmore Kidgell? My call was NO it can’t be Great - Great Grandmother Sarah Ann. I filed it away with the idea at some point in time the mystery picture would be identified. Below this picture is a picture of Sarah Ann and her son Fred. Last week I was looking at it and decided to compare it to the mystery woman picture. Sure enough – this picture is a younger version of Sarah Ann with an adorable hat and looking so stern. Her eyes are the defining factor in
I found this to be interesting in comparing her hands and the ring on her left ring finger which I think is the same ring. The bottom picture she has added rings.
Oh my! Where are the rings today? What a treasure to have!

comparing the two pictures. Again, I am guessing the year to be the late 1870’s which would put her age about forty five years or forty eight depending on what year of her birth; some records say 19 Dec 1829 or 19 Dec 1831. I was going with year of birth as 1831 until I found a record in MY possession that Sarah Ann herself put DOB at 1829! How did I miss that! It just goes to show that a person needs to examine record information time and time again! That would put her almost four years older than my beloved GGGrandfather Charles and fifteen years older than her husband Herman Vogel. But, I digress!
I found this to be interesting in comparing her hands and the ring on her left ring finger which I think is the same ring. The bottom picture she has added rings.
Oh my! Where are the rings today? What a treasure to have!

Friday, April 22, 2011
Sadie Marries James Fletcher Hepworth 1882
It's now late in the year of 1882. Sarah Ann is married to A.P. Herman Vogel who works at the Brewery in Salt Lake. Sarah Ann's son Fred is ten years old soon to turn eleven and is going to Hammond Boarding School.
Where has Sadie been in the last few years I don't know?
But, the rest of her life begins now with the marriage to James Fletcher Hepworth. James is the son of Thomas and Mary Fletcher Hepworth who owns and operates one of the butcher’s shops in Salt Lake.
He was born on 7 May, 1857
the fifth child of thirteen. (Sadie is the fifth child of nine.)
James is twenty five years old and Sadie is eighteen when they marry
on 30 November 1882.
That on the Thirtieth day of November
In The Year Of Our Lord
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-two
At the House of Tho. Hepworth in the City of
Salt Lake in the Diocese of Utah and Idaho
I Joined Together In Holy Matrimony
James Hepworth
And Sarah Ann Kidgell,
According to the Rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church
In the United States of America, and in conformity with the
Laws of the State of the United States Of America
In Witness Whereof. I have hereunto put my name this 30th
Day of November A D., One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighty two
Witness
J.W. Jenkins
Peter Olsen
Thomas Hepworth
Daniel S. Tuttle Bishop of Utah
Episcopal Church
Friday, April 15, 2011
Sarah Ann Marries Herman - A German
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| 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."
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
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| 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.
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| 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.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Sarah Ann daughter of Sarah Ann goes by Sadie
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| 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!
Sadie is a beautiful girl with beautiful eyes!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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’.
I decided this is a good time to post this poem of my feeling's about my Ancestors.
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 !
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.
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