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

Charles Vern Hepworth and Mable Ann Duffy and Family

Charles Vern Hepworth b1885-d1947  Mabel Ann Duffy b1894 -d1932

   
      Charles Vern Hepworth married Mabel Ann Duffy on 30 June 1916 in Hailey, Blaine, Idaho.  Mabel was a nurse. She graduated  from St. Mark's nursing school in Salt Lake City and was introduced to Charles by a patient of hers.  
     Mable was born 1 November 1894 in Hailey, Idaho.  She died at an early age of thirty eight on 17 November 1932. 

'Bus, Yvonne, Merle, Ralph 1926

     This picture was taken in 1926 of four of the five adorable children of Charles and Mabel in front of the Hepworth house at 1424 Harrison Ave. in Salt Lake City.  (top left) Charles Michael age 7 - Yvonne age 8 (who will be ninety five in June and still adorable) 'Merle' age 4 and Ralph age 5.  (Ralph died in World War ll)  Another handsome boy was born into this family, John Clifford on  18 June 1927.
  Charles and Mabel left the big city of Salt Lake in 1928 and moved to the beautiful Magic Valley of Albion, Idaho. Charles joined his father James, his Uncle Joseph and brother Ed in the business of the Albion Meat Market.
     Copies of these pictures were so graciously given to me by Yvonne with the help of her daughter Alonna.  Thank You!
The picture below is Yvonne's father Charles Vern with a big slab of beef on his shoulder and the caption
"He eats Spinach."
   

Charles Vern Hepworth - Albion, Idaho

          I guess a person could interpret "he eats spinach" two ways;  Spinach makes him strong and able to hoist the large slab of beef  (which is what the author probably meant) or being around and dealing with slaughtering all kinds of 'meat'; cow, pig, lamb, chicken etc. he prefers to eat spinach. 

     Mabel's youngest child, John was five years old when she was operated on for a goiter Goiter.  Sadly She did not survive the operation.     She died on 17 Nov. 1932 in the hospital Twin Falls, Idaho.

Salt Lake Tribune  18 Nov. 1832 
Mrs. Charles V. Hepworth

     Mrs. Charles Vern Hepworth, 38 formerly of Salt Lake, died in a hospital in Albion, Idaho. [Twin Falls, Idaho] Thursday morning following an operation.  At the time of her death she was a resident of Twin Falls, Idaho.  [Albion, Idaho]  

     She was born November 1, 1894, in Hailey, Idaho and had resided in Salt Lake from 1913 until 1928.  She was well known here as a nurse, having been graduated from the St.Mark's nursing school. 

     Surviving are her husband, five sons and daughter, Yvonne, Charles Jr., Ralph, Merle and Jack Hepworth of Twin Falls; [Albion] her mother; Mrs. M.O. Duffy of San Francisco:  five sisters, Mrs. John Claussen of Oakland, Cal.:  Mrs. B.H. Daw of Salt Lake; Mrs. C.J. Binder, Mrs. Thomas Canty and Mrs. John Carnato of San Francisco, and one brother, Herbert Duffy of San Jose Cal.

Mabel was buried in the Salt Lake City, Cemetery.   
     Her daughter Yvonne "Tells stories of her mother's return to their house late at night after treating many people, or after someone died, or after she cared for families with very serious and contagious diseases.  Her mother would call to her and ask her to throw a potato sack out the front door to her so that she could remove her contaminated clothing and burn it, taking every precaution to protect [her family].  (From a tribute to Yvonne's ninetieth birthday written by Patricia.)  

     What a difficult time for the Hepworth family.  Yvonne the oldest child  was thirteen.

Their father Charles never remarried.  Yvonne being the oldest became mother to the boys with a great deal of help from Nana and Grandmother Ethel in raising the  children to adulthood.    

      Charles died at age sixty involving a drowning accident.  I have searched the archival newspapers of Twin Falls, Idaho and Salt Lake and failed to find any more information surrounding the drowning death on 30 April 1947.  His funeral was held in the Albion LDS Church.  Interment was in Salt Lake City. 

     All four of Charlie and Mabel's sons served in WW ll. WW ll Hepworth Brothers  Their only daughter Yvonne faced many challenges in her life with grace, courage and integrity. 

       

      Renée