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Mary REYNOLDS
(17 Feb 1822 - 2 Sep 1896)
Biography of Mary Reynolds Warner
by Ezra Warner
Mary Reynolds was the daughter of John Skinner Reynolds and Ann Long. Mary was the seventh child of a family of nine - four girls and five boys. Her parents were born in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England; but the children were born in Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England, and were also christened there. Their record is as follows:
(1) Joseph Reynolds christened 24 June 1811;
(2) James christened 22 May 1813, was buried 4 August 1813;
(3) Ann Reynolds christened 14 August 1814, buried 15 July 1834;
(4) John christened 19 May 1816, died 1850;
(5) William christened 20 or 26 June 1817, buried 19 February 1843;
(6) Sarah born 1820, died 1820
(7) Mary born 17 February, christened 24 February 1822;
(8) George Reynolds christened 21 November 1824, and
(9) Harriet christened 18 January 1828, buried 2 March 1828.
Mary Reynolds was born 17 February 1822 at Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England. Surfleet was a village on the banks of a small stream or river. It was near the ocean and gates were placed in the streams to keep the tide from drawing all the water out as it receded. The fields were green and beautiful as in most parts of the towns in England.
Because of the water and green fields, large numbers of geese were raised there. According to John H. Hayes of Spanish Fork, who visited in Surfleet while on a mission, it was a place where geese were riase in herds; and when they came toward you with their mouths open it made an uncanny feeling come over you. As a child, Mary watched the geese for her parents to keep them from going astray. One day while she was driving the geese, one of them bit her on the arm, leaving a scar which remained throughout her life.
She had little, if any, chance of gaining an education by attending school. Perhaps through the lack of schooling, she developed a wonderful memory. She carried, by memory, accounts of her dealings with other people and later in life when she became a weaver of cloth and carpets it seemed almost impossible for a person to remember so much. She could remember the width of each carpet, the colors and strips, the number of threads mission in the reed of the loom, the full price of the carpet and at what time the payments were made. This would burden th mind of anyone who was weaving most of the time.
Mary Reynolds became aquianted with William Warnr, son of James Warner and Susannah Fox. Their friendship ripened into love and they were married 18 May 1848 at Surfleet and lived in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England.
William and Mary heard the Gospel preached in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there. She was baptized Monday 15 March 1852, and her husband was baptized the next day. Mary's mother was baptized 31 December 1852 and her fathre 30 March 1853, but they never came to America.
The home, which was said to have belonged to Mary, was sold to get money to brin the family to America. William and Mary set sail for America on 25 October 1853 with their two children, James and Susannah. James was born 7 April 1851 and Susannah was born 21 August 1852, both in Gosberton. Their first child Harriet, was born in 1849 but had died young. James was 2 1/2 years old and Susannah 14 months old when they set sail for the long journey. A letter written by William Warner tells of their experiences:
St. Louis, Missouri
January 16, 1854
After some delay, I at last thought to fulfill my promise I made to you before we left. We sailed from Liverpool on the 25th October 1853 and arrived in New Orleans on the 27 November, making the passage in five weeks and one day. It is true we had some bad weather, pleasant between times, but as a general thing, we had a good passage.
We left New Orleans on the first of December and arrived in St. Louis on the 10th. Our youngest child (Susan) was sickly at the way over, owing to teething, but since we have been here, she is improving fast. My wife, myself and the boy are quite well and had a very healthy passage, very little sea sickness at all.
I was fortunate to get employment the day after my arrival in the city. I am working for two of the Brethren, who have a contract to cut sewers or drains in the streets of the city.
My wife is in good spirits and is very glad that she is here, so far on her way to Zion. She sends her love to her father and mother and hopes they will stand fast in their integrity. Give my love to all the Brthren and Sisters unitedly. Tell them that crossing the seas is not so bad as reported to be, and as for St. Louis being such a place for making Saints apostatize, I do not see any need of it. I have heard no great preaching but plain, simple principles such as we could understand, when we were thre days baptized. You have the element of progression among you in England as great as any you will meet till you arrive in Salt Lake City.
House rent and fuel are more costly than in England, but articles of provision are as a general thing, much cheaper. Flour is about six dollars a barrel or 1 pound 10 shillings per stone. Fresh meat 3 cents per pound retail, but can buy it cheaper by the carcass. Pigs heads 2 cents a pound and sheep heads given you for taking them away from the slaughter house. I bought thirty pounds of meat for 2 shillings, 6 pence. Groceries, such as sugar and coffee are cheap, from sixteen to twenty pounds for a dollar. Coffee, ten pounds to the dollar, tea about the sme as it is in England. Butter is twenty-five to thirty cents a pound; potatoes not good, about fifty cents a bushel. These are winter prices, but are a little more favorable in the summer.
I am well satisfied with what I have done. No desire to come home again. Give my love to all inquiring friends.
Signed: William Warner
While they were living in St. Louis, Missouri, a daughter Mary Elizabeth was born on 29 March 1854. In May 1854, William Warner had a chance to drive a team in an Independent Company to pay for his passage to Utah. William Fields was Captain of the company and the team belonged to Orson Hyde. He took advantage of this opportunity of crossing the plains to prepare for his wife and children to come later. William reached the Salt Lake Valley 25 September 1854. He made his home with Edward Creer until February 1855, then lived with Stephen Markham in Spanish Fork.
Mary was left with three small children, and with but little money to care for them. She had a hard time providing for them. At first she could not get work and she was so discouraged she would have given up, had it not been for her faith in the gospel. She suffered hunger but she finally got work. She worked very hard, doing washing and ironing, besides caring for her children. Mary would go out and get the clothes, wash and iron them, and then return them.
One day while performing her duty, she passed a door in the hotel where a room was being fumigated. A man had died there from the dreaded disease smallpox. She shuddered as she passed to think of it; and she always felt that she carried the disease to her children because they took it some days later and James almost choked to death.
While working at this hotel, she met a lady school teacher who proved to be a very good friend. The teacher saw what a hard time Mary was having and advised her to go down to the kitchen and ask for the food that was left over each meal. This she did and it was given her which was a great help to her.
By 1857 she had saved enough to buy a wagon and three oxen; also provisions and clothing to fill the wagon. The two oxen were put on the wagon and the other ox on another wagon and an ox that blonged to a man who, with his family, was also leaving for Utah with the same company. After they started, the man had to go back so he allowed Mary to come on with his ox with the understanding she sould pay for it, if he ever should get to Utah.
The company arrived in Utah in September 1857, just ahead of Johnston's Army. While crossing the plains they could sometimes see the soldiers coming behind them.
William Warner located in Spanish Fork, Utah. Mary sent word she had arrived. The word was sent to him at Stephen Markham's, where he was working. He walked to Salt Lake and took her back to Spanish Fork with him. She lived there from this time on throughout her life.
The wagon and oxen were traded for land. The provisions and clothing were made use of, as they were much needed. Thread was scarc and some of the cloth was unraveled to use as thread for sewing.
Another child, Sarah Ann, was born 18 August 1858 in Spanish Fork. She was the youngest child of William and Mary Warner and becam the wife of Bishop William Don C. Markham, also of Spanish Fork.
The man who allowed Mary to bring his ox finally arrived in Utah. He wrote to her, asking if she could send him the money for it. She told her husband but in his busy time he overlooked it. Another letter came; so she went to work to earn the forty dollars - the price of the ox. She wove carpets and did washing until she had the money and sent it to the man.
Once busy at this kind of work, she kept on, as she was very ambitious and industrious. At one time, she did nearly all the weaving in Spanish Fork. It seemed as if the sound of the loom had become music to her and she had to hav it going all the time. When she was not well, one of her children or grandchildren had to weave for her to keep her contented. In fact, a carpt was in the loom until she took sick and died.
Mary could card wool, spin yard, make candles and soap and all the different kinds of work connected with pioneer life. During the early summer and early autumn days she would take the children and go out in the fields after the wheat had been haled off the land and glean the heads of wheat. One summer she gleaned enough wheat for their bread for the whole year. Each of the children had to gather forty handfuls of wheat before they could play. Mary also gleaned enough wheat to buy one of the early Charer Oak stoves, which cost her ninety dollars.
She was very religious. She loved to have her grandchildren read to her from good books and regularly attended Sacrament meeting.
From memory and correspondence, she gathred all the names of her dead relatives she could get at that time and hired Thomas and Ann Hughes Hall to do the temple work in the St. George Temple in 1882.
On 29 August 1894, two years before her death, she had her children sealed to their parents in the Salt Lake Temple. Mary Reynolds Warner was so independent she feared she might live longer than she could work and care for herself. She was helpless only a short time.
She died 2 September 1896 at the age of 74 years and is buried in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
She filled a wonderful mission, always on hand to do anything and everything that was required of her.
Biography of Mary Reynolds Warner
by Ezra Warner
Mary Reynolds was the daughter of John Skinner Reynolds and Ann Long. Mary was the seventh child of a family of nine - four girls and five boys. Her parents were born in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England; but the children were born in Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England, and were also christened there. Their record is as follows:
(1) Joseph Reynolds christened 24 June 1811;
(2) James christened 22 May 1813, was buried 4 August 1813;
(3) Ann Reynolds christened 14 August 1814, buried 15 July 1834;
(4) John christened 19 May 1816, died 1850;
(5) William christened 20 or 26 June 1817, buried 19 February 1843;
(6) Sarah born 1820, died 1820
(7) Mary born 17 February, christened 24 February 1822;
(8) George Reynolds christened 21 November 1824, and
(9) Harriet christened 18 January 1828, buried 2 March 1828.
Mary Reynolds was born 17 February 1822 at Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England. Surfleet was a village on the banks of a small stream or river. It was near the ocean and gates were placed in the streams to keep the tide from drawing all the water out as it receded. The fields were green and beautiful as in most parts of the towns in England.
Because of the water and green fields, large numbers of geese were raised there. According to John H. Hayes of Spanish Fork, who visited in Surfleet while on a mission, it was a place where geese were riase in herds; and when they came toward you with their mouths open it made an uncanny feeling come over you. As a child, Mary watched the geese for her parents to keep them from going astray. One day while she was driving the geese, one of them bit her on the arm, leaving a scar which remained throughout her life.
She had little, if any, chance of gaining an education by attending school. Perhaps through the lack of schooling, she developed a wonderful memory. She carried, by memory, accounts of her dealings with other people and later in life when she became a weaver of cloth and carpets it seemed almost impossible for a person to remember so much. She could remember the width of each carpet, the colors and strips, the number of threads mission in the reed of the loom, the full price of the carpet and at what time the payments were made. This would burden th mind of anyone who was weaving most of the time.
Mary Reynolds became aquianted with William Warnr, son of James Warner and Susannah Fox. Their friendship ripened into love and they were married 18 May 1848 at Surfleet and lived in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England.
William and Mary heard the Gospel preached in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there. She was baptized Monday 15 March 1852, and her husband was baptized the next day. Mary's mother was baptized 31 December 1852 and her fathre 30 March 1853, but they never came to America.
The home, which was said to have belonged to Mary, was sold to get money to brin the family to America. William and Mary set sail for America on 25 October 1853 with their two children, James and Susannah. James was born 7 April 1851 and Susannah was born 21 August 1852, both in Gosberton. Their first child Harriet, was born in 1849 but had died young. James was 2 1/2 years old and Susannah 14 months old when they set sail for the long journey. A letter written by William Warner tells of their experiences:
St. Louis, Missouri
January 16, 1854
After some delay, I at last thought to fulfill my promise I made to you before we left. We sailed from Liverpool on the 25th October 1853 and arrived in New Orleans on the 27 November, making the passage in five weeks and one day. It is true we had some bad weather, pleasant between times, but as a general thing, we had a good passage.
We left New Orleans on the first of December and arrived in St. Louis on the 10th. Our youngest child (Susan) was sickly at the way over, owing to teething, but since we have been here, she is improving fast. My wife, myself and the boy are quite well and had a very healthy passage, very little sea sickness at all.
I was fortunate to get employment the day after my arrival in the city. I am working for two of the Brethren, who have a contract to cut sewers or drains in the streets of the city.
My wife is in good spirits and is very glad that she is here, so far on her way to Zion. She sends her love to her father and mother and hopes they will stand fast in their integrity. Give my love to all the Brthren and Sisters unitedly. Tell them that crossing the seas is not so bad as reported to be, and as for St. Louis being such a place for making Saints apostatize, I do not see any need of it. I have heard no great preaching but plain, simple principles such as we could understand, when we were thre days baptized. You have the element of progression among you in England as great as any you will meet till you arrive in Salt Lake City.
House rent and fuel are more costly than in England, but articles of provision are as a general thing, much cheaper. Flour is about six dollars a barrel or 1 pound 10 shillings per stone. Fresh meat 3 cents per pound retail, but can buy it cheaper by the carcass. Pigs heads 2 cents a pound and sheep heads given you for taking them away from the slaughter house. I bought thirty pounds of meat for 2 shillings, 6 pence. Groceries, such as sugar and coffee are cheap, from sixteen to twenty pounds for a dollar. Coffee, ten pounds to the dollar, tea about the sme as it is in England. Butter is twenty-five to thirty cents a pound; potatoes not good, about fifty cents a bushel. These are winter prices, but are a little more favorable in the summer.
I am well satisfied with what I have done. No desire to come home again. Give my love to all inquiring friends.
Signed: William Warner
While they were living in St. Louis, Missouri, a daughter Mary Elizabeth was born on 29 March 1854. In May 1854, William Warner had a chance to drive a team in an Independent Company to pay for his passage to Utah. William Fields was Captain of the company and the team belonged to Orson Hyde. He took advantage of this opportunity of crossing the plains to prepare for his wife and children to come later. William reached the Salt Lake Valley 25 September 1854. He made his home with Edward Creer until February 1855, then lived with Stephen Markham in Spanish Fork.
Mary was left with three small children, and with but little money to care for them. She had a hard time providing for them. At first she could not get work and she was so discouraged she would have given up, had it not been for her faith in the gospel. She suffered hunger but she finally got work. She worked very hard, doing washing and ironing, besides caring for her children. Mary would go out and get the clothes, wash and iron them, and then return them.
One day while performing her duty, she passed a door in the hotel where a room was being fumigated. A man had died there from the dreaded disease smallpox. She shuddered as she passed to think of it; and she always felt that she carried the disease to her children because they took it some days later and James almost choked to death.
While working at this hotel, she met a lady school teacher who proved to be a very good friend. The teacher saw what a hard time Mary was having and advised her to go down to the kitchen and ask for the food that was left over each meal. This she did and it was given her which was a great help to her.
By 1857 she had saved enough to buy a wagon and three oxen; also provisions and clothing to fill the wagon. The two oxen were put on the wagon and the other ox on another wagon and an ox that blonged to a man who, with his family, was also leaving for Utah with the same company. After they started, the man had to go back so he allowed Mary to come on with his ox with the understanding she sould pay for it, if he ever should get to Utah.
The company arrived in Utah in September 1857, just ahead of Johnston's Army. While crossing the plains they could sometimes see the soldiers coming behind them.
William Warner located in Spanish Fork, Utah. Mary sent word she had arrived. The word was sent to him at Stephen Markham's, where he was working. He walked to Salt Lake and took her back to Spanish Fork with him. She lived there from this time on throughout her life.
The wagon and oxen were traded for land. The provisions and clothing were made use of, as they were much needed. Thread was scarc and some of the cloth was unraveled to use as thread for sewing.
Another child, Sarah Ann, was born 18 August 1858 in Spanish Fork. She was the youngest child of William and Mary Warner and becam the wife of Bishop William Don C. Markham, also of Spanish Fork.
The man who allowed Mary to bring his ox finally arrived in Utah. He wrote to her, asking if she could send him the money for it. She told her husband but in his busy time he overlooked it. Another letter came; so she went to work to earn the forty dollars - the price of the ox. She wove carpets and did washing until she had the money and sent it to the man.
Once busy at this kind of work, she kept on, as she was very ambitious and industrious. At one time, she did nearly all the weaving in Spanish Fork. It seemed as if the sound of the loom had become music to her and she had to hav it going all the time. When she was not well, one of her children or grandchildren had to weave for her to keep her contented. In fact, a carpt was in the loom until she took sick and died.
Mary could card wool, spin yard, make candles and soap and all the different kinds of work connected with pioneer life. During the early summer and early autumn days she would take the children and go out in the fields after the wheat had been haled off the land and glean the heads of wheat. One summer she gleaned enough wheat for their bread for the whole year. Each of the children had to gather forty handfuls of wheat before they could play. Mary also gleaned enough wheat to buy one of the early Charer Oak stoves, which cost her ninety dollars.
She was very religious. She loved to have her grandchildren read to her from good books and regularly attended Sacrament meeting.
From memory and correspondence, she gathred all the names of her dead relatives she could get at that time and hired Thomas and Ann Hughes Hall to do the temple work in the St. George Temple in 1882.
On 29 August 1894, two years before her death, she had her children sealed to their parents in the Salt Lake Temple. Mary Reynolds Warner was so independent she feared she might live longer than she could work and care for herself. She was helpless only a short time.
She died 2 September 1896 at the age of 74 years and is buried in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
She filled a wonderful mission, always on hand to do anything and everything that was required of her.
by Ezra Warner
Mary Reynolds was the daughter of John Skinner Reynolds and Ann Long. Mary was the seventh child of a family of nine - four girls and five boys. Her parents were born in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England; but the children were born in Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England, and were also christened there. Their record is as follows:
(1) Joseph Reynolds christened 24 June 1811;
(2) James christened 22 May 1813, was buried 4 August 1813;
(3) Ann Reynolds christened 14 August 1814, buried 15 July 1834;
(4) John christened 19 May 1816, died 1850;
(5) William christened 20 or 26 June 1817, buried 19 February 1843;
(6) Sarah born 1820, died 1820
(7) Mary born 17 February, christened 24 February 1822;
(8) George Reynolds christened 21 November 1824, and
(9) Harriet christened 18 January 1828, buried 2 March 1828.
Mary Reynolds was born 17 February 1822 at Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England. Surfleet was a village on the banks of a small stream or river. It was near the ocean and gates were placed in the streams to keep the tide from drawing all the water out as it receded. The fields were green and beautiful as in most parts of the towns in England.
Because of the water and green fields, large numbers of geese were raised there. According to John H. Hayes of Spanish Fork, who visited in Surfleet while on a mission, it was a place where geese were riase in herds; and when they came toward you with their mouths open it made an uncanny feeling come over you. As a child, Mary watched the geese for her parents to keep them from going astray. One day while she was driving the geese, one of them bit her on the arm, leaving a scar which remained throughout her life.
She had little, if any, chance of gaining an education by attending school. Perhaps through the lack of schooling, she developed a wonderful memory. She carried, by memory, accounts of her dealings with other people and later in life when she became a weaver of cloth and carpets it seemed almost impossible for a person to remember so much. She could remember the width of each carpet, the colors and strips, the number of threads mission in the reed of the loom, the full price of the carpet and at what time the payments were made. This would burden th mind of anyone who was weaving most of the time.
Mary Reynolds became aquianted with William Warnr, son of James Warner and Susannah Fox. Their friendship ripened into love and they were married 18 May 1848 at Surfleet and lived in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England.
William and Mary heard the Gospel preached in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there. She was baptized Monday 15 March 1852, and her husband was baptized the next day. Mary's mother was baptized 31 December 1852 and her fathre 30 March 1853, but they never came to America.
The home, which was said to have belonged to Mary, was sold to get money to brin the family to America. William and Mary set sail for America on 25 October 1853 with their two children, James and Susannah. James was born 7 April 1851 and Susannah was born 21 August 1852, both in Gosberton. Their first child Harriet, was born in 1849 but had died young. James was 2 1/2 years old and Susannah 14 months old when they set sail for the long journey. A letter written by William Warner tells of their experiences:
St. Louis, Missouri
January 16, 1854
After some delay, I at last thought to fulfill my promise I made to you before we left. We sailed from Liverpool on the 25th October 1853 and arrived in New Orleans on the 27 November, making the passage in five weeks and one day. It is true we had some bad weather, pleasant between times, but as a general thing, we had a good passage.
We left New Orleans on the first of December and arrived in St. Louis on the 10th. Our youngest child (Susan) was sickly at the way over, owing to teething, but since we have been here, she is improving fast. My wife, myself and the boy are quite well and had a very healthy passage, very little sea sickness at all.
I was fortunate to get employment the day after my arrival in the city. I am working for two of the Brethren, who have a contract to cut sewers or drains in the streets of the city.
My wife is in good spirits and is very glad that she is here, so far on her way to Zion. She sends her love to her father and mother and hopes they will stand fast in their integrity. Give my love to all the Brthren and Sisters unitedly. Tell them that crossing the seas is not so bad as reported to be, and as for St. Louis being such a place for making Saints apostatize, I do not see any need of it. I have heard no great preaching but plain, simple principles such as we could understand, when we were thre days baptized. You have the element of progression among you in England as great as any you will meet till you arrive in Salt Lake City.
House rent and fuel are more costly than in England, but articles of provision are as a general thing, much cheaper. Flour is about six dollars a barrel or 1 pound 10 shillings per stone. Fresh meat 3 cents per pound retail, but can buy it cheaper by the carcass. Pigs heads 2 cents a pound and sheep heads given you for taking them away from the slaughter house. I bought thirty pounds of meat for 2 shillings, 6 pence. Groceries, such as sugar and coffee are cheap, from sixteen to twenty pounds for a dollar. Coffee, ten pounds to the dollar, tea about the sme as it is in England. Butter is twenty-five to thirty cents a pound; potatoes not good, about fifty cents a bushel. These are winter prices, but are a little more favorable in the summer.
I am well satisfied with what I have done. No desire to come home again. Give my love to all inquiring friends.
Signed: William Warner
While they were living in St. Louis, Missouri, a daughter Mary Elizabeth was born on 29 March 1854. In May 1854, William Warner had a chance to drive a team in an Independent Company to pay for his passage to Utah. William Fields was Captain of the company and the team belonged to Orson Hyde. He took advantage of this opportunity of crossing the plains to prepare for his wife and children to come later. William reached the Salt Lake Valley 25 September 1854. He made his home with Edward Creer until February 1855, then lived with Stephen Markham in Spanish Fork.
Mary was left with three small children, and with but little money to care for them. She had a hard time providing for them. At first she could not get work and she was so discouraged she would have given up, had it not been for her faith in the gospel. She suffered hunger but she finally got work. She worked very hard, doing washing and ironing, besides caring for her children. Mary would go out and get the clothes, wash and iron them, and then return them.
One day while performing her duty, she passed a door in the hotel where a room was being fumigated. A man had died there from the dreaded disease smallpox. She shuddered as she passed to think of it; and she always felt that she carried the disease to her children because they took it some days later and James almost choked to death.
While working at this hotel, she met a lady school teacher who proved to be a very good friend. The teacher saw what a hard time Mary was having and advised her to go down to the kitchen and ask for the food that was left over each meal. This she did and it was given her which was a great help to her.
By 1857 she had saved enough to buy a wagon and three oxen; also provisions and clothing to fill the wagon. The two oxen were put on the wagon and the other ox on another wagon and an ox that blonged to a man who, with his family, was also leaving for Utah with the same company. After they started, the man had to go back so he allowed Mary to come on with his ox with the understanding she sould pay for it, if he ever should get to Utah.
The company arrived in Utah in September 1857, just ahead of Johnston's Army. While crossing the plains they could sometimes see the soldiers coming behind them.
William Warner located in Spanish Fork, Utah. Mary sent word she had arrived. The word was sent to him at Stephen Markham's, where he was working. He walked to Salt Lake and took her back to Spanish Fork with him. She lived there from this time on throughout her life.
The wagon and oxen were traded for land. The provisions and clothing were made use of, as they were much needed. Thread was scarc and some of the cloth was unraveled to use as thread for sewing.
Another child, Sarah Ann, was born 18 August 1858 in Spanish Fork. She was the youngest child of William and Mary Warner and becam the wife of Bishop William Don C. Markham, also of Spanish Fork.
The man who allowed Mary to bring his ox finally arrived in Utah. He wrote to her, asking if she could send him the money for it. She told her husband but in his busy time he overlooked it. Another letter came; so she went to work to earn the forty dollars - the price of the ox. She wove carpets and did washing until she had the money and sent it to the man.
Once busy at this kind of work, she kept on, as she was very ambitious and industrious. At one time, she did nearly all the weaving in Spanish Fork. It seemed as if the sound of the loom had become music to her and she had to hav it going all the time. When she was not well, one of her children or grandchildren had to weave for her to keep her contented. In fact, a carpt was in the loom until she took sick and died.
Mary could card wool, spin yard, make candles and soap and all the different kinds of work connected with pioneer life. During the early summer and early autumn days she would take the children and go out in the fields after the wheat had been haled off the land and glean the heads of wheat. One summer she gleaned enough wheat for their bread for the whole year. Each of the children had to gather forty handfuls of wheat before they could play. Mary also gleaned enough wheat to buy one of the early Charer Oak stoves, which cost her ninety dollars.
She was very religious. She loved to have her grandchildren read to her from good books and regularly attended Sacrament meeting.
From memory and correspondence, she gathred all the names of her dead relatives she could get at that time and hired Thomas and Ann Hughes Hall to do the temple work in the St. George Temple in 1882.
On 29 August 1894, two years before her death, she had her children sealed to their parents in the Salt Lake Temple. Mary Reynolds Warner was so independent she feared she might live longer than she could work and care for herself. She was helpless only a short time.
She died 2 September 1896 at the age of 74 years and is buried in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
She filled a wonderful mission, always on hand to do anything and everything that was required of her.
Biography of Mary Reynolds Warner
by Ezra Warner
Mary Reynolds was the daughter of John Skinner Reynolds and Ann Long. Mary was the seventh child of a family of nine - four girls and five boys. Her parents were born in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England; but the children were born in Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England, and were also christened there. Their record is as follows:
(1) Joseph Reynolds christened 24 June 1811;
(2) James christened 22 May 1813, was buried 4 August 1813;
(3) Ann Reynolds christened 14 August 1814, buried 15 July 1834;
(4) John christened 19 May 1816, died 1850;
(5) William christened 20 or 26 June 1817, buried 19 February 1843;
(6) Sarah born 1820, died 1820
(7) Mary born 17 February, christened 24 February 1822;
(8) George Reynolds christened 21 November 1824, and
(9) Harriet christened 18 January 1828, buried 2 March 1828.
Mary Reynolds was born 17 February 1822 at Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England. Surfleet was a village on the banks of a small stream or river. It was near the ocean and gates were placed in the streams to keep the tide from drawing all the water out as it receded. The fields were green and beautiful as in most parts of the towns in England.
Because of the water and green fields, large numbers of geese were raised there. According to John H. Hayes of Spanish Fork, who visited in Surfleet while on a mission, it was a place where geese were riase in herds; and when they came toward you with their mouths open it made an uncanny feeling come over you. As a child, Mary watched the geese for her parents to keep them from going astray. One day while she was driving the geese, one of them bit her on the arm, leaving a scar which remained throughout her life.
She had little, if any, chance of gaining an education by attending school. Perhaps through the lack of schooling, she developed a wonderful memory. She carried, by memory, accounts of her dealings with other people and later in life when she became a weaver of cloth and carpets it seemed almost impossible for a person to remember so much. She could remember the width of each carpet, the colors and strips, the number of threads mission in the reed of the loom, the full price of the carpet and at what time the payments were made. This would burden th mind of anyone who was weaving most of the time.
Mary Reynolds became aquianted with William Warnr, son of James Warner and Susannah Fox. Their friendship ripened into love and they were married 18 May 1848 at Surfleet and lived in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England.
William and Mary heard the Gospel preached in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there. She was baptized Monday 15 March 1852, and her husband was baptized the next day. Mary's mother was baptized 31 December 1852 and her fathre 30 March 1853, but they never came to America.
The home, which was said to have belonged to Mary, was sold to get money to brin the family to America. William and Mary set sail for America on 25 October 1853 with their two children, James and Susannah. James was born 7 April 1851 and Susannah was born 21 August 1852, both in Gosberton. Their first child Harriet, was born in 1849 but had died young. James was 2 1/2 years old and Susannah 14 months old when they set sail for the long journey. A letter written by William Warner tells of their experiences:
St. Louis, Missouri
January 16, 1854
After some delay, I at last thought to fulfill my promise I made to you before we left. We sailed from Liverpool on the 25th October 1853 and arrived in New Orleans on the 27 November, making the passage in five weeks and one day. It is true we had some bad weather, pleasant between times, but as a general thing, we had a good passage.
We left New Orleans on the first of December and arrived in St. Louis on the 10th. Our youngest child (Susan) was sickly at the way over, owing to teething, but since we have been here, she is improving fast. My wife, myself and the boy are quite well and had a very healthy passage, very little sea sickness at all.
I was fortunate to get employment the day after my arrival in the city. I am working for two of the Brethren, who have a contract to cut sewers or drains in the streets of the city.
My wife is in good spirits and is very glad that she is here, so far on her way to Zion. She sends her love to her father and mother and hopes they will stand fast in their integrity. Give my love to all the Brthren and Sisters unitedly. Tell them that crossing the seas is not so bad as reported to be, and as for St. Louis being such a place for making Saints apostatize, I do not see any need of it. I have heard no great preaching but plain, simple principles such as we could understand, when we were thre days baptized. You have the element of progression among you in England as great as any you will meet till you arrive in Salt Lake City.
House rent and fuel are more costly than in England, but articles of provision are as a general thing, much cheaper. Flour is about six dollars a barrel or 1 pound 10 shillings per stone. Fresh meat 3 cents per pound retail, but can buy it cheaper by the carcass. Pigs heads 2 cents a pound and sheep heads given you for taking them away from the slaughter house. I bought thirty pounds of meat for 2 shillings, 6 pence. Groceries, such as sugar and coffee are cheap, from sixteen to twenty pounds for a dollar. Coffee, ten pounds to the dollar, tea about the sme as it is in England. Butter is twenty-five to thirty cents a pound; potatoes not good, about fifty cents a bushel. These are winter prices, but are a little more favorable in the summer.
I am well satisfied with what I have done. No desire to come home again. Give my love to all inquiring friends.
Signed: William Warner
While they were living in St. Louis, Missouri, a daughter Mary Elizabeth was born on 29 March 1854. In May 1854, William Warner had a chance to drive a team in an Independent Company to pay for his passage to Utah. William Fields was Captain of the company and the team belonged to Orson Hyde. He took advantage of this opportunity of crossing the plains to prepare for his wife and children to come later. William reached the Salt Lake Valley 25 September 1854. He made his home with Edward Creer until February 1855, then lived with Stephen Markham in Spanish Fork.
Mary was left with three small children, and with but little money to care for them. She had a hard time providing for them. At first she could not get work and she was so discouraged she would have given up, had it not been for her faith in the gospel. She suffered hunger but she finally got work. She worked very hard, doing washing and ironing, besides caring for her children. Mary would go out and get the clothes, wash and iron them, and then return them.
One day while performing her duty, she passed a door in the hotel where a room was being fumigated. A man had died there from the dreaded disease smallpox. She shuddered as she passed to think of it; and she always felt that she carried the disease to her children because they took it some days later and James almost choked to death.
While working at this hotel, she met a lady school teacher who proved to be a very good friend. The teacher saw what a hard time Mary was having and advised her to go down to the kitchen and ask for the food that was left over each meal. This she did and it was given her which was a great help to her.
By 1857 she had saved enough to buy a wagon and three oxen; also provisions and clothing to fill the wagon. The two oxen were put on the wagon and the other ox on another wagon and an ox that blonged to a man who, with his family, was also leaving for Utah with the same company. After they started, the man had to go back so he allowed Mary to come on with his ox with the understanding she sould pay for it, if he ever should get to Utah.
The company arrived in Utah in September 1857, just ahead of Johnston's Army. While crossing the plains they could sometimes see the soldiers coming behind them.
William Warner located in Spanish Fork, Utah. Mary sent word she had arrived. The word was sent to him at Stephen Markham's, where he was working. He walked to Salt Lake and took her back to Spanish Fork with him. She lived there from this time on throughout her life.
The wagon and oxen were traded for land. The provisions and clothing were made use of, as they were much needed. Thread was scarc and some of the cloth was unraveled to use as thread for sewing.
Another child, Sarah Ann, was born 18 August 1858 in Spanish Fork. She was the youngest child of William and Mary Warner and becam the wife of Bishop William Don C. Markham, also of Spanish Fork.
The man who allowed Mary to bring his ox finally arrived in Utah. He wrote to her, asking if she could send him the money for it. She told her husband but in his busy time he overlooked it. Another letter came; so she went to work to earn the forty dollars - the price of the ox. She wove carpets and did washing until she had the money and sent it to the man.
Once busy at this kind of work, she kept on, as she was very ambitious and industrious. At one time, she did nearly all the weaving in Spanish Fork. It seemed as if the sound of the loom had become music to her and she had to hav it going all the time. When she was not well, one of her children or grandchildren had to weave for her to keep her contented. In fact, a carpt was in the loom until she took sick and died.
Mary could card wool, spin yard, make candles and soap and all the different kinds of work connected with pioneer life. During the early summer and early autumn days she would take the children and go out in the fields after the wheat had been haled off the land and glean the heads of wheat. One summer she gleaned enough wheat for their bread for the whole year. Each of the children had to gather forty handfuls of wheat before they could play. Mary also gleaned enough wheat to buy one of the early Charer Oak stoves, which cost her ninety dollars.
She was very religious. She loved to have her grandchildren read to her from good books and regularly attended Sacrament meeting.
From memory and correspondence, she gathred all the names of her dead relatives she could get at that time and hired Thomas and Ann Hughes Hall to do the temple work in the St. George Temple in 1882.
On 29 August 1894, two years before her death, she had her children sealed to their parents in the Salt Lake Temple. Mary Reynolds Warner was so independent she feared she might live longer than she could work and care for herself. She was helpless only a short time.
She died 2 September 1896 at the age of 74 years and is buried in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
She filled a wonderful mission, always on hand to do anything and everything that was required of her.
Events
| Birth | 17 Feb 1822 | Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England | |||
| Christen | 24 Feb 1822 | Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England | |||
| Marriage | 28 Jan 1894 | , Lincoln, England - William WARNER | |||
| Burial | 1896 | Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States | |||
| Death | 2 Sep 1896 | Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States | |||
| Ancestral File Number | 1MR7-6P |
Families
| Spouse | William WARNER (1826 - 1894) |
| Child | Susannah WARNER (1852 - 1892) |
| Child | Mary Elizabeth WARNER (1854 - 1924) |
| Child | Sarah Ann WARNER (1858 - ) |
| Father | John Skinner REYNOLDS (1790 - ) |
| Mother | Ann LONG (1789 - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph REYNOLDS ( - ) |
| Sibling | James REYNOLDS (1813 - ) |
| Sibling | Ann REYNOLDS (1814 - ) |
| Sibling | John REYNOLDS ( - ) |
| Sibling | William REYNOLDS (1817 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah REYNOLDS (1820 - 1828) |
| Sibling | George REYNOLDS (1824 - 1891) |
| Sibling | Harriet REYNOLDS (1828 - 1828) |