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Eliza Hannah OLDHAM
(17 Aug 1867 - 14 Mar 1942)
Eliza Hannah Oldham, the daughter of Eliza Rawlins and John Oldham was born August 17, 1867 in Sheffield, England. She was the second to the oldest of eight children. Her father was a well-educated man for that time in England. He was a steel roller, making steel wire and cables, but because of an allergy he developed to the acid used in he rolling of the steel, he was ill most of the time. They lived in quite poor circumstances for this reason. They lived in a two-story brick house, one of a long line just alike. One family lived upstairs and another down. They lived on the botom floor at the time.
When Eliza was 18 months old she didn't feel well. She seemed to have a cold so her mother put her to bed, and the next morning they found she was a polio victim, with her left leg paralyzed from the hip down. For five years she was a helpless cripple being able to move only by crawling and dragging her left leg. She would crawl to the fence and watch the children playing in the street. As the children moved on down the street she would take hold on the wires trying to pull herself up so she could see. In this way she learned to stand on her one leg holding to the fence. Finally learning to use her left leg. It was very awkward because her foot was drawn ad twisted out of shape. She did learn to put it dow straight and could finally walk without the aid of the fence. Her leg was always an inch shorter and her foot took a shoe three sizes smaller than the right foot. The left foot was always weak and the ankle would turn easily.
When she was of school age, she wanted to go to school, but she was only able to go part of three years for the children made so much fun of her by pushing her down and hurting her body as well as her pride. So most of her schooling was given at home on being a good homebuilder.
In the summer she and her brother, John, would go to the seashore and dig for calms or pick wild berries to help with the food supply. In the winter, they would go to the railroad tracks and pick up coal that had fallen off of the cars to keep the house warm for their sick father. Several times while they were off to work, the "Bobbies" or political men would come and move all their furniture with their father still in bed and the rest of the small children out into the street because they hadn't been able to pay the rent.
The children's name were: William, Joseph, Sharlet (they all died before this picture was taken) John, Eliza, Clara, Alice, Ellen, Ada, and Anne. Charles and Harriet who were twins only lived three weeks.
When William was about nine years old he fell from an upstairs window, down between two houses, hurting his back. A running sore developed which continued for a long time. His death was due to this.
When Eliza was about 12 she went to work in an overall factory. By that time, both she and John were able to help out a little, although her pay was very small.
Eliza tells this story of their conversion to the church. "One day as Mother and Grandmother were coming home from work, they heard that some Mormon missionaries from America were going to hold a cottage meeting in the neighborhood in which they were living, so they decided to go and listen. As the missionaries talked, they forgot about their curiosity for the Americans and just listened to the message they were bringing. It seemed that they were speaking right to them. When they turned to go mother had tears streaming down her face and she said, 'It seems as if I have been waiting all my life to hear that message of the gospel as those Elders taught it.' She came home and told the family. John seemed to be very interested. They went to more of the meetings and John talked to the Elders and went to see them often, reading their books and tracts.
At this time his father, being very disheartened, and having herd so many stories about the Mormons, was very much against them. When John told him that he was going to join the church by baptism, his father told him to get out and not to come back. John left and joined the church. He got a job as a steward on a ship and worked his way to America.
While John was preparing to come to America, the rest of the family joined the church, all but the father. Eliza was baptized May 22, 1882, by Elder Charles Wilcocks. She and Ellen Salison used to go tracting and walked many miles to sing and help the missionaries sing and hold meetings.
Eliza and her sister got a job working for a Westlin minister in Lancashire, England, and while they were gone to see John off when he sailed for America, the minister opened one of the girls' boxes and found church books. Both girls were discharged for being Mormons, but before the girls left, they bore their testimony to him.
After that Eliza went to work for a tinsmith, a man by the name of Joseph Smith, in Sheffield, England, making five shillings a week. While there, President Thomas E. Ricks promised her that if she would pay her full tithing, which she did (she paid sixpence a week which was twelve cents a sixpence a week immigration fund) that the way would be opened for her to come to America inside of a year. The Elders told her that if she could put enough money to pay half of her immigration ticket, the church would pay the rest. That was very slow at a sixpence a week. At this time her health was poor, for she had a weak heart, but her one desire was to come to America.
One day as she was very discouraged and was afraid that she could never save enough money to come to America, she had a dream that she always remembered. It seemed that she was walking in a valley. The way was very rough and strewn with boulders, but up ahead of her was a bluff and on top was a beautiful grassy place with flowers. Then she could see a figure of a man standing there. She wanted to go up to him. When she got closer, she could see that it was John, her brother. He called to her and she went to the foot of the hill, reached as high as she could, but she could only reach half way. Then John reached down and said, "I'll come halfway, Eliza."
This dream imporessed her so much that she worked very hard and saved all she could. When she had half enough, she received a letter from John. He had sent the other half, so she had her share of the fund. Now the way was opened for her in only six months of the year's time President Ricks promised her.
Eliza was nineteen by the time she made arrangements for her passage to Salt Lake City. they were living in Yorkshire at this time. As she was telling her many friends good-bye, she went across the river to Lancashire to see her favorite Aunt Eliza for whom she had been named. This aunt was very bittr toward the church and told her that she wished the boat would sink. Another aunt wished her well. Eliza was hurt very deeply, but she left and sailed on the ship S.S. Wyoming on the 17th of July 1885 or 86.
Eliza, along with the rest of the immigrants sailing at the time, came across in the steerage of the boat. This is the bottom where the boat has taken a load of cattle to England. It had been cleaned and berths put in for the company of immigrants going to Salt Lake. There were around one-hundred and fifty of them.
Although she had been quite ill while in England, Eliza didn't have one sick minute all the way. She was nearly the only one that wasn't seasick and she helped care for the rest. The captain asked hr many times to be his stewardess on his ship, for she could ride the ocean so well, but her desire was to come to Zion.
They landed in New York on the 28th of July and got to Logan on August 4th, where John met her.
She soon got a job in Salt Lake as a Housekeeper or Joseph Tingies. She worked for two dollars a week. Her first two dollars she sent home to her mother, for her father was still out of work. Her mother said, "It was a godsend to get that two dollars." While she still worked at Tingies she kept herself, and paid her tithing, and saved money to put in the fund to bring her family to America.
When the funds were raised, two of her sisters made arrangements to sail. Clara, age eleven and Ellen, age nine. When they reached New York and went to pass customs, Ellen was hardly tall enough to look in the window. When the man asked her where her parents were, she said, "Oh, they're coming." He let them pass thinking the parents were still on the boat. The girls never realized just how far behind their parents really were. Then they both had a good cry.
When they reached Salt Lake, Eliza and her roomamte were at the station to meet them. All the luggage they had was a hat box containing a change of underwear and stockings for each of them. The had taken their little knit dresses off and washed them at night, so they were neat and clean when they arrived.
Two years later the rest of the family came over. Eliza's father having joined the church shortly before they left England.
Eliza Hannah Oldham, the daughter of Eliza Rawlins and John Oldham was born August 17, 1867 in Sheffield, England. She was the second to the oldest of eight children. Her father was a well-educated man for that time in England. He was a steel roller, making steel wire and cables, but because of an allergy he developed to the acid used in he rolling of the steel, he was ill most of the time. They lived in quite poor circumstances for this reason. They lived in a two-story brick house, one of a long line just alike. One family lived upstairs and another down. They lived on the botom floor at the time.
When Eliza was 18 months old she didn't feel well. She seemed to have a cold so her mother put her to bed, and the next morning they found she was a polio victim, with her left leg paralyzed from the hip down. For five years she was a helpless cripple being able to move only by crawling and dragging her left leg. She would crawl to the fence and watch the children playing in the street. As the children moved on down the street she would take hold on the wires trying to pull herself up so she could see. In this way she learned to stand on her one leg holding to the fence. Finally learning to use her left leg. It was very awkward because her foot was drawn ad twisted out of shape. She did learn to put it dow straight and could finally walk without the aid of the fence. Her leg was always an inch shorter and her foot took a shoe three sizes smaller than the right foot. The left foot was always weak and the ankle would turn easily.
When she was of school age, she wanted to go to school, but she was only able to go part of three years for the children made so much fun of her by pushing her down and hurting her body as well as her pride. So most of her schooling was given at home on being a good homebuilder.
In the summer she and her brother, John, would go to the seashore and dig for calms or pick wild berries to help with the food supply. In the winter, they would go to the railroad tracks and pick up coal that had fallen off of the cars to keep the house warm for their sick father. Several times while they were off to work, the "Bobbies" or political men would come and move all their furniture with their father still in bed and the rest of the small children out into the street because they hadn't been able to pay the rent.
The children's name were: William, Joseph, Sharlet (they all died before this picture was taken) John, Eliza, Clara, Alice, Ellen, Ada, and Anne. Charles and Harriet who were twins only lived three weeks.
When William was about nine years old he fell from an upstairs window, down between two houses, hurting his back. A running sore developed which continued for a long time. His death was due to this.
When Eliza was about 12 she went to work in an overall factory. By that time, both she and John were able to help out a little, although her pay was very small.
Eliza tells this story of their conversion to the church. "One day as Mother and Grandmother were coming home from work, they heard that some Mormon missionaries from America were going to hold a cottage meeting in the neighborhood in which they were living, so they decided to go and listen. As the missionaries talked, they forgot about their curiosity for the Americans and just listened to the message they were bringing. It seemed that they were speaking right to them. When they turned to go mother had tears streaming down her face and she said, 'It seems as if I have been waiting all my life to hear that message of the gospel as those Elders taught it.' She came home and told the family. John seemed to be very interested. They went to more of the meetings and John talked to the Elders and went to see them often, reading their books and tracts.
At this time his father, being very disheartened, and having herd so many stories about the Mormons, was very much against them. When John told him that he was going to join the church by baptism, his father told him to get out and not to come back. John left and joined the church. He got a job as a steward on a ship and worked his way to America.
While John was preparing to come to America, the rest of the family joined the church, all but the father. Eliza was baptized May 22, 1882, by Elder Charles Wilcocks. She and Ellen Salison used to go tracting and walked many miles to sing and help the missionaries sing and hold meetings.
Eliza and her sister got a job working for a Westlin minister in Lancashire, England, and while they were gone to see John off when he sailed for America, the minister opened one of the girls' boxes and found church books. Both girls were discharged for being Mormons, but before the girls left, they bore their testimony to him.
After that Eliza went to work for a tinsmith, a man by the name of Joseph Smith, in Sheffield, England, making five shillings a week. While there, President Thomas E. Ricks promised her that if she would pay her full tithing, which she did (she paid sixpence a week which was twelve cents a sixpence a week immigration fund) that the way would be opened for her to come to America inside of a year. The Elders told her that if she could put enough money to pay half of her immigration ticket, the church would pay the rest. That was very slow at a sixpence a week. At this time her health was poor, for she had a weak heart, but her one desire was to come to America.
One day as she was very discouraged and was afraid that she could never save enough money to come to America, she had a dream that she always remembered. It seemed that she was walking in a valley. The way was very rough and strewn with boulders, but up ahead of her was a bluff and on top was a beautiful grassy place with flowers. Then she could see a figure of a man standing there. She wanted to go up to him. When she got closer, she could see that it was John, her brother. He called to her and she went to the foot of the hill, reached as high as she could, but she could only reach half way. Then John reached down and said, "I'll come halfway, Eliza."
This dream imporessed her so much that she worked very hard and saved all she could. When she had half enough, she received a letter from John. He had sent the other half, so she had her share of the fund. Now the way was opened for her in only six months of the year's time President Ricks promised her.
Eliza was nineteen by the time she made arrangements for her passage to Salt Lake City. they were living in Yorkshire at this time. As she was telling her many friends good-bye, she went across the river to Lancashire to see her favorite Aunt Eliza for whom she had been named. This aunt was very bittr toward the church and told her that she wished the boat would sink. Another aunt wished her well. Eliza was hurt very deeply, but she left and sailed on the ship S.S. Wyoming on the 17th of July 1885 or 86.
Eliza, along with the rest of the immigrants sailing at the time, came across in the steerage of the boat. This is the bottom where the boat has taken a load of cattle to England. It had been cleaned and berths put in for the company of immigrants going to Salt Lake. There were around one-hundred and fifty of them.
Although she had been quite ill while in England, Eliza didn't have one sick minute all the way. She was nearly the only one that wasn't seasick and she helped care for the rest. The captain asked hr many times to be his stewardess on his ship, for she could ride the ocean so well, but her desire was to come to Zion.
They landed in New York on the 28th of July and got to Logan on August 4th, where John met her.
She soon got a job in Salt Lake as a Housekeeper or Joseph Tingies. She worked for two dollars a week. Her first two dollars she sent home to her mother, for her father was still out of work. Her mother said, "It was a godsend to get that two dollars." While she still worked at Tingies she kept herself, and paid her tithing, and saved money to put in the fund to bring her family to America.
When the funds were raised, two of her sisters made arrangements to sail. Clara, age eleven and Ellen, age nine. When they reached New York and went to pass customs, Ellen was hardly tall enough to look in the window. When the man asked her where her parents were, she said, "Oh, they're coming." He let them pass thinking the parents were still on the boat. The girls never realized just how far behind their parents really were. Then they both had a good cry.
When they reached Salt Lake, Eliza and her roomamte were at the station to meet them. All the luggage they had was a hat box containing a change of underwear and stockings for each of them. The had taken their little knit dresses off and washed them at night, so they were neat and clean when they arrived.
Two years later the rest of the family came over. Eliza's father having joined the church shortly before they left England.
(Research):Next to her husband, Plot 3, Lot 19, Grave 02
When Eliza was 18 months old she didn't feel well. She seemed to have a cold so her mother put her to bed, and the next morning they found she was a polio victim, with her left leg paralyzed from the hip down. For five years she was a helpless cripple being able to move only by crawling and dragging her left leg. She would crawl to the fence and watch the children playing in the street. As the children moved on down the street she would take hold on the wires trying to pull herself up so she could see. In this way she learned to stand on her one leg holding to the fence. Finally learning to use her left leg. It was very awkward because her foot was drawn ad twisted out of shape. She did learn to put it dow straight and could finally walk without the aid of the fence. Her leg was always an inch shorter and her foot took a shoe three sizes smaller than the right foot. The left foot was always weak and the ankle would turn easily.
When she was of school age, she wanted to go to school, but she was only able to go part of three years for the children made so much fun of her by pushing her down and hurting her body as well as her pride. So most of her schooling was given at home on being a good homebuilder.
In the summer she and her brother, John, would go to the seashore and dig for calms or pick wild berries to help with the food supply. In the winter, they would go to the railroad tracks and pick up coal that had fallen off of the cars to keep the house warm for their sick father. Several times while they were off to work, the "Bobbies" or political men would come and move all their furniture with their father still in bed and the rest of the small children out into the street because they hadn't been able to pay the rent.
The children's name were: William, Joseph, Sharlet (they all died before this picture was taken) John, Eliza, Clara, Alice, Ellen, Ada, and Anne. Charles and Harriet who were twins only lived three weeks.
When William was about nine years old he fell from an upstairs window, down between two houses, hurting his back. A running sore developed which continued for a long time. His death was due to this.
When Eliza was about 12 she went to work in an overall factory. By that time, both she and John were able to help out a little, although her pay was very small.
Eliza tells this story of their conversion to the church. "One day as Mother and Grandmother were coming home from work, they heard that some Mormon missionaries from America were going to hold a cottage meeting in the neighborhood in which they were living, so they decided to go and listen. As the missionaries talked, they forgot about their curiosity for the Americans and just listened to the message they were bringing. It seemed that they were speaking right to them. When they turned to go mother had tears streaming down her face and she said, 'It seems as if I have been waiting all my life to hear that message of the gospel as those Elders taught it.' She came home and told the family. John seemed to be very interested. They went to more of the meetings and John talked to the Elders and went to see them often, reading their books and tracts.
At this time his father, being very disheartened, and having herd so many stories about the Mormons, was very much against them. When John told him that he was going to join the church by baptism, his father told him to get out and not to come back. John left and joined the church. He got a job as a steward on a ship and worked his way to America.
While John was preparing to come to America, the rest of the family joined the church, all but the father. Eliza was baptized May 22, 1882, by Elder Charles Wilcocks. She and Ellen Salison used to go tracting and walked many miles to sing and help the missionaries sing and hold meetings.
Eliza and her sister got a job working for a Westlin minister in Lancashire, England, and while they were gone to see John off when he sailed for America, the minister opened one of the girls' boxes and found church books. Both girls were discharged for being Mormons, but before the girls left, they bore their testimony to him.
After that Eliza went to work for a tinsmith, a man by the name of Joseph Smith, in Sheffield, England, making five shillings a week. While there, President Thomas E. Ricks promised her that if she would pay her full tithing, which she did (she paid sixpence a week which was twelve cents a sixpence a week immigration fund) that the way would be opened for her to come to America inside of a year. The Elders told her that if she could put enough money to pay half of her immigration ticket, the church would pay the rest. That was very slow at a sixpence a week. At this time her health was poor, for she had a weak heart, but her one desire was to come to America.
One day as she was very discouraged and was afraid that she could never save enough money to come to America, she had a dream that she always remembered. It seemed that she was walking in a valley. The way was very rough and strewn with boulders, but up ahead of her was a bluff and on top was a beautiful grassy place with flowers. Then she could see a figure of a man standing there. She wanted to go up to him. When she got closer, she could see that it was John, her brother. He called to her and she went to the foot of the hill, reached as high as she could, but she could only reach half way. Then John reached down and said, "I'll come halfway, Eliza."
This dream imporessed her so much that she worked very hard and saved all she could. When she had half enough, she received a letter from John. He had sent the other half, so she had her share of the fund. Now the way was opened for her in only six months of the year's time President Ricks promised her.
Eliza was nineteen by the time she made arrangements for her passage to Salt Lake City. they were living in Yorkshire at this time. As she was telling her many friends good-bye, she went across the river to Lancashire to see her favorite Aunt Eliza for whom she had been named. This aunt was very bittr toward the church and told her that she wished the boat would sink. Another aunt wished her well. Eliza was hurt very deeply, but she left and sailed on the ship S.S. Wyoming on the 17th of July 1885 or 86.
Eliza, along with the rest of the immigrants sailing at the time, came across in the steerage of the boat. This is the bottom where the boat has taken a load of cattle to England. It had been cleaned and berths put in for the company of immigrants going to Salt Lake. There were around one-hundred and fifty of them.
Although she had been quite ill while in England, Eliza didn't have one sick minute all the way. She was nearly the only one that wasn't seasick and she helped care for the rest. The captain asked hr many times to be his stewardess on his ship, for she could ride the ocean so well, but her desire was to come to Zion.
They landed in New York on the 28th of July and got to Logan on August 4th, where John met her.
She soon got a job in Salt Lake as a Housekeeper or Joseph Tingies. She worked for two dollars a week. Her first two dollars she sent home to her mother, for her father was still out of work. Her mother said, "It was a godsend to get that two dollars." While she still worked at Tingies she kept herself, and paid her tithing, and saved money to put in the fund to bring her family to America.
When the funds were raised, two of her sisters made arrangements to sail. Clara, age eleven and Ellen, age nine. When they reached New York and went to pass customs, Ellen was hardly tall enough to look in the window. When the man asked her where her parents were, she said, "Oh, they're coming." He let them pass thinking the parents were still on the boat. The girls never realized just how far behind their parents really were. Then they both had a good cry.
When they reached Salt Lake, Eliza and her roomamte were at the station to meet them. All the luggage they had was a hat box containing a change of underwear and stockings for each of them. The had taken their little knit dresses off and washed them at night, so they were neat and clean when they arrived.
Two years later the rest of the family came over. Eliza's father having joined the church shortly before they left England.
Eliza Hannah Oldham, the daughter of Eliza Rawlins and John Oldham was born August 17, 1867 in Sheffield, England. She was the second to the oldest of eight children. Her father was a well-educated man for that time in England. He was a steel roller, making steel wire and cables, but because of an allergy he developed to the acid used in he rolling of the steel, he was ill most of the time. They lived in quite poor circumstances for this reason. They lived in a two-story brick house, one of a long line just alike. One family lived upstairs and another down. They lived on the botom floor at the time.
When Eliza was 18 months old she didn't feel well. She seemed to have a cold so her mother put her to bed, and the next morning they found she was a polio victim, with her left leg paralyzed from the hip down. For five years she was a helpless cripple being able to move only by crawling and dragging her left leg. She would crawl to the fence and watch the children playing in the street. As the children moved on down the street she would take hold on the wires trying to pull herself up so she could see. In this way she learned to stand on her one leg holding to the fence. Finally learning to use her left leg. It was very awkward because her foot was drawn ad twisted out of shape. She did learn to put it dow straight and could finally walk without the aid of the fence. Her leg was always an inch shorter and her foot took a shoe three sizes smaller than the right foot. The left foot was always weak and the ankle would turn easily.
When she was of school age, she wanted to go to school, but she was only able to go part of three years for the children made so much fun of her by pushing her down and hurting her body as well as her pride. So most of her schooling was given at home on being a good homebuilder.
In the summer she and her brother, John, would go to the seashore and dig for calms or pick wild berries to help with the food supply. In the winter, they would go to the railroad tracks and pick up coal that had fallen off of the cars to keep the house warm for their sick father. Several times while they were off to work, the "Bobbies" or political men would come and move all their furniture with their father still in bed and the rest of the small children out into the street because they hadn't been able to pay the rent.
The children's name were: William, Joseph, Sharlet (they all died before this picture was taken) John, Eliza, Clara, Alice, Ellen, Ada, and Anne. Charles and Harriet who were twins only lived three weeks.
When William was about nine years old he fell from an upstairs window, down between two houses, hurting his back. A running sore developed which continued for a long time. His death was due to this.
When Eliza was about 12 she went to work in an overall factory. By that time, both she and John were able to help out a little, although her pay was very small.
Eliza tells this story of their conversion to the church. "One day as Mother and Grandmother were coming home from work, they heard that some Mormon missionaries from America were going to hold a cottage meeting in the neighborhood in which they were living, so they decided to go and listen. As the missionaries talked, they forgot about their curiosity for the Americans and just listened to the message they were bringing. It seemed that they were speaking right to them. When they turned to go mother had tears streaming down her face and she said, 'It seems as if I have been waiting all my life to hear that message of the gospel as those Elders taught it.' She came home and told the family. John seemed to be very interested. They went to more of the meetings and John talked to the Elders and went to see them often, reading their books and tracts.
At this time his father, being very disheartened, and having herd so many stories about the Mormons, was very much against them. When John told him that he was going to join the church by baptism, his father told him to get out and not to come back. John left and joined the church. He got a job as a steward on a ship and worked his way to America.
While John was preparing to come to America, the rest of the family joined the church, all but the father. Eliza was baptized May 22, 1882, by Elder Charles Wilcocks. She and Ellen Salison used to go tracting and walked many miles to sing and help the missionaries sing and hold meetings.
Eliza and her sister got a job working for a Westlin minister in Lancashire, England, and while they were gone to see John off when he sailed for America, the minister opened one of the girls' boxes and found church books. Both girls were discharged for being Mormons, but before the girls left, they bore their testimony to him.
After that Eliza went to work for a tinsmith, a man by the name of Joseph Smith, in Sheffield, England, making five shillings a week. While there, President Thomas E. Ricks promised her that if she would pay her full tithing, which she did (she paid sixpence a week which was twelve cents a sixpence a week immigration fund) that the way would be opened for her to come to America inside of a year. The Elders told her that if she could put enough money to pay half of her immigration ticket, the church would pay the rest. That was very slow at a sixpence a week. At this time her health was poor, for she had a weak heart, but her one desire was to come to America.
One day as she was very discouraged and was afraid that she could never save enough money to come to America, she had a dream that she always remembered. It seemed that she was walking in a valley. The way was very rough and strewn with boulders, but up ahead of her was a bluff and on top was a beautiful grassy place with flowers. Then she could see a figure of a man standing there. She wanted to go up to him. When she got closer, she could see that it was John, her brother. He called to her and she went to the foot of the hill, reached as high as she could, but she could only reach half way. Then John reached down and said, "I'll come halfway, Eliza."
This dream imporessed her so much that she worked very hard and saved all she could. When she had half enough, she received a letter from John. He had sent the other half, so she had her share of the fund. Now the way was opened for her in only six months of the year's time President Ricks promised her.
Eliza was nineteen by the time she made arrangements for her passage to Salt Lake City. they were living in Yorkshire at this time. As she was telling her many friends good-bye, she went across the river to Lancashire to see her favorite Aunt Eliza for whom she had been named. This aunt was very bittr toward the church and told her that she wished the boat would sink. Another aunt wished her well. Eliza was hurt very deeply, but she left and sailed on the ship S.S. Wyoming on the 17th of July 1885 or 86.
Eliza, along with the rest of the immigrants sailing at the time, came across in the steerage of the boat. This is the bottom where the boat has taken a load of cattle to England. It had been cleaned and berths put in for the company of immigrants going to Salt Lake. There were around one-hundred and fifty of them.
Although she had been quite ill while in England, Eliza didn't have one sick minute all the way. She was nearly the only one that wasn't seasick and she helped care for the rest. The captain asked hr many times to be his stewardess on his ship, for she could ride the ocean so well, but her desire was to come to Zion.
They landed in New York on the 28th of July and got to Logan on August 4th, where John met her.
She soon got a job in Salt Lake as a Housekeeper or Joseph Tingies. She worked for two dollars a week. Her first two dollars she sent home to her mother, for her father was still out of work. Her mother said, "It was a godsend to get that two dollars." While she still worked at Tingies she kept herself, and paid her tithing, and saved money to put in the fund to bring her family to America.
When the funds were raised, two of her sisters made arrangements to sail. Clara, age eleven and Ellen, age nine. When they reached New York and went to pass customs, Ellen was hardly tall enough to look in the window. When the man asked her where her parents were, she said, "Oh, they're coming." He let them pass thinking the parents were still on the boat. The girls never realized just how far behind their parents really were. Then they both had a good cry.
When they reached Salt Lake, Eliza and her roomamte were at the station to meet them. All the luggage they had was a hat box containing a change of underwear and stockings for each of them. The had taken their little knit dresses off and washed them at night, so they were neat and clean when they arrived.
Two years later the rest of the family came over. Eliza's father having joined the church shortly before they left England.
(Research):Next to her husband, Plot 3, Lot 19, Grave 02
Events
| Birth | 17 Aug 1867 | Sheffield, Yorkshire, England | |||
| Marriage | 12 Apr 1888 | Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States - Henry David WILDING | |||
| Death | 14 Mar 1942 | Sugar City, Madison, Idaho | |||
| Burial | 18 Mar 1942 | Sugar City, Madison, Idaho | |||
| Ancestral File Number | 18LX-09 |
Families
| Spouse | Henry David WILDING (1868 - 1948) |
| Child | Lizzie Leone WILDING (1898 - 1988) |
| Child | David Rawlin WILDING (1888 - 1940) |
| Child | Ellis Preston WILDING (1890 - 1918) |
| Child | John Henry WILDING (1893 - 1985) |
| Child | Earl Raymond WILDING (1894 - 1897) |
| Child | Eliza Vera WILDING (1896 - 1985) |
| Child | Maggie Leatha WILDING (1900 - 1951) |
| Child | Harry Oldham WILDING (1902 - 1986) |
| Child | Frank Oldham WILDING (1903 - 1975) |
| Child | Mary Vivian WILDING (1905 - 1936) |
| Child | Alice Eleanor WILDING (1907 - ) |
| Father | John OLDHAM (1838 - 1900) |
| Mother | Eliza RAWLINS (1841 - 1912) |
| Sibling | William OLDHAM (1859 - 1868) |
| Sibling | Joseph OLDHAM (1861 - 1862) |
| Sibling | Charlotte OLDHAM (1863 - 1864) |
| Sibling | John OLDHAM (1865 - 1954) |
| Sibling | Clara OLDHAM (1870 - 1895) |
| Sibling | Alice OLDHAM (1872 - 1946) |
| Sibling | Ellen OLDHAM (1875 - 1963) |
| Sibling | Ada OLDHAM (1878 - 1970) |
| Sibling | Annie OLDHAM (1880 - 1976) |
| Sibling | Charles OLDHAM (Twin) (1881 - 1881) |
| Sibling | Harriet OLDHAM (Twin) (1881 - 1881) |